Re: Ancient Irish Pipes?

From: Martyn Harrison (nospam_at_spammers.of.the.world.unite)
Date: 12/14/04 

Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 11:16:27 GMT

Apparently on date 13 Dec 2004 15:28:58 -0800, "NeilJackman@gmail.com"
<NeilJackman@gmail.com> said:

>Tedd;
>Sorry there, Im a total newby to this group malarky, not sure how to
>snip (or not), Ive just been going to the reply option at the bottom.

Hi Neil, a newsgroup is a sort of bulletin board where people can post
messages, Google merely has a web-based interface into Usenet that isn't
helping you post "correctly". Usenet is global and various organisations try to
look like usenet (often, like Google, they import messages from usenet as a
whole.)

It would be a lot easier to use a dedicated newsreader, e.g. Free Agent from
www.forteinc.com and to post through your ISP's news server (I'm guessing
news.gmail.com would be it but check on their home page.)

Netiquette, etc, looks like this:
http://www.mindspring.com/~frites/repl.htm

The essential thing is to quote something to give context for what you are
replying to. As a silly example, were you to say "I agree", since this message
will arrive out of order on non-threaded news servers many people seeing the
reply will see it after some random statement by another poster, and might
imagine you agree with that. (It may look ok to you on Google, but that's not
how it looks for everyone else, for a variety of reasons.)

An example of a quote is at the start of this message (and on most of the
messages in the group), this is added automatically on my newsreader but in
Google you might have to copy, paste, insert ">" and so on to get it to look
right, which would be time consuming to say the least.

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/sa/SAIRC/1997/50.html

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