please end crossposting !

please end crossposting !

[@ 1999-10-29 20:34 UTC (permalink / raw)]

hello everybody !

i'm one of the poor lads who are subscribed to *both* l-a-d and l-s.
somehow it seems to have become fashionable to crosspost everything.
but this is not usenet, most mail readers *do not* erase duplicates,
and each messages is actually carried and displayed twice.
moreover, it works around my mail filters and makes my folders go
haywire !
this is really a drag, apart from being a huge waste of bandwidth.

imho, crossposting is inappropriate for the majority of messages
that showed up lately.
if you definitely think your message has to go to both groups,
specify *one* return address in your initial posting and carry on
with the discussion in either group, but not both !

please think about this.

yours

jörn

ps: forgive me this one time. i know i have sinned. i shall never
cc: again.  >;->


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Re: please end crossposting !

[Billy Biggs]

[ I nuked L-A-D from this message ]

On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, [iso-8859-1] Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote:

> i'm one of the poor lads who are subscribed to *both* l-a-d and l-s.
> somehow it seems to have become fashionable to crosspost everything.

  I'm having a bit of a dillema.  Linux-sound and LAD both seem to have
the same mandate, no?  I guess LAD is more for discussion of dev issues...

  In my case, I see linux-sound as having the critical feature of being
well hosted.  It's a responsive list, and most importantly, is web
archived.

  However, LAD seems to have a very good reader base, possibly better than
linux-sound.  So, I don't want to not include it in messages.

  What's the solution?  Get linux-audio-dev better hosted, and ditch
linux-sound for app-dev related issues?  Wait until I stop posting so many
messages?  I'm not sure.  Thoughts?

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