Posted by Blinky the Shark on 07/02/05 12:24

Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
> In article <RWqxe.111445$tt5.29796@edtnps90>, "G"
> <giggybrown@yahoo.ca> wrote:

>> 'Reply Group' - can't be right either since this is what I did to get
>> the "top posting" comments

> That's gotta be the one.

>> The only time I get actual editable text is when I choose 'Reply
>> Group'

> Edit your text and do your replies there.

>> and before I post it asks me "Do you want to send this reply to the
>> entire newsgroup?"

> The program is just trying to warn you that you'll be replying to
> thousands of people all over the world if it's anything like the one
> I'm using.

>> Although I can put this reply at the bottom of this text if that's
>> what's meant by bottom posting...

OP: You're now posting. On the bottom. Hey! Bottom posting!

> If you post to "everything" that's been said, you leave all that's
> been said above what you comment on. Otherwise you do what I just did.
> Excise the parts you don't want to comment on and reply to specific
> portions that you do have comments on below what you're commenting on.
> My apologies if OE won't do this.

Of course it will do that, as long as he has direction keys, scroll bars
and a mouse, and a delete key. My money's on "he has those things." :)

> But start with 'Reply Group' and ignore the 'entire newsgroup'
> question, scary though it may sound.

And yet even with the warning, I see people nearly every day posting
what they think is an email to Aunt Sally to a newsgroup. :)


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