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From: Tucker Taft <stt@averstar.com>
Subject: When cross-posting, don't annoy the pig
Date: 1999/12/21
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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.

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-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