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Re: eudora thread bug
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lugnet.admin.general
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Mon, 3 Jan 2000 05:03:32 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Rachel Kingston writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Jeff Thompson writes:
> > In lugnet.admin.general, Rachel Kingston writes:
> > > .admin.genIn lugneteral, Kevin Salm writes:
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> > If you need more help in subscribing or reading messages via the netscape
> > communicator news reader, ask! But the above steps should hopefully
> > at least get you to the point where you know how to launch your
> > newsreader software and have successfully configured your software
> > to find the LUGNET news server. That's more than half the battle,
> > and figuring out how to subscribe and read the messages is a piece
> > of cake. But if you need more help, don't be shy about asking.
> >
> > --
> >
> > jthompson@esker.com "Float on a river, forever and ever, Emily"
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> Thank you Jeff, for your time in posting this, I was reading my emails, came
> across your post, and decided to finish reading and go back to it, then follow
> the instructions.
> Then I read Todds post (thanks Todd) clicked on the link and ta da!!! It
> downloaded lugnet.general as a newsgroup (at least that is what I think it has
> done)
Yes. Cool!
I knew that Todd had placed hyperlinks somewhere around LUGNET that,
when clicked on, would launch your browser's default newsreader to
read that newsgroup, but I didn't remember where those links were.
Thus the long blathering explanation. Muy bueno, Todd.
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> I now can click on the various groups I have suscribed to listed under
> my inbox, and it gives me all posts pertaining to that group. i can post from
> there as well. So I guess now I know what a newsreader is?
Yup! Outlook Express has a newsreader.
> I was using outlook express (internet explorer) but I have communicator as
> well, your instrructions concentrated on communicator, is there a reason for
> that I don't know about?
1. Because you mentioned having Communicator, but didn't mention Outlook
Express. So if I was going to write up long blathering instructions,
I wanted to make sure I'd cover a newsreader I was *certain* you had
on your system. (I did mention that you probably had Outlook Express
as well :^)
2. Because I only recently started using Microsoft's news reader,
while I can rattle off most of the Netscape set-up steps by memory.
> I have heard some people swear that communicator is better than explorer, is
> this also your personal preference? (and why?)
I'm not really fond of either one of them. I prefer my old NR2 OS/2
news reader, and never made the switch to find a good Windows one.
I know I'd like Agent or another fancy Windows newsreader, but,
I switch between the Mac and the PC platform, so sticking with
Netscape or Microsoft for cross-platform software makes sense
for me. But I never really fell in love with either newsreader.
OE seems quite adequate as a newsreader. So does Netscape's.
I don't have a preference, really. I read and post to LUGNET via
the web interface. Since I read all of LUGNET (usually), I like to
download it in 100 or 200-message chunks and scroll - this is a lot
faster than having to click on each message to read it. If my
regular news server was more reliable, I would get more use out
of newsreader software, but as it is, the only time I fire one up
is on the rare occasion I want to cancel a message I posted.
> By the way, this is as good a time as any to ask, I guess, I have always
> wondered where your quote "Float on a river, forever and ever, Emily" comes
> from?
An old 1967 Syd Barrett / Pink Floyd Song called "See
Emily Play" - their biggest (and last) radio hit until, 6
years later, they recorded Dark Side of the Moon (with its
attendant single, "Money." It's a pretty bit of dreamy psychedelic
whimsy. You can hear an MP3 snippet of it at CD-NOW at URL
http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver/SID=1253103669/pagename=/RP/CDN/FIND/album
.html/ArtistID=PINK+FLOYD/itemid=369186 (good luck getting that long link
to work).
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> Many thanks for your help, Jeff, I do feel like the classroom dunce around
> here sometimes! I have only had a computer for about 6 months! But boy! what a
> computer!!!!!!
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> Rachel (who is madly in love with Lego, Lugnet, and her pentium 111, all new
> obsessions!!!!)
You're a fan of LEGO and you already know enough about your computer
to be able to read and post to LUGNET, which marks you as a
vastly wise and well-informed person in my book. =) There's nothing
shameful about not knowing some random compugeekoid bit of knowledge,
anyway - the shameful thing would be to deprive yourself of the
opportunity to learn by never asking any questions.
--
jthompson@esker.com "Float on a river, forever and ever, Emily
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