Hi Rafael:
My question has to do with how to
draw a certain person, or MVP, to my post. I guess all you MVPs pick
up all the posts. Or do you just pick up the posts that you've dealt
with before?
I don't think there are any rules for this
If I wanted to be sure, I
would add the MVPs email address to the item. I don't know if you can do
that from the web interface, most of us never use that. I would suggest
adding her name to the front of the Subject line.
The way we approach the group varies dramatically depending on who you talk
to. Some of us subscribe only to one or two groups, and they tend to read
(or at least scan...) every post. I am across about a dozen groups, so I
tend to scan just the subject lines, looking for questions with which I have
some expertise. For example, I avoid mail merge (It's an invention of the
devil...) and I leave ALL the end-notes/footnotes questions to Daiya, who
actually knows what she's talking about on the subject.
Bob Matthews is across every group there IS
He has a rule set up that
collects anything that contains "Mathtype" or "Equation Editor" from
anywhere. "Hi Bob!!" (See? I know he'll see this one...)
I just went to the top of this post to the Send button. I also want
to rate your answer. So that "rate this post" does go to you, right?
I have no idea. I never see it (and I don't think any other MVPs do
either...) The "rating" you may assign is captive in the web interface you
are using: The Microsoft ratings can be seen only by the Microsoft web
service users, the Google ratings only by the Google users, etc. There are
a large number of different "Usenet Scraper" web services out there, each
wanting to wrap our hard work in their advertisements.
Most of the MVPs (ALL the MVPs, I believe) and most of the power users use a
newsreader to access the server directly. We never see ANY ratings, from
anywhere.
Does "Reply to Author" mean
a personal reply? Maybe that tab's what this discussion.
I don't know: You would have to look at the Help for the particular web
interface that you are using. Probably, yes.
<
[email protected]>. But I'm not familiar with the isp .name. Yuk.
Yuk.
It's a Domain Name, not an ISP name. I use a wide variety of ISPs, but I do
not allow any of them to host my email. I use a dedicated email server that
I can set up the way *I* like it.
If you know how to read a WHOIS record and how to trace back a TRACERT (Unix
Internet Tools) you might be able to work out which email supplier was
hosting my email, and through which ISP I sent a particular item.
I'll save you some trouble
The Email Provider is
www.fastmail.fm. I
can't tell you which ISP this post will go out through, because I am writing
this on the train and I will upload it from whichever ISP I find at my
destination (Ask Elliott which ISP he's using, because I will probably
upload from his house in England. And I think he runs his own ISP!
The ISP I use makes little difference for a News item (which is what this
is) because those of us using newsreaders normally upload directly to
news.microsoft.com, the hosting (originating) server for these groups.
I've got another post coming right up on the NG, but on an entirely
different subject.
Great! I wouldn't want us to be sitting here with nothing to answer
Cheers
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