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  • i'd've migrated it, with a comment linking to the existing dupe, and flagged the newly-migrated question for a SO mod to close it as duplicate. not sure i'm crazy about the duplicate link you added -- under the principle of least surprise, it should at least show some indication that the link leads offsite. (i've edited to fix, but this isn't normally done so we may be establishing a precedent here...) Commented Apr 7, 2010 at 22:06
  • @quack hmm, I am not sure these are really duplicates, in fact I feel strongly that they aren't. Are they related? Sure. But duplicate, no. Anyway, I reopened and edited out the dupe link in the body -- it's appropriate to leave a related link in the comments though. Commented Apr 8, 2010 at 3:14
  • @Jeff: ACK!... that'll teach me to leap before looking. you're right, those are similar/related but not duplicates. i must admit i don't think i followed the SO link earlier, just assumed Ivo was linking to a crosspost -- ie a literal, exact duplicate. Commented Apr 8, 2010 at 4:44
  • i assumed something like these questions: superuser.com/questions/87822/configuring-linux-network .. serverfault.com/questions/97460/change-linux-network-setup .. that are exact duplicates. which, since the SF question has an accepted answer, i'm about to migrate... Commented Apr 8, 2010 at 4:46
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    If we can't do cross site duplicates, a rep factory is created, and double work is done for nothing. Many border-line questions have precise and identical answers independent of where they were asked. Commented Dec 17, 2013 at 16:41