Cindy
Fri Jan 02 22:57:42 CST 2004
In news: 045901c3d1b4$fd0900d0$a601280a@phx.gbl,
anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:
>>> I am new to this forum and liked it very much.
>>> I think it may be easier to show/highlight the questions
>>> which have been solved. This whould be done by the same
>>> person who posted the question and may optionally enter
>>> his/her satisfaction level (0-100)after he does not
>>> require any more answers to his question(s).
>> Microsoft has tons of newsgroups and they are read by zillions of
>> people with many different news readers - not just the web interface
>> that you've used. Most newsreaders (Outlook Express, Gravity, Agent)
>> are not set up for a feature like this.
>>
>> You might like reading the UniversalThread
> (www.universalthread.com, basic
>> membership is free) since it allows the original poster to assign
>> "stars" to the answers that were most helpful.
> Thanks Cindy for the information. But it makes it even
> more important to have a better format since zillions of
> minutes could be saved ...
Much of the time the original poster will reply back to the thread as to
whether the suggestions worked or not. Everything from these newsgroups is
archived in Google. I rarely post a newsgroup question (I have questions
about Windows and Office from time to time) because I can always find my
question asked and answered in the Google archives.
(
http://groups.google.com)
--
Cindy Winegarden MCSD, Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP
cindy.winegarden@mvps.org www.cindywinegarden.com