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Crossposting. Was: "What is the box thing near the fan aperture?"
Dickens wrote:
Patrick wrote: Dickens wrote: I am not reall dumb. Honest. Or so my mum tells me. Nope, you are not dumb. But, you do tend to **** folks off when you cross post to all those newsgroups!!! AND, because I am not certain that you even read one specific newsgroup, I MUST POST to replies to them ALL!!!!! Sorry to be brusque Patrick but if you can't or won't set crosspost killing in your newsreader then you can hardly expect me to stop crossposting to relevant newsgroups. This is a problem at your end and you need to solve it. if you must get ****ed off then get don't get ****ed off at me! Now, THAT makes ME a bad guy, for being STOOPID in trying to HELP YOU!!!!!!!!!!! There are lots of stoopid people on the usenet and you say you are another. In your case your own claimed stupidity probably comes from not understanding about crossposting. As one of my previous links showed you, the The Good Net-Keeping Seal of Approval actually requires a newsreader have the ability to crosspost before they approve it. Read it again: http://www.newsreaders.com/gnksa/gnksa.txt Most of us monitor them ALL, looking to help folks, and your name and addy pop up in them ALL! NOW, MY reply will, also!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just because you are a good samaritan (and of course that is a good thing) does not mean that you can unilaterally mandate that people post inappropriately by *not* crossposting to several groups when each one is relevant. I am not crossposting to off-topic groups like alt.conspiracy.princess-diana or whatever. Slows me down when I am searching to help someone, and I have to read your messages AGAIN, and AGAIN, and AGAIN!!!!!!! May I suggest you use crosspost killing. Are you perhaps confusing multiple posting (which must be downloaded and seen multiple times) with crossposting (which does not)? Now, all the OTHER great folks who help others out, will ALSO haveto read through your message, and my reply, on several different boards!!!!!! They are not complaining so I guess it is mainly a problem you are having with how you use your newsreader. I should guess that your Mozilla/5.0 has a crosspost kill feature somewhere. Maybe someone in news.software.readers who sees this can advise you. HEADER: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030908 Debian/1.4-4 crosspost cancelled |
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Daniel James wrote in
: In article , Ric wrote: You would be correct if you had included a "REPLY-TO" group in your header. You didn't, so you aren't. "Reply-To:" headers do more harm than good. You mean "follow up to". If a question is asked in five groups and anwered in (any) one of those groups the answer *should* be visible in all five, so that everyone who sees the question can also see that it has been answered. The common netiquette advice to use a "Reply-To:" to direct all answers to a single group is actually counter-productive. Netiquette advice is to set a followupto, and mention that in the body. anyone who wants to read the thread can subscribe to that group. Anyone who isn't interested need do nothing, unless that group is the one being followed-upped-to, in which case they can filter the thread out. -- Kill-filers: My screen name changes, My email address doesn't. |
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