Don't respond to idiots who patrol the news groups looking for people to
either make fun of, or try to make feel stupid with condescending answers
meant to demean the questioner.
--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
ALWAYS post your Outlook version.
How to ask a question:
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
| I fumbled in to the answer about posting a new message. Simply click
| on the newsgroup and then click "create mail" And, what does "don't
| feed the troll" mean?
|
|
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| || In article <
[email protected]>, JimB
|| wrote:
||||| Can someone point me in the right direction?
||||
|||| Yes. Toward a decent newsreader and away from the web interface
|||| you're using
|||| now. Don't jump through any hoops trying to get email
|||| notification to work.
|||| It doesn't. Period. No sense wasting your time on it because
|||| it's not broken at your end.
|||
||| OK. I've set up a newsreader subscriptions in OE and can read the
||| posts. Now, Three stupid questions. What does synchronizing do and
||| how do I send a
||| new message to a groups
||
|| It's been too long since I last used OE ... I'll let someone with
|| something
|| resembling a clue tackle the first two. But ...
||
||| Also, I assume "reply to sender" does just that.
||| what does "reply to group" do?
||
|| OE can send your reply either to the person to whom you're
|| responding or to the
|| entire newsgroup. For replies to newsgroup posts, GROUP is the way
|| to go.
||
|| Most people will post messages to newsgroups using a munged email
|| address in order
|| to foil spammers, so reply to sender will as often as not send your
|| reply off into
|| the etherneverneverland.
||
|| Oh, and please don't feed the troll.
