Windows Live Mail reverts to 3 year old contact list?

On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 15:38:44 -0000, "William Gothberg" "William
wrote:


A sane person picks their favourite email program and sticks to it.



Although the "sticks to it" part of that sentence is generally true,
the first half of it isn't. Most people don't pick a favorite. Most
people haven't even tried more than one; they use what comes with
Windows and have never compared it to anything else.

That is, except for those who don't use *any* e-mail program. They use
the browser that comes with Windows and do their e-mail there.
Unfortunately, despite a browser being the worst way to do e-mail in
my opinion, more and more people (perhaps the majority now) do it
that way.

On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 16:58:17 -0000, Ken Blake wrote:

On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 15:38:44 -0000, "William Gothberg" "William
wrote:

A sane person picks their favourite email program and sticks to it.


Although the "sticks to it" part of that sentence is generally true,
the first half of it isn't. Most people don't pick a favorite. Most
people haven't even tried more than one; they use what comes with
Windows and have never compared it to anything else.

That is, except for those who don't use *any* e-mail program. They use
the browser that comes with Windows and do their e-mail there.
Unfortunately, despite a browser being the worst way to do e-mail in
my opinion, more and more people (perhaps the majority now) do it
that way.

I agree it's a horrid way to do things, and I only use it to access my email away from home when I don't have a POP3 application with me. But I can only think of one person who uses webmail at home.

On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 16:29:42 -0000, Frank Slootweg wrote:

Liam Roberts wrote:
On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 12:12:57 -0000, Frank Slootweg wrote:

Christopher McVitie wrote:
On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 22:29:13 -0000, Frank Slootweg wrote:
[...]
(For this - off-topic - part) EOD.

Saying that after you post a huge reply which I've now taken the time
to read and reply to is EXTREMELY childish.

Says the one who changed name, gender and country! Troll much!?

I never changed gender and my country is not stated.

Ah, I see! Not only a troll, but a stupid one at that!

What's stupid that I've done?

And using a troll server

No I'm not. I'm using the servers which are most reliable and cheapest.

and being lazy and using a broken/misconfigured
newsreader. Need I go on!?

It isn't broken or misconfigured.

[More ********/cluelessness deleted.]

[Response to whatever it was ignored, due to lack of data]

On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 15:42:46 -0000, nospam wrote:

In article , William Gothberg
wrote:

Anyway, either the (Android(/Apple(iOS))) one-contact-list
the smart way *or* the seperate-contact-lists method is the smart
way.
Guess which of the two methods is used on billions and billions of
devices!?

But why on earth would I have the same contacts in my email program
as
my
instant messenger? Even if I did, it's different info. The email
program
records their email address. The instant messenger needs their er...
whatever you call their instant messaging ID.

so that there's one database to manage, which various apps can access
and pull the relevant information.

Only useful if you use several programs that use the same information.
I
tend to use one for each task, and assume almost everyone does the same.

you assume wrong.

Why on earth would you have more than one email program?

missing the point entirely.

Then say what your point is. A sane person picks their favourite email program and sticks to it.

it was already stated.

Well if you'd quote properly I could look up.