What is Full USENET Designation? Need to cross-post question VC 10/19/2008 6:58:01 PM What is Full USENET Designation? Need to cross-post a question, which requires the full designation. Can you give an example? We are accessing these forums from the Foxfire browser. Thanks.

Re: What is Full USENET Designation? Need to cross-post question Malke <malke[ at ]invalid.invalid> 10/19/2008 7:06:48 PM VC wrote: [Quoted Text] > What is Full USENET Designation? Need to cross-post a question, which > requires the full designation. Can you give an example? We are accessing > these forums from the Foxfire browser. Full Usenet designation of what? This group? microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics Please clarify your question or look here: http://aumha.org/nntp.htm - list of MS newsgroups Malke -- MS-MVP Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic! FAQ - http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ

Re: What is Full USENET Designation? Need to cross-post question "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake[ at ]this.is.an.invalid.domain> 10/19/2008 7:16:55 PM On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:58:01 -0700, VC <VC[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] > What is Full USENET Designation? Need to cross-post a question, which > requires the full designation. It isn't at all clear to me what you are asking, but I suspect that you don't understand what crossposting is. Please do not send the same message separately to more than one newsgroup (called multiposting, not crossposting). Doing so just fragments the thread, so someone who answers in one newsgroup doesn't get to see answers from others in another newsgroup. And for those who read all the newsgroups the message is multiposted to, they see the message multiple times instead of once (they would see it only once if you correctly crossposted instead -- sending a single message simultaneously to multiple newsgroups). This wastes everyone's time, and gets you poorer help than you should get. If you must send the same message to more than one newsgroup, please do so by crossposting (but only to a *few* related newsgroups). Please see "Multiposting vs Crossposting" at http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm > Can you give an example? We are accessing > these forums from the Foxfire browser. What browser you use doesn't matter, but I strongly recommend that you do *not* access these newsgroups from a web site. You are using the awful web interface to read this newsgroup--it's 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 -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup

Re: What is Full USENET Designation? Need to cross-post question VanguardLH <V[ at ]nguard.LH> 10/20/2008 2:15:02 AM VC wrote: [Quoted Text] > What is Full USENET Designation? Need to cross-post a question, which > requires the full designation. Can you give an example? We are accessing > these forums from the Foxfire browser. > > Thanks. Is "Full Usenet Designation" some term you made up? Is it something declared by whatever local NNTP client you use to access newsgroups? We're not there looking over your shoulder to see what your finger is pointing at.