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

[MG]

On 23-okt-2013 19:18, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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.

What gave you the idea I wanted people to see it multiple times...?
I just tried to increase the reach, not to repeat/agitprop it
repeatedly!  (What the hell do you take me for?!)


> 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.

Point out what isn't on-topic in each of the targeted groups.


> 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.

Okay, well, then they shouldn't cry if they get thrown into the
trash I say.  They can't have it both ways.

  - MG