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Listen everyone. Listen carefully.

This is crossposted to a very large number of newsgroups. I personally am
seeing it in comp.lang.perl, where it is totally swamping the normal low
traffic in the group, which now consists of this thread and an equally
irrelevant one about Jarvis Cocker and Pulp.

While I have no objection to seeing a short job ad for Perl programmers in
comp.lang.perl, the problem with a mass crossposting is that most people
who reply don't bother to trim the newsgroup list. I'm therefore seeing
lots of replies that say 'Yes, it's OK in this newsgroup', or 'No, not here
thanks', without any indication of where 'here' or 'this newsgroup' is.
Not helpful, and no use at all to anyone who isn't in the intended group.

Most of the groups that this is being cross-posted to couldn't care less
what Lotus Notes users think about this posting, but we're getting to hear
anyway. Half the posters are quoting the whole of the original message, which
isn't making things any easier.

Please trim the newsgroup list when you reply to any message in this thread.
Don't just hit 'follow-up' without thinking.

To the original poster: cross-posting your message wasn't in itself a bad idea,
but it has caused problems. Perhaps it might be better to target your next
posting to specific newsgroups for specific jobs.

(This message was from comp.lang.perl, but I thought I'd broadcast it
generally, because it applies to everyone that this thread is being
cross-posted to).

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David Matthewman                       david@cconcepts.co.uk/david@xara.com
import std.disclaimer.Xara; // "Never tell the same lie twice" - Garak, DS9