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This is the only newsgroup I participate in, where the signature and the
cursor in the reply are placed on top of the post you are replying to. I am accessing this via the MS website. I find it a bit cumbersome to have to cut my sig, then paste it below the text I am replying to. Is there another way to access these newsgroups, or at least, another way to get my sig below the material I'm posting to? -- Paul MS Office 2007 XP Home SP3 Dell Inspiron 1501 |
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Dump the horrible web interface and use a newsreader or something like
Outlook Express/Windows Mail. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/171190 -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "Paul" wrote in message ... This is the only newsgroup I participate in, where the signature and the cursor in the reply are placed on top of the post you are replying to. I am accessing this via the MS website. I find it a bit cumbersome to have to cut my sig, then paste it below the text I am replying to. Is there another way to access these newsgroups, or at least, another way to get my sig below the material I'm posting to? -- Paul MS Office 2007 XP Home SP3 Dell Inspiron 1501 |
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I use Google Reader. Not sure how to use RSS to get updates for my threads.
I'm really not interested in seeing General Questions forum updated...just a thread that I start. I did copy/paste the thread URL into Google Reader's Add a Feed option but it didn't see anything.... said something like no URL was found.... -- Paul MS Office 2007 XP Home SP3 Dell Inspiron 1501 "JoAnn Paules" wrote: Dump the horrible web interface and use a newsreader or something like Outlook Express/Windows Mail. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/171190 -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "Paul" wrote in message ... This is the only newsgroup I participate in, where the signature and the cursor in the reply are placed on top of the post you are replying to. I am accessing this via the MS website. I find it a bit cumbersome to have to cut my sig, then paste it below the text I am replying to. Is there another way to access these newsgroups, or at least, another way to get my sig below the material I'm posting to? -- Paul MS Office 2007 XP Home SP3 Dell Inspiron 1501 |
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Can't help you. I use OE and WM.
-- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "Paul" wrote in message ... I use Google Reader. Not sure how to use RSS to get updates for my threads. I'm really not interested in seeing General Questions forum updated...just a thread that I start. I did copy/paste the thread URL into Google Reader's Add a Feed option but it didn't see anything.... said something like no URL was found.... -- Paul MS Office 2007 XP Home SP3 Dell Inspiron 1501 "JoAnn Paules" wrote: Dump the horrible web interface and use a newsreader or something like Outlook Express/Windows Mail. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/171190 -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "Paul" wrote in message ... This is the only newsgroup I participate in, where the signature and the cursor in the reply are placed on top of the post you are replying to. I am accessing this via the MS website. I find it a bit cumbersome to have to cut my sig, then paste it below the text I am replying to. Is there another way to access these newsgroups, or at least, another way to get my sig below the material I'm posting to? -- Paul MS Office 2007 XP Home SP3 Dell Inspiron 1501 |
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Paul,
If you use the Microsoft Office Communities interface (http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...&lang=en&cr=US) rather that Google Reader, it should resolve the problem with the location of your signature. And if you use Windows Live Mail (which is the replacement for Outlook Express), then you can flag threads to watch - and threads that you start are flagged automatically. Setting up the newsreader functionality isn't difficult Windows Live Mail. I think the help might give the necessary details, but it's probably not necessary. I don't know if WLM will insert your signature automatically though. It probably will, but I can't be bothered trying to find out how; I just have a little text file that I copy and paste from instead. The only downside for me is that WLM doesn't insert the little MVP logo next to my posts the way the web interface does. Heartbreaking, aye? ;-P -- Cheers! Gordon Bentley-Mix Word MVP Uninvited email contact will be marked as SPAM and ignored. Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup. "Paul" wrote in message ... I use Google Reader. Not sure how to use RSS to get updates for my threads. I'm really not interested in seeing General Questions forum updated...just a thread that I start. I did copy/paste the thread URL into Google Reader's Add a Feed option but it didn't see anything.... said something like no URL was found.... -- Paul MS Office 2007 XP Home SP3 Dell Inspiron 1501 "JoAnn Paules" wrote: Dump the horrible web interface and use a newsreader or something like Outlook Express/Windows Mail. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/171190 -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "Paul" wrote in message ... This is the only newsgroup I participate in, where the signature and the cursor in the reply are placed on top of the post you are replying to. I am accessing this via the MS website. I find it a bit cumbersome to have to cut my sig, then paste it below the text I am replying to. Is there another way to access these newsgroups, or at least, another way to get my sig below the material I'm posting to? -- Paul MS Office 2007 XP Home SP3 Dell Inspiron 1501 |
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We have all managed quite happily with top posting in the Word forums since
long before others started to take feeds from the NNTP server. Some pedants still prefer to bottom post, but then that simply means that those of us who answer the questions (and who don't on the whole use the web portals) have to wade through reams of old stuff to get at the latest contribution. When it is at the top (which is where you are being invited to write) it is the first thing that we see. So bottom post if you must, but don't be too surprised if your contributions are sometimes overlooked. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Paul wrote: This is the only newsgroup I participate in, where the signature and the cursor in the reply are placed on top of the post you are replying to. I am accessing this via the MS website. I find it a bit cumbersome to have to cut my sig, then paste it below the text I am replying to. Is there another way to access these newsgroups, or at least, another way to get my sig below the material I'm posting to? |
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Graham if this is the norm here that's fine. I prefer to compose (and read)
my emails with top posting, that's for sure. I have seen a few others here do bottom-posting, and I was under the impression that this was part of "netiquette." But as long as I"ve got at least one MVP who is a militant bottom-poster I think I'll survive around here. -- Paul Bottom-posting and proud of it MS Office 2007 XP Home SP3 Dell Inspiron 1501 "Graham Mayor" wrote: We have all managed quite happily with top posting in the Word forums since long before others started to take feeds from the NNTP server. Some pedants still prefer to bottom post, but then that simply means that those of us who answer the questions (and who don't on the whole use the web portals) have to wade through reams of old stuff to get at the latest contribution. When it is at the top (which is where you are being invited to write) it is the first thing that we see. So bottom post if you must, but don't be too surprised if your contributions are sometimes overlooked. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org |
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I hate not being able to edit your posts..... I meant the reverse of what I
just posted. I can happily top-post if that's acceptable...I just figured that bottom-posting was netiquette...ok over and out. -- Paul Top-posting but still confused MS Office 2007 XP Home SP3 Dell Inspiron 1501 " |
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Because the issue of top vs. bottom posting can provoke heated discussion, I
started to post something yesterday and then thought better of it. But I also prefer top-posting for the reasons Graham mentioned. Yes, it is illogical and does make reading more difficult for people who come to the thread late, but for those who are following it actively, it is far more efficient. Not only do I hate to scroll to the bottom of a long thread only to read "Thanks!" but occasionally I scroll to the bottom and don't seem to find any new content; this illusion is caused by the fact that the poster added his message within the area of quoted material (blank lines) set off by characters, making it appear to be part of the previous message. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Paul" wrote in message ... I hate not being able to edit your posts..... I meant the reverse of what I just posted. I can happily top-post if that's acceptable...I just figured that bottom-posting was netiquette...ok over and out. -- Paul Top-posting but still confused MS Office 2007 XP Home SP3 Dell Inspiron 1501 " |
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Personally, I prefer top-posting too.
Occasionally, though, I find it easier to reply "inline" if I'm answering a long, complex message and I want to comment on several different things in that message. ~~~ Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Because the issue of top vs. bottom posting can provoke heated discussion, I started to post something yesterday and then thought better of it. But I also prefer top-posting for the reasons Graham mentioned. Yes, it is illogical and does make reading more difficult for people who come to the thread late, but for those who are following it actively, it is far more efficient. Not only do I hate to scroll to the bottom of a long thread only to read "Thanks!" but occasionally I scroll to the bottom and don't seem to find any new content; this illusion is caused by the fact that the poster added his message within the area of quoted material (blank lines) set off by characters, making it appear to be part of the previous message. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Paul" wrote in message ... I hate not being able to edit your posts..... I meant the reverse of what I just posted. I can happily top-post if that's acceptable...I just figured that bottom-posting was netiquette...ok over and out. -- Paul Top-posting but still confused MS Office 2007 XP Home SP3 Dell Inspiron 1501 " |
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Contrariwise, I have to scroll to the top to read the new comments;
google groups takes one to the bottom of the message, and this is the only one of the five newsgroups I read that uses top-posting. On Feb 18, 9:13*am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Because the issue of top vs. bottom posting can provoke heated discussion, I started to post something yesterday and then thought better of it. But I also prefer top-posting for the reasons Graham mentioned. Yes, it is illogical and does make reading more difficult for people who come to the thread late, but for those who are following it actively, it is far more efficient. Not only do I hate to scroll to the bottom of a long thread only to read "Thanks!" but occasionally I scroll to the bottom and don't seem to find any new content; this illusion is caused by the fact that the poster added his message within the area of quoted material (blank lines) set off by characters, making it appear to be part of the previous message. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "Paul" wrote in message ... I hate not being able to edit your posts..... I meant the reverse of what I just posted. I can happily top-post if that's acceptable...I just figured that bottom-posting was netiquette...ok over and out. |
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OK Graham, I think I've got it set up so that my messages, and those replies
to my threads, are flagged and colored blue in OE. It would be nice if I coudl get a reply or two, to test this out and make sure. Thanks for the tip. Reading (or should I say, trying to read) the messages via the microsoft.com site viewer was getting real old. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Because the issue of top vs. bottom posting can provoke heated discussion, I started to post something yesterday and then thought better of it. But I also prefer top-posting for the reasons Graham mentioned. Yes, it is illogical and does make reading more difficult for people who come to the thread late, but for those who are following it actively, it is far more efficient. Not only do I hate to scroll to the bottom of a long thread only to read "Thanks!" but occasionally I scroll to the bottom and don't seem to find any new content; this illusion is caused by the fact that the poster added his message within the area of quoted material (blank lines) set off by characters, making it appear to be part of the previous message. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Paul" wrote in message ... I hate not being able to edit your posts..... I meant the reverse of what I just posted. I can happily top-post if that's acceptable...I just figured that bottom-posting was netiquette...ok over and out. -- Paul Top-posting but still confused MS Office 2007 XP Home SP3 Dell Inspiron 1501 " |
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I don't think anyone here is that bothered - life is too short to worry
about such things -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Paul wrote: Graham if this is the norm here that's fine. I prefer to compose (and read) my emails with top posting, that's for sure. I have seen a few others here do bottom-posting, and I was under the impression that this was part of "netiquette." But as long as I"ve got at least one MVP who is a militant bottom-poster I think I'll survive around here. We have all managed quite happily with top posting in the Word forums since long before others started to take feeds from the NNTP server. Some pedants still prefer to bottom post, but then that simply means that those of us who answer the questions (and who don't on the whole use the web portals) have to wade through reams of old stuff to get at the latest contribution. When it is at the top (which is where you are being invited to write) it is the first thing that we see. So bottom post if you must, but don't be too surprised if your contributions are sometimes overlooked. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org |
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