Finding my question

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This may seem silly to you but its serious to me. How do I find my question
a few days after I have asked it, if I am unsure of actual wording or date.
I am spending hours trying to find if my questions have been answered. I
probably won't be able to find this after I have posted it. There must be an
easier way that I don't know of.
 
This may seem silly to you but its serious to me. How do I find my
question
a few days after I have asked it, if I am unsure of actual wording or
date.
I am spending hours trying to find if my questions have been answered.
I
probably won't be able to find this after I have posted it. There must be
an
easier way that I don't know of.
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Your problem stems from the fact that you are using the web interface to
access what is actually a Usenet newsgroup. The web interface is lousy, and
one reason is it's hard to find previous posts. I recommend you use a
newsreader to access the newsgroup. XP comes with one, Outlook Express.
Here is a link with info on how to setup OE for newsgroup access. With OE
you can mark messages and watch threads, such as watch a thread you start
which makes it easy to find it.

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm

For now, and even with OE, if for some reason you can't find a message, or
for the purposes of searching the newsgroup to research a problem, which you
should always do before posting, to see if the question has been asked
/answered, the best tool is Google Groups Advanced Search. To search for
posts you write search for your name as Author. This newsgroup is
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general

http://groups.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
 
This may seem silly to you but its serious to me. How do I find my
question
a few days after I have asked it, if I am unsure of actual wording or
date.
I am spending hours trying to find if my questions have been answered.
I
probably won't be able to find this after I have posted it. There must be
an
easier way that I don't know of.
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By the way I don't find any posts by you in this newsgroup recently under
the name of JennieE.
 
: "JennieE" wrote
:
: > This may seem silly to you but its serious to me. How do I find my
: > question
: > a few days after I have asked it, if I am unsure of actual wording or
: > date.
: > I am spending hours trying to find if my questions have been answered.
: > I
: > probably won't be able to find this after I have posted it. There must
be
: > an
: > easier way that I don't know of.
:
: By the way I don't find any posts by you in this newsgroup recently under
: the name of JennieE.
:
: --
: Rock [MVP - User/Shell]
:
You didn't find any 'other' post.
You found this thread or you wouldn't have replied.
There were posts on December 8 and 9.
 
Replied to [JennieE]s message :
This may seem silly to you but its serious to me. How do I find my question
a few days after I have asked it, if I am unsure of actual wording or date.
I am spending hours trying to find if my questions have been answered. I
probably won't be able to find this after I have posted it. There must be an
easier way that I don't know of.
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Google Groups Advanced Sear h:
http://groups.google.com/advanced_search

- - -
Microsoft's Discussion Groups :
Open a post posted by you.
In message header, click your Name.
Choose "Recent Post by this user" and add the address to your "Favorites".
- - -

Outlook Express :
Click > View > Messages > "Show Reply to my messages"
 
"Rock" wrote
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: "JennieE" wrote
:
: > This may seem silly to you but its serious to me. How do I find my
: > question
: > a few days after I have asked it, if I am unsure of actual wording or
: > date.
: > I am spending hours trying to find if my questions have been answered.
: > I
: > probably won't be able to find this after I have posted it. There
must
be
: > an
: > easier way that I don't know of.
:
: By the way I don't find any posts by you in this newsgroup recently
under
: the name of JennieE.
:
: --
: Rock [MVP - User/Shell]
:
You didn't find any 'other' post.
You found this thread or you wouldn't have replied.
There were posts on December 8 and 9.
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Do you have something useful to say? Or were you just trying to be funny?
Either way if you have something helpful for the OP then post it to them.
 
Thank you Rock - you gave me some really useful information. But I did
have
another two questions posted somewhere else. One was about an error
message
on start up( answer to this found somewhere else) and the other about an
email query but I'm not sure which section of the newsgroups I used but
one
of my repliers has obviously found them, but I haven't yet. I hope I have
replied to you in the correct way.
JennieE
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You're welcome. I didn't actually search using Google groups. I just did a
search on what's archived on my system which goes back less than a month. I
didn't see any posts from you in that time in this newsgroup.

Search for all posts you have made using Google Groups Advanced search.
Don't put in a newsgroup name, just search on your name as author. You can
restrict it to a certain time frame.
 
JennieE said:
There must be an easier way that I don't know of.
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Use a real news reader like XNews (Outlook and Outlook Express do not
qualify as real news readers) and click this link to read and post to this
group instead of using the web interface:

nntp://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
 
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