Re: Filtering Spam?

2000-02-15 Thread Allie Martin
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 08:32:15 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: Monday, February 14, 2000, 6:16:22 PM, Nick wrote: Anyway, it's resolved for now... hopefully _that_ particular piece of scum won't find my Inbox anymore. :o) Was it directed specifically towards you? Hate to tell you this but

Intuition saves unread posts!!!

2000-02-15 Thread Sir Jinx!
Hello TBUDLers, Has anyone got unread [bat] posts in temp folder that never reached Inbox folder??? I experienced that today: I was just about to clean the contents of c:\windows\temp when something possessed me to read the messages!:o Note: I had to close TB with

Re: Intuition saves unread posts!!!

2000-02-15 Thread Leif Gregory
Hello Sir, On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 at 19:46:01 [GMT +0200], you wrote: SJ Note: I had to close TB with ctrl+alt+del in the middle of SJ receiving mail, because some other application went totally SJ bananas and TB didn't respond at all. How could those post end in SJ temp folder instead in Inbox?

Re: Filtering Spam?

2000-02-15 Thread tracer
Hello John De Hoog, On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 10:51:16 +0900 GMT your local time, which was Tuesday, February 15, 2000, 8:51:16 AM (GMT+0700) my local time, John De Hoog wrote: Hi, all, Nick Andriash wrote... NA Now I've created a filter through Special/Create Filter, and have created NA two of

Re: Transfering to new computer?

2000-02-15 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, February 15, 2000, 4:34:10 PM, Jason wrote: Please, any advice would be helpful. Move the mail subdirectory. That is pretty much all that is needed. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to

Re: Filtering Spam?

2000-02-15 Thread Allie Martin
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 16:30:35 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: It constitutes about 5% of my spam Then use the filtering system that I set forth months ago and Allie has reiterated several times since then. 5% of your spam is where sender=receiver. Well, if sender=receiver then, clearly,

Re: Transfering to new computer?

2000-02-15 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 01:49:27AM +0100, Roel wrote: - open 'regedit' export this key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\RIT\The Bat! - import that key on the other pc... all your accounts will be back again, including all their settings... Assuming, of course, that they are going to

Re: Filtering Spam?

2000-02-15 Thread Allie Martin
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 15:30:17 -0800, Nick Andriash wrote: Actually I've already incorporated that method, and was going to respond to Allie's post. I was losing track of some important mail that found it's way into my Spam Folder. That was happening to me initially but I created

Re: Transfering to new computer?

2000-02-15 Thread Roel
\\\|/// / ~ _ \ (- O o -) --oOOo-(_)-oOOo--- Hello Steve, - import that key on the other pc... all your accounts will be back again, including all their settings... SL Assuming, of

Re: Transfering to new computer?

2000-02-15 Thread Allie Martin
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 01:49:27 +0100, Roel wrote: this is what you've got to do: - copy/move all the mail-folders subfolders to the other computer (whichis pretty obvious g) - open 'regedit' export this key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\RIT\The Bat! - import that key on the other

Re: Transfering to new computer?

2000-02-15 Thread John De Hoog
Hello, Batmen and women, Steve Lamb wrote... - import that key on the other pc... all your accounts will be back again, including all their settings... Assuming, of course, that they are going to go onto the same drive. Bad assumption. If not, edit the drive references in the

Re: The Bat! and IE5

2000-02-15 Thread Allie Martin
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 00:19:44 +, Simon wrote: I'm trying to get The Bat! to integrate into IE5 properly. Even when you choose TB! as the default email client under options it won't enable 'Send/Page by Email' 'Send/Link by Email' etc. I have edited the registry adding given /{command}

Re: Filtering Spam?

2000-02-15 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 04:54:05PM -0800, Tom Plunket wrote: I wish it were that easy, but anything that gets BCC'd to you gets tossed in the trash too. :( That is why in the system I put forth months ago there were two details that Allie may not have put in. 1: Messages are marked as

Re: Filtering Spam?

2000-02-15 Thread Steve Lamb
Monday, February 14, 2000, 6:16:22 PM, Nick wrote: Anyway, it's resolved for now... hopefully _that_ particular piece of scum won't find my Inbox anymore. :o) Was it directed specifically towards you? Hate to tell you this but filtering on the address it comes from is a worthless venture.

Re: The Bat! - bug report

2000-02-15 Thread Allie Martin
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 10:37:18 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: Is that really a fair comparison? Well Yes. An email attachment is encoded into 7bit data. Right there you inrease the size of the file by 1/8th. So an 8Mg file becomes 9Mb. Of course, they don't use all of the 7bit

Re: Transfering to new computer?

2000-02-15 Thread Allie Martin
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 02:03:25 +0100, Roel wrote: Fix for this: delete the account-settings (and any other drive-related stuff) from the reg-file, import the reg-file, create all the accounts so tb! is pointing to their base-mail-dir again push 'ctrl-alt-shift-L'... all the folders will be

Re: The Bat! and IE5

2000-02-15 Thread Roel
\\\|/// / ~ _ \ (- O o -) --oOOo-(_)-oOOo--- Hello Simon, S I have edited the registry adding given /{command} lines in TB! S help but no success. I also compiled a FULL distributable ver of S

Re: Filtering Spam?

2000-02-15 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 07:54:50PM -0500, Allie Martin wrote: This method, though very effective except for the Nicks most recent example where a spam message was indeed addressed directly to him, doesn't seem to go down well with the others Steve. I'm wondering why. It is

Re: Transfering to new computer?

2000-02-15 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 02:03:25AM +0100, Roel wrote: Fix for this: delete the account-settings (and any other drive-related stuff) from the reg-file, import the reg-file, create all the accounts so tb! is pointing to their base-mail-dir again push 'ctrl-alt-shift-L'... all the folders will

Re: Filtering Spam?

2000-02-15 Thread tracer
Hello Steve Lamb, On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 08:32:15 -0800 GMT your local time, which was Tuesday, February 15, 2000, 11:32:15 PM (GMT+0700) my local time, Steve Lamb wrote: Most places cancel the addresses after they spammed for no more than a few hours. In the time it took you to create that

Re: The Bat! and IE5

2000-02-15 Thread Allie Martin
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 10:43:19 +0900, Leif Gregory wrote: AM At least I could never get it to. I think IMAP support is needed AM for that which TB! doesn't support yet. It will in version 2. grin Hey, at least you got all the letters right, they're just in the wrong order! MAPI support is

Re[2]: The Bat! - bug report

2000-02-15 Thread Oliver Sturm
Hi Allie Martin, On Tuesday, February 15, 2000 at 12:55:06 AM you wrote: Yes, I'm a bad, bad boy for sending email that big. Who cares. Fix the problem. Why should TB! use in excess of 192 megs of ram when trying to import (or open) an email with a 8 meg attachment?! This

Re: The Bat! - bug report

2000-02-15 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, February 15, 2000, 10:28:31 AM, Allie wrote: About receiving mail... I've not seen TB fault on this, but I've sometimes got the impression that throughput is poor with large mails. Receiving a mail of, say, 8 MB seems to take significantly longer than ftping a file that size. I

Re[2]: The Bat! and big attachments

2000-02-15 Thread Wieland Belka
Hello Syafril, what is "keep alive utility" using you? And what is the result of problems by Soth (big attachments)? Regards Wielandmailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Keys available

Re: Why not highlighting the newest message in the folder ?

2000-02-15 Thread Tom Plunket
TP It would still be useful (well, I guess I'm assuming that it can be TP made to work g), and how much less irritating for EVERYONE that it TP wasn't popping up in all of these times when it was absoulutely NOT TP wanted? JA Agreed. How often does it really pop up if you don't want to use it?

Boxer99

2000-02-15 Thread Sir Jinx!
Hello TBUDL, Andrash said: Boxer 99 comes very close and of course is superior at formatting unquoted material but it's $60 a license. Yes, Boxer99 _is_ a shareware, but the only thing that will happen if you don't pay it is the nagging message that the trial period is out.

Re: Boxer99

2000-02-15 Thread Nick Andriash
On Tuesday, February 15, 2000, 10:59:29 AM, Sir Jinx! wrote: Andrash said: Boxer 99 comes very close and of course is superior at formatting unquoted material but it's $60 a license. Uhh... who exactly is "Andrash"? I know of no other on this List that has a surname close to mine, so

Re: Boxer99

2000-02-15 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, February 15, 2000, 1:45:47 PM, Nick wrote: On Tuesday, February 15, 2000, 10:59:29 AM, Sir Jinx! wrote: Andrash said: Boxer 99 comes very close and of course is superior at formatting unquoted material but it's $60 a license. Uhh... who exactly is "Andrash"? I know of no

Re: Boxer99

2000-02-15 Thread Roel
\\\|/// / ~ _ \ (- O o -) --oOOo-(_)-oOOo--- Hello Nick, NA On Tuesday, February 15, 2000, 10:59:29 AM, Sir Jinx! wrote: Andrash said: Boxer 99 comes very close and of course is

Re: Filtering Spam?

2000-02-15 Thread Nick Andriash
On Tuesday, February 15, 2000, 8:32:15 AM, Steve Lamb wrote: Was it directed specifically towards you? Hate to tell you this but filtering on the address it comes from is a worthless venture. Most places cancel the addresses after they spammed for no more than a few hours. In the time

Re: Filtering Spam?

2000-02-15 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, February 15, 2000, 2:47:02 PM, Nick wrote: Yeah, I was afraid of something like that. I wish TB had an "easy" way of adding some kind of search criteria to weed out Spam. Actually, I think it's more the responsibility of my ISP to do that. Thanks for the tip Steve. Read the

Re: Boxer99

2000-02-15 Thread Allie Martin
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 23:02:36 +0100, Roel wrote: it was Allie who wrote this on january 15th... and it was in the 'external vs internal editor'-thread... Uhm, really? :) I don't remember either though I very well could have, since I know Boxer99 and did have it installed for about an

Re: Filtering Spam?

2000-02-15 Thread Nick Andriash
On Tuesday, February 15, 2000, 3:03:57 PM, Steve Lamb wrote: Read the message from Allie. He had described, again, the spam filtering system I suggested a few months ago which is just that, an easy way for TB! to weed out spam. Actually I've already incorporated that method, and was

Re: Filtering Spam?

2000-02-15 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, February 15, 2000, 3:30:17 PM, Nick wrote: Actually I've already incorporated that method, and was going to respond to Allie's post. I was losing track of some important mail that found it's way into my Spam Folder. It somehow made it's way through all of the other filters obviously.

Re: Filtering Spam?

2000-02-15 Thread tracer
Hello Nick Andriash, On Mon, 14 Feb 2000 17:38:06 -0800 GMT your local time, which was Tuesday, February 15, 2000, 8:38:06 AM (GMT+0700) my local time, Nick Andriash wrote: I've always had a problem with most of the filters that TB sets up. For instance, here is the From: line from a spam I

Re: Filtering Spam?

2000-02-15 Thread Nick Andriash
At 01:39 PM 15/02/2000, tracer wrote: John, but its a total waste of time trying to hit this kind of address one by one. But if as I mentioned before and just in another message one could filter on the fact that sender=receiver, one needs exactly one kill filter I'm not sure I know what you

Re: Filtering Spam?

2000-02-15 Thread Steve Lamb
Monday, February 14, 2000, 10:33:01 PM, tracer wrote: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is EXACTLY the case I want a special filter for SENDER=RECEIVER: means SPAM Well, considering the sender was the zhdice guy and the receiver was Nick I fail to see how it applies to what

Transfering to new computer?

2000-02-15 Thread Jason Ellis
Hello List, I'd like some input on how to transfer The Bat and all my e-mail files/folders/configurations to a new computer. When I was using Eudora, this was very easy (just copy the mailbox files over and everything was done). Is there an easy way of doing this with The Bat, too? I can't

Re: Filtering Spam?

2000-02-15 Thread John De Hoog
Hello, Batmen and women, tracer wrote... John, but its a total waste of time trying to hit this kind of address one by one. But if as I mentioned before and just in another message one could filter on the fact that sender=receiver, one needs exactly one kill filter Both of those are

The Bat! and IE5

2000-02-15 Thread Simon
Hello Again. Just upgraded to 1.41 Beta 3 but no joy there either (see below). Must be some way of integrating The Bat! system wide? Sín (Simon) The Bat ver: 1.41 Beta 3 Last message: A Chara The Bat! users. I'm trying to get The Bat! to integrate into IE5 properly. Even when you choose TB!

Re: Transfering to new computer?

2000-02-15 Thread Roel
\\\|/// / ~ _ \ (- O o -) --oOOo-(_)-oOOo--- Hello Jason, JE Hello List, JE I'd like some input on how to transfer The Bat and all my e-mail JE files/folders/configurations to a new computer.

Re: Filtering Spam?

2000-02-15 Thread Tom Plunket
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] t This is EXACTLY the case I want a special filter for t SENDER=RECEIVER: means SPAM t It constitutes about 5% of my spam t As the senders vary its difficult to filter them one by one but the t property used, ie sender=receiver should be recognisable.

Re: Filtering Spam?

2000-02-15 Thread Tom Plunket
AM Anyway to bring all that banter to perspective, get rid of spam by AM first excluding all mail that is legitimately for you and then AM consider the rest spam. With this method I hardly ever get legitimate AM mail ending up in my spam folder or spam ending up in my inbox. I wish it were that

Re: Filtering Spam?

2000-02-15 Thread Allie Martin
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 16:54:05 -0800, Tom Plunket wrote: AM Anyway to bring all that banter to perspective, get rid of spam by AM first excluding all mail that is legitimately for you and then AM consider the rest spam. With this method I hardly ever get legitimate AM mail ending up in my spam

Re: Transfering to new computer?

2000-02-15 Thread Roel
\\\|/// / ~ _ \ (- O o -) --oOOo-(_)-oOOo--- Hello Allie, AM After all of that I see no need to export the registry then. It AM may just avoid registration. the registry also contains all the

Re: Transfering to new computer?

2000-02-15 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 02:39:37AM +0100, Roel wrote: the registry also contains all the window-positions, most of the menu-switches, editor-preferences, ... it's not all that important, but it's nice if you don't need to set it all back to the way you want it to be... It is best that

Re[2]: The Bat! and IE5

2000-02-15 Thread Simon
A Chara Roel, Wednesday, February 16, 2000, 1:28:31 AM, you wrote: R dunno if it'll work, but try this: R create shortcuts to tb! with the correct options in (those *.lnk R files) and let the registry point to them R hth :-) Ahh well! At least I got my 'Bat! Button' working in IE5 with a

Re: Filtering Spam?

2000-02-15 Thread tracer
Hello Allie Martin, On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 13:04:22 -0500 GMT your local time, which was Wednesday, February 16, 2000, 1:04:22 AM (GMT+0700) my local time, Allie Martin wrote: Also Nick, in the medical fraternity we sometimes make a diagnosis by exclusion. IOW, we do tests to see if the

What does the Routing filter do?

2000-02-15 Thread John De Hoog
This question may have been lost in the flurry of messages about filtering techniques, so let me ask again. If you could make a list of common domains to be rejected if they appear in the To: header, that would go a long way toward killing SPAM mail. The Bat! kill filter interface has

Re: Boxer99

2000-02-15 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hi Allie, On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 18:15:35 -0500GMT (16/02/2000, 07:15 +0800GMT), Allie Martin wrote: it was Allie who wrote this on january 15th... and it was in the 'external vs internal editor'-thread... AM Uhm, really? :) I don't remember either though I very well AM could have,

Re: Boxer99

2000-02-15 Thread Allie Martin
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 12:33:17 +0800, Thomas Fernandez wrote: AM Uhm, really? :) I don't remember either though I very well AM could have, since I know Boxer99 and did have it installed for about AM an hour, testing it. I missed the beginning of this thread. So what is Boxer99?

Re: What does the Routing filter do?

2000-02-15 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hi John, On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 13:11:27 +0900GMT (16/02/2000, 12:11 +0800GMT), John De Hoog wrote: JDH The present kill filter options are Originator, Subject, and JDH Routing. I'm surprised there is no To: option. Better yet, let the JDH user specify the header in filter arguments. And make it

Re: Boxer99

2000-02-15 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hi Allie, On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 23:40:33 -0500GMT (16/02/2000, 12:40 +0800GMT), Allie Martin wrote: AM It's been a while Thomas. :) Boxer99 is a plain text editor AM with some above average features. It offers good email specific AM editing support. Costs $60 though. :( I was on

Re: Boxer99

2000-02-15 Thread Allie Martin
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 13:00:33 +0800, Thomas Fernandez wrote: Do you have an URL for Boxer99? No, but you'll find it listed at winfiles.com under the text editors section. -- CU, Allie ... Using The Bat! v1.39 *:* Windows NT5.0 --- ** Ideas are not responsible for their followers! **