Re: OT : auto reply

2000-01-04 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, January 04, 2000, 2:46:25 AM, NamNH wrote: I want to have auto reply for vacation. No, you don't. :P Anyone know a service that allow me to send auto message during days off ? Yes, just don't do it. People who are on mailing lists that you're on and forget to set to

Re: Check This Out

2000-01-04 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, January 04, 2000, 11:10:28 AM, Marck wrote: He spammed us and, for that sin, is condemned to read our ramblings until he rescinds his address. Oooo, bad, bd idea. Personally, if I were ever on the end of that I'd just setup a filter, strip out all headers, recreate random

Re: Stupid question re screenshot red folders

2000-01-04 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, January 04, 2000, 3:01:46 PM, Nick wrote: I don't think it's a stupid question at all... I myself was wondering the same thing, but just haven't had the time to ask it. Sorry I can't give you an answer, rather just wanted you to know that the stupid question is one that is never

Re: Text Appearing in Red in Some Replies ?

2000-01-04 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, January 04, 2000, 4:28:48 PM, Nick wrote: TB. IMHO, Outlook 2K is a super Program in it's own way... one of the best I've ever seen, but it has to suit the user, right? The fact that it isn't an email client kinda kills it right there. :P -- Steve C. Lamb |

Re: Delete Confirmations ?

2000-01-04 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, January 04, 2000, 4:32:38 PM, Nick wrote: I knew I could do that... I was only trying to save myself all those mouse clicks. With Outlook, you can delete an entire thread with only one click. :o) Sorry, couldn't hold that one back. Ha ha ha!! With Outlook you can also have the

Re: Delete Confirmations ?

2000-01-04 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, January 04, 2000, 4:53:17 PM, Nick wrote: Don't think though that TB is immune to those kinds of things... wasn't so long ago, that people thought that way of spreading viruses was impossible. Nick. In the simplest, easiest terms, let me explain this. TB! is immune to those

Re: Text Appearing in Red in Some Replies ?

2000-01-04 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, January 04, 2000, 5:00:13 PM, Nick wrote: Technically, Outlook is a PIM, but to say it's not an E-Mail Client is not quite true. What exactly do you mean by that? Just that, it isn't an email client. As you said, it is a PIM. It does a lot of things, all of them poorly.

Re: Delete Confirmations ?

2000-01-04 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, January 04, 2000, 5:53:01 PM, Nick wrote: What I meant to imply, was that one day TB might itself be subject to some kind of heinous virus... never say never, right!! As to rest of your post, you can shove it Steve!! I'm going to repeat this slowly this time. Read it slowly and

Re: Check This Out

2000-01-04 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, January 04, 2000, 8:22:45 PM, Thomas wrote: Steve, who's side are you on? ;-) The good side. Just pointing out what an inventive person can do with that ready supply of unwanted ammunition. ;) -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your

Re: bat creates many bat*.tmp files size 0

1999-12-28 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, December 28, 1999, 11:55:15 AM, Chuck wrote: JT deltree /y c:\windows\temp nul JT md c:\windows\temp Better way is deltree /y c:\windows\temp\*.*nul If any of you are using NT the following batch file will delete all temp files and directories in temp: @echo off pushd %1 del

Re: bat creates many bat*.tmp files size 0

1999-12-28 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, December 28, 1999, 5:16:29 PM, tracer wrote: I use a little program called ZAP to do it as it allows many more things one can do at the same time like cleaning all files of certain extensions etc etc. You mean like... rm *.(bat|sys|com) :) -- Steve C. Lamb

Re: I`m getting annoyed...

1999-12-27 Thread Steve Lamb
Sunday, December 26, 1999, 11:48:42 PM, Syafril wrote: From the fact above, you can see You forgot #4. #4: Since HD speeds are measured in ms and RAM in ns HDs are a magnitude slower than RAM. Therefore hitting swap is *bad*. With RAM hovering around $1.25/Meg it is better to get more

Re: I`m getting annoyed...

1999-12-27 Thread Steve Lamb
Monday, December 27, 1999, 4:38:35 AM, Ali wrote: stable than before and this is most likely because the machines today come with at least 32MB of memory. In fact 64MB seems to be the standard. On top of that win98 is inherently more stable than it's predecessors. Ever wonder why the

Re: I`m getting annoyed...

1999-12-27 Thread Steve Lamb
Monday, December 27, 1999, 8:45:59 AM, Syafril wrote: Question : Mail Client is Compute Bound or I/O bound from your point of view ? Neither. Mind you I ran a Fido BBS when I was 16 on a 386sx-16, 2Mb RAM and a 40MBb IDE drive. Nothing like tossing a few thousand messages a day from

Re: I`m getting annoyed...

1999-12-27 Thread Steve Lamb
Monday, December 27, 1999, 9:56:45 AM, tracer wrote: Same with having that silly onboard video using system ram. Funny thing is take a look at what AGP boards use for their frame buffer. ;) In my own case the main reason I had a lot of ram was internet, to make use of the lousy and

Re: Merry Christmas!

1999-12-27 Thread Steve Lamb
Monday, December 27, 1999, 12:40:59 PM, Rob wrote: *We* do not feel the need to celebrate or believe in anything, not even the coming of Spring ?! ;-) i can't wait ... Feh, I'm in SoCal where on a bad day it still gets up to 70 degrees. Worst part is everyone around me doesn't see

Re: Replies Showing as Numbers ?

1999-12-25 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sat, Dec 25, 1999 at 09:06:33PM +0300, Andrew K. Lovetski wrote: I have a question: is this a part of Netiqette? Are there any reasons for disabling this (wonderful, IMVHO :) feature except for that you don't like it (I don't know why?!)? Because TB! is the only client that I know

Re: Regarding the RFCs

1999-12-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Saturday, December 25, 1999, 3:17:58 PM, Frank wrote: So RFC 822 makes no restrictions on the lengths of text lines in the *body* of an E-mail message. RFC 822 *does* make restrictions on the length of lines in E-mail *headers*, but that is not the issue we're discussing. Gah, wrap your

Re: Regarding the RFCs

1999-12-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Saturday, December 25, 1999, 3:49:26 PM, Frank wrote: Wrapping lines is *one* convention and not the only one. I used to do that, but I found that many messages got messed up when people copied and pasted my words. Really, for almost 20 years I did what you describe. I've come around to

Re: Merry Christmas!

1999-12-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Saturday, December 25, 1999, 4:39:56 PM, Mark wrote: in the spirit of your Christian/Pagan/Moslem celebrations I will go away and dance around the nearest tree:-) T'hell with that. GIMMEGIMMEGIMMEGIMMEGIMMEGIMMEGIMMEGIMMEGIMMEGIMMEGIMME *Cough* :) --

Re: Regarding the RFCs

1999-12-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Saturday, December 25, 1999, 5:41:15 PM, Frank wrote: FYI, here's what long lines look line when you respond to them in another mailer. Yup, wrong. When quoting it should not automatically rewrap. It's really the *display* issue in The Bat. No one is forced to re-wrap ... only users of

Re: Merry Christmas!

1999-12-24 Thread Steve Lamb
CJT I'd like to wish you all, a very merry Christmas and a happy New CJT Year 2000 -- the last year in this century. :-) Wow... Someone got it right. -- Steve, still dismayed at the array of people who are calling this new year the end of the millennium and the end of the century when

Opera Beta for Linux released...

1999-12-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Slashdot article: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/12/24/0111239mode=thread Don't know how many Linux people we have on these lists but I think it is something for both BWS and Ritlabs to follow closely. Opera, to me, represents the first time that a smaller ISV has ported their

The Bat! - suggestions

1999-12-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Hello The Bat! developers, There are some features I would like to see in your program: There is a global purge and delete. Would be nice to have a global purge duplicates as well for those of us (ahem) who have to merge an older message base with a newer one. Regards, Steve Lamb

Re: Multiple problems with the bat

1999-12-22 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, December 22, 1999, 4:49:47 AM, tracer wrote: He said he took all of one hour to try and use the bat... That doesn't describe how long he took looking for any particular item before giving up. Personally nearly everything on his list I found and configured to my liking (or at

Re: Fonts Available with Editor ??

1999-12-22 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, December 22, 1999, 7:40:25 AM, Oliver wrote: When using variable-width fonts in The Bat! becomes possible, half the messages on this list will be unreadable, IMHO. The other half, of course, will be coming from me. As we all know, they are practically unreadable as it is. At

Re: privacy

1999-12-22 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, December 22, 1999, 8:12:54 AM, Thomas wrote: The serial number of your email client is? What about your email address? Should that be suppressed too? ;-) Ah, but we can have multiple accounts on TB!. Just because my personal account is [EMAIL PROTECTED], and I don't mind people

Re: privacy

1999-12-22 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, December 22, 1999, 9:15:27 AM, Thomas wrote: I did visit www.m-w.com for "echelon", but still don't get your meaning. You want to go left and right of the other guys? Or of yourself? -- ? From another message I sent out on another list, pardon the tone, it was in a heated and

Re: privacy

1999-12-22 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, December 22, 1999, 1:22:46 PM, Ali wrote: Would you be so kind as to expand on your knowledge on this? He uses an outgoing filter to call an external script which modifies the headers. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your

Re: Multiple problems with the bat

1999-12-21 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, December 21, 1999, 10:43:47 PM, Thomas wrote: Two possiblities: 1.) On an account level: Account/Properties.../Templates/New Message. 2.) On a folder level: Folder/Properties/Template. Three. Recipient level at Addressbook / Recipient / Properties. FF How do I turn off the

Re: Multiple problems with the bat

1999-12-21 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, December 21, 1999, 10:20:10 PM, Frank wrote: -MM-DD HH:MM:SS Why don't they appear that way in the received/created columns? Because TB! doesn't use the Windows settings. For today's messages, why don't they have today's date? Because it is a given that if a

Re: SOT: Windows language versions (was: Re[2]: RegExp)

1999-12-20 Thread Steve Lamb
Monday, December 20, 1999, 2:59:17 AM, Thomas wrote: If you have a programme that will partition my hard disk without reformat, please let me know. I would even make an extra partition for Linux. :-) Partition Magic. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink,

The Bat! - bug report

1999-12-17 Thread Steve Lamb
roles people can have accounts for (postmaster, for example). Regards, Steve Lamb -- -- View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com To send a message to the list moderation team double click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: OT: Curses

1999-12-15 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, December 14, 1999, 3:19:28 PM, Leif wrote: soapbox Because the subscriber base of TBUDL and TBBETA is so diverse demographically, I made it a rule when I started these two UDLs that profanity is not allowed. [snippage] /soapbox soapbox There is no such thing as profane

Re: OT: Curses

1999-12-15 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, December 15, 1999, 9:43:34 AM, Nick wrote: Oooh, word games!!! He has sh*t for brains! Can I take the trip to Cancun?? Sure. Nick wins a no express trip to Cancun! He'll enjoy whatever class of flight he books for himself and accommodations in whatever hotel he decides to

Re: OT Was Re[3]: Deleting threads with Trash button

1999-12-14 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, December 14, 1999, 2:46:22 AM, Oleg wrote: C assignable finctions to all (FIVE!!!). I have assigned DEL to one of C them. What a breeze. Hardly touch the keyboard any longer. This tendency will end up with a keyboard on a ball. Might as well get one of those keyboards with a

Re: SOT Linux port?

1999-12-11 Thread Steve Lamb
Saturday, December 11, 1999, 12:54:50 PM, Paula wrote: But, are any of these Linux users willing to pay for an application? There are three types of Linux users. Which group are you referring to? Group 1: Die hard free (speech) and free (beer) software advocates. Most likely not.

Re: SOT: E-mailaholics - was Re: Check out the Christmas Bat!

1999-12-09 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, December 08, 1999, 7:34:51 PM, Leif wrote: Stay tuned.. We are working out the EM questionnaire and rating scale (to determine the severity of your case) as well as the EM creed. I already know I am an emailaholic. My signs... 1: Other people can't operate before their morning

Re: Hi

1999-12-09 Thread Steve Lamb
Thursday, December 09, 1999, 2:17:16 PM, Alexander wrote: Sometimes.:-)) Hey, Steve, are you still here? No. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls.

Re: what's on the TB wishlist?

1999-12-07 Thread Steve Lamb
Sunday, December 05, 1999, 8:30:44 PM, tracer wrote: Steve Yes, filtering calling an external scripting language. :) Steve, I know we may end up breeding another horse (g) but could you please indicate in some more detail what you use and whats proven to work?? With maybe an example??

Re: what's on the TB wishlist?

1999-12-05 Thread Steve Lamb
Saturday, December 04, 1999, 9:13:20 PM, Jason wrote: One thing I'd specifically like to know is, will TB ever support any kind of simple scripting? It already does. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main

Re: Two questions

1999-12-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Here is my reply that bounced. You'll see why... - Snip - Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 07:20:07 -0800 From: Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.36) S/N 3290604 / Personal Reply-To: Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Earthlink Network

Re: signature

1999-12-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, December 01, 1999, 9:01:56 AM, Martin wrote: I read somewhere you could put '--' in front of your signature so that if ppl would reply to your mail, the signature would not be included in the message. '-- ' Note the space. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your

Re: signature

1999-12-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, December 01, 1999, 10:13:26 AM, Michal wrote: AFAIK, there should NOT be any space characters after "--" Nope. Technically speaking the sig delimiter is define as "dash dash space newline" or "-- \n" in C/Perl notation. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm

Re: Regular Expressions Tutorial

1999-12-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, December 01, 1999, 10:09:22 PM, Paula wrote: Here's a little tutorial on regular expressions that a fellow did for Gravity users, if anyone is interested. http://www.naplesfl.net/~tbates/gravity/reg-100.html Just wanted to point out that it is good for the general concepts but

Re: Two questions

1999-11-30 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, November 30, 1999, 11:53:58 AM, Martin wrote: 1) Is it possible in The Bat! to use multiple line cookies? Yes, \n in the cookie will split the line. 2) Is it possible to set a different language (for the spell checker) for each address or folder? Not at present. --

Re: Two questions

1999-11-30 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, November 30, 1999, 12:21:06 PM, Rob wrote: yep !! on account level and/or folder level in the message templates ... Please be careful on what you say... using The Bat! 1.38 Beta/4 (reg) As you're not using the latest release things are subject to change and a lot of people

Re: Two questions

1999-11-30 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, November 30, 1999, 1:24:43 PM, Ali wrote: Whenever you wish to send a recipient this special message then, in the editor window, you may insert the template at any point in your message by going to Utilities | Insert quick template | (then choose the appropriate template). Or

Re: imap folders

1999-11-30 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, November 30, 1999, 3:25:55 PM, Jast wrote: Looking around a little: Mulberry, a client that supports exclusively IMAP and is supposed to be good at it. (Windows/Mac, Shareware, ca. $40) OK, after playing for a few minutes with it here are my thoughts. Strikes against: o

Re: Moved The Bat!

1999-11-29 Thread Steve Lamb
Friday, November 26, 1999, 7:56:58 PM, Andreas wrote: Problem is, that all the attachments I have ever received are related to the old attachment path D:\Dfue\The Bat!\Attaches. This path information is stored in the mails. How can I change them to the new directory?? Just as aside, but

Re: Shortcuts (was: Re: Threading)

1999-11-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, November 23, 1999, 7:25:10 PM, Thomas wrote: I'd like to try "idiot mode". However, before I do that, kindly let me know how to disable "idiot mode" again. ;-) Come now, figuring out how to exit it is the test to prove you're worthy of disabling it in the first place. ;) --

Re: Surprise...

1999-11-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, November 24, 1999, 3:19:43 PM, Ali wrote: chuckle Those hilarious responses to Thomas, Paula and now this??? Hey, just because I'm a self-proclaimed curmudgeon doesn't mean I don't have a sense of humor. :P I dislike autocompletion. My experience with it has been uniformly

Re: Surprise...

1999-11-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, November 24, 1999, 5:11:44 PM, Alexander wrote: BTW, what does this "curmudgeon" mean after all?:-)) I'm afraid it's not in my PC-based dictionary, and being as lazy as you I don't want to search for it on the bookshelves:-)) From http://www.m-w.com. Main Entry: curĀ·mudĀ·geon

Re: %cursor was: Re[2]: (No Subject)

1999-11-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Monday, November 22, 1999, 6:47:19 PM, Thomas wrote: OK, so by default the cursor should always go into the header, even if there is data (TO/Subject/...) already. Unless there is a %SkipHeader macro. This defines the default as opposite to what I was thinking of, but I get your point.

Re: %cursor was: Re[2]: (No Subject)

1999-11-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Monday, November 22, 1999, 7:26:01 PM, Paula wrote: I would say that if the user has put a %SkipHeader macro in the template, then TB shouldn't worry about whether or not there is anything entered in the header, unless the intent is to allow the %SkipHeader only if the TO is filled in. I

Re: Can't send mail - but receiving OK

1999-11-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, November 23, 1999, 11:46:02 AM, Mogens wrote: My ISP's supreme tech supporter finally suggested to download Becky (buh!) and surprise, surprise - no problems. Any ideas? Reenter the name of the SMTP server. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink,

Re: Can't send mail - but receiving OK

1999-11-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, November 23, 1999, 1:59:47 PM, Mogens wrote: The smptserver is spelled correctly, and I actually copied/pasted it to Becky from The Bat! Did you completely delete it? I mean total paranoia delete where you try to delete spaces and stuff of that ilk. Also check your TB!

Re: %cursor was: Re[2]: (No Subject)

1999-11-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, November 23, 1999, 2:03:17 PM, Jast wrote: I prefer template macros. They are more versatile (in regard to usability - you never know what functionality you could add to a macro) and don't take up window space if you don't use it. Really, I don't like long option lists. Of

Re: question on line styles sening E-mail (Eureka!)

1999-11-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, November 23, 1999, 2:59:46 PM, Ali wrote: it is more difficult than it should be, and one can't really do anything about bad formatting in that situation. Sure. Bitch to the person who sent it. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your

Surprise...

1999-11-23 Thread Steve Lamb
And the three letters were... ali. Since TB! has autocompletion based on name it is, IMHO, very dangerously and very incorrectly introducing false and misleading data into its own database. Clearly Ali Martin's address is not [EMAIL PROTECTED] yet that is what my TB! completes to. --

Re: Threading

1999-11-22 Thread Steve Lamb
Monday, November 22, 1999, 10:55:00 AM, Deryk wrote: Additionally, "control -" will collapse a single thread. Any idea what will collapse all threads? It wasn't the obvious "control /" :-) There isn't one listed in the keyboard shortcuts that Ali sent out recently. -- Steve C.

Re: (No Subject)

1999-11-21 Thread Steve Lamb
Sunday, November 21, 1999, 4:07:05 AM, Ali wrote: This is why MS became successful enough to wield monopoly power, i.e., nice advertising and making their customers feel good, giving them what they want instead of telling them what they need. I know that this is not a good thing but I'm just

Re: [OT) Discussion list netiquette [was Re: (No Subject)]

1999-11-21 Thread Steve Lamb
Sunday, November 21, 1999, 5:17:37 AM, Ali wrote: There is an optimal balance that can be attained Steve and I don't think it's as difficult as you make it out to be. Of course not, I've attained it. I'm waiting for everyone else to figure that out. -- Steve C. Lamb |

Re: (SOT) Moo-ah, Met-ah, Med-ah and all related things...

1999-11-20 Thread Steve Lamb
Friday, November 19, 1999, 5:40:07 PM, Thomas wrote: Hi Alexander, on Tuesday, November 23, 1999, 9:23:01 AM GMT+0800, Alexander V. Kiselev wrote: [...] Your machine is three days fast and I can never find your messages until after someone has replied already and I go looking. Kindly

Re: (SOT) Moo-ah, Met-ah, Med-ah and all related things...

1999-11-20 Thread Steve Lamb
Saturday, November 20, 1999, 7:08:41 AM, Alexander wrote: Nope, PMMail will work with English only (well, actually I don't know, but it *definitely* won't work with Russian, it's got defective code that won't accept anything then western unicode script correctly, and for Russian one needs

Re: (No Subject)

1999-11-20 Thread Steve Lamb
Saturday, November 20, 1999, 7:10:34 AM, Alexander wrote: Hi there! On 20 Nov 99, at 3:20, Steve Lamb wrote about "Re: (No Subject)": 3:20am... String: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Location: kludges Present: yes Any wonde

Re: (No Subject)

1999-11-20 Thread Steve Lamb
Saturday, November 20, 1999, 3:11:27 PM, Ali wrote: explanation of the findings and the implications etc. They expect it then and there. See what I'm getting at? I have to do that, explaining the same things, day in and day out. I certainly do. In my 3 years of tech support at a small

Re: Hi, and a few questions

1999-11-20 Thread Steve Lamb
Saturday, November 20, 1999, 3:37:50 PM, Deryk wrote: I thought there were 3, but the PGP put an extra one in :) In other words, I'm doing that already. Thanks for the tip though, it seems to be yet another interesting feature that's either undocumented or else well hidden G PGP escapes

Re: OT: Windows Registry (Was: Moving from one PC to another)

1999-11-17 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, November 16, 1999, 10:34:26 PM, tracer wrote: Steve If that is it, run Linux and Samba. Better use of the hardware. But not everybody knows how to connect linux and windows together over a network Samba. Just like connecting Windows to Windows over a network. :P --

Re: OT: Windows Registry (Was: Moving from one PC to another)

1999-11-17 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, November 17, 1999, 6:39:29 AM, Roel wrote: SL Samba. Just like connecting Windows to Windows over a network. :P Seems like hell :-) Better than trying to find a free NFS for Windows. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your

Re: Moving from one PC to another

1999-11-15 Thread Steve Lamb
Monday, November 15, 1999, 9:02:56 AM, Ali wrote: In The Bat!, open the account properties, and select File and Directories. There you'll see the home directory to which I'm referring. Funny, why do you think I said TB! should use relative paths, not absolute. I forced it to be relative

OT: Windows Registry (Was: Moving from one PC to another)

1999-11-15 Thread Steve Lamb
Monday, November 15, 1999, 12:23:46 PM, Jast wrote: A reason to keep the message you got it with... in which case you only have to select it and the key gets inserted automatically and you only have to enter the password How am I going to access that message on the new machine? :)

Re: (OT): Windows Registry

1999-11-15 Thread Steve Lamb
Monday, November 15, 1999, 2:03:57 PM, Roel wrote: Well, it does have advantages over the ini-concept (no 64k-limit, additional data-types,...) SL Those limits are arbitrary. not if you use the microsoft-routines for accessing ini-files... (if you use just a write/read then it's limited

Re: (OT): Windows Registry

1999-11-15 Thread Steve Lamb
Monday, November 15, 1999, 2:28:53 PM, Roel wrote: well, it's not a real bug, as the ini-file-specification sets size limits to 64k... (remember that these were developped for win 3.x and maybe even lower...) so they just obey the limit that MS has set for ini-files... :-) File-specs can

Re: Moving from one PC to another

1999-11-14 Thread Steve Lamb
Sunday, November 14, 1999, 3:08:42 AM, Ali wrote: He needs to export the registry key for The Bat! and import it in his new machines registry. In order for the registry keys to function properly, he should also make sure that he copies The Bat! directory to a drive of the same name as on the

Re: Update

1999-11-09 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, November 09, 1999, 8:04:19 AM, Soth wrote: My friend, posting the same 14k email in response to 3 _unrelated_ topics is very inconsiderate. Not everybody can afford that kind of rudeness. I have a suspicion that it is because he somehow got a filter setup and doesn't know what

Re: Update

1999-11-09 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, November 09, 1999, 8:32:35 AM, Soth wrote: You could be right, in which case I apologize for a too-hasty judgement. I don't know Eudora's filters, so I don't know what kind of mistake would lead up to the type of spam that he's spewing. They're just like any semi-advanced

Re: Update

1999-11-09 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, November 09, 1999, 8:39:19 AM, Roel wrote: don't know about that: if you look at the times the mails were created: he generated about 3/minute... if it had been a filter they would all have had the same creation-time... (unless he's running a 286 at 6 Mhz :-) ) If you look at

Re: OT: Computer Philosophy (was: Re[2]: THE BAT! Will it be a newsreader option ?)

1999-11-03 Thread Steve Lamb
Monday, November 01, 1999, 11:28:35 AM, Ali wrote: Many OSS programmers chimed in at that point to say that they get paid to develop OSS. That's the funding I'm speaking about. If this type of funding doesn't in anyway apply to GNOME and KDE development, then I stand corrected. The

Re: OT: Computer Philosophy (was: Re[2]: THE BAT! Will it be a newsreader option ?)

1999-11-03 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, November 03, 1999, 9:06:50 AM, Kevin wrote: They chose to use it, didn't they? I honestly don't know very many people who have a choice of what OS they use in their jobs. I honestly don't know of very many IT managers that don't have a choice. It is still a (l)user's

Re: OT: Computer Philosophy (was: Re[2]: THE BAT! Will it be a newsreader option ?)

1999-11-03 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, November 03, 1999, 9:33:41 AM, Kevin wrote: OK, so 99.9% of the people don't have a choice. Isn't that a little high given the amount of home PCs and number of businesses that do allow users to chose? And yes it does become a problem FOR them. But I think the point was that it

Re: OT: Computer Philosophy (was: Re[2]: THE BAT! Will it be a newsreader option ?)

1999-11-03 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, November 03, 1999, 12:11:59 PM, Kevin wrote: Actually, it would be better to have a variety. Makes viruses kind of hard to propagate, doesn't it? Probably, but I wouldn't make my choice of OS at home based on that. :-) No, but it is about as valid a reason as any other.

Re: OT: Computer Philosophy (was: Re[2]: THE BAT! Will it be a newsreader option ?)

1999-11-03 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, November 03, 1999, 3:52:51 PM, Kevin wrote: No, not as valid a reason as "I don't want to work in two different word processors, I want to be able to transfer stuff from work to home", etc. So it's not as valid a reason as any others. Those are no more valid at all when you

Re: OT: Computer Philosophy (was: Re[2]: THE BAT! Will it be a newsreader option ?)

1999-11-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Saturday, October 30, 1999, 9:35:22 PM, Thomas wrote: A niche market is still a market, but I agree with you in principle. A niche market, when the target isn't the lowest common denominator, does not much resemble the "bad" influences the general market exudes on products. I'm thinking

Re: OT: Computer Philosophy

1999-11-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Sunday, October 31, 1999, 9:55:31 AM, Paula wrote: [Mucho snippage] All these examples are from real life. Want more? I could fill a volume. How are any of these problems the result of the ineptitude of the users? Yet for each of those stories there are thousands, literally thousands where

Re: OT: Computer Philosophy (was: Re[2]: THE BAT! Will it be a newsreader option ?)

1999-11-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Sunday, October 31, 1999, 10:09:38 AM, Paula wrote: a computer with a problem, which wants to waste my time trying to interpret its pouting silence or irritatingly cryptic outbursts. Rather like men. Rather like women, actually. Most of the men I know will state flat out what the problem

Re: OT: Computer Philosophy

1999-11-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Monday, November 01, 1999, 11:38:33 AM, Ali wrote: Hi all, On Monday, November 01, 1999, 1:45:35 PM (-5 GMT), Steve scribbled: All these examples are from real life. Want more? I could fill a volume. How are any of these problems the result of the ineptitude of the users? Yet for

Re: OT: Computer Philosophy (was: Re[2]: THE BAT! Will it be a newsreader option ?)

1999-10-30 Thread Steve Lamb
Friday, October 29, 1999, 1:37:24 AM, Thomas wrote: They have to breath, wehtehr they want to or not. They don't have to use comptuers - "we" want them to. For commercial, political, or other reasons. The bone won't walk to the dog. (German saying, meaning if you want to sell something, you

Re: Out of memory trying to attach 9 megabyte ZIP file

1999-10-29 Thread Steve Lamb
Friday, October 29, 1999, 3:15:03 AM, Lionel wrote: Except some users can't do it: Forbidden by the agreement between the ISP and them. It's my case : Cable user in France, forbidden to put up any sort of a server, FTP, HTTP nor anything other. If I want to put an FTP server on my cable

Re: Out of memory trying to attach 9 megabyte ZIP file

1999-10-29 Thread Steve Lamb
Friday, October 29, 1999, 3:15:03 AM, Lionel wrote: Except some users can't do it: Forbidden by the agreement between the ISP and them. It's my case : Cable user in France, forbidden to put up any sort of a server, FTP, HTTP nor anything other. If I want to put an FTP server on my cable

Re: THE BAT! Will it be a newsreader option ?

1999-10-28 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, October 27, 1999, 7:30:11 PM, Thomas wrote: Why? Even if this was meant to offend computers (which it wasn't), why do you take it personally? Because it is an attack on those who don't find computers in that manner. SL difficult to use, I disagree - they are, for the general

Re: Standard Templates

1999-10-27 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, October 26, 1999, 11:27:03 PM, Oleg wrote: I think it is because it will be not easy to make use of forwarded information when recipient of the forwarded message will want to reply, and especially to forward the message. The signature should go after the forwarded

Re: Out of memory trying to attach 9 megabyte ZIP file

1999-10-27 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, October 27, 1999, 3:15:07 PM, Ralf wrote: I open a new message, write a few lines and then try to attach a ZIP file of about 9 megabytes to that message. After some lengthy hard disk activity (at least 30 seconds) a message box saying "Out of memory!" comes up and the file is not

Re: THE BAT! Will it be a newsreader option ?

1999-10-27 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, October 27, 1999, 5:25:16 PM, Paula wrote: Computers will become a more and more integral part of our lives, but they will look and behave nothing like these primitive, difficult to use, unreliable, frustrating tools we use now - and it won't be that long - but in the meantime,

Re: PGP and auto decrypt - was Re: New proposed ideas / features for The Bat

1999-10-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, October 26, 1999, 3:03:15 AM, Patrick wrote: where did you get /this/ version from? i waited for a year for a new version of PMmail but eventualy bought the bat last week... mh... PMMail2000 was released Oct. 15th after PMMail98 and PMMail/2 were sold from Southsoft to BSW. --

Re: PGP and auto decrypt - was Re: New proposed ideas / features for The Bat

1999-10-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, October 26, 1999, 9:39:49 AM, Ali wrote: The Bat! certainly dwarfs it in overall functionality. True. But PMMail's interface and the functionality it does have is quite polished. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343

Re: Autoformat

1999-10-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, October 26, 1999, 10:43:12 AM, Oliver wrote: multi-byte charset, there's enough space in there to use some magic sequence as a mark. What would it do, then, when it sends the message out? :P -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your

Re: New proposed ideas / features for The Bat

1999-10-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Sunday, October 24, 1999, 10:42:51 PM, Thomas wrote: RM + A new checkbox inside a Adress Entry Property: RM "Always encrypt outgoing E-mail to this user" (PGP) Agree. While I agree with this you are aware this is possible with templates, right? RM + A new checkbox inside a Adress Entry

Re: You're banned !

1999-10-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Monday, October 25, 1999, 9:56:51 AM, Mail wrote: We are sorry to inform you that your e-mail ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has been banned. This means that everytime you try to send us e-mail - you will get this reply AUTOMATICLY! Ooo, ooo, ban me too, ban me too! M!! BAN ME!!! --

Re: THE BAT! Will it be a newsreader option ?

1999-10-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Monday, October 25, 1999, 1:43:44 PM, Paula wrote: Yes, of course, but I think that those with just a few questions, probably don't hang around long. Who knows? My point was only that postings to a user list are perhaps not the best guide of the wishes of the entire userbase, much less the

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