Re: Foreigner(s)

Robert Lieblich wrote:
"Arne H. Wilstrup" wrote:
"Lars Enderin" wrote

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What manifesto? Do you really think that a lot of other people
should switch newsreaders just because you are lazy and won't
change?

No, you are lazy and won't change. OE is used by almost 90 percent of
the population who use newsgroups - so it is you who should
reconsider.

I've tried to stay out of this, Arne, especially since I started out
more than a decade ago using a newsreader embedded in an early version
of Netscape and have never seen the need to change. I am forced to
use Outlook at work for e-mail (no newsgroups at work, of course) and
can barely tolerate it. (I'm still on Eudora at home for email and
praying I don't develop problems.) My news provider is the German
server whose name I have forgotten. It costs 10 euros per year (or in
my case the dollar equivalent), and I consider it a great bargain.

From my nearly twelve years of active participation in this group
(with some brief lacunae), I have learned that the rate of Outlook
usage here is probably lower than the rate of Google usage, and
neither is remotely near 90 percent.

[ ... ]

So... because some people don't have an internet provider for some
reason 90 percent of the world's population should change their
newsreader? I don't think so.

Not only is your premise false, your conclusion is false. If 90
percent of the group did use Outlook, the obvious conclusion would be
that you and you alone are the only one unable to get it to indicate
quotation in standard fashion. If, on the other hand, you were the
sole user of Outlook, that would explain why you are the sole sufferer
from the problem but in that case you would be expected to conform.

So ... which is it?

As I have advised some others, Outlook does not do newsgroups. It enlists Outlook Express for that purpose. I don't use Outlook at all, relying on Outlook Express (with QuoteFix) for both e-mail and newsgroups.

Way back, I too started with the newsreader embedded in Netscape. I changed when I abandoned Netscape and started using IE, back in the very late 'nineties. Now, almost exclusively, I run Firefox for browsing, but after checking out Thunderbird, I decided to stay with OE.
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Skitt (AmE)

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