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IE and only IE wont connect

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Duane Hebert

Flightless Bird
"PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:upw2rSS9KHA.4308@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> [Inline w/snippage]
>
> Duane Hebert wrote:
>>>> This was not my thread originally but I can answer your questions...
>>>
>>> Then you can begin your own, new thread, please.
>>
>> Is it your intention to annoy people...?
>
> No, it's my intention to avoid confusing OPs and myself, primarily, and to
> make sure we're only discussing /your/ computer.
>
>> I have already posted here and...
>
> AFAIK, your only other recent posts in IE General or WinXP General
> newsgroups were in a thread which you'd also hijacked and I didn't reply
> to either of your posts:
> http://groups.google.com/group/micr...er.general/browse_frm/thread/9d4c12c003df581b


Adding to a thread is not normally considered hijacking. That usually
refers to taking the thread to a different topic from
which the OP intended. I don't see that in the links that you point to as
the topic of the thread is not violated.

Anyway, please add me to your kill file. I will do the same.
Plonk.
 
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Rob

Flightless Bird
Duane Hebert <spoo@flarn2.com> wrote:
> Adding to a thread is not normally considered hijacking. That usually
> refers to taking the thread to a different topic from
> which the OP intended. I don't see that in the links that you point to as
> the topic of the thread is not violated.

I think it is useless to discuss with him about those topics...
This guy thinks he can impose his preferences about usenet posting on
everyone posting in the same groups as he does.

Notice his silly comments when people reply to his boilerplate questions
by typing the answer below each question. (the clearest way of answering
those questions IMHO)
He reacts as if they have committed a serious offense by not following
his lame style of typing a followup above the original, and then quoting
the entire original article. So then they have to refer back to his
questions "by number" (he adds). But those questions are not even numbered
in all of his boilerplates!

Had he used a decent newsreader, he could view the original article at
a click of the mouse (or a key on the keyboard), so why bother insisting
on quoting the original?
But he almost threatens those that do not do it his way.

He must have a lot of people in his killfile, or he enjoys posting his
boilerplates a lot. Often does it happen that a question has already
been answered and the OP has confirmed success, but still he adds a followup
asking about the exact version numbers of windows and internet explorer...

I think you are right, killfiling may be a good idea.
 
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Duane Hebert

Flightless Bird
"Rob" <nomail@example.com> wrote in message
news:slrnhv1v0k.7ml.nomail@xs8.xs4all.nl...
> Duane Hebert <spoo@flarn2.com> wrote:

> Had he used a decent newsreader, he could view the original article at
> a click of the mouse (or a key on the keyboard), so why bother insisting
> on quoting the original?
> But he almost threatens those that do not do it his way.
>
> He must have a lot of people in his killfile, or he enjoys posting his
> boilerplates a lot. Often does it happen that a question has already
> been answered and the OP has confirmed success, but still he adds a
> followup
> asking about the exact version numbers of windows and internet explorer...
>
> I think you are right, killfiling may be a good idea.

It sucks that this seems to be the only place to get any support. If you
google
for "IE8 not connecting" you get lots of hits and you can see the level of
frustration
when people get the same nonsense answers.

My favorite is the suggestion to wipe the hard drive and reinstall
everything.
I can't imagine telling my customers something like that.

Besides, the problem goes away by uninstalling only IE8. IE7 doesn't have
this problem.
Nor does Firefox.


Anyway, maybe someone will stumble on a fix and post it here.
 
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