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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Sinusitis / March 2006Some info for those of us who are newer to usenet
Not to be Schoolmarmish about it, but this is really key to maintaining coherent conversations in a virtual "room" with so many different voices at times... http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/http/quote.html http://www.dickalba.demon.co.uk/usenet/guide/guide.html Susan > x-no-archive: yes > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Susan I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that GoogleGroups' default "Reply" option doesn't autoquote. It's really odd that it works that way. You have to click 'Show Options' in the header area of the existing post, then click Reply. At that point it autoquotes. Lots of new users are probably using GoogleGroups versus a standard usenet client. Tyler Quote: <think a lot of it has to do with the fact that GoogleGroups' default "Reply" option doesn't autoquote. It's really odd that it works that way. You have to click 'Show Options' in the header area of the existing post, then click Reply> I emailed Google Groups about this last week.... > Quote: <think a lot of it has to do with the fact that GoogleGroups' > default > "Reply" option doesn't autoquote. It's really odd that it works that > way. You have to click 'Show Options' in the header area of the > existing post, then click Reply> Yes, and when I posted through google, that's what I did. Susan > x-no-archive: yes > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Susan Susan? The newsgroups are waning badly due to php forums and message boards and bloggers... We should all be glad people still post...  Signaturepreesi ~~~~~~~~~ "If you've got a passion for fashion, and you've got a craving for saving, take the wheel of your automobile, and swing on down to Ideal." ~~~~~~~~~ My Websites and Favorite Links: http://tinyurl.com/yvw45 Yahoo/SidekickII Name: MissPreesi Skype: Preesi I could look into the possibility of exposing this newsgroup as a web site using better software than google uses. Would people be interested in that? If I did that, I would dedicate its ownership in trust to the current posters of this newsgroup. That is, I would take no personal ownership interest in it....... > I could look into the possibility of exposing this newsgroup as a web site > using better software than google uses. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > of this newsgroup. That is, I would take no personal ownership interest in > it....... What for? Folks have any number of free news readers available to them. Susan >x-no-archive: yes > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > >What for? Folks have any number of free news readers available to them. For the same reasons that IBM and many other publishers have gatewayed newsgroups to the web - to make them more accessible to new users who have never even heard of Usenet - to make them accessible at institutions that block the nntp port 119 - to make them show up better in web searches More experienced users such as you and I would continue to use newsgreaders (or google I guess, although I do not like it for reading news). So there would be no question of replacing the newsgroup, just making it more accessible.... We woud lhave to be very ckear that the web site expsoing the newsgroup in an attractive web format was *noyt* to be the commercial property of anyone.
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