Re: questions about MacBook Pro

In article <heronDO-5FCB0D.18014512082007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, heron
stone <heronDO@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <1i2qi12.13vywyigmf5vkN%nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Richard Maine) wrote:

Esther & Fester Bestertester <not@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

i get more responses to my questions
when people think the poster is female

And please (when you're posting as one personality) learn to cross-post
rather than multiple-post a message.

Yes. I don't care what name you post under (though I find it a bit
off-putting when people post with no name at all; it helps to have a
"handle" to identify someone with). But repeated multi-posting will get
you fewer responses because it makes extra work for people and thus
annoys them. That practice can even get you on killfiles.

Be aware that some tactics intended to increase your response rate can
backfire badly. Mostly applying common sense and consideration helps.
For an exampe of a really bad tactic, you could hire spammer services to
send out a few hundred million copies of a query. That would probably
get responses. :-(

Multi-posting isn't as annoyng as that, but it can get pretty bad when
there end up being multiple unconnected threads in different forums, a
lot of information is duplicated, and it becomes hard to keep track of
what has been said in which forum, which matters because not all the
participants are reading all the forums.

please explain the proper way for me to do it

Multiple entries in the "Newsgroups" header.
.

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