Re: OT: Is it me?
- From: "Pete Dashwood" <dashwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 10:19:22 +1300
It wasn't my intention to start a Browser war, Steve :-)
I feel the problem I had was entirely my own and no real fault of the
software. I've also used Netscape and it has just as many options.
The problem was in my mental approach to the problem... I didn't think it
through because I decided it was pretty trivial. If I had thought about it I
should have realised that the first place to look would be the View menu...
I like Outlook because I'm used to it and it works fine for me. If I got
used to Netscape I'd probably like that just as much.
I have also experimented with Mozilla Firefox and I really like that, (it
does seem to be very stable and is more user friendly in the messages it
gives you), but there is a degree of inertia that I would have to overcome
touse one Browser at work, and a different one at home.
It is simpler for me to use one Browser. I guess I'm just not passionately
anti-MS.
Pete.
"SkippyPB" <swiegand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 14:31:38 +1300, "Pete Dashwood"
> <dashwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> enlightened us:
>
>>I'm an IT professional. Worked in the game all my working life (almost,
>>and
>>discounting various jobs done as a student, teacher training, and in out
>>of
>>the way places on the planet where they didn't have electricity, let alone
>>computers...), 40 years. Without being immodest, I consider myself
>>competent, and over the years, people have paid considerable sums of money
>>to get my opinion on things IT, and help them solve problems.
>>
>>So, when I noticed that one thread in this forum was getting pretty long
>>and
>>it was becoming tedious to have to scroll down it to find unread messages,
>>I
>>decided: "No problem, I can deal with this..." (I'm sure many of you have
>>thought exactly the same words, about two milliseconds before the house of
>>cards came falling down.... :-))
>>
>>I decided a good way would be to get Outlook to simply delete all messages
>>more than one month old. (You can see I gave a great deal of thought to
>>this...). What if I need to reference an older message? No problem; GOOGLE
>>Groups archives all the dribble we write here, and it is enshrined for
>>future generations (I'd love to know what they make of it in say, 500
>>years... :-)) OK, safe to put a rule based filter into Outlook Newsgroups.
>>Looked up the Help... did it.(About 30 minutes all up... I don't rush, and
>>consider each step carefully when going into "unexplored territory" (i.e.
>>stuff I haven't done before)).
>>
>>Took another look at the thread. Sure enough, all the messages older than
>>30
>>days were removed. But there were so many posts, it STILL got pretty
>>tiring
>>on the eyes scrolling down it and looking for the ones in bold print...
>>
>>Now, I have learned (and I remember trivia like this), that if I press
>>control/T while in a topic, it marks all messages in that thread as read.
>>(This is useful when I read a message in a thread and decide I REALLY
>>don't
>>want to participate...). Surely there has to be a Ctrl key combination
>>that
>>will simply move to the next UNREAD message in the thread...? Searched
>>Help... Nope. Can't see one. Tried Help from a different angle and Hey!
>>Presto!
>>
>>There is an option on the View menu that lets you see ONLY unread
>>messages... Took all of 2 seconds to implement. :-) I can flick it on and
>>off as necessary, so if I want to read "context" message which I have
>>previously read, again, no problem.
>>
>>I am posting this here because there are a number of interesting
>>conclusions
>>to be drawn:
>>
>>1. Nothing is ever easy. (If it is, as in this case, a highly paid
>>consultant will make it difficult...:-))
>>2. Even simple, user friendly, GUI based software like Outlook, has so
>>many
>>options you can't know them all. [I guess, if I had ever been on an
>>Outlook
>>course - has anybody? - they would have gone through ALL the options on
>>ALL
>>the menus. Unfortunately, the thought of paying good money to have that
>>kind
>>of tedium inflicted on me, makes me decide to do it myself...In
>>retrospect,
>>this might not always be a good decision. I'll be looking at MS Project in
>>a
>>new light on Monday and may allocate 10 minutes a day (that's about all I
>>can stand at any one time) to explore specific menus and options that I
>>don't use.]
>>3. Even smart people sometimes do stupid things. There is no monopoly on
>>foolishness, or being excluded from it.
>>4. When designing simple, user friendly, GUI based software, make sure the
>>Help file is fully indexed and useful. (I have actually spent more time
>>writing Help for some components, than I spent in actually developing
>>them.)
>>
>>Experience may be the best teacher, but her fees can be very high...
>>
>>Pete.
>>
>>
>
> Unfortunately my employer insists that we use MS-Outlook for our
> email. I hate it. Most of my colleagues hate it. None of us have it
> on our personal computers. We call it MS-Lookout (cause you're never
> really sure what it is going to do). Others call it MS-Outhouse. As
> much as I dislike it for email, I can't imagine trying to use it for
> usenet. It is, as I think Pete discovered, not intuitive in its use
> nor logical nor user friendly. And let's not even get into security
> features/safeguards.
>
> I guess I'd say if you have a choice, choose something else.
>
> Regards,
> ////
> (o o)
> -oOO--(_)--OOo-
>
>
> "Start every day with a smile and get it over with."
> -- W.C. Fields
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>
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>
> Steve
>
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