In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Subject: "Sorry for cross-posting." (Re: correlation between ...) >From: Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Organization: Oak Road Systems >Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 06:31:44 -0400 >Newsgroups: sci.stat.edu,sci.stat.math,sci.stat.consult > >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in >sci.stat.math, Torsten Franz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: >>Sorry for cross-posting. > >(shakes head in wonder) >Then why do it? > >I see pseudo-apologies like this all the time, and I never >understand the thinking process. Either the posters think >crossposting is okay, in which case why apologize? -- or they think >it's not okay, in which case they make a lie out of their apology. >Either way, I just don't understand the logic. Could someone explain >this to me? > >Yes, it's a serious question. There are the crocodile tears crowd as you point out. And the overly "polite" who aplogize when it is not appropriate as the cross posting is the reasonable thing to do. There are also the newbies who don't realize they have offended and there are those who can not figure out how to trim the list because their newsreader is hard for them to use so they mumble. There are a goodly number of instances of asking new questions under an old thread because all they know about is next and reply. >-- >Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Cortland County, New York, USA > http://OakRoadSystems.com/ >"You find yourself amusing, Blackadder." >"I try not to fly in the face of public opinion." . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
