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Wow! Lots of good advice coming in. Thank you, Cof...

2007-10-10T08:34:00.000-07:00

Wow! Lots of good advice coming in. Thank you, Coffee Mates! I do believe you've inspired me to do some email client research today. And I think it's scaring Thunderbird because it's been almost behaving this morning. (grin)

There are several other alternative e-mail browser...

2007-10-10T08:13:00.000-07:00

There are several other alternative e-mail browsers out there. I'm currently using Foxmail. The only thing you have to do, though, is go in the directory where it is installed and change the file called Chinese.lgb to Chineseold.lgb or else all the text in Foxmail will be in Chinese. Doing this changes everything to English so you can read the help file and the template manager and stuff like that.

Gmail is the greatest but I don't like to have to click too much to read all my mail. I forward all my mail to my POP account and it all comes into Foxmail for me to read easily.

That is one funny cartoon. Our isp sent notice wit...

2007-10-10T07:28:00.000-07:00

That is one funny cartoon. Our isp sent notice with the bill that we could reset the modem now and get faster service. The directions were not for a digital modem and Wil was perplexed.

All it took was a phone call to be told about the darling tiny pen point reset button. Stupid pushed it while on the phone so it was bye bye tech. :-)

PS: We use an older Netscape, but all we do with i...

2007-10-10T06:55:00.000-07:00

PS: We use an older Netscape, but all we do with it is the mail. The drag and drop function leaves us cheering with our network. BUT....If someone sends a link, we have to paste it into Explorer.....darn it.

Yes, I've been through that "save the old building...

2007-10-10T06:52:00.000-07:00

Yes, I've been through that "save the old building" routine. Several times actually. This time I'm in a seventies building and regretting the bad construction. I bet yours is built well. :)

Good advice from John Bailey here. Google has some...

2007-10-10T06:45:00.000-07:00

Good advice from John Bailey here. Google has something that most of us seniors increasingly don't: memory. The calendar function is wonderful if you remember to put stuff on it and read it occasionally :) And being able to search through the old jokes so you can stop people who have forwarded the same thing for the third time: priceless. Not to mention Picasa, a free picture album organizer, and Docs and Spreadsheets, where you can store your tax information forever until the IRS needs it for their newly-announced random detailed audits over the next three years cuz they're missing out on $345 billion a year from the cheaters. (Doesn't that mean that each of us owes Uncle Sam $1 billion a year?)

I owe, I owe, it's off to work I go...

Ah, Dee... you have a treasure in that bloke there...

2007-10-10T00:19:00.000-07:00

Ah, Dee... you have a treasure in that bloke there. Don't let go!

I tried Thunderbird and dropped it as being a tad too eccentric. Now that Eudora has dropped off the perch, feet upwards, and following on a long history of difficulties with email clients I've gone over to web mail on Google and am very happy with it. It's the same as going over to the blog -- let someone else do the hard stuff. Trouble is, that's only possible with an 'always-on' broadband connection... :-(