A step backwards - and now a bit annoyed

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> I've received quite a bit of response to this thread, which which would
> be pleasing if any of it were of the slightest use to me.  The one thing
> I did try was downloading Netscape 7 and trying that.  The behavior is
> identical.

So you effectively, ignored all of the advice offered on this list, and
then got angry with us because you still have the same problem.

>
> I do agree with the one reply which indicated it looked more like an
> application problem than a distro problem per se, so I'm not going to
> replace the distro, I'm going to ditch it.  Many of the rest of the
> replies seemed more intent on pushing a favorite distro than paying any
> attention to the actual problem.

On the contrary, people suggested the distro that they have successfully
performed the tasks that you appear unable to perfrom.  If they didn't
have success, then they wouldn't be their favorite distro.  Or more
succinctly, they became the favorite distro because they worked.

> To repeat:  Netscape (including 7) cannot fetch my wife's mail from
> the ISP (Pac Bell); fetchmail can, and that gets the mail into Netscape's
> Inbox.  But she cannot then move the mail to any of her local folders --
> it just keeps trying forever.  She wants to go back to using netscape
> the way she did on Windows, and it looks like the only way to do that
> is to actually run Windows.

To repeat, this works (with PacBell, my ISP) just fine for me in Mozilla
1.x.  Netscape is not mozilla, and you're fierce determination to continue
using it will result in your continued frustration while using.

Something is very badly broken on your end.  Either its your choice of
browser, the configuration that you're using, or perhaps the entire
distro, i don't know.  What i do know is trhat you were incredibly
selective in what you chose to try to resolve the issue.

>
> I'm out of time or patience for dinking with this any more.  I'll be
> too busy gritting my teeth and installing Windoze.  At least I know what
> to expect.  Grrrrrrrrrr.

have fun

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