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Undertoad · 06-02-2008, 11:57 AM

spud is correct. It doesn't really need to be Outlook Express. Outlook Regular is just as sucky.

Around these parts almost everybody has encountered the dreaded "Unknown Error", which happens when you have an Outlook data file over 2GB.

That's the whole error message: "Unknown Error". It tells you that, for many years, no programmer at Microsoft thought it would be a good idea to test why the program can't open the main file where it keeps every email you send or receive.

"Unknown Error". Fuck them! It's as bad as "PC LOAD LETTER", except that Microsoft had an entire screen for their error message, while HP only had a single line of LED characters. Oh yes and "PC LOAD LETTER" was written in the 80s when major devices didn't necessary have good error messages. The last Outlook with that error message was 2003.

Just use Gmail, and be done with all email woes, including spam.

06-02-2008, 11:57 AM	#11
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	spud is correct. It doesn't really need to be Outlook Express. Outlook Regular is just as sucky. Around these parts almost everybody has encountered the dreaded "Unknown Error", which happens when you have an Outlook data file over 2GB. That's the whole error message: "Unknown Error". It tells you that, for many years, no programmer at Microsoft thought it would be a good idea to test why the program can't open the main file where it keeps every email you send or receive. "Unknown Error". Fuck them! It's as bad as "PC LOAD LETTER", except that Microsoft had an entire screen for their error message, while HP only had a single line of LED characters. Oh yes and "PC LOAD LETTER" was written in the 80s when major devices didn't necessary have good error messages. The last Outlook with that error message was 2003. Just use Gmail, and be done with all email woes, including spam.