What limits on crossposting in Outlook?

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Hiram Walker

I was using Outlook Expres 6 recetly with my ISP's news server. I
founf that OE did not allow me to crosspost to as many groups as my
other newsreader, Xnews.

The strange was that OE said in its error message this was a limit
imposed by the server. But I use that server to crosspost to just as
many groups but with Xnews.

Does anyone know why this is?

It seems that the post did get through even though OE suggested it
hadn't.

Is my newsserver actually objecting with a warning message but Xnews
is ignoring it?
 
[This followup was posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general and a
copy was sent to the cited author.]

I was using Outlook Expres 6 recetly with my ISP's news server. I
founf that OE did not allow me to crosspost to as many groups as my
other newsreader, Xnews.

The strange was that OE said in its error message this was a limit
imposed by the server. But I use that server to crosspost to just as
many groups but with Xnews.

Does anyone know why this is?

It seems that the post did get through even though OE suggested it
hadn't.

Is my newsserver actually objecting with a warning message but Xnews
is ignoring it?
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How many groups do you want to crosspost to? people tend to get a little
bit pissed off with HUGE crossposts. (Any more than two or three is
usually considered HUGE)
 
I agree with Rifleman. It is aggravating after a bit having to scroll
through the same post, with the same replies, over and over and.... What
you will learn is that many people read multiple groups; a reply to a
crosspost puts that reply in ALL groups it was sent to--unless the answerer
takes the time to delete one to several groups in the Newsgroups heading.
Which is why the newsgroup name usually has some "specialty" or unique
feature named in its title.

Malv

rifleman said:
[This followup was posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general and a
copy was sent to the cited author.]

I was using Outlook Expres 6 recetly with my ISP's news server. I
founf that OE did not allow me to crosspost to as many groups as my
other newsreader, Xnews.

The strange was that OE said in its error message this was a limit
imposed by the server. But I use that server to crosspost to just as
many groups but with Xnews.

Does anyone know why this is?

It seems that the post did get through even though OE suggested it
hadn't.

Is my newsserver actually objecting with a warning message but Xnews
is ignoring it?
Click to expand...
How many groups do you want to crosspost to? people tend to get a little
bit pissed off with HUGE crossposts. (Any more than two or three is
usually considered HUGE)
--
(I may be wrong...I usually am....)
Google is your Friend
Email address deliberately false to avoid spam:
www.gbpcomputing.co.uk
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Malvern Wrote in news.software.readers, on 19 Jul 2003 13:07:14 GMT:
I agree with Rifleman. It is aggravating after a bit having to scroll
through the same post, with the same replies, over and over and....
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If you have a decent newsreader, it will mark the posts in other groups
read after reading it once and you should not see it anyway.

Xnews does this.
 
rifleman said:
How many groups do you want to crosspost to? people tend to get
a little bit pissed off with HUGE crossposts. (Any more than two
or three is usually considered HUGE)
Click to expand...


I was replying to some existing crossposted articles. I think the
crossposting was to 4 groups in one case and to 8 another - or
something like that.
 
The strange was that OE said in its error message this was a limit
imposed by the server. But I use that server to crosspost to just
as many groups but with Xnews.

Does anyone know why this is?

It seems that the post did get through even though OE suggested it
hadn't.
Click to expand...

What exactly did OE give as a warning message?
Is my newsserver actually objecting with a warning message but
Xnews is ignoring it?
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Maybe so, but it would be strange behavior of a server to give a
warning but accept the message. Afaik, Xnews will just carry on as
long as it gets the 'article posted ok' message from the server.

If you really want to find out what the server is doing, you might try
using nntpx, from <http://www.elbiah.de/tools/nntpx.htm>.

You might also ask about this in the Microsoft newsgroup devoted to
your version of OE, not the general WinXP group. I've removed that
group from your crosspost.
 
Steve Shattuck said:
People are tired of your crossposts? Glad you warned me because I can
place you in my blocked sender file BEFORE wanting to clobber you.
PLONK!!!!!!!!
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Hey Steve-0, what makes you think he is a spammer. Do you regularly spout off
without facts to back it up? I'm all for slamming the spammers, but this guy
appears to be just a regular user, and did say that his question stemmed from
replying to crossposted articles, not posting them. Also a google search on
his name turns up no spam by him. Maybe you are the one that needs plonked.
 
sittingduck said:
Hey Steve-0, what makes you think he is a spammer. Do you
regularly spout off without facts to back it up? I'm all for
slamming the spammers, but this guy appears to be just a regular
user, and did say that his question stemmed from replying to
crossposted articles, not posting them. Also a google search on
his name turns up no spam by him. Maybe you are the one that
needs plonked.
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I think Steve must have been having a tough day. No hard feelings.

The problem with IE6's crossposting message which I encountered came
up when I was replying to existing posts which were themselves
already crossposted.

I have no idea why I could not reply to them using IE6 without
getting an error message. Whereas with the same newsserver and very
similar crossposted messages, I could reply with no warning when
using Xnews.
 
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