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    Something was messed up with an office installion and continually tried to update installations of VS.NET and Office every time I launched one of the products along with completely hosing my FrontPage to the point it would not boot. Had to reinstall Office and did not want the hassle of getting everything hooked back up in Outlook for the more than 30 email accounts I use. So, instead of the hassle with Office again (as I do every time I reinstall), I switched to Mozilla Thunderbird for my email client. While it does not have the features Outlook does, it also (so far) does not have the virus problems that Outlook does. Personally, I do not use the calendar or scheduling in Outlook and mostly used it for an email client so no lose there. Configuration for a large number of email accounts in Thunderbird is a bit of a pain, but so far it seems to work okay. So, that brought to mind what I think would be good poll material. What email client are you using? I tried to pick a list of the most popular. To Vote: http://MyQuickPoll.com/?P=Vote&ID=54[^] For Results: http://MyQuickPoll.com/?P=Results&ID=54[^] Rocky <>< www.HintsAndTips.com www.MyQuickPoll.com - 2004 Election poll is #33 www.GotTheAnswerToSpam.com

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      Something was messed up with an office installion and continually tried to update installations of VS.NET and Office every time I launched one of the products along with completely hosing my FrontPage to the point it would not boot. Had to reinstall Office and did not want the hassle of getting everything hooked back up in Outlook for the more than 30 email accounts I use. So, instead of the hassle with Office again (as I do every time I reinstall), I switched to Mozilla Thunderbird for my email client. While it does not have the features Outlook does, it also (so far) does not have the virus problems that Outlook does. Personally, I do not use the calendar or scheduling in Outlook and mostly used it for an email client so no lose there. Configuration for a large number of email accounts in Thunderbird is a bit of a pain, but so far it seems to work okay. So, that brought to mind what I think would be good poll material. What email client are you using? I tried to pick a list of the most popular. To Vote: http://MyQuickPoll.com/?P=Vote&ID=54[^] For Results: http://MyQuickPoll.com/?P=Results&ID=54[^] Rocky <>< www.HintsAndTips.com www.MyQuickPoll.com - 2004 Election poll is #33 www.GotTheAnswerToSpam.com

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      Hey Rocky, are you getting much growth in your poll site? Just curious. Regardz Colin J Davies

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        Something was messed up with an office installion and continually tried to update installations of VS.NET and Office every time I launched one of the products along with completely hosing my FrontPage to the point it would not boot. Had to reinstall Office and did not want the hassle of getting everything hooked back up in Outlook for the more than 30 email accounts I use. So, instead of the hassle with Office again (as I do every time I reinstall), I switched to Mozilla Thunderbird for my email client. While it does not have the features Outlook does, it also (so far) does not have the virus problems that Outlook does. Personally, I do not use the calendar or scheduling in Outlook and mostly used it for an email client so no lose there. Configuration for a large number of email accounts in Thunderbird is a bit of a pain, but so far it seems to work okay. So, that brought to mind what I think would be good poll material. What email client are you using? I tried to pick a list of the most popular. To Vote: http://MyQuickPoll.com/?P=Vote&ID=54[^] For Results: http://MyQuickPoll.com/?P=Results&ID=54[^] Rocky <>< www.HintsAndTips.com www.MyQuickPoll.com - 2004 Election poll is #33 www.GotTheAnswerToSpam.com

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        David M Kean
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        30 email accounts? Surely you can't have a need for that many accounts? My Blog: Managed from Down Under

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          Hey Rocky, are you getting much growth in your poll site? Just curious. Regardz Colin J Davies

          *** WARNING *
          This could be addictive
          **The minion's version of "Catch :bob: "

          It's a real shame that people as stupid as you can work out how to use a computer. said by Christian Graus in the Soapbox

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          Rocky Moore
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          Naw, mostly just mentioned it here since we do not have any ability to create polls. There are many other forums out there, but have not had the time to mentioned to any of them. Only had 439 unique vistors so far, but hey, it is only for fun so it does not matter much. No big plans to ever make anything commercial out of it. Rocky <>< www.HintsAndTips.com www.MyQuickPoll.com - 2004 Election poll is #33 www.GotTheAnswerToSpam.com

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            30 email accounts? Surely you can't have a need for that many accounts? My Blog: Managed from Down Under

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            Well, I have 28 domains and I like to have at least one account that is the primary on the domain. Do not like forwarding it to on account or anything like that. When I send a message to someone at HintsAndTips.com, I do not expect a reply from someone at RJSoft.com :) Rocky <>< www.HintsAndTips.com www.MyQuickPoll.com - 2004 Election poll is #33 www.GotTheAnswerToSpam.com

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              Something was messed up with an office installion and continually tried to update installations of VS.NET and Office every time I launched one of the products along with completely hosing my FrontPage to the point it would not boot. Had to reinstall Office and did not want the hassle of getting everything hooked back up in Outlook for the more than 30 email accounts I use. So, instead of the hassle with Office again (as I do every time I reinstall), I switched to Mozilla Thunderbird for my email client. While it does not have the features Outlook does, it also (so far) does not have the virus problems that Outlook does. Personally, I do not use the calendar or scheduling in Outlook and mostly used it for an email client so no lose there. Configuration for a large number of email accounts in Thunderbird is a bit of a pain, but so far it seems to work okay. So, that brought to mind what I think would be good poll material. What email client are you using? I tried to pick a list of the most popular. To Vote: http://MyQuickPoll.com/?P=Vote&ID=54[^] For Results: http://MyQuickPoll.com/?P=Results&ID=54[^] Rocky <>< www.HintsAndTips.com www.MyQuickPoll.com - 2004 Election poll is #33 www.GotTheAnswerToSpam.com

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              Andy Brummer
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              You might want to make the distiction vs. home and work email. I'm sure most of us use outlook at work.


              I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book, only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon

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                Something was messed up with an office installion and continually tried to update installations of VS.NET and Office every time I launched one of the products along with completely hosing my FrontPage to the point it would not boot. Had to reinstall Office and did not want the hassle of getting everything hooked back up in Outlook for the more than 30 email accounts I use. So, instead of the hassle with Office again (as I do every time I reinstall), I switched to Mozilla Thunderbird for my email client. While it does not have the features Outlook does, it also (so far) does not have the virus problems that Outlook does. Personally, I do not use the calendar or scheduling in Outlook and mostly used it for an email client so no lose there. Configuration for a large number of email accounts in Thunderbird is a bit of a pain, but so far it seems to work okay. So, that brought to mind what I think would be good poll material. What email client are you using? I tried to pick a list of the most popular. To Vote: http://MyQuickPoll.com/?P=Vote&ID=54[^] For Results: http://MyQuickPoll.com/?P=Results&ID=54[^] Rocky <>< www.HintsAndTips.com www.MyQuickPoll.com - 2004 Election poll is #33 www.GotTheAnswerToSpam.com

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                Navin
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                You're missing several options. Let's not forget Lotus Notes. :-D And also what about web-based clients? At home I use one of those provided by my ISP. Much easier to just keep all the mail on their stinkin' server and be able to access it from anywhere and not just this computer. An expert is somebody who learns more and more about less and less, until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.

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                  You're missing several options. Let's not forget Lotus Notes. :-D And also what about web-based clients? At home I use one of those provided by my ISP. Much easier to just keep all the mail on their stinkin' server and be able to access it from anywhere and not just this computer. An expert is somebody who learns more and more about less and less, until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.

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                  Navin wrote: Let's not forget Lotus Notes. I try too :) Navin wrote: And also what about web-based clients? Yeah, I was thinking of software email clients. I never think of web mail as an actual email client :) Of course the world seems to be moving away from software applications and on to web applications. Rocky <>< www.HintsAndTips.com www.MyQuickPoll.com - 2004 Election poll is #33 www.GotTheAnswerToSpam.com

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                    You might want to make the distiction vs. home and work email. I'm sure most of us use outlook at work.


                    I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book, only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon

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                    Rocky Moore
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                    Yes, this is true. I just figured that people would select the one "they" use most not really one that is forced on them by management. Should have included that into the question, thanks! Rocky <>< www.HintsAndTips.com www.MyQuickPoll.com - 2004 Election poll is #33 www.GotTheAnswerToSpam.com

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                      Yes, this is true. I just figured that people would select the one "they" use most not really one that is forced on them by management. Should have included that into the question, thanks! Rocky <>< www.HintsAndTips.com www.MyQuickPoll.com - 2004 Election poll is #33 www.GotTheAnswerToSpam.com

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                      The only reason I brought it up was that I couldn't imagine 44% of people using Outlook for their home email. If it wasn't for exchange or corporate email, I couldn't imagine using it at all.


                      I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book, only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon

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                        The only reason I brought it up was that I couldn't imagine 44% of people using Outlook for their home email. If it wasn't for exchange or corporate email, I couldn't imagine using it at all.


                        I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book, only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon

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                        Rocky Moore
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                        Well, I don't know. I have used it since 1996 or 1997. The only thing that pushed me over was the thought of having to enter all those accounts and passwords over again along with getting my email hooked up in the correct folders. Now that I am on Thunderbird, I seem to like it pretty well. There area several things that can be a pain with a large number of accounts, but it seems to have the features I require. Hopefully they will add more features that I "desire" :) One would to be able to see the number of unread messages in an account without having to expand the account on the tree. Get tired scrolling up and down trying to spot any new mail in all those accounts. Would be great if they had a summary folder which had a list of all recently received mail that was not flagged as junk. Oh yeah, and better junk parsing would be great. Get tired of the same email and having to keep flagging it as junk :) Of course, one of the greatest features is not worry about viruses when opening a message!! Rocky <>< www.HintsAndTips.com www.MyQuickPoll.com - 2004 Election poll is #33 www.GotTheAnswerToSpam.com

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                          Well, I don't know. I have used it since 1996 or 1997. The only thing that pushed me over was the thought of having to enter all those accounts and passwords over again along with getting my email hooked up in the correct folders. Now that I am on Thunderbird, I seem to like it pretty well. There area several things that can be a pain with a large number of accounts, but it seems to have the features I require. Hopefully they will add more features that I "desire" :) One would to be able to see the number of unread messages in an account without having to expand the account on the tree. Get tired scrolling up and down trying to spot any new mail in all those accounts. Would be great if they had a summary folder which had a list of all recently received mail that was not flagged as junk. Oh yeah, and better junk parsing would be great. Get tired of the same email and having to keep flagging it as junk :) Of course, one of the greatest features is not worry about viruses when opening a message!! Rocky <>< www.HintsAndTips.com www.MyQuickPoll.com - 2004 Election poll is #33 www.GotTheAnswerToSpam.com

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                          But, since Thunderbird is open source, you can make the changes yourself.:-D The junk mail filter does get better. It took a couple of weeks for me to train it, but after that almost no junk mail gets through. There were a couple of emails recently that used ascii art, but I only had to mark a few of those and they are all getting blocked now.


                          I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book, only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon

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                            Well, I have 28 domains and I like to have at least one account that is the primary on the domain. Do not like forwarding it to on account or anything like that. When I send a message to someone at HintsAndTips.com, I do not expect a reply from someone at RJSoft.com :) Rocky <>< www.HintsAndTips.com www.MyQuickPoll.com - 2004 Election poll is #33 www.GotTheAnswerToSpam.com

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                            Neville Franks
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                            I've been using The Bat! for quite some time and can recommend it especially when you have a lot of accounts. I do do some forwarding and by using The Bats macro's you can quite easilly handle the 'reply to/from' issue you mention. I'm also keeping an eye on Thunderbird but so far it doesn't come close to The Bat! for lots of accounts etc. You should check it out. Neville Franks, Author of ED for Windows www.getsoft.com and coming soon: Surfulater www.surfulater.com

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                              You might want to make the distiction vs. home and work email. I'm sure most of us use outlook at work.


                              I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book, only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon

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                              Neville Franks
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                              What if you work from home? :rolleyes: Neville Franks, Author of ED for Windows www.getsoft.com and coming soon: Surfulater www.surfulater.com

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                                But, since Thunderbird is open source, you can make the changes yourself.:-D The junk mail filter does get better. It took a couple of weeks for me to train it, but after that almost no junk mail gets through. There were a couple of emails recently that used ascii art, but I only had to mark a few of those and they are all getting blocked now.


                                I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book, only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon

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                                andy brummer wrote: But, since Thunderbird is open source, you can make the changes yourself. But who has the six months to dig through all their code :) I also forgot, I have burried C/C++ in the past where legacy technologies reside ;) andy brummer wrote: There were a couple of emails recently that used ascii art, but I only had to mark a few of those and they are all getting blocked now. Yeah, get the same ones :-O Have flagged them several times but it has not yet caught on. Sad part is that I get them on multiple accounts and their filter training is "per" account... Still, I will suffer with it for the benefits it provides! I am a bit surprised no one has voted for Incredimail or Poco Mail. Both have been popular of late. Rocky <>< www.HintsAndTips.com www.MyQuickPoll.com - 2004 Election poll is #33 www.GotTheAnswerToSpam.com

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                                  I've been using The Bat! for quite some time and can recommend it especially when you have a lot of accounts. I do do some forwarding and by using The Bats macro's you can quite easilly handle the 'reply to/from' issue you mention. I'm also keeping an eye on Thunderbird but so far it doesn't come close to The Bat! for lots of accounts etc. You should check it out. Neville Franks, Author of ED for Windows www.getsoft.com and coming soon: Surfulater www.surfulater.com

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                                  Will have to check that out. So far no one else has voted for Bat, thought there might be a few users out there since it has such high download counts. Rocky <>< www.HintsAndTips.com www.MyQuickPoll.com - 2004 Election poll is #33 www.GotTheAnswerToSpam.com

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                                    What if you work from home? :rolleyes: Neville Franks, Author of ED for Windows www.getsoft.com and coming soon: Surfulater www.surfulater.com

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                                    Andy Brummer
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                                    Well, I guess you get to vote twice. ;) I'm just saying there is a difference between corporate and home email. Damn, I miss working from home. I need to find a job that only requires 1-2 days onsite.


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                                      Well, I guess you get to vote twice. ;) I'm just saying there is a difference between corporate and home email. Damn, I miss working from home. I need to find a job that only requires 1-2 days onsite.


                                      I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book, only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon

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                                      andy brummer wrote: Damn, I miss working from home. I need to find a job that only requires 1-2 days onsite. I haven't worked anywhere but at home in what seems like forever. Nor have I worked for anyone but me for a very long time.:-D And these two things will never change afaic. Neville Franks, Author of ED for Windows www.getsoft.com and coming soon: Surfulater www.surfulater.com

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                                        Something was messed up with an office installion and continually tried to update installations of VS.NET and Office every time I launched one of the products along with completely hosing my FrontPage to the point it would not boot. Had to reinstall Office and did not want the hassle of getting everything hooked back up in Outlook for the more than 30 email accounts I use. So, instead of the hassle with Office again (as I do every time I reinstall), I switched to Mozilla Thunderbird for my email client. While it does not have the features Outlook does, it also (so far) does not have the virus problems that Outlook does. Personally, I do not use the calendar or scheduling in Outlook and mostly used it for an email client so no lose there. Configuration for a large number of email accounts in Thunderbird is a bit of a pain, but so far it seems to work okay. So, that brought to mind what I think would be good poll material. What email client are you using? I tried to pick a list of the most popular. To Vote: http://MyQuickPoll.com/?P=Vote&ID=54[^] For Results: http://MyQuickPoll.com/?P=Results&ID=54[^] Rocky <>< www.HintsAndTips.com www.MyQuickPoll.com - 2004 Election poll is #33 www.GotTheAnswerToSpam.com

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                                        MyQuickPoll is a great idea, I think I'll use it soon to add poll to my personal website. Thanks In Advance :)


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                                          MyQuickPoll is a great idea, I think I'll use it soon to add poll to my personal website. Thanks In Advance :)


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                                          Hey thanks! That is what it is there for, to be used! Glad it can help out! I am pondering a link page where people can post a link to thier site if they have a poll active. Either that or possibly add a field to the poll for a web site link that the author can provide when they build the tip. Of course, that would be more beneficial if the tips were made public so that all the people that visit the site can see the other polls posted. What do you think? Rocky <>< www.HintsAndTips.com www.MyQuickPoll.com - 2004 Election poll is #33 www.GotTheAnswerToSpam.com

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