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   XPost: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32, comp.os.linux.networking,   
   microsoft.public.windows.server.networking   
   From: J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM   
      
      
      
      
        
      
      
      
     
   
       
This question, and the rest of your post, seem to be   
   offtopic in every newsgroup to which you posted; certainly it is   
   offtopic for comp.os.linux.networking.  You should try   
   the equivalent of coln for Windows.
   
       
   
     
   
     
I have been posting in Usenet for as long as it exists.
   
     
   
      
   
It's a shame that Usenet has had to suffer such pitiful and clueless   
   excuses for not using the correct newsgroups for so long.
   
      
     
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.
   
     
   
     
   
       
You should try the equivalent of coln for Windows.
   
       
   
     
   
     
That would be the empty set. :-)
   
     
   
      
   
Here's where the cluelessness in the excuse comes in.  Not only are   
   there in fact at least five newsgroups in that set (my server, for one,   
   carrying comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.networking, comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip,   
   microsoft.public.win2000.dns, microsoft.publi   
   .windows.server.dns,   
   and microsoft.public.windows.server.networking), 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   
   hosts   
   file, which is something that none of the "more knowledgeable" people   
   in the "Linux NGs" who responded here even mentioned.  You didn't even   
   notice the existence of comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains.  
   
   
   
   
The simple truth is that the "more knowledgeable" people actually   
   do   
   tend to hang out in the correct 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).  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.
   
   
   
      
      
      
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