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From: Mike Easter on 19 Dec 2009 08:39 Bob Villa wrote: > Mike Easter >> POKO wrote: >>> Santa is putting a Dell Windows7 desktop under my semi-literate >>> computer user brother's christmas tree. He uses Outlook on his XP box >>> and loves it as he posts a lot of mail (newslettters, etc). Any >>> recommendations on a good client? Sorry..saw something here a while >>> ago but didn't clue in, >> >> Some people misspeak when they say Outlook. > Mike, instead of being anal...when someone says Outlook maybe they > actually mean "Outlook"! Usually not. The majority or vast majority of the time when someone who isn't addressing a MS office/outlook group says 'outlook' they mean OE. In this specific case, it doesn't compute (very well) for the OP to be looking for a 'substitute' for OL, whereas it is/ would be/ exceedingly logical for a new Win7 user to be looking for a substitute for OE, because previous to Win7 since Win95 all v. of windows 'came with' an installed mailagent which was either OE or looked like OE. Win7 doesn't come with the usual OE; why wouldn't a friend be looking for something to 'substitute' for OE? -- Mike Easter
From: Bob Villa on 19 Dec 2009 10:37 On Dec 19, 7:39 am, "Mike Easter" <Mi...(a)ster.invalid> wrote: > Bob Villa wrote: > > Mike Easter > >> POKO wrote: > >>> Santa is putting a Dell Windows7 desktop under my semi-literate > >>> computer user brother's christmas tree. He uses Outlook on his XP > box > >>> and loves it as he posts a lot of mail (newslettters, etc). Any > >>> recommendations on a good client? Sorry..saw something here a while > >>> ago but didn't clue in, > > >> Some people misspeak when they say Outlook. > > Mike, instead of being anal...when someone says Outlook maybe they > > actually mean "Outlook"! > > Usually not. > > The majority or vast majority of the time when someone who isn't > addressing a MS office/outlook group says 'outlook' they mean OE. > > In this specific case, it doesn't compute (very well) for the OP to be > looking for a 'substitute' for OL, whereas it is/ would be/ exceedingly > logical for a new Win7 user to be looking for a substitute for OE, > because previous to Win7 since Win95 all v. of windows 'came with' an > installed mailagent which was either OE or looked like OE. > > Win7 doesn't come with the usual OE; why wouldn't a friend be looking > for something to 'substitute' for OE? > > -- > Mike Easter Mainly because he said what he wanted...and you wasted a lot of "ink" saying nothing!
From: Mike Easter on 19 Dec 2009 10:42 Bob Villa wrote: > Mainly because he said what he wanted...and you wasted a lot of "ink" > saying nothing! He was mistaken in his quest. He was looking for how to change away from what his brother already had and still wanted; there was no need to do that. I mistakenly interpreted that he wanted to know what almost every other new to Win7 wants to know; "since my Win7 no longer has the default 'OE' what shall I do about it?" -- Mike Easter
From: David H. Lipman on 19 Dec 2009 11:56 From: "Yrrah" <Yrrah-acf(a)acf.invalid> | "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net>: >> | Santa is putting a Dell Windows7 desktop under my semi-literate computer >> Pegasus Mail. | That would be my recommendation too, but I'm not sure if it's suitable | for a "semi-literate computer user". | Yrrah My octogenarian mother uses P-Mail and she doesn't even come to being a semi-"semi-literate computer user". -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
From: POKO on 19 Dec 2009 13:31
In article <hgj0j202o5p(a)news3.newsguy.com>, DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net says... > From: "Yrrah" <Yrrah-acf(a)acf.invalid> > > | "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net>: > > >> | Santa is putting a Dell Windows7 desktop under my semi-literate computer > > >> Pegasus Mail. > > | That would be my recommendation too, but I'm not sure if it's suitable > | for a "semi-literate computer user". > > | Yrrah > > My octogenarian mother uses P-Mail and she doesn't even come to being a > semi-"semi-literate computer user". > > Bet your Mom doesn't have three university degrees and also doesn't know where to begin to change a flat tire - that's what I have to deal with. Me a highschool dropout, but he's my brother, he ain't heavy. Hey Mike, appreciate your input too. I think I dropped OE back in the 90's. Merry Christmas all! -- Best - POKO Manitoulin Island, Canada |