petty annoyance

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When I sign on to the newsgroup the window opens to the last medssage
posted. I prefer to be at the top of the page. What have I missed???
Thanks,
Ralph, The OLD one
 
Click on <Sent> at the top of the panel. This, as with the column headings,
will re-sort that column in the opposite direction.

Regards.

Bill Ridgeway
Computer Solutions
 
Ralphael1 said:
When I sign on to the newsgroup the window opens to the last medssage
posted. I prefer to be at the top of the page. What have I missed???
Thanks,
Ralph, The OLD one
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Try using a proper news reader instead of Google groups.
 
Gordon: I use OE to read the newsgroups. Is it "proper"? When I click on a
newsgroup, if there are no recent posts in the window area that's displayed,
it'll sometimes scroll my window to a post that's days old. It sounds to me
like this is what Ralph is griping about, and it has nothing to do with him
viewing "newest" first as opposed to "oldest" first (sort order, which is
what Bill seems to be suggesting).

Anyway, I understood his question--I think, but don't have the answer.
Personally, I want to know what all these "Not Downloaded" posts are. I
can't find anything about it.
*******************
~Anne Troy

www.OfficeArticles.com
 
Gordon wrote:
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Try using a proper news reader instead of Google groups.
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Thanks Gordon for the advice.
I am not happy with google newsgroup at all. AOL spoiled me.
Now where can I find a "proper news reader" that is CHEAP?

Thank you,
Ralphael, the OLD one
 
Ralphael1 said:
Gordon wrote:
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Thanks Gordon for the advice.
I am not happy with google newsgroup at all. AOL spoiled me.
Now where can I find a "proper news reader" that is CHEAP?
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Outlook Express is not bad, comes free with windows. Thunderbird/Mozilla are
better, then you've got Free Agent, Xnews, Gravity, to name a few. All free!

Have a look here:
http://www.newsreaders.com/win/clients.html

the idea is to try as many as possible, until you find one that suits your
type of newsreading.

HTH
 
Sounds like a lot of hassle to me. Then I have to beg my ISP for an NNTP
server name, and just now pay for that as well. Na, methinks it is easier to
browse this website at my leisure. I think it is less restrictive. But hey,
as I said before :-)
 
Kassie said:
Sounds like a lot of hassle to me. Then I have to beg my ISP for an NNTP
server name, and just now pay for that as well.
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Not for this news server you don't. It's free and you can access it from any
ISP.
Just use "msnews.microsoft.com" (without the quotes" as your news server.
 
Right. Until you try to connect and half the MS newsgroups are missing, so
you call, and they say "Oh, we don't support that. We subscribe to
thousands...but we don't take requests or anything."
And I can't figure out how to get to news.verizon.net. If I put it in OE, it
goes nowhere. If I put it in IE, page cannot be displayed. Am I clueless, or
what? :)
Thanks for the help.
*******************
~Anne Troy

www.OfficeArticles.com
 
Anne Troy said:
Right. Until you try to connect and half the MS newsgroups are missing,
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Are you actually connecting to the news server "msnews.microsoft.com"? have
you added that server as a new News Account?
 
Anne Troy said:
Yep. I think so!
I click on Newsgroups. I paste msnews.microsoft.com, and when I get it, I
see what I said I saw, you see? :)
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I don't understand what you are doing. What you SHOULD be doing, is in OE,
go to Tools-Accounts-Add-News and follow the prompts there, using
msnews.microsoft.com in the News Server field.
 
Got it, Gordon. Thanks a ton!! I didn't realize I had to create a different
account for it. Who knew? :) Yer a sweetie for sticking with me. Thanks
again.

*******************
~Anne Troy

www.OfficeArticles.com
 
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