HEY VH!
I will take what you write in consideration, OK I'm done!
In the mean time what logical answer have you supplied to the OP? MOUTH!
>WT VanguardLH wrote:
>> williamtell wrote:
>>
>>> You are asking your question at the wrong NG, I have cross posted to
>>> internetexplorer.general NG. There you will find IE experts.
>>
>> What PA Bear and other dubious MVPs have started is now getting
>> imitated by more users: rather than recommend a change in venue, they
>> make an unsolicited move of someone else's thread to somewhere they
>> have deemed by their own bias as a more appropriate newsgroup. This
>> is trollish behavior.
>>
>>
>> If the OP wishes to move or copy their discussion to another group,
>> that should be *their* choice and not as an UNSOLICITED action
>> enforced by you. Despite the pretense, you are not a moderator or
>> admin but just another user who is propagating the OP's discussion to
>> different group(s) that you have divined are more appropriate and to
>> possibly enlarge the audience or hopefully provide a more focused
>> community on the topic but which may not be a correct action. The
>> actual source of the problem may turn out to not be relevant to those
>> other groups simply based on what the OP reported as the symptoms and
>> upon what you based your decision to forcibly redirect someone else's
>> discussion. If the OP wants to move or copy their discussion to
>> another group, that should be THEIR choice and not yours. You should
>> only recommend to the OP that there may be more appropriate or useful
>> groups to which the OP should repost or cross-post their message, not
>> enforce the propagation of the OP's discussion to other groups.
>>
>> A misguided urge to enlarge or change exposure for a discussion based
>> on your biases or presumptions is not an adequate reason to alter the
>> Newsgroups header. Recommend the OP should move. Do not SHOVE them
>> over. It should be the OP's choice as to where they focus their
>> discussion, not a forced change made by you. Despite trying to help,
>> forcing a redirection of someone else's discussion is trollish
>> behavior. Suggest the change, don't force it.
>>
>
> I think you are over-reacting.
>
> "Forcing" a cross-post to a more appropriate group is going to help the OP
> in this situation. It's not as if the thread will no longer appear in the
> windowsxp.general newsgroup. If OP sees the replies (even those made by
> those who read it in the internetexplorer group) in the general group, no
> harm is done. The crosspost is bringing those who have more specialized
> and focused experience into play.
>
> There is an added bonus as well. From now on, if OP has an IE-specific
> question, he knows the best group to make the post in.
>