Something's wrong with Community???

[Guest]

Hi,

I posted two questions and get a notification that they have been answered.
However, since then when I come to the Access Community (Discussion Group) I
see messages only up to 6/5/07?? I have tried everything including using
different machines and logging in or not logging in. Could the table need
indexing?

Thanks,

Bonnie

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[Guest]

Hi Bonnie,
There was a problem with the Microsoft Web-based interface, and all the new
posts couldn't been read.
However, most MVP's, and other people use different interfa

 

[Guest]

Sorry, prssed the POST button by mistake.

There was a problem with the Microsoft Web-based interface, and all the new
posts couldn't been read.
However, most MVP's, and other people use different interface and they could
have seen your message and they probably answered it, and this is why you
got the message that your post been answered.

Go back to your old posts and look for the answer

 

[Guest]

Ofer,

How does one obtain or use another interface?

Thank you.
Sprinks

 

['69 Camaro]

Hi, Kevin.

How does one obtain or use another interface?

Most of the folks answering questions in the newsgroups are using a desktop
newsreader to connect to a public news server for reading and posting Usenet
articles, such as msnews.microsoft.com, Microsoft's news server, or our
ISP's news server, because it's more productive when tracking lots of
threads. We're mostly using Outlook Express, Agent, Thunderbird, and more
recently, Windows Mail with Vista, but there are other newsreaders, some
free, some not. And some are Web sites offering Web newsreaders for those
who can't or don't know how to connect to a public news server. A lot of
these Web newsreaders are only available to take advantage of free content
from Usenet for their ad revenues. One can create an account and start
posting questions and answers from one of those free Web newsreaders when
one's regular newsreader isn't working.

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.access/topics?lnk=sg&hl=en

http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...3c3-c10e-4523-9213-cdfd537838f1&lang=en&cr=US

http://www.dbforums.com/

http://www.developersdex.com/login.asp?refer=editprofile

http://www.accessmonster.com/

http://www.dbtalk.net

HTH.
Gunny

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info.

 

[Peter Hibbs]

Sprinks

For what it's worth I use the Agent Newsreader which is a lot easier
to use than the Microsoft Web site and is pretty cheap. Look at
http://www.forteinc.com/main/homepage.php for more info.

Peter Hibbs.

 

[Guest]

Thanks, Gunny; thorough and helpful as always.

Sprinks

 

[Guest]

When trying to set it up on Outlook Express it ask for server name. I had it
on an old computer but not anymore.

Can you tell me what server name to use?

 

[Dirk Goldgar]

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When trying to set it up on Outlook Express it ask for server name.
I had it on an old computer but not anymore.

Can you tell me what server name to use?

For Microsoft's news server, use:

msnews.microsoft.com

 

[Guest]

Thanks.

 

[David W. Fenton]

We're mostly using Outlook Express, Agent, Thunderbird, and more
recently, Windows Mail with Vista

Let me put in a plug for xNews, which is free and a dedicated
newsreader.

I don't believe it's right to make a combined mail/news client,
because the requirements for the two media are completely different.

 

['69 Camaro]

Hi, David.

Let me put in a plug for xNews, which is free and a dedicated
newsreader.

Thanks for that. I hadn't tried it and didn't realize it was free.

I don't believe it's right to make a combined mail/news client,
because the requirements for the two media are completely different.

I know a lot of folks combine the two for convenience and for keeping system
resource use at a minimum, but I, myself, want to keep them separate, so I
use Outlook for mail and Outlook Express for Usenet articles. I don't
always have both open at the same time, so system resources aren't usually
being hogged on my system (which has limited RAM capabilities).

Gunny

See http://www.QBuilt.com for all your database needs.
See http://www.Access.QBuilt.com for Microsoft Access tips and tutorials.
Blogs: www.DataDevilDog.BlogSpot.com, www.DatabaseTips.BlogSpot.com
http://www.Access.QBuilt.com/html/expert_contributors2.html for contact
info.

 

[Tony Toews [MVP]]

I don't believe it's right to make a combined mail/news client,
because the requirements for the two media are completely different.

Agreed.

Tony
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read the entire thread of messages.
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Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/

 

[David W. Fenton]

Agreed.

I think top posting (which I despise) on Usenet came about precisely
because MS implemented it in Outlook Express. For corporate email, I
see the logic of top-posting. For Usenet, it's completely WRONG. Had
MS known anything about Usenet, they would have allowed independent
settings for replying, so you could top post in email and bottom
post in Usenet.

But no combined email/news client I know of implements that (though
there was voluminous discussion about it for Thunderbird at one
point).

 

[Tony Toews [MVP]]

I think top posting (which I despise) on Usenet came about precisely
because MS implemented it in Outlook Express.

Well actually Agent does too. In a sense. When I hit F for reply it positioned my
cursor at the top of this posting.

For corporate email, I see the logic of top-posting.

I don't.

For Usenet, it's completely WRONG.

Agreed. However I've also been called Tony the trim king. <smile> It only takes a
few seconds.

But then I was also a sysop on Fidonet BBSs. I was the only node in my calling area
so was paying very expensive, at that time, long distance.

Tony
--
Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP
Please respond only in the newsgroups so that others can
read the entire thread of messages.
Microsoft Access Links, Hints, Tips & Accounting Systems at
http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm
Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/

 

[David W. Fenton]

Well actually Agent does too. In a sense. When I hit F for reply
it positioned my cursor at the top of this posting.

I think at the time OE came out, Agent had already been around for a
long time, and it used Usenet conventions, which is bottom posting.
I tried Free Agent back then, and it didn't top post, but that was
in the mid- to late-90s.

I don't.

For corporate email, you often really do need the documentation of
the past discussion because email readers don't have threaded views
as their default, nor do they maintain references like Usenet. The
business mindset wants the most important thing at the top, so I
think it makes a certain amount of sense in that context.

Of course, all that said, it's only that I see a logical argument
for it, not that I'd ever do it myself!

Agreed. However I've also been called Tony the trim king.
<smile> It only takes a few seconds.

But then I was also a sysop on Fidonet BBSs. I was the only node
in my calling area so was paying very expensive, at that time,
long distance.

I've been posting to Usenet since 1994, back when I was using a
14400-baud modem to connect to NYU's dialin servers via Kermit (for
telnet sessions). I first browsed the web with Lynx,
character-based, and was astonished at how it worked.

And back then, there were mostly technical and university types on
Usenet and if you broke the rules of Netiquette or did anything they
saw as wrong, you heard about it. Back then, the posting style you
see from me in the Access newsgroups would have been considered
diplomatic and gentle.

I miss those days -- nobody took any BS.