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Attention: GOOGLE users. Please read.
For those of you reading messages on rec.crafts.jewelry on the Google news service,
please be aware that Google's interface can cause some confusion. Google, in addition to offering access to the current newsgroup messages, also offers access to the historical archives of this group. Unfortunately, their interface makes no distinction between current messages and old ones, and the display does not make the date of a message as prominent as it might be. Recently, there has been an increase in the number of postings I've had to reject to this group because they are reply posts to very old messages. Often, these are replies to messages sent to the group before it became moderated in 1997. Obviously, I cannot approve and post such messages, especially when they are responses to "for sale" advertisements that appeared in the group before it became moderated. Such ads are no longer allowed. Please, dear Google users, before replying to a posting you found in this group, make sure the posting is reasonably current. Most of the world reads this group on standard news servers, which generally only offer messages that are at most six to eight weeks old, deleting messages older than that. So replying to older messages will simply be confusing to readers who no longer see the messages you're replying to. If, after noting that a message is old, you still wish to continue the topic, feel free to, but may I suggest you do it with a new posting, restarting the topic with a subject header of your choosing, rather than doing it with a reply posting to the old message. Again, this is up to your good judgment, if the old message really is relevant. Just be aware that replying to old messages can be confusing. For more information on posting to this group, please review the FAQ posting I've sent to the group every so often. If you're unsure, feel free to contact me (the moderator) via email, or ask in the group, for guidance. thank you. Peter Rowe moderator rec.crafts.jewelry |
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Is it this new "BETA" form of Google that is creating this confusion?
Please reply with the email address of the Google department which can receive comments and complaints about Beta. Thanks. C.C. |
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On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 09:17:49 GMT, "Peter W.. Rowe,"
wrote: For those of you reading messages on rec.crafts.jewelry on the Google news service, please be aware that Google's interface can cause some confusion. So please sign up for another free newsspool, http://news.individual.net/, for example, and use a free newsreader. -- Marilee J. Layman |
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Peter W.. Rowe, wrote:
By the way, if you've not yet discovered Firefox, and are frustrated at times with Internet Explorer, you may wish to give Firefox a try. I like it a lot, finding it faster and more stable than Internet Explorer. Just my two cents. Your mileage may vary... I have been using Firefox for several months now. It is a killer ap! However, it may not be for everyone. Is is open source and is still has a fair number of bugs to be ironed out. "Fair number" is an understatement. There are almost 20,000 bugs right now. Yes, that's TWENTY THOUSAND! (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist...roduct=Firefox) The same goes for Thunderbird, an open source Mozilla email client. Peter, just wait till, one day, you will find all of your bookmarks wiped out, you have collected over the last two years. Not a pretty picture. At least you can protect yourself against that one now, by installing the bookmark backup extension. But don't get me wrong. I love Firefox and have dumped IE. Even, the U.S. government's Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) is warning Web surfers to stop using Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) browser. http://www.internetnews.com/security...le.php/3374931 Later, Abrasha http://www.abrasha.com |
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I just took a look at GOOGLE, I think they have really improved the
USENET layout, I could actually find rec.crafts.jewelry the first time I tried. That hasn't always been the case. The articles seem to be ordered by date and I don't see any excuse for replying to older articles, although I'm sure people are doing it. It may happen when people do a subject search and get an older article, even then the date is right there to read. There is an old saying; "10% or the people never get the word" it looks to me like it is more like 50% on the internet. |
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Richard Friesen wrote:
User-Agent: tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.8-RC (i386)) Lines: 6 Message-ID: o.net Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 06:45:27 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.139.147.7 X-Complaints-To: X-Trace: newsread1.dllstx09.us.to.verio.net 1103611527 216.139.147.7 (Tue, 21 Dec 2004 06:45:27 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 06:45:27 GMT The articles seem to be ordered by date and I don't see any excuse for replying to older articles Google seems to thread macroscopically by Subject: so people might well reply to a 2000 post apparently threaded with a bunch from 2004. |
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Abrasha wrote:
Peter W.. Rowe, wrote: By the way, if you've not yet discovered Firefox, and are frustrated at times with Internet Explorer, you may wish to give Firefox a try. I like it a lot, finding it faster and more stable than Internet Explorer. Just my two cents. Your mileage may vary... I have been using Firefox for several months now. It is a killer ap! However, it may not be for everyone. Is is open source and is still has a fair number of bugs to be ironed out. "Fair number" is an understatement. There are almost 20,000 bugs right now. Yes, that's TWENTY THOUSAND! (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist...roduct=Firefox) The same goes for Thunderbird, an open source Mozilla email client. Peter, just wait till, one day, you will find all of your bookmarks wiped out, you have collected over the last two years. Not a pretty picture. At least you can protect yourself against that one now, by installing the bookmark backup extension. But don't get me wrong. I love Firefox and have dumped IE. Even, the U.S. government's Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) is warning Web surfers to stop using Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) browser. http://www.internetnews.com/security...le.php/3374931 Later, Abrasha http://www.abrasha.com Preferably sooner than later, set up a dual boot to linux , whatever version you fancy, Use firefox with that and you wouldnt have lost your bookmarks. Im using Slackware 10 courtesy of my guru son on computers. Ive conquerer and Firefox with bookmarks duplicated in both. Sort of belt and braces. Its anvil stable. Ted. |
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"Ted Frater" Peter, just wait till, one day, you will find all of your bookmarks wiped out, you have collected over the last two years. The old versions of windows had folders with email and bookmarks requiring little effort to backup. I spent an hour the other day looking for these folders and gave up. Is there no simple way to find them in XP? I switched to Firefox a month ago and never looked back. It's hardly awsome but has some features I like a lot and no downside yet. Thunderbird on the other hand, does not seem ready for prime time. The real turnoff was the way it deals with junk mail. Incredibly clever but unfortunately, it must download all the junk to sort it out. This helps not one bit on a dial up. Outlook allows one to delete it from the server and never see it. js -- PHOTO OF THE WEEK: http://schmidling.com/pow.htm Astronomy, Beer, Cheese, Gems, Sausage, http://schmidling.com |
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