Subj : Re: ATI Radeon 9000 framebuffer problem with x
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Jerry McBride
Date : Sat Sep 18 2004 01:27 pm

Sybren Stuvel wrote:

> Alex Marshall enlightened us with:
>> Hey everyone,
> 
> Stop multiposting. It is very insulting.  Read
> http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html before posting again.
> 
> You are multiposting, which means you post a separate message to each
> newsgroup. There is no way for someone trying to answer your question,
> to see if it has already been answered by someone else. Thus, you ask
> for my time, you ask me to put in effort to answer your question, but
> it might be all for nothing because you might already have your
> answer.  That is concidered insulting.
> 
> Futhermore, someone might have the same question as you do. There is
> no way for that person to find the answer, if it were to be posted in
> one of the other groups you posted to.
> 
> Next time, post your question to one newsgroup. If you can't get a
> decent answer in a day or two, try the next one. If you really,
> really, really want to post to multiple newsgroups, crosspost to them.
> 
> Crossposting means putting all groups you want to post to on a single
> line - that way everybody can see to which groups the post went. Do
> not post to more than four newsgroups - that's never good. I won't
> even see your post if you do that. Also, always set up a
> 'Followup-To:' header, to make sure all replies go to the same
> newsgroup. If you don't know how to do that, post to a single group
> instead.
> 
> Sybren


Wow, you really did a wonderful job helping him out...

Nice going.

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