Re: Purchased the Bat!

2003-10-27 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Melissa, On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 09:30:40 -0800 GMT (27/10/2003, 00:30 +0700 GMT), Melissa Reese wrote: I would not recommend this product to my parents or other non-geeks, On the other hand...I did get my mother - who is impressively non-computer literate - to use TB!. I did this

Purchased the Bat!

2003-10-26 Thread Anthony G. Atkielski
After two days of trying it out, I decided to purchase The Bat! The Bat will replace Outlook Express as my primary e-mail client. The reasons why I bought it: 1. Spam relief The ability to set filters that look at message headers has _vastly_ improved my filtering of spam. Almost all the spam

Re: Purchased the Bat!

2003-10-26 Thread David R. Austen
Hello, Anthony: Thank you for this. Your message was valuable, even for somebody who has used the Bat for several years. Your remind me that it would be a mistake to recommend it to family members (who would rely on me for support) and you have also reminded me of the importance of keeping HTML

Re: Purchased the Bat!

2003-10-26 Thread Mogens Holst
Hello Anthony, Sunday, October 26, 2003, 13:30, you wrote: AGA After two days of trying it out, I decided to purchase The Bat! The Bat AGA will replace Outlook Express as my primary e-mail client. AGA The reasons why I bought it: AGA 1. Spam relief AGA The ability to set filters that look at

Re[2]: Purchased the Bat!

2003-10-26 Thread Anthony G. Atkielski
Mogens writes: Filtering: Have you considered another filtering method such as the BayestIt! plugin that you can find here: Not necessary. The multipart/alternatve filter is separating almost 100% of my spam. I think that very complex filters are overkill. After all, I still look at the

Re: Purchased the Bat!

2003-10-26 Thread Frank J de Bruin
Sunday, October 26, 2003, 1:01:14 PM, Anthony wrote: AGA There is no excuse for _any_ bugs in a commercial product. This statement is naive and ignores the current state of the art in software development. It is impossible to make a software product that meets the huge and complex (sometimes

Re[2]: Purchased the Bat!

2003-10-26 Thread Anthony G. Atkielski
Frank writes: This statement is naive and ignores the current state of the art in software development. No, it's a statement from someone who has decades of experience in both writing software and supporting it. It is impossible to make a software product that meets the huge and complex

Re: Purchased the Bat!

2003-10-26 Thread Allie Martin
Melissa Reese, [MR] wrote: MR On the other hand...I did get my mother - who is impressively MR non-computer literate - to use TB!. ... MR ... Now and then, she even surprises me with a new trick that she MR has discovered on her own. Each time she learns about a new and MR useful TB! feature,

Re[2]: Purchased the Bat!

2003-10-26 Thread Darrin
Hi, On Sunday at 7:34 AM you wrote: JM Good luck! I found two new features just this morning! lol! I think I say that about every day. I always find features that I didnt know were there. -- Darrin Current version is 2.01.3 | Using TBUDL

Re[3]: Purchased the Bat!

2003-10-26 Thread Jim D
On 10/26/2003, in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Anthony G. Atkielski said: AGA You have to pick your priorities. Several dozen crashes in two hours AGA would seem to indicate that the priorities need to shift a little. I AGA don't have that problem with Outlook Express, or with Forte Agent. For what

Mod: Top posting (was: Purchased the Bat!)

2003-10-26 Thread Marck D Pearlstone
Hi David, @26-Oct-2003, 07:26 -0500 (12:26 UK time) David R. Austen [DRA] in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] said to Anthony: DRA Thank you for this. Your message was valuable, moderator Note: This moderator's interjection is a note to all readers and not just to the person being replied to, even if

Re: Purchased the Bat!

2003-10-26 Thread Peter Meyns
Hi Darrin, on Sun, 26 Oct 2003 07:51:47 -0800GMT (26.10.03, 16:51 +0100GMT here), you wrote in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : JM Good luck! I found two new features just this morning! D lol! I think I say that about every day. I always find features that I D didnt know were there. I have been using

Re[3]: Purchased the Bat!

2003-10-26 Thread Michael S. Greenbaum
On Sunday, October 26, 2003, Anthony G. Atkielski wrote: It's remotely possible that someone I know might send me a legitimate message with Vicodin repeated eight times in the subject, or strings of random letters in the subject, even though it's not at all probable. I apologize if this has

Re[3]: Purchased the Bat!

2003-10-26 Thread Michael S. Greenbaum
On Sunday, October 26, 2003, Anthony G. Atkielski wrote: It's remotely possible that someone I know might send me a legitimate message with Vicodin repeated eight times in the subject, or strings of random letters in the subject, even though it's not at all probable. I apologize if this has

Re: Purchased the Bat!

2003-10-26 Thread Jack Morrison
Sunday, October 26, 2003, 6:01:14 AM, you wrote: 3. Sparse documentation I'm not one to depend a great deal on documentation, but the online help for The Bat is among the sparsest I've ever seen, and it's a complex product. I can usually figure out things on my own, That's good news,

Re: Purchased the Bat!

2003-10-26 Thread Mark Wieder
Darrin- Sunday, October 26, 2003, 7:51:47 AM, you wrote: D lol! I think I say that about every day. I always find features that I D didnt know were there. Ditto here, although I usually find features because of discussion on this list. I'll take tbudl over documentation any day! -- -Mark

Re: Purchased the Bat!

2003-10-26 Thread Stefan Tanurkov
Hello Anthony, Sunday, October 26, 2003, 2:01:14 PM, you wrote: AGA 1. PGP support AGA PGP support for Outlook Express with PGP 8.x works great. It hardly AGA works at all with The Bat. This is quite strange to hear. From my experience, it's quite contrary :-) AGA No sense in having twenty

Re: Purchased the Bat!

2003-10-26 Thread Allie Martin
Melissa Reese, [MR] wrote: BTW, are my signatures verifying OK since getting my public key update, i.e., the one with the newly generated encrypting subkey? MR They're fine here. :-) Good. I was wondering if I'd need to generate a brand new key pair. -- -= allie_M =- | List Moderator

Re: Purchased the Bat!

2003-10-26 Thread MAU
Hello Michael, I apologize if this has been previously discussed (if so, please direct me to the appropriate thread and I'll look it up), but is there a way to filter those strings of random letters? I didn't even know how to describe the problem before reading your description above. I

Re[3]: Purchased the Bat!

2003-10-26 Thread Frank J de Bruin
Hello Anthony, AGA No, it's a statement from someone who has decades of experience in both AGA writing software and supporting it. You can write bug-free software? For let's say a product the size of the Bat? Do you have any examples, I would be seriously impressed. AGA You have to pick your