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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <52680136$0$1713$e4fe514c at dreader35.news.xs4all.nl>,
	MG <marcogbNO at SPAMxs4all.nl> writes:
> On 23-okt-2013 17:31, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> What are you trying to say here?  The result is roughly the same,
> or am I missing something?

Unless you have seriously broken news reader (like a web browser
trying to pretend its a news reader) or probably Google Groups,
all instances of a crossposted message are marked as read when
you read it in the first group you come to.  Thus, you see it once
and not whatever number of times it was crossposted.

> 
> Also, what's wrong with cross-posting as long as it's on-topic?

A read of most netiquette papers will explain that there is very
little chance that a single subject is actually on topic in more
than 4 or 5 groups, tops.

> I have things I'm doing away, I thought it'd be nice to offer
> some of it instead of just putting (whatever is even worth my
> time) on auction sites or directly hauling it off to the trash?

I have done that, too.  PDP-11, VAX, Alpha, M68K MAC, Sun, etc.
The first three needed only three groups.  The others no more
than two each.  Creating one message that included all of them
crossposted to all seven groups would have been just plain
annoying to most of the people who saw them as those are some
rather varied interests.

bill

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