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Old May 17th 11, 02:24 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
thanatoid
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Default FireFox and "Stop Script" Nuisance

Lostgallifreyan wrote in
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thanatoid wrote in
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I don't want to be an annoying pest, but like I said in my
other post, nPop and Xnews do it faster and better, and no
"stop script" crap etc. And there are quite a few other
options as well.


I use nPOP too. I think email is far too important to be
held to ransom by the dubious performance of large systems.
Imagine having a phone attached to a TV, where the TV
suppressed phone use while adverts were showing, or when
the news was on. Doing emails with a browser is like that.
If you look at what it actually IS, you'll see that SMTP
and POP3 (for sending and receiving respectively) are
protocols with about as much to do with the WWW as a
telephone landline has to do with mass broadcasting. The
fact that access appears at the same location for the end
user these days is encouraging illusions that should be
abandoned to allow better control of things you need. Keep
them as separate as you can manage, so each system works as
you need. Ideally email should work well enough to be used
as a means to make emergency calls if the phone goes down.


I could NOT have said it as well. Can I save this bit to quote
when the subject comes up in some discussion with the clueless
(with full credit given)?

There's an nPOPuk variant that does a bit more. I prefer
the original but the variant does email forwarding and a
few other things extra.


Yes, various multiple folder options etc. I also prefer the
original, and manage the email content manually before archiving
it.