Re: logging debug messages

From:

"Doug Harrison [MVP]" <dsh@mvps.org>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:00:39 -0500

Message-ID:

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On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:41:25 -0700, "Tom Serface"
<tom.nospam@camaswood.com> wrote:

I could see multiple posting being useful if there is reason to do it (like
the question really fits in more than one group), but I'd think it would be
the responsibility of the one looking for help to monitor where they've
posted.

Multiple posting is a lot worse than crossposting.

However, all that said, I really don't have a huge issue with any of it.
What bothers me the most is reading through 10 extra messages admonishing
the poor OP not to cross-post or the ones that gripe that they've posted to
the wrong forum without noticing that the cross-posting had been done.

Yeah, it's kind of boring, kind of like those top vs inline posting
threads. :)

It's sort of a non-issue really, but Joe's tactic of reposting his specific
reply to a specific place seems fair.

Except the OP may not ever see it. Also, it genuinely sucks to find
fragments of the same thread spread over multiple groups as independent
threads because someone has edited the group list. My approach to a message
crossposted to a group I don't want to post to is simply not to reply. If
the crossposting includes an irrelevant group, I may mention that in a P.S.
note.

--
Doug Harrison
Visual C++ MVP