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kony wrote:
>On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 20:15:55 -0500, "Andy in NJ" <SHORECOGS
>at COMCAST DOT NET> wrote:
>>"kony" <spam@spam.com> wrote in message
>>news:45v7u09hqagehonoh19b7ri03dfeqfn25s@4ax.com...
>>> Andy, the odds are MUCH higher that you're going to get
>>> negative replies when you crosspost. Try picking a group or
>>> two and sticking with it for a while.
I agree with this...
>>Then again, if I post once on each of the newsgroups, I will
>>have to check each and every one of those newsgroups for replies.
This isn't a problem if you only post to one or two groups.
>>Crossposting allows people that read each of those newsgroups
>>to reply, since not everyone reads every one of those newsgroups.
This is actually a problem when you crosspost to more than,
say, 2 newsgroups. For whatever reasons, the chances of
starting a silly argument goes way up when you crosspost.
Perhaps it's because people who normally wouldn't be reading
each other's opinionated posts do so. Within a newsgroup,
a particular argument might have been hashed over many times
already.
>>My topic is broad enough to cover each
>>newsgroup that I crossposted to.
You would have done much better to only post to homebuilt
and pc-homebuilt.
home-designed is naturally going to look down upon you for
not going with a "real" custom system.
alt.comp.hardware is too broad--you don't post to a broad
group if a subgroup applies. Otherwise, EVERY post to a
subgroup would be crossposted to the broader parent group.
Does that make any sense?
As it is, a.c.h.homebuilt and a.c.h.pc-homebuilt are basically
redundant and in a "non-alt" world would be just a single
newsgroup. However, the alt hierarchy is more of an anarchy
than a hierarchy, so...
>Your topic is broad enough that you should've been a bit
>less lazy, doing the legwork like everyone else. Instead,
>your post has been answered sufficiently but it seems you
>haven't built the system, just wasted the resources of the
>groups posted to. Newsgroups work because everyone doesn't
>post "hey gang be my personal shopper for
>nothing-in-particular" threads.
I don't see anything wrong with "be my personal shopper"
threads, at least on homebuilt/pc-homebuilt. Computer
hardware prices change far too quickly for a search of
threads older than a couple weeks to be useful for finding
the best deals.
>Get on with it, you're wasting your own time, too.
For most people, putting together a new computer is a
significant investment in money and/or time. It's
natural to want to do it right and not feel burned by
a hasty decision. Crazy as it might seem to you, it's
not insane to research a complex purchasing decision
for a few weeks, especially if a great deal might come
along in this time.
Just looking at Fry's Outpost alone, their mobo/cpu combos
change prices on a weekly basis--in both directions.
Isaac Kuo