Re: posting to group

From: Bill Gee (benngo85_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/14/04


Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 13:01:31 -0400


  thanx so much.
  You and thomas are right about OE and newsgroups. It's worlds away from
communities. Far better.
  Please take a look at my compatibility post on 9/13 at 8:26am that you
answered. I am preparing a reply post richt now.
  Thanx.
  "Ronx" <ronx917@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:eVDH2TjmEHA.648@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Bill,
>
> The Hotmail address I use with newsgroups such as this is valid, but has
> been set up to trash any mails from senders not on a whitelist. This
way I
> get very little spam, and any responses made to the group are shared by
> everyone using the group, thus you get help from many sources (and my
errors
> are corrected :) )
>
> In my opinion the Microsoft Communities pages are difficult to use. I
agree
> it's hard to find anything on them, and can be difficult to see who is
> replying to whom. As Thomas said, using Outlook Express (or another
> Newsreader) is a far better way to utilise this (and other) groups.
> news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.frontpage.client
> will open the group in Outlook Express.
>
> If you must contact me directly (and I would prefer that newsgroup stuff
is
> confined to the group) you can use the form at
> www.rxs-enterprises.com/rxsents/formmail.html
>
> Ron
> --
> Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.
>
>
> "bill gee" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:18f701c499f9$60f1eaf0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> > I am using http://www.microsoft.com/communities/
> >
> > I posted a message to the group and the reply included a
> > request for the url of my site. There was also a request
> > to: Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.
> > {Though there is a link on the page [Reply Email]}
> > How can I provide further information if I reply to the
> > group (No one has ever responded when I Post Reply to a
> > reply. They seem to get buried.) Rules of conduct explain
> > that email is discouraged because of spam.
> >
> > What am I to do if I can't Reply (E-mail)?
> > I use the communities a great deal and it also comes into
> > play when a suggestion doesn't work or only partially
> > works.
> >
>
>



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