The Importance of Terminology's Quality

[Lew]

Waylen Gumbal wrote:
> George Neuner wrote:
>> On Thu, 8 May 2008 22:38:44 -0700, "Waylen Gumbal" <wgumgfy at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>>> Not everyone follows language-neutral groups (such as
>>> comp,programming as you pointed out), so you actually reach more
>>> people by cross posting. This is what I don't understand - everyone
>>> seems to assume that by cross posting, one intends on start a
>>> "flamefest", when in fact most such "flamefests" are started by
>>> those who cannot bring themselves to skipping over the topic that
>>> they so dislike.
>> The problem is that many initial posts have topics that are misleading
>> or simplistic.  Often an interesting discussion can start on some
>> point the initial poster never considered or meant to raise.
> 
> Is this not a possibility for any topic, whether it's cross-posted or 
> not?

You guys are off topic.  None of the million groups to which this message was 
posted are about netiquette.

-- 
Lew