On 12/4/2013 11:37 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 12/4/2013 11:20 AM, Hank© wrote:


I, a fellow luddite, just had cable installed for the first time. When I
went into Thunderbird to set up for Comcast email, I entered the email
address and password. Thunderbird did the rest. I was very pleased.
Getting used to Comcast was a different story.



Come to think of it, the same happened to me on my PC.

After you bitched enough to me about getting a "decent" newsgroup reader
for this computer, I installed Thunderbird.

You are right. It retrieved and setup the Comcast email account by itself.

Thunderbird must be controlled by the NSA, huh?

BTW ... I had used Thunderbird in the past on other computers but had
not installed it on the two newest. Should have. It works great for
both mail and newsgroups.


I had a hell of a time signing onto my router with the various devices
We have lying around. The installer set up one of my laptops as I was
looking over his shoulder. Everything seemed OK. Got online and surfed a
bit. I can take it from here, I thought. I couldn't link anything to the
router. Turns out you have to set up an Email account with Comcast
before it lets you add devices. I screwed around for an hour before I
decided to become acquainted with the Comcast support help pages.

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