Re: Can't send smtp email
From: Kath Adams (kathadams_at_(nospam)mvps.org)
Date: 09/23/04
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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 22:15:11 +0100
PA Bear wrote:
> Please excuse the fun we may have been having at what may seem to be
> your expense, Joe. Rest assured that we've only been laughing *with*
> you in the last day or so.
>
>> I have used a competitors tech.
>> support (IBM) for years
>
> *We* are not *Microsoft* and the MS newsgroups are not MS Tech Support
> (which may be reached via http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx).
> We everyone of us are volunteers here.
>
>> I have never been giving such a world win* chase
>> for an answer.
>
> Hmm, we've been waiting for *you* to answer our questions, Joe. Are
> you not a native speaker of English? That may explain at least part
> of the loggerheads to which we seem to have come. Many of us are
> multilingual here, you know. Voulez-vous essayer nos conversations
> dedans, peut-être, françaises? ...o forse in italiano?
>
>> You volunteers are very fortunate to have the financial
>> resources to give your time to this discussion group, I am very
>> jealous my friend.
>
> <blushing> Why, thank you, Joe. As it happens, many of us are in fact
> poor, retired or physically disabled folk whose sole contact with the
> outside world is through our little keyboards and monitors. May you
> live long and prosper...and perhaps consider joining us here and
> sharing your knowledge with other users.
>
>> How did Kate Adams get to cut and paste section of web
>> site without having any reference to herself in the list of sent
>> replies
>
> The British young lady's name is Kath, not Kate, Adams. And seeing
> how you've so far posted to at least five (5) different threads in
> three (3) different newsgroups (http://snipurl.com/99dh), none of
> them being a thread you began, we've had to copy/paste from posts in
> one newsgroup to reply to those in another so that we, at least, can
> keep track of who said what, to whom...and when.
>
> As you have freely posted your business's local POP3 and SMTP servers
> in all of these threads, it didn't take much to go from
> 'POP3.jmmresource.com' to http://www.jmmresource.com/, poorly coded
> as it may be.
>> How did I get 2 questions in this discussion group, I
>> could have sworn I only created one here..
>
> It may be because you've had at least two (2) threads with identical
> Subjects going in two (2) or (3) newsgroups at the same time, and to
> maintain our sanity, at least, one or more of us have crossposted a
> reply in one newsgroup to another. For example, the thread to which
> I am now replying is and has been crossposted to both the OE6 and
> WinXP General newsgroups. [I am replying from the OE6 newsgroup.]
>
> Or it may be because you, possibly inadvertently, began a new thread
> with the same Subject. When you do this, your replies very often
> will not "thread" properly and instead display as a new thread...to
> which others unwittingly may reply, not knowing that a similar
> converation has been ongoing in another thread.
>
> This is why we ask that you begin your *own* thread (not post a "Me,
> too" reply in another one), in *one* newsgroup, and that you always
> post further replies or comments to only that thread.
>
> Have a wonderful evening, Joe!
Thank you very much for a well thought out and detailed explanation.
(My apologies for the spell check post...I was referring to my name only
and nothing else in Joe's response and did not mean to imply otherwise.)
-- Kath Adams MS MVP - Windows (IE/OE)
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