Hi Doug,
One issue, rather than any perceive rule, with asking folks to rate the post is that unless the person posting the question did
so, using the same method, app and access point to see the message that you are replying to they may not have any idea what you
mean, as they won't see a rating selector
The newsgroups are copied/cloned/slurped to a lot of 'help' websites where they appear, labeled as being their own 'forums' or
'message boards'
(MS's community interface is sort of doing that from their newsgroups, or vice versa g). It's not unusual for
these sites to require you to 'register' to post (something you don't need to do with Outlook Express and using the NNTP newsgroup
access via
news://msnews.microsoft.com ) and some even charge a subscription fee, basically for the 'convenience' of a onestop shop.
Here is an example of where this newsgroup appears with different branding, and to the person visiting through one of those sites,
it appears that the site has its own very active community of 'experts' and those seeking help
From Wugnet:
http://help.wugnet.com/index.php
http://help.wugnet.com/office/Docume...forum-108.html
At the bottom right of each message there is a 'login to vote' choice that is depending on the site, often for a completely separate
rating system. You can sometimes know that one of these sites is where folks are viewing as the bottom of their post will have
something like 'posted from...' on the bottom of it.
There are quite a few independent sites with their own discussion groups and lists, that don't copy the forums over
Wugnet, for example, also manages the separate Office forums on Compuserve
http://community.compuserve.com/msoffice
"DougieVan" wrote in message ...
Thanks for your response John (and everyone else). I am in fact having fun
posting here and, as I mentioned, it is a great thing to do during "downtime"
at work without going too far away from what I actually work on.
But to go back to the main point of this thread: why would I ask someone to
mark my response as helpful/answered? I realise now that I probably should
not do this anymore since it seems to irk some people. However, I had only
done it in the very limited circumstance of having answered a question and
having been thanked by a response (which has only been like three times). In
two cases, I have continued to converse with the poster via e-mail after
asking him to mark the question as answered, and one of the people told me he
was glad for the opportunity to pay me back in some way for my assistance.
Nevertheless, I don't want to violate the unwritten rules of this community,
so in the future I won't ask people for feedback and rather just hope to get
it.
Thanks for your explanation,
Doug
--
Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP
*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*