[colug-432] Posting in Multiple Forums (was Re: Creative Labs SoundBlaster 16 PCI sequencer problems)

[Richard Hornsby]

Kids these days ;)

Old school rules, IIRC, from usenet days when people would crosspost to a bunch of groups. You didn't have to go visit a bunch of web forums - you could kind of say that if put in today's terms usenet "aggregated" (and distributed) the posts to other usenet servers - os.linux group on the roadrunner servers had the same messages as the group at OSU. It was very easy to xpost (post to more than one group), and very easy for ppl to see that you'd xposted - annoying everyone subscribed to more than one of the groups who got xposted to. Hence, crossposting is considered bad form - even rude.

That said, old school or not, I generally still try to abide by the rules all the same.  Find the most likely place that might have some info or insight and if I don't get any help and haven't figured it out - then I might post elsewhere.

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On Jun 24, 2011, at 18:41, jep200404 at columbus.rr.com wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 10:46:58 -0700 (PDT), Scott Webster Wood <treii28 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> It's only reasonable to ask obscure issues in multiple places.
> 
> That depends on the culture of the forum that one posts to[1]. 
> There are forums for which posting in multiple forums in a short 
> time is frowned upon, and for which the original poster risks 
> that knowledgeable readers will avoid responding to upon 
> becoming aware of the multiple posts. 
> 
>   http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-audio-users/msg78796.html
>   http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.audio.users/74329
>   http://lists.colug.net/pipermail/colug-432/2011-June/000912.html
> 
> It is less risky to post to a single forum at a time, 
> then wait until the thread in that forum has reached a 
> conclusion before posting into another forum. 
> 
> [1] http://www.excelguru.ca/node/7
>    http://www.n-etiquette.com/forum.htm
>    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MonroeCoWIFreecycle/
>    https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Netiquette
>    #11 in http://ezinearticles.com/?Twenty-Five-Forum-Posting-Etiquette-Tips
> 
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