Re: Second question about Microsoft Software Update Service equivalent in linux.

On Sunday 09 April 2006 09:04, Michael Heiming stood up and spoke the
following words to the masses in /comp.os.linux.misc...:/

[..]

To add up, it would be great if you could stop multi-posting your
questions to several ngs, if unsure what all the fuzz is about,
be my guest just scroll down a bit and check our new reader FAQ.

"A new reader? Welcome to comp.os.linux.misc, read this first if
you're new here (FAQ)"

Welcome to the group

Sadly enough, I have the impression - and others with me - that most
newbies consider Usenet to be part of Google somehow, i.e. that Usenet
exists as some kind of forum on Google Groups, and that therefore by
definition one must use the broken Google Groups web interface for
reading on and posting to Usenet... :-/

To the newbies: Usenet is a network of newsservers - look up "NNTP" on
Google - on which newsgroups exist, to which people can subscribe in
order to exchange ideas and information - sometimes even files,
depending on the newsserver.

Usenet is *not* a part of Google Groups. Google does however scan the
newsgroups and archives their contents for posterity - with the
exception of posts made with the /X-No-Archive/ header set to "yes" -
and has also started offering a (broken) web-based interface for
posting to the various newsgroups.

It is however highly recommended that you would use a newsreader
application - e.g. /Knode,/ /Pan,/ /slrn,/ /Gnus/ or /Mozilla/
/Thunderbird/ in UNIX systems, or /Mozilla/ /Thunderbird/ or even
/Outlook/ /Express/ on Windows - and connect to a newsserver.

Most ISP's offer NNTP as part of their package, and so this is a much
more preferable way to read and post to the newsgroups than the
web-based and broken Google Groups interface.

The idea - and good /Netiquette/ - is also to include relevant quoting
in your post, so that people know what you are replying to. Start by
quoting the previous poster's entire post and then trim out that which
is irrelevant. Put your comments *underneath* each individual
paragraph you wish to say something about, _*not*_ at the top of the
message.

Usenet is a very busy medium and most of us are subscribed to multiple
newsgroups. It would be impossible for us to read up all the way
through each thread - or read down through the quoted section dangling
underneath your message if you top-post - in order to know what you are
talking about, to whom you are replying and to what part exactly of
what he/she said that it is you are replying.

The above was of course for the information of all lurking newbies...
Spread the word! ;-)

--
With kind regards,

*Aragorn*
(Registered GNU/Linux user #223157)
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