Re: "surprise2"
Yes, sign the agreement, no other way, no harm unless you try to copy
TBird and/or sell it.
You need to set up your email account in TBird, so use
jseigel@panix.com, you don't invent an address, you use the one you
already have. Your incoming server is most likely smtp.panix.com; but
remember, isp's have tech support help; so if you hit a brick wall, call
them, that's part of what you pay every month. Also, go to
http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/ for online TBird help and
http://opensourcearticles.com/articles/thunderbird_15/english/part_01
for a step by step tutorial that looks pretty good.
If all this doesn't help, I'll be happy to help you via phone, 512-925-9313.
Pam
Judy Seigel wrote:
Dear Rudolfo, Pam, Ben, and ...ooops, I forget who said "Eudora" after
I'd committed to T-Bird.... (Eudora might have been better after
all... but now I suspect they're all in their own world of systems and
jargon and protocols that leave the uninitiate flopping on the deck
gasping for water.)
Supposedly an old Chinese saying explains that if you save someone's
life you're responsible for them forever after. I, however, merely
point out that you guys got me into this and now... hellllp !
It began simply enough... Rudolfo said Thunderbird 2, and Pam, who is
NOT given to idle chatter, promptly chimed in to second the motion.
Therefore it was with some sense of security, if not actual destiny,
that I proceeded to the URL and downloaded TBird.
That operation was in itself a bit baffling, but a kind of computer
quirk I'm used to. It gives you a progress bar on which the time ebbs
and flows, from 4 minutes to 7 minutes, to 12 minutes to 17 minutes to
20 and 21 minutes, then down to 10 and 7 again, up to 19, 22, and so
forth, for a total of 29 minutes and 50 seconds -- and finally, there
it is. Now what? Well, quit stalling -- set the thing up and get on
with it.
After the licensing agreement, that is. Ye gods, if the digitons come
out through the end of the antenna and paint everything in this house
blue, I cannot hold them or any of their subheads, assigns,
compartments or derivatives responsible.
But what choice do I have ? I "sign."
Next, I need to invent an address. On very short notice, too. My eyes
fall on the letter in red crayon posted on the refrigerator -- from my
future grand daughter by way of her father. I read, "I hope you like
surprises, too." OK, Surprise2 seems to work.
But next is a page of gibberish that stops me in my tracks, and who
knows what lies beyond -- it won't let me go there until I've finished
my homework here:
Quote: "Enter the name of your incoming server, eg, 'mail.example.net.'"
Hunh?
And, as if that weren't enough, after that it says:
"Enter the name of your outgoing server, for example 'smtp.example.net.'"
I suspect it means that this e-mail program of 18.6 megabytes and 29.5
minutes of download is not self sufficient but requires incoming and
outgoing "servers," but what, where and who they are I don't have a clue.
Not only that, but the whole thing unnerved me so profoundly that
without any sense of what I was doing, as in a trance, I ate an entire
vanilla ice cream sandwich out of the freezer and only woke up at the
point of eating another.
So tomorrow it's lettuce leaves and parsley stems, perhaps a leaf or
two of bok choy. (Just kidding, I'll run a few miles instead.)
Meanwhile, should I give up and go back to the awful mail program in
situ, which I daresay already has its "incoming" and "outgoing"
servers? Is there, perhaps, some stock phrase that will satisfy it,
like "Open sesame," or do I have to actually know something? And will
there be more
of these booby traps? Questions that even the veriest idiot would
understand, that leave me nonplussed?
Thanking all kindly in advance, while seriously considering another
ice cream sandwich. No, it's 20 of one. Another day shot. I'm going
to bed.
sigh,
Judy
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