Re: Off-topic request for assistance

[Robert Holmgren holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

Aw, c'mon guys! Why are you inflicting this on us? If you want to talk
about Win98 and ISPs, isn't there some other, better place? It's bad enough,
incessantly reading the same old already-posed-year-after-year questions
(from persons who apparently can't bother to look in the
manual first), and people grasping for the same old already-proffered
answers -- what a giant memory leak this maillist often seems. But
if you KNOW you're off-topic, it takes some nerve to persist. Not nice, not
fair, and not necessary to tolerate.

> EVT:
> 
> >Can anyone recommend a good book on Surviving the Transition
> >from Win3.x to Win98?
> 
> I think that books that try hard to explain one system in terms of another
> may not be helpful. For one thing, they're likely to spend a lot of time
> explaining how ghastly but avoidable ingredient of system B compares with
> corresponding ghastly but avoidable ingredient of system A -- whereas you
> may well have worked out alternatives for yourself. (In my case, I never
> used File Manager and I virtually never use the bit of Explorer that's
> called Explorer.) Just make the jump and keep your wits about you. It will
> be confusing at first, but you'll soon figure it out. A good book about
> Win98, though without particular reference to Win31 or 95, is Brian
> Livingston and Davis Straub's *Windows 98 Secrets*.
> 
> >Can anyone recommend an
> >e-mail "forwarding" service which they've found reliable?
> 
> I'm knowledgably and reliably informed that Lycosmail (now Mailcity) does
> what you want, and does it free and well. To find it, just go to
> http://www.lycos.com/ and dig around for "free mail service" or similar.
> (Burp.)
> 
> NS:
> 
> >Why not get rid of Win 98 and install either Win
> >NT or Win 95 OSR2?
> 
> I can't think of any advantage of 95 OSR2 over 98. If you're going to
> install NT, you might as well ask around a bit and you'll probably find
> somebody who has 2000.
> 
> >2. Re ISP's, I would hesitate to sign up for one of the
> >free email accounts so widely on offer. They (e.g.,
> >Hotmail) generally tack an ad on to every email message.
> 
> Perhaps Hotmail acts as an ISP in the US. I don't know as I haven't
> investigated. But its standard service is not that of an ISP: to use
> Hotmail in the way that most people do, you must already have internet
> access, e.g. through a conventional ISP. Hotmail does not append an advert
> (other than a minimal and ignorable one, for itself) to messages that it
> sends. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Peter Evans 
> 



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Robert Holmgren
holmgren@xxxxxxxx
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