It was a dark day when Microsoft killed off the newsgroups. They were an
excellent means of getting answers to questions that were not properly
answered by the so-called help in the software. I have been struggling to
find the familiar ways of doing things in Office 2007 and everything is
taking five times as long to do. It seems that all that is new in 2007 and
probably in 2010 is the veneer of little pictures and roundabout ways to do
the things that became second nature in earlier Office editions. All the
menus have been scrambled just to make it look different. Any logic has gone
out the window. Occasionally I can find one of the familiar windows to do
something but that must be an accident.
At times like these we need those who gave advice in the newsgroups.
The replacement is near useless and is about as difficult to get anything
from as the Adobe mess.
It is rough when companies take your money and leave you to figure it out --
or want more money -- when something does not perform as advertised.
Paul
"Bruce Hagen" <BRH@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
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> "XS11E" <xs11eNO@SPAMyahoo.com> wrote in message
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>> "Bruce Hagen" <BRH@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>>> The thing I don't like about 'proper" newsreaders is that I have
>>> yet to find one that will automatically poll for new news messages
>>> every X minutes.
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>> I'm so happy Xnews doesn't have this feature, if it did I'd sure
>> disable it... Different strokes for different folks, I guess.
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>> Why in the world would you want a newsreader (or an email client, for
>> that matter) to poll for new messages?
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>> XS11E, Killing all posts from Google Groups
>> The Usenet Improvement Project:
>> http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/
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>> Why in the world would you want a newsreader (or an email client, for
>> that matter) to poll for new messages?
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> So I can be doing something else besides sitting at this desk and just
> glance over at the monitor to see if there are new messages.
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> I don't get paid for the hours I put in each day, so I might as well be
> comfortable.
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>>Different strokes for different folks, I guess.
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> I couldn't agree more with that statement.
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> Bruce Hagen
> MS-MVP [Mail]
> Imperial Beach, CA
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