Re: Time for a Newsgroup?

Monday, March 1, 2004, Jernej Simončič wrote: > if you register with individual.net, they let you use a certain domain > (forgot which one, you can read their FAQ) No need to. It's ID-#.user.uni-berlin.de where # is your user-id. -- Urban Mushrooms always grow in damp places and so they

Re: Time for a Newsgroup?

Monday, March 1, 2004, MAU wrote: > I can confirm that it doesn't It could. You can't guarantee that it's unique, so there is a possibility that someone generates a message that has the same message-id as the one you sent. -- Urban Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important p

Re: Time for a Newsgroup?

Monday, March 1, 2004, Thomas Fernandez wrote: > There are websites for the reasons, but I only know some in German, I > am sure somebody will help out with English sites. Haven't found any, but going to and filling in the form was easy enough. --

Re: 2.01.3 bug?

G'day Scott, Tuesday, March 2, 2004, 3:10:17 PM, you wrote: > When I am checking email or scrolling thru received emails, I occasionally see > a window flicker or see the title bar of TheBat! flicker. I am not able to see > what that window is that is flickering. Anyone else experience this?

Re: Known filter special?

Monday, March 1, 2004, 1:22:12 PM, Urban wrote: U> Sunday, February 29, 2004, Allister Jenks wrote: >> Alas, this does not seem to be possible? U> Play on sound on incoming mail in the folder that $known$ filters to and U> set the $known$ filter to continue processing. Thanks Urban. I did not

2.01.3 bug?

When I am checking email or scrolling thru received emails, I occasionally see a window flicker or see the title bar of TheBat! flicker. I am not able to see what that window is that is flickering. Anyone else experience this? Scott Windows 2000 The Bat 2.01.3 Popfile Spam Filter http://popfile.

Re[2]: Time for a Newsgroup?

Urban, On Saturday, February 28, 2004, Urban wrote in : >> I agree. It is about an e-mail client after all... U> Totally agree with you Peter. It would be rather silly if TB* went U> NNTP: "To get help on how to use mail, you first have to learn how to U> usenet..." I

Re: Time for a Newsgroup?

Tuesday, March 2, 2004, Greg Strong wrote: > In my mind why would someone want to read about an email program from > a news reader? Why not? Sometimes I learn about computer programs by interpreting black figures attached to a piece of boiled and very dead bleached tree. -- Urban Magnet: Someth

Re: Time for a Newsgroup?

Tuesday, March 2, 2004, Greg Strong wrote: > In my mind why would someone want to read about an email program from > a news reader? Why not? Sometimes I learn about computer programs by interpreting black figures attached to a piece of boiled, bleached and very dead tree. :-) -- Urban Magnet: S

Re: Time for a Newsgroup?

Hello Greg, Monday, March 1, 2004, 5:30:20 PM, you wrote: > In my mind why would someone want to read about an email program > from a news reader? I think Allie has covered answers to this. However, in my mind the question is not so much "why would they want to" as it is "why not let them?" > W

Re: Time for a Newsgroup?

Hello Jernej, > The general rule is, that the domain must exist, but nothing critical > will happen if it doesn't. I can confirm that it doesn't :) -- Best regards, Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial - Spain) Using The Bat! v2.04.7 Current version

Re[2]: WISH: general filter to move sent/received mails to contact-specific folders

Hello dAniel hAhler, on Sun, 29 Feb 2004 02:54:52 +0100 (2004-02-29 02:54:52 in .nl) in the message with reference you [dh] wrote (at least in part): dh> That could be simply done with radio buttons: dh> "root (Known folder), AB folder, group folder". The 'root' should be

AV sending email

Hi TBUDLers, With only one of my accounts I am getting the following AV after sending a message (it is actually after the connection center shows the SMTP transaction reach 100% and then disconnect): Access violation at address 0076FCB0 in module 'Thebat.exe'. Read of address 0002. This is v

Re: TBUDL Mission Statement

On Sunday, February 29, 2004, 9:34 PM, you wrote: MDP>>> < The system cannot find the path specified MDP>>> (z:\TBUDL\MISSUDL.TXT) > PC>> reformat C:\ ?? MDP> LOL! Only a tad embarrassing. Still, I put it right second time MDP> round :-). I'm surprised only myself and Thomas even mentione

Re: Mod: Cut mark (was: Searching for a Tool)

Hi, * Marck D Pearlstone, Monday, March 1, 2004, 8:16:01 PM: > Even if you barely have a signature to speak of, that doesn't make > any difference to whether or not you need a cut mark. You are being > courteous to other readers since at least three lines of text is > added to your signature by t

Re: Time for a Newsgroup?

* Thomas Fernandez writes: > Martin Schneider wrote: >> Well, for posting to Newsgroups I use an account of www.spammotel.com. > How about when posting to a mailing list which is mirrored in the > Usenet? You mustn't confuse Gmane with Usenet. These are two different things. Carsten -- _

Re: Time for a Newsgroup?

On Monday, March 1, 2004, 17:39:48, Thomas Fernandez wrote: > For newsgroups, however, the domain of the mid must belong to > yourself, or it must be given by the receiving newsserver. There are > websites for the reasons, but I only know some in German, I am sure > somebody will help out with Eng

Re: Time for a Newsgroup?

Hello Thomas, > When you write a message, new or reply, TB will create a mid based on > the domain of the email address set up in your account properties. For > email, that is fine. Right. > For newsgroups, however, the domain of the mid must belong to > yourself, or it must be given by the rec

Re: Searching for a Tool

EC> Quite some times back I got a useful tip for a tool to Rename and EC> Manipulate Filenames in bulk (Flash Renamer). Name It Your Way is a pretty decent bulk file renamer, that is highly configurable. Check it out here: http://www.niyow.com ~Mike

Re: Searching for a Tool

Hi Eddie, on Mon, 1 Mar 2004 17:05:09 +0100GMT, you wrote: EC> Quite some times back I got a useful tip for a tool to Rename and EC> Manipulate Filenames in bulk (Flash Renamer). EC> Unfortunately I can't change the Dates and Times of my files. EC> Sometimes I need to do this also in Bulk. Does

Re: Known filter special?

Sunday, February 29, 2004, Allister Jenks wrote: > Alas, this does not seem to be possible? Play on sound on incoming mail in the folder that $known$ filters to and set the $known$ filter to continue processing. -- Urban A harp is a nude piano.

Re: Time for a Newsgroup?

On Monday, March 1, 2004, 17:12:40, Allie Martin wrote: > There are a few yahoogroups lists that I no longer read since I'm really > not interested in most of the traffic and I can't be bothered with > downloading all those messages and having to mark most of the threads > read etc. just to fi

Re: How's THIS for an error message?!!

Hello Urban, On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 00:27:21 +0100 GMT (01/03/2004, 06:27 +0700 GMT), Urban wrote: > Scanreg.exe > > Wow, thanks. Never knew this. I would even play with it if not all the d

Re: Time for a Newsgroup?

Hello MAU, On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 16:56:01 +0100 GMT (29/02/2004, 22:56 +0700 GMT), MAU wrote: >> I use MyGate as well. I would wish for an option in TB to "not create >> message ID". Account level would be fine for me, as I have a dedicated >> account for NGs. > I don't quite understand what you m

Re: Time for a Newsgroup?

Hello Allie, On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 12:30:47 -0500 GMT (01/03/2004, 00:30 +0700 GMT), Allie Martin wrote: > Sure, but one shouldn't force someone to join a mailing list if they > don't want. The best arrangement is one of choice. A choice I would suggest is a seperate TB newsgroup rather than a mir

Re: Question About Reply Templates

Hello Chris, On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 00:44:45 +1100 GMT (01/03/2004, 20:44 +0700 GMT), Chris wrote: >> I think it is a major shortcoming of Outlook, and I find myself >> adding the missing characters in replies. No, excuse me, I think >> this shortcoming occurs with the AOL mail software, not Outlook.

Re: Time for a Newsgroup?

Hello Martin, On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 21:53:58 -0600 GMT (01/03/2004, 10:53 +0700 GMT), Martin Schneider wrote: > If others use a news2mail-gateway then anyway they use The Bat and it > doesn't make any difference if we use a mailing group or a newsgroup. It does, because I use another email address

Re: Time for a Newsgroup?

Hello Deborah, On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 11:37:58 + GMT (01/03/2004, 18:37 +0700 GMT), Deborah W wrote: > I can't really see what advantage NNTP has over the TBUDL archive. Well, I see a point: I cannot reply to postings when reading the archive. But that's not my side of the fence... -- Cheers,

Re: Time for a Newsgroup?

Stuart Hemming wrote: FWIW, I access news using TB! and MyGate so would see no change or benefit from moving from a ML to NNTP. You see no benefit since using TB! for news makes you lose all the news specific functionality that you'd have at your disposal if you were to use a specialized client.

Re: Time for a Newsgroup?

Hello Marck, On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 12:14:53 + GMT (01/03/2004, 19:14 +0700 GMT), Marck D Pearlstone wrote: > Any fear of posting is borne of irrationality and under education > :-). Thanks for that. -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. Der Angeklagte unterhie

Re: Time for a Newsgroup?

Hello Martin, On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 22:22:52 -0600 GMT (01/03/2004, 11:22 +0700 GMT), Martin Schneider wrote: > Well, for posting to Newsgroups I use an account of www.spammotel.com. How about when posting to a mailing list which is mirrored in the Usenet? -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deut

Re: [OT] Pyxie against plain/MyMacros for protection before delivering to Spamcop

Dear Mau, @1-Mar-2004, 15:59 +0100 (01-Mar 14:59 UK time) MAU [M] in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] said to dAniel: >> After I made a QT up I came to the idea, that executing the %Py() >> statements gets done, but simply print() for output fails. M> M> A question perhaps for mods. Doesn't this issue fit

Re: [OT] Pyxie against plain/MyMacros for protection before delivering to Spamcop

Hello dAniel, >> Even a simple >> %Py("print 5") >> fails. > > After I made a QT up I came to the idea, that executing the %Py() > statements gets done, but simply print() for output fails. A question perhaps for mods. Doesn't this issue fit much better in TBTech or TBDev? -- Best regards,

Re: [OT] Pyxie against plain/MyMacros for protection before delivering to Spamcop

Hello bats, on Mon, 1. Mar 2004 at 01:58:04 +0100 I wrote: > Even a simple > %Py("print 5") > fails. After I made a QT up I came to the idea, that executing the %Py() statements gets done, but simply print() for output fails. I then realized that I could use the Pyx() macro perhaps, which simply

Re: Question About Reply Templates

Hi Thomas, > This does all I want it too, except for the adding of multiple '>' > characters on replies. I'm not sure if the '>' characters in the > template above have anything to do with this or not > Yes, it does. You are telling TB to add the character. I've removed the '>' from the template

Re: Time for a Newsgroup?

Dear Deborah, @1-Mar-2004, 11:37 Deborah W [DW] in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: DW> I can't really see what advantage NNTP has over the TBUDL archive. DW> It's not as though NNTP provides readability that some people don't DW> have - if you have internet access, you have a browser. This is a far

Re: Time for a Newsgroup?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 JN> I have preferred this ML format to a newsgroup format, but IMO the JN> volume of this list has now exceeded a busy person's ability to handle JN> it in mailing list format. FWIW, I access news using TB! and MyGate so would see no change or benefit

Re: Time for a Newsgroup?

On Monday, March 1, 2004, 10:52:05 AM, Allie Martin wrote: AM> The news group will be simply a mirror or the mailing list and not AM> a separate entity. Messages on the news server will be only AM> messages sent to the mailing list. The news server mirror will be AM> added as a means for those who

Re: Time for a Newsgroup?

Martin Schneider, [MS] wrote: MS> So I would be sad if this mailing-list would be less in usage MS> because a newsgroup is available also for many beginners who are MS> glad to be able to write and receive a mail. The news group will be simply a mirror or the mailing list and not a separate entit

BUG: QT "manager" gets lost if you close "edit mail msg" window where you pressed ctrl-shift-Q

Hello bats, To reproduce: - open "edit mail message" window - press ctrl-shift-q - close the "edit mail message" window (QT manager will also disappear) - press ctrl-shift-q (TB main window will flash, but no QT manager) -- shinE! http://www.thequod.de ICQ#152282665 GnuPG/PGP key: htt