h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

that happens after about two minutes for me, terrible short term memory...

Me too but with emails.

ahhh see with emails it would be okay if I remembered to click the button that makes your read emails look like they're unread otherwise I forget which ones I've replied too.

Why are your toes sandy?

On mine it says which ones are replyied to too.

-- DoctorMO --

Sandy toes are because we went to the beach today and I have enough sand in my shoes to make a small sand castles plus I spent most of my times trying to sinking up to my ankles in the sand

oooh lucky sod DrMo! Neither of mine do that

it also tells me if a message is likly to be spam and it says if messages are in any kind of format.

www.postmaster.co.uk

-- DoctorMO --

cool, I don't get any spam now *touch wood* bar a horoscope that I get sent to me. but that's because I haven't signed up to anything and I don't get any through my new email yet and never have through BT bar stuff about phone calls, which I don't need as I have a net only line...oh and no one to call

What email program d'you use, Em? Outlook?

I'd get somthing else, Outlook is THE most dangerous program to have running.

-- DoctorMO --

Outlook Express and Hotmail.

Whys that?
I can drink a pint of bovril.
My emails delete when Ive read them. I can get them back but its too much bother on my super slow pentium 1.

"You can't drink a pint of bovril" ahhh yess but the question is, would you want to?

It's a Spaced Quote

yeah I can redirect mail so it gets deleted instantly, and do it so it delets junk or mail from certain people instantly, but they're fairly useless email systems...but hey, you can send emails, you can (on the most part) recieve emails, and do all the normal email related tasks, plus the added bonus of messengers which you can stick your photo in


mwhahaha...there's now one poor researcher who knows what the mysterious Em looks like

Well no, what you may find is that if you got trillian you could avoide MSN compleatly and just USE them *hehehe*

I've been with Postmaster for years, and I still only get 1 or 2 junk a week, and I flaunt my email address all over the place.

-- DoctorMO --

I've got Trillian, I just prefer MSN as, well, everyone I know is on MSN and I find it a more friendly system...plus I get to have a conversation with my uncle which I couldn't do before when I had Trillian for some reason.

How odd that you would chose MSN then, instead of say AIM or Yahoo. I find that MSN is the worst one out of the lot for useability, configerabilty and genral ease of use.

Are you sure your not just used to Microsnot conventions?

-- DoctorMO --

Quite possibly, I was originally taught on MS, I've never used anything other than MS at home and school and I've not had may problems with the systems, I find it incredibly easy to use and since I updated to XP very reliable, I realise others tdon't agree with me on this, but I MS very easy to use and I don't really like Yahoo or AIM which I have tried as well.

well I supose if people are not going to try Linux then you can only call them small minded, at a stretch unsofisticated. but thats just me beeing nasty at how people never seem to think "perhaps theres somthing better"

You don't think OSes grow on tree's, well this one damb well did.

-- DoctorMO --

Actually I'm not small minded, all the systems I use at the moment are Microsoft, school, work, home, so it's easier to stick to one, this doesn't mean I haven't wanted to try other systems like LInux.

I just haven't had the money or the opportunity to try them out considering I'm 18, a student and broke.

but I know there are better systems than Microsoft out there, and just because i like it and there's currently no reason to change doesn't mean I don't recognise the fact that there's better. I mean iMacs are meant to be a lot better than PCs for the kind of work I intend to do on them but they also cost an arm and a leg and I'd have to relearn everything.

All I'm saying is currently a PC and Microsoft supports all the software, hardware and tasks that I want to perform on a computer, therefore why change at the moment? If it ain't broke why fix it/

You will soon learn the hard lesson of specific by design.

Nothing lasts forever

-- DoctorMO --