Re: Message Rules

From: Gerry Cornell (gcjc_at_btinternet.com)
Date: 06/27/04 

Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 02:17:25 +0100

Roberto

Your last message and this message are top posted. Your previous messages
have been bottom posted i.e. you have the read the incoming message and
added your message at the end or bottom. Before Outlook Express assumed
market domination bottom posting was very popular. In some usenet newsgroups
you still encounter those who adhere to bottom posting and you can be
challenged if you top post or send HTML formatted messages.

>From the header information relating to your messages you are accessing the
newsgroup using Internet Explorer. This is commonly described as web based
access. Using Outlook Express as a news reader enables me to read the header
information. It also tell me that you are using version 5.5 of Outlook
Express and there your operating system is earlier than Windows XP. Using
Internet Explorer you cannot read header information.

I was posting plain text messages using quoted printable. I have changed
quoted printable to none for this message. However, I am not sure why quoted
printable should affect you. It can for some non- Microsoft news readers but
I am surprised to hear it is affecting your ability to read my messages. Let
me know if you encounter any more problems. It could be a fault on your
system.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA

Stourport, Worcs, England
Enquire, plan and execute.
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Please tell the newsgroup how any
suggested solution worked for you.
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
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"Roberto" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:21e2501c45bc2$2d645670$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Gerry,
> I'm taking entirely too much of your time with my simple
> questions, but I dont't know what is meant by top or
> bottom posting. I don't know if I'm using Web Based or
> Outlook Express access to this newsgroup. Your last two
> replies are acting-up again, in that, the text is going
> across the screen in a long line instead of scrolling down
> the screen, like a wrap-around feature is not working.
> This prevents me from printing it out. Any clues?
> Thanks again,
> Roberto
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Roberto
> >
> >Many users in the Microsoft newsgroups prefer top
> posting. Where a message is bottom posted, unless the
> person reading the message is expecting bottom posting,
> they can assume wrongly that the message was sent in
> error. This is especially likely if the previous unsnipped
> portions of previous messages are lengthy.
> >
> >I did not answer this question earlier.
> >
> >Do I go to this web site to comment on solutions:
> >http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
> >
> >The answer to your question is no. That web site offers
> advice on how to write more effective news messages i.e.
> what to include etc. Some of the points are worth
> remembering.
> >
> >I think you are using the new web based service, which is
> new to all of us. You need to Sign In using a Net
> Passport. You need to have Windows Messenger ( you may be
> able to use an alternative Messenger service -not sure?)
> running to do this. You then need to find the message and
> using "Outlook Express Message Rules" as the search
> criteria scroll down to get to the thread. Open the
> thread by clicking on the + sign and select the message
> you wish to comment on. There are Yes and No buttons
> giving you the option to answer the question "Was this
> post helpful to you".
> >
> >There is a lot more in the Help (Help contains 21 pages
> of explanations) tiny button top right on this page:
> >http://communities2.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/e
> n-us/default.aspx
> >
> >The section beginning "Why do I need to sign in to
> Communities?" is the most relevant to your question.
> >
> >Many presently contributing to the newsgroup prefer using
> Outlook Express as their news reader. It is more flexible
> and easier to use than either of the two web based
> newsreaders. However, for a casual user of newsgroups,
> this latest version of the web based newsreader offers an
> email service telling you of replies to questions posted
> by you. You read your replies by clicking on a link in the
> email. This latest innovation is intended to solve the
> difficult problem of finding your original message and any
> answers, which so troubled users of the earlier web based
> news reader.
> >
> >
> >~~~~~~
> >
> >
> >Hope this helps.
> >
> >Gerry
> >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >FCA
> >
> >Stourport, Worcs, England
> >Enquire, plan and execute.
> >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >Please tell the newsgroup how any
> >suggested solution worked for you.
> >http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
> >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> >
> >
> >"Roberto" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:21dad01c45b05$4fe26e20$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> >> >Gerry,
> >> You are right, I do open OE in the Inbox. I'm going to
> >> take your suggestion and create another box and maybe
> call
> >> it "Legitimate" or something to indicate valid mail and
> >> direct the mail to it that I don't want to go to
> >> the "Undesirable Box" because of words in it's body.
> >> For some unknown reason, your replys to my questions
> >> appear on my screen in a long horizontal line instead
> of
> >> scrolling down the screen so when I print it I only get
> >> about the first 100 characters of the message.
> >> Thanks for your help,
> >> Roberto
> >> Do I go to this web site to comment on solutions:
> >> http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
> >>
> >.
> >