Adam H. Kerman
11/6/2013 4:12:00 PM
suzeeq <suzee@imbris.com> wrote:
>Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>>>Glad to see this one was much better than the forgettable one from
>>>last week.
>>The crossposting of discussion of this show pisses me off. You absolutely
>>had to have your own newsgroup? Fine. Discuss it there. Don't cross post
>>into the general tv newsgroup. But gawd forbid last week when I tried to
>>start a thread in rec.arts.sf.tv, several of you refused to post followups
>>there, instead tried to force the thread into two newsgroups I hadn't
>>posted to.
>>If you crosspost, it demonstrates that there's no purpose for the show
>>specific newsgroup to exist and that the author isn't supporting the
>>health of the show-specific newsgroup. Different newsgroups are supposed
>>to have different cultures due to different sets of people in them. There's
>>nothing wrong with that. Constant crossposting kills the culture of the
>>smaller group.
>>Crossposting defeats that. Choose one of the general newsgroups or the
>>show-specific newsgroups, not both. If you think both groups might
>>benefit, start separate non-crossposted threads.
>Some servers may not carry the show specific group. Go grouch on another
>thread Adam.
If the group hasn't been created locally, request it. Doesn't change my
feelings about crossposting, or how my non-thread thread was treated
last week.
Crossposting sucks.