Re: XP Home - IE - AOL - Security settings

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From: HOIB (WHFTHERB_at_(anti-spam)HOTMAIL.COM)
Date: 12/05/04 

Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 23:38:18 -0500

 Bill - apologize for getting a little hot under the collar...
I really do want to get this fixed and you have been patient.

Still nothing yet from that internal ng. Maybe something by tomorrow.

Hoib

"Bill" <Bill@no.invalid> wrote in message
news:QdmdnSWChIoQny_cRVn-uA@comcast.com...
> In news:%23ZW84$Y2EHA.3128@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl,
> HOIB <WHFTHERB@(anti-spam)HOTMAIL.COM> typed:
>
> > Well... Geepers! I don't know what I did to burn you up but let's
> > establish this. I did follow your suggestion to install another
> > browser.
> > I did post to the internal NG at AOL. We've gotten no answer back -
> > yet. Those are the two you made. Did I miss a post somewhere?
>
> First of all? I'm sorry if that last reply sounded nasty. It was meant
to
> be more "tongue-in-cheek", but after rereading it, I can see how you may
> have interpreted it that way. That's the problem with the written word.
> You just can't convey voice inflection. All that not withstanding? I
> sincerely apologize. It is not now, nor was it ever, my intention to be
> rude.
>
> > I haven't been hasty at all. I've tried lots of things in series but
> > not all at one time. I was meticulously careful in putting all
> > settings back the way they were. I also create a restore point
> > before each remedy is tried. What's so "hasty" about that?
>
> Nothing. But you never mentioned in any of your posts that you've been
> "undoing" the things you've tried along the way that didn't work. So how
> was I to know?
>
> > FUBAR? Not so. It boots fine, very responsive, all of the software
> > works flawlessly with the exception of this sole issue (a painful
> > one, I know) that isn't working.
>
> I was referring to the AOL software possibly being FUBAR, but again? I
was
> not aware that you'd been so diligent.
>
> > What I think may have ticked you off here,
>
> Again? I'm not "ticked off". Never have been. But you have to admit
that
> you've listed a lot of "steps" you've taken in an effort to correct this
> problem along the way, and never *once* did you mention that you've
> "backtracked" over them after finding out they didn't work.
>
> > is that I personally
> > didn't know there was this *internal* newsgoup within AOL. As I
> > tried to explain, I don't run AOL myself and in my newsgroup client
> > there was, just as you stated, an aol.newsgroup.help. I did not know
> > there was a difference; now I do. Was it a fatal error as you seem
> > to indicate. I think not and I'm not apologetic for it either.
>
> Wasn't asking you to apologize. You've done nothing "wrong" other than
omit
> what I've described above.
>
> > Thanks for your efforts nonetheless. I'll keep searching for an
> > answer.
>
> I truly hope you find it. And also hope that when you do? You'll post it
> here.
>
> Like I said in a previous message, I have more than a few friends who use
> AOL. And though none of them have experienced the type of problem your
> friend has run into? If they do, I'd sure like to know what to tell them.
>
> Regards,
> Bill
>
>

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