On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 09:01:02 -0800, andy
<> wrote:
> SORRY for the cross posting but I had NO idea which area to put it in to get
> an answer..
No, you are missing Malke's point. You did *not* crosspost. If you had
crossposted, that would have been fine. What you did was multipost,
and that's always a bad thing to do.
Please do not send the same message separately to more than one
newsgroup (called multiposting). 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). 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).
To crosspost, you address a single message to multiple groups, rather
than multiple messages to one group each, as you did.
> "Malke" wrote:
>
> > andy wrote:
> > > I was doing a backup of my documents to an external hardrive ( which I have
> > > done before with no problems)....
> >
> > (snip multipost)
> >
> > Asked and answered in the other newsgroup to which you posted. Please
> > don't multipost; it makes more work for everyone and will get you *less*
> > help, not more. See this for why:
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting
> > http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm - multiposting
> >
> > If you have forgotten where you posted or can't find your post, use
> > Google Groups Advanced Search and search for your name.
> >
> > If you have further questions about this subject for me, please post
> > them in your original thread; I won't be monitoring this one.
> >
> >
> > Malke
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> > MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
> >
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