Posting Etiquitte?

[Jeff Brown]

I hear people say not to multipost, does these mean not to ask the same
question in another group or to submit the question to all the groups via
the same submission, with multiple newsgroups in the "send to" box? Just a
curious question from someone who has only googled and altavista'd since the
beginning of time.

Jeff

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Hello,

"Fergus Cooney" <fi******@tesco .net> schrieb:

Fortunately Terry Pratchett's humour is timeless - you can
enjoy it in your sunset years.

Alternatively you could read a page or two a day when you go
and 'sit on the throne'. ;-)

I'll do that...

;-)))

--
Herfried K. Wagner
MVP · VB Classic, VB.NET
http://www.mvps.org/dotnet

[Nak]

> > Alternatively you could read a page or two a day when you go

and 'sit on the throne'. ;-)

I'll do that...

LOL!!! Try not to slash on the book though hey?

Nick.

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"No matter. Whatever the outcome, you are changed."

Fergus - September 5th 2003
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[Cindy Meister -WordMVP-]

Hi Charles,

I'm confused. Is cross-posting the act of sending the same question multiple
times, once to each of several groups, as distinct from sending the question
once only but to several groups?

Cross-posting is selecting several groups and sending the question once, as
Fergus suggested :-)

Cindy Meister

[Charles Law]

Hi Cindy

That being the case, it would seem that - so long as there are not too many
groups in the list - this could be useful where several groups overlap?

Charles
"Cindy Meister -WordMVP-" <Ci**********@s wissonline.ch> wrote in message
news:VA.0000857 f.00cbcd95@spee dy...

Hi Charles,

I'm confused. Is cross-posting the act of sending the same question multiple times, once to each of several groups, as distinct from sending the question once only but to several groups?
Cross-posting is selecting several groups and sending the question once,

as Fergus suggested :-)

Cindy Meister

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Hello,

"Charles Law" <bl**@thingummy .com> schrieb:

That being the case, it would seem that - so long as there
are not too many groups in the list - this could be useful
where several groups overlap?

Yes -- X-posts _can_ be useful if the groups are related to the topic.

--
Herfried K. Wagner
MVP · VB Classic, VB.NET
http://www.mvps.org/dotnet

[Jeff Johnson [MVP: VB]]

"Jeff Brown" <no******@thist ime.com> wrote in message
news:0a******** *********@twist er.austin.rr.co m...

I hear people say not to multipost, does these mean not to ask the same
question in another group or to submit the question to all the groups via
the same submission, with multiple newsgroups in the "send to" box? Just a
curious question from someone who has only googled and altavista'd since the beginning of time.

Here's my standard reply to multi-posting (saved as a signature):
You have posted this question individually to multiple groups. This is
called Multiposting and it's BAD. Replies made in one group will not be
visible in the other groups, which may cause multiple people to respond to
your question with the same answer because they didn't know someone else had
already done it. This is a waste of time.

If you MUST post your message to multiple groups, post a single message and
select all the groups (or type their names manually, separated by commas) in
which you want it to be seen. This is called Crossposting and when used
properly it is GOOD.

Your question has been answered in another group. Which one? See the problem
with multiposting?

[Cor]

Hi Jeff,
Do you mean the same methode as sending spam, send it to as much adresses as
you know?
You never knows if there is someone is so stupid to answer you, yes a very
good method.
Cor

[Cindy Meister -WordMVP-]

Hi Charles,

That being the case, it would seem that - so long as there are not too many
groups in the list - this could be useful where several groups overlap?

Yes, I agree with Herfried and the others on this. And have even found it
very informative, on occasion, as I often end up learning something from
someone posting in a group I normally don't visit :-)

Cindy Meister

[Cindy Meister -WordMVP-]

Hi Charles,

That being the case, it would seem that - so long as there are not too many
groups in the list - this could be useful where several groups overlap?

Yes, I agree with Herfried and the others on this. And have even found it
very informative, on occasion, as I often end up learning something from
someone posting in a group I normally don't visit :-)

Cindy Meister

[Nak]

Hi people,

I'm having a bit of a brain storm at the minute and wouldn't mind some
personal opinions on some things.

To license my applications I have decided to make a license manager
service that holds application license files (RSA encrypted). When the
application launches the license manager is consulted as to whether the
application is *allowed* to run or not. The license file for that
particular application is held by the license manager which decrypts it and
responds as necessary.

Now what I wanted to do was make the license file simply an XML file
that contains some information, but it's what information it *should*
contain is what my main concern is, for example...

Obligatory information,

* Name
* Company

"Is this a 'Privacy invasion" information?"

* Contact details
* System information (To prevent the application from being used on more
than 1 system).

Hmmm, any ideas on this?

BTW, this is something that I may want to release for free, so some of
you may be interested in this, I'm certainly interested in making my
applications more secure with as little code as possible are you?

Nick.

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"No matter. Whatever the outcome, you are changed."

Fergus - September 5th 2003
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