Re: WARNING FOR WINDOWS USERS!

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Ian wrote:
I avoid Google thanks though

Then let me give you what you chose not to read again:

The assumptions you are making are due to you posting using the
Microsoft Web Page Interface.

Not everyone gets their news from these groups from the particular server
that interface is connected to and not everyone uses the web interface (I
would say that as users start using the newsgroups more and more, they drift
towards newsreaders - applications made to interface with newsgroups.)

For those who do not get their news from the same newsgroup as you - the
rules on said server (for synchronizing with the other thousands of servers
around the world) may be different on their server than on the one you
utilize. The posts may be erased daily, weekly, monthly, yearly - so that a
post made yesterday may no longer be on one person's server of choice
tomorrow and on another person's server of choice even after a decade.

These articles may help explain newsgroups, news servers and the Usenet to
you a little better than I could in a response.

http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/9742.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/newsgroup4.htm

If you plan on using the newsgroups more often - I highly recommend a
newsreader or at least Outlook Express.

Setting up Outlook Express Newsreader
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm

Good Luck!

And since this means I eliminated the context above (also known to some as
top-posting) - I am including it here so one can see the context that the
above response was manifested within.

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( Sooner or later - it will be archived on Google Groups:
http://groups.google.com/ )

Gordon wrote:
<sigh> - this is NOT a chat room, please QUOTE the post you are
replying to.....

Ian wrote:
there was alot more than dude you need to read what I wrote.
and it is positioned directly under the post it was a response to.

Jupiter Jones [MVP] wrote:
Ian;
"it is positioned directly under the post"
Actually you do not know that.
Sometimes newsreaders do not act as they should.
As for the web interface you are using, that also has occasional
problems.
And when that happens, you post is all alone and without context.
You should quote at least as much of the original text as necessary
to keep context.

Ian wrote:
sounds like a bug, or like using different browsers, I see them all
in context, which is the way it is on the page through internet
explorer.
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