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Re: (OT) Yet another reason why OE sucks
de Helium 04/17/2006 03:10
HVS wrote:
>
> After a bit of faffing about, I established that she needed to
> use her ISP's remote servers (rather than standard POP servers),
> but what I didn't know was that she can't use the remote service,
> as it's an add-on secure-system subscription that she doesn't
> have.
>
Can she telnet to her ISP's server and then use PINE on their end?
If that is possible then she can get and send email.
>
> So how come OE couldn't have been bright enough to report the
> $&*!*^% server error message when it couldn't log in -- instead
> of just stupidly re-presenting me with a log-in screen that
> didn't work -- without any sort of comment or link to the error
> message that would let me clear it up.
>
> Stupid bloody program.
Expect very little from Microsoft - they think users
are stupid. MS doesn't want people poking around; they're
worried that people will delete dlls and make changes to the
OS are wrong/incorrect. he2
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