For the attention of: Heather Dudley, Dotan Cohen and James Knott.
I would like to thank you all for your helpful suggestions and discussion but I'm sending this to the open list because some of the points show how careful one has to be to convey the facts.
So, I should apologise for not making it clear that the webmail I was using was that of my ISP: Orange, i.e. it was on the route that my email normally takes. So, I was using the my usual email address.
I'm afraid I didn't understand the term "default client". I didn't know whether that was related to my ISP or that of the addressee/website I was trying to interact with. According to my Rough Guide to the Internet (2000) - glossary, a client is: "program that accesses information across a network, such as a Web browser or newsreader". I find that not much clearer than mud. Does that mean and ISP is a client and that my ISP is my client? And, how should I know when a "default client" is referred to who's client it is?
I'm not a computer expert by the way (yes, painfully obvious), I'm a retired biochemist.
The reason I wanted to unsubscribe from the mailing list was that in Outlook Express and having broadband, when 50- 100 messages download, I direct them straight into an Open Office folder and can deal with them at leisure. I have learnt a lot by browsing selectively since I subscribed, but from there I can do bulk deletes. On the webmail site, I have not been able to divert these messages from the Inbox. Hence, I was having to click a box next to each message before I could do a delete. I could only delete a page at a time (20 messages) I could probably have a page of 100 messages, but then if I want to deal with non OO messages, I have to read all through to isolate them. Inconvenient!
I managed to send an "unsubscribe" message by copying in the [EMAIL PROTECTED] address and got a response asking me to confirm. But, although I sent the confirm message to the email address provided, that didn't work and I'm still receiving all the mailing list messages. The good news is that it doesn't matter now, because when I switched on this morning Outlook Express opened and has been working ever since (with one other start up).
Last but not least, James Knott wrote "Instead of using OE, why not go with a far better email program, such as Thunderbird or Seamonkey?" Well James I have been using OE for 14 years+ and I don't know anything about either of the other programmes you mentioned. Please elaborate and let us know the advantages?
Thanks again. Best wishes to all, Dave Potter, Sittingbourne UK. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
