Re: Stay away from Vista


Bruce

According to Wikipedia ( and I am not maintaining it is a correct definition ) where the message is intended for more than one newsgroup each newsgroup is named and separated one from the other by a comma.

Thus a single posted message displays "microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support", whereas a cross posted message to two newsgroups will appear as "microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support,microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain".

A multiposted message will display as "microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support" in that group and "microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain" in the second group.

I have not misread the Wikipedia primary definition. It may be incorrect.

My earlier comments about removal being difficult upon further investigation were not quite correct. These multiposted message can be found both by the name of the person posting and by text in the message. The poster varied the subject, which I usually use as my search criteria and I gave up earlier. Normally these pests do not use the same name but on this occasion they did.

My comments are made as an Outlook Express user and different rules may apply with regard to other applications.

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Regards.

Gerry
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Bruce Chambers wrote:
Gerry Cornell wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Multiposting

I think you have reversed the meaning of crosspost and multipost. It
does get your mind in a spin; mine anyway <G>.

If it had been multiposted it would be far easier to delete.

multiposting isn't allowed in the reqs -do they care?



FYI, Poprivet is correct, and you're misreading the Wikipedia entry on
cross-posting.

(No to mention the fact that I'll stake my years of actually using
Usenet against Wikipedia's "million monkeys typing on a million
keyboards" approach to getting things right.)

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