Usually when I hear of someone using Outlook/Exp I am tempted to reply, 
"Don't do that".  But I usually hold my tongue.

(Tamas)
>  but the bad news is that you loose all your attachments like this.

People think Outlook is a file manager.  We can all do better than 
this.  Happily, my mail client strips attachments and converts them to 
files, which I then put where they belong.  And the mail files are smaller 
because of it.   And I don't suddenly lose a bunch of files if the mail 
program blows up.


((Jake)
>  if OE/O is running thunderbird will rip the emails from it.

Dario)
>  FWIW, I've been using Netscape for 10+ years now, and it's Mail module
>does save it all in ASCII format. I did same reasoning as you.

I have switched back and forth from Netscape to Eudora and all the while, 
they can read each other's files.  The "plain" format was established in 
RFC-822 which means every Linux mailer will understand them, as well as 
just about anything in Windows whose name doesn't start with "O".

I persuaded a colleague here to install Eudora (3 years ago).  It imported 
all his Outlook mail, and as a bonus he found all this "missing mail" that 
had been lost inside Outlook all this time.

(Jake)
>  "Ubuntu." "What?" "Ubuntu." "Huh?" "Ubuntu. It's Linux." "No, 
> seriously,  Redhat?"
>If only some of the Linux distros had a better name.....

True.  It kept me away for quite awhile.  But I was given a CD to try.  Not 
only is it the first distro I found to be able to boot up completely using 
a USB drive, but I was able to install it onto the SCSI drive (another 
challenge) and now that oddball computer has a useful OS of its very 
own.   I suspect Knoppix is up to the task these days but it's on a DVD 
which officially means it now has Too Many Features.


(Russell)
>All want a CD "Microsoft Office Professional 2003 with Frontpage".

And the best part is this:  The day I decided "That's it!  I'm not going to 
take this anymore!  Open Office works, and I shall be free of MS 
Office!"   I opened the Control Panel, went to Add/Remove, smugly selected 
Office and pushed the fateful "Remove" button.   The machine grinds a bit, 
displays "Preparing to start thinking about removing this program"...and then:

   "Please insert the Office CD"

To remove a program!

Barry (I'll be quiet now)

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