Re: Suggestions-Forum Functions, etc.

now they're suggesting we should leave the site and search google to be
redirected back here!! get real.
really there should be a user and topic search, even the most cheap forum
has that feature.

"tedoniman" wrote:

>
> 20 Nov., 05 / 02:22 Malaysia time.
>
> 1. Thanks mucho, Chris, for the reply. Was just trying to make some
> points. Really appreciate the info but don't really understand this
> 'newsreader' stuff. As I said (somewhere along the line) I got here by
> looking for some help via Microsoft.com. That's all I know. I'm back in same
> place now, looking at the replies again.
>
> At the top of this page I'm now in, it says "Microsoft.com Home | Site Map".
> Further down, we have 3 columns.
>
> Left column lists 'Windows XP Newsgroups' and right now I'm in the
> "Discussions in Windows XP Networking and the Web" group and writing this
> reply in a separate window that just came up.
>
> Middle column lists the 1st group of reader messages / questions.
>
> At the right column, there's the open message box where I've read your reply.
>
> So, that's all I know and all I can say about it. I don't know if I'm in a
> 'newsreader' or what. It just looks like an ordinary Microsoft type web page
> to me. From the way your reply is worded, I'm beginning to think that maybe
> we are each looking at a different type of page - but with basically the same
> content - which is why I went into the detail above.
>
> In so far as my original point was concerned (the one I'm assuming you are
> refering
> to in the reply), what I meant was that (on MY page, here) there are 2 small
> entry boxes straddling the top of the middle and right columns I've just
> described.
>
> The left box is for entering 'search terms' - as when one wants to find a
> particular
> message (or one's own posted message), by entering a keyword contained in
> that message or subject of interest.
>
> The right box is for selecting the 'newsgroup' which one wants to search for
> the message.
>
> The problem arises when you have a very poor memory (like yours truly) and
> you've
> used that particular search box many times looking for different subjects of
> interest and at some stage you want to go back to a particular message
> you've found some time back during the session here.
>
> Well, I couldn't do this latter because I couldn't remember the keyword I
> used to get to that message. All I'm saying is that it would be nice to have
> a little icon next to that box to click on to recall recent search terms -
> like in Google. Such searches
> have no relation to my own messages, replies or display name and so I
> couldn't get back to such a non-related subject very quickly or easily, I
> don't think, without some elementary search term 'recall' function.
>
>
> 2. I don't really understand Outlook Express either. Got hotmail - which is
> simple enough and looks like all I really need - though I would like to
> fathom the reasons and need for 'Outlook Express', sure.
>
> I couldn't find "msnews.microsoft.com" in Google. There's a whole bunch of
> stuff that comes up; and it doesn't work as a URL.
>
> 3. I am beginning to see the light (just barely though) with the
> "http://groups.google.com/groups?q=tedoniman"; link you provided. Opened my
> eyes. Pretty neat, that. Will come in very handy indeed. Many thanks for that.
>
> However, nothing I've read in the various replies, so far, seems to directly
> address my original point as regards a 'search term recall' function to help
> me
> recover a particular message I located earlier via that search box.
> Eventually I'm
> expecting someone to suggest "why not just write down all your search terms on
> a piece of paper or in a file"; but that would be missing the point
> altogether.
>
> Similarly, no one has really as yet hit the nail on the head with my other two
> points / queries. Probably I haven't expressed myself very well.
>
> In any case, thanx for taking the trouble and particularly for that last
> link. I will
> get there bit by bit.
>
> --
> Ted...
>
>
> "Chris Priede" wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > tedoniman wrote:
> > > 1. This Forum. It's a shame there's no *recall/history*...
> > > 2. This Forum. It's a shame one can't 'copy' the header ...
> >
> > While there may be some merit to your suggestions regarding whatever
> > web-based interface you are using (and referring to as "this forum"), behind
> > it is a newsgroup you can set up and participate in using any newsreader,
> > including Outlook Express. If you'd like to try that, the NNTP server name
> > is msnews.microsoft.com. It may also be carried by your ISP's news server.
> >
> > The groups are also indexed by Google, which makes searching extremely easy.
> > For example:
> >
> > http://groups.google.com/groups?q=tedoniman
> >
> > Hope that helps,
> >
> > --
> > Chris Priede
> >
> >
> >
.

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