Saturday, October 23, 1999, 2:30:22 AM, MaXxX wrote:
COOPERATE with TheBat the Newsreader. The TWO SEPARATE PROGRAMS would
You mean like PMMail and PMINews?
Better than running two programs separately, IMHO.
Why!? While they share some technical specifications they are handled
quite
Saturday, October 23, 1999, 5:28:45 AM, Ali wrote:
That's very true. ICQ is very bloated now, providing you with all
sorts of fandangles that are unnecessary because the functionality is
Geez, I had completely forgotten about it. The only reason I upgraded to
ICQ99a was so I could have
Friday, October 22, 1999, 2:25:49 AM, Marck wrote:
Message times are internationally corrected and usually work fine for
sorting. Individual PC system clocks, however, are a law unto
themselves ;-).
geek
Always good to have a tool to reset your PC's clock to one of the tier 2
Friday, October 22, 1999, 5:24:39 AM, tracer wrote:
I have 256 mb ram and essentially it ends freezing after a few hours.
I suspect a nice leak in memory and non released resources due to
file openings and closures being the reason.
I don't think this may be the case. I've worked with
Friday, October 22, 1999, 8:39:43 AM, Nick wrote:
dumbass
I've never heard (or seen) the term "tier 2 server". Does this
differ from using one of the atomic clock sites to sync with?
/dumbass
Basically, yeah. The tiers are how far removed from the atomic clocks you
are. Generally it
Friday, October 22, 1999, 9:11:57 AM, Ali wrote:
messages may have the same time but the order in which they're listed
reflects the order in which TBUDL server got the messages.
Well, in theory, yeah. However, it is possible that, say, two messages
come in and while the first one is stuck
Friday, October 22, 1999, 10:18:01 AM, Ali wrote:
Why aren't there more errors as there probably should be when using
the received time? Is it because the messages are all about the same
size leading to no significant holdups with one message as opposed to
another or is it that it's rare for
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 01:07:32PM +0900, Leif Gregory wrote:
I would much rather use separate pieces of software that are "masters"
than one kludged together bloated pig that can do a little bit of
everything.
Not to mention that with the common trend of trying to stuff everything
into
Friday, October 22, 1999, 8:19:07 PM, Thomas wrote:
Let me make myself look stupid: Where can I donwload such a
clock-syncronizer? Is it freeware? And does it work for LAN's as well
(Novell Netware)?
The one I use is Automachron which is free
http://www.cam.org/~oneguy/
--
Saturday, October 16, 1999, 1:08:37 PM, Andrew wrote:
LB --
not "--", but it should be "Minus-Minus-Space-End of line". Space is
very important here.
To be technically correct... dash, dash, space, newline. ;)
--
Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm
Sunday, October 17, 1999, 4:35:20 AM, Thomas wrote:
I really don't know why everybody thinks all langauges of the world
should be squeezed into the English alphabet.
I don't think it should. Although I'll take how many Esperantists write
Esperanto. As I said, it has 28 characters. It
Saturday, October 16, 1999, 10:21:13 AM, Alexander wrote:
either Esperanto is not so fonetic you think it is or you haven't
got the proper pronunciation:-))
The latter. Esperanto has 28 letters and 28 base sounds. 1 sound per letter,
obviously. It also has several other sounds which are
Friday, October 15, 1999, 6:11:25 AM, Anne wrote:
A function to browse through the messages on the server while
online; useful for reading mail while accessing an account
remotely and want to leave the messages on the server to get the
mail from another computer and being able
Friday, October 15, 1999, 12:48:24 PM, MaXxX wrote:
1. Polish names NEVER have a "v" (vee) in them.
2. Russian names are easy to read for you! If you read a Russian name,
[snippage]
3. Polish names NEVER end with "-kov". That's a Russian (or
[snippage]
Hope that clears things up a little :P
Friday, October 15, 1999, 2:32:49 PM, Alexander wrote:
Uhum, my middle name is "Vyatcheslavovitch". Can anybody
pronounce?:-)))
Well, if I were to take a stab at it, with a spoon...
V-yaht-cheh-slah-voe-vitch
That should give you a fair phonetic approximation of how I'd say it.
--
Thursday, October 14, 1999, 8:56:25 AM, Claudius wrote:
(a) "Version: PGP 6.0.2i" (see below)
(b) adds "- " above "With best..." (see below)
(c) destroys quoted block (see above)
(d) "Hash: SHA1" (see above)
Why (a),(b),(c) and what does (d) mean?
Auto-check-signature doesn't work
Tuesday, October 12, 1999, 6:30:49 PM, tracer wrote:
Steve Lamb The people who needs those options wouldn't know to turn them on. 3+
Steve Lamb years of tech support at an ISP has taught me that.
You mean they would ask you to turn it on for them (g)
No. they call up cussing
Wednesday, October 13, 1999, 4:52:43 AM, tracer wrote:
reminds me, any chance for a linux version of the bat.
As someone mentioned previously Delphi is being ported to Linux and TB! is
supposedly a Delphi app so it should be fairly simple to have a Linux version
once Borland is done.
Wednesday, October 13, 1999, 7:04:44 AM, Kevin wrote:
I hate to compare The Bat! to Outlook, which I hate, but I've used several
email packages that have this option.
Then it is a good thing that TB! doesn't have such idiot-coddling.
--
Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest,
Wednesday, October 13, 1999, 3:31:21 PM, Paula wrote:
I'd guessestimate that close to half the messages on this list these
days have very little to do with TB user support.
Then you'd be guessing wrong. Although that thread was long (30 by one
person's count) it did not dominate the day's
e, defined that one of the
acceptable permutations of an email address would place the email inside the
s. This is why we see things like in the header of this message.
"Andrew K. Lovetski" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and
Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is so there is a clear mark of where
Tuesday, October 12, 1999, 2:20:53 AM, Oleg wrote:
I believe it can be very useful if you are answering a standard letter,
where it is easy to select a text which have to be quoted. Anyway, did
anybody try this already and can provide an example?
Another good example would be to
Monday, October 11, 1999, 9:30:13 PM, Andrew wrote:
There is a reason: the result of pressing F2 in editor depends on this
setting. BTW, I didn't catch you: do you like that buttons don't
change their place now or not?
I'd rather that they didn't change place. While the behavior hinges
Tuesday, October 12, 1999, 10:45:18 AM, Oliver wrote:
Ok, you might say, just don't use them. I was just wondering... I know you
can do a LOT of nice things with regexps, so I'd really like to use them in
some way ;)
In 'merica we have a saying for this. "Give a child a hammer and
with the low color settings and
knew where to look.
Regards,
Steve Lamb
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Tuesday, October 12, 1999, 4:30:29 PM, Ali wrote:
It's all damn irritating but it saved my ass a couple times and I was
so grateful that I've kept my mouth partially shut about it.
m, I have another answer.
I tend to move around with the mouse pretty quickly and I have
inadvertently
Tuesday, October 12, 1999, 7:18:12 PM, Roel wrote:
It's hard! and that's not because everything is stored in one place in
an easy format (that's why I love it) but because it is made for
programmers... you're just completely lost without a very good
manual...
Two things refute this.
1:
Monday, October 11, 1999, 8:37:33 AM, Roel wrote:
Anybody else with this problem?
(Control-C does work in a non-html-mail!)
Yes.
--
Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your
ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of
Monday, October 11, 1999, 9:25:12 AM, Ali wrote:
On Monday, October 11, 1999, 6:38:25 AM (-5 GMT), Andrew scribbled:
The bug description:
Links in square brackets are not distinguished by TB.
Steps to reproduce the bug:
[http://www.ru/]
It's not really a bug. Just place spaces
Monday, October 11, 1999, 1:35:39 PM, Alexander wrote:
Oops... My apologies. After all, it's *usually* hard to convince
Americans in the fact that there exists something other then
their beloved US-ASCII:-)) Have met with such an attitude
heaps of times, "like face meets the table":-))
I finally got to use the new TB at work today and I'm quite happy with the
new "mail" pointer. Much, MUCH easier to use.
--
Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your
ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls.
TB 1.36 works fine. It is just the new location of the icons which is
tweaking my nose now since with the behavior of the buttons changed there is
really no reason for the deferred setting at all. :/
--
Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your
I think any function that can be applied to a single folder should also be
made available to be applied to all folders. I also think that a option also
be made on each of those to only act on the folders inside a certain accout or
subset of acounts.
--
Steve C. Lamb | I'm
Monday, September 27, 1999, 11:42:26 PM, Thomas wrote:
And yes, I think it would be nice to be able to change the quote mark
from the standard "greater than" to any character or string you like.
This would be bad since it would break many other clients. TB, for
example, uses that
Tuesday, September 28, 1999, 9:10:52 AM, Michael wrote:
No you are not understanding what I am saying
Michael. You just pissed me off in the worst way.
- it is NOT treating it as a local box, its treating it like POP.
Right. I get this far and about blew up. If you had quoted
Tuesday, September 28, 1999, 9:34:39 AM, Ali wrote:
Ooops. Well, TB! has already broken this de facto standard by including
initials etc.
Nope, initials are allowed. Generally if you have the quote prefix within
the first, uhmmm, I think it is 5 characters it is ok.
Funny, this is why I
Tuesday, September 28, 1999, 9:55:03 AM, Michael wrote:
Yes you are right - I skipped over one word you wrote and it changed
the whole meaning. I do appologize. From what I had gathered from
the email, I thought you meant the only clients that properly do IMAP
is The Bat, Pine, and Outlook
Tuesday, September 28, 1999, 11:00:58 AM, Claude wrote:
In other words, if it is the char before the first space, as I can
live with no spaces in the initials.
Yeah, I noticed that as well. Not saying that TB's logic is perfect, mind
you, just that it is one example of a program that does
Tuesday, September 28, 1999, 10:29:51 AM, Ali wrote:
For TB!, it's 20 characters. Is this 5 character limit a de facto
standard which TB! could potentially breach when using first names in
the quote prefix?
Nah, that was more a number I pulled out on the spur of a moment. Each
client
Saturday, September 25, 1999, 11:39:27 PM, Thomas wrote:
SL I just press the delete key because any filtering would invariably cause
SL false-positives and a loss of mail.
Thank you! Now we have the solution to this problem and can end the
thread.
The thread would have ended two days
Friday, September 24, 1999, 12:04:48 PM, Claude wrote:
Zankoku na tenshi no Yoni, shonen yo Shinma ni nare..! :P~
Flying with The Bat! v1.36 Beta/4 under Polish Windows 98
Is that polish... or _japanese_ ? :-D
If I had to guess based on my Anime roots, tenshi and Shinma both suggest
Friday, September 24, 1999, 5:23:46 PM, MaXxX wrote:
I don't know many words of Japanese, but that makes just about "Thesis
of a cruel angel; young man, you become a legend."
The opening song of Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Ahh, that explains why it didn't sound familiar. I dropped out
Thursday, September 23, 1999, 10:30:53 AM, Marck wrote:
There was a posting to the old list from Leif Gregory which detailed a
'Hard Core' solution to spam handling.
.. and here is the content of that missive (a bit big, but worth it).
Actually, it isn't. Bounces don't mean anything to
Wednesday, September 22, 1999, 3:53:42 PM, lowlevel wrote:
I would like to move a mail-folder(-tree!) by simply dragging it to
the right place, instead of having to re-create them (all). This
is very cubersome..
ALT/CNTL LMB-drags are what you're looking for.
--
Steve C.
Tuesday, September 21, 1999, 2:00:33 PM, Alexander wrote:
But you can copy *.msb directly to temp-folder and move messages to
target folders as _Bat_ messages (AFAIK)
It rocks!
Hell, I just archive up the entire mail directory. Install TB, unarchive
the mail directory. When it asks for
Friday, November 19, 1999, 10:30:25 AM, Watcher wrote:
I'd like to note that almost 25% of the emails that followed the thread I
started with no subject, were from Steve and the amazing part is he not only
did NOT help me resolve any of my problems but he also managed to alienate a
fairly
MUA stands for Mail Use Agent or Messaging User Agent. MTA is for Mail
Transfer agent. There is a third, MDA, which stands for Mail Delivery Agent.
Now, as always, I'm sure someone like Alex could come up and point out
where I am wrong, but this is my understanding of these terms, why
Monday, November 22, 1999, 5:23:01 PM, Alexander wrote:
The text editor would then not implement a spell check but,
The only programs under WinDOS that do exactly this (but
leave no choice to the users) is... guess what? Office+Outlook:-
)
Quite the contrary, PMMail. ;)
This would
Wednesday, November 17, 1999, 10:11:31 PM, Thomas wrote:
Does anybody second the motion, so we can put it on the (mysterious, as
never seen or published) wish-list?
No. Because it works as expected. Quite frankly, I just shook my head
and sighed when I saw your initial message because,
Thursday, November 18, 1999, 1:55:20 AM, Ali wrote:
If you create a new message from the address book, the cursor is
*still* placed in the 'To:' field initially. H.
Of course. That is to remain consistent with the behavior otherwise.
Even if it is filled out people operate on memory
Thursday, November 18, 1999, 9:03:43 AM, Ali wrote:
Well, assuming that I haven't finished addressing when creating a
message with the address book seems quite the more unlikely assumption
to make.
No, it isn't an assumption. In creating a message there are several
steps. In every other
Thursday, November 18, 1999, 1:20:55 PM, Bernhard wrote:
People like Steve Lamb make it so hard for beginners to stay in this list.
Beginners shouldn't really be making suggestions. Furthermore everyone is
a beginner exactly once. I don't like things that are geared for beginners
Thursday, November 18, 1999, 2:08:06 PM, Ali wrote:
No, it is the point. People should learn to use the program, not the
program to babysit the user.
So you consider it babysitting. H. Oh boy. :)
Yes, I do. When something breaks the internal logic of the UI just for
the whims of a
Sunday, November 21, 1999, 3:56:22 PM, Alexander wrote:
Then what makes *you personally* stay on it? The lists like this
are for the people who want to know more about the program
(mostly beginners) and for those who wanna help them. You
don't seem to be either. So what?
Someone needs
your point?
So I just hope it gets harder.
Time for a Steve Lamb kill filter.
Love you too.
--
Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your
ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboar
the default key. Instead TB! should keep
separate KeyIDs for each account and request that KeyID. This is because some
people *cough, myself, cough* have more than one key and use different keys
for different accounts.
Regards,
Steve Lamb
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