Re: MTU Settings Location

On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 20:19:52 +0100 Geoff Lane
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felt we might be interested in the following...

[newsgroup FU's altered for brevity]


> Recently I posted a thread asking about MTU and how to alter it.

Perhaps you'd also be kind enough to (in future) mention you've set
follow ups to a totally different group than the one in which you
originally posted too?

The usual 'ettiquette' is something like :

[FU's set to 'n'] where 'n' is the follow-up group, at the end of a
post. See below.

It is also usual in such cases, to post to both groups simutaneously so
both groups get to see the start of a thread which then moves to your
chosen group of preference. Be careful not to post to too many groups at
a time as this is considered bad mannered, and may have you labelled as
a spammer, moreso if the content of your post has links or references to
something you endorse.

As it is, your post starts in uk.c.h-n and moves straight to uk.t.b
which is all but pointlesss. You may as well have started it in the
latter in the first place.

The idea of cross-posting, is to target one or two appropriate groups
with the same post (so as to attract the attention of both sets of
participants) and then move the conversation off to one specific and
appropriate group to continue the thread. Any group cross-posted to
should be appropriate to the topic.

My newsreader displays headers, so I spotted this first time round,
others might not and posters will/may wonder where their replies (or
indeed the thread) have got to.

Not netcopping you, just trying to offer helpful advice so you can get
the best Usenet has to offer.

HTH

[FU's (again) set to uk.telecom.broadband]


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> On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 20:19:52 +0100 Geoff Lane
> from the village of (E-Mail Removed)
> felt we might be interested in the following...
>
> [newsgroup FU's altered for brevity]

FU was what I said on Saturday night when datemas.de dumped its core.
So at the moment I imagine this is one of several threads with no OP on
Geoffs
newsreader.
No excuse though!
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/Tx2 wrote:

> On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 20:19:52 +0100 Geoff Lane
> from the village of (E-Mail Removed)
> felt we might be interested in the following...
>
> [newsgroup FU's altered for brevity]
>
>
>> Recently I posted a thread asking about MTU and how to alter it.
>
> Perhaps you'd also be kind enough to (in future) mention you've set
> follow ups to a totally different group than the one in which you
> originally posted too?

Didn't realise this was etiquette, I actually thought the header
Followup-To: was all that was required.

Strangely, although I have been using NGs for some years I have not
crossposted as a rule, initially I didn't know about crossposts
etiquette and just posted two messages :-(( but was put straight.

As for the posting to both (Or all) groups, again I mistakenly thought
it got posted to both when the header went in.

Thanks for pointers, I'll be able to do it correctly now :-)))

> Not netcopping you, just trying to offer helpful advice
> so you can get the best Usenet has to offer.

No offence taken

Geoff Lane