🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 17:20:46 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch"
<not-me@other.invalid> wrote:

> On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 16:55:57 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 13:07:10 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch"
> > <not-me@other.invalid> wrote:
> > 
> >> On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 07:56:02 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:
> >> 
> >>> On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:57:10 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch"
> >>> <not-me@other.invalid> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>> On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:49:10 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:
> >>>> 
> >>>>> On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 11:12:43 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch"
> >>>>> <not-me@other.invalid> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>>>> As I understand it, Outlook can (or could in earlier versions) be
> >>>>>> configured to use Outlook Express as a plug-in-like app to read
> >>>>>> newsgroups.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> No, it wasn't anything at all like a plug-in app. It simply linked to
> >>>>> Outlook Express (and the link could easily be changed to any other
> >>>>> program you want). There was simply a button called something like
> >>>>> "newsgroups" that, when clicked, started Outlook Express. 
> >>>> 
> >>>> Not sure why this isn't like a plug-in...
> >>> 
> >>> Because no software was "plugged into" Outlook. The only thing in
> >>> Outlook was the name of the exe file that would be invoked if you
> >>> clicked the button. And also unlike a plugin, it was very easy to
> >>> change the name of the exe file to something else.
> >> 
> >> I didn't way it *was* a plugin.
> > 
> > No, you said "*like* a plugin." I understand. I was explaining that a
> > plugin is software, and since this isn't software, it wasn't at all
> > like a plugin.
> > 
> > But no big deal. I certainly don't want to argue with you about what
> > "like" means.
> 
> But now you confuse me since you seem to be saying that OE is not
> software. 


No, no. What I meant was ...


> So, I'll take it that you mean that all that happens to
> Outlook is that a link is placed therein, rather than code being
> inserted into it. 


Yes, exactly.


> I'm not much less confused by that :-)
> 
> -- 
> Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)