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Jul 17, 2002, 7:17am

[View Quote] > The 132 chars limit can be changed with a simple registry modification as you'll notice in this post, your text won't wrap.

Wraps fine to me. <shrug>

> HKCU\Identities\GUID\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express\5.0\News\Message Plain Character Line Wrap can be set to any value, I set it to 7fff (32767 chars). Of course under \5.0\Mail\ you can do the same for e-mail wrapping.

Much more of a hassle than Netscape Messenger. ;)

> As for the updates frequent visits to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com (which are a must, OE user or not) conveniently take care of everything.

Assuming the new Windows Update still works for your Windows version. Under 2K it gives me an error. It only seems to support XP anymore anyway.

> To me it's the best solution for email-news; I've tried tons of programs, even wrote one when I was desperate with all the html bull I received and nothing comes even close to OE. I still use Lurker32 for fast offline queries (http://www.wugnet.com/csreviews/software/lurker32/) but the UI is just terrible. If only they added an html blocking feature it would be close to perfect, second most requested feature after *nix ports. Follow-ups set to general.discussion.

OE is crap at newsreading. "Ctrl+U" for next unread message (and other awkward 2-key combinations) vs simply "N" (and other 1-key commands) in Netscape Messenger. And forget combining (or even saving) multiple yEnc-encoded (or just multiple) messages. And OE annoyingly caches the ENTIRE saved message to disk IN ADDITION to saving it. Uh...talk about wasteful--something Microslop is indeed.

No thanks! OE is crap.

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