Scott said:
Actually, Paul provided me information I did not have. For all I knew
when posting, the feature worked for every other Entourage 04 user.
Saying "could it be that it's just plain busted?" is not the same as
saying "it doesn't work for me either." I did not get the impression
that you had tried the menu item yourself.
Your original post did not ask for confirmation. The only question it
posed was: "Any guesses?" It didn't work for me either, so I guessed, in
reply, that it was just plain busted. I still think this is a pretty
good guess. But it is just a guess; one counter-example would be
sufficient to disprove the theorem, and I do not have access to every
computer and every copy of Entourage (or time to check them all).
The conversation proceeded naturally from there, down the tubes like a
bad Albee play. You asked whether this indicated some underlying
problem. I had a little trouble making sense of that, but in general the
problem underlying the existence of a bug is that programs do have bugs,
and that is the answer I gave.
In every case I was simply responding to what you said, and I think I
responded accurately and directly.
So please, consider the possibility that the problem here is that you
failed to ask the question that you really wanted answered (perhaps this
would have been something like, "Is it just me, and if so what might I
be doing wrong, or is there a bug in Entourage?").
Perhaps you got the wrong impression from my first response because you
read it as a response to a question that was in your head, whereas I was
attempting to respond to the question that you actually asked. On the
other hand, Paul apparently used his Amazing Telepathy Power (tm, pat.
pend.) and answered the question you were thinking of but had not asked,
so naturally you liked his answer better.
In future, ask better questions. "You are more likely to get a useful
response if you are explicit about what you want respondents to do."
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m.
