Russ, I've read many posting made by you and have never found you to be
rude or unpleasant and certainly never have found you to even approach
cruelty.
I understand about this being a public newsgroup. I know how newsgroups
work, but participating a public newsgroup doesn't give one permission to be
mean-spirited and to hurl insults at people just because they may not be as
informed as someone else. I also understand about the difficulty of
conveying humour and irony in written text although a guy like Mark Twain -
to posit just one example - did pretty well.

Milly Staples is obviously very well informed. I've remarked on that before.
She is also often quite rude and unpleasant even when she is imparting her
wisdom to the troubled, head scratching masses, but worse yet she is also
quite cruel and hurtful far too often as well. Just because someone is
intelligent and more informed doesn't not grant one permission to be mean
and hurtful to anyone. I find cruelty unacceptable under any circumstances
and I find that those who resort to it are demished by it far more than
those who are the target of such cruelty. It's been my experience reading
this forum for quite a while that Milly runs the habit of descending into
cruelty on a regular basis. I guess I am so aware of this that it was the
first thing that popped into my head when I read the beginning post in this
thread; believing it to be just the kind of thing (well...one of many) that
usually unleashes Milly's ire.

Milly may not have been unpleasant or cruel while reviling anyone posting a
question about setting up a mail account in Outlook but she has certainly
been cruel dealing with other subjects. I believe it is important to shine a
light on such behavior and as I wrote previously, my mistake was to have
made any reference to it prior to her doing so. I'll not respond to Milly's
"defense" in this post directly, but rather let this stand as that assuming
she'll read this.