Posted by dorayme on 07/03/05 02:57

> From: "G" <giggybrown@yahoo.ca>
>
> "dorayme" <dorayme@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
>
>> Perhaps your OE is very different to mine, but I would bet money on it being
>> able to bottom post. In mine (OE for a Mac) there is an option for where to
>> put the insertion point in replying (called preferences, this is sure to be
>> in options in the PC version). You can select the text of what you want to
>> reply to and only it will appear in the post.
>>
>> Actually, I find it easy to simply go to reply to all and just cut the rest
>> and put the insertion point at the bottom. I leave it at top posting setting
>> because ordinarily, I like ...
>> and on and on and on and on ...
>
> When I try to reply in OE, the only choices I see are: 'New Post' - pretty
> sure this isn't what I want, 'Reply Group' - can't be right either since this
> is what I did to get the "top posting" comments, 'Reply to all' - this isn't
> right is it? Or 'Reply or Reply to sender' - which takes me into an e-mail
> message. The only time I get actual editable text is when I choose 'Reply
> Group' and before I post it asks me "Do you want to send this reply to the
> entire newsgroup?" What else can I do - this is the only way to post a reply!
> That's what I had to do to get this message to post. Although I can put this
> reply at the bottom of this text if that's what's meant by bottom posting...
>

OK, I will try to get to an OE 6 on a PC and see what I can see. On my Mac,
there is a specific item on the menu bar, a folder called OptusNet. Inside
are the groups subscribed to by me. Once I click on a group, all the old
messages appear in the right top frame and new messages come down. In the
bottom right frame are the content of any messages. To reply one either hits
a key combination or the "Post reply to newsgroup" (there is also "forward"
and "Reply to sender"). Your "Reply Group" is probably right, why should it
not be? Whether it top posts or not surely has nothing to do with it being
the right or wrong button.

That you are asked if you want to send to the entire newsgroup is a good
thing, you seem puzzled by it. It is basically saying: "OK, you have
composed all this stuff, do you really want for possibly everyone in the
world to read it?" - meaning, "Sure you want to do this, and not send it to
just some particular person?" It is an alert. A warning. A reminder. The Mac
does not have this particular wording, but something a bit milder. There is
a reason for this difference but it would be a bit insensitive to spell it
out and I have promised to be good.

The option to top post or not is elsewhere. In mine it is in a folder called
Preferences. In yours it is probably some option. Take a good look at the
options. If no one has helped by then, I will get to a PC and see.

dorayme

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