Re: Displaying the Euro Symbol

2004-03-08 Thread Robin Anson
On Mon 8 March 2004, 3:53:58 +1000, Julian Beach (Lists) wrote: On Saturday, March 6, 2004, 9:11:28 AM, David Stone wrote: I did notice that the email from you showed the € as a square with spokes on each corner which I think is alt0164 ¤. Did you generate it with alt0164, or with alt-Gr 4

Re: TB! not ending?

2004-03-08 Thread Dennis W. Greer
Hello Allister, On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 18:25:59 +1300 GMT (3/7/2004, 9:25 PM -0800 GMT), Allister Jenks wrote: AJ Hello TBUDLers, AJ I seem to have a new problem since installing 2.04.7 in that TB! appears AJ to shut down when asked (the windows and system tray icon disappear), AJ but I

Account Log Doesn't Update After an Error

2004-03-08 Thread Chris
Hi, Running The Bat! v2.04.7 on XP Home. I just had a mail server problem, it put a couple of entries in the account log saying so. Ok, normal behaviour, no problem. However, the server problem was only a temporary outage, so I was able to send some messages successfully a short while ago.

Re: Account Log Doesn't Update After an Error

2004-03-08 Thread Terry
Hi Chris, Running The Bat! v2.04.7 on XP Home. I just had a mail server problem, it put a couple of entries in the account log saying so. Ok, normal behaviour, no problem. However, the server problem was only a temporary outage, so I was able to send some messages successfully a short while

Re: BUG: Having an account with LAN network settings in Check All stack causes failure of SEND for Dial-Up account

2004-03-08 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello dAniel, On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 16:04:54 +0100 GMT (07/03/2004, 22:04 +0700 GMT), dAniel hAhler wrote: It is not a bug, you tell TB to act the way it does. Solution: Take the tickmark off. No it does not. I tell him to use LAN for this special hamster-account. For all others it should use

Re: BUG: Having an account with LAN network settings in Check All stack causes failure of SEND for Dial-Up account

2004-03-08 Thread dAniel hAhler
Hello bats, on Mon, 8. Mar 2004 at 22:03:43 +0700 Thomas Fernandez wrote: TB can only handle one internet connection at the time, so that when it believes a LAN connection has been established, it won't dial out for the other accounts. but that would mean that also the FETCH tasks for dialup

Re: BUG: Having an account with LAN network settings in Check All stack causes failure of SEND for Dial-Up account

2004-03-08 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello dAniel, On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 16:56:06 +0100 GMT (08/03/2004, 22:56 +0700 GMT), dAniel hAhler wrote: It appears that is not the setup in question: The hamster is on another computer on the same LAN, and there is no reason to establish an internet connection to check mail from there. Taking

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Deborah W
On Monday, March 8, 2004, 4:50:46 PM, Marck D Pearlstone wrote: MDP One thing that we feel duty bound to do here is to provide you MDP with clear instructions for the use of the X-No-Archive header MDP for those that *really* don't want their posts echoed to this MDP pretty well spam-safe news

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Allie Martin
Deborah W wrote: I'm also not satisfied with pretty well spam-safe (especially when it was zero spam risks only a few days ago) so I won't be posting. Yes, I know that nothing is spam-safe - but this is where my line is drawn. Let's say Deborah, that with the current GMane setup, you're as likely

The Bat thinks it needs registration

2004-03-08 Thread sacksa
When upgrading from XP Home to XP Pro, Windows did not properly install. To get around this, a consultant performed what effectively amounted to a clean install of XP Pro from the upgrade CD. Although the old windows folder and software are still on the hard disk, we created a new windows

Re: The Bat thinks it needs registration

2004-03-08 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello sacksa, On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 11:20:39 -0600 GMT (09/03/2004, 00:20 +0700 GMT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Should I just re-register using the product key that was e-mailed to me, or is there a more elegant (and preferable) way to do this? This is the elegant (and preferred) way. ;-) 2.

Re: The Bat thinks it needs registration

2004-03-08 Thread Peter Meyns
Hi sacksa, on Mon, 8 Mar 2004 11:20:39 -0600GMT, you wrote: scc 1. Should I just re-register using the product key that was e-mailed to me, scc or is there a more elegant (and preferable) way to do this? What is unelegant about that? I'd just do it. I believe it'll work. scc 2. I am currently

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Leif Gregory
Hello Deborah, Monday, March 8, 2004, 10:06:53 AM, you wrote: Deborah Can I add a reminder that the X-No-Archive header only Deborah ensures your original post isn't archived? If someone quotes Deborah you, and they don't use the X-No-Archive header, whatever Deborah they quote will be archived.

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Marck D Pearlstone
Dear Rich, @8-Mar-2004, 12:46 -0500 (08-Mar 17:46 UK time) rich gregory [RG] in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: MDP ... instructions for the use of the X-No-Archive header for those MDP that *really* don't want their posts echoed ... MDP In your TB-list reply template, add the following: MDP

GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Trevor Langford
Can someone actually explain what GMane is! Is it a Newsgroup, some private forum, a Yahoo! group ? Do we change anything here or do we just continue reading / responding to message as they arise like now? Later: Having Googled for GMane I now see that it is a News group thing. There does seem

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Jack Morrison
Monday, March 8, 2004, 10:50:46 AM, you wrote: Hi T'Buddlers, Well, having asked for objections to the idea of reflecting the TB lists to GMane to provide access to the list in a News format, we haven't received any that stood up to scrutiny. Marck, I missed most of the original discussions

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Peter Meyns
Hi Marck, on Mon, 8 Mar 2004 16:50:46 +GMT, you wrote: MDP Well, having asked for objections to the idea of reflecting the TB MDP lists to GMane to provide access to the list in a News format, we MDP haven't received any that stood up to scrutiny. I recently set up The Bat! to work for the

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Trevor, On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 18:02:44 + GMT (09/03/2004, 01:02 +0700 GMT), Trevor Langford wrote: Later: Having Googled for GMane I now see that it is a News group thing. There does seem to be one major obstacle in that it requires you to set your newsreader to news.gmane.org. As my

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Jack Morrison
Monday, March 8, 2004, 12:02:44 PM, you wrote: Can someone actually explain what GMane is! Is it a Newsgroup, some private forum, a Yahoo! group ? Do we change anything here or do we just continue reading / responding to message as they arise like now? Later: Having Googled for GMane I

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Leif, On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 10:55:00 -0700 GMT (09/03/2004, 00:55 +0700 GMT), Leif Gregory wrote: Your e-mail address will be encrypted and overly difficult for spammers to harvest. [...] You've got three heavy duty geeks (the mods) at least who think this is a viable idea with very

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Leif Gregory
Hello Jack, Monday, March 8, 2004, 11:11:54 AM, you wrote: Jack 1. Does this mean that tbudl will now become an official Usenet Jack *newsgroup? On Gmane's servers, yes. Jack 2. Can one subscribe to it as one would normally subscribe to Jack any other Usenet newsgroup? Not in the newsgroup

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Leif Gregory
Hello Thomas, Monday, March 8, 2004, 11:20:56 AM, you wrote: *We believe the spam risk through Gmane to be the same or even less than the current list archives already in place.* Thomas I'll keep that as a sig, just in case, if you don't mind. ;-) Uhmmm, let me copyright that real quick..

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Marck D Pearlstone
Dear Jack, @8-Mar-2004, 12:11 -0600 (08-Mar 18:11 UK time) Jack Morrison [JM] in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] said to Marck: JM Marck, I missed most of the original discussions regarding this JM subject, so I have a few questions. Okay - shoot. duck JM 1. Does this mean that tbudl will now become an

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Leif, On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 11:35:00 -0700 GMT (09/03/2004, 01:35 +0700 GMT), Leif Gregory wrote: They are planning to eventually pump these feeds into mainstream usenet. Oh... -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. SYMPTOM: Beer unusually pale and

Re[2]: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Jack Morrison
Monday, March 8, 2004, 12:36:37 PM, you wrote: Dear Jack, @8-Mar-2004, 12:11 -0600 (08-Mar 18:11 UK time) Jack Morrison [JM] in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] said to Marck: JM Marck, I missed most of the original discussions regarding this JM subject, so I have a few questions. Okay - shoot. duck

Re[2]: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Jack Morrison
Does anyone have the name of this new Gmane newsgroup yet? -- Best regards, Jack Using The Bat! 2.04.7 on Windows 5.1 (2600) Service Pack 1 Current version is 2.04.7 | 'Using TBUDL' information:

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Monday, March 8, 2004, 1:36 PM, you wrote: this looks like a good message to ( start) adding this Gmane info to THE FAQ:) MDP @8-Mar-2004, 12:11 -0600 (08-Mar 18:11 UK time) Jack Morrison [JM] MDP in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] said to Marck: JM Marck, I missed most of the original discussions

Re[3]: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Jack Morrison
Monday, March 8, 2004, 1:11:53 PM, you wrote: Your [GMane] e-mail address will be encrypted and overly difficult for spammers to harvest. How is this done, can we see some examples of this in action BEFOE we panic? Rich, here's a pretty good explanation of how it works, but I agree, seeing

Re: DNS info, WAS: Re: TB blacklisted on Lycos?

2004-03-08 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sunday, March 7, 2004, 8:45 PM, you wrote: JA Comcast brought out the ATT cable internet a while back. I guess JA they've not updated DNS for your area. oh, what a surprise!! I haven't had many problems with Comcast, so I won't say anything bad right now:) I had nothing in that box-DNS

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Leif Gregory
Hello Dirigo, Monday, March 8, 2004, 12:28:26 PM, you wrote: Dirigo I have followed your instructions to a T. Right to the point Dirigo of placing the dash(-) where indicated. Have I followed your Dirigo instructions correctly? I'm curious about the signficance of Dirigo the dash. Is it a

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Martin Webster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Dirigo, On 08 March 2004, 14:28 -0500 (08/03/200419:28 local time) Dirigo [D] in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3). In your TB-list reply template, add the following: %SetHeader(X-No-Archive,Yes)%- D I have followed your instructions to a T.

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Leif Gregory
Hello rich, Monday, March 8, 2004, 12:11:53 PM, you wrote: rich How is this done, can we see some examples of this in action rich BEFOE we panic? Absorutery Raggy! grin http://article.gmane.org/gmane.test/1341 I just picked this one at random because it shows the encrypted URL. So, here's

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Marck D Pearlstone
Dear Jack, @8-Mar-2004, 13:22 -0600 (08-Mar 19:22 UK time) Jack Morrison [JM] in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] said to Marck: Okay - shoot. duck JM I come in peace. :) (phew!) The Gmane newsgroup server will carry an archive of all archive-able posts the TBUDL (and others). JM I'm a little

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Leif Gregory
Hello Thomas, Monday, March 8, 2004, 11:46:41 AM, you wrote: They are planning to eventually pump these feeds into mainstream usenet. Thomas Oh... Still with encrypted addresses, and I believe they will offer us the option of whether we want that to happen with our lists. We will be looking

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Peter Meyns
Hi Leif, on Mon, 8 Mar 2004 13:36:30 -0700GMT, you wrote: LG No, the %- means not to put a new line. Without it, it really becomes LG apparent when you have macros above everything else in the template. LG You get all sorts of blank lines above your text. LG LG LG LG -- LG Leif (TB list

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Leif Gregory
Hello Peter, Monday, March 8, 2004, 2:23:33 PM, you wrote: LG LG -- LG Leif (TB list moderator and fellow end user). Peter Or below... ;-) SCNR grin You scared the heck out of me... I just rebuilt my box and I thought... Oh no!!! I screwed up my sig delimiter! I checked my post and it was all

Re[2]: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Jack Morrison
Monday, March 8, 2004, 2:44:09 PM, you wrote: [] JM Additionally, what kind of posts aren't archive-able? Those bearing the header X-No-Archive: Yes will not be archived. So, in other words, if I've added X-No-Archive: Yes to my headers, then the only place where my message will ever appear is

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Marck D Pearlstone
Dear Rich, @8-Mar-2004, 17:00 -0500 (08-Mar 22:00 UK time) rich gregory [RG] in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: RG The page you cite mentions a header tweak: X-Archive: encrypt You don't need this - the whole list will be encrypted. RG If TBUDL is broken is this some attempt to fix it? RG If it's

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Leif Gregory
Hello Jack, Monday, March 8, 2004, 12:20:26 PM, you wrote: Jack Gmane generates e-mail, too? No... grin Gmane has the ability to allow someone to post to the list via posting to the newsgroup. However, we are not doing this as it will allow bad stuff to possibly happen (spam etc.) However, many

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Monday, March 8, 2004, 3:43 PM, you wrote: LG http://article.gmane.org/gmane.test/1341 LG I just picked this one at random because it shows the encrypted URL. nice! even colorblind I can read his real email!! good thing it wasn't the colored bubble test, I wouldnt be able to read itG and

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Allie Martin
Trevor Langford, [TL] wrote: TL Can someone actually explain what GMane is! Go to www.gmane.org where it's fully described. There was a recent long thread about it, titled 'Time for a Newsgroup?' TL Later: Having Googled for GMane I now see that it is a News group TL thing. There does seem to

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Allie Martin
Jack Morrison, [JM] wrote: JM I'm a little confused about what archive means here. Will posts made JM to tbudl be mirrored over to this new newsgroup as they occur? Or in JM some kind of weekly/daily digest? Why not visit www.gmane.org and look at a couple of the newsgroups via the web

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Allie Martin
Jack Morrison, [JM] wrote: JM Rich, here's a pretty good explanation of how it works, but I JM agree, seeing is believing: JM http://gmane.org/tmda.php Just subscribe to one of the lists there and inspect a few of the messages. In that way, you'll see it so you can believe it or not. :) -- -=

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Leif Gregory
Hello Paul, Monday, March 8, 2004, 4:42:28 PM, you wrote: Paul and I searched and didn't find TBUDL as a group, aren't we in Paul there, or doesn't it start til Wed.?? Nope, we aren't planning to do it till Wednesday. -- Leif (TB list moderator and fellow end user). Using The Bat! 2.04.4

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Leif Gregory
Hello Allie, Monday, March 8, 2004, 1:25:00 PM, you wrote: Allie Well, you can continue reading list mail as you do now. The Allie newsgroup mirror will be just another way to read the list Allie traffic. It's read only. Allie and Leif time lag tag team. Allie's in, I'm out. See you all

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Allie Martin
Jack Morrison, [JM] wrote: JM Could it be that the newsgroup (the one that will mirror tbudl) JM hasn't actually been created yet? ,- / Marck in his initial message announcing plans \ | As such, we (the mods) are giving notice that we intend to enable | the GMane feed on Wednesday. `- I

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Allie Martin
Jack Morrison, [JM] wrote: JM The application requests the following info: That application is for us who wish to mirror the list traffic and not for you. :) All you have to do is point your newsserver to news.gmane.org, download the list of groups there, find the list you wish to subscribe to

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread George Mitchell
Marck D Pearlstone wrote: As such, we (the mods) are giving notice that we intend to enable the GMane feed on Wednesday. That still gives you folks 2 days to either brace yourselves, object strongly or look forward with eager anticipation. My reaction isn't exactly any of those things, but I

Re[2]: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Dennis W. Greer
Hello Leif, On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 13:43:15 -0700 GMT (3/8/2004, 12:43 PM -0800 GMT), Leif Gregory wrote: LG 1. Once the above link is opened, hover your mouse cursor over the LGhyperlink in the FROM line. LG 2. Click the hyperlink in the FROM line to see the TMDA in action. That's pretty

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Allie Martin
George Mitchell, [GM] wrote: GM Also, rational or not, the list will undoubtedly lose some GM posters. Perhaps we will gain others through GMane, but my gut GM tells me it will be a net loss. Perhaps this may have happened if we had just informed the group, without prior discussion that the

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Allie Martin
Jack Morrison, [JM] wrote: Just subscribe to one of the lists there and inspect a few of the messages. In that way, you'll see it so you can believe it or not. :) JM I'm doing just that, Allie, I was inaccurate there. Address encryption is optional on a list mailing list to GMane subscription

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Allie Martin
Jack Morrison, [JM] wrote: JM I'm sorry, Allie, I guess I wasn't clear. JM I'd like the information for *my* own purposes, Ah, I see. :) JM I would just like for someone to tell me what Gmane is wanting when JM they ask for the mail list's *address,* if you happen to know. They just wish to

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Allie Martin
Jack Morrison, [JM] wrote: JM Okay, I'm still confused. JM I have already subscribed to a couple of Gmane lists(just to read JM them), but I haven't tried to post to them yet. JM When (or how) do I get a chance to set this NOMAIL feature? JM And what exactly does the NOMAIL feature mean? That

Re: GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Allie Martin
Jack Morrison, [JM] wrote: JM And I would hit the reply button on my newsreader and send them to the JM same place, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? Yes. JM Or to this yet-to-be-named newsgroup's address? No. We'll be making this not possible. We still wish list traffic to come via list subscriptions only.

Re: Account Log Doesn't Update After an Error

2004-03-08 Thread Chris
Hi Terry, I had a problem once with the logs. See http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg69091.html for a detailed explanation. My guess is that the problem was a corrupted file, and not a TB! problem per se. It seems as if the info is still being written to the log file, but it's

GMane - here we come

2004-03-08 Thread Marck D Pearlstone
Hi T'Buddlers, Well, having asked for objections to the idea of reflecting the TB lists to GMane to provide access to the list in a News format, we haven't received any that stood up to scrutiny. As such, we (the mods) are giving notice that we intend to enable the GMane feed on Wednesday. That

Re: GMane - here we come PLEASE READ

2004-03-08 Thread Leif Gregory
Hello Allie, Monday, March 8, 2004, 1:21:45 PM, you wrote: Allie You don't. List traffic will still reach your inbox unless you Allie set your subscription to NOMAIL. Ok, just to make this clear to everyone. *** The TB lists *ARE NOT* going away. *** If you like getting the TB lists via the