On 11 Jan 2005 10:54:01 -0800, wrote:

Although I haven't studied it in detail, you might well be right. This
is certainly a great site for people like me with limited DIY
experience.


It's not a great 'site' at all. It's a site someone has set up to grab
all of the discussion on a public newsgroup, repackage it and republish

it as if it were theirs. It's not.

I still don't seem to be able get the quotes in my replies so I must be
extremely thick. I'm sure if Lurch swears at me a bit more I will
become much brighter, but it hasn't worked so far! In this case I have
copied and pasted the quote but haven't got the blue colour so I guess
I've done it wrong (Sooooo thick!).

Anyway the reason I called it a great 'site' was because in recent
months I have had a few really useful tips for which I have been
grateful.

If someone would like to politely tell me how to reply using quotes I
would be grateful! Thanks.

Yes.

Please get yourself a proper newsreader program like Free Agent, or
one of a number of others - even Outlook Express is better than using
web sites (especially Google) to make Usenet postings.

Then all that you need is access to a news server (your ISP should
have this, or failing that sign up at news.individual.net).

All of the proper etiquette things for posting to Usenet and easier
reading from it are available with proper newsreaders and you won't
**** people off with lost thread references or confuse them by not
having quotations where needed.

Google is useful as a means to search for old posts, but that's about
it.




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..andy

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