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From: R. C. White on 29 Jun 2010 21:52 Hi, Carlos. Sure. See the Reply I just posted to Jeff Gaines in this same thread. If you have any questions, post them and Iâll try to guide you through the process. RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX rc(a)grandecom.net Microsoft Windows MVP Windows Live Mail 2010 (15.3.2804.0607) in Win7 Ultimate x64) "Carlos" wrote in message news:0CD26FA8-3900-46F8-A143-C0E0E1D8257E(a)microsoft.com... R.C., Please walk me through the process of subscribing to this NG via Usenet. I regret to confess that I am quite ignorant in non-web forums. :( Carlos "R. C. White" wrote: > Hi, Gang. > > The newest message from nntp(a)microsoft.com, posted this morning, reminds us that this newsgroup will be closed from the Microsoft news server on July 1, 2010, just two days from now. As a replacement, Microsoft suggests that we go to the Windows Answers forums at: > http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/group/WindowsAnswers > > Trouble is, that address is the TOP-level menu of the Answers forums, offering 5 forums each for WinXP, Vista and Win7, NONE of which are dedicated to 64-bit computing. Any and all of them will likely have 64-bit discussions scattered throughout their thousands of conversations. It is, as Iâve said before, like pointing us to 15 haystacks and inviting us to search through all of them, hoping to find a few 64-bit needles somewhere. :>( > > Fortunately, my ISP still carries Usenet (via the Giganews server, I think), with over 100,000 NGs, including the 2,000+ microsoft.public.* NGs. AND including THIS newsgroup. So, just this morning, Iâve subscribed to microsoft.public.windows.64bit.general on that news server and downloaded All Messages (69,637 as of now, dated back to May 8, 2005. Thatâs not the actual beginning of the NG, apparently, because many of the oldest posts have subjects starting with âRe:â, indicating that they are replies to even earlier messages. After verifying that the latest message there is the same one that I had read here, I used Catch Up on my ISPâs server to mark them all Read. > > So, after MSFT pulls the plug here this week, Iâll be able to continue to participate in whatever is left of this NG on Usenet via my ISPâs news server. > > At least, thatâs my plan. Weâll see how well it works out â for me. I hope that each of you can find a suitable news server and we can continue this Community, albeit in a probably diminished capacity. > > Catch you on the flip side, Good Buddies! ;<) > > RC
From: Jeff Gaines on 30 Jun 2010 04:00 On 30/06/2010 in message <eH2ZSc$FLHA.5500(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl> R. C. White wrote: >Sure. I've been using WLMail and its predecessors for about 15 years, >posting in plain text all the while. It does offer a toggle to switch >back and forth between HTML (often called RTF) and plain text. Someone has been playing with your toggle then, as you are currently posting in HTML :-) -- Jeff Gaines Dorset UK Indecision is the key to flexibility
From: R. C. White on 30 Jun 2010 08:50 Hi, Jeff. Thanks for pointing that out! This subject confuses me. Just now, I've tried to change several font settings in WLM, but none of them seem to be effective. I'm STILL seeing both your message and my composition in a tiny font - maybe Arial 8 pt. But the Tools | Options | Compose tab said 12 pt Arial. So I changed the setting. But there was no change! I tried 20 pt Bookman - and there still was no change! I changed the font in Tools | Options | Read - and your text did not change. After a few more ineffective tests, I gave up and went back to the default settings that I've used for years: Read and Compose with 12 pt Courier and Arial. I still see both your text and mine in a too-small sans-serif font. About HTML: Here in Wave 4, the Compose window has a button on the Message ribbon labeled "Rich text (HTML)". The button is a toggle, but it doesn't say if it toggles TO or FROM HTML. When I hover over the button, the pop-up box says, "Format message as HTML or plain text". Again, it doesn't tell me either the current setting or what happens if I click it. All I know is that it toggles from the current setting to the other. I've added this button to the QAT and now one click toggles the setting - but it still doesn't tell me what I'm ending up with. One clue is that when I click it, the font changes. And the pop-up label on the icon changes. I've clicked it once and now I see our texts in a larger font (but there's no clue as to the name of the font or its size unless I go back to Tools | Options, and I can't be sure that that screen means anything), and the pop-up says “Plain text”. Now I click it again, a pop-up window warns me that I will lose my formatting, and I click OK. Now I'm back to the tiny font. I'm sure there are other changes, but I don't see what they are except that line spacing is different. If I were using some fancy formatting, I would see some obvious changes, I suppose. But since I almost always work in plain text, my composition looks just about the same either way. Users like me need a button on the Ribbon that tells us the current font and size settings. So, I guess I've been toggling FROM Plain Text to HTML ever since Wave 4 arrived. :>( This one is in PLAIN TEXT - I hope! RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX rc(a)grandecom.net Microsoft Windows MVP Windows Live Mail 2010 (15.3.2804.0607) in Win7 Ultimate x64) "Jeff Gaines" wrote in message news:xn0gvzv9i45g23z000(a)news.individual.net... On 30/06/2010 in message <eH2ZSc$FLHA.5500(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl> R. C. White wrote: >Sure. I've been using WLMail and its predecessors for about 15 years, >posting in plain text all the while. It does offer a toggle to switch back >and forth between HTML (often called RTF) and plain text. Someone has been playing with your toggle then, as you are currently posting in HTML :-) -- Jeff Gaines Dorset UK Indecision is the key to flexibility
From: Jeff Gaines on 30 Jun 2010 12:07 On 30/06/2010 in message <#yefQRGGLHA.1716(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl> R. C. White wrote: >This one is in PLAIN TEXT - I hope! It is indeed :-) -- Jeff Gaines Dorset UK I can please only one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow, isn't looking good either.
From: R. C. White on 30 Jun 2010 17:42 Hi, Jeff. Thanks for the confirmation. Maybe I can keep it straight from here on. ;<) RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX rc(a)grandecom.net Microsoft Windows MVP Windows Live Mail 2010 (15.3.2804.0607) in Win7 Ultimate x64) "Jeff Gaines" wrote in message news:xn0gw08344musol003(a)news.individual.net... On 30/06/2010 in message <#yefQRGGLHA.1716(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl> R. C. White wrote: >This one is in PLAIN TEXT - I hope! It is indeed :-) -- Jeff Gaines Dorset UK I can please only one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow, isn't looking good either.
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