This forum acting strangely?

[Guest]

This forum is doing something strange, or is it me? I posted a question
yesterday about the problem of the 'spylocked" malware, and although I have
received two e-mails telling me the question has answers, I can't find my
original question to view the answers.
I've used this forum before, I know that if I click on the link in the
e-mail it actually directs me right to my question, but this isn't happening.
I went ahead & did a search for keywords in my question, and still it didn't
come up. I did a search for all my questions & postings, and they all came up
except this latest.
Stranger than this, several pages I'm looking at have the date of June 7th,
but it is clearly the 6th. This was true yesterday too.
Am I going crazy? Maybe THIS question will get lost in limbo too??
Amanda

 

[Marcin Domaslawski]

Hi,

Use Windows Mail for groups - works pretty good.

Marcin Domaslawski

 

[Malke]

This forum is doing something strange, or is it me? I posted a question
yesterday about the problem of the 'spylocked" malware, and although I have
received two e-mails telling me the question has answers, I can't find my
original question to view the answers.
I've used this forum before, I know that if I click on the link in the
e-mail it actually directs me right to my question, but this isn't happening.
I went ahead & did a search for keywords in my question, and still it didn't
come up. I did a search for all my questions & postings, and they all came up
except this latest.
Stranger than this, several pages I'm looking at have the date of June 7th,
but it is clearly the 6th. This was true yesterday too.
Am I going crazy? Maybe THIS question will get lost in limbo too??
Amanda

You are having difficulties because this isn't a "forum". It's a
web-based interface to Usenet newsgroups and it's awful. You will get
far more out of this resource if you learn to use a newsreader. There
are many good newsreaders for Windows, but you can use Windows Mail
since you already have it. In fact, IIRC Windows Mail comes with a link
to the MS public newsgroups built-in, but if it doesn't just use the WM
Help and search for "newsgroups". Here are some links to information
about newsgroups:

About Usenet:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
http://groups.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=basics.html - Basics
of Usenet
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Usenet - a brief
explanation of newsgroups

How to Post:
http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

http://aumha.org/nntp.htm - list of MS newsgroups
microsoft.public.test.here - MS group to test if your newsreader is
working properly
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/munad.htm - how to munge email address
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting - multiposting vs. crossposting


Malke

 

[Guest]

Well, this has been 3 strange days. Apparently, not only could I not see my
question OR any responses to it; I also could not see anyone else's questions
after June 4th. (Except for a few odd ones that had a future date.) It wasn't
refreshing the pages somehow. Today, finally, everything is there & up to
date. Not sure why it happened.
But thanks Marcin & Malke for the tip about Windows Mail, something I had
not been aware of before. I use Windows mail as my default e-mail, but had
not previously investigated what all it can do. I will now, thanks.
Amanda