Vista and Firefox

[Julian]

When a news post is rated using Windows Mail, does it appear as a helpful
post (after being rated as helpful), on the Microsoft Newsgroup/Support
website?

Maybe this is an answer...
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/wn3/locales/help/help_en-us.htm#RateAPost

 

[Julian]

Maybe this is an answer...
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/wn3/locales/help/help_en-us.htm#RateAPost

Identifying helpful posts
You can identify a post that is marked as “helpful” in the following ways:

a.. The post is displayed in green text in the thread pane
b.. When you hold the mouse pointer over the post in the thread pane, a
screen tip appears indicating X out of Y people found this post helpful
(where X is the score and Y is the rating count for the post).
c.. The thread summary displays the number of posts in the thread, as well
as the number of helpful posts in the thread.
d.. You can show only threads with helpful posts by clicking Threads with
helpful posts in the Show list.

 

[Sharon T]

That is nice it shows up. Thanks!

Identifying helpful posts
You can identify a post that is marked as “helpful” in the following ways:

a.. The post is displayed in green text in the thread pane
b.. When you hold the mouse pointer over the post in the thread pane, a
screen tip appears indicating X out of Y people found this post helpful
(where X is the score and Y is the rating count for the post).
c.. The thread summary displays the number of posts in the thread, as
well as the number of helpful posts in the thread.
d.. You can show only threads with helpful posts by clicking Threads with
helpful posts in the Show list.

 

[Julian]

That is nice it shows up. Thanks!

My pleasure.

 

[=?windows-1252?Q?JDa=99=A9?=]

Phew! Piece of cake!
Why not just use Agent?

I read and view more binary groups than text groups, and
I like to view whats presented in the view window when its
down loaded. With Agent I have to download to a directory
or load it to a separate program outside of Agent to view .
Sometimes, if I want to save a large quantity of binaries,
then I will use Agent to download and save them to a separate
directory.
I just try to use the best strength within a program to
accomplish what I want done at the time.

 

[=?windows-1252?Q?JDa=99=A9?=]

Sharon, there is not difference between using Thunderbird on either XP
or Vista.
Word of warning, if you set Thunderbird or any other program to be your main
emailer, then if you use WinMail to read news, and then decide to reply
to a post
then WinMail will start TBird. And you will have to have the newsgroups
programed
in both, along with the SMTP pointer.
JDa

 

[=?windows-1252?Q?JDa=99=A9?=]

Dude. What have you been smokin'?

I been smokin' the truth and nothing but the truth.................!
( As I see's it!! )
JDa

 

[Julian]

I read and view more binary groups than text groups, and
I like to view whats presented in the view window when its
down loaded. With Agent I have to download to a directory
or load it to a separate program outside of Agent to view .
Sometimes, if I want to save a large quantity of binaries,
then I will use Agent to download and save them to a separate
directory.
I just try to use the best strength within a program to
accomplish what I want done at the time.

Cool... Likewise I use WinMail for crossposted text.

 

[Sharon T]

Thanks JDa for the tips.

Sharon, there is not difference between using Thunderbird on either XP or
Vista.
Word of warning, if you set Thunderbird or any other program to be your
main
emailer, then if you use WinMail to read news, and then decide to reply to
a post
then WinMail will start TBird. And you will have to have the newsgroups
programed
in both, along with the SMTP pointer.
JDa

 

[Dave Cox]

I read and view more binary groups than text groups, and
I like to view whats presented in the view window when its
down loaded. With Agent I have to download to a directory
or load it to a separate program outside of Agent to view .
Sometimes, if I want to save a large quantity of binaries,
then I will use Agent to download and save them to a separate
directory.
I just try to use the best strength within a program to
accomplish what I want done at the time.

Try Xnews it supports multi-part binaries and yenc decoding. No need
for an external viewer it's all built in.

http://www.download.com/3000-2164-10144167.html

 

[=?windows-1252?Q?JDa=99=A9?=]

@bignews4.bellsouth.net:



Try Xnews it supports multi-part binaries and yenc decoding. No need
for an external viewer it's all built in.

http://www.download.com/3000-2164-10144167.html

I have, and I'm not fond of it. Its that learning thing. I like
programs (& things) that are more inclined to be intuitive and less
labor intense to learn. I grew up with trn, ed, vi, cnews, inn and
a whole lot of Unix.... as a systems programmer, administrator,
analyst, webmaster, newsmaster, postmaster, and domain admin.
(one stop shopping!). I have not been doing that as long as some,
but one thing I have learned, if its seems confusing at the start
then it will be confusing at the end. (kiss). And god bless the att3b5.

 

[Guest]

Actually, I'm having problems with both Firefox and Thunderbird on my new
Vista machine.

With Firefox, it freezes up when it tries to load the Blackboard page that
allows me to post to a Blackboard discussion for an online course I'm taking.
I have to switch to Explorer (yuck!) or an XP or OSX machine to post to
Blackboard.

For Thunderbird, when I transferred files from my old XP laptop to my new
one, I got double toolbars and crazy icons that I can't figure out how to
eliminate. Plus, none of my files, folders, saved e-mails or bookmarks made
the transfer.