From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs bindings in other programs Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 19:05:57 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: References: <1193416413.534581.16220@v3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> <87wst359oe.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> <87ir3es07k.fsf@kirt.news.arcor.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1197834430 14111 80.91.229.12 (16 Dec 2007 19:47:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 19:47:10 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 16 20:47:21 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J3zSI-0007sc-1b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:47:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J3zRj-000250-NX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Dec 2007 14:46:43 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 57 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1197831957 18773 166.84.1.2 (16 Dec 2007 19:05:57 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 19:05:57 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:154694 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:50121 Archived-At: In article <87ir3es07k.fsf@kirt.news.arcor.de>, Malte Spiess wrote: ... > >Please don't post the same questions in different newsgroups at the same >time (gnu.emacs.gnus and this one). > >Thx >Malte > Seems to me that cross-posting could actually be *useful* sometimes. At least for this: You've got several newsgroups on (almost) totally different subjects. Perhaps this one and the main lisp one, Maybe also Haskel, say. But they overlap in that they all make use of one particular idea, like deep-vs-shallow (dynamic=special vs what, lexical), each group having true gurus, say, on that subject. Wouldn't cross-posting a question to those groups enable a discussion across the three groups, where each group's readers get the benefit of *all* those gurus talking among themselves? Would it not be especially valuable if very few of those gurus frequented even two of the groups, to say nothing of all three! I mean, what other *easy* ways are there to accomplish such a thing (getting such a discussion going)? Especially with the three groups of *viewers* of the thread being forced into "heroic" measures, like having to read an agreed-upon *one* of the three groups (they've been referred to), for 2/3rds of them perhaps a group they would never otherwise have any interest in? Anyway, seems reasonable to me. And weirdly to me, very few seem to agree that this would indeed be a "legit" use of cross-posting. Which to this day I've never understood. Comments? (Flames, no, please.) David