Re: The Importance of Terminology's Quality

George Neuner wrote:
> On Thu, 8 May 2008 22:38:44 -0700, "Waylen Gumbal" <wgumgfy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:



> > Not everyone follows language-neutral groups (such as
> > comp,programming as you pointed out), so you actually reach more
> > people by cross posting. This is what I don't understand - everyone
> > seems to assume that by cross posting, one intends on start a
> > "flamefest", when in fact most such "flamefests" are started by
> > those who cannot bring themselves to skipping over the topic that
> > they so dislike.
>
> The problem is that many initial posts have topics that are misleading
> or simplistic.  Often an interesting discussion can start on some
> point the initial poster never considered or meant to raise.

Is this not a possibility for any topic, whether it's cross-posted or 
not?


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wg