Re[2]: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-25 Thread tracer
Hello Marck D. Pearlstone, On Tue, 25 Jan 2000 07:15:30 + GMT your local time, which was Tuesday, January 25, 2000, 2:15:30 PM (GMT+0700) my local time, Marck D. Pearlstone wrote: Marck> Hi tracer, Marck> I'll tell you what I think: you already have this facility by corectly Marck> placing t

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-25 Thread Allie Martin
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000 08:59:27 +0700, tracer wrote: [..snip..] > Not sure what Steve thinks: system adding blank lines(g). Maybe we need > some tab called netiquette where all that sort of stuff is set AutoCorrectors, Grammatik, etc. They all get in the way IMHO. The most infuriating is t

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-24 Thread Januk Aggarwal
Hello Marck, On Monday, January 24, 2000 at 07:15:30 GMT + (which was 11:15 PM where I live) [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: > I'll tell you what I think: you already have this facility by corectly > placing the %CURSOR macro following the %QUOTES in your reply template > :-). Ah, but you can'

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-24 Thread Marck D. Pearlstone
Hi tracer, On 25 January 2000 at 08:59:27 GMT +0700 (which was 01:59 where I live) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote and made these points: Keith>> Might be a possibility. Have you submitted the suggestion? t> Since the programmers are reading this list I am sure they take any t> good suggestion witho

Re[4]: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-24 Thread tracer
Hello Keith Russell, On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:08:47 -0700 GMT your local time, which was Tuesday, January 25, 2000, 1:08:47 AM (GMT+0700) my local time, Keith Russell wrote: Keith> Hello, fellow Bat-lovers. Keith> That's better! Once it becomes a habit, you won't have to think to Keith> remember 8

Re[3]: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-24 Thread Keith Russell
Hello, fellow Bat-lovers. On Monday, 24 January, 2000, 12:00:47 AM, tracer wrote: t> Hello Keith Russell, t> On Sun, 23 Jan 2000 20:54:19 -0700 GMT your local time, t> which was Monday, January 24, 2000, 10:54:19 AM (GMT+0700) my local time, t> Keith Russell wrote: Keith>> It frustrates me that

Re[2]: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-23 Thread tracer
Hello Keith Russell, On Sun, 23 Jan 2000 20:54:19 -0700 GMT your local time, which was Monday, January 24, 2000, 10:54:19 AM (GMT+0700) my local time, Keith Russell wrote: Keith> It frustrates me that I and several others have asked you to put lines Keith> between quotes, and that even in respond

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-23 Thread Keith Russell
Hello, fellow Bat-lovers. On Saturday, January 22, 2000, 5:07:34 AM, tracer wrote: t> Hello Jast, t> On Sat, 22 Jan 2000 05:36:20 +0100 GMT your local time, t> which was Saturday, January 22, 2000, 11:36:20 AM (GMT+0700) my local time, t> Jast wrote: Jast>> Not every (net) community has the

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-23 Thread Allie Martin
On Sat, 22 Jan 2000 16:23:40 +1100, Lone-Wolf wrote: [..snip..] > Perhaps if anyone could tell me how to use Xnews off line I would be > eternally grateful (well, at least grateful, don't know about eternal) I've been unable to use X-News offline in any meaningful manner. I guess that you c

Re[2]: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-23 Thread Lone-Wolf
Newsreading with Bat? Hello Nick, Wednesday, January 19, 2000, 8:18:32 PM, you wrote: NA> On Tuesday, January 18, 2000, 2:02:43 PM, Allie Martin wrote: >> Yes, I used the Agent >> combo for sometime myself but realized that Agent failed quite >> substantially on the e-mai

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-22 Thread Jast
Morning tracer, > Spmeone told me that one really should have a separator line as a > feature of the bat when quoting, or a blank line. > Anyway, I donot see lines after quotes in your msg so I do > musunderstand it? Looks like it :-) As you can see, I left a blank line between the quotes and

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-22 Thread Allie Martin
On Sat, 22 Jan 2000 16:39:53 +0100, Jast wrote: >> Spmeone told me that one really should have a separator line as a >> feature of the bat when quoting, or a blank line. Anyway, I donot see >> lines after quotes in your msg so I do musunderstand it? > Looks like it :-) As you can see, I left a

Re[2]: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-22 Thread tracer
Hello Jast, On Sat, 22 Jan 2000 05:36:20 +0100 GMT your local time, which was Saturday, January 22, 2000, 11:36:20 AM (GMT+0700) my local time, Jast wrote: Jast> Not every (net) community has the same standards and rules, and in some good Jast> message trimming and formatting might not be

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-21 Thread Jast
Morning Allie Martin, > The netiquette rules are global. Not necessarily... I'm involved in a community where shouting is just another way of expressing irony or used for fun, were you greet each other with "BITCH" and the likes and a song consisting only of cusswords is the t

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-21 Thread Allie Martin
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000 11:29:47 -0800, Nick Andriash wrote: > I have my storage options set to zero seeing as I've got cable, and am > always on-line. However, if you store articles with Xnews, it doesn't > make sense to have to quickly go on-line to retrieve them... should they > not be "stored" as

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-21 Thread Allie Martin
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000 09:21:53 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Also who said colors are for news. Personally I find black on white > blinding. I am upset at Windows for tying certain color values together > which force people to use a dark on light color scheme than a light on > dark. Configuring

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-21 Thread Nick Andriash
On Friday, January 21, 2000, 8:44:59 AM, Allie Martin wrote: > Yes, but I can't seem to get at these stored messages without first > going online and opening the group with the connection going. You could > however disconnect after having opened the group and continue reading > offline. I ha

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-21 Thread Steve Lamb
Friday, January 21, 2000, 8:30:16 AM, Nick wrote: > I was thinking more about this Steve, and remembered that Xnews has a > storage feature. Would not storing of bodies serve the same purpose as > running Hamster with Xnews? Are they not one in the same, only using > different Folders basically?

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-21 Thread Steve Lamb
Friday, January 21, 2000, 2:56:11 AM, Allie wrote: > trimmed) is far more than what I have written and if I'm sure that I still > want to send? Now tell me In Gravity (IIRC) there is an option to set a threshold on that warning. IE, messages under x lines don't get checked on the quote r

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-21 Thread Allie Martin
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000 08:30:16 -0800, Nick Andriash wrote: >> Wild guess, Hamster is a local news server. XNews doesn't have true >> offline reading capabilities so it needs a local news server to do that. > I was thinking more about this Steve, and remembered that Xnews has a > storage featu

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-21 Thread Nick Andriash
On Thursday, January 20, 2000, 8:01:43 AM, Steve Lamb wrote: > Thursday, January 20, 2000, 7:54:19 AM, Nick wrote: >> I'm just curious, but what purpose would be served by trying to run >> Xnews with Hamster? What added functionality would it serve that is not >> already present in Xnews? >

Fwd: Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-21 Thread Thomas Fernandez
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Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-21 Thread Allie Martin
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000 18:35:51 +0700, tracer wrote: Allie>> Well, you should, especially if it needs to be to make it easier for Allie>> people to read it. :) > It is easy, I start a sentence at the begin of a line and goto the > next one before its gets to long. > I may add a paragraph or so

Re[2]: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-21 Thread tracer
Hello Allie Martin, On Fri, 21 Jan 2000 05:56:11 -0500 GMT your local time, which was Friday, January 21, 2000, 5:56:11 PM (GMT+0700) my local time, Allie Martin wrote: Allie> On Thu, 20 Jan 2000 18:52:26 +0700, tracer wrote: (snip) \ X-News gives a reformat facility. Agent says nothing o

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-21 Thread Allie Martin
On Thu, 20 Jan 2000 18:52:26 +0700, tracer wrote: >>> Yes, but considering that I have to pay for the damn thing, the >>> editor is UTTERLY unacceptable. How can you create a popup message >>> saying that the flow of text is too long and that some readers may >>> have problems reading the

Re[2]: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-21 Thread tracer
Hello Allie Martin, On Thu, 20 Jan 2000 06:20:52 -0500 GMT your local time, which was Thursday, January 20, 2000, 6:20:52 PM (GMT+0700) my local time, Allie Martin wrote: Allie> On Thu, 20 Jan 2000 01:29:54 +0100, Christopher J. Trybowski wrote: >> [Gravity] >>> Yes, but considering that I

Re[2]: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-21 Thread tracer
Hello Christopher J. Trybowski, On Thu, 20 Jan 2000 01:29:54 +0100 GMT your local time, which was Thursday, January 20, 2000, 7:29:54 AM (GMT+0700) my local time, Christopher J. Trybowski wrote: Christopher> Hello Allie, Christopher> On Wednesday, January 19, 2000 you wrote: Christopher> [Gravit

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-20 Thread Nick Andriash
On Thursday, January 20, 2000, 8:01:43 AM, Steve Lamb wrote: > Wild guess, Hamster is a local news server. XNews doesn't have true > offline reading capabilities so it needs a local news server to do that. Oh right... yeah, I forgot about the off-line reading issue. Thanks. :o) -- -=Nick

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-20 Thread Nick Andriash
On Thursday, January 20, 2000, 3:20:52 AM, Allie Martin wrote: >I didn't give it enough of a chance to discover other problems. Upon > using it to post a couple messages, the decision was clear. If certain > basic things/issues are not properly addressed, I don't care about the > rest of the

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-20 Thread Steve Lamb
Thursday, January 20, 2000, 7:54:19 AM, Nick wrote: > I'm just curious, but what purpose would be served by trying to run > Xnews with Hamster? What added functionality would it serve that is not > already present in Xnews? Wild guess, Hamster is a local news server. XNews doesn't have true

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-20 Thread Nick Andriash
On Wednesday, January 19, 2000, 4:29:54 PM, Christopher J. Trybowski wrote: > Oh, come on, this program is a winner as far as bugs are concerned. > Too long lines is one of them. But there are plenty of others, and > plenty of lacking features (like Base64 and Quoted Printable support >

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-20 Thread Allie Martin
On Thu, 20 Jan 2000 01:29:54 +0100, Christopher J. Trybowski wrote: > [Gravity] >> Yes, but considering that I have to pay for the damn thing, the editor >> is UTTERLY unacceptable. How can you create a popup message saying >> that the flow of text is too long and that some readers may ha

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-20 Thread Christopher J. Trybowski
Hello Allie, On Wednesday, January 19, 2000 you wrote: [Gravity] > Yes, but considering that I have to pay for the damn thing, the editor > is UTTERLY unacceptable. How can you create a popup message saying > that the flow of text is too long and that some readers may have problems > read

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-19 Thread Pasquale J. Festa Sr.
Hello Grant, January 18, 2000, 8:10:22 AM, you wrote: GB> I'm a long time user of Agent, and have to admit that this is the GB> first program to come along in _years_ that turned my head at all! I GB> really like the functionality of the Bat. However, mail is probably GB> only 1/4 of my needs. T

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-19 Thread Allie Martin
On Wed, 19 Jan 2000 01:18:32 -0800, Nick Andriash wrote: [..snip..] > I have the same feelings toward Agent, and although I haven't tried > X-News as yet, I am currently trying Gravity 2.2. It configures multiple > servers easily, and has scoring as well. Have you tried this Program yet > Allie?

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-19 Thread Nick Andriash
On Tuesday, January 18, 2000, 2:02:43 PM, Allie Martin wrote: > Yes, I used the Agent > combo for sometime myself but realized that Agent failed quite > substantially on the e-mail side. It also fails quite markedly on the news > side as well with it's inability to support multiple servers witho

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-18 Thread Allie Martin
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000 16:16:58 -0500, Grant Baxter wrote: [..snip..] > No, not really. Anyone (like me) that has interests in things that > span both newsgroups and maillists, would like (as I do) to be able to > file pertinent info from both newsgroups _and_ maillists into the same > folder. For

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-18 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, January 18, 2000, 1:16:58 PM, Grant wrote: > No, not really. Use Outlook, it does both. Agent does both, from what I hear. I'd much rather prefer to keep this specialized client specialized since it is so damned hard to find a good specialized client in this madness to include ever

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-18 Thread Grant Baxter
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:49:09 -0800, you wrote: >GB> I'm a long time user of Agent, and have to admit that this is the >GB> first program to come along in _years_ that turned my head at all! I >GB> really like the functionality of the Bat. However, mail is probably >GB> only 1/4 of my needs. The o

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-18 Thread Tom Plunket
GB> I'm a long time user of Agent, and have to admit that this is the GB> first program to come along in _years_ that turned my head at all! I GB> really like the functionality of the Bat. However, mail is probably GB> only 1/4 of my needs. The other 3/4 is newsgroups. Are there any plans GB> to a

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-18 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, January 18, 2000, 5:10:22 AM, Grant wrote: > I'm a long time user of Agent, and have to admit that this is the > first program to come along in _years_ that turned my head at all! I > really like the functionality of the Bat. However, mail is probably > only 1/4 of my needs. The other 3/4

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-18 Thread Jast
Morning Grant Baxter, > I'm a long time user of Agent, and have to admit that this is the > first program to come along in _years_ that turned my head at all! I > really like the functionality of the Bat. However, mail is probably > only 1/4 of my needs. The other 3/4 is newsgroups. Are there any

Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-18 Thread Grant Baxter
I'm a long time user of Agent, and have to admit that this is the first program to come along in _years_ that turned my head at all! I really like the functionality of the Bat. However, mail is probably only 1/4 of my needs. The other 3/4 is newsgroups. Are there any plans to add newsgroup functio