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"HEMI-Powered" wrote in message
... 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. -- Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup |
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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. -- HP, aka Jerry |
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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! -- HP, aka Jerry |
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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. -- 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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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. -- 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? |
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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 |
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I certainly agree. Just wanted to make your own technical X-post issue
clear, at least from this viewpoint, s. -- 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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