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Using MS Newsgroups
You're using the Microsoft web interface for accessing the newsgroups,
which is terribly cumbersome. You could instead connect directly to the Microsoft news server, as described in Chip Pearson's site: http://cpearson.com/excel/DirectConnect.htm If you're stuck behind a firewall, you could go to http://www.ExcelForum.com/ which supposedly has a pretty good web interface (I haven't had to use it). - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Peltier Technical Services http://PeltierTech.com/Excel/Charts/ _______ MWE wrote: I find this newsgroup structure cumbersome and not particularly well designed. I have experienced several consistent problems: 1. how do you actually know if your post was posted? I have "lost" as many posts as have been successful. Most cases were posts were lost I was able to determine that the site was apparently down (no posts around the time I posted), but why does the system indicate that the post was successful? 2. how do you get from a search to the actual post and its children? It is easy to open the particular item, but how do you get back to the general list of posts and replies with the "current line" being the item hilited as part of the search? 3. what do you do when you search, find an item, but the item is NOT there when you go back to the general list of posts? 4. why is the order of posts not PRECISELY by posting date? I Have noticed as I am searching for a particular post that the list is not always in post order |
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Read this from Dave Peterson also You may want to connect to the MS newsgroups directly. Chip Pearson has some notes written by Leonard Meads at: http://www.cpearson.com/excel/DirectConnect.htm David McRitchie's notes at: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/xlnews.htm http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/oe6.htm Tushar Mehta's notes at: http://www.tushar-mehta.com/misc_tut...e_ng/index.htm Or you can use google (maybe a few hours behind) to search for stuff you've posted (and find the replies, too)http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search Ron de Bruin has an excel addin that you may like: http://www.rondebruin.nl/Google.htm -- Regards Ron de Bruin (Win XP Pro SP-1 XL2000-2003) www.rondebruin.nl "Jon Peltier" wrote in message ... You're using the Microsoft web interface for accessing the newsgroups, which is terribly cumbersome. You could instead connect directly to the Microsoft news server, as described in Chip Pearson's site: http://cpearson.com/excel/DirectConnect.htm If you're stuck behind a firewall, you could go to http://www.ExcelForum.com/ which supposedly has a pretty good web interface (I haven't had to use it). - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Peltier Technical Services http://PeltierTech.com/Excel/Charts/ _______ MWE wrote: I find this newsgroup structure cumbersome and not particularly well designed. I have experienced several consistent problems: 1. how do you actually know if your post was posted? I have "lost" as many posts as have been successful. Most cases were posts were lost I was able to determine that the site was apparently down (no posts around the time I posted), but why does the system indicate that the post was successful? 2. how do you get from a search to the actual post and its children? It is easy to open the particular item, but how do you get back to the general list of posts and replies with the "current line" being the item hilited as part of the search? 3. what do you do when you search, find an item, but the item is NOT there when you go back to the general list of posts? 4. why is the order of posts not PRECISELY by posting date? I Have noticed as I am searching for a particular post that the list is not always in post order |
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Jon: many thanks. I have extracted the Chip Pearson
document for future reading. Short term I have tried out the ExcelForum interface. It is quite similar to a number of other forums on which I participate. Quite easy to use and a bit more logical than the MS newsgroup interface. I was able to quickly find several items I could not locate via the MS Newsgroup interface. Thanks again MWE -----Original Message----- You're using the Microsoft web interface for accessing the newsgroups, which is terribly cumbersome. You could instead connect directly to the Microsoft news server, as described in Chip Pearson's site: http://cpearson.com/excel/DirectConnect.htm If you're stuck behind a firewall, you could go to http://www.ExcelForum.com/ which supposedly has a pretty good web interface (I haven't had to use it). - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Peltier Technical Services http://PeltierTech.com/Excel/Charts/ _______ MWE wrote: I find this newsgroup structure cumbersome and not particularly well designed. I have experienced several consistent problems: 1. how do you actually know if your post was posted? I have "lost" as many posts as have been successful. Most cases were posts were lost I was able to determine that the site was apparently down (no posts around the time I posted), but why does the system indicate that the post was successful? 2. how do you get from a search to the actual post and its children? It is easy to open the particular item, but how do you get back to the general list of posts and replies with the "current line" being the item hilited as part of the search? 3. what do you do when you search, find an item, but the item is NOT there when you go back to the general list of posts? 4. why is the order of posts not PRECISELY by posting date? I Have noticed as I am searching for a particular post that the list is not always in post order . |
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