From: Tucker Taft <stt@averstar.com>
Subject: When cross-posting, don't annoy the pig
Date: 1999/12/21
Date: 1999-12-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38600FF9.4B3BE3CA@averstar.com> (raw)
There is an old folk saying, that goes roughly:
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Readers of comp.lang.ada have recently been encouraged to cross-post
items to comp.programming.threads and comp.os.vxworks. That sometimes
seems appropriate, but regular readers of those other news groups
definitely do not welcome gratuitous mentions of Ada just for the
sake of it.
If there is something really meaningful to say that
relates to Ada, fine. But don't go trying to convince everyone
in other newsgroups that Ada is the solution to all problems.
It wastes your time, and it annoys the reader of the other newsgroup.
--
-Tucker Taft stt@averstar.com http://www.averstar.com/~stt/
Technical Director, Distributed IT Solutions (www.averstar.com/tools)
AverStar (formerly Intermetrics, Inc.) Burlington, MA USA
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1999-12-21 0:00 Tucker Taft [this message]
1999-12-23 0:00 ` When cross-posting, don't annoy the pig Mike Silva
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-12-24 0:00 ` swhalen
1999-12-28 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
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