Re: Community Newsgroups Itself

F. Lawrence Kulchar wrote:

Often, when I try to open up my already posted query together with
rsvp's, i have trouble reading the results...

there is no scroll bar on the page...

if there are 2 -- 3 responses, I must click on my original question
and drag the mouse down off the page to view the responses..


Answered in another newsgroup. Please do not send the same message
separately to more than one newsgroup (called multiposting). Doing so just
fragments the thread, so someone who answers in one newsgroup doesn't get to
see answers from others in another newsgroup. And for those who read all the
newsgroups the message is multiposted to, they see the message multiple
times instead of once (they would see it only once if you correctly
crossposted instead). This wastes everyone's time, and gets you poorer help
than you should get.

If you must send the same message to more than one newsgroup, please do so
by crossposting (but only to a *few* related newsgroups).

Please see "What is the accepted way to share a message across multiple
newsgroups?" at http://smjg.port5.com/faqs/usenet/xpost.html

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
Please reply to the newsgroup


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