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Old May 16th 11, 12:53 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Lostgallifreyan
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Default FireFox and "Stop Script" Nuisance

thanatoid wrote in
:

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.

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.

Putting programs on their own partition is something I do too. Those that
allow it are usually more selfcontained, will usually run on W98 or WXP (so
long as they will run on W98 at all), and they also tend to limit their
dependencies so that they are more indepedent of each other, and far less
likely to break (or break each other).