"Ed Bornstein" <edbornstein@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:mlEWa.33916$Ne.20424@fed1read03...
> Unaware of the etiquette,

Too bad Windows doesn't come with a usenet tutorial, but you'll find a few
really good ones by googling (that means go to http://www.google.com) for
"netiquette"

I implemented everything that MTO "suggested". I
> very much appreciated the information, (and implemented it immediately)
> Just not in the manner it was delivered.

If you're going to hang out on usenet get a thicker skin. I am quite polite
and friendly even when I am being "short" compared to more than a few.

> I just felt it is extremely rude and inappropriate to jump down someone's
> throat for not having your software package set up the way the group wants
> it.

Sorry you feel that I was jumping down your throat. Visit a few more
newsgroups (NG) and you will see that I was quite tame <---that thing is
a smiley face, which means grin. I actually am one of the rare oldtimers
that doesn't mind newbies, likely because I fondly remember being one.

Usenet has been around longer than dirt and is very set in its ways. It is
much like the old wild, wild west and is as close as you will likely come to
the "real internet" before commerce got hold of a good thing.

> BTW I have no idea what 'NG... this _IS_' means. do not worry your
heads
> I will unsubscribe from the group directly

There are hundreds and hundreds of newsgroups, each covering a different
topic or portion thereof. Nearly all of them get rather upset when posts
appear that are off topic.

Of all the newsgroups that you could unsubscribe from because you were mad -
and that would be nearly all of them at one time or another - unsubscribing
from this one would be foolish. Here there is a lot to learn.