Quote Originally Posted by wolle View Post
No but if you know about the double post you can better decide if and how you want to reply. I cannot think of any situation where awareness of the existence of a double post would be in the way.



You don't need much bandwidth today. There aren't that many programming forums and the overall activity is much slower than it used to be. I used to post at the Sun Java forum in its heyday and there was hundreds of questions each day and hundreds of replies to each from a large community of regular posters. Those were the days...
My bandwidth is limited to this site. If I see a question I know the answer to I generally will respond. It makes no difference if the question has been posted to other sites that I don't visit. To me, posting that something has been cross posted is just noise.