how to get old posts?

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I sometimes run into many issues at once (as we all do) and find myself
posting several questions on several different newsgroups. Problem is I
sometimes forget some and never get my answers... or the chance to thank the
responder. I use outlook express and just clicked on this newsgroup and saw
at least 2 of my own flagged posts with unread responses scroll right off
the screen upon refresh! <homer> Dope! </homer> Any archives? Any way to get
to them?

Thanks
 
djc said:
I sometimes run into many issues at once (as we all do) and find myself
posting several questions on several different newsgroups. Problem is I
sometimes forget some and never get my answers... or the chance to thank the
responder. I use outlook express and just clicked on this newsgroup and saw
at least 2 of my own flagged posts with unread responses scroll right off
the screen upon refresh! <homer> Dope! </homer> Any archives? Any way to get
to them?

Thanks
Click to expand...

http://www.google.com/grphp?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=&tab=wg
 
Austin said:
You can search past postings at:
http://communities2.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en
-us/default.aspx
Enter your string in the "Search" box

You can also seach them via Google:
http://www.google.com/grphp?hl=en&tab=wg&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=
Click to expand...

AKA http://www.google.com/grphp
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-
8&group=microsoft.public
Click to expand...

AKA http://groups.google.com/groups?group=microsoft.public
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-
8&group=microsoft.public.win2000
Click to expand...

AKA http://groups.google.com/groups?group=microsoft.public.win2000

Is it possible to disable line wrap in "Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000"
(which appears to be your news reader--what *is* that, anyway?)?

If so, please do--there's no reason to chop URLs at 73 chars.

Or, if that's too inconvenient, please consider using
http://tinyurl.com/
or
http://makeashorterlink.com/
to foreshorten URLs longer than 73 chars.

Thanks,
-Jeremy
 
Hi, Jeremy.
Is it possible to disable line wrap in "Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000"
(which appears to be your news reader--what *is* that, anyway?)?
Click to expand...

This highly-misleading name means the "Web-based interface", also referred
to as Microsoft Communities and a few other names. In other words, it's not
a "newsreader" like Mozilla or Agent or Outlook Express. To see it for
yourself, click here:
Welcome to Microsoft Discussion Groups
http://communities2.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx

and wend your way back to this Newsgroup...er...Discussion Group. Or click
here for the Express Route:
Discussions in Windows 2000 File Systems & Svcs
http://communities2.microsoft.com/c...en-us-win-winclient-filesystems&lang=en&cr=US

All that should bring you right back here, but using that Web-based
Interface. If you then post a message using that interface, it will show up
here, just like if you used Mozilla or OE. Then access your message from
OE and click Ctrl+F3 (I don't know how to do this in Mozilla), and you will
see that you posted using "Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000". I heard once
what CDO stands for, but it was such a non-sequitur that I simply can't
remember it. And it has nothing to do with Win2K; that label applies
whether the message was posted with Win9x/ME or Win2K/XP or even a non-MS
program, such as Mozilla.

Most experienced users of newsgroups (including myself) detest the
"Web-based interface" and refuse to use it. But Newbies, especially those
who just want to get their one immediate question answered or problem
solved, find it much easier than first learning and then using a newsreader.
Also, many employees cannot use newsreaders from their corporate computers,
but can access the Communities using their Internet browsers. MANY more
posters use the Web interface than newsreaders, so don't expect it to
disappear. Improvements are planned, and some have already been
implemented. More improvements are definitely needed, in my opinion!

You can try MS Communities and decide for yourself.

And, Austin, if you would like to try the newsreader interface, you can
click here (if you are running Windows and are not blocked by something like
a corporate firewall):
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.win2000.file_system

That should start Outlook Express, create an Account for the Microsoft
public news server, subscribe you to this newsgroup, download the 300 latest
messages, and let you start reading them. If you like what you see, you can
customize OE to suit yourself.

RC
 
Austin said:
Google cuts some of the addresses when posting from:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/newsgroups/
("Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000")
-or-
http://support.microsoft.com/newsgroups/
Click to expand...

Austin,
What do you mean "cuts some of the addresses"?
AFAIK, Google doesn't cut anything; it's the sender's
NNTP client, or the HTTP-to-NNTP gateway (in this case,
Microsoft's) that does any cutting.
That's why it's best to stick with Microsoft's tools,
they look fine when using:
- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/newsgroups/
- http://support.microsoft.com/newsgroups/
- http://communities.microsoft.com/
- Outlook 97/2000
- Outlook Express 6
Click to expand...

Microsoft is notorious for ignoring standards set forth
in RFCs, or worse, "embracing-and-extending" those standards
in proprietary, unpublished ways that make data generated
with their tools incompatible with the un-extended standards.
As evidence that OE and Outlook are broken in this regard,
I direct you to oe-quotefix:
http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/
and to outlook-quotefix:
http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/outlook-quotefix/
the purpose of which is to fix aspects of their broken-ness.
As evidence that CDO for Windows is broken, I remind you
that only MStools render posts generated by that product
correctly; other newsreaders do not.

-Jeremy(Am I going to be censured now for criticizing the 800lb gorilla?)
 
Google is the only site where I see the problem
The first line of the URL address is a blue underlined hyperlink
the second, third, etc. is plain black text. (should not happen, but does

On all other sites, the links either do not wrap
or if they do; all two/three lines are an underlined blue hyperlink
(One continuous line that appears as more on screen

Make the message frame larger
On Microsoft's sites, I can drag the window frame
on any posted message to increase or reduce the number of lines the message uses
Changing the font size also helps
You can drag the frames at Google too, but it does not change the text layout

I'm not posting just for the Google sites, there are plenty of other "better" newsreaders to use anyway

You can always just copy and paste the links

Austin M. Horst
 
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