jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) (02/22/91)
One final consideration I would like to bring to bear about this whole crossposting issue is that often when someone posts a question, he wants to post to the group that will GET HIM THE MOST REPLIES. It is possible that a large amount of MSC users don't read comp.os.msdos.programmer or comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer, since they consider themseleves "non machine specific"...then again, I could be wrong about all this. I find this problem especially apparent for something like : "I am using MSC 6.00 to try and read the values on my joystick. It has to be interrupt controlled for fast response in a flight simulator that I am writing." I actually posted this and was informed by several (about 5 or 6) people that the appropriate newsgroup was either comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer and comp.os.msdos.programmer, comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware, comp.lang.c, or rec.games.programmer! This type of thing tends to cause confusion, especially those new on the net. To summarize: Cross posting, within limits (and that's the catch), should be tolerated when there is a REASONABLE EXPECTATION THAT A KNOWLEDGEABLE REPLY WILL BE RECEIVED. A question about QIOs and ASTs in C wouldn't be a very good candidate for a comp.lang.c posting, but the bug list seemed reasonable. Enough bw has been eaten by this. Thank you and God bless. Brian