20 Nov., 05 / 02:22 Malaysia time.
1. Thanks mucho, Chris, for the reply. Was just trying to make some
points. Really appreciate the info but don't really understand this
'newsreader' stuff. As I said (somewhere along the line) I got here by
looking for some help via Microsoft.com. That's all I know. I'm back in same
place now, looking at the replies again.
At the top of this page I'm now in, it says "Microsoft.com Home | Site Map".
Further down, we have 3 columns.
Left column lists 'Windows XP Newsgroups' and right now I'm in the
"Discussions in Windows XP Networking and the Web" group and writing this
reply in a separate window that just came up.
Middle column lists the 1st group of reader messages / questions.
At the right column, there's the open message box where I've read your reply.
So, that's all I know and all I can say about it. I don't know if I'm in a
'newsreader' or what. It just looks like an ordinary Microsoft type web page
to me. From the way your reply is worded, I'm beginning to think that maybe
we are each looking at a different type of page - but with basically the same
content - which is why I went into the detail above.
In so far as my original point was concerned (the one I'm assuming you are
refering
to in the reply), what I meant was that (on MY page, here) there are 2 small
entry boxes straddling the top of the middle and right columns I've just
described.
The left box is for entering 'search terms' - as when one wants to find a
particular
message (or one's own posted message), by entering a keyword contained in
that message or subject of interest.
The right box is for selecting the 'newsgroup' which one wants to search for
the message.
The problem arises when you have a very poor memory (like yours truly) and
you've
used that particular search box many times looking for different subjects of
interest and at some stage you want to go back to a particular message
you've found some time back during the session here.
Well, I couldn't do this latter because I couldn't remember the keyword I
used to get to that message. All I'm saying is that it would be nice to have
a little icon next to that box to click on to recall recent search terms -
like in Google. Such searches
have no relation to my own messages, replies or display name and so I
couldn't get back to such a non-related subject very quickly or easily, I
don't think, without some elementary search term 'recall' function.
2. I don't really understand Outlook Express either. Got hotmail - which is
simple enough and looks like all I really need - though I would like to
fathom the reasons and need for 'Outlook Express', sure.
I couldn't find "msnews.microsoft.com" in Google. There's a whole bunch of
stuff that comes up; and it doesn't work as a URL.
3. I am beginning to see the light (just barely though) with the
"
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=tedoniman" link you provided. Opened my
eyes. Pretty neat, that. Will come in very handy indeed. Many thanks for that.
However, nothing I've read in the various replies, so far, seems to directly
address my original point as regards a 'search term recall' function to help
me
recover a particular message I located earlier via that search box.
Eventually I'm
expecting someone to suggest "why not just write down all your search terms on
a piece of paper or in a file"; but that would be missing the point
altogether.
Similarly, no one has really as yet hit the nail on the head with my other two
points / queries. Probably I haven't expressed myself very well.
In any case, thanx for taking the trouble and particularly for that last
link. I will
get there bit by bit.
