"Eric Schreiber" eric at ericschreiber dot com wrote in message
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Margolis wrote:

I have never seen this to be an oe problem. I have seen this
happen on several occasions to various people. And every single time
it has been a server problem. I believe some people are just too
quick to want to blame microsoft for every little problem, when most
of the time it has nothing to do with microsoft

"Most of the time" is hard to nail down. Suffice to say that the reason
a number of us pointed to OE as the likely culprit is because we've
seen numerous cases where OE was, in fact, the source of the problem.
It's not a knee-jerk "blame Microsoft" mentality, but simply a best
guess based on prior experience.

I do know of instances where OE and Outlook itself will lose whole archive
message stores if those message stores become too large. (Mainly on 98, NT
and 2K/XP running Fat32 FS)

I am using OE atm, but I prefer Mozilla Thunderbird because it uses the old
newsrc method which is easily maintained, accessed and recoverable.

I think there are also tools out there which can retrieve the mysterious
lost messages even if they don't appear in Explorer.

I have stopped blaming M$ for a lot of things but one thing I am ****ed
about is Windows Update where it says a d/l will be, say 219k, and in fact
it's many many megabytes, with the 219k being the installer head which links
to svchost.exe, which is really the completely unintelligent Background
Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS). I don't "blame" them any more but I do
get angry that they can't be upfront about the true size of some of the
rubbish they put out as Windows Updates.

Any way back to the point: I think Mozilla Thunderbird and Firebird are far
more compliant, serviceable and efficient than the M$ offerings.

My 0.02

Oz