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Ernest,
I think you are wrong.....
I have Outlook Express as well and never had any problems with it.
I did have a lot of trouble though with ISP, wrongly configured firewalls,
etc...
I understand peoples dislike of MS products, but Outlook Express has
probably nothing to do with this problem.
Go for Thunderbird, gmail ( great system, I hope they keep it running!!) or
whatever, but I bet you if it doesn't work with OE you have the bug
somewhere in the system anyway...
Thomas J.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ernest Christley" <echristley@nc.rr.com>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2005 8:47 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Tracy's RD-1C measurements.
bbradburry@allvantage.com wrote:
>Which brings up another question. Does anyone have an idea what is
causing
>this problem? I am using Outlook Express.
>
You just answered your own question. Try Thunderbird. It's free.
>I do not have anyone blocked. I
>get msgs from Laura fine. Also anyone else. Tracy has sent several and
>only two have arrived. Apparently they are not bouncing back to Tracy.
At
>least he (or Laura) has not mentioned it.
>
Email is a bear, mostly for historical reasons. The first really
popular implementation over the internet was called SMTP (simple mail
trasport protocol, and it is anything but). When you send an email, it
doesn't go to the person you sent it to. It goes to your mail server
(smtp-server.nc.rr.com, in my case). Your mail server looks at the
message header, and uses that to decide where it should go...which may
be the recipients server, or an intermediate server. If any of those
computers are slightly misconfigured, weired things will happen. The
canonical implementation of SMTP, sendmail, is notoriously difficult to
configure.
My comment about Outlook Express. Microsoft has historically extended
and manipulated industry standards to try to provide themselves and
advantage...usually by breaking the standard where it interfaces with
non-Microsoft platforms. The internet, by design, is made up of a lot
of interfaces between a lot of different types of platforms. Outlook
Express is known to ignore some header fields, and has added others. I
know that the 'threading' header in particular has been munged, so that
you can't carry on a conversation and have it sorted by thread. Unless
you have a pressing need for Outlook Express, I really do suggest
Thunderbird or any other email client that actually tries to play nice
with the rest of the world.
-- This is by far the hardest lesson about freedom. It goes against
instinct, and morality, to just sit back and watch people make
mistakes. We want to help them, which means control them and their
decisions, but in doing so we actually hurt them (and ourselves)."
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