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DS - 15.11.2005 18:35 :

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Thanks, I'll check them out
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please report your results here - but please WITHOUT all these ~100
unnecessary quoting lines. THX.
 
Beauregard said:
AFAIK, there should never be a HOSTS file in
c:\windows\system32\drivers
You may delete that one. (How did it get there?)
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BTS,

IIRC, my WinXP HE SP2 box shipped with a HOSTS file in c:\windows\system32\drivers. The file consisted of several lines of comments by MS, and then the single entry:

127.0.0.1 localhost

I didn't keep the original HOSTS file because I felt competent enough to re-create it. But then again ... <g>

Ron :)
 
Ron said:
BTS,

IIRC, my WinXP HE SP2 box shipped with a HOSTS file in
c:\windows\system32\drivers. The file consisted of several lines of
comments by MS, and then the single entry:

127.0.0.1 localhost
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Was that file named HOSTS (no extension), or perhaps HOSTS.SAM or maybe
LMHOSTS.SAM? I had those here with Win2K. But as I recall, they were all
in the \etc directory.
I didn't keep the original HOSTS file because I felt competent enough
to re-create it. But then again ... <g>
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Same here. :-)
 
DS said:
Netscapes days are done, as was IExplorer a couple of years ago.
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DS,

So are Mozilla's:
(http://ilias.ca/mozilla/)

Switch to Firefox/Thunderbird or SeaMonkey.
(http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/)
(http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/)
(http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/)

If you prefer to wait, the official release of SeaMonkey should be soon, as it is still in Alpha.

BTW, I know a lot of people who use and like Opera, including me, but I know very few who use its email/NNTP client.

Ron :)
 
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