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On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 07:55:07 -0400, Allen Epps
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On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 22:52:12 -0500, Cyli wrote:

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Snake, this sort of thing just won't happen if you stop using Outlook
and go over to a real newsreader and a real email program. Try Free
Agent (it's free) for newsreading and try Pegasus or Eudora for email.

Well, whadayaknow...those programs will override a deliberate
"accidental" post to a newsgroup?

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R,
You simply configure MS Lookout to go to your mail account and the
newreader to go to the news account and keep them separate that way.
It's not foolproof but if you have to switch apps to do functions it'll
cut down on the chances of a mistake.

I use Thoth for newsreading and Mozzilla for mail.

Thanks, Allen, but a) there's a very good chance you got the term
(directly or indirectly) "Lookout (Distress)" from me, on or off ROFF,
which leads to b), I'd not use it for anything, at any time, configured
or unconfigured. I use a separate client for a newsreader (Agent, 1.93
and 2.0x) and I'm not the one who posted an alleged email to ROFF.

And as aside, I'm not particularly anti-MS - some of their stuff is OK,
some ain't, and no, I didn't and don't REALLY think "Gill Bates" is the
"Un-natural hellspawn of some four-eyed limp-wristed devil with a
perma-swirly and a light little chip on his weak, dainty shoulder"

Thanks, anyway,
R

(1) While no lover of MS products they do have their place and I do a
lot of design work on them for my customer (and my company just filed
for a patent on my behalf for a defence in depth security architecture
based primarly on Windows products) but given the results of a recent
study at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where it put two
unpatched Windows XP systems on the 'net, and both were compromised
within 20 minutes. you'll find nothing I personally depend on attached
to a Windows systems, all Mac and Linux for me.

(2) While I may have seen "Lookout" used by you it's been in use in our
internal Mac Users Group since that product came out.

Allen