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  #76  
Old August 21st 07, 03:04 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Ken Blake
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"HEMI-Powered" wrote in message
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Bob, please enlighten me: apparently some/all of my replies have
been showing up multiple places but I can assure everyone that I
do NOT cross-post. If the replies are somewhat similar, I may
have given similar advice elsewhere, but a couple of people have
said I am posting identical text to at least 3 NGs. That's news
to me. Usually, Xnews warns me when I am about to reply to
someone who originally cross-posted, but I've not seen that for
this particular thread, not originally, not the middle, and not
where we are now.


I'm not Bob, but just FYI, XNews is apparently not warning you. This thread,
and your reply is cross-posted to

microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics,
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,
and microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support

I don't have all problem with such cross-posting, by the way. As far as I'm
concerned, cross-posting to a few related groups is fine. Cross-posting
mostly got its bad reputation because it's the traditional tool of the
spammer, but the kind of crossposting in this thread clearly isn't spam.

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  #77  
Old August 21st 07, 07:55 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
HEMI-Powered
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Gary S. Terhune added these comments in the current discussion
du jour ...

Your post (the one I'm repaying to) is cross-posted to
windwosxp.basics, windowsxp.general and
windowsxp.help_and_support.

(Note, I have no problem with your X-posting, just thought I'd
let you know.)

Again, /I/ am NOT cross-posting, so if my posts are showing up
multiple places it can only mean I am replying to someone who did.
I know how to cross-post, when it should be done and when it should
not be done. Almost exclusively, I do NOT do that. If I am not
replying to a cross-poster, which would automagically propogate my
reply as well, then I don't know what is going on.

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  #78  
Old August 21st 07, 07:58 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
HEMI-Powered
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Bob I added these comments in the current discussion du jour ...

The thread was originally crossposted to and is currently
crossposting to:

microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support


This is what I thought, thanks for the confirmation. Usually, Xnews
warns me about this, but it hasn't for this thread.

and FWIW I don't think anyone is particularly concerned about
your postings in this thread.


Yes, thank you again. I believe it is only 2 people who are
annoyed, but since there may have been lurkers annoyed I didn't
know about, I thought it polite and professional to apologize even
though I didn't think I was doing anything all that bad.

have a good one!


And, you have a great day, too, Bob!

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  #79  
Old August 21st 07, 07:58 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Gary S. Terhune
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But you ARE replying to a cross-posted message, which automatically makes
your reply cross-posted as well. I can't tell you what's wrong with your
newsreader, but your posts are definitely cross-posted, as are all of the
posts in this thread.

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Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com

"HEMI-Powered" wrote in message
...
Gary S. Terhune added these comments in the current discussion
du jour ...

Your post (the one I'm repaying to) is cross-posted to
windwosxp.basics, windowsxp.general and
windowsxp.help_and_support.

(Note, I have no problem with your X-posting, just thought I'd
let you know.)

Again, /I/ am NOT cross-posting, so if my posts are showing up
multiple places it can only mean I am replying to someone who did.
I know how to cross-post, when it should be done and when it should
not be done. Almost exclusively, I do NOT do that. If I am not
replying to a cross-poster, which would automagically propogate my
reply as well, then I don't know what is going on.

--
HP, aka Jerry



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Old August 21st 07, 08:22 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics
Jim Byrd
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One issue I'm a bit concerned about is that MS may use SP3 to try and to
"force feed" IE7 onto those of us that happen to believe that it's a POS.

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Regards, Jim Byrd,
My Blog, Defending Your Machine,
http://defendingyourmachine2.blogspot.com/



In ,
M.I.5¾ typed:
|| "Jethro" wrote in message
|| ...
||| I am hearing about XP SP3 about to be offered by MS.
||| I've looked, but have not been able to find any list of what
||| 'upgrades' are included in XP SP3, post SP2. Is there such a list,
||| say by KB#?
||| Where?
||
|| There are certainly many rumours as to what it will contain. Of
|| particular interest is the draconian Digital Right Management that
|| Vista is saddled with. Some users will allegedly already have some
|| of this if they have allowed Windows Media Player 11 to be installed.
||
|| If your Windows XP SP2 does what you want, why change it?


  #81  
Old August 21st 07, 08:31 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
HEMI-Powered
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Gary S. Terhune added these comments in the current discussion
du jour ...

But you ARE replying to a cross-posted message, which
automatically makes your reply cross-posted as well. I can't
tell you what's wrong with your newsreader, but your posts are
definitely cross-posted, as are all of the posts in this
thread.


Well, since Xnews isn't warning me - this time - then I either
cross-post my replies or don't post at all. But, since the number
is rather small and the major objectors even smaller, 1, 2, maybe
3, so what? I just heard from Ken Blake, an MVP, who doesn't seem
to have any problem with the small-scale cross-posting that goes on
here and serveral other people have told me that they're not
particularly annoyed, so why doesn't everybody just let it drop.

Better still, why not whack on the OP for doing it, and leave the
people either trying to help or evolving the thread into other
useful directions alone? In other words, live and let live.

--
HP, aka Jerry
  #82  
Old August 21st 07, 09:44 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Gary S. Terhune
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I certainly agree. Just wanted to make your own technical X-post issue
clear, at least from this viewpoint, s.

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Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com

"HEMI-Powered" wrote in message
...
Gary S. Terhune added these comments in the current discussion
du jour ...

But you ARE replying to a cross-posted message, which
automatically makes your reply cross-posted as well. I can't
tell you what's wrong with your newsreader, but your posts are
definitely cross-posted, as are all of the posts in this
thread.


Well, since Xnews isn't warning me - this time - then I either
cross-post my replies or don't post at all. But, since the number
is rather small and the major objectors even smaller, 1, 2, maybe
3, so what? I just heard from Ken Blake, an MVP, who doesn't seem
to have any problem with the small-scale cross-posting that goes on
here and serveral other people have told me that they're not
particularly annoyed, so why doesn't everybody just let it drop.

Better still, why not whack on the OP for doing it, and leave the
people either trying to help or evolving the thread into other
useful directions alone? In other words, live and let live.

--
HP, aka Jerry



 




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