about this web-site (not about Access)

[Lana]

Dear Sirs,
I have noticed that when you post a question and select "Notify me of
replies" on the form for writing the message, you actually are not notified
at all.

It adds the link to the question to your Profile at first, but if you dont
follow the link right away and press "Notify me of replies" on the page where
all the questions are listed, you are never notified and this link dissapears
the next day and you get problems remembering the exact wording of your
question so you could find it again among the multiple others.

If this cannot be fixed, I suggest to put some reminder-note for users - so
that they wouldn't get lost like me.

Thank you.
Lana

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http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...-b9a9-274f817f7e20&dg=microsoft.public.access

 

[John Vinson]

Dear Sirs,
I have noticed that when you post a question and select "Notify me of
replies" on the form for writing the message, you actually are not notified
at all.

It adds the link to the question to your Profile at first, but if you dont
follow the link right away and press "Notify me of replies" on the page where
all the questions are listed, you are never notified and this link dissapears
the next day and you get problems remembering the exact wording of your
question so you could find it again among the multiple others.

If this cannot be fixed, I suggest to put some reminder-note for users - so
that they wouldn't get lost like me.

The Website is only one of several different ways to view the Usenet
Newsgroups in the microsoft.public.* heirarchy. The website is not the
newsgroup; it's just *a* newsreader program, and not (IMHO) the best
of them.

You can use Outlook Express in its "news" mode to get to the
newsgroups; set the news server to msnews.microsoft.com. There are
many other newsreader programs as well. Outlook Express (or my
favorite, Agent) let you selectively download messages to your own
computer and store them in folders, search them, and so on.


John W. Vinson[MVP]

 

[William Benson]

John,

I use Outlook Express ... when I download messages to folders they lose all
the conversation threading ... is there a workaround?

Also, I cannot search for text in message body unless I 'read' the
message -- opened it I suppose -- which makes it hard to manage to do a
search on what is in the newsgroup postings without having read every one of
them!

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

 

[Dirk Goldgar]

John,

I use Outlook Express ... when I download messages to folders they
lose all the conversation threading ... is there a workaround?

Threading can be turned on or off at will. Click View -> Current
View -> Group Messages by Conversation. If that's not working for you,
then something's wrong with your installation of OE.

Also, I cannot search for text in message body unless I 'read' the
message -- opened it I suppose -- which makes it hard to manage to do
a search on what is in the newsgroup postings without having read
every one of them!

Any suggestions?

For this I do use the web, but not Microsoft's web newsreader. Instead,
I use Google Groups' Advanced Search feature, at

http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search

 

[William Benson]

Thanks ... I did not have it checked.

Threading can be turned on or off at will. Click View -> Current
View -> Group Messages by Conversation. If that's not working for you,
then something's wrong with your installation of OE.


For this I do use the web, but not Microsoft's web newsreader. Instead,
I use Google Groups' Advanced Search feature, at

http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search

--
Dirk Goldgar, MS Access MVP
www.datagnostics.com

(please reply to the newsgroup)