From: nemonews@hotmail.co.uk   
      
   On 05-Jun-18 10:01 AM, BobC wrote:   
   > I've been looking at Google Groups and it seems that there the various   
   > posts are threaded so that it isn't necessary to quote earlier messages   
   > if you only expect the reply to be seen via Google Groups.   
      
   I must admit that Goggle Gropes doesn't make it terribly clear what a   
   poster is about to do.   
      
   Below the top message in a list is a box faintly captioned "Click here   
   to Reply".  There is also, and for all other messages, a large-ish-arrow   
   over on the right marked "Reply".  Clicking on that opens a "follow-up"   
   screen with the message being responded to (marked with > at the start   
   of each line) at the top and the cursor positioned below.  There is no   
   obvious indication of WHERE the message is going - nothing the   
   equivalent of the To: or Newsgroup: line in the header section of an   
   e-mailer.   
   >   
   > The other issue is I can see no way to use Google Groups to send a   
   > private email reply as the email address of the sender is disguised by   
   > Google.   
      
   Next to the Reply arrow is a small indicator that there is a drop-down   
   menu behind it and the first item on that menu is "Reply privately to   
   author."  Clicking on that brings up a screen that is slightly similar   
   to the "Reply" one, but it looks more like the screen of an e-mail   
   program and offers HTML text formatting  but in this case the cursor is   
   positioned ABOVE the quoted text.  It's possible to to privately reply   
   this way even when the sender's e-mail address is partly disguised.   
      
   As far as I know, I have never set up an option to use quoted text - I   
   don't even know if that's possible, but the fact that I am seeing it   
   every time does make me wonder why so many of our "casual visitors" do   
   not include it.  As for the apparent confusion about newsgroup/private   
   e-mail, the screens do appear rather different and would alert ME, but   
   to someone not familiar with newsgroups or Goggle Gropes, it's probably   
   just accepted as a quirk of that website.   
      
      
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