Guest VC Posted October 19, 2008 Posted October 19, 2008 What is Full USENET Designation? Need to cross-post a question, which requires the full designation. Can you give an example? We are accessing these forums from the Foxfire browser. Thanks.
Guest Malke Posted October 19, 2008 Posted October 19, 2008 Re: What is a Full USENET Designation? Need to cross-post. VC wrote: > What is Full USENET Designation? Need to cross-post a question, which > requires the full designation. Can you give an example? We are accessing > these forums from the Foxfire browser. Crossposting *this* question would have been preferable to multiposting the way you just did. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm - multiposting I answered your question in microsoft.public.windowsxp.basic and asked you what you meant. Please clarify in *that* thread as I won't be monitoring this one. Malke -- MS-MVP Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic! FAQ - http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ
Guest Ken Blake, MVP Posted October 19, 2008 Posted October 19, 2008 Re: What is a Full USENET Designation? Need to cross-post. On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:54:00 -0700, VC <VC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > What is Full USENET Designation? Need to cross-post a question, which > requires the full designation. Can you give an example? We are accessing > these forums from the Foxfire browser. Since I just saw and answered your message in another newsgroup, it's clear that my guess is correct and you don't understand what crossposting is. You are multiposting instead. Please read my other answer, and understand why you should not multipost instead of crossposting. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup
Guest VanguardLH Posted October 20, 2008 Posted October 20, 2008 Re: What is a Full USENET Designation? Need to cross-post. VC wrote: > What is Full USENET Designation? Need to cross-post a question, which > requires the full designation. Can you give an example? We are accessing > these forums from the Foxfire browser. > > Thanks. Learn to cross-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/xpost.html A point not made is that N multiposted copies will consume N times the disk space for each of the separate copies of the same post. Crossposted messages have just *one* copy on the server with links in the newsgroups back to the same single copy. Multiposting wastes disk space on the server. Yes, your post may be small but remember that you consume N times the space on one server and then do so again on all the newsgroups servers worldwide. You waste more bandwidth getting N copies of your multiposted message distributed to all the newsgroups servers worldwide. Cross-posting has just one copy of the message on an NNTP server, and only one copy gets propagated to other NNTP servers. To those visiting the newsgroups, crossposting helps them see ALL the replies from those in the other RELATED newsgroup to which you linked your post. That way, they don't waste their time duplicating similar replies. Don't cross-post to more groups than needed if at all. Many consider cross-posting to more than 4 groups as rude and may filter out your post. The more groups you add, the less likely that they are related, the less accurate or focused are the targeted groups, or some of the included groups may already encompassed by another included but more general group. If the are subgroups under a topic, choose whether you will be specific or general in the targeted groups to which you post. Don't go shotgunning your post across multiple groups trying to capture as large an audience as possible as you will offend netizens with your poor aim.
Guest HeyBub Posted October 20, 2008 Posted October 20, 2008 Re: What is a Full USENET Designation? Need to cross-post. VanguardLH wrote: > VC wrote: > >> What is Full USENET Designation? Need to cross-post a question, >> which requires the full designation. Can you give an example? We >> are accessing these forums from the Foxfire browser. >> >> Thanks. > > Learn to cross-post: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting > http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm > http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/xpost.html > > A point not made is that N multiposted copies will consume N times the > disk space for each of the separate copies of the same post. > Crossposted messages have just *one* copy on the server with links in > the newsgroups back to the same single copy. Multiposting wastes disk > space on the server. Yes, your post may be small but remember that > you consume N times the space on one server and then do so again on > all the newsgroups servers worldwide. You waste more bandwidth > getting N copies of your multiposted message distributed to all the > newsgroups servers worldwide. Cross-posting has just one copy of the > message on an NNTP server, and only one copy gets propagated to other > NNTP servers. > When using the word "bandwidth" in a newsgroup posting, please abbreviate it as "bndwth" thereby saving precious bndwth. Thnks.
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