Nigel
Tue Aug 05 02:12:02 PDT 2008
On 05 Aug 2008 08:56:48 GMT, MBB <A@B_nd.com> wrote:
>Nigel Barker <nigel@nigelbarker.com> wrote in
>news:4gvf94hd67rpme7ubo362jnpu0psrnrsf9@4ax.com:
>
>> On 05 Aug 2008 00:51:17 GMT, MBB <A@B_nd.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Thanks, this did work for /me/. (both for .flv and for .m4v (whatever
>>>whacky format that might be - but I've got a codec for it so who cares).
>>>
>>>Monitoring this group hasn't been for nothing, I'd never have guessed
>>>this in a million years. (I tried forced opening in WMP and ticking the
>>>'unrecognized format, do you want to try to play it anyway/do not ask
>>>again' box, but that made no difference at all)
>>>
>>>Once I realised I had to add as token value and not as key, it worked
>>>perfectly. (I did have to close and restart MCE though.)
>>>
>>>PS: Is it policy in this group to top-post?
>>
>> No, it's not policy just ignorance of the conventions of Usenet that have
>> worked well for the last several decades.
>
>
>ok, thanks. I was curious, cause my newsreader cuts of everything beneath
>the signature dashes (as it is supposed to) so by top-posting the entire
>quote diappears.
The other problem is that many posters are not even aware that they are posting
to a newsgroup as they use the web interface provided by Microsoft & think that
they are using a web-based forum. They probably don't even know what a
newsgroup is or the etiquette.
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Cheers
Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur
MCE MVP