XPost: alt.os.development   
   From: alexfru@chat.ru   
      
   I have to make another post to make an addition because OE has managed to   
   send the draft already (in automatic send/receive mode), while I've been   
   editing it... :(   
      
   "Alexei A. Frounze"  wrote in message   
   news:45fmvcF6e3lbU1@individual.net...   
   > "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   
      
   Alex   
      
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