What is a Full USENET Designation? Need to cross-post.

[Guest VC]

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]

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

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[Guest Ken Blake, MVP]

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.

 

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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience

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[Guest VanguardLH]

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]

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.