Re: Smileys (was: bat and router)

2007-02-06 Thread George Mitchell
Mary Bull wrote: MB> So I hope the upcoming release will fix your txt2html.regexps MB> function, since it seemed to be associated with the Smiley-display MB> malfunction. I was waiting for them to fix the crash on exit before I tried the latest beta. I grabbed it last night and the images do ind

Re: Smileys (was: bat and router)

2007-02-06 Thread Mary Bull
Hello George! On Friday, January 26, 2007, 5:38 PM, you wrote: ASK>> I'm using the txt2html.regexps to render text styles bold etc., ASK>> and its still working, just like the smilies. > I wasn't very clear. I didn't mean to say that txt2html.regexps > wasn't working - it's still converting the

Re: bat and router

2007-02-02 Thread MAU
Hello MFPA, >> I don't trust URLs, but I trust on people I know. If I get a message >> with URLs from someone I know, I will click on them whether they are >> long, short, tiny or (perhaps) hidden by HTML (you know, 'click HERE'). > > With tinyURLs you are also trusting a third party you do not kn

Re: bat and router

2007-02-01 Thread MFPA
Hi On Wednesday 31 January 2007 at 11:23:59 AM, in , MAU wrote: > I don't trust URLs, but I trust on people I know. If I get a message > with URLs from someone I know, I will click on them whether they are > long, short, tiny or (perhaps) hidden by HTML (you know, 'click HERE'). With tinyURLs yo

Re: bat and router

2007-01-31 Thread MAU
Hello Thomas, > Maxim didn't post tinyurls, but that's not your point. I said "I would have trusted...". > While this is getting OT, I wonder why you go through all the trouble > to create a tinyurl in the first place. ;-) As a courtesy to my correspondents who don't use TB and would get wrappe

Re: bat and router

2007-01-31 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Perry, On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:32:46 -0500 GMT (31/01/2007, 22:32 +0700 GMT), Perry Nelson wrote: PN> Excessively long URLs "break" due to word wrap for users of Outlook PN> or Outlook Express, and even those of them sophisticated enough to PN> understand why the link doesn't work must

RE: bat and router

2007-01-31 Thread Jurgen Haug
Hello Thomas, Wednesday, January 31, 2007, 6:45:33 PM, you wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:04:03 +0100 GMT (31/01/2007, 21:04 +0700 GMT), > Jurgen Haug wrote: JH>> one can have preview links now on tinyurl JH>> maybe that's made for you. JH>> like this one here. JH>> http://preview.tinyurl.co

Re: bat and router

2007-01-31 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello MAU, On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:23:59 +0100 GMT (31/01/2007, 18:23 +0700 GMT), MAU wrote: M> I don't trust URLs, but I trust on people I know. If I get a message M> with URLs from someone I know, I will click on them whether they are M> long, short, tiny or (perhaps) hidden by HTML (you know, '

Re: bat and router

2007-01-31 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Jurgen, On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:04:03 +0100 GMT (31/01/2007, 21:04 +0700 GMT), Jurgen Haug wrote: JH> one can have preview links now on tinyurl JH> maybe that's made for you. JH> like this one here. JH> http://preview.tinyurl.com/32rwwg If people were posting the preview like you did, it

Re: bat and router

2007-01-31 Thread Perry Nelson
Hi Thomas, Tuesday, January 30, 2007, 7:55:28 PM, you wrote: TF> That's so inconvenient. Why go through all the trouble and create a TF> tinyurl in the first place, if it is much more convenient for the TF> sender and the receiver to just c&p the full URL into the mail? Excessively long URLs "

RE: bat and router

2007-01-31 Thread Jurgen Haug
Hello Thomas, Wednesday, January 31, 2007, 2:01:40 AM, you wrote: > The minimum I do for *every* URL before I click on it is look at the > domain. If you don't want to send the full URL (why not?), it's really > up to you whether or not you want to get your message accross, now > that you know t

Re: bat and router

2007-01-31 Thread MAU
Hello Thomas, M>> We are in a free world, at least that's what we like to think :) So, do M>> as you please. > > I do. I'm sure you do, too. I just wanted to let you know why I never > click on tinyurls, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. So, if you want > people to click on the URLs you send (oth

Re: bat and router

2007-01-30 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello MAU, On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:46:08 +0100 GMT (30/01/2007, 23:46 +0700 GMT), MAU wrote: M> We are in a free world, at least that's what we like to think :) So, do M> as you please. I do. I'm sure you do, too. I just wanted to let you know why I never click on tinyurls, and I'm sure I'm not t

Re: bat and router

2007-01-30 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Perry, On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:45:19 -0500 GMT (31/01/2007, 00:45 +0700 GMT), Perry Nelson wrote: TF>> The suggsestion on this list was, IIRC, that if anybody wants to TF>> send a tinyurl, he should also send the full URL. I myself will only TF>> click only on the latter. PN> I understand

Re: bat and router

2007-01-30 Thread Perry Nelson
Hi Thomas, Tuesday, January 30, 2007, 8:19:36 AM, you wrote: TF> The suggsestion on this list was, IIRC, that if anybody wants to TF> send a tinyurl, he should also send the full URL. I myself will only TF> click only on the latter. I understand your reservations and my intent isn't to get you

Re: bat and router

2007-01-30 Thread MAU
Hello Thomas, >>> Haven't your heard about 'http://tinyurl.com'? Works great! > ASK>> But why would anyone need it since we're using an email program that can ASK>> handle these long lines without any problem? > > Sorry MAU, but I agree with Alex. I don't click on any tinyurl URLs, > because it mi

Re: bat and router

2007-01-30 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Alexander, On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 13:13:51 +0100 GMT (27/01/2007, 19:13 +0700 GMT), Alexander S. Kunz wrote: ASK> on Saturday, January 27, 2007 at 13:01 you (MAU) wrote: >> Haven't your heard about 'http://tinyurl.com'? Works great! ASK> But why would anyone need it since we're using an emai

Re: bat and router

2007-01-28 Thread MFPA
Hi On Friday 26 January 2007 at 6:17:08 PM, in , Alexander S. Kunz wrote: > A client ought to send via an ISPs/mail providers SMTP server *Ought to* based on what? What is your argument against the convenience of sending from your own domain (with appropriate SPF record) via a local SMTP server

Re: bat and router

2007-01-28 Thread MFPA
Hi On Saturday 27 January 2007 at 12:13:51 PM, in , Alexander S. Kunz wrote: > If you disable scripts, cookies and have an adblocker running, tinyurl > won't work all of a sudden (don't know which of the three is causing it) > - which means to mean that it must contain something that I really don

Re: bat and router

2007-01-28 Thread MAU
Hello Alexander, >> Haven't your heard about 'http://tinyurl.com'? Works great! > > But why would anyone need it since we're using an email program that can > handle these long lines without any problem? Well, here (in this list) you are right. But I exchange email a lot of people who don't use T

Re: bat and router

2007-01-28 Thread MAU
Hello Maxim, >>Haven't your heard about 'http://tinyurl.com'? Works great! > I don't like it, I don't see where will it point until I click it. It's a good reason :) -- Best regards, Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial - Spain) Using The Bat! v3.95.8 ___

Re[2]: bat and router

2007-01-27 Thread Maxim Masiutin
Hello Alexander, Saturday, January 27, 2007, 18:45:22, you wrote: >> Please also consider these URLs: >> http://www.experts-exchange.com/Networking/Q_21710324.html >Well, thats the same (IMHO blind) obedience to the RFCs as if they were >the source of all wisdom. :-} If you have correctly confi

Re[2]: bat and router

2007-01-27 Thread Maxim Masiutin
Hello Alexander, Please also consider these URLs: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Networking/Q_21710324.html http://www.mimedefang.org/kwiki/index.cgi?UseHeloToCatchSpam3 -- Best regards, Maxim Masiutinmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] __

Re[2]: bat and router

2007-01-27 Thread Maxim Masiutin
Hello Alexander, Saturday, January 27, 2007, 16:21:25, you wrote: >Well, you're the programmer. Be creative. ;-) You could fall back to >using the local IP in square brackets in that case, for example. I made a test: - Outlook Express 6 sends HELO LocalHost - Microsoft Office 2003 Outlook sends E

Re[2]: bat and router

2007-01-27 Thread Maxim Masiutin
Hello Alexander, Saturday, January 27, 2007, 14:10:54, you wrote: >If people choose to ignore the warning requester when (re)naming the >computer, they have to live with the consequences. When they install a localized Windows, there is no such warning, moreover, Windows may offer a name with na

Re[2]: bat and router

2007-01-27 Thread Maxim Masiutin
Hello Mau, Saturday, January 27, 2007, 14:01:46, you wrote: >Haven't your heard about 'http://tinyurl.com'? Works great! I don't like it, I don't see where will it point until I click it. -- Best regards, Maxim Masiutinmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: bat and router

2007-01-27 Thread MAU
Hello Maxim, > 1. > http://groups.google.co.uk/group/microsoft.public.outlook.installation/browse_frm/thread/476cf8701fc0b0ea/7a9d7ec7ecec78c0?lnk=st&q=outlook+smtp+ehlo > 2. > http://groups.google.co.uk/group/mailing.postfix.users/browse_frm/thread/d7d249e4997f3a49/93e7003d0423c06d?lnk=st&q=outlo

Re[2]: bat and router

2007-01-27 Thread Maxim Masiutin
Hello Alexander, Friday, January 26, 2007, 0:02:17, you wrote: >>When I try to use national characters, I get a requester telling me that >>non-standard characters were used, that non-standard characters may not >>be used in a computer network name, and that standard characters include >>A-Z, a-z

Re: Smileys (was: bat and router)

2007-01-26 Thread George Mitchell
Alexander S. Kunz wrote: ASK> on Friday, January 26, 2007 at 00:19 you (George Mitchell) wrote: >> I'm using the txt2html.regexps trick to turn some external image >> links into links to images on my hard drive. This quit working >> along with the smileys, so it's not just the .msl mechanism that

Re[2]: bat and router

2007-01-26 Thread Maxim Masiutin
Hello Alexander, Friday, January 26, 2007, 21:54:02, you wrote: >I consider the delay an annoyance, and it is there BECAUSE you are not >using a simple HELO routine like it used to be. Thank you, we will try to send HELO , but we have to figure out how to get the name of the machine in Latin ch

Re[2]: bat and router

2007-01-26 Thread Maxim Masiutin
Hello Alexander, Friday, January 26, 2007, 20:32:59, you wrote: >Ahm, this seems like a misunderstanding. I meant to turn the FQDN thing >on or off. To get what you mean "FQDN OFF" we should either resolve the full name (which The Bat! does) and strip all the parts except the first word, or cal

Re[2]: bat and router

2007-01-26 Thread Maxim Masiutin
Hello Alexander, Friday, January 26, 2007, 20:30:22, you wrote: >>Well, let the user configure its HELO string if its such an old and >>unreliable beast. How would the user know that a HELO string should be configured? E.g. you didn't know which caused the delay, so the other users may not know

Re[2]: bat and router

2007-01-26 Thread Maxim Masiutin
Hello Alexander, Friday, January 26, 2007, 20:02:32, you wrote: >>And can we *please* have a configuration switch to turn that... thing... >>in TB *ON* or *OFF* as the user prefers it? ;-) What should The Bat! send as the argument when it is OFF? The name of the computer, returned by GetComputer

Re[2]: bat and router

2007-01-26 Thread Maxim Masiutin
Hello Alexander, Thursday, January 25, 2007, 0:28:20, you wrote: >>That doesn't explain why there's no delay when using Outlook Express (if >>the same mailserver is used, that is). Outlook doesn't send the fully-qualified symbolic host name (FQDN) to the server, which is also problematic. It ma

Re: Smileys (was: bat and router)

2007-01-25 Thread George Mitchell
Mary Bull wrote: >> Does that one work and it's just the "uber common" smileys that got >> the different look? MB> None of them work. Neither the PCWIZE collection nor the DEFAULT MB> collection. MB> It's as if the .msl's ability to call the image were broken. I think that's it exactly. My gue

Re: Smileys (was: bat and router)

2007-01-25 Thread Mary Bull
Hello Leif! On Thursday, January 25, 2007, 2:40 PM, you wrote: >> It's as if the .msl's ability to call the image were broken. >> Thanks for chiming in, Leif. > Ahhh. Well, so much for my $.02 then.. Leif, when you get time, could you do a complete msi install of this, over the version you're

Re: Smileys (was: bat and router)

2007-01-25 Thread Leif Gregory
Hello Mary, Thursday, January 25, 2007, 1:19:05 PM, you wrote: > It's as if the .msl's ability to call the image were broken. > Thanks for chiming in, Leif. Ahhh. Well, so much for my $.02 then.. -- TBUDL/BETA/DEV/TECH Lists Moderator / PGP 0x5D167202 __ __

Re: Smileys (was: bat and router)

2007-01-25 Thread Mary Bull
Hello Leif! On Thursday, January 25, 2007, 1:58 PM, you wrote: >> Abandoning all 9Val's and Leif's hard work. :( > Just chiming in even though I haven't followed the whole thread and > basing what I'm about to say off something I think I remember > hearing. I could be wrong and am willing to tak

Re: Smileys (was: bat and router)

2007-01-25 Thread Leif Gregory
Hello Mary, Thursday, January 25, 2007, 11:39:31 AM, you wrote: > Abandoning all 9Val's and Leif's hard work. :( Just chiming in even though I haven't followed the whole thread and basing what I'm about to say off something I think I remember hearing. I could be wrong and am willing to take a hit

Re: Smileys (was: bat and router)

2007-01-25 Thread Mary Bull
Hello Peter! On Thursday, January 25, 2007, 12:27 PM, you wrote: MB>> ... I hate to see RitLabs abandon the .msl plus resident icons MB>> and pics in The Bat!/Images feature. MB>> And I think I am not alone in this. > No, you're not! :) I reverted to the last beta before this MSI for > that rea

Smileys (was: bat and router)

2007-01-25 Thread Peter Meyns
Hi Mary, on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 07:30:05 -0600GMT (25.01.2007, 14:30 +0100GMT here), you wrote: MB> On Thursday, January 25, 2007, 7:17 AM, you wrote: >>> But, then, I can't see my pretty smiley images, that way either, of >>> course. And I do miss them. Some of them are animated, especially >>> th

Re: The Bat!/Images/default.msl, .pcwsmileys.msl gone for good? [was Re: bat and router]

2007-01-25 Thread Mary Bull
Hello MAU! On Thursday, January 25, 2007, 10:52 AM, you wrote: >> Perhaps, after all, it is a bug inadvertently introduced into TB!'s >> code. > A bug that draws perfect rectangles around smileys? No way :-) Smiley text! Not Smiley images! LOL -- Best regards, Mary The Bat! 3.95.8 on Windows

Re: The Bat!/Images/default.msl, .pcwsmileys.msl gone for good? [was Re: bat and router]

2007-01-25 Thread MAU
Hello Mary, > Perhaps, after all, it is a bug inadvertently introduced into TB!'s > code. A bug that draws perfect rectangles around smileys? No way :-) -- Best regards, Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial - Spain) Using The Bat! v3.95.8 Current ver

The Bat!/Images/default.msl, .pcwsmileys.msl gone for good? [was Re: bat and router]

2007-01-25 Thread Mary Bull
Hello MAU! On Thursday, January 25, 2007, 8:52 AM, you wrote: >> So, I hate to see RitLabs abandon the .msl plus resident icons and >> pics in The Bat!/Images feature. >> >> And I think I am not alone in this. >> >> Smiley-image haters are simply more vocal, I think. > There must be other reason

Re: bat and router

2007-01-25 Thread MAU
Hello Mary, > So, I hate to see RitLabs abandon the .msl plus resident icons and > pics in The Bat!/Images feature. > > And I think I am not alone in this. > > Smiley-image haters are simply more vocal, I think. There must be other reason. "Smiley-image haters" or "I couldn't care less" users can

Re: bat and router

2007-01-25 Thread Mary Bull
Hello Miguel! On Thursday, January 25, 2007, 7:17 AM, you wrote: >> But, then, I can't see my pretty smiley images, that way either, of >> course. And I do miss them. Some of them are animated, especially >> the PCWIZE collection. I'm a child at heart, and I like the fun of >> them. > Do you rea

Re: bat and router

2007-01-25 Thread MAU
Hello Mary, > But, then, I can't see my pretty smiley images, that way either, of > course. And I do miss them. Some of them are animated, especially the > PCWIZE collection. I'm a child at heart, and I like the fun of them. Do you really need any of the functionality in this last version? Think

Re: bat and router

2007-01-25 Thread Mary Bull
Hello Miguel! On Thursday, January 25, 2007, 6:31 AM, you wrote: You mean the developers cannot force time into another dimension? :-) >>> Oh yes! They can, they all do it every day. When they say that something >>> will be ready in 2 weeks, the "dimension converter" will tell you that >>>

Re: bat and router

2007-01-25 Thread MAU
Hello Mary, >>> You mean the developers cannot force time into another dimension? :-) > >> Oh yes! They can, they all do it every day. When they say that something >> will be ready in 2 weeks, the "dimension converter" will tell you that >> in normal persons' dimension this means 2 or 7 months ;)

Re: bat and router

2007-01-25 Thread Mary Bull
Hello Miguel! On Thursday, January 25, 2007, 4:45 AM, you wrote: >> You mean the developers cannot force time into another dimension? :-) > Oh yes! They can, they all do it every day. When they say that something > will be ready in 2 weeks, the "dimension converter" will tell you that > in norma

Re: bat and router

2007-01-25 Thread MAU
Hello Chris, > You mean the developers cannot force time into another dimension? :-) Oh yes! They can, they all do it every day. When they say that something will be ready in 2 weeks, the "dimension converter" will tell you that in normal persons' dimension this means 2 or 7 months ;) -- Best r

Re: bat and router

2007-01-24 Thread Chris W .
MAU @ 2007-1-24 3:21:23 PM "bat and router" > Glad to hear that Maxim. I know you guys listen and I also > understand that everything cannot be fixed at the same time. Some > things come first and others have to wait. You mean the developers cannot force time int

Re: bat and router

2007-01-24 Thread MAU
Hello Maxim, >>>No, not any more. Previous versions did so but remember that now it >>>sends: > >>>EHLO [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] > >>>That is, the IP address. Something many of us don't like. > > This did only happen under Windows XP; we have fixed this today. New > versions will not send this dotted-dec

Re[2]: bat and router

2007-01-24 Thread Maxim Masiutin
Hello Alexander, Wednesday, January 24, 2007, 20:35:25, you wrote: >>No it doesn't. It sends "HELO [unroutable-local-ip]" here. Whether thats >>good style is argueable. We are using the new getnameinfo() API call and unfortunately under Windows XP it returns error 11004. Under Windows 2003 or V

Re[2]: bat and router

2007-01-24 Thread Maxim Masiutin
Hello Mau, Wednesday, January 24, 2007, 20:27:25, you wrote: >>No, not any more. Previous versions did so but remember that now it >>sends: >>EHLO [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] >>That is, the IP address. Something many of us don't like. This did only happen under Windows XP; we have fixed this today. New

Re: bat and router

2007-01-24 Thread MAU
Hello Maxim, > The Bat! sends > "EHLO hostname" > to the SMTP server. No, not any more. Previous versions did so but remember that now it sends: EHLO [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] That is, the IP address. Something many of us don't like. -- Best regards, Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial - Spain) Using The

Re[2]: bat and router

2007-01-24 Thread Maxim Masiutin
Hello Alexander, Wednesday, January 24, 2007, 18:36:48, you wrote: >>Which is quite normal in home networks. I don't understand what this >>recent fuzz about FQDNs and name resolutions in combination with TB is >>about. TB is a mail client, not a server. The Bat! sends "EHLO hostname" to the SM

Re: bat and router

2007-01-24 Thread Alto Speckhardt
Hi there lee, > I run The Bat version 3.96.6 with a Netgear DG632 ADSL Modem Router and > whenever I > send mail there's a delay for exactly 13 seconds and then the message will > finally go. After > that messages go straight away...until I close and re-open The Bat when I get > the > delay ag

Re: bat and router

2007-01-24 Thread Maxim Masiutin
Hello Lee, Wednesday, January 24, 2007, 4:10:18, you wrote: >>Odd problem. I run The Bat version 3.96.6 with a Netgear DG632 ADSL Modem >>Router and whenever I >>send mail there's a delay for exactly 13 seconds and then the message will >>finally go. It may be a problem with name resolution -

bat and router

2007-01-23 Thread lee walters
Odd problem. I run The Bat version 3.96.6 with a Netgear DG632 ADSL Modem Router and whenever I send mail there's a delay for exactly 13 seconds and then the message will finally go. After that messages go straight away...until I close and re-open The Bat when I get the delay again. It's defin