2009-08-20, 09:51 PM
I've never understood why people much less boards discourage double posting, unless they assume no one reads the board in real-time nor cares to follow a discussion!! It makes sense if you think of a bulletin board as classified ads, but not as a conversation. It could be a throwback to the time when most bulletin boards were really just logs of mailing lists... many such boards still exist where the line between bulletin board and mailing list is blurred, and it can be embarrassing when you don't realize your really posting to a mailing list, because obviously the dynamics are different.
Basically if you have an afterthought in a mailing list you gotta wait until someone replies to put it out, or things can get confusing.
Basically if you have an afterthought in a mailing list you gotta wait until someone replies to put it out, or things can get confusing.