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Dominique MONTIN wrote:

> What is going wrong with my question and reply ?

You posted a message to these groups consisting of over 60 lines of
text. Of those only two of the lines added anything and four lines were
a salution. The other nearly 60 lines of text (over 90% of your
posting) were duplicates of text already stored on the server and
available for download by any newsreader client.

A lot of the more seasoned newsgroup users consider this to be poor
posting style and it's often frowned upon. More importantly it wastes
bandwidth and server storage space and for that reason Borland (who
operate this newsserver) ask that posters keep quoting (that is
reposting prior material) to a minimum.

Imagine a conversation where the person you were talking to repeated
everything you said back to you when they replied. It'd get old pretty
quickly :)

> If I have done something not in the netiquette excuse me and
> inform me.

Oh you're excused - my reply was only a friendly 'heads up' so please
don't take it as anything other than that. As a member of TeamB I am
tasked with moderating this server and that means trying to ensure that
the server is run the way Borland want it to be.

It's also true that a lot of newsreaders default to just inserting the
prior message into the reply and it's often too much effort to stop
them or else the user can forget.

This message is an example of the preferred quoting style. You repeat
those parts of the message that relate to your comments followed by the
comment itself.

For more information the link below my signature will give you an idea
of what Borland want/expect from users of this server.

So once again;don't take it harshly. These things happen when new users
join a server. As long as you take the request on board no will give it
a second thought :)

-- 
Andrue Cope [TeamB]
[Bicester, Uk]
http://info.borland.com/newsgroups/guide.html