On 18/06/10 00:42, Roy Wood wrote: > It was the threading that I was referring to. Turnpike would put thum > into subject threads but Thunderbird just puts them in a long, > jumbled, list - just like Outlook! Well, mine are threaded, by subject, threads start with the initial posting and new stuff is added in date order, beneath.
> Oh and 'Reply' and 'Reply to list do > the same thing. Maybe I have not set it up right but I don;t log on > here much - except this week. Reply replies to the sender. Reply to List replies to a list or newsgroup. In the case of this list, the sender and the list are one and the same. In the case of the Oracle-L list I subscribe to, reply to sender send the email back to the poster and not to the list, reply to list does the opposite - oracle-l gets it, not the OP. (Well, the OP gets it from the list but not directly from me.) It's not you and not TBird that is at fault, it's simply the fact that the sender is the list in this case. > That is ticked but does nothing. Also, if you check th ebox that says > 'check spelling before sending you get an empty box when you try to send > which says ;check word' but has no word in it. Tony on the Mac has a similar problem. I'm on Linux and I don't have either of the problems you mention. We are both on 3.0.4. I presume you are on Windows 7 and the same version? Funny how Linux is the only one that works. >> Free software is like that too sometimes, I agree. Mind you, commercial software is just as bad. > Now, funnily enough, I was discussing this last night with 6 people in > the Dive Club BSAC or PADI? I'm an old BSAC myself. > because they all had various IT problems. All but 1 said > they found the ribbon to be a far better way of accessing the functions > (as do I) than the old menus system. I have to admit I tried it for a week a while back and hated it. Not just because it was different, just because it seems to take up an inordinate amount of screen space! > I was ahead because, having come > from a HOT_KEY enviroment I learnt the keyboard shortcuts. always amused > me when you press 'CONTROL/V' and text appears and then PC dummies go > 'How did you do that?' I use quite a few shortcuts myself too. It saves having to reach for the mouse, click, then type, then mouse, then ..... > But also think usability. Jonathan Hudson wrote some great programs but > no front ends so few people used them. They were not marketed so fewer > people knew they existed. I have to admit to using a couple of JH's programs and it was true, there were no bells and frills. He was the master of minimalist programming I think. Not in the apps themselves, just in the frills department. I only occasionally heard of them though and that's when I got around to trying them out. They were never advertised at all as far as I remember. <SNIP> > There you could not resist replying again - even though I have just > driven back from a songwriting session in London. Now you have my full admiration there Roy. I do admire people who have talent - music, crafts or whatever. I have very little I'm afraid. I can play my digeridoo (now that gave the spell checker a headache!) as long as I don't have to circular breathe - I have yet to master that little nicety. Good luck with the songs. Cheers, Norman. _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
