Technical question

A very good question and definately not a dim one :o) I think this is what they mean....... Followup-To means you can post the exact some message to other newsgroups at the same time you post to this one...ie. if you were asking a question that could apply to several newsgroups, instead of having to log into each one and type the same thing several time, you can click on the Followup-To and choose the newsgroups from the list to post to.

The Cc means "Carbon Copy". If you'd like to send a carbon copy of your post to someone's email address, then you'd either click on the Cc and choose someone from your Address Book or just type the email address into the field

Wendy in Nsw

Elly, are you definitely using outlook express, I don't myself, but I did until recently, so what's confusing me is how you are jumping to a website from reading the message in outlook express. There isn't such a thing as a RCTQ site, it's a newsgroup, there is no central date storage, if by website, you mean google groups, that's just one way of accessing the group. When you're reading the group in outlook express, you're not reading an email, you're reading a newsgroup message, looks very similar, but only because that's how it's presented to you, underneath they are very different as are what you can do with them, you can't delete a newsgroup posting, you just make it invisible, you can't move newsgroup postings to other folders.

When you single click on a message, the normal set up is that it shows in the preview pane, the buttons across the very top of your display then allow you to do the different things with it, whereas if you double click on a message, it pops up in a new window and there is a reduced set of buttons across the top of that window.

The default for outlook express is to group the messages by conversation, if your's aren't groups, so it just looks like a list of messages sharing a few different titles, you can change this setting in one of the drop down menus, I think it's View, then Current View, it's in a sub menu rather than the first level that opens up, you might need to use the help facility to find it, then you should get a branching kind of structure for the individual headers, so it's much easier to follow a thread, though if there is many many layers it can get complex, this group doesn't usually get too deeply nested. On the other hand google groups can make it difficult to do this, it used to show the thread structure by default at the side, I'm not sure it even makes that available now.

Long term you'll find it's best to stick to one way of reading messages and learn to use that way as best you can, unfortunately some news servers are not that reliable, so if the one you are using is frequently missing messages, you might find it easier to just stick with google groups.

I'm still curious as to what link you are clicking and what it's jumping you too.

Anne

I did reply to this but it's not showing up in the group In reply to Jeanne's post, you can reply in OE news. I only use OE for my newsgroups. In the old days I use to use Netscape news. Here's my reply again..........see if it comes up this time.......this is the thing John was talking about a wee while ago, postings not making it to the group, disappearing into the ethernet!

A very good question and definately not a dim one :o) I think this is what they mean....... Followup-To means you can post the exact some message to other newsgroups at the same time you post to this one...ie. if you were asking a question that could apply to several newsgroups, instead of having to log into each one and type the same thing several time, you can click on the Followup-To and choose the newsgroups from the list to post to.

The Cc means "Carbon Copy". If you'd like to send a carbon copy of your post to someone's email address, then you'd either click on the Cc and choose someone from your Address Book or just type the email address into the field

Wendy in Nsw [trying again]

This is true, you can reply, just make sure you hit the "Reply Group" not the "Reply" icon...........

Wendy in Nsw [packing the van, or should be]

Yukon is gassed and ready to go. Hitch is on for the trailer.

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