OT: Missing MVP's

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I'm with you. I don't worry about that aspect either, although I do try
to respond to new posts within 20 minutes of having done the last sync.

Gary VanderMolen, Microsoft MVP (Mail)


"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message
I think [NNTP Bridge] has a decided advantage...
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But only if you sync your newsreader with your forums immediately before you
start posting replies.

If you compose your replies while working offline, you're at a distinct
advantage and whatever info you eventually post may well have been
superseded by other replies to the thread posted after you last synchronized
with the forum. [Trust me on this, Ken.]
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I trust you, Bear (I trust you on almost everything). And I'm aware
that what you say is correct. Nevertheless, it's something that I
don't overly worry about. Some of what I post may turn out be
superseded, or even wrong, as a result, but the alternative of doing
it directly on the web is so much slower that I have no interest in
doing it. I'll live with the problem you mention.
 
Alerts.live.com can only configure the respective Live ID used to sign on to Alerts.live.com.

Alert options for each respective Live ID are:
1. When signed in to WLMessenger as available
- WLMsgr, and Live ID email account and/or mobile device
or
2. When not signed on WLMessenger as available device
- Live ID email account and/or mobile

It does not provide the ability to send an alert to another email address
- though one could (and external to alerts.live.com)
a. configure the other email address to pop the Live ID email account, or
b. forward the Live ID email account to another email address(manual or via the web account configuration or if permitted via a local rule)


....winston
ms-mvp mail

"Robert Aldwinckle" wrote in message
But do they have a setting to change your email address for the alerts?
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http://alerts.live.com/Alerts/MyAlerts.aspx

then [Edit delivery] (on the desired provider)

then [Edit your e-mail settings] (if that is what you want to change)


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Have you tried that? As far as I can see, all I can edit is the /settings/
for that e-mail account (as it says). No way to change it...
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You're right. Not even adding a Linked Id changes the option. Useless.

ICIM my primary Live ID is a non Hotmail web-based E-mail account. The
account I linked it to is a real Hotmail account.


Robert
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"Robert Aldwinckle" wrote in message
You're right. Not even adding a Linked Id changes the option. Useless.

ICIM my primary Live ID is a non Hotmail web-based E-mail account. The account I linked it to is a real Hotmail account.
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I don't think /linking/ Live IDs has anything to do with anything much. It just makes it (surprisingly) quick and easy to switch from one account to another, whichever live.com page you happen to be on. I just performed my regular password change on all my Live IDs. With them linked, I can do it all from the same page and it makes what used to be a major chore into a doddle.

Back to the question of alerts and being able to change the address they're sent to. We've established that you can't. But one thing I did discover (by accident) is that Forwarding from a Hotmail account appears to be no longer restricted to 'to another Hotmail account' unless you pay for Hotmail Plus. This could be either another unpublished feature of Wave 4 - unpublished so as not to p*** off those who've just shelled out their $19.95 solely to have this possibility - or my account has somehow been upgraded for good behaviour. Anyway, it seems to be working, so it's worth trying.
 
PS to my immediately preceding post: I just tried forwarding from a new live.co.uk account to a Gmail one. I'm told by an inbox banner that my mail /is/ being forwarded. So for those who want to retain their gongs and stripes from the MS forums but have their alerts sent somewhere else, there's the answer. It does require, though, that the Live ID used at the forums is a Hotmail-type one (i.e. with an inbox at mail.live.com).
 
See definition 2:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aesopian
Thanks, so it is a "nothing" word :-)
Here in Australia the term most commonly used is "bullshit"


"What is "Aesopian" ?"

It is a word used by people who wish to convey that they think they know
more than the average bear, or otherwise convey that the referred to
commentary is somewhat ambiguous. :)

Art [artfudd] Folden
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"Sunny" wrote in message


Addition to my last:

O.K.

I looked at it.

But it seems to require logging in with a Windows Live Mail ID to a
"special" server.

No?

If so, why would anyone want to do that and open oneself up to all
sorts of
invasive techniques by hackers and government agents.

Do you REALLY think the General Public is so GULLIBLE?

Well, SOME folks certainly ARE. So you DO have some evidence for their
gullibility.

Microsoft even has a disclaimer that tells us the "Community Forums
NNTP
bridge" is not really a MS product -- or you're logging into a SERVER
that
is NOT a MS APPLICATION....

Or something of the sort...

It's Aesopian.
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What is "Aesopian" ?


Someone at MS should learn to be a better MARKETER...

With TRANSPARENCY.

Nancy
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Well, in the same way that MS sets their own standards in trying to
force people to forums instead of newsgroups. MS sets their own
standards with web standards as well. They think they are big enough
that they can set the standards and everyone will have to follow them.
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Whew, after reading about all those problems with 'MS Forums' and the
various workarounds that are attempting to make using them more
palatable, Google Groups is starting to look better and better - handy
daily-abridged-newsletter of all posts to any Usenet group, simple
Reply format, search-able archives, solution-search across multiple
groups as well as forum sources - didn't know I had it so good. Could
it be the functionality and usability GG adds to newsgroups is a big
part of the reason MS abandoned newsgroups?
 
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Teflon said:
Whew, after reading about all those problems with 'MS Forums' and the
various workarounds that are attempting to make using them more
palatable, Google Groups is starting to look better and better ...didn't
know I had it so good.
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Google Groups is probably the greatest source of Usenet spam ever. Get a
*real* news server such as http://individual.net that you can access from
any NNTP client whatsoever instead of the garbage web interfaces.
 
Yep...
Method suggested earlier today in this thread
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:29:30 -0400
See item (a) or (b)


Fyi...Forwarding for free accounts was part of the current Hotmail Wave 4(M3 code) update but not discussed afiacs on any of the Team blogs

What becomes of the older articles that noted that Hotmail Plus or Premium subscription(MSN) as a requirement will hopefully be addressed if posters add on to the same thread or better yet...locked and point to a new Solution/How To.

If necessary, and you haven't updated a response of your own...feel free to point to this one.
http://windowslivehelp.com/thread.a...39F0A0D4#09A4705E-297D-4D70-928C-899739F0A0D4


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....winston
ms-mvp mail

"Ildhund" wrote in message
PS to my immediately preceding post: I just tried forwarding from a new live.co.uk account to a Gmail one. I'm told by an inbox banner that my mail /is/ being forwarded. So for those who want to retain their gongs and stripes from the MS forums but have their alerts sent somewhere else, there's the answer. It does require, though, that the Live ID used at the forums is a Hotmail-type one (i.e. with an inbox at mail.live.com).
 
"...winston" wrote in message news:[email protected]...
"Ildhund" wrote in message news:[email protected]...
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Fyi...Forwarding for free accounts was [...] not discussed afiacs on any of the Team blogs
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Not surprising. How would you feel if you'd paid $19,95 for just that functionality only to find that it now came for free? As far as I can see, many of the other Hotmail Plus advantages are gradually being incorporated into free accounts. Here are my current limits:
MailBoxSize 151085346
MaxMailBoxSize 536870912000
MaxAttachments 100
MaxMessageSize 14448071
MaxUnencodedMessageSize 10485760
MaxFilters 500
MaxFilterClauseValueLength 64
MaxRecipients 100
MaxUserSignatureLength 4096
BlockListAddressMax 500
BlockListDomainMax 500
WhiteListAddressMax 500
WhiteListDomainMax 500
WhiteToListMax 500
AlternateFromListMax 5
MaxDailySendMessages 300

[WindowsLiveMail.log, Ctrl-F > parentalstatus]

Using WLMail, I see no ads, send no ads and my account never lapses. I get POP3 access and forwarding to any account. What do I get for $19.95? Max message size, perhaps.

...[F]or those who want to retain their gongs and stripes from the MS forums but have their alerts sent somewhere else, there's the answer.
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I may have spoken too soon. Alerts from the MS forums are sent by (e-mail address removed). They all fail Hotmail's sender verification checks and get consigned to junk (unless, perhaps, you add forumsup as a contact). Possibly for the same reason, they don't get forwarded - at least the one I received well after I enabled forwarding, after several successfully forwarded messages and before several others, didn't make it to Gmail. This may well be the reason why so many complain of not getting their alerts. I've been to reportabug:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com...g/thread/8a2694e3-85ba-4f06-965d-fee26e0a90f7
 
Ildhund wrote:
...[F]or those who want to retain their gongs and stripes from the MS
forums but have their alerts sent somewhere else, there's the answer.
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I may have spoken too soon. Alerts from the MS forums are sent by
(e-mail address removed). They all fail Hotmail's sender verification checks
and get consigned to junk (unless, perhaps, you add forumsup as a
contact).
Possibly for the same reason, they don't get forwarded - at least the one
I
received well after I enabled forwarding, after several successfully
forwarded messages and before several others, didn't make it to Gmail.
This
may well be the reason why so many complain of not getting their alerts.
I've been to reportabug:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com...g/thread/8a2694e3-85ba-4f06-965d-fee26e0a90f7
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Doh!
 
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