Re: For Ron Badour

On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:37:29 GMT, Endless Loop <round@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Ken Blake, MVP wrote in microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support:

On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:28:01 -0800, silk
<silk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Sorry for the triplicate posts, but I got error messages on each one
and now it seems that they were actually posted, but I had no way of
knowing that from the error message.


This isn't a forum; it's a newsgroup. The reason you're having such
problems is that you are using the awful web interface to participate
in this newsgroup--it's the slowest, clunkiest, most error-prone
method of using the newsgroups there is. Do yourself a favor and
switch to a newsreader, such as Outlook Express, which comes with
Windows XP, or Windows Mail, which comes with Vista. See
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm


Why not recommend a real newsreader like the one I've been using for
years, XNews. <http://Xnews.newsguy.com> Though I may start using
Thunderbird as it seems to work great for e-mail.


It's not a matter of a "real" newsreader, it's a matter of personal
preferences. There are many good newsreaders, and each of us has his
own preference.

I have next to no experience with Thunderbird, but I've used Outlook
Express a lot. And although I prefer and now use Agent (I don't like
XNews) to Outlook Express, I still think that it's wisest to start
with Outlook Express so you have a basis of comparison.

As much as I like Agent, before using such a third-party program, you
should know the newsreader that comes with Windows. It's very hard to
like an alternative better if you've never used anything else.
Moreover, despite you and I preferring other newsreaders to Outlook
Express, not everybody does, and people should have the choice to stay
with Outlook Express if they like it better.

In my experience, whenever you look at almost any two competing
software products (not just newsreaders) you can find something in
each of them that you like better than the way it works in the other.
The product to choose is the one with the better features that are
most important to you.

As a single example of what I mean, if the ability to easily use
binary newsgroups is important to you, Outlook Express will likely
turn out to be one of the worst newsreaders for you. But if you don't
do binary newsgroups, Outlook Express may be terrific for you.

We all have different needs, different likes and dislikes, and
therefore different tastes.


--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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