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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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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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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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Worse still, when I reply to one of your messages, the quoted text isn't
indicated by , so it's not practical to reply "inline." -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "grammatim" wrote in message ... 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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That must be something going on at your end, because I get the 's
(the correct number of them) whenever I do Reply. Have you tried google groups? On Feb 18, 12:33*pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Worse still, when I reply to one of your messages, the quoted text isn't indicated by , so it's not practical to reply "inline." -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "grammatim" wrote in message ... 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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No, I use Outlook Express, and all other replies are quoted correctly; yours
(and perhaps others from Google Groups) are the exception. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "grammatim" wrote in message ... That must be something going on at your end, because I get the 's (the correct number of them) whenever I do Reply. Have you tried google groups? On Feb 18, 12:33 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Worse still, when I reply to one of your messages, the quoted text isn't indicated by , so it's not practical to reply "inline." -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "grammatim" wrote in message ... 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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It quotes correctly for me if I reply to grammatim. I'm using Windows Live
Mail but it shouldn't be different from Outlook Express. What do you have set for your News Sending Options under Tools/Options/Send? I have: Plain Text and for Plain Text Settings: MIME, Encode using "None", wrap at 76, and the Indent Original text with "" option selected. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs Guides for the Office 2007 Interface: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/tr...295841033.aspx "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... No, I use Outlook Express, and all other replies are quoted correctly; yours (and perhaps others from Google Groups) are the exception. "grammatim" wrote in message ... That must be something going on at your end, because I get the 's (the correct number of them) whenever I do Reply. Have you tried google groups? On Feb 18, 12:33 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Worse still, when I reply to one of your messages, the quoted text isn't indicated by , so it's not practical to reply "inline." |
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My settings are identical to yours. Note below that there are the same
number of in grammatim's reply to my post and my reply to him. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Beth Melton" wrote in message ... It quotes correctly for me if I reply to grammatim. I'm using Windows Live Mail but it shouldn't be different from Outlook Express. What do you have set for your News Sending Options under Tools/Options/Send? I have: Plain Text and for Plain Text Settings: MIME, Encode using "None", wrap at 76, and the Indent Original text with "" option selected. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs Guides for the Office 2007 Interface: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/tr...295841033.aspx "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... No, I use Outlook Express, and all other replies are quoted correctly; yours (and perhaps others from Google Groups) are the exception. "grammatim" wrote in message ... That must be something going on at your end, because I get the 's (the correct number of them) whenever I do Reply. Have you tried google groups? On Feb 18, 12:33 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Worse still, when I reply to one of your messages, the quoted text isn't indicated by , so it's not practical to reply "inline." |
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Then maybe it's time to make the switch to Windows Live Mail. g,d &r
Seriously though, you can install it on Windows XP and provided you don't use the WebNews options (mainly due to the issue of posts getting eaten) it's almost identical to OE. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs Guides for the Office 2007 Interface: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/tr...295841033.aspx "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... My settings are identical to yours. Note below that there are the same number of in grammatim's reply to my post and my reply to him. "Beth Melton" wrote in message ... It quotes correctly for me if I reply to grammatim. I'm using Windows Live Mail but it shouldn't be different from Outlook Express. What do you have set for your News Sending Options under Tools/Options/Send? I have: Plain Text and for Plain Text Settings: MIME, Encode using "None", wrap at 76, and the Indent Original text with "" option selected. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... No, I use Outlook Express, and all other replies are quoted correctly; yours (and perhaps others from Google Groups) are the exception. "grammatim" wrote in message ... That must be something going on at your end, because I get the 's (the correct number of them) whenever I do Reply. Have you tried google groups? On Feb 18, 12:33 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Worse still, when I reply to one of your messages, the quoted text isn't indicated by , so it's not practical to reply "inline." |
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What does it have that OE doesn't have?
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Beth Melton" wrote in message ... Then maybe it's time to make the switch to Windows Live Mail. g,d &r Seriously though, you can install it on Windows XP and provided you don't use the WebNews options (mainly due to the issue of posts getting eaten) it's almost identical to OE. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs Guides for the Office 2007 Interface: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/tr...295841033.aspx "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... My settings are identical to yours. Note below that there are the same number of in grammatim's reply to my post and my reply to him. "Beth Melton" wrote in message ... It quotes correctly for me if I reply to grammatim. I'm using Windows Live Mail but it shouldn't be different from Outlook Express. What do you have set for your News Sending Options under Tools/Options/Send? I have: Plain Text and for Plain Text Settings: MIME, Encode using "None", wrap at 76, and the Indent Original text with "" option selected. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... No, I use Outlook Express, and all other replies are quoted correctly; yours (and perhaps others from Google Groups) are the exception. "grammatim" wrote in message ... That must be something going on at your end, because I get the 's (the correct number of them) whenever I do Reply. Have you tried google groups? On Feb 18, 12:33 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Worse still, when I reply to one of your messages, the quoted text isn't indicated by , so it's not practical to reply "inline." |
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For starters it has its own proofing tools. That was a big plus in my book.
I was copy/pasting to Word when necessary. I held out on installing third-party proofing tools until Microsoft provided an alternative for Windows XP users. Part of it, of course, was sheer stubbornness but it also kept the issue fresh in my mind so I could mention it every chance I got. ;-) It also has many of the webnews features, such as the ratings, voting, etc so you can log on and see them if you want. I was using them until it kept eating my posts. Very frustrating to discover several days worth of posts missing! The Reading Pane can be displayed on the right like Outlook. I scroll a lot less now, especially for the bottom postings. There's a few other new features but I don't use any of them for the newsgroups. And, of course, it appears it quotes replies property. The one thing I don't like is my munged Reply To email address isn't used on posts, as it is in OE, but I resolved that by using a munged email address instead. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs Guides for the Office 2007 Interface: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/tr...295841033.aspx "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... What does it have that OE doesn't have? "Beth Melton" wrote in message ... Then maybe it's time to make the switch to Windows Live Mail. g,d &r Seriously though, you can install it on Windows XP and provided you don't use the WebNews options (mainly due to the issue of posts getting eaten) it's almost identical to OE. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... My settings are identical to yours. Note below that there are the same number of in grammatim's reply to my post and my reply to him. "Beth Melton" wrote in message ... It quotes correctly for me if I reply to grammatim. I'm using Windows Live Mail but it shouldn't be different from Outlook Express. What do you have set for your News Sending Options under Tools/Options/Send? I have: Plain Text and for Plain Text Settings: MIME, Encode using "None", wrap at 76, and the Indent Original text with "" option selected. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... No, I use Outlook Express, and all other replies are quoted correctly; yours (and perhaps others from Google Groups) are the exception. "grammatim" wrote in message ... That must be something going on at your end, because I get the 's (the correct number of them) whenever I do Reply. Have you tried google groups? On Feb 18, 12:33 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Worse still, when I reply to one of your messages, the quoted text isn't indicated by , so it's not practical to reply "inline." |
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As you are now posting regularly to the forum, you may find it more
convenient to access the NNTP server directly. The following link explains how to do that for Outlook Express - http://www.gmayor.com/MSNews.htm Not only is it infinitely faster than the web portals but the posts and your replies are stored locally. Give it a whirl and see what you think. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org grammatim wrote: 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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Thanks for the rundown. I have been aware of the webnews features but also
that they are (mostly) broken, so it just keeps seeming like LM is a solution to a problem I don't have. I don't use proofing tools in OE, anyway (though I guess I could, since I still have Office 2003 installed, and occasionally I realize I should!), and I just resist most change unless I see an overwhelming reason for it (haven't installed Silverlight, either). Also, I have a confession: when I went to Tools | Options | Send to change my mail sending settings temporarily so I could forward an HTML message, I realized that yesterday when I told you our settings were identical, I was looking at the mail settings, not news. In fact, for reasons I no longer recall, I had news set to Uuencode; I've now changed it to MIME, and we'll see what happens (and if it's something bad, it will be your fault g). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Beth Melton" wrote in message ... For starters it has its own proofing tools. That was a big plus in my book. I was copy/pasting to Word when necessary. I held out on installing third-party proofing tools until Microsoft provided an alternative for Windows XP users. Part of it, of course, was sheer stubbornness but it also kept the issue fresh in my mind so I could mention it every chance I got. ;-) It also has many of the webnews features, such as the ratings, voting, etc so you can log on and see them if you want. I was using them until it kept eating my posts. Very frustrating to discover several days worth of posts missing! The Reading Pane can be displayed on the right like Outlook. I scroll a lot less now, especially for the bottom postings. There's a few other new features but I don't use any of them for the newsgroups. And, of course, it appears it quotes replies property. The one thing I don't like is my munged Reply To email address isn't used on posts, as it is in OE, but I resolved that by using a munged email address instead. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs Guides for the Office 2007 Interface: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/tr...295841033.aspx "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... What does it have that OE doesn't have? "Beth Melton" wrote in message ... Then maybe it's time to make the switch to Windows Live Mail. g,d &r Seriously though, you can install it on Windows XP and provided you don't use the WebNews options (mainly due to the issue of posts getting eaten) it's almost identical to OE. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... My settings are identical to yours. Note below that there are the same number of in grammatim's reply to my post and my reply to him. "Beth Melton" wrote in message ... It quotes correctly for me if I reply to grammatim. I'm using Windows Live Mail but it shouldn't be different from Outlook Express. What do you have set for your News Sending Options under Tools/Options/Send? I have: Plain Text and for Plain Text Settings: MIME, Encode using "None", wrap at 76, and the Indent Original text with "" option selected. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... No, I use Outlook Express, and all other replies are quoted correctly; yours (and perhaps others from Google Groups) are the exception. "grammatim" wrote in message ... That must be something going on at your end, because I get the 's (the correct number of them) whenever I do Reply. Have you tried google groups? On Feb 18, 12:33 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Worse still, when I reply to one of your messages, the quoted text isn't indicated by , so it's not practical to reply "inline." |
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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
... Thanks for the rundown. I have been aware of the webnews features but also that they are (mostly) broken, so it just keeps seeming like LM is a solution to a problem I don't have. I don't use proofing tools in OE, anyway (though I guess I could, since I still have Office 2003 installed, and occasionally I realize I should!), and I just resist most change unless I see an overwhelming reason for it (haven't installed Silverlight, either). I've noted your resistance. That's why I was teasing you about making the switch. ;-) Also, I have a confession: when I went to Tools | Options | Send to change my mail sending settings temporarily so I could forward an HTML message, I realized that yesterday when I told you our settings were identical, I was looking at the mail settings, not news. In fact, for reasons I no longer recall, I had news set to Uuencode; I've now changed it to MIME, and we'll see what happens (and if it's something bad, it will be your fault g). LOL if something happens I'll shoulder the blame and help you out with it. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs Guides for the Office 2007 Interface: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/tr...295841033.aspx |
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Oh, you just had to go opening that can of worms again!
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... As you are now posting regularly to the forum, you may find it more convenient to access the NNTP server directly. The following link explains how to do that for Outlook Express - http://www.gmayor.com/MSNews.htm Not only is it infinitely faster than the web portals but the posts and your replies are stored locally. Give it a whirl and see what you think. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org grammatim wrote: 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, here's something to try Replying to.
(As for the can of worms, I don't use Outlook (Express).) On Feb 19, 9:07*am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Thanks for the rundown. I have been aware of the webnews features but also that they are (mostly) broken, so it just keeps seeming like LM is a solution to a problem I don't have. I don't use proofing tools in OE, anyway (though I guess I could, since I still have Office 2003 installed, and occasionally I realize I should!), and I just resist most change unless I see an overwhelming reason for it (haven't installed Silverlight, either).. Also, I have a confession: when I went to Tools | Options | Send to change my mail sending settings temporarily so I could forward an HTML message, I realized that yesterday when I told you our settings were identical, I was looking at the mail settings, not news. In fact, for reasons I no longer recall, I had news set to Uuencode; I've now changed it to MIME, and we'll see what happens (and if it's something bad, it will be your fault g). |
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... (As for the can of worms, I don't use Outlook (Express).) If you are referring to using it for email, I don't either. :-) I use Outlook. You can add the ability to post to the newsgroups within Outlook without the need to actually set it up for sending/receiving email. All you need to do is add the News button, found in the Go category of the Customize dialog box. Of course if you don't use Outlook then this isn't applicable. I don't think I could use Google Groups for the newsgroups. There's no need to view "pages" of posts in OE or Windows Live Mail, you can easily set your view to "Show replies to my messages", mark threads for watching, and most important to me, it keeps track of what you've read and not read. But I guess which one works the best is more a matter of what you get used to. :-) -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs Guides for the Office 2007 Interface: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/tr...295841033.aspx |
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But grammatim has previously stated his preference for Google Groups as a
means of reading widely across Usenet; although he could connect directly to msnews, I believe his ISP doesn't offer a news server on which he could read the other groups, so he prefers to read them all in the same interface. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Beth Melton" wrote in message ... "grammatim" wrote in message ... (As for the can of worms, I don't use Outlook (Express).) If you are referring to using it for email, I don't either. :-) I use Outlook. You can add the ability to post to the newsgroups within Outlook without the need to actually set it up for sending/receiving email. All you need to do is add the News button, found in the Go category of the Customize dialog box. Of course if you don't use Outlook then this isn't applicable. I don't think I could use Google Groups for the newsgroups. There's no need to view "pages" of posts in OE or Windows Live Mail, you can easily set your view to "Show replies to my messages", mark threads for watching, and most important to me, it keeps track of what you've read and not read. But I guess which one works the best is more a matter of what you get used to. :-) -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs Guides for the Office 2007 Interface: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/tr...295841033.aspx |
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Nope, still not quoting.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "grammatim" wrote in message ... Ok, here's something to try Replying to. (As for the can of worms, I don't use Outlook (Express).) On Feb 19, 9:07 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Thanks for the rundown. I have been aware of the webnews features but also that they are (mostly) broken, so it just keeps seeming like LM is a solution to a problem I don't have. I don't use proofing tools in OE, anyway (though I guess I could, since I still have Office 2003 installed, and occasionally I realize I should!), and I just resist most change unless I see an overwhelming reason for it (haven't installed Silverlight, either). Also, I have a confession: when I went to Tools | Options | Send to change my mail sending settings temporarily so I could forward an HTML message, I realized that yesterday when I told you our settings were identical, I was looking at the mail settings, not news. In fact, for reasons I no longer recall, I had news set to Uuencode; I've now changed it to MIME, and we'll see what happens (and if it's something bad, it will be your fault g). |
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Like all advice he is free to accept or reject it.
You can lead a horse to water ..... -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: Oh, you just had to go opening that can of worms again! "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... As you are now posting regularly to the forum, you may find it more convenient to access the NNTP server directly. The following link explains how to do that for Outlook Express - http://www.gmayor.com/MSNews.htm Not only is it infinitely faster than the web portals but the posts and your replies are stored locally. Give it a whirl and see what you think. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org grammatim wrote: 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 lets see if this makes it. I had to click on Reply to Group, not reply to
sender.... "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... Like all advice he is free to accept or reject it. You can lead a horse to water ..... -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: Oh, you just had to go opening that can of worms again! "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... As you are now posting regularly to the forum, you may find it more convenient to access the NNTP server directly. The following link explains how to do that for Outlook Express - http://www.gmayor.com/MSNews.htm Not only is it infinitely faster than the web portals but the posts and your replies are stored locally. Give it a whirl and see what you think. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org grammatim wrote: 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 have OE set up (I think). It is subscribed to whatever it is
calling General Questions here... but when I tried replying to your message I had no clue what to type in as the "send to" email address. Nor do I know how to subscribe only to my threads. Or is the idea that I will be d/l all messages in all threads? I'd rather just subscribe to my own. With all the MVPs here there is precious little that I can contribute to other threads, and I can easily do a search when I do want to post about a particular problem. -- Paul MS Office 2007 XP Home SP3 Dell Inspiron 1501 "Graham Mayor" wrote: Like all advice he is free to accept or reject it. You can lead a horse to water ..... -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: Oh, you just had to go opening that can of worms again! "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... As you are now posting regularly to the forum, you may find it more convenient to access the NNTP server directly. The following link explains how to do that for Outlook Express - http://www.gmayor.com/MSNews.htm Not only is it infinitely faster than the web portals but the posts and your replies are stored locally. Give it a whirl and see what you think. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org grammatim wrote: 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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Hi Paul,
With a message selected, from the Message menu, you can select Watch Conversation and then that message and all responses thereto will be highlighted in read. If you were to do this for messages that you post, then it would apply to them. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Paul" wrote in message ... OK Graham I have OE set up (I think). It is subscribed to whatever it is calling General Questions here... but when I tried replying to your message I had no clue what to type in as the "send to" email address. Nor do I know how to subscribe only to my threads. Or is the idea that I will be d/l all messages in all threads? I'd rather just subscribe to my own. With all the MVPs here there is precious little that I can contribute to other threads, and I can easily do a search when I do want to post about a particular problem. -- Paul MS Office 2007 XP Home SP3 Dell Inspiron 1501 "Graham Mayor" wrote: Like all advice he is free to accept or reject it. You can lead a horse to water ..... -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: Oh, you just had to go opening that can of worms again! "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... As you are now posting regularly to the forum, you may find it more convenient to access the NNTP server directly. The following link explains how to do that for Outlook Express - http://www.gmayor.com/MSNews.htm Not only is it infinitely faster than the web portals but the posts and your replies are stored locally. Give it a whirl and see what you think. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org grammatim wrote: 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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Thanks I'll see whether that option is more convenient than color-coding
threads that I've started. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... Hi Paul, With a message selected, from the Message menu, you can select Watch Conversation and then that message and all responses thereto will be highlighted in read. If you were to do this for messages that you post, then it would apply to them. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Paul" wrote in message ... OK Graham I have OE set up (I think). It is subscribed to whatever it is calling General Questions here... but when I tried replying to your message I had no clue what to type in as the "send to" email address. Nor do I know how to subscribe only to my threads. Or is the idea that I will be d/l all messages in all threads? I'd rather just subscribe to my own. With all the MVPs here there is precious little that I can contribute to other threads, and I can easily do a search when I do want to post about a particular problem. -- Paul MS Office 2007 XP Home SP3 Dell Inspiron 1501 "Graham Mayor" wrote: Like all advice he is free to accept or reject it. You can lead a horse to water ..... -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: Oh, you just had to go opening that can of worms again! "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... As you are now posting regularly to the forum, you may find it more convenient to access the NNTP server directly. The following link explains how to do that for Outlook Express - http://www.gmayor.com/MSNews.htm Not only is it infinitely faster than the web portals but the posts and your replies are stored locally. Give it a whirl and see what you think. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org grammatim wrote: 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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Signature check.
"Paul" wrote in message ... Thanks I'll see whether that option is more convenient than color-coding threads that I've started. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... Hi Paul, With a message selected, from the Message menu, you can select Watch Conversation and then that message and all responses thereto will be highlighted in read. If you were to do this for messages that you post, then it would apply to them. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Paul" wrote in message ... OK Graham I have OE set up (I think). It is subscribed to whatever it is calling General Questions here... but when I tried replying to your message I had no clue what to type in as the "send to" email address. Nor do I know how to subscribe only to my threads. Or is the idea that I will be d/l all messages in all threads? I'd rather just subscribe to my own. With all the MVPs here there is precious little that I can contribute to other threads, and I can easily do a search when I do want to post about a particular problem. -- Paul MS Office 2007 XP Home SP3 Dell Inspiron 1501 "Graham Mayor" wrote: Like all advice he is free to accept or reject it. You can lead a horse to water ..... -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: Oh, you just had to go opening that can of worms again! "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... As you are now posting regularly to the forum, you may find it more convenient to access the NNTP server directly. The following link explains how to do that for Outlook Express - http://www.gmayor.com/MSNews.htm Not only is it infinitely faster than the web portals but the posts and your replies are stored locally. Give it a whirl and see what you think. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org grammatim wrote: 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 have OE set up (I think). It is subscribed to whatever it is calling General Questions here... but when I tried replying to your message I had no clue what to type in as the "send to" email address. Nor do I know how to subscribe only to my threads. Or is the idea that I will be d/l all messages in all threads? I'd rather just subscribe to my own. With all the MVPs here there is precious little that I can contribute to other threads, and I can easily do a search when I do want to post about a particular problem. OE doesn't have a "Subscribe" option but you can easily find your posts and all replies. Go to View/Current View/Show replies to my posts. Or press Ctrl+H. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs Guides for the Office 2007 Interface: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/tr...295841033.aspx |
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That makes sense. Can't say I blame him for not wanting to use more than one
newsreader. :-) "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... But grammatim has previously stated his preference for Google Groups as a means of reading widely across Usenet; although he could connect directly to msnews, I believe his ISP doesn't offer a news server on which he could read the other groups, so he prefers to read them all in the same interface. "Beth Melton" wrote in message ... "grammatim" wrote in message ... (As for the can of worms, I don't use Outlook (Express).) If you are referring to using it for email, I don't either. :-) I use Outlook. You can add the ability to post to the newsgroups within Outlook without the need to actually set it up for sending/receiving email. All you need to do is add the News button, found in the Go category of the Customize dialog box. Of course if you don't use Outlook then this isn't applicable. I don't think I could use Google Groups for the newsgroups. There's no need to view "pages" of posts in OE or Windows Live Mail, you can easily set your view to "Show replies to my messages", mark threads for watching, and most important to me, it keeps track of what you've read and not read. But I guess which one works the best is more a matter of what you get used to. :-) -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs Guides for the Office 2007 Interface: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/tr...295841033.aspx |
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Hi Paul,
Here's a reply for you. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Paul" wrote in message ... 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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Correct! Most senders will have false e-mail addresses anyway.
-- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Paul wrote: OK lets see if this makes it. I had to click on Reply to Group, not reply to sender.... "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... Like all advice he is free to accept or reject it. You can lead a horse to water ..... -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: Oh, you just had to go opening that can of worms again! "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... As you are now posting regularly to the forum, you may find it more convenient to access the NNTP server directly. The following link explains how to do that for Outlook Express - http://www.gmayor.com/MSNews.htm Not only is it infinitely faster than the web portals but the posts and your replies are stored locally. Give it a whirl and see what you think. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org grammatim wrote: 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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THanks. Looks like I'm finally getting the hang of working the signature
into my messages. Yeah this is much better (faster) than going to the website itself for these threads. Learn something new every day. -- Paul Office 2007 XP SP3 Dell Inspiron 1501 "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... Hi Paul, Here's a reply for you. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Paul" wrote in message ... 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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