Re: [CGUYS] Looking for an e-mail client with particular features

2008-12-05 Thread Fred Holmes
Eudora will do what you describe below, if I understand correctly what you are asking. It also has an excellent filtering system for automatically moving incoming messages into individual mailboxes. The available filtering criteria are a broad set, not simply the message sender (which is, of

Re: [CGUYS] Looking for an e-mail client with particular features

2008-12-05 Thread Fred Holmes
comp.mail.eudora.ms-windows is a USENET news group that provides excellent support for Eudora, and while I use Forte Agent to read newsgroups, I think that they can be read / posted to from a browser, although I've never tried it. Current activity on the newsgroup is maybe one thread per day.

Re: [CGUYS] Looking for an e-mail client with particular features

2008-12-05 Thread Fred Holmes
Yes, but ... I think he wants to copy only the five or so useful headers, along with the body text. Show all or details often displays all of the headers (e.g., what the blah, blah toolbar button in Eudora does), including all of the headers that display routing information and timestamping

Re: [CGUYS] Lie Online, Go to Jail

2008-12-05 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a long history on the internet of folks using aliases for any of a variety of reasons and now a jury has ruled that's illegal and a misdemeanor. Some of us are not as tough as you and would find a year in jail

Re: [CGUYS] Lie Online, Go to Jail

2008-12-05 Thread Tom Piwowar
Where would you draw the line? Suppose someone wanted to sue civilly for misrepresentation on a blind date arranged via the internet? Do you want adults who have sexually suggestive chats with underage teenagers to be traced and arrested, even if (or prior to) engaging in any actual behavior or

[CGUYS] Cox Phishing Alert

2008-12-05 Thread Richard P.
FYI: I realize I am preaching to the choir 9no offense Rev.), for the most part, but I received a Phishing attempt this morning purporting to be from Cox Cable. Subject line Confirm and upgrade your account, message Dear valued Cox User, This is to inform you that we are of current plan to

[CGUYS] Time Machine

2008-12-05 Thread Stephen Brownfield
My wife just got a new MacBook Pro. This is our first Mac running OS X 10.5. What is a good resource for using and utilizing Time Machine? Thanks Steve * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives,

Re: [CGUYS] Time Machine

2008-12-05 Thread Roger D. Parish
At 11:00 AM -0500 12/5/08, Stephen Brownfield wrote: My wife just got a new MacBook Pro. This is our first Mac running OS X 10.5. What is a good resource for using and utilizing Time Machine? Take Control of Easy Backups in Leopard http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/leopard-easy-backup.html A

Re: [CGUYS] Lie Online, Go to Jail

2008-12-05 Thread Art Clemons
It also depends on whether the alias is clearly an alias or an attempt to defraud. I like to be slightly anonymous on usenet and in forums. There is a whole class of people who have been aliases there whole posting careers. Unfortunately this is an assumption without merit. It's violating

Re: [CGUYS] Looking for an e-mail client with particular featur

2008-12-05 Thread Tom Piwowar
I think he wants to copy only the five or so useful headers, along with the body text. Gmail. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at

Re: [CGUYS] Time Machine

2008-12-05 Thread Tom Piwowar
My wife just got a new MacBook Pro. This is our first Mac running OS X 10.5. What is a good resource for using and utilizing Time Machine? It is entirely possible to use Time Machine with very little knowledge. Get a large external drive that is 2 to 3 times larger than the total of your files

Re: [CGUYS] Apple pushes anti-virus for Macs

2008-12-05 Thread Tom Piwowar
Interesting attitude expressed by Mac users toward other Mac users who do get hit by a virus... The only few real exploits required downloading the malware and installing it with an administrator password. Whoever is bright enough to do that with software automatically downloaded from the 7th

Re: [CGUYS] Looking for an e-mail client with particular featur

2008-12-05 Thread Tony B
Yes, Gmail (or some other modern in the cloud AJAX email app) may be _part_ of the answer. But, given that they all store multi-gigabytes of prior emails, I can't imagine why he would still want to go to the hassle of copying and pasting into Word documents. Anyway, I tried, but he doesn't seem to

Re: [CGUYS] Apple pushes anti-virus for Macs

2008-12-05 Thread mike
Wow a reader at macworld...must be an expert. How about an article from cnet? http://m.zdnet.com.au/139239586.htm?redir=1 That cnet piece is from 2006 but the same problems are still within os x, not the specific security threat, but in general other known/unknown vulnerabilities. How about a

Re: [CGUYS] Looking for an e-mail client with particular featur

2008-12-05 Thread Sue Cubic
At 05:58 PM 12/05/2008 -0500, Tony B wrote Yes, Gmail (or some other modern in the cloud AJAX email app) may be _part_ of the answer. But, given that they all store multi-gigabytes of prior emails, I can't imagine why he would still want to go to the hassle of copying and pasting into Word

Re: [CGUYS] Time Machine

2008-12-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tom didn't mention that a firewire connection is best between the computer and the external hard drive. Since your wife's new machine is a laptop, it will be necessary for her to connect the back-up drive from time to time, in order for Time Machine to do its job. I just got a new MacBook

[CGUYS] Vista Hosts file query

2008-12-05 Thread Tony B
Why is WinVista ignoring my hosts file? As a test I've added www.yahoo.com to the end (behind all the Spybot entries), but despite reboots and disabling the DNS service, I can still ping and browse to the site. I can also ping the sites entered by Spybot. TIA Vista Home Premium SP1

Re: [CGUYS] Vista Hosts file query

2008-12-05 Thread Tony B
NM. I finally stumbled blindly into the solution. If you can describe today's last 6 hours as a blind stumble. :) My hosts file at noon today when I started: --- 127.0.0.1 localhost ::1 localhost # Start of entries inserted by Spybot - Search Destroy

Re: [CGUYS] Vista Hosts file query

2008-12-05 Thread Vicky Staubly
On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, Tony B wrote: NM. I finally stumbled blindly into the solution. If you can describe today's last 6 hours as a blind stumble. :) My hosts file at noon today when I started: --- 127.0.0.1 localhost ::1 localhost # Start of entries inserted

Re: [CGUYS] Vista Hosts file query

2008-12-05 Thread Tony B
Uh-oh. I wonder if this could be trouble in the future? But what the heck am I supposed to do except delete it? And doesn't anyone else have this in their Vista hosts file? On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 11:11 PM, Vicky Staubly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ::1 is the IPv6 equivalent to 127.0.0.1, always the