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Re: Disappearing name in MS Outlook Express
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 27 Jan 1999 07:32:44 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <36AE5EE1.DE84F77D@voyager.net>...
> > 5850 Microsoft Outlook Express
> > ----
> > 7657 TOTAL
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> Solution seems easy to me. Don't use the product. I think this is an
> example of a product that's not easy to use for this application.
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> Please note: I use Netscape Communicator. I got lucky, usually after
> two-three head bashes I can get it to work with lugnet. But it's a
> product that's not really intended to be a newsreader.. NS beat on it
> till it works as one. But NS is hungrier than MS.
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> MS has taken a hammer and tried to turn it into a screwdriver. Sometimes
> that works. Sometimes it doesn't.
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> Just my opinion, and not that of CTP, please note.
> ++Lar
I'm not intending to say that OE is a good news reader (I prefer using NS,
too, at least at my home) but I'm using it at job for luget w/o any
difficulty. The great number seen here in the statistics may have been
caused by its very widespread use, since every w95/98 user has virtually a
copy of it.
Maybe Todd would also post another statistical data showing the news reader
sw shares in total successful postings...:-)
Selçuk
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| Selçuk wrote in message ... (...) I agree. I've also tried using a number of other news readers and haven't had good luck with anything else. Most leave out features that I need, such as support for multiple servers, and allowing connections to (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Solution seems easy to me. Don't use the product. I think this is an example of a product that's not easy to use for this application. Please note: I use Netscape Communicator. I got lucky, usually after two-three head bashes I can get it to (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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