On Mon, 13 Aug 2018 20:52:50 +0200, R.Wieser wrote:

Paul,

Posts to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general are archived on Google Groups.

Posts to alt.windows7.general are not archived.

Crossposting to both groups, should cause it to be archived on GG.
The "microsoft.public.windowsxp.general" helps ensure it's captured.

You don't get it, do you ? By chopping off
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general from it I would not see my own post
appear, and neither would I see any responses to it. It would be as if the
thread suddenly died.

But the posts then wouldn't go to a group that belongs in
alt.nostalgia.old-timers where all XP related traffic belongs.