On 4 Jul 2001 23:54:40 GMT, Christopher Jahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>And it came to pass that Cexy© wrote:
>
>>
>> "Cevpx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>>> Yep, that's it in a nutshell. The main deal is some people
>>> don't like to be forced to do certain things. Back to the
>>> topic of HTML as an alternative posting format; I think
>>> many people feel it was forced on the scene by Microsoft
>>> with no regard for established traditions. So, even though
>>> it might be an advancement, the negative first impression
>>> has doomed it from the start. To make matters worse,
>>> Outlook Express has a serious bug with text quoting which
>>> makes people look like kooks when they reply to Usenet
>>> posts. It also makes it very difficult to read some of the
>>> replies coming from people using Outlook Express. Most of
>>> them aren't even aware of this because the formatting bug
>>> does its dirty work after the user hits send so unless they
>>> download and read their own posts from the server they
>>> won't see the mess Outlook Express made of their post.
>>> This is not something new, it has been a known bug for
>>> several years and if that's not bad enough the OE software
>>> folks at Microsoft ignore complaints about this. I read
>>> somewhere that they have no intention of EVER fixing their
>>> program. Ain't that something? Probably because Microsoft
>>> knows they don't have to fix it.
>>
>> Well I would think if enough users complained Microsoft
>> *would* fix the OE Bug. So that leads me to believe based
>> on what I have read elsewhere that more folks are either
>> using OE or they don't care. Has a study ever been
>> conducted to nail down just how many use OE as their
>> newsreader of Choice verses Plaintext only newsreaders. Or
>> is that a st00pid question?
>>
>
>In one of MicroSoft's own discussion groups, this problem was
>brought up more than any other three to one. MS's response,
>from the head of Outlook developement, was "We aren't working
>on this, it doesn't bother us."
>
>Most Outlook Express users are surprised to find that they can
>use other mail/news clients. As OE came with their system, they
>thought that was what they had to use - just the way MicroSoft
>intended.
Ok yes when I had my PC upgraded to Win 95 OE came with the program, I had
no idea what a newsgroup was and at that time didn't give a rats ass.
However I am a curious person and clicked on the newsgroups thingy and wow
a whole new world opened that I never knew existed. So I was happy
lurking in MSN's (my ISP of Choice at that time) memberservices newsgroup,
and most were using OE and God Forbid TOP POSTING and using different
style Fonts and colors and cool sigs with little pictures and links to
their Websites and I learned how to use all the wonderful tools MICROSOFT
included in the Software I loaded on my computer.
Now back to the subject............I have witnessed some hells on wheels
flame wars on the Plain Text/OE/RTF debate. Again I was curious so
downloaded the Free Agent Program to see what all the hoopla was about. I
was very unhappy it did not come with a Spell Checker as any here can
verify..........Spelling and Grammar are not my best skills<G>. So I
forked out the $29.00 or whatever the cost was and now have the full
version. And right off the bat I was again disappointed that I could only
have ONE news server loaded. Oh Larry said It was real easy to set up
separate folders for the different servers................I currently have
10 different Servers loaded in OE, some are private. Anyway that was too
confusing and why bother when OE is so much simpler to use. I have a list
on the left side of my screen with all the servers and groups.......I just
click back and forth the headers appear instantly and I read and post to
my little hearts content. However, It took Agent 4 min to download 100
posts in this group, OE took less than 30 seconds. So if time is of
essence and costs money to download posts to me OE is the way to go!
I agree the formatting in Agent is better than OE but what the hell most
of my posting is in groups that are not so picky about formatting but are
more interested in what I have to say.
--
Donna
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