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   From: alexfru@chat.ru   
      
   "Maxim S. Shatskih"  wrote in message   
   news:dstudq$2rtn$1@gavrilo.mtu.ru...   
   ...   
   > Hiding the files at all will cause major headaches. Even now the question   
   > of   
   > "how to move my Outlook Express data to another computer?" is rather   
   > complex -   
   > and OE is a good sample of the app using the OO structures inside the   
   > files.   
      
   I have two approaches for that one... First is to copy the files from one OE   
   to the other. But this doesn't come for free just like that. Not for   
   newsgroup messages at least. For some reason OE treats the news data   
   different from regular email data. If I just copy a .dbx file for a   
   newsgroup, I can't see it. I must be subscribed to the group. If I then   
   subscribe to the group, I can't see it either because OE creates another   
   .dbx file for the group just subscribed. I must instead first subscribe to   
   the group and receive some messages (populate the new .dbx file) and only   
   then I can overwrite it with the old .dbx file and continue from there.   
   Another bad thing here is that something's wrong with the format   
   interpretation, I specifically mean the date... If I try to move the .dbx   
   file between English and Russian windows/OE, I'll get the sorting messed up   
   (probably due to the different default order of day and month) and then   
   there will be some other problems. Finally, it's impossible to drag a .nws   
   file from explorer to OE and get it into the .dbx file. It works with email   
   messages and you can extract news posts from a .dbx that way but not the   
   other way around.   
   There's another one... OE wouldn't let me to subscribe to a group whose name   
   I know -- it would require me to download the entire list of the newsgroups   
   from the NNTP server first and then select the group from the list, which I   
   hate to do when I'm on a dialup. Oddly enough, there's a shortcut -- I may   
   create an HTML page containing a link of the form "news:newsgroupname" (it   
   doesn't want to let me type the previous thing in the quotes w/o the   
   quotes -- too smart :) and click on it, which would add a newsgroup to your   
   news account w/o getting the list of groups!   
   Nasty hacks...   
   And for whatever weird reason (to tie people to OE?), OE does not support   
   exporting messages into anything but exchange, however it seems to have   
   support to import messages from other mail clients. Not sure if that's for   
   emails only or it actually imports news messages too -- it seems that news   
   posts are entirely different species which OE doesn't really like.   
      
   > Pure OO paradigm is great on paper and is hardly compatible with the real   
   > life.   
   > "The paper is smooth, but the real site has canyons".   
      
   Fortunately or unfortunately.   
      
   Alex   
      
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