Re: Update: Unable to save HTML file


On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:29:55 -0400, "C. Roy Blye"
<myname@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm wondering if you may be using a more sophisticated viewer for this forum


First of all, note that it's a newsgroup, not a forum. Second, you
read newsgroups with newsreaders, not viewers. I use Forte Agent 5.0
as my newsreader. You can tell what newsreader someone is using by
looking at the header of any of his messages (forgive my if I'm wrong,
but if I recall correctly, in Outlook Express, you can look at it with
Ctrl-F3).


than I am. My Outlook Express simply lists messages in descending
chronological order (newest at top)


No, it lists them in whatever order you want them in. To change the
order. click the header of the column you want to sort by. Click that
header a second time to change from ascending to descending order, or
vice-versa.

Also note that it's almost always best to set Outlook Express (or any
newsreader) to show messages by thread.


and, as far as I know, doesn't have the
ability to find new attachments to old messages


Attachments? Do you mean messages added to the thread? Yes it does. As
I said above, turn in the "by thread" feature. (sorry, I don't have
Outlook Express handy here, and can't remember exactly how to do that.
I'm sure someone else can tell you).


or delete already-read messages.


Outlook Express can certainly do that. I did it with Outlook Express
and I do it with Agent. I don't want to see already-read messages and
turning off viewing them is a good idea.


The list currently goes back about 16 days;


How far back it goes depends on how you have Outlook Express set and
how long the news server you use keeps the messages.


if my update had been
to a message, say, 14 days old, would you have even found it?


I would have seen your reply, but not the original. Again, I have
viewing of already-read messages turned off. If it were turned on, it
would take me at least twice as long to go through the newsgroups I
participate in.


With my
viewer, I very likely would not have looked back that far, and thus missed
it entirely. This was my working assumption when starting a new message for
the "Update."

What viewer are you using?


As I said above, I use Forte Agent 5.0 as my newsreader. Although I
like it a lot, everybody does things differently and Outlook Express
(which I used to use) may be just as good or even better for *you*.
But I strongly recommend that you do some serious research into how to
use it.




"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:petfb596hfn11k9tta5sh64aa0jv9gt2gc@xxxxxxxxxx
On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:17:03 -0400, "C. Roy Blye"
<myname@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I thought it would be cleaner and easier to find this way. Maybe I was
wrong.


Yes, I'm afraid you're wrong and Gene Bloch is correct. Let me also
add the following to what Gene says: be sure to quote enough of the
previous messages in the thread for us all to understand what you are
talking about. Like most of us here, I don't want to go looking for
another thread and even in the same thread, I don't save already-read
messages. So without a quote, most messages turn out to be
unintelligible.



"Gene E. Bloch" <letters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%233yHP%23vOKHA.4580@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 9/21/09, the entity C. Roy Blye wrote this:
For background on this post, please see "Unable to save HTML file"
posted
9/17/2009 12:31PM.

Of course, the best way to provide background is to add to the original
thread...

<SNIP>

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Gene Bloch 650.366.4267 lettersatblochg.com



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