Clarifications for a Newbie on your Site

[Gil]

I have a few questions and suggestions and hope someone can help.

Questions:
1) I posted several questions to a couple of groups. I'm rather certain I
checked the box to be notified or whatever. I've heard nothing back from
those posts. How do I locate what I've posted? I've used your Help and it
says a poster can be located, starting with clicking on their name in a post.
I can't do that since I can't find one of my posts. I've tried searching by
my username and my email address without success.
2) How can I ensure that my posts are actually generating an email to me -
when someone responds of course?

Suggestions:
1) When utilizing Help, can there be a search box within - that can be used
for keywords of such things as a subject, title, or keywords? The search
needs to expand out beyond the multi-page information that cannot possibly be
all inclusive for help information.
2) Can help at the site pages include being able to search for user names,
subject, dates, etc.
3) Can there be better navigation buttons within Help. If I'm in a page and
want to go back, the only way that I'm finding to do that is right click,
then click on Back.
4) In the left pane of the Office Community webpage, there is a list of
numerous discussion groups. I've clicked on about seven and they all come up
with the same page. In the right pane, there displays the same list of
discussion groups, but each is expanded into sub-groups. Great!
But what's the point of having a menu in the left pane if they take you to
the same page showing the expanded groups in the right pane. The links in the
left could lead to a sub-home page for each application.

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[Tom Wickerath]

Hi Gil,

1) I posted several questions to a couple of groups. I'm rather certain I
checked the box to be notified or whatever. I've heard nothing back from
those posts.

Yep. The very inept folks that Microsoft has subcontracted out maintenance
of the web portal to broke the notification feature sometime in early October
(based on the last notification message I received). Despite repeated
requests to fix it, nothing has happened yet.

How do I locate what I've posted?

Here is a link that should open up your recent posts:

http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...28b9&dg=microsoft.public.access&lang=en&cr=US

2) How can I ensure that my posts are actually generating an email to me -
when someone responds of course?

You can't ensure this....the functionality is not working at this time. Why
someone at Microsoft doesn't make a higher priority of demanding that this be
fixed is beyond me. It certainly doesn't send a good message to customers.


Tom Wickerath
Microsoft Access MVP
http://www.accessmvp.com/TWickerath/
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[MikeR]

Gil, in addition to what Tom said, I'd suggest you use a newsreader to interact with
the groups, rather than the (to me) horrible web interface. Outlook Express,
Thunderbird, Xananews to name a few.

Mike

 

[David W. Fenton]

the functionality is not working at this time. Why
someone at Microsoft doesn't make a higher priority of demanding
that this be fixed is beyond me. It certainly doesn't send a good
message to customers.

I'm getting the impression that MS is moving away from it's
Usenet-published newsgroups to its Technet discussions. Am I wrong
on that?

 

[Tony Toews [MVP]]

I'm getting the impression that MS is moving away from it's
Usenet-published newsgroups to its Technet discussions. Am I wrong
on that?

That's my impression too.

Tony
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[Larry Linson]

That's my impression too.

Some have speculated that it is because Microsoft can control the "forums"
and "discussions" but not newsgroups. However, I haven't observed any
heavy-handed deletions, etc., in the microsoft.public.access... newsgroups
at news.microsoft.com (which is where I subscribe to them), and Microsoft
does have administrative control over those.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Office Access MVP

 

[David W. Fenton]

Some have speculated that it is because Microsoft can control the
"forums" and "discussions" but not newsgroups.

Rubbish. They could host (or mirror) the Technet discussions on a
single NNTP server and if they prevented any other news servers from
subscribing to it, they'd have full control of the content of that
news server.

However, I haven't observed any
heavy-handed deletions, etc., in the microsoft.public.access...
newsgroups at news.microsoft.com (which is where I subscribe to
them), and Microsoft does have administrative control over those.

Given that they distribute the newsgroups hosted on
news.microsoft.com to other news servers, they don't have a lot of
control. If they *didn't* distribute the newsgroups, they'd have
full control. I hate the idea of being forced to use a web
interface, because there are no good ones (those that make it easy
to read and post make it difficult to keep track of what's been read
and what's new, and vice versa).