On 09-Feb-00, Mike Leavitt wrote:
>> messages' from the menu does the same. The only way I can get them
>> out is to select Message/Edit and click on the `Send' bar in the
>> edit window.
>
> If you are hitting store inatead of queue or send, this would be the
> expected result.
How does one hit `Queue'? Mine has no `Queue' button in the message
editor window. It has Send, Store and Cancel.
> You have to re-edit stored messages to send them out.
And what on earth is the use of `Store'? What a damn useless button!
I made the Reply and Follow up buttons a bit more sensible by renaming
them `Reply email' and `Reply NG'.
So far he nearest I have got to making it work in a sensible fashion
is to use Send while not on line. There is a delay until it finds
there's no TCP/IP stack and the message gets queued. It more or less
works, but is far from satisfactory.
Another thing that seems to be broken is the way the text editor
trashes quoted text. If lines exceed the preset 70 columns by the
prefixing of `greater than' sign, it doesn't reflow them properly, and
every (short) second line has the `greater that' sign missing.
The only way I have found to fix that is to edit in GoldEd and use a
script to strip the `greater than' signs, reflow and format to 65
columns and then replace the `greater than' signs. It takes only a
moment, but it's still annoying having to do it.
I'm trying hard to convince myself that the problems I have with MD2
are simply that I am not used to the way it works, but it's becoming
harder to believe that all the time. I never had this trouble with
YAM, nor any of the QWK/BW programs I used, nor any Fidonet point
programs. Oh, if only Spot could do newsgroups!! That is a program
they should all be modelled on.
Regards
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