[FYI] Abuse -- Spam-Reporting Software [Free]

2004-11-16 Thread David M. Dickerson
Hello, everyone. I found a simple program that will help fight back spam, and that I thought might be useful as a supplement to The Bat! and the BayesIt! plug-in. The description and URL of this SourceForge.Net project are as follows: ABUSE: http://spam-abuse.sourceforge.net/ Introduction Abuse is

[Query] Truncated TBUDL Digests

2004-11-16 Thread David M. Dickerson
Hello, everyone! Has anyone who receives TBUDL in digest format ever had any problems with truncated (i.e., incomplete) digests? As you can tell, I am trying to catch up on my reading of TBUDL, which I receive in digest format, and I have much catching up to do! :-) The entire content of Volume

Re: [Query] Norton AntiVirus and The Bat!

2004-11-15 Thread David M. Dickerson
Hello, Alexander. On Wednesday, 11.03.2004 3:56 PM, Alexander S. Kunz wrote: ASK Hi, Allie! Where can I find the Eicar test virus? ASK ASK http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm As you can see, I am very behind on my TBUDL reading! :-) Thank you very much for the information, Alexander!

The Bat! -- Windows-1251 as Default Encoding?

2004-11-15 Thread David M. Dickerson
Hello, everyone. I have a question about default encoding to recipients who are native Russian speakers, and most of whom use Windows. My evaluation copy of The Bat! 3.0.1.33 expired last night at midnight, so I have to make a decision. Today, I launched The Bat! and was surprised to find that it

How to Protect Message Bases (Was Re: PC-cillin and TB!)

2004-11-15 Thread David M. Dickerson
Hello, P. Johnson. On Friday, 5 November 2004, 12:03:59 AM, you wrote: PJ I'm getting a new computer and want to get the best PJ firewall and virus protection I can, and have been PJ looking at Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security. Regarding the issue of antivirus software and The Bat!, you

Re: [Query] Norton AntiVirus and The Bat!

2004-11-03 Thread David M. Dickerson
Hello, everyone. I thank each one of you who responded to my query. Before I provide additional information that some of you requested, I will note that the following Web page from RITLabs' Knowledge Base indicates that modern versions of NAV work transparently with The Bat!:

BayesIt! Configuration with Russian and English E-Mail

2004-11-03 Thread David M. Dickerson
Hello, everyone! I have just read Alexey Vinogradov's Web page on The Bat!'s BayesIt! anti-spam plug-in, at the following URL: http://klirik.narod.ru/usefuls/bayesiteng.htm (The Russian version is at the following URL.) http://klirik.narod.ru/usefuls/bayesit.htm ASIDE: For those of you who have

Re: Difference(s) Between The Bat! 3.0's Two Versions

2004-11-02 Thread David M. Dickerson
Hello, Mica! Thank you very much for your response to the message that I posted to you on TBUDL (13 October 2004)! On Monday, 1 November 2004 2:31 PM, Mica Mijatovic wrote: MM ...No, *I* have to apologize, since the missive of MM mine I am prone to accept as the well of confusion, MM partly due to

[Query] Norton AntiVirus and The Bat!

2004-11-02 Thread David M. Dickerson
Hello, everyone. I apologize for bringing up the subject of Norton AntiVirus (NAV) and The Bat!, again -- but one serious concern I have is that Norton AntiVirus does not work with The Bat!, which causes concern about registering The Bat!. (I am still dealing with some other problems with Cyrillic

Re: [Query] SpamPal (or Alternatives) and The Bat

2004-10-18 Thread David M. Dickerson
Hello, Mike! On Saturday, 6 October 16 2004, Mike Rourke wrote: MR I used SpamPal for awhile. It can be big and slow. MR K9 is much faster and about 99% accurate Thank you for your input, Mike. Ironically, someone else sent me a private message highly recommending SpamPal for use with The

Re: [Query] SpamPal (or Alternatives) and The Bat

2004-10-18 Thread David M. Dickerson
Hello, Alexander! On Sunday, 17 October 2004, Alexander S. Kunz wrote: ASK If you have to look at what you're spending your ASK money for, IMO, you're better off with a good ASK standalone virus scanner (I recommend Kaspersky) ASK and leave all the (IMO crappy, sorry) Norton stuff ASK be Thank

[Query] SpamPal (or Alternatives) and The Bat!

2004-10-16 Thread David M. Dickerson
Hello, everyone! I have noticed that some members of TBUDL are using SpamPal (http://www.spampal.org/) with The Bat!. Because SpamPal is probably only tangentially related to the main topics of TBUDL, I would like to ask anyone using SpamPal if they are satisfied with the results and if you

Re: REG EXPRESSIONS

2004-10-15 Thread David M. Dickerson
Hello, everyone. I have noticed that several people are mentioning the complicated topic of regular expressions, in how they relate specifically to The Bat!, of course. I have played with Perl on and off for several years, but regular expressions have, I candidly admit, intimidated me. (After I

Re: Difference(s) Between The Bat! 3.0's Two Versions

2004-10-15 Thread David M. Dickerson
Hello, Mica! On Wednesday, 13 October 2004, Mica Mijatovic wrote: MM ...Ah, I forgot to add: between ethics and health, MM I always choose health. Although I did not understand some parts of your post, Mica (forgive me), I never would try to tell another person which flavor of The Bat! she or he

Re: Difference(s) Between The Bat! 3.0's Two Versions

2004-10-12 Thread David M. Dickerson
Hello, Roelof! On Saturday, 9 October 2004, you wrote: RO http://www.ritlabs.com/kb/idx/44/076/article/ ...about the different between the professional and the home versions of The Bat! (I will have to do some research on eToken USB tokens.) Thank you very much for the information, Roelof! I would

Re: Difference(s) Between The Bat! 3.0's Two Versions

2004-10-12 Thread David M. Dickerson
Hello, Vili! On Sunday, 10 October 2004, you wrote: KV ...I write the financial part: companies MUST KV buy professional version. Private persons can KV choose. Thank you for the information, Vili! Actually, it poses an ethical dilemma for me, and your point is very relevant. I started doing

Difference(s) Between The Bat! 3.0's Two Versions

2004-10-09 Thread David M. Dickerson
Hello, everyone! Ever since the release of The Bat! 3.0, I have been wondering what the difference(s) between the home and professional versions is (are) -- besides the obvious difference of price, of course. I have not been able to find this information on the RITLabs Web site, although I realize

[Update] The Bat! 3.0 and a Cyrillic/Russian Signature

2004-10-09 Thread David M. Dickerson
query, some e-mail clients do automatically convert Windows 1251 Russian text to KOI8-R, at the time that a message is sent, but no one responded to my question as to whether or not The Bat! performs such on the fly encoding. Thank you! Cordially, David M. Dickerson -- URL: http://ddickerson.igc.org

Re: [Query of Interest] The Bat! Merchandise

2004-10-04 Thread David M. Dickerson
Hello, Jeff! On Monday, 4 October 4 2004, Jeff Gaines wrote: JG Absolutely not, I want an email client, if I JG want a jumper I'll go to a clothes shop. I appreciate your candid response, Jeff. It's the kind of feedback that I want. (The responses that I have received via PM so far, incidentally,

[FWD/FYI] - [The Bat 0003765]: Unicode and The Bat!

2004-10-04 Thread David M. Dickerson
M. Dickerson 29 Sep 2004 11:40drifthat Issue Monitored: drifthat 29 Sep 2004 09:27Igor A. VyatkinNew Issue = -- Original Message -- -- David M. Dickerson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://ddickerson.igc.org

Norton AntiVirus 2003: Using Anti-Virus Plug-Ins

2004-10-03 Thread David M. Dickerson
! Cordially, David -- David M. Dickerson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://ddickerson.igc.org/ * * * In a world of absurdity, we must invent reason; we must create beauty out of nothingness. - ELIE WIESEL _ Don’t just search. Find

[Query of Interest] The Bat! Merchandise

2004-10-03 Thread David M. Dickerson
apparent via comparison with those artistic works!) ;-) :David_Dickerson: -- David M. Dickerson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]\nURL: http://ddickerson.igc.org/\n* * *\nIn a world of absurdity, we must invent\nreason; we must create beauty out of\nnothingness. - ELIE WIESEL

Re: Russian/Cyrillic Signature File in The Bat! 3.0

2004-10-02 Thread David M. Dickerson
of the occurrences of the letter 'j' to the letter 'y', as in 'Lyubov'. Thank you, again, Maksym! ('Spasibo'!) Cordially, David -- David M. Dickerson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]\n URL: http://ddickerson.igc.org/\n * * *\n In a world of absurdity, we must invent\n reason; we must create beauty out of\n nothingness

Re[3]: Russian/Cyrillic Signature File in The Bat! 3.0

2004-10-01 Thread David M. Dickerson
, the high temperatures should be at 16°C, with little chance of rain.) -- David M. Dickerson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://ddickerson.igc.org/ * * * In a world of absurdity, we must invent reason; we must create beauty out of nothingness. - ELIE WIESEL

Re: Unicode support?

2004-10-01 Thread David M. Dickerson
! immediately, if I thought that the program would actually support Unicode someday, but the few responses I have received from the developers lead me to be very pessimistic, indeed. /RANT Cordially, David (Tennessee, United States) -- David M. Dickerson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http

Re: Russian/Cyrillic Signature File in The Bat! 3.0

2004-09-29 Thread David M. Dickerson
, and the lack of a manual in printed or PDF format. (At the risk of sounding crass, I would LOVE to be able to RTFM!) -- David M. Dickerson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://ddickerson.igc.org/ * * * In a world of absurdity, we must invent reason; we must create beauty out of nothingness. - ELIE WIESEL

Russian/Cyrillic Signature File in The Bat! 3.0

2004-09-23 Thread David M. Dickerson
it into an e-mail message, which seems to work just fine. Thank you very much, in advance, for any ideas or suggestions! Cordially, David -- David M. Dickerson URL: http://ddickerson.igc.org/ * * * In a world of absurdity, we must invent reason; we must create beauty out of nothingness. -- ELIE WIESEL