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On 5/13/11 3:08 PM, in article , "Fred"
wrote: To a degree you are right http://www.eternal-september.org is the real cat's butt! But Thanks In Advance Mary still needs a mail program to access http://www.eternal-september.org Fred True, we could all make the assumption that somewhere she has an e-mail program. I've used it with Entourage in the prior Microsoft Office suite. Bet it works with Outlook. Don't know if it works with whatever she uses for her aol connection - or even the free e-mail services like Gmail or Yahoo. Ellice wrote in message news On Fri, 13 May 2011 01:42:00 -0400, Tia Mary wrote: Hi Guys, In getting ready to move back to Lizard Land, DH has gotten me a laptop to use. I currently use Netscape 7.2 to access the newsgroups and some German company supplies the newsgroups to Netscape. We pay the German company less than $20/year. I don';t mind paying the money but my problem is now how to go about getting all this stuff from this computer to the laptop. DH said he couldn't find anyway to access different versions of Netscape using the laptop. THIS is the type of computer stuff I am totally in the dark about!! So -- could someone either help me find a way to download Netscape 7.2 to my laptop OR recommend some other way -- besides Google -- to access newsgroups? Please, Please, Please -- I don't want to lose y'all but I also don;t want to use Google!!! HELP!!!!! CiaoMeow ^;;^ PAX, Tia Mary ^;;^ You are making it complicated - go to http://www.eternal-september.org and follow the directions. It's free, it is acclaimed as a newsreader and streets ahead of google groups. Eons ago I used Netscape but have long since abandoned that, this is even easier. |
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In a pinch anyone with an original disc for windoze 95 or 98 could download
Netscape from either of those discs and then search for an update somewhere. Outlook Express is still available for download for windoze XP home and pro. Not sure if it will work for windoze vista or windoze 7. IMHO Outlook Express out performs windoze hotmail any day of the week, plus there are no bloody ads. cluttering up the screen. Fred "Ellice K." wrote in message ... On 5/13/11 3:08 PM, in article , "Fred" wrote: To a degree you are right http://www.eternal-september.org is the real cat's butt! But Thanks In Advance Mary still needs a mail program to access http://www.eternal-september.org Fred True, we could all make the assumption that somewhere she has an e-mail program. I've used it with Entourage in the prior Microsoft Office suite. Bet it works with Outlook. Don't know if it works with whatever she uses for her aol connection - or even the free e-mail services like Gmail or Yahoo. Ellice wrote in message news On Fri, 13 May 2011 01:42:00 -0400, Tia Mary wrote: Hi Guys, In getting ready to move back to Lizard Land, DH has gotten me a laptop to use. I currently use Netscape 7.2 to access the newsgroups and some German company supplies the newsgroups to Netscape. We pay the German company less than $20/year. I don';t mind paying the money but my problem is now how to go about getting all this stuff from this computer to the laptop. DH said he couldn't find anyway to access different versions of Netscape using the laptop. THIS is the type of computer stuff I am totally in the dark about!! So -- could someone either help me find a way to download Netscape 7.2 to my laptop OR recommend some other way -- besides Google -- to access newsgroups? Please, Please, Please -- I don't want to lose y'all but I also don;t want to use Google!!! HELP!!!!! CiaoMeow ^;;^ PAX, Tia Mary ^;;^ You are making it complicated - go to http://www.eternal-september.org and follow the directions. It's free, it is acclaimed as a newsreader and streets ahead of google groups. Eons ago I used Netscape but have long since abandoned that, this is even easier. |
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Ellice K. wrote:
On 5/13/11 3:08 PM, in article , "Fred" wrote: To a degree you are right http://www.eternal-september.org is the real cat's butt! But Thanks In Advance Mary still needs a mail program to access http://www.eternal-september.org Fred True, we could all make the assumption that somewhere she has an e-mail program. I've used it with Entourage in the prior Microsoft Office suite. Bet it works with Outlook. Don't know if it works with whatever she uses for her aol connection - or even the free e-mail services like Gmail or Yahoo. Ellice What does all of that mean? I have no clue other than I understand the meaning of the words but NOT what it means as regards to using a computer!!! I have AOL and Internet Explorer on my computer and I *could* use IE for e-mail if I wanted. But WHAT in the world does having an e-mail program have to do with accessing newsgroups. Here's what I have pictured in my mind..... The newsgroups are out there in the ether somewhere on **something** called Usenet. I need to have a program on my computer that will *find* the groups I want to read, then I have to have a program that then sends the newsgroup to my computer so I can read them. Right now I have that German program (which I pay for) that finds the groups and sends the info to Netscape 7.2 which I use to read the groups. So, I just went to eternal-september and registered. Apparently they will e-mail me a user ID and password that I will use to access the newsgroups I am interested in. I'll let you know and if I get bollixed up, I will be e-mailing Sheena screaming for help. I absolutely HATE not really understanding what is going on -- other than in the most rudimentary terms. I mean, I am not unintelligent but when you guys start talking about this stuff I just sit here scratching my huh going "HUH????" LOLOLOL! CiaoMeow ^;;^ PAX, Tia Mary |
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Fred wrote:
To a degree you are right http://www.eternal-september.org is the real cat's butt! But Thanks In Advance Mary still needs a mail program to access http://www.eternal-september.org Fred Listen smarty pants -- that's TIA as in Spanish for aunt -- not Thanks In Advance!!! You are so mean so just quit picking on MOI -- my happy pills haven't kicked in yet this AM. OH WOE IS ME. HEY -- we had TWO people come look at the house this week. that's better than the last few weeks when no one came! CiaoMeow ^;;^ PAX, Tia Mary |
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Fred wrote:
In a pinch anyone with an original disc for windoze 95 or 98 could download Netscape from either of those discs and then search for an update somewhere. Outlook Express is still available for download for windoze XP home and pro. Not sure if it will work for windoze vista or windoze 7. IMHO Outlook Express out performs windoze hotmail any day of the week, plus there are no bloody ads. cluttering up the screen. Fred I'm going to be in a world of hurt when I get to Lizard land and have to start using the new "stuff". We are signed up with FrontierNet for our phone, Internet and Telly. I will be getting DISH for the Telly and I have had DirecTV for the last 11 years so I will have to learn how to manage that. Then for my Internet, I will have to access everything from my frontiernet e-mail account. That makes no sense to me at all. why the hell can't I just do as I have always done and turn on the computer and either go to my newsgroup link or my AOL link? I just don't understand. I'll have to see what happens -- the frontiernet guy will come to the cabin and hook everything up on 25 May but then I still have to have someone different come hook up the phone!!! VBS I swear the techies do this on purpose just to make us non-techines frustrated. I absolutely DO NOT understand why all this crap has to be so difficult and laborious!!! Rant Off for now -- LOLOL! CiaoMeow ^;;^ PAX, Tia Mary |
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On 5/13/2011 1:42 AM, Tia Mary wrote:
Hi Guys, In getting ready to move back to Lizard Land, DH has gotten me a laptop to use. I currently use Netscape 7.2 to access the newsgroups and some German company supplies the newsgroups to Netscape. We pay the German company less than $20/year. I don';t mind paying the money but my problem is now how to go about getting all this stuff from this computer to the laptop. DH said he couldn't find anyway to access different versions of Netscape using the laptop. THIS is the type of computer stuff I am totally in the dark about!! So -- could someone either help me find a way to download Netscape 7.2 to my laptop OR recommend some other way -- besides Google -- to access newsgroups? Please, Please, Please -- I don't want to lose y'all but I also don;t want to use Google!!! HELP!!!!! CiaoMeow ^;;^ PAX, Tia Mary ^;;^ I am replying to my own post using Thunderbird :-))))))). I couldn't get eternal-september to operate. I registered, etc. but can't get it to show me the posts! It really should NOT be this involved, etc. Jeri sent me a wonderful e-mail explaining stuff so I understand a bit more. OK -- |
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Tia Mary wrote:
I am replying to my own post using Thunderbird :-))))))). I couldn't get eternal-september to operate. I registered, etc. but can't get it to show me the posts! It really should NOT be this involved, etc. Jeri sent me a wonderful e-mail explaining stuff so I understand a bit more. OK -- VBS -- this is totally ridiculous!!! I'm back at Netscape with this e-mail. I can't even find a way to sign on to eternal-september so that it lets me access the newsgroups so that's a bust. When I am in Thunderbird, it shows me ALL of the posts stored for whatever length of time they keep them -- it's something like 3364 posts. I can find no way to tell T-bird to only show me the posts that have not been read! The laptop now has Netscape 7.2 AND Thunderbird AND eternal-september but none of those programs have any way to access the newsgroups -- no tabs that we can find to click for newsgroups. I wonder if I need to somehow get the laptop to "talk" to my news server which is news.individual.net (I think). I have been on this f-ing computer for THREE HOURS now trying to get one of the programs to work so that I can have DH load it onto the laptop. I am getting extremely frustrated and I just don't understand WHY he can't transfer the info on THIS computer to the laptop and have it be the same! VBS -- you don't want me to tell you what I am really thinkng I just thank heavens I took my happy pill this am or I would go out and capture a techie and strangle the sob toot sweet!!! CiaoMeow ^;;^ |
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Tia Mary ) writes:
Tia Mary wrote: I am replying to my own post using Thunderbird :-))))))). I couldn't get eternal-september to operate. I registered, etc. but can't get it to show me the posts! It really should NOT be this involved, etc. Jeri sent me a wonderful e-mail explaining stuff so I understand a bit more. OK -- VBS -- this is totally ridiculous!!! I'm back at Netscape with this e-mail. I can't even find a way to sign on to eternal-september so that it lets me access the newsgroups so that's a bust. When I am in Thunderbird, it shows me ALL of the posts stored for whatever length of time they keep them -- it's something like 3364 posts. I can find no way to tell T-bird to only show me the posts that have not been read! The laptop now has Netscape 7.2 AND Thunderbird AND eternal-september but none of those programs have any way to access the newsgroups -- no tabs that we can find to click for newsgroups. I wonder if I need to somehow get the laptop to "talk" to my news server which is news.individual.net (I think). I have been on this f-ing computer for THREE HOURS now trying to get one of the programs to work so that I can have DH load it onto the laptop. I am getting extremely frustrated and I just don't understand WHY he can't transfer the info on THIS computer to the laptop and have it be the same! VBS -- you don't want me to tell you what I am really thinkng I just thank heavens I took my happy pill this am or I would go out and capture a techie and strangle the sob toot sweet!!! CiaoMeow ^;;^ I dont know whether this is of the least interest, and I dont know if I can explain how I access rctn in detail, but I am using software that is more than 20 years old. It is the sort of software that was designed to read rctn, in the days when rctn started, and 10 messages a day was considered heavy traffic. But it is a lovely way of reading rctn. Jim. |
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