"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 16:17:10 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

That's like saying a vacuum cleaner does a lousy job of toasting
bagels, so you're going to shop for a better vacuum cleaner.

I don't know about you, but I toast my bagels on the muffler of my
lawn tractor.

Or at this time of year, my big snow blower.


Yeah, but that makes perfect sense. Not a vacuum cleaner, though.

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 16:17:10 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

That's like saying a vacuum cleaner does a lousy job of toasting
bagels, so you're going to shop for a better vacuum cleaner.

I don't know about you, but I toast my bagels on the muffler of my
lawn tractor.

Or at this time of year, my big snow blower.



No snow here yet... :}

On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 16:17:10 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
.. .
On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:34:08 GMT, JoeSpareBedroom penned the following

But not using Outlook
Express is the way to go. It's just awful.


Why is it awful?


Besides being virus prone.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUTAJsfw2-k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8SVe...eature=related
http://www.robneville.net/general/ou...-tool/2007/06/


Does Agent handle tasks & day planning? I'm wondering because I thought it
was just a news & email client. If that's the case, I must question why you
posted the links above. How can you compare the two programs by pointing out
certain features which one of the programs doesn't even have? That's like
saying a vacuum cleaner does a lousy job of toasting bagels, so you're going
to shop for a better vacuum cleaner.


From Google (vacuum cleaners toast bagels):

MSN Shopping
Good upright type vacuum cleaners specialize in cleaning. ... Its custom
controls let you defrost and toast bagels and bread just the way you want
them! ...
shopping.msn.com/results/shp/?vendId=2984,scId=20,page=8 - 94k - Cached -
Similar pages


Sounds good to me!
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John H

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On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 10:30:25 -0500, HK wrote:

Gene Kearns wrote:
On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:17:29 GMT, Mike Harrison penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

Can anyone help me block these MI5 messages. I've tried using
M***5
as a subject line filter in Outlook Express (filtering the root newsgroup
directory), but it doesn't do the job.


Get a real news reader and dump Outlook Express for news. In fact,
you'd be well served to dump Outlook and/or Outlook Express even for
mail.

In fact, house of you out there using Google Groups should make a new
year's resolution to start using a standards compliant news
reader.....


It's hard to dump Outlook if the company you work for is large and has
it integrated into its IT functions and services. But not using Outlook
Express is the way to go. It's just awful.


??? Just ADD a dedicated (and REAL) newsreader for usenet and continue
to use Outhouse for your email.




Nah. I only use Outlook when I have to work with client scheduling and
suchlike. I use T'bird for email and newsgroups. It's not perfect, but I
like the way it works mo' betta'.

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On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:23:33 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

"Mike Harrison" wrote in message
news:Zntcj.13751$vd4.3145@pd7urf1no...
Can anyone help me block these MI5 messages. I've tried using
M***5
as a subject line filter in Outlook Express (filtering the root
newsgroup
directory), but it doesn't do the job.


I don't pay close attention to those messages, but I seem to recall that
they all contain "MI5". Why would you use wildcards when you could simply
use "MI5", which should stop them cold?


Because the spammer frequently puts spaces or other characters between
those characters to get around your filter.

If you filter "MI5", your filter will miss "MI 5", M I5, M I 5, M15,
etc.




A quick look at OE's help system gives no indication that wildcards are
supposed to work. I wonder if it's an undocumented feature, or the OP is
trying a trick he learned for a different program.

On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:17:29 +0000, Mike Harrison wrote:

Can anyone help me block these MI5 messages. I've tried using M***5
as a subject line filter in Outlook Express (filtering the root
newsgroup directory), but it doesn't do the job.

I'm quite hazy on anything MS, but, IIRC M*5 will cover anything between
M and 5.

On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 16:45:27 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

wrote in message
.. .
On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:23:33 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

"Mike Harrison" wrote in message
news:Zntcj.13751$vd4.3145@pd7urf1no...
Can anyone help me block these MI5 messages. I've tried using
M***5
as a subject line filter in Outlook Express (filtering the root
newsgroup
directory), but it doesn't do the job.


I don't pay close attention to those messages, but I seem to recall that
they all contain "MI5". Why would you use wildcards when you could simply
use "MI5", which should stop them cold?

Because the spammer frequently puts spaces or other characters between
those characters to get around your filter.

If you filter "MI5", your filter will miss "MI 5", M I5, M I 5, M15,
etc.

A quick look at OE's help system gives no indication that wildcards are
supposed to work. I wonder if it's an undocumented feature, or the OP is
trying a trick he learned for a different program.

Used to be that wildcards allowed for a non-specific range of input.

I'm not really sure they were even intended to delete "spam".

On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 16:45:27 +0000, JoeSpareBedroom wrote:


A quick look at OE's help system gives no indication that wildcards are
supposed to work. I wonder if it's an undocumented feature, or the OP is
trying a trick he learned for a different program.

Don't know, but there are quite a few third party plugins.

http://anti-spam-outlook-express.qarchive.org/

On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 16:25:46 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
.. .
On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 16:17:10 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

That's like saying a vacuum cleaner does a lousy job of toasting
bagels, so you're going to shop for a better vacuum cleaner.

I don't know about you, but I toast my bagels on the muffler of my
lawn tractor.

Or at this time of year, my big snow blower.

Yeah, but that makes perfect sense. Not a vacuum cleaner, though.

Why not? There is heat generated by the motor - seems to me to be a
pretty simple adaptation.

On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 11:30:10 -0500, HK wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 16:17:10 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

That's like saying a vacuum cleaner does a lousy job of toasting
bagels, so you're going to shop for a better vacuum cleaner.

I don't know about you, but I toast my bagels on the muffler of my
lawn tractor.

Or at this time of year, my big snow blower.

No snow here yet... :}

I wish there wasn't any snow.

Interesting factoid: I was visiting my good friend down at Foskett
Equipment this morning on an issue I'm having with a carb icing up on
one of my snow blowers (older machine - no heat shield) and as of the
last snow storm, he had 47 brand new snow blowers in his shop.

As of this morning, zip - nada - zero.

Sold all 47 in three days.