alt.os.linux vs. comp.os.linux.*

[Ivan Shmakov]

[Cross-posting to news:alt.os.linux, for the issue at hand is
non-specific to Slackware.]

And why do that?
Alt.os.linux has virtually no traffic in it, yet there is
comp.os.linux.misc
comp.os.linux.setup
one of which is surely a better place before alt.os.linux.
People just end up in that newsgroup for whatever reasons (likely
they don't look very far) and end up without a good selection of
answers, when one of the more high traffic newsgroups would provide a
better selection of answers.

Fair enough.

(Does the same apply to the rest of alt.os.linux.*, BTW?)

[Cross-posting to news:news.misc, so to remember it better.
Also set Followup-To: there.]

[J.O. Aho]

Post by Ivan Shmakov

[Cross-posting to news:alt.os.linux, for the issue at hand is
non-specific to Slackware.]

And why do that?
Alt.os.linux has virtually no traffic in it, yet there is
comp.os.linux.misc
comp.os.linux.setup
one of which is surely a better place before alt.os.linux.
People just end up in that newsgroup for whatever reasons (likely
they don't look very far) and end up without a good selection of
answers, when one of the more high traffic newsgroups would provide a
better selection of answers.

Fair enough.
(Does the same apply to the rest of alt.os.linux.*, BTW?)
[Cross-posting to news:news.misc, so to remember it better.
Also set Followup-To: there.]

Please don't use followup-to, the people who don't subscribe to the
newsgroup you set followup-to will not be able to see if someone already
given the answer already,nor can they take part of the discussion. It's
better you exclude the newsgroups from the beginning and only post to
the newsgroup which you thought of setting the followup-to.

[Ivan Shmakov]

[Set Followup-To: news:news.misc, for the reasons advocated
below.]

[...]

Post by J.O. Aho

[Cross-posting to news:news.misc, so to remember it better. Also
set Followup-To: there.]

Please don't use followup-to, the people who don't subscribe to the
newsgroup you set followup-to will not be able to see if someone
already given the answer already, nor can they take part of the
discussion.

The same applies to the case when the poster excludes the
newsgroups "from the beginning", as you suggest just below.

Post by J.O. Aho
It's better you exclude the newsgroups from the beginning and only
post to the newsgroup which you thought of setting the followup-to.

On the contrary, when the Newsgroups: change (via Followup-To:)
is clearly announced within the body of the article, the (still)
interested readers are given a chance to subscribe to the
now-relevant newsgroups and continue to read, or participate in,
the discussion.

This issue was recently discussed [1] in
news:news.software.readers, BTW.

[1] news:86d36j2u6m.fsf_-***@gray.siamics.net
http://groups.google.com/group/news.software.readers/msg/c636e2b2251dfd9f

[kcGSH6nC]

+1

What else do you think that header is there for?