[Info-vax] update on publications (part of: "FS: OpenVMS documentation, LK-series keyboards, SCSI HDDs and more")

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <5267e161$0$3186$e4fe514c at dreader36.news.xs4all.nl>,
	MG <marcogbNO at SPAMxs4all.nl> writes:
> On 22-okt-2013 18:38, Paul Sture wrote:
>> On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 17:43:37 +0200, MG cross posted to 6 news groups...
>>
>> You may not realise it but my news reading setup filtered your thread
>> because it contains more than 5 news groups.
> 
> Out of curiosity, what is your news reading setup then?  Also, why
> do you even bother to filter something (read: USENET) that is nearly
> dead...?  I doubt people would appreciate, either, if I'd repost
> much of this.  So, I'll just leave this be and not try to care too
> much.
> 
> 
>> It is possible that various of your intended recipients will not have
>> seen your posts.
> 
> It's no big deal, I'll --- as I announced --- recycle whatever isn't
> spoken for (except some of the more worthy, costly, items like high-
> capacity disks, 10-Gbit NICs, FC HBAs and so forth).
> 
> (Why didn't you quote the original content, so such intended recipients
> could read it?)
> 

Because re-posting it makes a lot of people who weren't interested the
first time around see it again.

As for the idea of crossposting to too many groups, it beats the
alternative, which is to post it individually to too many groups
making people see the same post over and over.


bill 

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