Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!sahayman
From: sahayman@watmath.waterloo.edu (Steve Hayman)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Wish List re: Crossposting
Message-ID: <18938@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 17 May 88 20:27:39 GMT
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Not singling out anybody in particular but this has always bothered me:

>  But I still want this information.  What I do is cross-post
>to everywhere applicable, point out that I don't read a particular
>group, and that responses should be mailed.


Grrr.  Why do people do this?  If you're going to take the trouble to
post a request to a group, and you expect people to answer,
the least you can do is to read the group for a couple of weeks
to see if anything turns up.  Maybe other people will be interested
in the answers too!

Now of course if you say "please mail responses to me and I will
summarize to the net", that's fine, that's great, I wish everybody
would do that.  But saying, in effect, "Mail responses to me since I can't be
bothered to read this group, but I'm still entitled to post to it and
take up your time" seems to me to be a bit, um, uncooperative.

Steve Hayman