The Importance of Terminology's Quality

Jürgen Exner jurgenex at hotmail.com
Fri May 9 01:45:21 EDT 2008


"Waylen Gumbal" <wgumgfy at gmail.com> wrote:
>Sherman Pendley wrote:
>> kodifik at eurogaran.com writes:
>> >
>> > > PLEASE DO NOT | :.:\:\:/:/:.:
>> > > FEED THE TROLLS | :=.' - - '.=:
>Not everyone follows language-neutral groups (such as comp,programming 
>as you pointed out), so you actually reach more people by cross posting. 

You seem so have failed to grasp the concept of why Usenet is divided
into separate groups in the first place.

>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.

By your argument there is no need for individual groups in the first
place. We could just as well use a single "HereGoesEverything" and just
skip over those topics that we so dislike.

jue



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