top or bottom

As someone who's used to doing it on the bottom so far on here, I'll try doing it on the top.

Being computer lingo challenged and a highly dorky geek, what was all that you wrote Jeanne? You lost me when you said OE.

As a newbie and a HDG I do find some of the posts hard to follow and don't manage to get to read half of them before my brain pegs out.

I am amazed though how you all seem to manage to keep up with the majority of posts. I could spend an entire day just trying to keep track and still get lost. I forget whose who when a user name is shown on the top and a proper name at the bottom... It would be easier if it were the other way round.

HOWEVER! All said, hells bells and buckets of blood, I do enjoy being in this group. You can talk about anything! Elly

I haven't figured out how to add them yet Jeanne let alone remove them

I'd prefer Jeanne at the top instead of nzlstar

You what?

You can wrap text on here?

Ditto and Me too Jeanne :))))

Elly PS You aren't by any chance from the North East of England?

Hi Boca Jan, I too have Outlook Express and I'm interested in how you view your posts. I've been clicking on the tops I want to read and then get straight to the web page. If I scroll down to the actual posts I get confused as to what's been said so I end up having to go to the RCTQ group pages anyway. I didn't realize you could reply straight from the email.

How do you flag a topic? Hope I'm making sense (though that would be a miracle)

Elly ps h> An issue with me is there are a few folks that use the "New Post" button

on Google you can "star" the topic that way you can find it quicker. amy

Thank you. Gen

Howdy!

I like you up here at the top, Elly. ;-D

How to keep up w/ the posts: after a while you learn to skip over the ones you're pretty sure won't hold your attention (I don't do much appliqué, no machine quilting, don't care anything about the directory [dozens of posts about that, saves me hours to just mouse over those]). If you do miss something you'll probably pick it up later in someone else's post(s) and you can go back into the archives to see "what the heck are they talking about?!"

And it's really a time saver to open a note, see the latest reply at the top, and decide in that instant to stay & read or fly on to the next subject. ;-D

R/Sandy-- living dangerously: skipping posts & admitting it ;-P

rofl, Elly. nope i live in New Zealand, hence my nickname nzlstar* the star is cuz at the time i came online i was working with a freelance astronomer. we'd go to schools and school camps with telescopes and binoculars and we did a 'view the nightsky' evening. it was fun and so using star as part of my nickname seemed logical at the time, still does with all the stars in quilting. i like the nzl part so folks will know where i am now. (born in california but as of now have spent half my life in calif and half in nz).

you said you read the ng (newsgroup) > Just being a devil ; )

it suits you, lol. :)

"nzlstar*" wrote:

in Outlook Express (OE) they are included in the reply automatically, so i remove them.

i understand but there is more than one Jeanne, only one nzlstar* :)

in OE you can include automatically, in any mail or ng post/reply, whatever info you want at the bottom of your post as your 'signature'. things like your name, you webshots link, other links, special quotes, whatever you fancy really.

yup, you can set it to wrap at whatever length you fancy or none at all if that suits but that is soooooooo annoying.

hmmmm, i wonder why you ask that? cheers, jeanne

Thank you Sandy I feel so much better :D, I could have cut a quilt out in the time it's taken me to 'trim' this post :)))lol. Unlike fabric though if you trim too much (as I did the first attempt, you can cancel and start again);)

Elly

Sandy Ellis> Howdy!

it's much more about what you do, than what the group does, there isn't a central location that stores messages in a consistent format, whatever it looks like from your end, you're sending a message that has extra information with it, some of it essential for getting it to the right place and others telling the reader how it should look, then it's a combination of how your reader works and how you choose to have it set up that makes it appear a particular way.

Cheers Anne