At 11:03:30 on Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Paul <paulmathewmac@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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>:
>Well, this is the scenario if you are a regular at a few different
>language news groups. What if one fails to get a satisfactory answer /
>explanation from a single news group? Does successive postings to
>different news groups then stand vindicated? Can successive postings
>done out of necessity be treated differently from cross postings?
Rather than create a new topic in such cir***stances, it is better to
add the second group to the existing discussion; this enables the
people there to know that a discussion has started (although it has not
produced the answer the OP wants), and they can if they wish go and read
that discussion. Otherwise, you could get three separate topics,
sequential rather than parallel, but each one giving the same answers,
because they wouldn't know that the question had already been discussed
elsewhere!
It is rare for any subject to be on-topic for more than three
newsgroups, and cross-posting between three groups should not trip any
official cross-post limits, nor any sensible[0] personal ones.
[0] Subjective value judgement based on the fact that, in any group
which is under troll attack, I filter at the four-newsgroup level.
--
Molly Mockford
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little tem****ary
safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety - Benjamin Franklin
(My Reply-To address *is* valid, though may not remain so for ever.)
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