ttrainor said:
got it--finally. thank you guys so much. As a suggestion going forward, it
would make your life much easier if people saw responses in a different font
or color. I missed sever because they looked like the body of my question..
thanks again. I will try the suggestion on DNS clearing.
This is a newsgroup and it can be accessed via a newsreader, a Google
interface and the Mactopia interface. It is not a forum as the Mactopia
interface seems to indicate. Because of the different servers what you see
varies widely. Your best option is to use a newsreader. Entourage has a
newsreader and it is a bare bones one, but it is very easy to use to
subscribe to the Microsoft newsgroups. Thunderbird is a good free
alternative.
There is also huge lag time (could be hours or days) on when messages are
seen depending on how you access. Mactopia seems to lag behind. Because of
this discrepancy, a lot of miscommunication occurs. We post an answer and
users keep asking and we wonder why? User being to lazy to look or the post
has not shown up yet???
The Mactopia forum strips out HTML, but newsreaders will show it if used. We
generally advise plain text over HTML as it does not impose your font
choices and sizes on other users.
Users also don't quote back thinking everyone sees the same threading as
shown on the web, but for those of us that use a newsreader, it make helping
much harder as we have to open old messages to even see what they are
talking about. Top that off with multiple hijacking....I'm seeing a similar
problem and a thread can get out of hand. I've seen threads that started
back in Jan with up to 70 posts and multiple questioners. It's a mess.
I highly suggest that you use a nospam address for posting on newsgroups.
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Frankly, the only good thing about the Mactopia forum is it has made it easy
for users to find this newsgroup. IMHO
