Re: Seeking ways to free up disc space. Please help

Have you figured out how to cross post? It's easy using Outlook Express
but I see you are using Forte Agent. I am not you can cross posting
using Forte Agent


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England
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attillathehun@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
My apologies. I only put the post on three specific groups that I
thought people would see and be of help; I didn't think many people
would subscribe to all the microsoft Xp groups. I have received
different pieces of advice in different groups because of the
different person's background and most grateful to people sharing
their help with me.

Many thanks for pointing this out to me about cross posting.

Sorry that you may not be able to help me with my specific request and
sorry if I have offended or taken up more disc space in the process.


On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:19:13 -0500, VanguardLH <V@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"attillathehun@xxxxxxxxxx" in
<news:ltmf64df7jrl9llr8jhvmha92tqhgg0ae6@xxxxxxx> wrote:

I am using Windows XP on my computer and running very low on disc
space. I've run "Disc cleanup" and checked on any hidden internet
files but still getting a message " low on disc space".

I have 519MB left out of 40GB.

Are there ways to gain back disc space? Any free programs to use?

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.


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