Re: Outlook Express
From: Robert Aldwinckle (robald_at_techemail.com)
Date: 02/25/04
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Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 08:29:57 -0500
> you've replied to someone else's question...and didn't start a new thread.
Gary,
Check his headers. There is no References: header in there.
Therefore, technically this was a new thread.
In fact, it was from the old web interface (CDO but not Tomcat).
If you go there and find the thread you will see that grouping of
threads with like Subject: is not done. BTW the same is true with
with the new web interface.
It only appears to be a reply to the first user of the Subject
because you are using OE which groups messages with identical Subject:
as if they were subthreads of one common discussion.
Sometimes that is usefully the case if someone copies the Subject
and then makes a new post rather than a reply.
But when the Subject is as completely non-descriptive as this one is
it is just as likely to be a new thread and just as likely to be totally unrelated
to the content of the previous threads having the same Subject.
BTW Google Groups often interprets such posts as part of the same discussion too. Then it is even more confusing because of the
extent
of its archive. E.g. posts which may appear months after the original
discussion ended may still be grouped as if they are continuations of it.
So you're correct to warn the poster of the confusion he is joining
and that many people consequently will often deliberately ignore him
but the real problem is that he is not using a distinct, descriptive subject.
FYI
Robert Aldwinckle
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"Gary" <tuffboystl@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:ekLABKx%23DHA.3772@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Be careful when you post here...you've replied to someone else's
> question...and didn't start a new thread. People will be less likely to see
> your question this way.
>
> I just posted this information in response to another email...I'll past it
> in here:
>
> Outlook Express keeps all of it's information in files. You can find the
> location of these files by going to the Tools menu, click Options and go to
> the Maintenance Tab. Click on the Store Folder button. That path is the
> current location of the files which comprise your Outlook Express
> configuration and all the mail it has downloaded.
>
> When you logged onto the new domain, your machine (I'm guessing NT based OS)
> created a new profile on that computer. This new profile comes with the
> default settings for everything...including Outlook Express. OE is not
> configured. When you configure it, it will create the directory for the new
> "identity" and all the associated files and put them in a unique location
> which is what was displayed when you clicked that Store Folder button.
>
> You need to log into the old domain on that computer with the right user
> name and open up Outlook Express. Do the same procedure to fine out what
> the old directory path was, copy all those files to the new directory. This
> will recover your other "identity."
>
> Here is an example of my path from a Windows XP machine. Yours may be very
> similar depending on your OS. "Gary" being the user name. You can probably
> attempt to find it without logging in as the old user. Get out of Outlook
> Express...copy all the files..and then open OE again...it should look as it
> did before.
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\Gary\Local Settings\Application
> Data\Identities\{FA5F4D3F-6E9F-4ABD-A904-5EAB92D1E2A3}\Microsoft\Outlook
> Express
>
>
> "Vinay" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:08c301c3fb02$9035b0d0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> > Hi!
> >
> > I reinstalled my Operating System...now I have old backed
> > up folders of my email (Downloaded) to my computer from
> > Hotmail. How can I make the old folders and mail messages
> > in the newly installed program. The backed up folders are
> > of the type .dbx
> >
> > Pls help me out.
> >
> > Vinay
>
>
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