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From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard on 16 Jan 2010 17:43

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<p wrap="">This question, and the rest of your post, seem to be
offtopic in every newsgroup to which you posted; certainly it is
offtopic for <code>comp.os.linux.networking</code>. &nbsp;You should try
the equivalent of coln for Windows.<br>
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<p wrap="">I have been posting in Usenet for as long as it exists.<br>
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<p>It's a shame that Usenet has had to suffer such pitiful and clueless
excuses for not using the correct newsgroups for so long.</p>
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<p wrap="">It so happens that in Linux (Unix in general) NGs you
frequently find people more knowledgeable (that includes Windows
networking) and willing to share their expertise than in Windows NGs.<br>
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<p wrap="">You should try the equivalent of coln for Windows.<br>
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<p wrap="">That would be the empty set. :-)<br>
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<p>Here's where the cluelessness in the excuse comes in.&nbsp; Not only are
there in fact at least five newsgroups in that set (my server, for one,
carrying <code>comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.networking</code>, <code>comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip</code>,
<code>microsoft.public.win2000.dns</code>, <code>microsoft.public.windows.server.dns</code>,
and <code>microsoft.public.windows.server.networking</code>), but if you had
posted in them, someone there would no doubt have told you about the
DNS Client service, its caching options, and its interactions with the <code>hosts</code>
file, which is something that none of the "more knowledgeable" people
in the "Linux NGs" who responded here even mentioned.&nbsp; You didn't even
notice the existence of <code>comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains</code>.&nbsp; <br>
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<p>The simple truth is that the "more knowledgeable" people actually <em>do</em>
tend to hang out in the <em>correct</em> newsgroups, and are rarely
found in incorrect ones (and even more rarely willing to help any
people who post in incorrect newsgroups and then argue that they're
right to persist in doing so when others tell them the proper places to
post).&nbsp; One loses, as you have lost here, by selfishly thinking that
one will just post in any old newsgroup one likes, the actual newsgroup
topics be damned.<br>
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