Re: Despair
- From: "N. Miller" <anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 09:57:32 -0800
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 09:31:27 -0800, Ja. Melvin Horsey-"the Colonel"-Jim
Horsey wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 11:48:48 -0800, N. Miller wrote:
>> On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 16:15:38 -0000, D. Melville wrote:
>>> Can anyone out there recommend a system which does not necessitate coming to
>>> terms with all this gobbledygook, wading through incomprehensible
>>> instructions and dealing with people who think that everyone is a computer
>>> geek like themselves??
>>> I am sorely tempted to throw it out of the window and use the local library
>>> facilities.
>>> I could not send this letter. I was instructed to check my news account
>>> configuration!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>> What's that????????
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I DID IT!!!!! Took me 30 mins though. This is far too time consuming
>> Unfortunately, computers are not toasters, which you just plug in and run.
>> They are more complicated than VCRs, if you have ever tried to program one
>> of those.
>>
>> On top of that, SMTP/POP3/IMAP/NNTP are holdovers from the day when geeks
>> were the only ones who used computers. Despite the best efforts of
>> Microsoft, and ISPs, to make these contraptions simple to set up and use,
>> they are not simple to set up and use for people unfamiliar with the jargon
>> and the protocols.
>>
>> I don't know how to change that.
> Mr Miller,
> The name of the game is patience. It took me 23 months and plenty of spare
> time on my days off, learning, computer terminology, however, I am still
> learning and I refuse to let this machine frustrate me.
Pardon me for crafting a forgery. I just took the top paragraph of your
email message; mostly because I am not sure that you wanted the rest in a
public forum, but this paragraph should be OK. Yes, it does take time. Some
of the experts, here, have been at it for a number of years. Computers are
like any other complicated task; takes a while to learn both the jargon,
and the technique.
Also, I wanted to offer a suggestion about the friendly name that you have
put into your client. Lose the backslashes. They may look "cool", but they
don't show up in any of the clients I use; and one client had a problem
with it:
Pegasus Mail 3.1 throw up the following error message, though it did
display the information...without the backslashes:
| WinPMail cannot parse the address '" JA. MELVIN HORSEY-\"THE COLONEL\"-JIM HORSEY
| JA. MELVIN HORSEY- \"THE COLONEL\" - JIM H'.
MS Outlook Express did not throw up an error, but still displays the
information without the backslashes.
| Ja. Melvin Horsey-"the Colonel"-Jim Horsey
| Ja. Melvin Horsey- "the Colonel" - Jim Horsey <email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
40tude Dialog also did not throw up an error message, but also does not
display the backslashes.
Actually, that wasn't a bad forgery, eh? Posting Agent and Posting IP
address give the game away, though. Even threaded properly.
--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum
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