System Restore

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I have "blocked sender" of a lot of spam in OE early today. If I restore the
system to a date a week ago will the blocked senders be unblocked?
 
John R said:
I have "blocked sender" of a lot of spam in OE early today. If I restore
the system to a date a week ago will the blocked senders be unblocked?
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Using Block Senders on spam is pretty useless. Most spammers keep changing
addresses. Also, as the list gets large it starts slowing OE down.
 
There is a separate newsgroup for OE. I think it is likely you will get
useful advice from there.

You can ask questions such as this here if you wish; I am not saying not to.
I am saying that if you sincerely want answers you should use the
appropriate newsgroup.
 
Frank Saunders answered the question and knows a lot about Outlook
Express having posted in those newsgroups for many years.


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Gerry
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So are you saying it is useless to use the appropriate newsgroup? If that is
not what you are saying then the only value to saying what you said is just
to be critical.
 
Cross-Posted to OE Newsgroups:

John R,
Yes the System Restore will restore the block senders list back to the way
that it was for the previous week. Since it restores the system's registry
back to where it was then. Before using the restore feature, with OE closed,
consider backing up the current registry keys for OE message rules/block
senders, saving it to a floppy disk, or another media, you will need to do
this for each IDENTITY, if you use Multiple Identities in OE. Then after you
do the system restore, delete the old OE registry keys, and merge the new OE
registry keys. The Keys can be found after typing REGEDIT in the RUN command
under the START button, located here:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\{LongID Number}\Software\Microsoft\Outlook
Express\5.0\Block Senders

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\{LongID Number}\Software\Microsoft\Outlook
Express\5.0\Rules

Again make sure after you do the restore, and OE closed, that you first
delete these old registry keys, that are now present. Then you can click on
the saved registry keys, and merge them back into the registry.
 
Sam

I was pointing out that when posting you need to be aware of what others
have posted.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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And I was pointing out that there are other newsgroups in which people
seaking answers are more likely to get the best answers. Since you choose to
ignore that it is useless to continue this.
 
Sam

Would he have got a better answer than the one he got?

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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There are many excellent reasons why there is such an abundance of
newsgroups each with varying purposes. Your opinion obviously is that only
one newsgroup is needed. That opinion will always be inconsistent with most
other people.
 
No Sam. One good answer to a question. What you suggested was fine if
this was not so.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
You just want to be negative. You will be negative regarlous of what I say.
So go ahead, take one last strike, you will always insist upon having the
last response; you will never let this go away unless you do.
 
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