First... a big "Thank You" to John Eddy for letting me know that it was a
site problem and not just my computer and also for notifying the web folks.
Next for Gordon... When I first started using this newsgroup, I was using it
with OE. I had posts that were never posted or lost, I couldn't hardly ever
find my posts or do searches for posts, etc. and was told by several
"experts" that using the Web Access was more reliable. This was a number of
years ago. I started using the Web Access and liked it. It was easy for me
to find my posts (therefore answers to my questions) and easy to do
"searches" (which was difficult to do using OE).
Things have probably changed over the last few years because recently I have
had several people tell me that using a news reader is better. I guess I
just haven't gotten around to learning how to use it properly. Is there a
simple tutorial around anywhere that explains how to use the OE news reader?
If it really is better, I'd like to start using it again.
Lastly... for all you folks out there that help people like us with our
questions (and I know some of the questions can get pretty strange and off
the point) THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! You folks are great.
I wish there were some way of repaying your kindness. I'd give you my first
born male child except you probably wouldn't want him. LOL Mike
MacKenrick said:
I've been trying to get on the On-Line Windows XP Newsgroup at:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroups.mspx but it
hasn't
been working for several days. It just redirects me to another site:
http://www.microsoft.com/library/er...=/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroups/reader.mspx
Is it just my computer or is the site down for some reason?
I know many people say using Outlook to access the newsgroup is better but
I
find it more convenient to use the Web Based one.
Thanks for the info. Mike
Would you like to enlighten us as to WHY you find the awful clunky web
access more "convenient" than a news reader?