[ql-users] QL is 21 dinner

2005-09-19 Thread gwicks
The QL is 21 Celebratory Dinner will be held on Saturday Evening 29th October and will be in the form of a three course carvery buffet followed by tea or coffee. A vegetarian option will be available. More details are in the next Quanta Magazine, which is now at the printers. The cost of the

Re: [ql-users] Dilwyn Jones (personal)

2005-09-12 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: QL Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2005 10:16 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Dilwyn Jones (personal) Thanks, Dilwyn, I've added the other address to my address book. I have sent hard copies of the

[ql-users] Dilwyn Jones (personal)

2005-09-11 Thread gwicks
Hi Dilwyn, Sorry to have to send you this via the group. I am having a problem with my emails to you bouncing back after 2 days as undeliverable. This is to your tesco email address and they are fairly important as they are mainly forwarded emails from the Quanta committee regarding your

Re: [ql-users] Quanta AGM

2005-09-08 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: David Tubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 12:56 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Quanta AGM One of my Quanta jobs is to co-ordinate show dates - pity Quanta doesn't set an example by informing me of their plans! Best

Re: [ql-users] Quanta AGM

2005-09-07 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 5:55 PM Subject: [ql-users] Quanta AGM Just in case no one else replies, there is at the moment no date fixed for the 2006 Quanta AGM. There will be an invitation for

Re: [ql-users] was Turbo, then A4 A5, now online conferencing

2005-08-14 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: James Hunkins To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 9:34 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] was Turbo, now A4 A5 On the other hand, it would allow some of us to participate who can't actually get there (small matter of an ocean in the way in my

Re: [ql-users] was Turbo, now A4 A5

2005-08-13 Thread gwicks
alternative.) And as for GWICKS quote :- However no one on the Quanta Committee has experience of either so we would have to have external expertise. Says it all in spades why are they running a computer group ? Another true story: A member of the Quanta committee had a QL problem. He asked

Re: [ql-users] Turbo ????????

2005-08-11 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: David Tubbs To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 9:21 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Turbo Marvellous! A subject heading of Turbo, but a whole tirade about A4 v A5. Obviously Mr. Tubbs doesn't know what he is writing about! Best Wishes, Geoff

Re: [ql-users] Dictionaries

2005-08-10 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Dilwyn Jones To: QL Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: QL News List Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 8:46 PM Subject: [ql-users] Dictionaries Obviously if anyone has more QTYP dictionaries I would be pleased to add them to the collection. Of all the QTYP

Re: [ql-users] A4 or A5

2005-08-07 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Derek Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2005 9:05 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] A4 or A5 Not all Quanta members have the abilities to download an electronic version of the magazine. What are the arrangement for these

Re: [ql-users] A4 or A5

2005-08-07 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2005 9:41 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] A4 or A5 Downloading was thought up some years ago as a way of reducing costs, and if I remember rightly came from members at an AGM. The

Re: [ql-users] A4 or A5

2005-08-06 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Derek Stewart To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 10:38 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] A4 or A5 I would like the magazine kept the way it is now. Not sure about downloadable version,. this would mean non-subscribers would have access to the

Re: [ql-users] A4 or A5

2005-08-04 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Tony Firshman To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 1:23 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] A4 or A5 At the other end of the scale, this mag I put on my site for another church: http://allsaintsberkhamsted.org.uk/newsletter/2005/06/newsletter.pdf is

[ql-users] A4 or A5

2005-07-31 Thread gwicks
It has been a little quiet on the list recently so let me stir up a little discussion. This is the wrong place for the discussion as it is a Quanta matter, but Quanta has had 6 months to start the discussion internally but has not grasped the opportunity. And I really need some feedback on the

Re: [ql-users] A4 or A5

2005-07-31 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Marcel Kilgus To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2005 6:13 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] A4 or A5 Erm, how is the PDF done? By scanning the magazine or what? If that is indeed the case, how is the original magazine printed? I don't know how the

Re: [ql-users] dictionaries

2005-07-31 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Dilwyn Jones To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2005 5:50 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] dictionaries Looking at the dozen or so English word lists (and being careful which is American and which British!) I find most of them have words like the

[ql-users] Psephological Nerds

2005-07-17 Thread gwicks
For the psephological nerds in our midst (and I suspect I am the only one!), I have posted the 2005 version of my election analysis program on my election page. You can also now download the complete archive from 1983 to 1997, http://members.lycos.co.uk/geoffwicks/election.htm Best Wishes,

Re: [ql-users] MDVs Versus FLPs

2005-07-16 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: John Gilpin To: ql-users [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 11:52 PM Subject: [ql-users] MDVs Versus FLPs Here's one for the hardware boffins out there: Like Geoff W, I am attempting to transfer some programmes and data from Microdrives to the

[ql-users] Last Chance Saloon

2005-06-26 Thread gwicks
This is just a reminder that people wishing to book accommodation at the Ibis Hotel for the QLis21 show at Portsmouth should do it before Thursday. Please book directly with the hotel using the telephone number +44(0)2392 - 64 and state you will be attending the QL is 21 Computer Conference.

Re: [ql-users] Spelin'

2005-06-22 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Tony Firshman To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 12:25 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Spelin' On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 at 08:55:49, Dilwyn Jones wrote: Won't be long before some versions of English are classed as separate languages I suppose,

Re: Re: [ql-users] Spelin'

2005-06-22 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Dilwyn Jones To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 10:07 AM Subject: Re: Re: [ql-users] Spelin' Geoff Wicks has British English and American English QTYP dictionaries, it might be possible to run a comparison between the two for alternative

[ql-users] Fw: Distant hums or maybe not!! (was SERNET)

2005-06-05 Thread gwicks
Sorry if this message comes up twice. I had a major crash by the first attempt to send it. - Original Message - Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 6:04 PM Subject: Re: Distant hums or maybe not!! (was SERNET) - Original Message - From: P Witte To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [ql-users] Digital Precision Software/Undelete

2005-05-22 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Dilwyn Jones To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 7:22 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Digital Precision Software/Undelete Snip Tony Tebby did at one stage provide a couple of qxl.win checking and recovery programs written in SBASIC (drvlink and

Re: [ql-users] Market research

2005-05-21 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: David Tubbs To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 1:07 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Market research At 19:15 19/05/2005 +0100, you wrote: About 25% of Quanta members completed the survey. Does that mean about 75 ? 71 to be precise.

Re: [ql-users] Software behaving badly

2005-05-19 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Darren Branagh To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 3:40 PM Subject: RE: [ql-users] Software behaving badly To be honest though, the fear I have is how many we'd sell. I would need to commit to buying at least 50, but more likely 100, to get

Re: RE: [ql-users] Digital Precision Software

2005-05-17 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Darren Branagh To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 3:43 PM Subject: RE: RE: [ql-users] Digital Precision Software This is one of the many things that bugs the hell out of me. I wish there was a statute of limitations or similar on software,

Re: [ql-users] Software Prices.

2005-04-26 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: jms1 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 10:30 PM Subject: [ql-users] Software Prices. As Dilwyn Jones says in his article in Qtoady that TurboPtr is more flexible than EasyPtr, and the group members feel that software should be paid for, George

Re: [ql-users] Idle thoughts

2005-04-26 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Wolfgang Lenerz To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 4:15 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Idle thoughts I don't know why Marcel charges for his software, so I can only speak for myself. Whilst some of my programs are freely downloadable, others are

Re: Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.....

2005-04-23 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Dilwyn Jones To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 12:01 PM Subject: Re: Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product. - it actually looked more like runny mascara than anything else so I hope wasn't being wound up about it all! Watch it,

Re: Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.....

2005-04-22 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Tarquin Mills To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 11:48 AM Subject: Re: Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product. Dilwyn Jones wrote: You'll probably get a free black eye from a p***ed off bored spotty teenager to match Geoff Wicks's

Re: [ql-users] Perfection

2005-04-22 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: David Gilham To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 5:37 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Perfection In the meantime could any one who has found any bugs or incompatibilities in Perfection please email them to me at david (at) davidgilham (dot) me (dot)

Re: [ql-users] Familiar old names ....was Perfection

2005-04-21 Thread gwicks
Hear, hear! Im all for it. Will someone make sure they get reminders in good time? (We wouldnt want them to get away, would we ;) And how about Sector Beatty, SNG, Sturat, Lau Reeves, Jonathan Oakley, Chas Dillon, and anyone else we can think of, too? One of the reasons we are setting up a QL

[ql-users] Hove Show and AGM

2005-04-09 Thread gwicks
I sent out the snailshot for the Hove Show yesterday and when I was preparing it I realised that Hove has the potential to be one of the best UK shows for some time. The big theme of the show is software. All software traders have something new to offer or demonstrate, although in my case it

Re: Re: [ql-users] Q-Starter

2005-04-05 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Dilwyn Jones To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 11:09 AM Subject: Re: Re: [ql-users] Q-Starter Any news on the availability of the official Easyptr 4, Roy? Marcel did mention some time ago he hoped it might be at the AGM, the money for the

Re: [ql-users] Q-Starter

2005-04-05 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Phoebus R. Dokos ( . ) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 9:14 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Q-Starter On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 15:06:37 -0400, Malcolm Cadman wrote: By the way QWord has its own Icon with QDT and launches successfully, and drops back

Re: [ql-users] Fw: RE:Quanta AGM

2005-04-01 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: John Southern To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 1:22 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Fw: RE:Quanta AGM On Thursday 31 March 2005 19:20, gwicks wrote: I think there is something that is a more urgent priority. I was surprised to discover this year

Re: [ql-users] Quanta AGM

2005-03-31 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: John Hall To: QL Users [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 11:10 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Quanta AGM I was surprised that there had been no comment re. the special resolutions - I think that the new clauses 5.3 - 5.6 are a very bad idea and will

Re: [ql-users] Fw: RE:Quanta AGM

2005-03-31 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: John Gilpin To: ql-users [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 9:08 AM Subject: [ql-users] Fw: RE:Quanta AGM Availability of Current copies of the Constitution: When the Constitution is changed, it is updated on the Library Guide (LibGuide - disk

Re: [ql-users] Fw: RE:Quanta AGM

2005-03-31 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Tarquin Mills To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 6:28 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Fw: RE:Quanta AGM I going to put forward a special resolution for next year to abolish clause 11.0 (Honoraria) which basically means giving officials money out

[ql-users] QL shows information

2005-03-28 Thread gwicks
We have now posted a website for the After-Glow Show at Eindhoven on 18th June: http://members.lycos.co.uk/geoffwicks/afterglow.htm It will look slightly familiar as it is a cut down and revised version of the QL2004 webpage. We are not planning the same detailed program of events as at

Re: [ql-users] Turbo v4b21

2005-03-20 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Phoebus R. Dokos ( . ) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 2:07 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Turbo v4b21 As for EasyPTR... :-) I personally don't care :-) Although I do think it works... sort of (Ask Rich for details. I think he's using a part of

Re: [ql-users] EasyPtr was movig sbasic

2005-03-05 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: wolfgang mühlegger To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 9:06 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] EasyPtr was movig sbasic gwicks schrieb: Nevertheless Marcel has already made a considerable improvement to EasyPtr, but as yet it is only available to a few

[ql-users] Not all greek

2005-03-04 Thread gwicks
Does anyone know if there is a greek character font available for use in Line Design? Best Wishes, Geoff ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [ql-users] EasyPtr was movig sbasic

2005-03-04 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Roy wood To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 12:08 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] EasyPtr was movig sbasic As the person who raised this yet again I would also be prepared to pay for an upgrade. At QL2004 I asked Marcel specifically about his

Re: [ql-users] EasyPtr was movig sbasic

2005-03-03 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Roy wood Subject: Re: [ql-users] movig sbasic Easyptr is still a commercial program sold by Jochen and I On the subject of EasyPtr any news of a possible upgrade? Best Wishes, Geoff ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [ql-users] CTRL ALT left/right

2005-03-03 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: dilwyn.jones Subject: [ql-users] CTRL ALT left/right Am having problems with CTRL ALT left and right kepresses not registering in QPC2 3.30 on this Windoze XP machine here at work, but it works fine on the same one at home. snip It prints the correct codes

[ql-users] UK Election

2005-02-17 Thread gwicks
As the UK election campaign now seems to have started, I have reinstalled my election analysis program on my web site. New is a pointer driven GD2 colour version of the program. To run this you will need a minimum screen resolution of 800 x 600.

Re: [ql-users] A QL in Spain

2005-01-25 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Roy wood To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 9:26 PM Subject: [ql-users] A QL in Spain Jochen, Marcel and myself are planning to be in Spain at some point between 1st and 16th of June. This is partly our usual excursion to get Marcel and I

Re: [ql-users] Quanta 2005

2005-01-16 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Rich Mellor To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 12:51 PM Subject: [ql-users] Quanta 2005 Just a quick comment - one of the reasons that the Quanta committee seemed to want the QL 2005 meeting down south was because they thought that

Re: [ql-users] Quanta 2005

2005-01-16 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: David Tubbs To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 8:38 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Quanta 2005 You could start from the other end, where do members/users live ? Select a location to suit them, the possible visitors rather than a clique. If you

Re: [ql-users] QLib maintained

2005-01-14 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Jeremy Taffel To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 12:49 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] QLib maintained There are 89 Soundys in the 2003 electoral register, but no Adrian. There are even some in Hillingdon (relatives perhaps) but not Newcroft

Re: [ql-users] Cold callers (OT)

2005-01-14 Thread gwicks
As a person who has seen the inside of several call centres, a little expert advice. 1: Never ever use an excuse like I am too busy, I am having dinner, I am about to go out. Call centre workers are not allowed to close the case with those replies and you will always be phoned again and again

Re: [ql-users] QL shows (was QWord payment)

2005-01-11 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Tony Firshman To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 9:08 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] QL shows (was QWord payment) I meant Bill let -us- know when his favourite m/c shows are - preferably late next year or 2006. I appreciate that, but we are now

Re: [ql-users] good superbasic book?

2005-01-11 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: John Gilpin To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 11:00 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] good superbasic book? In my copy there is a preface to the second edition dated 19th July 1989 and at the foot of that page there is a Copyright Notice As of

Re: [ql-users] QL shows (was QWord payment)

2005-01-10 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Tony Firshman To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 5:29 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] QWord payment On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 at 10:46:23, Bill Cable wrote: There is a big yearly vintage show in Germany and Italy (must be one in the UK). I would

Re: [ql-users] Problem email

2005-01-05 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: jms1 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 8:29 PM Subject: [ql-users] Problem email Bruce will probably answer this, but there are already restrictions on the size of mailings to this group. I discovered this recently when a ql-user offered

Re: [ql-users] QWord payment

2005-01-03 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Rich Mellor To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 11:35 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] QDT Demo The problem is that QL software is supplied on a very tight budget - doesn't really leave any room to let others take a share of sale proceeds,

Re: [ql-users] tsunami (with an on-topic ending)

2005-01-02 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Dilwyn Jones To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 11:55 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] tsunami (OT) Tut! Tut! Dilwyn, you old misogynist. Japanese nouns do not have a gender! The little oxford dictionary I looked up in had an 'f' against it. Not

Re: [ql-users] QWord payment

2005-01-02 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Rich Mellor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 9:56 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] QDT Demo cut If available at the QL metting in Eindhoven (March?),I will buy it, together with QWORD( Dutch and French versions). Happy New Year

Re: [ql-users] tsunami (OT)

2005-01-01 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Dilwyn Jones To: QL Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 3:01 PM Subject: [ql-users] tsunami After hearing all about the natural disasters affecting the populations of some Asian countries, it was not nice to realise I have parts made

[ql-users] Fw: c/ o Geoff Wicks / QL

2004-12-31 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: rankus at us dot es To: Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 9:28 AM Subject: c/ o Geoff Wicks / QL I received the below email privately. Is there anyone who is interested in replying to Manuel? I have removed the pictures as they made the mailing over the

Re: [ql-users] email attachments

2004-12-30 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Dilwyn Jones To: QL Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 11:42 AM Subject: [ql-users] email attachments OK, I know I'm asking for it with Lookout Excess, but anyone know why the attachment indicator paperclip shows on emails with no

Re: [ql-users] Whither or Wither ? (OT)

2004-12-12 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: P Witte To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2004 8:31 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Whither or Wither ? Why? As every Englishman knows, the advantage of English over other languages is that it occurs completely naturaly in the brain. Not quite,

Re: [ql-users] Quanta 2005

2004-12-07 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Rich Mellor To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 11:51 AM Subject: [ql-users] Quanta 2005 It is nice to know that Quanta are indeed planning on holding a big show in 2005 to celebrate 21 years of the QL. However, what a shame that it is to

Re: [ql-users] QL Calendar

2004-12-05 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Dilwyn Jones To: QL Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 5:56 PM Subject: [ql-users] QL Calendar Any complaints about it being in non-QL format and I'll replace it with a calendar with pictures of Tony Firshman, Rich Mellor, Jochen

Re: [ql-users] October / November Quanta Magazine

2004-11-29 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: P Witte To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2004 2:34 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] October / November Quanta Magazine Agreed, much better. The last one wasnt too bad either. I do miss your digest of some of the highlights on this list in the

Re: [ql-users] Byfleet Show

2004-11-29 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Rich Mellor To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2004 8:36 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Byfleet Show On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 19:11:04 +, Malcolm Cadman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Geoff Wicks gave a demonstration of the QWord program - a work in

Re: [ql-users] Thru the Looking Glass

2004-11-26 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: David Tubbs Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 9:41 PM Subject: [ql-users] Thru the Looking Glass The thought of Rory Bremner and the Two Johns comes to mind, but here we have Three Johns who have shown themselves to be well and truly on the other side of

Re: Re: [ql-users] Proforma Filter

2004-11-26 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Rich Mellor Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 6:51 PM Subject: Re: Re: [ql-users] Proforma Filter Peter Graf is work on network drivers for the Qx0. What happens if an application crashes while printing, is the PFF device block from further use. Glad to hear

Re: Re: [ql-users] Proforma Filter

2004-11-26 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Rich Mellor Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 7:47 PM Subject: Re: Re: [ql-users] Proforma Filter Fair enough, but all I want is for him to post a message to the mailing list or even one of the magazines, letting us know what developments are happening every now

Re: [ql-users] Re: [ql-user) QWord - marketing

2004-11-25 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Tony Firshman Subject: Re: [ql-users] Re: [ql-user) QWord - marketing BTW if someone can lend me a large PC monitor, I can give a public demonstration at Byfleet. Not large, but if you get no offers, I can bring a 17inch LCD 1280 x 1024. It even has a digital

Re: [ql-users] Fw: ENOUGH is ENOUGH and MORE THAN ENOUGH

2004-11-23 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Duncan Neithercut Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 10:33 PM Subject: RE: [ql-users] Fw: ENOUGH is ENOUGH and MORE THAN ENOUGH Before I answer your comments a personal opinion. During the time I have been in Quanta I have not seen a chairman make such a serious

Re: [ql-users] Fw: ENOUGH is ENOUGH and MORE THAN ENOUGH

2004-11-22 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Subject: Re: [ql-users] Fw: ENOUGH is ENOUGH and MORE THAN ENOUGH Despite what got said in and about this letter, I don't consider it offensive in the form which was forwarded. There are issues of 'netiquette' (shouting etc) which someone fairly new to the

Re: [ql-users] Re: QL2005

2004-11-21 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Malcolm Cadman Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 6:42 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Re: QL2005 So, just to extend the debate around Quanta itself a bit further ... make the effort to attend a local sub-group, where you can. I organise the London Quanta Group ...

[ql-users] Nasty email

2004-11-21 Thread gwicks
I too have received the nasty email, although I don't quite share Tony's indignation. Perhaps it was my probation background - I am more used to I should punch your fucking head in, you cunt (Laddie got a probation order for that offence and never offended again!) The email was addressed to

[ql-users] Fw: ENOUGH is ENOUGH and MORE THAN ENOUGH

2004-11-21 Thread gwicks
I have decided to forward this message as I think all Quanta members should read it. Derogatory comments about a third person have been removed. - Original Message - From: john mason To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: John Mason ; Geoff Wicks ; John Gregory ; Roy Brereton ; John Gilpin ; John

Re: [ql-users] Quanta membership

2004-11-20 Thread gwicks
their membership. If there is anyone who still has a problem, could they please email me privately and I will chase it up. Please include a keyword such as Quanta in the subject line so that I don't accidentally delete your message as spam, Best wishes, Geoff gwicks @ beeb.net

Re: [ql-users] Quanta

2004-11-20 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Duncan Neithercut Subject: RE: [ql-users] Quanta SNIP To progress this discussion a moderator or instigator needs to put aside his/her personal individual preferences, listen to all the ideas on the list and dismiss none, but perhaps ask some individuals to

Re: [ql-users] Re: QL2005

2004-11-19 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Wolfgang Lenerz Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 10:04 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Re: QL2005 On 18 Nov 2004 at 19:53, gwicks wrote: (...) I know a lot of our members do not subscribe to the list, do you know why? Is it a technical problem (no internet access

Re: [ql-users] Quanta membership

2004-11-19 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Tony Firshman Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 5:36 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Quanta membership On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 at 16:59:33, Mike MacNamara wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Hmm. Quanta Membership Sec did not respond to my requests to renew, has lapsed

Re: [ql-users] Re: QL2005

2004-11-19 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Duncan Neithercut Subject: RE: [ql-users] Re: QL2005 Thanks for the summary below. I have not had the time this week to monitor all this discussion - that is a big job for the weekend. Can I remind everyone again. You don't have to convince John Gilpin and

Re: [ql-users] Re: QL2005

2004-11-19 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Brian Kemmett Subject: Re: [ql-users] Re: QL2005 as you say in this email, a lot of the membership is probably without internet access, or even access to email.I think the ONE biggest leap forward this community can take is to develop, or finance

Re: [ql-users] Quanta

2004-11-19 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: John Taylor Subject: [ql-users] Quanta snip There has been little or no evidence of any interest in what the committee are doing and as a consequence the committee have shown very little interest in what the members are doing. Perhaps Quanta has the sort of

Re: [ql-users] Re: QL2005

2004-11-18 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Brian Kemmett Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 9:29 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Re: QL2005 The problem is Quanta IS JUST sitting on a stack of cash - I have contributed to their coffers since 1986! To Geoff Wicks, thanks for the concern, but you tell me, what

Re: Re: [ql-users] QL2004

2004-11-17 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: dilwyn.jones Subject: Re: Re: [ql-users] QL2004 Byfleet is just over a week away. Everyone do your best to publicise that workshop and encourage people to visit. My newsletter has a nasty habit of turning up on the monday or tuesday FOLLOWING a workshop, so

Re: [ql-users] Re: QL2005

2004-11-16 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Duncan Neithercut Subject: RE: [ql-users] Re: QL2005 Geoff Wicks wrote : I don't think a reduction to £10 would bring in any new members, but £4 per member invested in QL development might encourage one or two more people to join. So reinvigorating Quanta -

Re: Re: [ql-users] Re: QL2005

2004-11-16 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: dilwyn.jones Subject: Re: Re: [ql-users] Re: QL2005 I think isnurance might be a major reason why it's best done under the Quanta banner, although there might not be any reason why the committee couldn't delegate it's organisation of the QL2005 to Geoff and

Re: [ql-users] QL2004

2004-11-16 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: John Gilpin Subject: Re: [ql-users] QL2004 Just back from holiday and sorting through a couple of hundred emails. You can play Hunt the treasurer at Byfleet. I will probably be sat behind the QUANTA Table (as usual). Please stop and say Hello, rather than

Re: Re: [ql-users] Re: QL2005

2004-11-16 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Wolfgang Lenerz Subject: Re: Re: [ql-users] Re: QL2005 On 16 Nov 2004 at 12:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think isnurance might be a major reason why(...) Just a quick question: was QL 2004 insured? That's a question for Sin_QL_Air. I assume they, or the

Re: [ql-users] Re: QL2005

2004-11-15 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Tarquin Mills Subject: Re: [ql-users] Re: QL2005 Let me remind everyone once again that the Quanta subscription is currently £4 per year higher than is necessary to run the organisation. If Quanta are not prepared to spend this £4 on QL2005, what are they

Re: [ql-users] Re: QL2005

2004-11-15 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Roy wood Subject: Re: [ql-users] Re: QL2005 Just to put another issue into the mix here, John Mason called me last week and asked if I would organise the 2005 Hove show so it could be the AGM. I have looked into dates for this that would fit Quanta's

Re: [ql-users] oRSAM 2004 PHOTOS

2004-11-11 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Tarquin Mills Subject: Re: [ql-users] oRSAM 2004 Not in Tony Firshman's pictures there was a ICL OPD exhibit, the QLers missed this because they stayed in the QL village. Not quite true. Some of us did put on our pith helmets and venture into foreign

Re: [ql-users] QL Meeting in Spain

2004-11-11 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Tony Firshman Subject: Re: [ql-users] QL Meeting in Spain Careful it is not too near the Quanta AGM. That clashed with the US show last year. I don't know whether a date for the AGM is fixed. There is nothing on the website (www.quanta.org.uk). It doesn't

Re: [ql-users] DD

2004-11-11 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Tony Firshman I am though getting mail undelivered to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! Can someone email me John's private address. It is not the john @ nosuitsit . com that I have on file. The quanta address gets diverted to that. The above is the address the

[ql-users] Congratulations! Your site is one of the most popular on Lycos Tripod

2004-11-07 Thread gwicks
Below is an extract from an email I have received from Lycos over the Just Words! website: --- - Original Message - From: Lycos Tripod [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2004 6:50 PM Subject: Congratulations!

Re: [ql-users] QL2004 P;us

2004-10-30 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Duncan Neithercut Subject: RE: [ql-users] QL2004 P;us How many of the 300 Quanta members subscribe to this group? Perhaps you know. I dont, my guess is perhaps 63 - based on 1 in 20 rule, if one person complains then approximately 20 others are also

Re: [ql-users] QL2004 P;us

2004-10-28 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: David Tubbs To an outsider it looks like Geoff is Minister without portfolio, and a bit of a maverick to boot ! Like I have said before on this list, in my days as a probation officer I was assessed on a training course as a constructive subversive. Another

Re: [ql-users] QL2004

2004-10-24 Thread gwicks
- software @ quanta.org.uk Geoff Wicks - gwicks @ beeb.net Don't forget I am also on the Quanta committee and should also get a copy of your email, Best Wishes, Geoff ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm

Re: [ql-users] QL 2004 Eindhoven - no! QL2005!!!! @ ?????

2004-10-20 Thread gwicks
- Original Message - From: Dilwyn Jones Subject: Re: [ql-users] QL 2004 Eindhoven - no! QL2005 @ ? Not sure how easy access would be for international visits - is the local area served by an international airport for example? What are rail connections like to the south coast

Re: [ql-users] QL2004

2004-10-20 Thread gwicks
Subject: Re: [ql-users] QL2004 Geoff wrote:- Also Sin-QL-Air backed the show financially - where else in the QL show circuit do you get free coffee and pay only 50 euros for a roll? (I mean bread rolls - I know we were in the Netherlands, but the other sort of roll is known as a stikkie

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