Don J said:
I don't understand why you object. The ability to automatically crosspost
is built into the newsgroups. It is obviously intended to be used. Your
objection must have something to do with the subject, or something to do
with my name. I am net aware of any rules, either official or informally
agreed to, on subject matter.
There is another possibility: You are not aware of the ability to
automatically crosspost, or that your respose was also automatically
crossposted.
My reply was crossposted because I chose to keep the groups you had in the
original post, as I have done in this reply, however posts are never
"automatically" crossposted. You have to choose to do so, and choose which
groups. I sometimes do remove excessive original crossposting from my reply
I have no problems with crossposting in general, and it is certainly
preferable to multiposting, but it should only be used where appropriate,
and then only to applicable newsgroups. One should not crosspost every
inquiry. For most inquires pick one group that is most on target and stick
with it. Sometimes an issue does span newsgroups and in those cases sure,
use it, but not for every question, and not to groups that don't apply.
In your case, one of the groups you posted to was
microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web. That group has nothing to do with
the nature of your post. The microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
group was originally intended as a newsgroup for issues related to the help
and support function in XP, not for general help issues. That's what
windowsxp.general is for. Unfortunately the name is misleading and that
newsgroup has devolved into a duplicate of windowsxp.general. The people
who provide help in there are much the same as in windowsxp.general, so
there really is no need to crosspost to both those groups.
Crossposting, where inappropriate, just adds more noise and more downloads.
I feel posts should be kept on topic for the benefit of everyone.
