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Group: microsoft.public.onenote · Group Profile
Author: oistrakhanoistrakhan Date: Sep 15, 2008 04:40
Yes you did mention the other way of accessing these discussions - but I
thought you were suggesting it not telling me to do it!! I took your
suggestion seriously and went into Outlook Express (for the first time ever!)
to take a look. [I use Outlook 2007 as a mail client]. For the moment I have
decided to remain as one of the "dummies". I don't go into the groups often
enough to make it worth my while and I like the way I can quickly jump
between ON, Outlook, Word etc. discussion groups. I also just put my own
nickname into the search box to look quickly at threads I have participated
in. The me generation.
Anyway, thanks for your suggestion - might do it one day.
"Rainald Taesler" wrote:
> oistrakhan wrote:
>
>>>> Is there a way to order the search result posts by date? In
>>>> order to avoid asking ?'s that have already been answered,
>>>> I usually run a search of the group. However, when I get 20
>>>> pages returned with stuff from 2004. etc. included, I usually
>>>> wnd up just asking the question as opposed to doing an
>>>> exhaustive search of the results.
>>>> Also, is there a way to screen for posts that just deal with ON
> 2007?
>>>
>>> If you do the search on Google Groups, you can sort the results by
>>> date. To do this, check the right side of the search results.
>>> There is a link there to sort the results by date instead of
>>> relevance. The more recent the post, the more likely it is that it
>>> is a 2007 related answer.
>>
>> I tried this on Google Groups but although it is possible to do
>> what Kathy says it is far less readable on Google Groups and there
>> are so few results per page. So - I'll stick with what we've got,
>> although I totally agree with DaveZ. I wish the discussion could
>> (at least) be restricted to ON 2007. Is that selfish? Guess so. In
>> the course of all this I discovered you could search on your own
>> nickname which is a bit neat.
>
> Even after having sorted the previous postings you carried on, I
> absolutely do not understand what you are after :-(
>
> I'm pretty sure that I previously told you to give up using these
> NewsGroups with the really dumb Web-Interface you are using at present.
> This Web-Interface has just been put *on*top* of the newsgroups which
> are based on the NTTP-technology. It's really primitive.
>
> Just get a proper *NewsReader* (there are quite some sophisticated ones
> ) or just use what's built-in your OS - "Outlook Express" (if running
> XP) or "Windows Mail" (if running Vista) - that's what I do. For me it
> would really be impossible to do real *work* in here with what the
> web-interface provides ....
>
> I simply can not understand how and why one wants to *work* in these
> NewsGroups with such a crippled instrument like the web-interface which
> MS does put on top for the real dummies who are unable to use the proper
> instruments.
>
> It's easy enough not only to *sort*, but also to *filter* the messages
> if one uses a proper instrument.
>
> Rainald
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