Re: Major Panic

2000-10-06 Thread John Sullivan
On Wednesday 4 October 2000 tracer wrote: John: Something I've noticed a couple of times is how ungraceful TB is in low-memory situations. Oleg: When I studied at university I was taught that the program managing resources of a computer system is called 'operating system'. Resource

Major Panic

2000-10-03 Thread John Sullivan
He's in the army, you know. Something I've noticed a couple of times is how ungraceful TB is in low-memory situations. Microsoft have things to say about this. (Most of their own apps, and virtually all of anyone else's, fail to follow these guidelines, but that doesn't stop them being good

Re: RFC gurus? TB trashes attachments

2000-09-15 Thread John Sullivan
On Friday 15 September 2000 Oliver Sturm wrote: I just found that in the middle of my message text there is the following line, obviously created by the list server somehow. Maybe also a bug? Of course the following line wasn't in the original messages: You are subscribed

Re: Someone spamming us

2000-08-31 Thread John Sullivan
On Thursday 31 August 2000 Marck D. Pearlstone wrote: GE But what, if that person just harvests our adress out of our GE PGP-sigantures ? I'm not going to do the research myself but I must say that this seems to be the most likely source for the harvest that was done. With a PGP SDK a

Someone spamming us

2000-08-30 Thread John Sullivan
Someone with access to the TBUDL and TBBETA membership lists (using the From: address [EMAIL PROTECTED], passing through a relay which claims to be cyberpass.net) seems to believe I might be interested in buying a CD packed full of what is clearly pirated commercial software, for $15. Ho

Re: Parking messages in History dropdown menu

2000-08-16 Thread John Sullivan
On Wednesday 16 August 2000 SyP wrote: message (I thought it's a common abbrev.), so I asked if anybody using "Parking messages in History dropdown menu". Sorry for the confusion. For the record, I use this feature, and I'm sure several parked addresses have dropped off my To: list at various

Re: Test

2000-07-28 Thread John Sullivan
On Friday 28 July 2000 Marck D. Pearlstone wrote: TF I now believe it depends on the MTA. Some MTA's will let a comma TF within the quotation marks pass as a part of the "real name", TF others will assume a comma is always where two email addresses are TF seperated. The latter is 100%

Re: More newbie Questions

2000-07-15 Thread John Sullivan
On Saturday 15 July 2000 SyP wrote: Katsmeow wrote on 7/15/2000, 6:21 PM K Ummm...just once thing. What do you do to restore being shown all the K messages? Hit ESC. ...unless your in the Search window, in which case you almost certainly want to be hitting Ctrl+= instead. (This still gets me

Freaky

2000-05-21 Thread John Sullivan
I often want to forward web-pages between various systems. To do this I view the page in Internet Explorer and choose File-Send-Page by E-mail. Then I type the first few letters of the target address in the To: box. I'm just so used to Auto-Complete working within The Bat!'s address fields that

Quote/URL highlighting

2000-03-18 Thread John Sullivan
The Bat! detects sections of quoted text and pieces of text which look like URLs and displays them in a different style to the rest of the message. Why not allow the user to enter a series of regexps for each class and use them to override TB's built-in method of recognizing them? (I

Re: Inappropriate windows respond to ESC

2000-03-18 Thread John Sullivan
On Saturday 18 March 2000 Paula Ford wrote: I may be wrong, but I don't think ESC is the "official" way of backing out of the filter. It's ctrl=. So, perhaps this slipped by the developers. Christopher has already pointed this out, but I too definitely remember Stefan's post a while back

Inappropriate windows respond to ESC

2000-03-17 Thread John Sullivan
I'm currently using 1.42 Beta/3, but this issue has been around for ages now (including many proper releases). When I do Tools-Search... to find some messages, the search window itself has a close box, a close button, a Message-Exit menu item, and it also responds to the Escape key. The same

Re: The Bat! - bug report (Redirect feature and non-relaying servers)

2000-03-16 Thread John Sullivan
On Thursday 16 March 2000 Justin D. Paine wrote: of course.. but RBL requires that a spammer actually exploits a server before it is blacklisted.. for inclusion in ORBS, a server just has to be open to relaying.. Makes no matter if it's ever been used for spam, the mere fact that "it could

Re: SOT - Removing old DLL's

2000-01-27 Thread John Sullivan
On Thursday 27 January 2000 Sir Jinx! wrote: I have two programs that need new versions of mfc42.dll and comctl.dll. But I can't remove them in _any_ known way I tried _everything_: deleting, renaming or cutting them didn't work. Even from DOS [Norton Commander] -

Re: Wish list item?: find original message

2000-01-13 Thread John Sullivan
On Friday 14 January 2000 Marck D. Pearlstone wrote: ... the quickest way of finding such a message given the above stipulations about "In-Reply-To" etc. (provided that it resides in the same folder) is to press Alt-1 - thread by reference. Of course, if it's in another folder,

Re: Moderator's Note (was Re: TBUDL@THEBAT.DUTAINT.COM is a private mailing list)

2000-01-12 Thread John Sullivan
On Wednesday 12 January 2000 Marck D. Pearlstone wrote: It is now clear that TB sends the "Reply-To" name in the SMTP FROM address when talking to SMTP relay servers. ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/rfc/rfc821.txt ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/rfc/rfc822.txt I can see the sense in this. Any

An old bug: tooltip displays wrong number of selected messages

2000-01-12 Thread John Sullivan
This one has been around for a while now, even though I'm sure it was listed as fixed in one set of release notes. I thought I'd just point out that it's still there ;-) Dead easy to reproduce: in the message list hit the End key (focus moves to bottom of list, and only last message is

Re: suggestion- / wish-list

2000-01-11 Thread John Sullivan
On Tuesday 11 January 2000 Oleg Zalyalov wrote: I like UltraEdit. It is multiwindow and is almost always resides in my tray. If I will have to close external editor to let TB! know that I have finished message editing -- I don't like the idea of using my favorite editor within TB! Yes,

Re: suggestion- / wish-list

2000-01-11 Thread John Sullivan
On Tuesday 11 January 2000 Steve Lamb wrote: Tuesday, January 11, 2000, 5:14:26 AM, John wrote: Or auto-completion of header lines, integration of the Address Book into header lines. Incorrect, these are still a part of TB! and are editable there. See PMMail. I often alter these

Re: suggestion- / wish-list

2000-01-10 Thread John Sullivan
On Monday 10 January 2000 Steve Lamb wrote: Monday, January 10, 2000, 2:05:18 PM, John wrote: [calling external editor to edit mails] Well, PMMail does it just fine. I fail to see why other's can do it. A convention is started by people just doing it in a constant manner. Well, indeed.

Re: Interview with RITLabs! Finally!

2000-01-10 Thread John Sullivan
On Tuesday 11 January 2000 Jason Thompson wrote: Usenet, on the other hand...Well, I know none of the technical aspects of Usenet, Even programmers have assumed that they are technically closer than they are. The PINE team even used the same underlying code as the email half of the program to

Re: Wish list from a new user of The Bat

2000-01-09 Thread John Sullivan
On Sunday 9 January 2000 Alexander V. Kiselev wrote: On 9 Jan 00, at 3:24, Steve Lamb wrote: Plug-ins are not the end-all, be-all answer, trust me. I agree here. After all, the logical extension of this is the null application which does *nothing* other that to make calls to its plug-ins!

Re: Wish item?

2000-01-09 Thread John Sullivan
On Sunday 9 January 2000 Owen Carter wrote: Actually this makes me wonder -how- the browser is invoked? Is it via a 'com' call or some other Windows jiggerypokery, or is it a command-line style invocation? There are basically four ways to launch the browser. The first is directly via the

Re: OT: Moldova (was: Re: Enough already (Was: Re: Pegasus vs. The Bat!)

2000-01-08 Thread John Sullivan
On Saturday 8 January 2000 Alexander V. Kiselev wrote: Parizh) and London (we pronounce it with two "o"s):-)) And that's probably not too far from the truth ;-) John -- you gave me something that i could touch in a world where i'd had too much something i could feel with my broken hands full

Quick Search question

2000-01-07 Thread John Sullivan
I'm current using The Bat! 1.38e. I'm wondering how the Quick Search functionality actually works. Under Miscellaneous Commands in the help, is listed: Search for a string Ctrl+Q F Search and replaceCtrl+Q A Repeat the last searchCtrl+L Cancel operation Esc From within

Re: Wish list from a new user of The Bat

2000-01-07 Thread John Sullivan
On Saturday 8 January 2000 Januk Aggarwal wrote: As I understand it, RIT has already said that in V2, they will support plug ins. So what more do we need? I hope they read Microsoft's documents on good Object Model design, and the value of automation. And, unlike Microsoft, follow that

Re: Rogue Gallery

2000-01-05 Thread John Sullivan
On Wednesday 5 January 2000 Rob wrote: btw ; how do you view the pics from TB! ; with 'View - Address auto-view' ?? every time i select a new message, TB! pushes the address window to the background :-( is there a 'stay on top' setting somewhere ?? Yes - right-click on the Address Viewer

Re: Rogue Gallery

2000-01-05 Thread John Sullivan
On Wednesday 5 January 2000 Carsten Dreesbach wrote: Guess I'm missing something... I guess to then see the pictures, I'd have to create an entry in my address book, add the pictures to it and then I'd "see" who I'm writing to? ;] Yes, exactly. In that case, is an address book all

Re: Message ID header: set by the Bat?

1999-12-29 Thread John Sullivan
On Wednesday 29 December 1999 Steve Lamb wrote: Tuesday, December 28, 1999, 6:14:39 PM, Sashka wrote: IMHO, Bat doesn't generate them, TB! does generate them. From my last message on this topic: mail server adds them to headers. This *can* happen if a message doesn't have a MSGID.

Re: TB Message Scrolling feature suggestion

1999-10-06 Thread John Sullivan
On Wednesday 6 October 1999 Roel wrote: I enclosed a list I got earlier, but I don't know from who anymore... It was on this list, but I lost nearly all my files last week... A fews of these are out of date: in general Ctrl+Enter should have been replaced with the Windows-standard Alt+Enter to

Re: PGP plugins

1999-10-04 Thread John Sullivan
On Monday 4 October 1999 Alexander V. Kiselev wrote: On 5 Oct 99, at 2:18, Thomas Fernandez wrote PGP (Pretty good privacy) is an encryption programme. You can encrypt your messages [...] so nobody else can read them. grinmode Thomas, it seems that either my English is far poorer I thought