Evils of crossposting to rec.avionation NGs

"VideoGuy" gkasten at brick dot net writes:

First, allow me to be forthright and admit that recently I utilized
crossposting when asking for help to identify a photo of an airport. I felt
that by posting to four aviation newsgroups at once I'd reach a larger
audience. I didn't see how this caused any harm.

If lots of people followed your lead (and lots do), then the purpose
of separate sub-newsgroups becomes meaningless. Why not just have a
single rec.aviation?

The reason is obvious, people don't want to read about items for sale
in the .piloting subgroup, and so on. So I don't like even "proper"
cross-posting (where the multiple newsgroups are listed on a single
Newsgroups line). For instance this thread doesn't make sense under
r.a.owning. What the hell does a crossposting discussion have to do
with owning an airplane?

"Bob Fry" wrote in message
...
So I don't like even "proper" cross-posting (where the multiple
newsgroups are listed on a single Newsgroups line). For instance this
thread doesn't make sense under
r.a.owning. What the hell does a crossposting discussion have to do with
owning an
airplane?

SOOOORRRRRY MAN!

Didn't mean to get you so upset. I THOUGHT it made sense to this group
because so many in the group were involved in the discussion, and a fair
amount of them mentioned crossposting. I guess the topic is more emotional
that I suspected.

Thanks anyway for your comment.

Gary (feeling bad now that I even brought it up) Kasten