Help! (a bit OT)

I can't seem to get my new 'puter under control and I'm totally helpless. Nobody I know uses Windows 7 and I am at a loss about various features. I can't seem to delete those brilliant trolls like Craig Chilton or Reddog, but what's worst is that I try to save postings I've begun and it says that it saved the posting under 'drafts' or whatever that file is called in English and I can't find it there. Where in the net can I find help or can any of you help me. I've had a hell of a couple of weeks, with DD at home for two weeks with a cold that wouldn't go, then a massive effort in my old place, sorting things out and this week a dislocated vertebra between my shoulders and thus pain with every move of body, head and arms. I know that I sound stupid but I know, too, that you bear with silly girls like me and I've been missing you all very much.

U.

Reply to
Ursula Schrader
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Ursula, it sounds to me like you are having issues with Outlook Express or Outlook (or whatever e-mail/newsgroup client you use). If it is an OE or Outlook issue, try searching under the "Help". Or maybe there is a tutorial under the Start menu?

I have no experience with Win 7, so I cannot offer any help, but is there a Windows 7 Usenet group in German where you could get help?

Have you tried

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Good luck,

Reply to
BEI Design

Ursula, Feel better soon. Every thing becomes more manageable when you don't hurt. It may take you a few tries but you'll get rid of the trolls. Can you download Thunderbird and eternal-september. They work much better for getting rid of most of the garbage. I still get some, but I'm not overwhelmed

Reply to
Juno B

Can you download Thunderbird and eternal-september. They work much better for getting rid of most of the garbage. I still get some, but I'm not overwhelmed.

Juno,

Thanks for pointing out that Thunderbird is a news reader. Eternal-September is great for news, but using Outlook Express as a reader still leaves me with lots of troll droppings.

Reply to
Maureen

Actually Thunderbird is the mail source instead of OE. It is all part of Foxfire and Mozilla. It's just a much better system in my humble opinion. I don't think I could funtion with OE anymore. I was spamed to death. Nothing is going to get rid of everything but at least these give you a afighting chance. Juno

Reply to
Juno B

Thunderbird is a mail- and news-reader: primarily mail, its support for newsgroups is not as good as a dedicated newsreader (poor support for filtering to start with). Outlook Express is also a mail- and new-reader. Your mail and news are held on servers at your service provider: you appear to be using eternal-september for news. You must be using something else for mail.

Eternal-september is your news source, it holds copies of everyone's posts and propagates your posts to the Usenet heirarchy, eventually reaching the servers I use (Giganews, the provider for Free-online, my ISP).

You can't download eternal-september: you can download the messages you are interested in from eternal-september if you want to (but you don't have to, you can read them on the server).

To use the bulletin-board analogy, eternal-september is the board itself and the wall it's attached to. Thunderbird is the typewriter you used to type the post on.

Reply to
Alan Dicey

Thanks, Alan, nicely explained!

When Comcast discontinued providing free Usenet access (from Giganews), I investigated several providers. I use eternal-september.org for downloading messages, and my e-mail/newsreader client is OutlookExpress. EternalSeptember does a superb job of filtering most of the nonsense, my personal block list handles the rest.

Reply to
BEI Design

Thanks Alan for making that distinction. I use both, but never really understood the difference. I also know that there are many news readers out there. I think many of us start with OE and either switch or never stop complaining. It's really a matter of looking around and if necessary try several different sources. Juno

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Juno B

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