Meat Plow ) writes:
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:55:02 -0700, jJim McLaughlin wrote:



You are just a crossposting fool without the sense to understand that
this is
wildly OT for at least two of the three groups you polluted.

Let's see, three groups xposted to:

ba.general (Announcements of GENERAL INTEREST to ALL readers
I don't think there is much if anything that could be construed as
off topic in that group except for Usenet spam.)

But one has to really wonder why there and nowhere else. After all,
it's general to the Bay Area.

rec.audio.tech (the Coolpix does create audio recordings hence not off
topic here)


Yet that is stretching it, rather like asking about old computer hardware
or the price of vacuum tubes in sci.electronics.repair

Cross-posting, like off-topic posts in general, is usually the
result of someone too lazy to find the proper place to post.

You can stretch things, but if you overlook the proper place, then
you're caught.


rec.home.repair (the Coolpix can be considered an item of the home as in
many other items in the home, mowers, drills, chain saws, that get freely
and very regularly discussed without people like you crying about the
topic and content being off topic.)

But is it about the repair of household items, or the repair of the
house?

Even in the former case, surely it relates to things not likely found
beyond the house. So a lawnmower would fit, but a camera is more
than a stretch.

You might as well put your computer questions there, because after
all, many/most houses have computers at this point.

The only thing worse than cross-posters and off-topic posters
is their defenders.

Michael