Re: Forum Etiquette

Look at this MS article "How to Ask a Newsgroup Question":
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375

Tom
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Forum Etiquette

I?ve been querying for solutions to some problems I have been having, but
the threads seem to end; i.e. stop eliciting responses, before I get
'joy'.

I appreciate this forum is oversubscribed and contributors must feel
overwhelmed just trying to keep up without making the thing a 24/7 time
sink. So, I would appreciate learning the best way to tease a resumption
of a query, bearing in mind that others are going to come along wishing to
?Search? for answers to similar problems.

My question is: should we use the same Subject Line and post our next
query as if it were a new message, or should we contrive a new line and
make reference(s) in the body to previous ?chapters? in the query; or just
what? It seems to me that anyone searching the forum before posting a
query would benefit from seeing in the Subject Line that the post is in
fact a continuation of something. If this be so, then prescribing a
consistent convention to indicate this would also make sense to me.

I am also wondering if it might streamline things a bit if there was a
Windows XP-Home forum for those of us sorry asses with OEM units. Just
from an organizational POV, this might help distribute the work load to
some extent for MVPs and help other contributors focus their efforts and
apply their expertise where they can be the most effective.

Respectfully,

rooster

boundary bay, bc


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