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Can Google Groups do cross-posting?
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| John E. 2007-04-18, 1:25 pm |
| Some posters to se* post multiple messages (one to each n.g.) rather than
cross-post. Is this just ignorance of proper procedure, or is GG's web
interface not capable of x-posting?
I'd look for myself, but I abhor GG and get hives when I go near it.
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John English
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| John E. wrote:
> Some posters to se* post multiple messages (one to each n.g.) rather than
> cross-post. Is this just ignorance of proper procedure, or is GG's web
> interface not capable of x-posting?
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> I'd look for myself, but I abhor GG and get hives when I go near it.
I've got hives, but don't have much choice. GG so-called interface
easily cross-posts to a maximum of five (5) groups. That limits
spammers but still allows reasonable discusions where the subject
matter cuts across a number of topics. When replying or posting simply
add the other groups to the "To" list separated by commas. OK?
Benj
(Who thus, had to trim your massive cross-post to five groups)
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| David Q 2007-04-24, 9:25 am |
| On 21 Apr 2007, Benj <bjacoby@iwaynet.net> wrote:
> John E. wrote:
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> I've got hives, but don't have much choice. GG so-called interface
> easily cross-posts to a maximum of five (5) groups. That limits
> spammers but still allows reasonable discusions where the subject
> matter cuts across a number of topics. When replying or posting
> simply add the other groups to the "To" list separated by commas.
> OK?
>
> Benj
> (Who thus, had to trim your massive cross-post to five groups)
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>
Another problem I hit was using the Google groups search engine to
look up a posting by message ID.
This usually works well but when I tried looking up some postings
from Google using their message ID, I found the search would not work
even though these postings can be found when the thread they are in
is viewed.
Is this common?
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| David Q wrote:
>Another problem I hit was using the Google groups search engine
>to look up a posting by message ID.
Next time try this:
Go to alt.test.
Start a new thread.
Make the 1st line: x-no-archive: yes
On the 2nd line, put the Message ID like this:
news:0001HW.C24BA2FF0020447AF01826C8@news.sf.sbcglobal.net
Post the message.
Wait a bit. (Google Groups' latency
is often somewhere between lousy and miserable lately.)[1]
Refresh the alt.test Topics page.
Open your thread.
Click the link that Google has generated.
Profit!
[1]
http://www.google.com/search?q=Goog...rvice+lost.data
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| Michael A. Terrell 2007-04-25, 9:25 pm |
| JeffM wrote:
> http://www.google.com/search?q=Goog...rvice+lost.data
It looks like their latest update has trashed the whole system. No
new messages since about 8:00 PM (EST) yesterday.
Wouldn't that have been around 5:00 PM at their headquarters? It
almost looks deliberate. Maybe this is their solution to all of the
Google Groups spam complaints?
--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.
Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida
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| Long Ranger 2007-04-26, 3:25 am |
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"Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:4630060E.4104A5B9@earthlink.net...
> JeffM wrote:
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> It looks like their latest update has trashed the whole system. No
> new messages since about 8:00 PM (EST) yesterday.
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> Wouldn't that have been around 5:00 PM at their headquarters? It
> almost looks deliberate. Maybe this is their solution to all of the
> Google Groups spam complaints?
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>
> --
> Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
> prove it.
> Member of DAV #85.
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> Michael A. Terrell
> Central Florida
But did you get the T-shirt?
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| Michael A. Terrell 2007-04-26, 3:25 am |
| Long Ranger wrote:
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> "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:4630060E.4104A5B9@earthlink.net...
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> But did you get the T-shirt?
Which T shirt? The standard OD green ones, or my A-12-5 unit T shirt
from basic training? They have all been worn out and gone for over 30
years.
--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.
Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida
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| JeffM wrote:
Michael A. Terrell wrote:[color=darkred]
>It looks like their latest update has trashed the whole system.
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One of the things that I thought as well.
>No new messages since about 8:00 PM (EST) yesterday.
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It was frozen at 6:34AM PST until ~3:30PM PST the following day.
>Maybe this is their solution to all of the Google Groups spam complaints?
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Don't go thinking that didn't cross my mind.
It appears, however, that the profit to be made is too big an
enticement.
Hell, they bought YouTube knowing full well
that the only thing keeping opportunists from trying
to sue the pants off that operation had been a lack of deep pockets.
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