On 12/4/2013 12:22 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 12/4/2013 12:10 PM, Hank© wrote:
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.


Do you want Mrs.E. to come down there and straighten everything out?

She's all proud of her newly found "geekiness".


That would be nice. You're welcome to tag along.

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