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Hi, Sharon.

My hometown ISP (San Marcos Internet, Inc.) sold out to ("joined forces",
they said) the larger hometown communication conglomerate (Grande
Communications) last month. While they both use the same news server
(SuperNews), I've had to switch to the Grande server. When I created the
new News account in OE, it started me over from scratch in my Usenet
newsgroups.

That doesn't affect these MS public NGs directly, but I've spent so much
time catching up in my Quicken NG and a couple of others in Usenet that I've
gotten a little behind here in the WindowsXP groups, too.

It sure was nice for the past 10 years, being able to call up and talk to
the ISP's owner when I had a problem. Now, he's still there, but he works
for the big corporation. So I have to fight my way through a half-dozen
layers of phone maze just to get to Tech Support - including working my way
past offers to help with my telephone or TV cable. :( And neither he nor
I can understand yet why I have to disable Norton Internet Security at least
temporarily before I can collect my email, which still uses the same POP3
server.

Oh, well. Onward and upward. Bigger is always better. NOT!

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP

"Sharon F" wrote in message
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On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:07:45 -0600, R. C. White wrote:

Oh. Rereading your post, I see you have TWO X'es in XXcopy. I've never
tried that one. So I don't know if the same two factors apply to that.

Hi, RC. Yep, 2 XX's - a similar but different program. Did you reset your
newsreader recently? Just wondering since this is an older thread.

--
Sharon F
MS-MVP ~ Windows Shell/User

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:57:17 -0600, R. C. White wrote:

Hi, Sharon.

My hometown ISP (San Marcos Internet, Inc.) sold out to ("joined forces",
they said) the larger hometown communication conglomerate (Grande
Communications) last month. While they both use the same news server
(SuperNews), I've had to switch to the Grande server. When I created the
new News account in OE, it started me over from scratch in my Usenet
newsgroups.

That doesn't affect these MS public NGs directly, but I've spent so much
time catching up in my Quicken NG and a couple of others in Usenet that I've
gotten a little behind here in the WindowsXP groups, too.

It sure was nice for the past 10 years, being able to call up and talk to
the ISP's owner when I had a problem. Now, he's still there, but he works
for the big corporation. So I have to fight my way through a half-dozen
layers of phone maze just to get to Tech Support - including working my way
past offers to help with my telephone or TV cable. :( And neither he nor
I can understand yet why I have to disable Norton Internet Security at least
temporarily before I can collect my email, which still uses the same POP3
server.

Oh, well. Onward and upward. Bigger is always better. NOT!

RC

I hope that there will be improvement after the dust from the changeover
settles. Good luck with the new/old service.

--
Sharon F
MS-MVP ~ Windows Shell/User

Seeing this thread prompts me to ask why full file name are copied but
folder names are truncated to aaaaaa~1.aaa. More importantly is it possible
(and how) to use full length folder names?

Thanks.

Bill Ridgeway

Bill, please include previous message in your replies to newsgroup posts (OE
ToolsOptionsSend...).

Thank you.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (Shell, IE/OE) & Security

Bill Ridgeway wrote:
Seeing this thread prompts me to ask why full file name are copied but
folder names are truncated to aaaaaa~1.aaa. More importantly is it
possible (and how) to use full length folder names?