"Pete_UK" wrote:
it's probably something to do with the browser
that you use to access the newsgroups.

Hmm, I always thought it was simply yet-another thing that is wrong with the
MS Discussion Groups web interface, independent of the browser.

For example, using IE6 to respond to the original subject-only posting via
MSDG and Google Groups, I have no problem creating a response using GG. It
is only MSDG that fails.

I am unable to test my theory using Firefox because I cannot even log into
MSDG using FF.

(That might be an intermittent problem with the MSDG service. Now, I am
getting Service Unavailable errors with both IE6 and FF.)


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"Pete_UK" wrote in message
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Daryl,

it's probably something to do with the browser that you use to access
the newsgroups. If a poster does not expand on his heading for the
thread and use the message body, then some browsers do not allow you
to respond to it.

Hope this helps.

Pete

On Nov 30, 5:38 pm, Daryl S wrote:
Jackson -

I can't reply to your posting directly - I suspect the "^" character in
your
posting subject may be the culprit.

To answer your question, the carat represents a 'to the power of'
operation.
That is x^2 means x squared (x times itself). y^3 means y cubed (y times y
times y).

Hope that helps!

--
Daryl S