* 2SQUID wrote :
Annika1980 wrote:
On Jul 19, 12:34 pm, John McWilliams wrote:
Annika1980 wrote:
Those who are getting tired of you crossposting and trying to generate
hits to your site.

I don't understand. You and Noons go ape**** when I crosspost to 3
different Newsgroups. But if I make 3 identical individual posts to
each Newsgroup, that is somehow better?

I say it makes it tougher to see the replies when you have to visit
the same thread on all 3 groups.

And if anyone is getting tired of anything it is probably your endless
whining and bitching about people crossposting. In case you haven't
heard, D-Mac invented the whole Newsgroup thingy and he didn't put you
in charge. So STFU!

FU GAME, SET, MATCH.

The real problem with cross posting on the scale you and a couple of
others are doing is that the groups lose their individuality. Most
people will subscribe (or not) to a group because it offers some unique
quality they like.

Wether or not you do this on purpose or whether it is a by product of
your quest for popularity is immaterial. You are actually diminishing
the usefulness of each group by cross posting. Take out your posts and
those of Mark Thomas and Troy Piggins and there is hardly enough
sustainable traffic to support visiting a group.

Certainly anyone seeking to participate in a camera hardware forum would
steer well clear of RPE.35mm and aus.photo. In fact the only remaining
newsgroup offering any useful information is Alan Browne's creation: RPD
.slr-systems and even that is being destroyed by spammers.

I don't understand something. We're posting links to photos in
photography related groups. I do it for comments and critique
because I'm always learning, can't answer for Mark or Bret but
they both have way more experience than me. I know both have
recently been trying out new techniques as have I. I couldn't
care about popularity, and they're hosted on my own site so it's
immaterial how many hits I get. I'm sure the others couldn't
care less how many hits they get too. I note you don't mention
Rita and D-Mac.

And if we stop posting what we believe are on-topic,
photography-related discussion threads, you are saying there is
hardly enough sustainable traffic to support visiting the groups.
And that's what you /want/? I don't get it.

Ok. Can you please explain which of these groups is the one
where it is only appropriate to post links to photos, which one
it is only appropriate to discuss hardware, which one it is
appropriate only to have discussions about general photography
topics? Please link me the groups' charters supporting your
answers. I'm sure there are other groups, but these are the ones
I frequent:

aus.photo
rec.photo.equipment.35mm
rec.photo.digital
rec.photo.digital.slr-systems

Personally, I don't think it's people posting photos that's
killing the groups, it's the other noise - flame-wars and
off-topic discussions.

--
Troy Piggins
I always appreciate critique.