Hi, I make rarely cross posts and my case was (is) exactly was Gus described.
Zsolt > -----Original Message----- > From: Gus Heck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 4:38 PM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: Can large upload cause tomcat hanging? > > > Lukas, > > The reasons cross posts get annoying to me (and I presume others) are > these: 1.) I can't know what responses are posted on the other list > without joining it. 2.)if I am on both lists it messes with my message > filtering rules on my mail reader and usually both copies wind up in the > same folder and it gets hard to tell which list I am replying to unless > I reply all and cross post as well. 3.) When searching Archives for > answers to questions before posting, it is most unhelpful if half the > conversation is archived under another list. 4.) cross posting to N > lists creates N times the mail load for the servers, the archives, and > any other systems involved, and for people subscribed to M out of N > lists invovled in the cross post it creates M times the list mail to > deal with. > > The only time it seems reasonable to cross post, is when in discussing a > feature/bug in one product it seems like it may be traced back to a > problem in a dependant library, and you want the folks on the dev list > of the library to look into it... (as happened to me recently in the > case of a problem implementing a solution to a problem discussed on this > list that exposed a bug in commons-betwixt) Even then, it might still be > better to craft a separate mail with a link to the archive of the > discussion, though cross posting in this case does have the advantage of > supplying the preceeding discussion (assuming it hasn't been deleted > from the replies) without the day delay for the archive to pick it up. > > -Gus > > Lukas Bradley wrote: > > >>>Understood, but this is a Jakarta rule, not a standard Internet rule. > >>> > >>> > >>You cross-posted to at least two Jakarta mailing lists. The > rule applies. > >> > >> > > > >I cross posted nothing. Zsolt did. I was just wondering why people are > >extremely sensitive about what I consider to be valid cross posts. > > > >Lukas > > > > > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
