Re: [discuss] Re: re: Massachussetts registered voters

2005-11-20 Thread Roger Markus
On 11/20/05, Chad Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, but I did notice this is the 100th post on the thread maybe time to kill it. It started on Oct 26 No - it's still relevant and the issue is not in the past yet. RM

Re: [discuss] Online only apps

2005-11-20 Thread Roger Markus
On 11/20/05, John Boyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To Discuss and Daniel Carrera: Your suggestions are being followed by me as fast as I can. I need one KVM switch so I can use my monitor for both Win and Linux, until I get my Linux under control, I mean knowledge control. I bought a 64 bit

Re: [discuss] Online only apps

2005-11-20 Thread Daniel Carrera
Roger Markus wrote: but don't attempt a Bang! one day swtich-over, it's not realistic. I did it :-) I had only used Windows for years (at home). When I got my first computer (486) I put Slackware on it, no Windows. Never looked back. Cheers, Daniel. -- /\/`) http://oooauthors.org

Re: [discuss] Online only apps

2005-11-20 Thread Wesley Parish
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 23:36, Daniel Carrera wrote: Terri Sprague wrote: Quite a few of us, even though we have internet satellite connections, do not stay connected all the time. In my opinion, that is a disaster waiting to happen because of hackers, viruses, etc. Why not switch to Linux

[discuss] Open Office

2005-11-20 Thread Windogmassey
Hi, I think this is a great idea! I would like to contribute my time by product testing. Please tell me what I have to do. Thanks Alex Massey

Re: [discuss] Online only apps

2005-11-20 Thread CPHennessy
On Sat November 19 2005 22:48, John Boyle wrote: To Discuss and Daniel Carrera: Your suggestions are being followed by me as fast as I can. I need one KVM switch so I can use my monitor for both Win and Linux, until I get my Linux under control, I mean knowledge control. I bought a 64 bit AMD

Re: [discuss] To all - PLEASE TURN OFF YOUR RETURN RECEIPT REQUSTED!!!

2005-11-20 Thread CPHennessy
On Sat November 19 2005 03:17, mark wrote: Unless you *really* want 1,753 return receipts clogging your inbox. It's rude and inconsiderate - and downright dumb - to have your email requesting a return receipt for every email you send out, and doubly so for a mailing list. I think that it is

Re: [discuss] Issue with OO version 2.0...

2005-11-20 Thread CPHennessy
On Fri November 18 2005 02:56, + arobinson18 wrote: [ MODERATED ] [snip] This is a slightly modified copy of a subset of a spreadsheet I created to calculate the min/max phase angle spread of a polyphase network. I want to display the results graphically as well so I

Re: [discuss] OOo Math 2.0 Troubles

2005-11-20 Thread CPHennessy
On Tue November 15 2005 19:23, + DMA wrote: [ MODERATED ] *** Hello! I've made a lot of works in OOo Writer using OOo Math objects. The version I use is 1.1.3. One day I gave my friend some works. He has OOo 2.0. When he opened it he saw some incorrect equations. Now

Re: [discuss] Online only apps

2005-11-20 Thread mark
Roger Markus wrote: On 11/20/05, John Boyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To Discuss and Daniel Carrera: Your suggestions are being followed by me as fast as I can. I need one KVM switch so I can use my monitor for both Win and Linux, until I get my Linux under control, I mean knowledge snip the

Re: [discuss] Open Office

2005-11-20 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 09:30:00 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I think this is a great idea! I would like to contribute my time by product testing. Please tell me what I have to do. Thanks Alex Massey You might want to sign up for the qa.openoffice.org mailing list, and some documents

Re: [discuss] To all - PLEASE TURN OFF YOUR RETURN RECEIPT REQUSTED!!!

2005-11-20 Thread mark
CPHennessy wrote: On Sat November 19 2005 03:17, mark wrote: Unless you *really* want 1,753 return receipts clogging your inbox. It's rude and inconsiderate - and downright dumb - to have your email requesting a return receipt for every email you send out, and doubly so for a mailing list. I

Re: [discuss] To all - PLEASE TURN OFF YOUR RETURN RECEIPT REQUSTED!!!

2005-11-20 Thread Steve Kopischke
on 11/20/05 12:56 'mark' wrote: Heh. Try the redhat list, where folks invoke an out-of-office message, which responds to *every* *single* *post*. But no, there's only two or three folks whose email wants the receipts, and I'm assuming that thay just don't understand what's happening, and I

Re: [discuss] To all - PLEASE TURN OFF YOUR RETURN RECEIPT REQUSTED!!!

2005-11-20 Thread mark
Steve Kopischke wrote: on 11/20/05 12:56 'mark' wrote: snip But no, there's only two or three folks whose email wants the receipts, and I'm assuming that thay just don't understand what's happening, and I was just trying to make them aware of it. snip As for the return receipts, I believe

[discuss] Re: a more complete office suite

2005-11-20 Thread Randomthots
Nicolas Mailhot wrote: If you call carpet-bombing effective, it is. Retail paper flyers are the true spam ancestors. It's cost effective is what I mean. But, you don't have to believe me. From the April 2005 issue of Scientific American --

Re: [discuss] Re: a more complete office suite

2005-11-20 Thread Henrik Sundberg
How about the anti spam Haiku? http://www.oblomovka.com/writing/habeas:_the_antispam_haiku.php3 /$ 2005/11/20, Randomthots [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Nicolas Mailhot wrote: If you call carpet-bombing effective, it is. Retail paper flyers are the true spam ancestors. It's cost effective is

Re: [discuss] Re: a more complete office suite

2005-11-20 Thread Chad Smith
On 11/20/05, Randomthots [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charging a postage fee of some sort, whether my fee-bate system or something else, has the side effect of mandating exactly the authentication mechanisms you desire while simultaneously making spam much less profitable. Rod, I agree with

Re: [discuss] Re: a more complete office suite

2005-11-20 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le lundi 21 novembre 2005 à 00:04 +0100, Henrik Sundberg a écrit : How about the anti spam Haiku? http://www.oblomovka.com/writing/habeas:_the_antispam_haiku.php3 Like SPF it is very popular with spammers. Micropayements rely on spammers accepting to pay and not subverting someone else's

Re: [discuss] Re: a more complete office suite

2005-11-20 Thread mark
Chad Smith wrote: On 11/20/05, Randomthots [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charging a postage fee of some sort, whether my fee-bate system or something else, has the side effect of mandating exactly the authentication mechanisms you desire while simultaneously making spam much less profitable. snip

[discuss] Re: a more complete office suite

2005-11-20 Thread Randomthots
Chad Smith wrote: Rod, I agree with you more often than I do with most people on this list, but I'd have to say I don't on this one. I don't like this idea, if for no other reason, I don't want to pay for email. I'm already paying $50 a month for high-speed Internet, there's no way I'm

Re: [discuss] Re: a more complete office suite

2005-11-20 Thread Daniel Carrera
Randomthots wrote: Would you be willing to spend $0.01 per email? My idea behind the fee-bate was two-fold: make spam a lot more expensive to send out and reimburse recipients and ISPs for the A simpler way to achieve the same result without actually spending money (in any way you'd

[discuss] Re: RE:[discuss] Re: a more complete office suite

2005-11-20 Thread Mel Haun Sr
The only problem I see that makes this a bad move are the Thousands of legitimate clubs and e-mail groups. This would hurt tham as much or more than the spammaers. With little or no real gain. We would lose a wondeful aspect of the Net by the thousands ( like this present list ), to get rid of

Re: [discuss] Re: RE:[discuss] Re: a more complete office suite

2005-11-20 Thread Daniel Carrera
Mel Haun Sr wrote: The only problem I see that makes this a bad move are the Thousands of legitimate clubs and e-mail groups. This would hurt tham as much or more than the spammaers. With little or no real gain. We would lose a wondeful aspect of the Net by the thousands ( like this present

Re: [discuss] Re: a more complete office suite

2005-11-20 Thread Robert Derman
HUGE SNIP This discussion thread has digressed to the point where it no longer has anything to do with the original subject! Let's either end it or rename it. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: [discuss] Online only apps

2005-11-20 Thread Roger Markus
On 11/21/05, mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roger Markus wrote: Do give yourself an overlap period to get used to Linux. Once you're up to speed with it, you'll never want to touch a Lose-W machine again, but there snip use the Lose-W box less and less, but don't attempt a Bang! one day

[discuss] Re: a more complete office suite

2005-11-20 Thread Randomthots
Daniel Carrera wrote: Randomthots wrote: Would you be willing to spend $0.01 per email? My idea behind the fee-bate was two-fold: make spam a lot more expensive to send out and reimburse recipients and ISPs for the A simpler way to achieve the same result without actually spending money

[discuss] Re:Online only apps

2005-11-20 Thread Terri Sprague
Wow. I had no idea that my little email would generate all this response. Wow. I do use OpenOffice 2.0, Mozilla Thunderbird, Opera and my Palm Desktop for my calendar and notes. The only thing that I have not changed is that I still use MS XP for my operating system. Some of the software that