Now Way OT for rmr Re: To Frank Rosenbaum



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Frank Rosenbaum
Please support the following train meets if you can
Gratiot Valley ( www.gvrr.org ) in Macomb Michigan in March and November
and the Kalamazoo Model Railroad Historical Society ( www.kmrhs.org ) at the
Kalamazoo Fairgrounds in Kalamazoo MI in October.
Also check out the Westchester Model Railroad Club's train meet in Greenwich
CT in November and March.

Visit this web site to see my bridge and the KMRHS http://tinyurl.com/7uqdr
Frank Rosenbaum

"Wolf K" <El_Lobo_Viejo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Frank A. Rosenbaum wrote:
No, of course you don't *have* to read it, wade through it maybe, but not
read. But, if you expect me to bottom post my responses, then yes, you
do. I am not 'super literate' about the ways and intricacies of the
computer and use most programs stock.

Frank, that's not a good idea, especially if they are Microsoft programs,
or programs written for Windows. MS is not particularly concerned with
security, for example, so all its programs have one or more insecure
default settings. That's why they keep sending you updates and security
patches. (I hope you've set your machine to do "Automatic Updates", BTW.)

Yes, I do have the machine set for auto update. In fact I got an update last
night and this morning my external hard drive was scrambled. It was working
just fine last night when I went to bed.

You can and IMO should learn enough about each program to reset the
defaults to their most secure settings (which in some cases means
disabling some settings entirely.) Even if you save yourself one bad
incident by doing so, it will have been worthwhile.

I have firewalls and virus scanners to help prevent just that from
happening.

When I press the 'reply group' icon, my cursor appears above my sig with
all the "stuff" below.

This a default setting so that you can decide whether or not to post your
comments within the previous post, or at the bottom. Sometimes you want to
comment on several parts of a previous post. The logical way to do that is
to insert your comments in the appropriate places. That's why the cursor
starts out at the top: the program designers assumed you will move the
cursor to where it makes the most sense to "start typing."

I just looked at the Tools/Options menu and could not find anyway to change
where my sig goes. If you know of it, please tell me and I will change it.

Then I type my response. That said, however, you can press page down and
get to the stuff you really want to read. Or, if you are really peeved by
it, place me in your filter and you won't have to be troubled by my
presence any more. Unless of course you read someone's response to
something I wrote.

I am not trying to be nasty, but I really don't see what the problem is.

The problem is that a newsgroup post is part of a conversation. It's
easier for other participants to follow the conversation if you bottom
post, and often even better if you place your comments into the previous
post, as I have done with yours. It will be clear what you are responding
to. It makes it easier for other readers to understand your point(s). And
I think you do want to be understood, right?

I under stand, and I have even answered between the lines, but for bottom
posting you then have to 'wade through' all the stuff that you might already
know and just to see the new stuff.

Some people new to newsgroups don't include or quote any of the previous
post. Now that's dumb. How can you expect a reader to know what you're on
about if you don't quote?

BTW, I very rarely include the complete previous post - just the parts
that I'm responding to. Saves clutter, makes it a little easier for the
reader to understand me.

Hope This Helps (HTH).

Maybe. I don't want to be rude to you Wolf, but I really don't see what the
big deal is weather I post on top or not. Isn't it the content of the post
that is important?


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