On Tuesday, September 7, 2004 @ 4:01:54 PM, Ludovic LE MOAL wrote:
[snips]
Ludovic> I didn't know that too. How can I bounce a mail ?
It's just another method of adding to used bandwidth.
--
cheers, Mic (reply address works)
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, e
On Tuesday, September 7, 2004 @ 11:18:16 AM, Kevin Amazon wrote:
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>> Is there any way to change the size of the icons (glyphs) in TB! v3?
>> Even when I use a glyphs.bmp file, the icons are spread too far apart
>> and they take up too much screen space. Has anybody figured out how to
>> re
On Sunday, September 5, 2004 @ 8:53:10 PM, Alexander S. Kunz wrote:
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>> Isn't it wonderful that you, too, are allowed an opinion. Of course, not
>> everyone will share it.
Alexander> You are allowed an opinion but we've read it at least 10 times today,
Alexander> yesterday and the day bef
On Sunday, September 5, 2004 @ 5:08:48 PM, Alexander S. Kunz wrote:
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>> Same thing that makes the new release v3 and not v2.1X - marketing and a
>> belief that people will believe anything you tell them...
Alexander> I'd suggest the two of you start a new list "ranting at ritlabs forever"
On Sunday, September 5, 2004 @ 2:03:44 PM, Allister Jenks wrote:
[snips]
Allister> I know many TBUDLers are unhappy with the affair (and some aren't), but
Allister> has there been *any* response from RIT about all this?
If you want a 50-50 chance of:
a) no reply at all, or
b) a smartarse reply
On Sunday, September 5, 2004 @ 1:32:58 PM, Mary Bull wrote:
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Mary>>> It loads fast, also, and--whether coincidence or not--my mails
Mary>>> are coming down faster from the Mail Dispatcher, too.
MicCullen>> How are you measuring that?
Mary> Subjectively, of course. Didn't put a stopwatch
On Sunday, September 5, 2004 @ 2:05:39 AM, DZ-Jay wrote:
[snips]
DZ-Jay> Its not that it is such a large programming effort to change
DZ-Jay> the UI of the application and that those efforts could be diverted to
DZ-Jay> debugging the application. The point is that focusing on the UI,
DZ-Jay> ho
On Sunday, September 5, 2004 @ 1:15:08 PM, Mary Bull wrote:
[snips]
Mary> It loads fast, also, and--whether coincidence or not--my mails are
Mary> coming down faster from the Mail Dispatcher, too.
How are you measuring that?
--
cheers, Mic (reply address works)
"If you would be a real seeker
On Sunday, September 5, 2004 @ 9:09:36 AM, Michael L. Wilson wrote:
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JN>> I read somewhere that TB3 has customizable toolbars. I cannot find a
JN>> place to change the icons. Can this be done?
Michael> What you actually read was that version 3 will someday, in the far,
Michael> far, fut
On Sunday, September 5, 2004 @ 7:23:42 AM, Michael L. Wilson wrote:
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Michael> What makes The Bat a natural email system. Can someone please explain
Michael> what this phrase means and why it is attached to The Bat?
Same thing that makes the new release v3 and not v2.1X - marketing and a
On Saturday, September 4, 2004 @ 1:24:21 PM, Doug Weller wrote:
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Doug> Are there many examples of getting refunds if you bought something 3
Doug> months before an upgrade/new model?
Are you asking me? Your lack of quotes makes it hard to tell.
If you are, there's ANY number of examples i
On Saturday, September 4, 2004 @ 9:48:58 AM, Chris wrote:
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>> Here's the response I eventually got off them after emailing sales:
Chris> Well, at least you got a reply to your email.
I emailed them three times in three days, so maybe that had something to do
with it.
Chris> I only got
On Saturday, September 4, 2004 @ 5:38:28 AM, Leif Gregory wrote:
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>>> )<)))=B0>
MM>> What does the "BO" is supposed to be?
Leif> Baad Odor :grin:
But these are fresh trout, unless the mods have been asleep for a while!
--
cheers, Mic (reply address works)
"Inanimate obje
On Saturday, September 4, 2004 @ 8:33:28 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>> Ah yes. I can stay with a non-supported version
admin> Then you don't get any support through this list then? Oh dear...
Unofficial support isn't the same thing, as everyone knows. I get far more
support on using t
G'day tbudl,
It seems Ritlabs are - despite the furore of the last few days - still far
more interested in being smartarses (sorry if that's a proscribed word, it's
not in Australia) than looking after customers.
It's not only the staff they've got replying to the beta list who think this
whole t
On Friday, September 3, 2004 @ 8:31:32 PM, Mary Bull wrote:
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Mary> I hope that 9Val will soon edit the default.msl
Mary> file to enclose all handles in colons there.
No offence to anyone, but I'd prefer they fixed bugs rather than play with
toys that aren't much use in the real world, wh
On Friday, September 3, 2004 @ 5:06:10 PM, Ian A. White wrote:
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TD>> You ready for the best part? I didn't send anyone at RitLabs an email.
Ian> Something is screwy there. I received an e-mail from someone there
Ian> letting me know they would be out of the office! I have never heard of
I
On Thursday, September 2, 2004 @ 9:56:34 PM, MikeD (3) wrote:
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DWG>> Top posting good. Bottom posting annoying!
MikeD> I think we are in the minority, thought
Yes, linear thought is just SO 20th century :-)
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cheers, Mic (reply address works) "This whole mad cow thing has me confuse
On Thursday, September 2, 2004 @ 8:55:42 PM, Mark Partous wrote:
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admin>>> And two emails, one yestreday am and one last night have gone
admin>>> completely unanswered.
MicCullen>> Likewise.
admin>>> Anyone any suggestions as to what I can do?
MicCullen>> Hope seems to be the only thing
On Thursday, September 2, 2004 @ 7:43:19 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snips]
>> It's been two days now and I've not had anything.
admin> And two emails, one yestreday am and one last night have gone
admin> completely unanswered.
Likewise.
admin> Anyone any suggestions as to what I can do?
Ho
On Thursday, September 2, 2004 @ 6:21:01 AM, MAU wrote:
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>> But where's the cut-off point?
MAU> How long is a piece of rope? How many grains make a bunch of rice?
My point exactly. Seeing as Ritlabs are maintaining their usual communication
policy (ie nothing useful, no help, no answers
On Wednesday, September 1, 2004 @ 10:37:01 PM, Thorvald Neumann wrote:
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>> But businesses should have ethics, should they not?
Thorvald> Welcome to the real world... ;)
I'm on a bit of a jihad against the really stupid use of smilies, LOL, etc. -
can you tell me what's so funny about tha
On Wednesday, September 1, 2004 @ 10:01:01 PM, MAU wrote:
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>> How Ritlabs can believe that somebody will pay more expensive for Pro
>> version 3 without any explanation of differences with Personal version
>> ?
MAU> The is still honest people out there.
That is entirely irrelevant.
--
On Wednesday, September 1, 2004 @ 8:29:31 PM, Nick Dutton wrote:
[snips]
Nick> I'd bet that this is where their real money comes from, not in keeping
Nick> a (vocal) few of the faithful happy. They are a business after all.
But businesses should have ethics, should they not? And not keeping prom
On Wednesday, September 1, 2004 @ 8:03:43 PM, Paul Jansen wrote:
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Paul> I amusing V3
Fascinating typo. (Assuming it is that, of course :-)
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cheers, Mic (reply address works)
"Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything."
Frank Dane
___
On Wednesday, September 1, 2004 @ 6:36:56 PM, Martyn Drake wrote:
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>> TB! is just a huge let down now :( I hope Ritlabs go bust, nobody
>> should pay for TB!3, it just isn't worth the money.
Martyn> I think that's a bit harsh - I wouldn't wish anybody to be unemployed.
Martyn> People do h
On Wednesday, September 1, 2004 @ 7:47:03 PM, MAU wrote:
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>> As a new user who bought my v2 licence on 20th August, try *very*
>> annoyed.
MAU> I am quite sure Ritlabs will consider that fact. A 10 days old user
MAU> should not be charged for the upgrade.
But where's the cut-off point? S
On Wednesday, September 1, 2004 @ 6:59:51 PM, Mark Partous wrote:
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>>> Does it still top post?
MD>> Unfortunately it does. But thankfully somebody came up with a solution to
MD>> that and this is what I've been using for many months without any issues:
Mark> Does it still uses loads of
On Wednesday, September 1, 2004 @ 4:06:51 PM, Mark Partous wrote:
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MicCullen>> Reading the beta list is reasonably entertaining at the moment
Mark> No it isn't. Most comments are showing how low reasoning power can get. :-(
If you're a blind defender of the appalling way that this proces
On Wednesday, September 1, 2004 @ 11:06:54 AM, Roman Katzer wrote:
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Roman> It's hardly a year since version 2 came out and I was wondering why there
Roman> were so few minor releases in the last weeks. Now RITLabs is releasing
Roman> version 3 without functioning IMAP support in V2 (promis
At 23:32 [GMT+0200] on Sunday August 22 (actual time - 5:32am on Monday in
Perth, Western Australia), you wrote:
[snips]
>> But we've got smileys, which is clearly what you want in an email client
>> rather than actual functionality...
Alexander> Email != HTML
As a general rule, I agree. A year
At 23:03 [GMT+0200] on Sunday August 22 (actual time - 5:03am on Monday in
Perth, Western Australia), you wrote:
[snips]
Marc>>> Is it possible to create HTML templates?
>> No, which is a PITA.
>> But we've got smileys, which is clearly what you want in an email client
>> rather than actual fun
At 11:25 [GMT+0200] on Saturday August 21 (actual time - 5:25pm on Saturday in
Perth, Western Australia), you wrote:
[snips]
Marc> Is it possible to create HTML templates?
No, which is a PITA.
But we've got smileys, which is clearly what you want in an email client
rather than actual functional
At 16:04 [GMT+0200] on Thursday August 12 (actual time - 10:04pm on Thursday
in Perth, Western Australia), you wrote:
[snips]
>> Hi Dan,
>> Google has a translation tool. Heres the link to view his site
>> translated into english
>> http://tinyurl.com/4pltp
Gaijin> I hope, the German to En
At 01:58 [GMT+0200] on Wednesday August 11 (Actual time - 07:58am on
Wednesday in Perth, Western Australia) you wrote:
[snips]
Roelof> %Wrapped='%QInclude("YourTime")'
Roelof> The QInclude macro calls the QT, the Wrapped macro wraps the output of
Roelof> the QT according to your wrapping setti
G'day tbudl,
G'day all.
One of our fellow list members kindly provided me with the below setup.
What it outputs currently is the following:
On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, at 19:17:07 [GMT+0800] (which was 21:17:07 Australian
Eastern Time) you wrote:
What I'd like it to give me is:
At 21:17 [GMT+100
On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, at 22:38:27 [GMT+0200] (which was Tue, 4:38 [GMT+800]
Perth, Western Australia) you wrote:
[snips]
Alexander> A late reply, but nevertheless... I just found a rather nice monospaced
Alexander> font in TrueType format - its called "Monaco" and can be found here:
Alexander> htt
G'day all.
One of our fellow list members kindly provided me with the below setup.
What it outputs currently is the following:
On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, at 19:17:07 [GMT+0800] (which was 21:17:07 Australian
Eastern Time) you wrote:
What I'd like it to give me is:
At 21:17 [GMT+1000] on Monday A
On Saturday, August 7, 2004 @ 7:44:09 AM, Darrin Rich wrote:
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rg>> Can't I highlight text in a received mssg then choose to forward to
rg>> reply to it and only have the highlight text quoted
Darrin> Highlight the text and hit the F4 key.
Can this be done from a message opened from the
On Wednesday, August 4, 2004 @ 6:49:23 AM, Marck D Pearlstone wrote:
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>> But I've got a format problem. If I want to produce a list of items like this:
>> Item
>> Item
>> Item
>> It's OK as long as I don't need to edit ANYTHING in it, because if I do, it
>> immediately moves to:
>> Item
G'day tbudl,
I've switched to using MicroEd as my composition editor, and I'm slowly
getting used to the revolting look of non-proportional fonts.
But I've got a format problem. If I want to produce a list of items like this:
Item
Item
Item
It's OK as long as I don't need to edit ANYTHING in it
On Wednesday, July 28, 2004 @ 7:49:26 PM, 9Val wrote:
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MicCullen>> Now, if they can just give the option of
9Val>
9Val>who? :)
THEM!! You know, them. Man, how much clearer could I be? THEM.*
MicCullen>> proportional fonts...
On Wednesday, July 28, 2004 @ 5:29:25 AM, 9Val wrote:
[snips]
9Val> And one more - Smart wrapping of quoted text which doesn't work in
9Val> Windows editor.
Yep, that's another big plus. Now, if they can just give the option of
proportional fonts...
--
cheers, Mic (reply address works)
A
On Tuesday, July 27, 2004 @ 9:40:01 PM, Allie Martin wrote:
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>> I'll try it for a few days and see how I go. Sure is ugly though.
Allie> It's the fonts that are often ugly.
Ain't that the truth!!! As a journalist, I tend to worry about HOW it looks
as well as the information contained,
On Tuesday, July 27, 2004 @ 9:32:28 PM, St - Musaic.Net wrote:
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St> TB does not react to Windows Show Desktop try Windows-
St> button + M and see for yourself.
What do you mean: "does not react"? For me, doing that minimises everything
(including TB) and I see the desktop.
--
c
On Tuesday, July 27, 2004 @ 8:17:38 PM, Marck D Pearlstone wrote:
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Marck> Dear M,
Sounds like James Bond :-)
Marck> @27-Jul-2004, 19:55 +0800 (27-Jul 12:55 UK time) M i c C u l l e n
Marck> said to tbudl:
>> I'd like my lines to wrap at about 80 characters, but can
On Tuesday, July 27, 2004 @ 8:15:04 PM, Allie Martin wrote:
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>> I'd like my lines to wrap at about 80 characters, but can't seem
>> to get it to happen. I'm using the Plain Text (Windows) editor as I
>> HATE non-proportional fonts, even though I'd like some of the
>> features of the Micro-
G'day tbudl,
Word wrapping - I can't seem to get it sorted in TheBat, after a decade of no problems
with Agent.
I'd like my lines to wrap at about 80 characters, but can't seem to get it to happen.
I'm using the Plain Text (Windows) editor as I HATE non-proportional fonts, even
though I'd like
On Sunday, July 25, 2004 @ 11:12:28 PM, Bill McCarthy wrote:
[snips]
Bill> It's fairly simple to set up, but I don't think there are any
Bill> directions in the help file.
Making it a rare beast indeed...
--
cheers, Mic (reply address works)
"I think Superman should go on the Larry King show
On Tuesday, July 13, 2004 @ 10:01:09 PM, Douglas Hinds wrote:
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Douglas> Are there any valid reasons to upgrade? (I have no intention of
Douglas> sending html mail).
I used to think that too, but there are times when it's incredibly useful to be able
to do so.
Example - I'm a sports jour
On Tuesday, July 13, 2004 @ 1:10:18 PM, Ben Allen wrote:
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Gary>> Should have a button though, or some preset key. I used
Gary>> ctrl+j, which was park. I never use park, but thats just me.
Gary>> Who doesn't use mark as junk at least 5 times a day?
Ben> Er.. me
Me too, actually - Spa
On Monday, July 12, 2004 @ 1:34:35 PM, Allister Jenks wrote:
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MB>> In defense of RitLabs: the improvements that are being made in The
MB>> Bat! are coming along so rapidly that any Help file would soon be
MB>> obsolete. I consider that I am running an obsolete version, and I have
MB>> the
On Monday, July 5, 2004 @ 8:27:25 AM, Roelof Otten wrote:
[snips]
MIC>> With emails to the tbudl list, I've got two filters:
MIC>> 1) emails addressed to the list are sorted into the "TheBat!" folder, and
Roelof> That's a straightforward filter, that should work.
Yep.
MIC>> 2) emails addressed
On Friday, July 9, 2004 @ 6:26:57 PM, Roelof Otten wrote:
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Zonnet>>> Better yet, have younoticed that the copy is made the moment you attach
Zonnet>>> the file? If it is attached you can not change it anymore by changing the
Zonnet>>> original. You will have to delete it and re-attach.
M
On Wednesday, July 7, 2004 @ 11:11:50 PM, Zonnet wrote:
[snips]
MicCullen>> Attachments should stay exactly where they were before being
Zonnet> attached - ie, where I put them to begin with.
Zonnet> The original stay were it was and a copy of the send attachment is stored
Zonnet> by the BAT.
Y
On Wednesday, July 7, 2004 @ 11:03:23 AM, Mary Bull wrote:
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AT>> Any ideas? Maybe I just need to wait for a later Bat version?
Mary> This is going to need the attention of both Leif and 9Val, in my
Mary> opinion.
Which was one of the major worries voiced at the start of this whole thing
On Wednesday, July 7, 2004 @ 9:10:00 PM, subscriber2list wrote:
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subscriber2list> Anyway, the above description of
subscriber2list> your steps worked great; my question is ... how does one back-out of
subscriber2list> the end result, i.e., return to where ALL messages are listed again
subs
On Wednesday, July 7, 2004 @ 12:09:29 AM, Roelof Otten wrote:
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BH>> But all the attachments that I myself send are also saved in that
BH>> folder?! I don't want them there, I have them elsewhere on my PC,
BH>> and I don't see why TB should save them on the hard disk at all.
Roelof> That's
On Tuesday, July 6, 2004 @ 9:12:33 PM, Marck D Pearlstone wrote:
[snips]
>> When I read lots of mails in a row, some read msgs are still marked as
>> unread afterwards. Is this a bug?
Marck> It would depend on the "Mark messages read after..." setting in the
Marck> account properties. If you ski
G'day all.
He's what I would have thought was a simple one, but I can't seem to get it to work.
With emails to the tbudl list, I've got two filters:
1) emails addressed to the list are sorted into the "TheBat!" folder, and
2) emails addressed to the list AND sent by me are sorted into the "TheB
On Sunday, July 4, 2004 @ 11:39:55 PM, Roelof Otten wrote:
[snips]
MIC>> What I would like to do is have the program automatically
MIC>> move the parked messages into the folder after a certain length
MIC>> of time. (Say, five days.)
Roelof> You can't do that automatically, however you could do
G'day all,
A question to which I have not been able to find an answer. (One of the MANY that I
would have no answers to if it were not for this list, as the documentation is
seriously sub-standard, especially given what a terrific program it is.)
I filter all of my tbudl email into one folder.
On Wednesday, June 30, 2004 @ 6:31:15 PM, Terry wrote:
[snips]
Terry> I'd like for the Connection Centre to only appear when I want it to.
Options>Preferences>General>Display Connection Centre - Hide
(First option under the check boxes)
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cheers, Mic (reply address works)
"You can't thin
On Friday, June 11, 2004 @ 9:14:46 PM, Charles M. Gerungan wrote:
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Charles> Not trying to hijack the thread, but I think something nice (that's
Charles> also related) is if it would be possible to save your reply in the
Charles> same folder as the message you're replying to.
Which is what
On Monday, April 26, 2004 @ 11:33:51 PM, Thomas Fernandez wrote:
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MicCullen>> Threading - is it possible to get the program to only
MicCullen>> expand threads with unread messages in them?
> No - it's all or nothing. I can imagine that you get a lot of
> seconders when you add an itme to
On Monday, April 26, 2004 @ 11:46:04 PM, Roelof Otten wrote:
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MIC>> In Agent, one-click browsing allows the use of the spacebar to move to the next
unread
MIC>> message - can this be done in The Bat!?
> You can use Ctrl+] and Ctrl+[ to move to the next/previous unread
> message. Though t
G'day all.
I'm a LONG-term Agent user, (bought it when it was still .99 beta, the best part of a
decade ago), but I finally got too fed up with it, so I went looking for a different
client, and I've ended up here.
And despite the clear advantages that The Bat! has over Agent, I'm missing some o
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