HTML or no

[Frank]

I'm new at this and this is probably a dumb question but I just placed a
post and OE asked me if I really wanted to use HTML.
I just clicked OK and hoped for the best.
Did I do Good - Bad - Indifferent?
Thanks,
F

 

[David Candy]

We don't use html here unless one needs to.

 

[Sharon F]

I'm new at this and this is probably a dumb question but I just placed a
post and OE asked me if I really wanted to use HTML.
I just clicked OK and hoped for the best.
Did I do Good - Bad - Indifferent?
Thanks,
F

The MS news servers accept either plain text or html. There's no rule
disallowing html posts but most of the other users reading this group
prefer plain text posts.

Dial up folks will especially appreciate it as download times will be
shorter. Security minded folks will have their news readers set to read in
plain text. Unless posting to the OE stationery groups, expect to hear
grumbles over HTML posts.

 

[Frank]

Thank you...
Now I have another ?
I'm writing this post just to say "Thank You".
Should I be doing this or should I just drop it to avoid cluttering up the
board?
What's the protocol?

Frank (I'll get the hang of this eventually)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Sharon F" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 9:40 AM
Subject: Re: HTML or no

 

[Steve Shattuck]

Now I have another ?

I'm writing this post just to say "Thank You".
Should I be doing this or should I just drop it to avoid cluttering up the
board?
What's the protocol?

There's really no way to get a consensus on much of anything on Usenet, but
in general where a newsgroup is a big as this one, when you ask a question
place a TIA at the end of the message. That way you say "Tanks in Advance"
and accomplish both in one message.

 

[Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\)]

.... except that a 'thanks, it worked' is better than a TIA as it is after
the event and not before.. feedback is useful otherwise we don't know how
good the initial advice is/was..

--
Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/user

 

[Keith Miller]

I second that a 'thanks, it worked' very useful when googling these groups and trying to figure out what advice worked and what didn't.

Keith

 

[Ken Blake]

In

I'm new at this and this is probably a dumb question but I just
placed a post and OE asked me if I really wanted to use HTML.
I just clicked OK and hoped for the best.
Did I do Good - Bad - Indifferent?

As a general rule, most newsgroups are plain text only (*not*
html) or populated by people who prefer plain text. There's no
rule prohibiting html here in the Microsoft newsgroups, but as
with other groups, most of us here prefer plain text.

To explain why, there are several problems with html posts:

1. They are bigger than plain text posts and waste bandwidth.

2. They can carry viruses.

3. Your idea of what formatting looks attractive may not be
everyone's idea. In some cases, people's formatting makes
messages downright unreadable.

For those reasons, I have html turned off here entirely, and read
all messages as plain text, regardless of how they are sent.

So my recommendation is that you turn off html and post in plain
text only. The content of newsgroup message is what's important,
not their form.

 

[Ken Blake]

In

Thank you...
Now I have another ?
I'm writing this post just to say "Thank You".
Should I be doing this or should I just drop it to avoid
cluttering
up the board?
What's the protocol?

Again, not everyone agrees, but a "thank you" is always polite
and generally appreciated.

Even better than a simple "thank you" is a "thank you" with an
acknowledgement of whether the advice helped or not. Feedback is
useful to the person who gives you advice.

By the way, a minor point, but this is generally called a
"newsgroup," and not a "board."

 

[T. Waters]

You still have to pay for all your online time, don't you? So, for people
outside the US, it often costs them real money to download messages in HTML.

"David Candy" <.> wrote in message
We don't use html here unless one needs to.