Windows Mail, how to make it not remember the last post?
Posted by admin on Sep 26th, 2006
This is kinda hard to explain, but...When reading newsgroups with the new Windows Mail, if I close it, and then go back to it later, when I open newsgroups, it jumps straight to about where the last message was that I read, and loads the new messages above and below where it "lands" at.In previous versions (OE and the old Windows Internet Mail and News), it would load the newsgroup messages and keep the list at the top.Does anyone know how to make Windows Mail not jump down the list of messages when viewing newsgroups?
Oct 2nd, 2006 at 02:10 am
"Xenomorph" Unfortunately there's no way to do that. I wish there were. Frank Saunders, MSMVP OE/WM fjsmjs.com Answer in newsgroup. Don't expect an answer to email.
Oct 3rd, 2006 at 08:26 am
No. This is one of the things the beta testers complained about, but MS never fixed it.Gary VanderMolen "Xenomorph"
Oct 3rd, 2006 at 11:06 pm
Their opinion was there was nothing to fix.steve"Gary VanderMolen"
Oct 6th, 2006 at 03:01 am
who's opinion was that there was "nothing to fix"??its a new "feature" that was added some may find it annoying (such as me!). why couldn't Microsoft add a toggle for it?? "Steve Cochran"
Oct 8th, 2006 at 05:29 pm
"Xenomorph" Apparently the developers and managers since it was never fixed to be what it was in OE, but then a lot of things ended up like that.Why didn't they do a lot of things they didn't or did do. Maybe the focus groups didn't understand or thought it was cool. Who knows.... I know some they didn't listen to very well.
Oct 9th, 2006 at 09:24 pm
They don't have the budget to cater to users' requests.steve"Xenomorph"
Oct 13th, 2006 at 11:29 am
but they had the budget to cater to *someone's* request that it be changed?when a feature works fine, and was changed for NO apparent reason saying its not in the budget to correct it seems like a weird excuse."Steve Cochran"
Oct 18th, 2006 at 09:20 am
I wasn't excusing it. Many beta users complained about it and they refused to put in a toggle, even though I suggested it.My point was they don't care about what the user wants. The features are downward driven not driven by what has been requested by the users for over 9 years. They ignore those requests.I'm not excusing any of this mess.steve"Xenomorph"
Oct 19th, 2006 at 08:57 pm
"Xenomorph" focus groups.You know, the people that rarely know anything but are willing to tell you all you want to hear about what they like.