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The point is not to get the Usenet people to reply on PerlMonks, I don’t think so. The point is to post the same thing in multiple venues, with ensuing discussion in each, to get wider coverage.

Ovid posted pointers and a summary of his recent module naming question here on PerlMonks to use Perl and to the perl-xml list also – and maybe to another one or two places I don’t know about as well.

It worked handily, I think.

It’s all in how you go about it.

Makeshifts last the longest.

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Re^4: CC'ing Comments to Newsgroup
by rcseege (Pilgrim) on Oct 11, 2005 at 19:47 UTC

    That was the point exactly. Judging from the various responses, I think doing this manually as you and others have suggested is probably the best way to go, because:

    1. "Crossposts" probably won't occur often.
    2. Manual copy, paste, post is easy enough.

    Unfortunately, any mention of linking to or from this site ended up being more of a distraction to the discussion than anything else. The intent was not to simply drop a link in a message and post it. This would be irritating, and would deliver very little standalone value - both to a user browsing messages daily, and to someone searching archived posts. I also agree that practical implementation would be problematic.

    I appreciated all the responses even if a response was only a negative xp vote which is feedback of a kind, I suppose ;-) While there are individuals who prefer one forum in exclusion of any other, I am not among them. The basic idea was to find a way of propagating some goodness outside of Perlmonks borders in a way which might be useful to others who choose not to use Perlmonks for whatever reason.

    Thanks again for the feedback,

    Rob
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