"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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I upgraded to Agent 4.0 yesterday and it blew everything up - wiped
all the messages and threads. I had to scramble to find the Agent 3
file to restore some functionality to Usenet functions.

Not only that, but it wiped all the threads out and I can't find where
I was in the discussion cycle with John and others.

You heard tell of such a thing?

I know this is considered heresy, but I have no such problems with Outlook
Express. My internet provider's news server has issues, but another matter.

"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message
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"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...
I upgraded to Agent 4.0 yesterday and it blew everything up - wiped
all the messages and threads. I had to scramble to find the Agent 3
file to restore some functionality to Usenet functions.

Not only that, but it wiped all the threads out and I can't find where
I was in the discussion cycle with John and others.

You heard tell of such a thing?

I know this is considered heresy, but I have no such problems with Outlook
Express. My internet provider's news server has issues, but another
matter.


I agree with you. I've tried Thunderbird and an earlier version of Agent
just to see what all the fuss was about.
I always come back to Outlook Express. It works fine, it's reliable and has
never caused me any problems in all the years I've used it and it's various
versions.

Eisboch

I'm an OE user as well w/out a hitch.

--Mike

"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message
news
"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...
I upgraded to Agent 4.0 yesterday and it blew everything up - wiped
all the messages and threads. I had to scramble to find the Agent 3
file to restore some functionality to Usenet functions.

Not only that, but it wiped all the threads out and I can't find where
I was in the discussion cycle with John and others.

You heard tell of such a thing?

I know this is considered heresy, but I have no such problems with
Outlook Express. My internet provider's news server has issues, but
another matter.


I agree with you. I've tried Thunderbird and an earlier version of Agent
just to see what all the fuss was about.
I always come back to Outlook Express. It works fine, it's reliable and
has never caused me any problems in all the years I've used it and it's
various versions.

Eisboch

Just make sure you don't let much more than 100 messages hang around in the
Inbox for any length of time. Create other folders of your own (not
subfolders of Inbox), and store old messages there. Otherwise, things can
get interesting, according to MS people who've heard lots of horror stories.

"MGG" wrote in message
m...
I'm an OE user as well w/out a hitch.

--Mike

"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message
news
"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...
I upgraded to Agent 4.0 yesterday and it blew everything up - wiped
all the messages and threads. I had to scramble to find the Agent 3
file to restore some functionality to Usenet functions.

Not only that, but it wiped all the threads out and I can't find where
I was in the discussion cycle with John and others.

You heard tell of such a thing?

I know this is considered heresy, but I have no such problems with
Outlook Express. My internet provider's news server has issues, but
another matter.


I agree with you. I've tried Thunderbird and an earlier version of Agent
just to see what all the fuss was about.
I always come back to Outlook Express. It works fine, it's reliable and
has never caused me any problems in all the years I've used it and it's
various versions.

Eisboch

I've been using OE since it's inception, and really have had no problems. I
keep *all* my messages (except the junk) in my inbox, for about a year
(hundreds), then move them to a folder I called mail archive. I have
*thousands* of messages in there dating back to 1997 or so. Numerous
computer and OS upgrades, and everything is just fine. I do backups, but
never needed them for OE related stuff. Just lucky I guess, but then again,
I've been around computers since 1982 and pretty much know what I'm doing.

--Mike

"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message
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Just make sure you don't let much more than 100 messages hang around in
the Inbox for any length of time. Create other folders of your own (not
subfolders of Inbox), and store old messages there. Otherwise, things can
get interesting, according to MS people who've heard lots of horror
stories.

"MGG" wrote in message
m...
I'm an OE user as well w/out a hitch.

--Mike

"Eisboch" wrote in message
...

"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message
news "Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...
I upgraded to Agent 4.0 yesterday and it blew everything up - wiped
all the messages and threads. I had to scramble to find the Agent 3
file to restore some functionality to Usenet functions.

Not only that, but it wiped all the threads out and I can't find where
I was in the discussion cycle with John and others.

You heard tell of such a thing?

I know this is considered heresy, but I have no such problems with
Outlook Express. My internet provider's news server has issues, but
another matter.


I agree with you. I've tried Thunderbird and an earlier version of
Agent just to see what all the fuss was about.
I always come back to Outlook Express. It works fine, it's reliable and
has never caused me any problems in all the years I've used it and it's
various versions.

Eisboch

I've never had problems with it, either. But the MVPs in the MS newsgroups
have made a religion out of keeping the Inbox small. Maybe it's based on
trouble with older version.

"MGG" wrote in message
. ..
I've been using OE since it's inception, and really have had no problems.
I keep *all* my messages (except the junk) in my inbox, for about a year
(hundreds), then move them to a folder I called mail archive. I have
*thousands* of messages in there dating back to 1997 or so. Numerous
computer and OS upgrades, and everything is just fine. I do backups, but
never needed them for OE related stuff. Just lucky I guess, but then
again, I've been around computers since 1982 and pretty much know what I'm
doing.

--Mike

"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message
...
Just make sure you don't let much more than 100 messages hang around in
the Inbox for any length of time. Create other folders of your own (not
subfolders of Inbox), and store old messages there. Otherwise, things can
get interesting, according to MS people who've heard lots of horror
stories.

"MGG" wrote in message
m...
I'm an OE user as well w/out a hitch.

--Mike

"Eisboch" wrote in message
...

"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message
news "Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...
I upgraded to Agent 4.0 yesterday and it blew everything up - wiped
all the messages and threads. I had to scramble to find the Agent 3
file to restore some functionality to Usenet functions.

Not only that, but it wiped all the threads out and I can't find
where
I was in the discussion cycle with John and others.

You heard tell of such a thing?

I know this is considered heresy, but I have no such problems with
Outlook Express. My internet provider's news server has issues, but
another matter.


I agree with you. I've tried Thunderbird and an earlier version of
Agent just to see what all the fuss was about.
I always come back to Outlook Express. It works fine, it's reliable and
has never caused me any problems in all the years I've used it and it's
various versions.

Eisboch