Don't even know where to start...

[Mike Macgirvin]

Discovered this forum whilst looking for info on Mirapoint. Saw the 
recent thread on Kcalc and wanted to add a bit of ranting.

Looks like the first thing I need to do is get a hates-software ID. So I 
sent off a request. After scanning the list to make sure that 'mike' 
wasn't taken already. While waiting for the confirmation email I got 
impatient and decided to use the newsgroup interface instead.

I clicked on it and up came 'Outlook Express provided by America 
Online'. Looks like this is the only app that's setup for the 'news:' 
protocol since I removed the old Netscape and switched to Thunderbird. 
Apparently Thunderbird doesn't register itself for the 'news:' protocol 
anymore.

I've never even run Outlook Express. It's been sitting here since 
somebody installed one of those free AOL CD's on my machine years ago. I 
composed my Kcalc message, then noticed that there wan't any field 
telling me who the Sender would be set to. Since I've never used this 
software, I added a note at the bottom saying who I really was just in 
case it ended up being some strange system default. I clicked 'Send'.

The system replied that the message couldn't be sent because no Sender 
had been specified. Right. I went into the Accounts dialog and 
configured a Sender. Tried again. No luck. OK, I'll have to close the 
window and restart it to pick up the new Sender ID. First I'll save the 
message since I did spend some time composing it. I clicked 'Save'. Then 
closed the window. 'Message has not been Sent or Saved - click 
blah-blah'. It wasn't saved, and there weren't any errors. OK, I clicked 
'Save' from *that* dialog. Closed the window. 'Message has not been 
...'. Great. Oh well, I've saved it twice. I closed it anyway. Then went 
to look in the Drafts folder. No message. Looked in all the empty 
mailboxes. Nope. It wasn't saved. It's gone.

Got to work and fired up the Linux box. It crashed twice by sending the 
screen into some obscure 'X' graphics mode which *halted the system*. 
Finally got it back again. Got the list confirmation email and 
(hopefully) successfully got added. Then I composed this message. Oops - 
Thunderbird has my work email. I'll have to add my home email since 
that's what I subscribed under. Did that. Saved the message first. Great 
- at least that part worked this time.  I'm not even going to try and 
re-create the Kcalc response. I've got enough here to rant about.