Ray Luca said:
Quote everything you're replying to: those of us out here that don't
use that awful interface can't see what you see.
If you need to include a quote from somewhere else to make your point,
that's what copy and paste is for.
You might also look into using Windows Mail - or Windows Live Mail -
for accessing these groups.
http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/microsoft-newsgroup-setup-instructions-for-windows-mail/
Thanks for your input Ray. I absolutely agree with you.
I only post with newsreaders, I use Windows Live Mail most of the time.
But I also use Windows Mail as a news reader, primarily for comparative
purposes.
If by bulletin board interface you are referring to the web based interface
to MS communities or
perhaps some the many web forums out there, I don't use that interface to
post. I use a NNTP newsreader client.
In my reply to Brink in one of the treads to this post the original poster
(Terry) question or issue _was_ quoted.
Terry's issue was about the same as the other poster that had posted to a
different
newsgroup,
microsoft.public.windows.vista.adminmistration_accounts_passwords, that I
had replied
to nearly two weeks ago. Not window.vista.general that you are reading now.
Rather than copy and paste everything that had been written I copied and
pasted the link that theses
servers automatically generate and that was
for anybody that wanted to check it to read the OP and all replies/threads.
For example links to your
first reply to this thread.
Check the _source file_ in my post for verification.
My post in these treads was mainly extended as a courtesy to "Brink" and
"Jack the Ripper" who spent their time and used their knowledge/research
to help another resolve some issue. Then also, give them both every
opportunity to jump in or not; provided they desire to do so.
So you see Ray, you and I are in complete agreement.
Its not only very frustrating but in most cases a waste of time to see only
bits and peaces of threads and such generated on web based forums that
filter down to these news servers.
Most people are totally unaware of Newsgroups due to lack of research and
not reading any directions readily at their disposal. Ironically that is
also the exact reason those same people try posting to those forums and
these newsgroups, hoping to locate someone else that has (RTFM) to avoid the
valuable waste of their time just to fix or understand something.
Not all people but most/many.
Of course that's another subject.
Thanks for your concerns,
H Brown