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bobman said:
thanks for posting a professional response, Ken.
You're welcome.
I would appreciate
an explanation of the difference between "multiposting" and
"crossposting", so maybe I can get my question to the right
people.
Sure. Crossposting is sending a single message addressed to more
than one newsgroup. Although it irritates some people because
it's a common tool of spammers, there's really nothing wrong with
it, if the newgroups are related and there's not a lot of them.
Multiposting is sending the same message to several newsgroups
multiple times, each as a separate message. The disadvantage of
doing this is that you get a separate thread started in each
newsgroup, and participants in one group don't get to see the
responses someone else made in the others.
So, for example, assuming that you mutipost to groups a and b, if
someone makes an incorrect response in group a, and the person
who knows it's incorrect only particpates in group b, he won't
see the incorrect response and won't have the opportunity to
correct it. It you had crossposted instead, everyone would see
everything.
However I see that you're posting using the web interface. I know
little about it, and don't know how to go about crossposting
with it. The web interface is the slowest, clunkiest, most
error-prone method there is. Do yourself a favor and switch to a
newsreader, such as Outlook Express, which comes with Windows.
See
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm
The reason I have posted my question in here is I was NOT even
getting one response when I posted it in the WMP group, and
that was
first done several days ago. I was not doing it belligerently,
No, I didn't say your original question was belligerent--I didn't
even see it. But your complaint that I replied to about not
getting any responses sure felt belligerent to me.
I was
just copying and pasting the same text without any other
comments. I
agree that in most cases, I do get the help I need in these
newsgroups, but this current situation has me stumped, and
nobody
seems to know even a starting point I can go with.
That sometimes happens. None of us knows everything, and there's
never a guarantee of an answer here, let alone a correct answer.
The only answer
I've been given, in a different posting, was that uninstalling
WMP
and resinstalling it would not do me any good. That's all he
posted.
That's like taking my car to a mechanic and having him tell me
the
reason my car doesn't run is because something's wrong with it,
and
then he gives me my keys back and tells me to have a nice day.
You need to understand that *anybody* can answer a question here.
There's an enormous range in the quality of the answers people
get. Sometimes the person who answers is an expert and provides
accurate helpful information. Sometimes the person who answers is
a beginner, and doesn't have the faintest idea what he's talking
about. Sometime the person who answers is a foul-mouthed teenager
who just wants to give you a hard time.
It's very common when you ask a question to get some responses
that are either so poorly written that you can't understand them,
or just flat-out wrong. Learning to tell the difference between
the good responses and the poor ones is a skill that newsgroup
particpipants need to acquire.
One of the things I think anybody needs to do to use any
technical newsgroup effectively is to hang around for a while and
just read messages, not necessarily ask or answer questions. In a
relatively short time, you start to get an understanding of who
the helpful knowledgeable people are (they are not just the
MVPs), and who are the wannabees. Once you've done that, you're
in a much better position to evaluate the responses and make
effective use of answers to your questions.
I certainly didn't mean to cause any problems, but when I see
dozens
of posts that were put up after mine, and they have several
responses, and mine just sits there for days without any
response,
hopefully you can understand why I am frustrated.
Of course. I understand your frustrations. But realize that none
of us knows everything and nobody can help with every problem.
I'm one of those people who have responded to some of those
dozens of other problems, but I didn't answer yours because I
know very little about Windows Media Player, and couldn't help.
At least you took
time to give me a respectful response, which is more than I can
say
for the two comments I got from Pavel and Happy. Thanks for
answering and anything u can give me to steer me in the right
direction would be appreciated.
I'd be happy to steer you in the right direction if I could, but
as I said, I know nothing about your problem. The one piece of
advice I tried to give you in my previous message, I'll repeat:
be polite to those people you're asking for help, and remember
that nobody here owes you an answer.
