[Mac-access]: List Eticate; Please Read
Good afternoon all I really hope I don’t have to say this all that often; but there will be some new members on list who haven’t yet have the dubious pleasure of reading one of my rants yet. So, in the hope that I can address that issue, and in the hope and expectation that the core issue will also be corrected, please read on. We have noticed recently that there have been some comments posted in response to a number of users’ questions which really were just a tiny bit overkill, bordering on flame. Flame, fire, call it what you will, is something which this group prides itself on not being afflicted by. The fact, therefore, that there has been just a tiny weeny little bit of it recently has given us cause to pour water on the troublesome oil. I can only hope that we don’t end up having to pour oil on to the troublesome water, and cure this problem by taking action against any member. But let me please abandon the rhetoric, and address the issue directly, in plain english. There have been just a few questions posted recently which have triggered responses whose content could, and has been, taken by sone on a quite personal level. I don’t want to name names, or even be specific regarding the subject matter, in order to try and calm the storm before it actually brews up into a major tornado, or hurricane. Both the twister and the howler can do real damage, and so they can in terms of offensive messages. So, to be totally blunt, at last. Please, quit the coy remarks unless you want to take the time to make it very very clear that your comment is very tongue-in-cheek. Really, the question of a person’s intelligence or otherwise is an entirely personal issue, and I would hate to question that of any member. I’m sure, therefore, given that we are all intelligent and mature individuals, that we are capable of living together in a group whose goals and aims are mutual self-help. It is not for me, nor is it for any one person here, to question the intelligence of another member. If you really wish to do so, kindly use your own undoubted intelligence and take your response off list, in order to preserve a harmonious atmosphere on list. On the other hand, I hope that we are all mature enough to take a comment whose nature is clearly made tongue-in-cheek as just that. So, in the words of a very famous, (or should that be infamous) pointed-eared Vulcan, “Health and long life” and, in the words of his equally famous or infamous side-kick human, “Peace be with you”. I have deliberately tried to keep this post very much tongue-in-cheek, and I hope that by doing so I have managed to get my point across without stamping my clumsy old foot on anybody’s toes. Generally speaking, the list seems to function quite well these days on auto-pilot. That’s probably a good thing, since we just don’t have the tine to sit and spoon-feed it. ;-) Thank you all for your cooperation and brotherly (not to mention sisterly), of course, understanding. Gordon --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at the list's public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we always strive to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
[Mac-access]: Gentle Reminder To All Subscribers
Hello everybody Just a very gentle reminder. We are still in the protracted process of moving over to new servers, in order to expand and enhance the services with which we are able to provide to the sensory impaired, as well as to our commercial clients – without whom we could not survive. As a part of this ongoing process, we are endeavouring to maintain a current database of members who are subscribed to Mac Access, as well as to our other email groups and other services; If we notice somebody has either joined or left the groups, we try to modify the database, adding or removing their email address, so as to ensure that they are re-subscribed, or not, as may be appropriate when the servers do finally change. However, it is possible that we might miss your modification of membership status; in the light of which, we kindly ask that you please drop us a message to supp...@mac-access.net when you either subscribe or leave the group. That will help us to maintain an accurate listing of members. obviously, those who subscribe after this post will not see it. We are, therefore, modifying the subscriber message so that this text is included there as well; and also in the unsubscribe confirmation message. Thank you in advance for your cooperation. Warm regards Lynne --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at the list's public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we always strive to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
[Mac-access]: Quick Note
Hello everybody Just a quick note to let you all know that I am almost ready to bring the new servers on stream. This will probably result in your receiving new messages confirming your subscription to the group. If this happens, please don’t worry, you don’t kneed to do anything unless you require custom options such as digest message volumes. In this case, the procedure for switching between normal, digest and back again, has been greatly simplified in our new server solution. More on that on our blog shortly. Anyway don’t panic if you get these new announcement messages. Regarding email addresses, we are still offering them up for those who want them. Feel free to contact us. We do have a database containing most of the info for existing clients. Therefore, the transition will be smooth. I will write to you individually during the next couple of days. Gordon --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at the list's public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we always strive to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
[Mac-access]: Changing Subscriber Options
Hello everybody I have been working at an increased pace on our long overdue server platform changes. I am hopeful that they will take place within the next couple of days. However, there is one thing which keeps distracting me from the task in hand, and that is when people opt to leave the group, or to change their subscriber details in one respect or another. So this is just another gentle reminder, (OK, call it a kick up the rear end if you like). ;-) If you are planning t modify your subscriber options for the group, would you please, please, pretty please, let me know about your intended course of action. Currently, I am having to continually monitor the support address sub-folder where we have such emails routed too so that we know when somebody has left the group, or otherwise changed their subscription options. Soon, very soon I hope, will come the radical changes we’ve been talking about for so many weeks. It has been, and still is in som respects, a massive undertaking because of the horrendous amount of settings, options and consequential database modifications which every single little change of a subscriber necessitates. Our Open Directory database is ill, gravely ill, (I was about to say “Terminally” ill, but that really would be pushing my luck just a bit too far I think. :) But seriously, folks, we’re on the point of implosion on our current server. To be totally fair, it’s been up there by itself, doing its stuff and serving the millions of messages which pass through it each month. That really is no exaggeration, we do see millions of messages each month. The vast majority of them are spam, junk, attempted relay hacks, mail bombs, mailbots and other little nasties. The vast majority of messages are, therefore kicked into touch without us having to do a thing to have that happen. But as I said, we are reaching a point where, one day soon, the database will break and I won’t be able to recover it, as I have so many times in the recent past. My boss at work has asked me to take over a similar duty there because one of the technicians has left as of last week, leaving a hole which they cannot afford to fill just at present. But I am waffling, yet again. So anyway, please do feel free to make these changes to the subscriber pages for your account as you see fit. But if you wouldn’t mind just dropping me a quick lie before you do so, I would be grateful. Thank you, I shall stop there. Kind regards Gordon Smith, Mac Access Dot Net Support and systems specialist. --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at the list's public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we always strive to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
News! Please Read
Hello everybody Right! I know, you’ve heard it all before! But I need to tell you that this time, it is official, for definite, for sure, for certain, forever! Our current E-Mail and WWW server will be officially decommissioned at 17:00 BST, (which is 16:00 (UTC)) this afternoon. That is to say, Thursday, the second of October, (or October Second), which ever tickles your fancy. The reasons I delayed again yesterday was that it occurred to me that our c connectivity host had not come up with a promised modification to our service which is essential. As of 10:00 this morning, that change has now been implemented which makes it technically possible for me to roll out the change. Regrettably, there will be some down time for our E-Mail systems, and for all of our other services and facilities. That is, I’m sorry to say, unavoidable. I need to physically re-configure the hubs on all three of our out-facing networks in order to fully accommodate our new hardware systems. I currently have it all on a temporary test network. As I said, This will impact on all of our services and facilities, so we apologise for the unavoidable outage. But this time, there’s no going back. This tine the tat-bbs.co.uk mail service is set to auto-destruct, and there’s nothing that any person on earth can do to prevent it. Now, some exciting new news. If you have been receiving the Panic newsletters, you with know that Transmit for IOS8 and many more Panic software developments are set to his the Apple and PC world. Accordingly, we are revamping our server systems and will soon be able to offer secure storage for members if there is a need. Cloud systems are fine, but you have no idea where your data is being stored. Our system is not a cloud. It is a permanent and secure server where nobody, not even I myself have access to a member’s directories and files. If you took our services before, or would like to again for the first time, contact either supp...@mac-access.net or our emergency address which is maciosacc...@me.com for further information. Thanks, and again we are sorry for any inconvenience. Whenever we do this it will inconvenience somebody so all we can do is to do so outside of local office hours. Gordon --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at the list's public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we always strive to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Almost Time For Switch-Over
Kind regards Gordon --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at the list's public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we always strive to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Mac Access Dot Net | The mac Access Dot Net Weblog
It is time to let you in on some of what we’re doing regarding our systemic issues. http://mac-ios-access.net/ http://mac-ios-access.net/ --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at the list's public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we always strive to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Server Going Down
Hello everybody Just to let you know that the Mac Access Server will be unavailable for a period of time which I would estimate at around a couple of hours, from approx. 12:00 BST, (11:00 UTC) today, Monday 22 September 2014. This is to permit us to perform essential work on the system which is severely broken at this time. You may receive some odd mail in the time before this server comes up again. Please disregard. Many thanks. Gordon --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at the list's public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we always strive to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Another Reminder, Please Help Us To Help You!
Hello everybody Just a quick reminder. As I am currently in the process of migrating our mail services to a new system platform, I would much appreciate it if, in the event that you opt to leave the group before the work is done, you would please alert us to the change of status by way of the support address. Failing to do this will result in your being inadvertently re-subscribed when the new platforms come on stream. So save yourself the irritation. :) Thanks. Gordon --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at the list's public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we always strive to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Mac Access Dot Net; Service Upgrade For Mid To Late 2014 | Mac Access Dot Net
Hello everybody Rather than us keep posting reminders on here, we are going to trial using our Blog for some of them. Accordingly, find the below link which you may wish to follow. It explains a little of what we’re up too and why Gordon is working such long hours when he’s supposed to be on holiday, (vacation). Warmest regards Lynne http://mac-ios-access.net/2014/08/12/mac-access-dot-net-service-upgrade-for-mid-to-late-2014/ http://mac-ios-access.net/2014/08/12/mac-access-dot-net-service-upgrade-for-mid-to-late-2014/ --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at the list's public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we always strive to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Subscription Requests
Hi all Just a quick one on the subject of moving to the new server. If anybody still needs to submit a request, would you mind please including the address you want subscribed in the body of your message, please don’t just say “This is my address”, as that way we have to go back to the sender field and it makes the job more laborious. If you’ve already written, no need to do so again. But for future reference, that would help to cut down the time it takes us to import almost 350 addresses on to the new platform. Many thanks. Kindest regards --- Gordon Smith --- Information Technology Accessibility Consultant; Proudly Providing Braille And Alternative Format Transcription Services, Plus I.T Help Support To The Staff And Students Of the Visually Impaired Department at: Sunnyside Academy Manor Farm Way Colby Newham Middlesbrough Cleveland United Kingdom [Currently In Summer Recess] --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at the list's public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we always strive to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
A Big Week Ahead, Please Read
Hello everybody Well, if you haven’t as yet advised us regarding your subscription intentions, as in whether or not you want to stay long term, you’ve not got a lot of time left to do so. I have just begun the configuration work on a new server platform to run alongside of the ones I previously mentioned. All of Mac Access.net services will be ported over to that new server solution which will also offer us enhanced security, plus greatly enhanced support functionality which may help those who write to us periodically with support requests, such as E-Mail address changes, etc. You’ll find out more about that shortly. Although I haven’t had the time to respond to you all individually, rest assured that I do still have your messages requesting subscription porting. Those requests will be honoured, so many thanks for taking the time to let us know. This week will see the public roll-out of quite a few new solutions here actually, and amongst them I am hoping will be in-house blogging. But more later. I spent some of last week in hospital which delayed me somewhat but I’m fine now so it’s time to press on. Just one more time, if you want to make any changes to the way we have your subscription set, let us know as quickly as possible please. If we don’t include your changed info or if you’re not on file with us before we switch, you’ll then have to make your own changes because I’m not going to have the time to keep running backwards and forwards. I need to get as much as possible of this done before I return to work at the beginning of September. Please post requests off list, not in this forum. The address is supp...@mac-access.net and, again, time is running short, the proverbial clock is ticking. If you already wrote to us, no problem, your info has been included in the database as per your requests. Many thanks. Kindest regards Gordon *** IMPORTANT *** PLEASE READ! In advance of our migration to the new server, our members database is now complete. Therefore, if you are planning to make changes to your Mac Access subscription preferences, please be advised that you'll now need to contact us manually if you wish your changes to be migrated to the new server. This is extremely important, if you want to avoid the frustration of bouncing messages; so please don't say I didn't know] if things go wrong because you never told us. If you just joined the group and want to know what this is about, please contact supp...@mac-access.net for information. This irritating little message will be removed shortly; but we need to ensure that the message gets through! --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at the list's public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we always strive to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Backlog Of Support Requests; Our Apologies
Hello everybody We are aware that there are some who are awaiting responses from Gordon regarding support issues. He was taken into hospital following a panic attack resulting in severe breathing [problems on Mondaynight and just got home this afternoon under doctor's orders to rest for a couple of days. So he's asked me to pass on his apologies. He'll be able to start catching up tomorrow. -- This Message Was Written Using One Hundred Percent Recycled Electrons;On Gordon's iPhone 4S: -- *** IMPORTANT *** PLEASE READ! In advance of our migration to the new server, our members database is now complete. Therefore, if you are planning to make changes to your Mac Access subscription preferences, please be advised that you'll now need to contact us manually if you wish your changes to be migrated to the new server. This is extremely important, if you want to avoid the frustration of bouncing messages; so please don't say I didn't know] if things go wrong because you never told us. If you just joined the group and want to know what this is about, please contact supp...@mac-access.net for information. This irritating little message will be removed shortly; but we need to ensure that the message gets through! --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at the list's public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we always strive to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
When you see Bulk
Hello everybody We have been experiencing problems with some providers, primarily BT over here in the UK, who insist on putting group mail with the precedence marked as 80 into spam folders, and adding the “Bulk” flag to the subject line of subsequent messages. This has been occurring quite a lot lately on list. So we need to ask for your cooperation on this issue because it threatens the group as a whole. If you respond to a message which has “Bulk” in the subject line, we need you to please take the time to remove it. This issue is an important one, so much so that we will have to consider taking remedial action against those who do not cooperate on this issue. At the moment, I prefer to rely on voluntary cooperation. I shall try to develop a filter so that the subject line is edited at the server level. However, effective as of now, if a user persistently doesn’t cooperate with us, we shall have to consider putting them into moderation mode until they do. This is something which we’d really rather not have to do as it causes us work. But we do need to think about the group as a whole, and we need to ensure that we don’t get spammed by other providers. We would also suggest that BT users consider other options regarding mail providers when they join groups such as ours. I would remind them that we offer free E-Mail accounts to those who would like them, as long as they agree not to abuse the service. Thank you in advance for your cooperation. Kindest regards Gordon *** IMPORTANT *** PLEASE READ! In advance of our migration to the new server, our members database is now complete. Therefore, if you are planning to make changes to your Mac Access subscription preferences, please be advised that you'll now need to contact us manually if you wish your changes to be migrated to the new server. This is extremely important, if you want to avoid the frustration of bouncing messages; so please don't say I didn't know] if things go wrong because you never told us. If you just joined the group and want to know what this is about, please contact supp...@mac-access.net for information. This irritating little message will be removed shortly; but we need to ensure that the message gets through! --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at the list's public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we always strive to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
A Word To The Wise
hello everybody You may recall that earlier this week I informed the group that I was compiling a database of list members to ensure that those who wished to remain members of this group will be imported into the new configuration when we move Mac Access, lock, stock and barrel, to its new home. I am writing now to update the group on this topic, and of one other change which we have decided to make. Effective as of Monday, 28 July 2014, at 20:00 (UTC), the list membership database which I have compiled for use by our webmaster when porting the group is now complete. That is to say that, unless things change, (see below), we will use the current list membership configuration when we move. In other words, if you are receiving this message, HEY! – WOW! – WOOPEE-I-O! – congratulations! You are clearly a member of the group and will remain so unless you express a desire to the contrary by means of a manual message to the support team. As of now, therefore, even if you remove yourself from the group, and do not inform us, you will be re-added when the group moves. All subscription information updated within the last 24 hours has been ported into the database, or removed from the database, as appropriate. But unless we receive a manual request to have information updated or removed from a list member, (not from somebody else on that member’s behalf), we will not be making any further changes before we move. Also, we are modifying our web presence so that the new groups information will appear on the list’s website. If you should happen to click on a link on our web page, and it is broke , please don’t worry. When the move is complete, the data will once again be accurate. Now, the next major change. Owing to the fact that we now have a presence on the public list archive database administered by Google, we have decided that there is little point in replicating the archive on our own site. Our logs indicate no use of these archives having been made within the preceding 28 days, which is the maximum time for which we retain active logs. Therefore, the list archives held here are probably of no value, and it’s time to take a little strain back off the servers, by removing the local archives. This latter decision is still open for review. So if you think we are making a mistake by doing this, or if you are somebody who uses the local archive pages, please do feel free to write to us off list and let us know. If it is helpful to do so, we will retain the local archives. But we are aware that there are difficulties when using VoiceOver on those pages anyway, which would probably account for their non-use. We have also set up an auto-responder which you’ll be sent in the event that you send a message to the list server, just reminding you of the database issue. Oh yes, and there’s a small addition to the message footer pages. That aside, we hope very much to minimise intrusion to our members as we carry out the changes we have been working on for some time, and bring our new services on line. Gordon, our technical guru, has invested significantly in time and we have invested significantly in monetary terms in order to ensure the prosperous future of Mac Access. We have, for instance, invested in new hardware of both OS X and Windows Server flavours in order to better serve both our clients, commercial and otherwise, and also our list members who we value greatly. We have also finally got around to reviving our SSL encryption technologies. When the new servers come on stream they will be equipped with the latest SSL encryption in order to keep our data, and that of our clients and friends, safe for the next 4 years at least. The future of Mac Access is bright. We recently hit the 500 members mark, although we’ve lost a couple of the new subscribers since then. We don’t publish members’ details, so please don’t anybody ask us for a listing. But we want you all to know that we remain absolutely and totally committed to ensuring that our thus far unblemished record continues in the same vain for the foreseeable future. As always if you wish to comment, our front door is open, so to speak, you can find it by sending an email to supp...@mac-access.net or my personal front door is at ly...@mac-access.net – just open the letterbox and yell through it; although if you wake me up at 3 in the morning, don’t expect anything other than a bucket of cold water over your head before you leave the premises. ;-) Warm regards Lynne *** IMPORTANT *** PLEASE READ! In advance of our migration to the new server, our members database is now complete. Therefore, if you are planning to make changes to your Mac Access subscription preferences, please be advised that you'll now need to contact us manually if you wish your changes to be migrated to the new server. This is extremely important, if you want to avoid the frustration of bouncing messages; so please don't say I
OS X 10.10 [Yosemite] Public Beta
Hello everybody As many of you will know by now, Apple recently released a public beta for the first time in over a decade. This is a beta version of the upcoming OS X 10.10 [Yosemite] release. I just wanted to clarify a point. If Apple has stipulated that all discussion of the beta be in their own forum, then discussion of the beta on this forum is strictly prohibited. If, however, they have made no such stipulation, then you may by all means compare notes on list. At this point we’re not sure of Apple’s stance on this, so we’ll have to check. But please exercise discretion and comply with any NDA agreement which Apple stipulated when you downloaded the beta. Thank you for your cooperation. Warm regards Lynne --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
List Membership, please read
Hello everybody Firstly, the response to our recent request for confirmation from members who wish us to remain on the service has been phenomenal, and we are very grateful for that, thank you. However, there’s just one slight problem with the responses we’ve received from some members. In the original request, I did make it clear that we require the email addresses of those who wish to remain on the list, and I asked for the address to be placed in the body of the message. In some cases, we have received mail with subject lines such as “Stay”, “Yes”, and similar things. Also those messages and others besides didn’t contain the address within the body of the message. If you think that you may be one of those who omitted to place their address within the body of their request, would you mind please repeating the exercise, this time making sure to include your address within the main body of the message; email address, I mean, not your geographical address. :) it would also be helpful if you’d add a meaningful subject line such as “I’d Like to stay on”, which ever list or lists you wish to remain with. If you take more than one of our groups, such as Mac Access and Techno-Chat, please feel free to include both in the same message if you wish. Again, if you are one of those who did put their email address in the body of your message, and if you made it clear which list or lists you wish to remain a member of, then you may safely disregard this request. Thank you for your time, and my apologies for the repeated request to those of you who either complied with the original address or who do not wish to be ported over. Finally, as I said, the response has been phenomenal and we appreciate that. Please understand that we don’t have the time to respond to them all individually. Be assured, however, that your request has been noted and will be acted on shortly. When the new list is created, you may receive a greeting message from the server. Please don’t respond to that message, and please just wait for one of us to announce that the new list has gone live before you post to it. Gordon is, as I speak, working on the project. We have today acquired new hardware and he’s in the process of deploying and configuring it all as I write. Warmest regards Lynne --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Keep On Trucking'
Hello everybody At this point it is a little difficult to know where to start with individual responses. However, I shall respond to all of you who have taken the time to respond to my request. This is excellent – and what is just as good is that you all, absolutely unanimously, have expressed a wish to remain on list. Thank you very much for this. Believe me, it is a appreciated by both Gordon and myself. I am currently in the process of compiling two databases for him; one on the PC and one on his BrailleNote Apex using KeyBase. Just one more small request for now. Would anybody who requires special settings such as digest please let us know? Otherwise we will assume that you’re happy with standard settings. Oh yes, and finally, so far I haven’t seen any opinions regarding the list’s name. But I haven’t had the time as yet to thoroughly go through all mail. If you have an opinion, or a suggestion regarding anything we could do better, please feel free to let us know. And double finally, so to speak, we would like to invite you to our free E-Mail system. If you’re looking for a new E-Mail address, or if you’d just like one to use with your friends and for our groups, we are happy to allocate free accounts as long as they are non-commercial. Feel free to get back to us if you’re interested. Warm regards Lynne --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
More On Our Plans
Hello everybody The responses are still flooding in with requests to remain subscribed. That is just excellent, many thanks to all of you who have written to us. This post is just to let you know what will happen when Gordon creates the new group. As you’re subscribed to it, you will be sent an Email just as you were when you joined the group. Despite this, please don’t start posting to the new address until we tell you that it’s operational. Further, there will be a short outage of service. This is inevitable as Gordon changes the DNS settings for the domains over to the new servers. Usually, your provider will pick up the change quite quickly; but it isn’t unknown for it to take between 12 and 24 hours for it to happen with some of the most rigid providers whose DNS systems only poll one of the 13 global NS systems once or twice a day. In the norm, however, it only takes a matter of minutes. Also, it is possible that, if you have used the group at one address in the same session as it changes to a new one, you may get an outage until you reboot. This is because most systems retain temporary caches of name servers and IP addresses so that they don’t have to keep continually polling the provider’s servers. This happens behind the scenes and, unless you know how to disable or modify this behaviour in your operating system’s IP stack rules, there isn’t much that you can do about it other than rebooting. Anyway, please don’t panic if you see new subscription messages but mail bounces or other odd things happen. Things will settle themselves down eventually and I will make a point of writing to each and every one of you to tell you when the change-over is complete. Please know that we do care about our members and we will make this transition as seamless as possible for everybody. Warmest regards Lynne --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Server Transition: IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ!
Hello everybody As some of you may be aware, we have been planning for some time to migrate the Mac Access server to a new physical server system and also to a new DNS host. This involves a very great deal of work on our part and I’d like to tell you a little bit about why that is the case. For some time now, we have been experiencing a problem with the server administration tools we used to use to help us administrate both the member listing for all of our groups, and also other vital server configurational data. The net result of these problems is that the member listing is not visible to us at all, neither is any of the other server data, or the list data itself. Therefore, the only access we have to the list configuration is that which every user has to their own specific configuration. Without going into too much technical detail, Gordon keeps having to manually rebuild the Open Directory database because there’s a problem somewhere in the system and it keeps causing corruption. The GUI-based administration tools are useless so Gordon needs to use the Terminal and command line tools to keep this airplane flying! Indeed, Apple’s own engineering staff have been unable to determine the cause of the problem and their ultimate advice was to simply trash the server instance totally and rebuild it from the ground up with a new OS install. That is fine in principle, but we are keen to retain as much information as possible in order to minimise inconvenience to our clients and group members. Please know that even those of you who are not our direct clients are important to us. Although our first duty is to those for whom we host services, we regard all of our members as part of what we do. Anyway I am babbling. e h This means that, in order to obtain the address of each user, along with any specific configuration settings they may have set, we have to effectivelyΩzsw log in as though we were that user via the web interface at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/your-address@your-host.whatever/. Aside from this, we’re going to have to manually replicate all of the generic list data on the new server for every single one of the groups hosted here. This, believe me, is no easy task; as some of the groups used by our commercial clients use very highly configured virtual hosts. One of our most valued non-commercial clients has multilingual options configured which we are also very keen to replicate. We shall be in touch with that client directly shortly to discuss the way forward for them. Gordon has spent most of this weekend working behind the scenes in the room from which we run all of our servers; (I’ve almost forgotten what he looks like! ;-)); on the new system, and even as I write he estimates that several more days will elapse before we’re ready to even test the new system locally, let alone expose it to the Internet. Why am I telling you all this? It’s really quite simple. We require, and would very much appreciate, your assistance. It would make our lives far easier if you as list members would take a moment to drop us a line privately, using the support address supp...@mac-access.net to let us know whether or not you anticipate or intend to remain a member of this group in the medium to long term, or even whether you wish us to add you to the new system at all. As well as this, we would be grateful if you would please let us have details of any specific settings you have configured on our server. For instance, if you are using digest mode to receive messages in bulk, whether you have a system password configured which overrides the default, etc.. Of course, when the new instance goes live, you will be able to modify your own configuration once you’ve been subscribed. We are simply trying to save you the work and minimise your inconvenience. :) We have not far short of 500 members in this group alone now, and it would be a horrendously laborious task for Gordon to use the web interface to inspect every single user’s individual configuration; especially since the majority of users have never changed any settings. You may say “why not just use the defaults then?” That in theory may save time. But we are anxious to have the transition be as seamless as possible for everybody and, therefore, we’d like to have this data available in a database which I shall be compiling for Gordon as and when we receive each member’s response. We plan to maintain this database in the longer term, so that we do have a permanent record of who is currently a member of our groups, and any specific configuration they may be using. Sadly, as I’ve already indicated, it simply is not practical to expect Gordon to spend the time trawling through the web interface like that. Therefore, for those users who do not respond to this request, we will assume that they no longer wish to be a part of our group and as such we will not include them.
CleanMyMac and related Apps
Hello everybody As you may be aware, from time to time, we here at Mac Access are able to offer our members promotional deals which bring them discounted purchase prices on software. In the very near future, CleanMyMac is headed for a major update. We are pleased to be able to tell you that, at or just after the time of its release, we will be working with the company to bring our members discounts on their software. We are also going to be working with the company on accessibility changes to their product. So stand by and if you are a member of the group at that time, we will be happy to offer you a promotional deal. I’m not able to give you specifics at the moment, but I’ll be happy to let you know when the time is right. Kindest regards and, of course, a happy Easter to all. Mac Access Dot Net Support --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Take Control Book Owners: Important Service Message: Please Read!
Hello everybody This message applies to those of you who have purchased Take Control books via Mac Access. Important: If you have purchased books on our 80% discount promotion, but you purchased via Travis Siegal at SoftCon.com, this does not apply to you unless you notified us of your request for an online bookshelf to be hosted here. I am sorry to have to report that we have, at some point in the not too distant past, suffered from a catastrophic systemic failure at one of our power supply units. This unit appears to have gone over-voltage before it finally expired, taking two large capacity hard drives with it. The net result of this failure was that our file transfer service and all of the Take Control Books data have disappeared into oblivion. The server itself can be, and is in the process of being restored. That will come back on line later today. But the Take Control books issue is somewhat more serious. Our databases are backed up in 3 places or, should I say, they were backed up in three places. Sadly though, it appears that I somehow neglected my usually rigid policy of total isolation once the backup is made. The only time it usually comes back on stream is when the databases have changed radically, and are, therefore, obsolete at the backup point of presence. However, it appears that as a result of my current workload, I neglected to take them off line and so the backups have also disappeared into oblivion. Therefore, I would request that if you have purchased books from us, and assuming you still have documentation to that effect, would you please be so kind as to forward any appropriate information to the support address, so that I can rebuild the database and, therefore, restore your service. Server passwords are not necessary, we do not require that information as the server’s database itself is currently in the process of being restored. As for me, I can only apologise for my sheer negligence on this occasion. I’m aware of the impact that this could have regarding the confidence of our clients. However, rest assured that nothing of a confidential nature has been affected by this blunder, for want of a better word. I have already been severely reprimanded by my better half, but feel free to repeat the exercise off list if you wish. I would, however, request that any such reprimands be dealt using socially acceptable language. I never respond to verbal abuse if it contains fowl language. Indeed, that only gets my back up further. :) On a serious note, however, by way of an apology for any inconvenience, I have been authorised by Lynne to make available any updated versions of books which you have purchased, purely at our expense. This in itself is going to cost us quite a lot of money I would think, but I wish to ensure that all of our clients know just how seriously we view this issue, and that they are aware of our intention to make reparation for any lost confidence which has ensued as a result of this issue. If you don’t contact the support address, I will have to assume that either you no longer require this service, or else you have obtained replacements elsewhere. And finally, I would request that you contact us as quickly as possible. Once the new academic term begins on 22 April, I simply won’t have the time to action this for you immediately, so you’ll then have to wait until my next available free time slot. Kindest regards --- Gordon Smith --- supp...@mac-access.net --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Reminder Regarding List Policy
Hello everybody Recently we have been receiving a number of complaints regarding the on-list behaviour of certain members. I would like to point out a few small items regarding the behaviour of group members because it would appear that list policy is sometimes not at the forefront of members minds when they write. First of all, however, I’d like to address an issue which is persistently arising. That is, members who are trying to carbon copy, (CC) other addresses, or adding other addresses to the “To:” field. Either of these methods of posting is what is known as “Implicit destinations”. Many lists do not enforce the implicit destination control. But we had to enable it some time ago due to the fact that a member joined our group and attempted to use us as a spam relay. Implicit destinations is a technique which spammers use to propagate their malicious or otherwise offensive content. So basically, let me spell it out for the benefit of new or recently new members. You cannot add Mac Access as either a secondary or a primary address in a message which you want to send to other groups or to individuals. Both of these methods are trapped by our server and are flagged for our attention. If you believe you have a good reason for doing this on a specific occasion, you are free to contact us to provide an explanation, and we may opt to use our discretion and allow the message through that time. However, routinely we indiscriminately reject such messages without question. So, if you want your message to hit the group, don’t use implicit destinations. It really is as simple as that. Next, I’d like to remind members that it is not appropriate for group members to reprimand others for their comment/suggestions/whatever on list. If you have any issue with another member’s post, please, in the first instance, take it up with the author of the message privately. If you still cannot reach a satisfactory resolution, feel free to write to us here at Mac Access Support, including a copy of the message which gave you cause for complaint. Including the message in question is always helpful now because there is a very much higher volume of traffic on this list now than there was 12 months ago. Also, we don’t have as much time to administrate the group as we once did, and we currently have no assistance in this regard from others. The time factor is the primary reason for our silence on list of late. Thirdly, I’d like to remind list members that it is not appropriate for sarcastic or demeaning responses to people’s questions on this list. Usually, if somebody asks a question, it is for genuine reasons. Not everybody has the time or even the ability to trawl through dozens of websites and web pages looking for the answers to their questions. This list exists as a mutually beneficial self-help forum. What may seem obvious to one person may not seem so to another. It is totally wrong for more experienced or more abled members to demean others who are less so because they ask a question. That having been said, I would like to point out that this group does have two very extensive archives which members may find useful in their quest for information. Sometimes, just posing a question in the search engine at the archive sites can prove to be the jackpot and provide the answers which saves a lot of time and frustration on the part of the member with the question. The archive addresses are at the foot of each and every message posted to this group. As are the self-help addresses for those wishing to amend or even remove their subscription. Rudeness to others will also not be tolerated on this list. We clearly state this in the list policy document which each and every member was sent when they joined the group. Should you need to review the most up-to-date list policy document, feel free. There are a couple of ways to do this. You can request that the list policy document be sent to you again by E-Mail using the server’s request address. Alternatively, you can visit the web page containing the policy document directly buy pointing your browser to: http://www.mac-access.net/List-Docs/Mac-Access-Welcome.html which is always the most up-to-date policy document. We are currently undertaking a review of recent traffic and will take any appropriate action based on any on-list behaviour which constitutes a significant breech of list policy. Mac Access was founded in 2007 by Gordon because he wasn’t happy with the alternative resources out there. We want Mac Access to remain a portal where members new and old may interact in an easy-going and friendly fashion. The personal touch, in other words, not just the flaming and bad-mouthing which we know happens in certain other groups. Thank you for your time, and we hope that you continue to enjoy your membership of Mac Access. You can be assured that there’s always somebody on the other end of the line, so to speak, if you really
Very, Very Important, Please, Please, Read!
Good Tuesday morning, everybody Please read this message carefully, as it will impact on every single member of this group to varying degrees. In other words, if you’re reading this message and are, therefore, receiving Mac Access Dot Net traffic, you! Firstly, we have been asked on several occasions how many members there are in this group. Because we choose to protect the E-Mail addresses of members and do not make listings available to outside persons, this is a question which can only be answered by us. To satisfy the curiosity of those who have asked this question, as of right now we have 336 members; not all of them actively posting, but there we are. OK, now down to the really important stuff. This message is to inform you that we have just begun the process of porting the entire contents of our logistical operations over to a new server array. This process needs to be completed by April and, although that probably sounds like a long way off to you, because of our very hectic schedules at the moment, professionally speaking, that actually is going to be quite a difficult target to meet, even if everything goes smoothly. There is much much more to Mac Access than meets the eye, and a total of 9 servers have to be re-deployed, re-built or replaced by the middle of April. Most of these hardware configurations are used for load balancing to accommodate both our public services and also those which we host for commercial clients. As I said, during those times when we’re working on professional commitments, we cannot also be working on this task. So we need to do it now, whilst we do have some time when I can use my sleepless nights to good effect. I don’t do all of the work myself, but the core migration tasks are down to me. You may well ask, what does this mean to me? Why should I care what is happening at Mac Access Dot Net. Well, the reason is basically this. On block, we are taking the liberty of porting all 336 members’ E-Mail addresses currently subscribed to the group over to the new front-end server. The problem we face here is that it would simply not be practical for us to trail through the list of every single account in order to find and duplicate any special options which may be set for that account. Therefore, if you require any specific settings to be associated with your E-Mail address which we have on file for you as a member of this group, you will need to contact the support address which I’ll give you in a moment in order to let us know, or to directly modify your settings, post-migration, yourself. By special options, I mean if you require digest mode, if you have any other special delivery options configured for your account, if you have your name associated with the account, that kind of thing. We will give you the opportunity to configure your own optional parameters once the new server comes on stream, of course. We're simply offering to do some of this work for you as a courtesy when we migrate the member list. But there is a limit to how much I’ll be either able or willing to do. This is a massive undertaking even as things stand, and we are hoping that we can delegate most of any custom work on your account to you. If, of course, you do not plan on remaining a member of this group, (and we are well aware that some members do come and go periodically), you will also need to let us know because we are using the current database as a template from which to work. That includes all addresses currently subscribed. Therefore, if you leave the group between now and migration time, you will find your address has been automatically re-subscribed unless you take the time to inform us that you do not wish this to happen. So, I hear you ask, what do I need to do? Simple. Sent a message to: supp...@mac-access.net specifying which address your request pertains too, and what action you would like taken on that address. By default, we will just use the standard delivery options for everybody. We will, as I’ve already said, provide the group options to configure your own profile once the migration has happened. If possible, we will actually make the new interface available before we actually dump the old system, so that you can log into it and make any required changes to your account. Important, attention please! When this interface goes live, you will be sent a new welcome message. This welcome message will contain your new account password. You will be asked for this password automatically when you make any configuration changes to the account, either via the E-Mail transport mechanism itself, or via the web interface. So please please save this information until such time that you are satisfied with the configuration of your account. We will not be able to spare the time to keep modifying this information for you, or to keep configuring individual accounts one the migration is complete.
Services Reinstated; Please Read
Hello everybody Some time ago, we were unfortunate enough to suffer a catastrophic systemic failure on one of our servers. This meant that our file manager server went down and we were unable to do anything about it owing to the extent of the work required and also the significant hardware replacement costs. I am pleased to be able to tell you that this service has now been reinstated, using brand new hardware, and with a brand new and, we believe, better navigation interface. This means that with immediate effect, all those who had accounts here at Mac Access Dot Net have their services reinstated with the same content as they had when it went down. This last point is subject to the data being stored when we had the systems failure occur. We are unable to verify this 100% owing to the fact that user data is inaccessible to us as we believe that it is confidential to the person who owns the account and we as system administrators have absolutely no business knowing what that data is or contains. If you had a account here, please feel free to check the server for yourself. On a different though related issue, it would seem appropriate to remind members that we are offering free E-Mail accounts to those members who would like them, and who genuinely would use them for legitimate purposes. If you’d be interested in having an account set up for you, now is the time to contact us. Gordon is off work for the academic half term break this week. That means that, although he will be available most of the time, I will not. My workplace remains very busy. Anyway if you’d like more information, please contact the support address. Finally, we apologise most sincerely to those who have been impacted by the server outage. We are doing everything possible to ensure that it does not happen again. Warm regards Lynne [Mac Access Support] --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Re: ot: deleting all mail in gmail, a tutorial.
Hello Just for future reference, If you know something is off topic for this group, please do not post it to the group without first asking the list owners, i.e., Mac Access Support, if it’s alright to do so. However, since your post is very specifically related to Apple’s platform, it is not, in actual fact, off topic at all. :) So, there’s no issue. The tutorial is very specific and that’s fine, postings like this which directly deal with Apple’s hardware/software are perfectly acceptable and, indeed, very much welcomed within the group. We would certainly not wish to deny the members of this group the opportunity of trying your recommendations. So, thanks for the post. On 12 Jan 2014, at 04:40, Devin Prater d.pra...@me.com wrote: Hi all. After doing this, I thought I’d share with you all who I managed this. Yes this is off topic, but you all can spread it around, I’m sure. First, I go to gmail.google.com, with standard view. I press left and right arrows to turn quick nag off, and press up and down arrows to focus on the table of messages. Er, that’s Quick Nav, not quick nag. Anyway, I press star, that’s shift 8, then A. This selects all the messages on the page. Then, I press number, or hash, or pound, which is shift 3. That deletes all selected messages. Now, this is in the inbox, and while it will be helpful on android devices and gmail web views, Apple mail, apparently, shows all mail that is not from you or in its trash folder. So, you’ll have to go to all mail. So, press right or left arrow until you hear something like inbox link. Keep quick Nav off throughout this whole thing. While these are links, which you can click on with VO space, you arrow down through them, like menu options. Then, when you’ve reached All Mail, press enter. You’ll be placed in the list of all your mail, every last one, including google chats and such. Here, select all as described above, star then A. Then, move out of the table, and you’ll find “all X of the messages on this page are selected. Click to select all Y in all mail.” X being the number of messages you have set to display per page, and Y being the total. So then, click the link, and you have all 8 or so emails and chats selected. Then, press the hash/pound/number, and you’ll be presented with a dialog. Click okay. Another dialogue will proceed it, click okay. Then, close the tag and wait for an hour or so, and your gmail will be cleansed of all the mutterings of a long-abandoned email list and exs and all the other memories you’d prefer not to have lingering around. --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Finally Fixed!
Hello everybody You may have noticed, if you are an account holder here at Mac Access that our file server has been out of action for a while. We actually were only made aware of this problem 48 hours ago, but we traced it to a hardware failure. Gordon has just put the server back on line, all data reinstated ; including that data to which we have no access. In other words, if you’re a subscriber to our Drop Ship service, or if you have spoken to us about using our cloud service, your data is intact, and remains private and locked from prying eyes. :) We apologise for the inconvenience, but you should find that all is well now. Warm regards Lynne --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
New Partnership Announcement; Saturday 30 November, 2013; for immediate release! | Mac Access Dot Net
Members may like to read the following. We welcome any comment, maybe though it would be best off list, at your discretion. http://mac-ios-access.net/2013/11/30/new-partnership-announcement-saturday-30-november-2013-for-immediate-release/ --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Recently Received Support Requests
Hello all I just thought I’d post to the group to apologise for our recent delays in responding to your support requests. These have been due to a lot of activity here at Mac Access home base regarding work commitments and contract discussions. We are aware of the requests, and we ask you to please be a little patient. We will get to your issues just as quickly as possible. We share the frustrations which some have expressed with our unusually slow response time. We ask you to please understand that we have to prioritise our commercial activities and work commitments because without them, Mac Access would simply not exist. Funds are very tight at the moment, and we are having to use our own personal money to keep the groups running. We will do this, but it would be to the benefit of all of us if we could revert to 100% external funding which we will hopefully do as of the beginning of November. We’re currently engaged in tying up the loose ends, then we will hopefully have a week’s grace before things really get going. I, (Gordon), will try to deal with outstanding support issues today while I’m at home awaiting telephone confirmation calls. I’ll get to as many as I can, but if yours is not one of them, I apologise and I assure you that one of us will try to resolve your issue quickly. Kind Regards --- Gordon Smith --- Information Technology Accessibility Consultant --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Test Messages; This Has To Stop!!
Hello everybody Would those members sending “Test, Please Ignore” please refrain from doing so. The list is currently seeing rather too many of these, and they have to stop as they have nothing whatever useful to contribute. Those who continue posting such messages as of now may be moderated. I appreciate that the purpose of sending tests is not in any way malicious or with the intention of creating issues. However, they do not have any real purpose. Put simply, if you can receive from the group you’ll be a member. If you can post a useful message, you’ve already completed your test so there’s nothing to be gained by descending “Test, please ignore” messages. This may seem churlish to some, but we also have to think about the list archives. Your cooperation would be appreciated. Kind regards --- Gordon Smith --- Information Technology Accessibility Consultant supp...@mac-access.net Telephone: United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Mobile: +44 7907 823971 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 Or: +44 1642 941776 United States Of America And Canada: +1 646 9151493 Or: +1 209 436 9443 Australasia: +61 38 8205930 Or: +61 39 0284505 Fax: +44 1642 365123 Follow Us On Twitter: http://twitter.com/maciosaccess Skype: skype:mac-access-dot-net?call -- --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Re: Is VMWareFusion on topic on this list?
I’m sorry, we are miles behind on mail. We state this in the list policy document. The configuration of everything on the Mac side of things in Fusion is on topic. But the Windows configuration is not. You might like to join our sister groups, Techno-Chat and Windows-Access if you’d like to discuss the Windows side of things. Gordon On 1 Oct 2013, at 22:55, Tere Codina tcodina...@yahoo.es wrote: Hi all, I am having troubles with VMWare Fusion and I doubt if this thread is on topic. Please let me know if I can explain what happens to my Mac, or perhaps you can give me any place for me to post my question regarding this problem. Thank you all. --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/ --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Re: Is VMWareFusion on topic on this list?
Phil Your response is not entirely accurate, see my previous message. The policy document which everybody is sent when they join is very clear on this point. I will repeat what I said earlier, just so the message is clear in everybody’s mind. The discussion of the Mac side of Fusion is on topic. The configuration of the virtual machine is on topic. But the configuration of the guest operating system, (usually Windows) is off topic. The exception to this being when the guest operating system is another instance of OS X. I hope that clarifies the position. Gordon On 2 Oct 2013, at 00:49, Phil Halton philh...@gmail.com wrote: It's not on-topic at this list. But the Macvisionaries List does allow for talking about fusion. Check out macvisionar...@googlegroups.com --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
New Member Welcome
Hello everybody Please do not reply to this message on list. If you wish to comment, please contact the new member personally. It is traditional when new members join the Mac Access Dot Net email forum that Gordon, Tracy and I try to welcome the new member(s) personally. In keeping with that tradition, we are delighted to welcome two new members: Leo Bissonnette and: Ray Campbell to our number. We are gratified by the fact that Mac Access is growing globally. We hope that you will find Mac-Access@mac-access.net a pleasant, friendly and worthwhile place to be. In here you will find a wealth of knowledge, and people with a variety of skill levels ranging from the total novice to the application developers with advanced skills. Then there are those who don't yet own a Mac, but have a keen interest; and those who just use iOS devices but who are keen enthusiasts. We hope you will feel free to post your questions and constructive comment, whatever your skill levels may be. Be assured, there will be none of the ridiculing and flaming which we know takes place in other groups. That kind of behaviour is not tolerated in Mac-Access. Anything Mac OS and iOS is on topic for this group. In the case of virtualisation applications such as VMWare Fusion and Parallels Desktop, the configuration of the applications themselves, plus the configuration of the virtual machines is on topic. However, the configuration of Windows or any other operating systems within that virtual machine is off topic. The exception to that is if you're using another instance of OSX within the virtual machine. This has always been a bit of a grey area; but we hope this clarifies the position. We should also make clear the fact that Apple's Windows applications are off topic for this group. This is strictly an iOS and Mac OS discussion forum. If you have any list-related queries, please do not hesitate to contact Gordon, Tracy and myself, (the list owners), at supp...@mac-access.net, and we will be happy to help you. Finally, I thought you might like to know that currently we are offering all Mac-Access. members the opportunity to purchase the Take Control Of Your Mac publications, published by Tidbits.com, at an 80% discount. If you want to know more, please contact the above support address. For a listing of the books available please visit: http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/catalog Don't buy from there, get back to us with a list of books or the name of the book that interests you and we'll tell you how to proceed. Once again, a very warm welcome to the group. We hope you find your membership an enjoyable, instructive and stimulating experience. Lynne --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
New Member Welcome
Hello everybody Please do not reply to this message on list. If you wish to comment, please contact the new member or the support personnel directly. It is traditional when new members join the Mac Access Dot Net email forum that Gordon, Tracy and I tried to welcome the new member(s) personally. In keeping with that tradition, we are delighted to welcome: Martin corr to our number. We are gratified by the fact that Mac Access is growing globally, and we hope that you will find Mac-Access@mac-access.net a pleasant, friendly and worthwhile place to be. We hope also that you will spread the word about Mac Access amongst your friends, and look forward to welcoming them. In here you will find a wealth of knowledge, and people with a variety of skill levels ranging from the total novice, to the application developers with advanced skills. Then there are those who don't yet own an Apple device, but have a keen interest; and those who just use iOS devices but who are keen enthusiasts. We hope you will feel free to post your questions and constructive comment, whatever your skill levels may be. Be assured, there will be none of the ridiculing and flaming which we know takes place in other groups. That kind of behaviour is not tolerated in Mac-Access. Also, please do not try to CC messages intended for other groups to Mac Access, or visa versa. Doing so will cause your message to bounce, and may result in us having to place you into moderation mode which would be tedious for us, and frustrating for you. The list policy document is always available for review. You can find it here: http://www.mac-access.net/Mac-Access-Welcome.html. Anything Mac OS and iOS is on topic for this group. In the case of virtualisation applications such as Fusion and Parallels Desktop, the configuration of the applications themselves, plus the configuration of the virtual machines is on topic. However, the configuration of Windows or any other operating systems within that virtual machine is off topic. The exception to that is if you're using another instance of OSX within the virtual machine. This has always been a bit of a grey area; but we hope this clarifies the position. We should also make clear the fact that Apple's Windows applications are off topic for this group. This is strictly an iOS and Mac OS discussion forum. If you have any list-related queries, please do not hesitate to contact Tracy, Gordon and myself, (the list owners), at supp...@mac-access.net, and we will be happy to help you. Finally, I thought you might like to know that currently we are offering all Mac-Access. members the opportunity to purchase the Take Control Of Your Mac publications, published by Tidbits.com, at an 80% discount. If you want to know more, please contact the above support address. For a listing of the books available please visit: http://www.mac-access.net/Take-Control.html Get back to us with a list of books or the name of the book that interests you and we'll tell you how to proceed. We should make it clear that under the current rules, group members must have ben, and agree to remain a member of Mac Access for a period of no less than 28 days prior to their first purchase. This rule now exists because, sadly, we were getting some members joining to exploit the system and then leave. Once again, a very warm welcome to the group. We hope you find your membership an enjoyable, instructive and stimulating experience. Lynne --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Reminder; List Conduct
Hello everybody An incident has arisen whereby a group member has had cause to complain regarding the content off another member’s response to his post. There was a remark in this response which cast doubt upon the intelligence of those who had previously joined the thread. Please be aware that this kind of personals sniping is not tolerated in this group. We shall be watching closely from this point onwards and if this is repeated, we will take the necessary action. Please don’t make us do that, it would be irksome for us and frustrating for the person involved. Thank you for your time. Lynne --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
New Member Welcome!
Hello everybody Please do not reply to this message on list. If you wish to comment, please contact the new member or the support personnel directly. Until quite recently, it was traditional when new members joined the Mac Access Dot Net email forum that Gordon, Tracy and I tried to welcome the new member(s) personally. Sadly, due to time constraints, we have let that tradition lapse. I believe that it should now be revived. In keeping with that tradition, we are delighted to welcome: ileen Misrahi to our number. We are gratified by the fact that Mac Access is growing globally. We hope that you will find Mac-Access@mac-access.net a pleasant, friendly and worthwhile place to be. We hope also that you will spread the word about Mac Access amongst your friends, and look forward to welcoming them too. In this forum you will find a wealth of knowledge, and people with a variety of skill levels ranging from the total novice to the application developers with advanced skills. Then there are those who don't yet own a Mac, but have a keen interest; and those who just use iOS devices but who are keen enthusiasts. We hope you will feel free to post your questions and constructive comment, whatever your skill levels may be. Be assured, there will be none of the ridiculing and flaming which we know takes place in other groups. That kind of behaviour is not tolerated in Mac-Access. Also, please do not try to CC messages intended for other groups to Mac Access, or visa versa. Doing so will cause your message to bounce, and may result in us having to place you into moderation mode which would be tedious for us, and frustrating for you. Remember that no question is too trivial. The beginning of wisdom is “I Do Not Know!”. We do, however, encourage members to use the list archive pages. They may well contain the answers to your questions which would mean that you have what you need more quickly. The archive addresses are listed at the bottom of every message posted to this group. Anything Mac OS and iOS is on topic for this group. In the case of virtualisation applications such as Fusion and Parallels Desktop, the configuration of the applications themselves, plus the configuration of the virtual machines is on topic. However, the configuration of Windows or any other operating systems within that virtual machine is off topic. The exception to that is if you're using another instance of OSX within the virtual machine. This has always been a bit of a grey area; but we hope this clarifies the position. We should also make clear the fact that Apple's Windows applications are off topic for this group. This is strictly an iOS and Mac OS discussion forum. If you have any list-related queries, please do not hesitate to contact Tracy, Gordon and myself, (the list owners), at supp...@mac-access.net, and we will be happy to help you. Finally, I thought you might like to know that currently we are offering all Mac-Access. members the opportunity to purchase the Take Control Of Your Mac publications, published by Tidbits.com, at an 80% discount. If you want to know more, please contact the above support address. For a listing of the books available please visit: http://www.mac-access.net/Take-Control.html Get back to us with a list of books or the name of the book that interests you and we'll tell you how to proceed. We should make it clear that under the current rules, group members must have ben, and agree to remain a member of Mac Access for a period of no less than 28 days prior to their first purchase. This rule now exists because, sadly, we were getting some members joining to exploit the system and then leave. Once again, a very warm welcome to the group. We hope you find your membership an enjoyable, instructive and stimulating experience. And remember that, should you need list support or have any questions regarding list content, help is always on hand. Feel free to contact the list owner and support personnel on supp...@mac-access.net at any time. Lynne --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at:
Re: how can you tell when Jambox needs updated
This is off topic for the Mac Access Group. On 27 Sep 2013, at 17:18, meadowlark77 meadowlar...@cox.net wrote: I'musing a Windows XPPro computer. --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Software Service, Status Update
Hi all Finally, we have our servers properly up and running. Some of you we have contacted already but those of you who have not yet heard from us, if you’re still interested, would you please drop another line to supp...@mac-access.net and accept our apologies for the prolonged delay. Please include in your message a user ID which you’d like to use, and also a case-sensitive password if you don’t want us to automatically assign you one. Oh yes, and I almost forgot to add, messages about this which arrive in my personal inbox will be discarded. So please ensure you respond off list to supp...@mac-access.net. Kind regards Gordon --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
List Behaviour
Hi all This is just a reminder, but please consider it formal. When somebody asks a question, if you only have a comment to make such as “Haven’t you heard of whatever”, it really would be better if you simply don’t post at all. That kind of remark is hardly helpful and does nothing to encourage the questioner to ask questions again. We all ask questions at times and we are undoubtedly all guilty of failing to explore all resources available at times. But this list exists so that people may ask questions and, by doing so, may learn and, by doing so, help others. Point somebody to a resource, by all means. But please don’t make that kind of comment in this context. There have been a few instances recently where people have made that comment, and others besides. Until now we have not intervened, in the hope that such behaviour will cease of its own accord. However, it isn’t, and some people, unintentionally I’m sure, are coming across as a little bit arrogant. Flaming is, as we state in the list policy document viewable here: http://www.mac-access.net/Mac-Access-Welcome.html against list policy. I’m absolutely sure no offence is intended. However, I would request that people please desist from making those kinds of comment. If you have no positive contribution to make in response to those who ask questions, please don’t respond at all. If, on the other hand, you wish to make a comment which would help others, then by all means do so. We all make the mistake of responding too quickly, heaven only knows I’ve done it countless times and wished that I could just fall into a hole somewhere never to be seen again. The same is true of those who ask questions, and I’ve been on that side of things as well countless times. OK, that having been said, I hope that we can all coexist happily together in a spirit of mutual self-help. That is what this group exists for and we do not want any animosity on list. Thanks for your time. Kind regards Gordon --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Software Service; [Status Update]
Hello everybody Those of you awaiting accounts on our software server will be pleased to hear that Gordon has now resolved the issue which was preventing us from offering the service. This was primarily due to an issue which prevents administrators from totally disabling web functionality in Apple’s 2.2.1 Server incarnation. Because of this, the port we need to use the third-party software on was being blocked by Apache, even though all of the associated services were disabled. Finally, Gordon has found a way to prevent Apache from starting up even when it isn’t needed. This now exposes the ports we need to our software. Therefore, you can expect to receive an E-Mail from the server shortly, presenting you with your credentials. Those who have been kind enough to make a small donation to Mac Access will be given full read/write access to your own folder. Note: This does not in any way mean that those who have purchased books from us, or who had previously been given access will be in any way affected. Finally, we would like to apologise for the delay in getting this up. Gordon has tried lots of fixes, all of which have failed until now. But we are quietly confident that this one will work. Certainly, at this time, access is restored. Lynne --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Scheduled Maintenance Outage, Please Read!
Hello all Owing to the fact that our server has developed a small problem, I need to take Mac Access and all other services off line for a short period early this morning whilst I work to rectify the issue. This is not, incidentally, related to our file manager although I’m planning to totally overhaul that today as well in order that I can get it back on line. Basically the reason is that files which I need to modify are frequently accessed by MailMan and PostFix and if I try to edit them whilst the service is running, I will create further problems. To be safe, I am also taking Apache services off line because they are also used for some essential internal tasks and Apache services need to be stopped as well to ensure that there is no conflict. Please be aware that this is a necessary maintenance outage. I promise you that I would not consider taking the servers down unless it was absolutely necessary. Hopefully, the outage will be brief, maybe about 30 to 60 minutes at most. As you will be aware I think, we remain absolutely committed to providing a high level of service to all of our clients, irrespective of the level at which they use our services. We regard our group membership as indirect clients, but still clients. Therefore, they have a right to be informed regarding what is about to happen. Since April 2010, we have managed to maintain an up-time level in excess of 98%. Considering that we are a very small organisation with limited resources, I personally thing that is quite a staggering achievement and I’m very proud of it. I have been putting this task off, to be honest, in the hope that it wouldn’t be required. However, because of continuing problems with Apple’s new Server platform, I have still not updated our service from Snow Leopard Server. This in itself could bring a problem, and it is why I am now considering this maintenance. Security updates for Snow Leopard Server are sparse now, and that is putting it mildly. We all know about what happened with Apple’s own developer portal a week or two back and I do not wish Mac Access or any of our clients’ services to be in any way compromised. So, this task is actually one of prevention, rather than cure. All of our clients, whether they are commercial clients, visually impaired clients for whom we are proud to be able to provide services, or even just list members. You’re all important to us. We know that we don’t always get things spot on right. But be assured, I’m only doing this to enhance your security. Please be assured that no contact data or other confidential material regarding our clients has been, or ever will be, put at risk. We very much regret any inconvenience this may cause you. If you’re a direct client of ours, be assured that our secondary MX servers are up and running so mail will hopefully not bounce. If by any chance it does, because the sending server doesn’t check the entire MX chain to locate secondary services, I am very sorry for this. Feel free to get back to me should you require further information. The outage is scheduled to start at 05:30 UTC today, Tuesday 20 August, and should hopefully last no more than a maximum of 60 minutes. All being well, services should resume well within that time. But I have to allow for possible complications and I don’t want to make promises I cannot keep. So in the event that the outage lasts longer than 60 minutes, please understand that I’m doing my very best and will get things back up on line as quickly as possible. I have tried to schedule this outage at a time which I believe will bring the least inconvenience to our clients. It’s late night in the US, early evening or late afternoon in Australasia and early morning in Europe, before most businesses open their doors for the day. Finally, I am sending this to all of our E-Mail groups, so my apologies of you see this more than once. It’s important to let everybody we serve know what’s happening. Kind regards --- Mac Access Support, supp...@mac-access.net --- --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the
Status Update On Software Server
Hi all Firstly, to those awaiting account configuration on our servers, our apologies. Apple Server is giving us a bit of a hard time at the moment in quite a few ways. But we will get things fixed up for you eventually. Of course, if you wish to discuss this or need further information please feel free to contact supp...@mac-access.net and we'll try to give you the answers you want. On the other hand, if you don't know what I'm talking about and want too, feel equally free to contact us. Thank you. --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Off Topic: Please Do Not continue This Thread: [Was Re: iSangean, An App Full Of Surprises]
Hello Dane This is a Mac and iOS group, not a general technology group. Please be more careful when posting to lists. :) On 31 Jul 2013, at 06:45, Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net wrote: Last week I wrote a brief introduction to the Sangean WRF-28D Dab/FM/Internet Radio, I've been playing with the set for a week now and here's my notes, comments and observations. --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
All; Please Read [Rejected Posts]
Good Friday morning all Recently we have noticed an alarming increase in the number of posts to this group which we are having to process because they are too large. This is because people are being lazy and, once again, an item in the list policy is being overlooked or forgotten. Because we are aware that a significant number of members of this group are subscribed to data plans with their ISP which put caps on the amount of throughput they can accept each month, we have a policy item in place which states that members should not quote entire chains of messages when responding to a thread. To discourage this further, we have a 40K restriction on the size of every message posted to the list, which should be enough for anybody to make their point clearly. However, if you just leave all of the chain of messages present in your reply, your message will inevitably eventually become too large to post, which is what is happening. In list policy, we request that you only quote what is relevant, or what you're specifically responding too. It only takes a moment to be selective. All you need to do on OS or Windows is use your cut and paste option, Command+X or Control+X respectively after selecting the old text. For the sake of the support people, and also to ensure that your message reaches the group, please try to comply. It is worth pointing out to you now that we indiscriminately reject all messages which don't make the group because they are too large. So, if you want to be sure that your voice gets heard and your point is made, please comply with list policy. We do appreciate that it's easy to forget these things sometimes. But it is irksome to list members and tedious to us when we have to keep posting these reminders. On a final note, we do monitor this carefully and, if the same person commits the same oversight repetitively, despite these reminders, we will place that person in moderation mode until they come to understand the seriousness with which we view these repeated transgressions. In all the time that Mac Access has existed, we have never yet had to place anybody into moderation mode, although one or two have come close. Please, don't let yourself become the first member to whom we have had to do this. Believe me, it would give us no pleasure or satisfaction whatsoever for that to happen. Please try to cooperate with us for our collective and mutual benefit. If you'd like to refresh your memory regarding list policy at any time, feel free. You can find the document at its new home, which is here: http://www.mac-access.net/List-Docs/Mac-Access-Welcome.html Thank you for your time and cooperation. If you have any questions regarding this or any other list issue, please don't hesitate to contact us at the usual support address: supp...@mac-access.net Kind regards Gordon --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
This awaiting Credentials
Hi all Just a quick note to let you know that, if you are awaiting credentials for access to our software archives, I've been snowed under with employment contract talks until yesterday. I will have more time today so I will get some of the backlog sorted I hope. My apologies. Kind regards Gordon --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Urgent Service Information, Please Read!
Hi all This is just one of those occasions when I really wish I could just bury myself under a rock and disappear. it's an error on my part which was probably due to a typo when I created the database entry way back in 2010. Unfortunately, tomorrow it seems that our SSL certificate for the mail server mail.tft-bbs.co.uk is due to expire. As you may or may not be aware we are gradually phasing out the tft-bbs domains. 2 Of them have already expired; tft-bbs.com and tft-bbs.org.uk. It was intended that by the time the tft-bbs.co.uk certificate elapsed, (which I had on record as 13 July 2014), the mail and other services would have been switched over to a new domain more in keeping with what we are doing at present. In fact, I had intended that mac-access.net would replace the tft-bbs.co.uk domain for all services. And it is there, in the year column of the database, where I have made the error. Instead of expiring on 13 July 2014, the certificate actually expires on 13 July 2013 which, as you obviously are aware, is tomorrow. Even with this error in place, the switch-over would have been completed by now if, and it's a big if, Apple had not tinkered around with all of the server-side applications, making it far more difficult for an administrator who requires more than what Apple considers the standard services required by a company operating an Ingtranet. In other words, Apple has removed many of the useful elements of its server application and made others much more difficult to customise. The latter group includes both mail and web applications. Apache is one area where Apple has tinkered so much with the configuration data that it's becoming almost impossible to find it to make manual adjustments to services. They seem to think that all administrator will require no more than the jazzy new graphical tools they provide one with which to work in a corporate environment. Thus, I am having problems configuring websites to function in the new incarnation of Server. I would have been quite happy to simply renew the certificate and continue using the existing service. However, we have a problem there too. Since we no longer possess such a thing as a USB mouse, it is impossible for Lynne to upgrade the certificate for me. The process of doing that is, and has always been, inaccessible under Snow Leopard and earlier versions of Server. All this leaves me in a really difficult situation. Since I cannot cross-grade and I cannot upgrade, I'm stuck! Until I can find some way of having somebody with vision help me to upgrade the certificate on the old system remotely, or unless we can find a version of Apple Remote Desktop which is Mountain Lion compatible so that Lynne can access the server remotely, I'm stuck. All this means that there may bee some undesirable behaviour regarding mail and your clients for a while, until I can get this darn thing fixed! I am prepared to extend the lifetime of the tft-bbs.co.uk certificate by 12 months which, I hope, should make it possible for me to finish the task of switching over the services we offer to a new server. In the mean time, please accept my humble apologies for the error. It was a simple typing error, but it has now resulted in possible kayos for a while. OK, let me go find that rock under which I can curl up and hide for a while. You're within your rights to call me a bungler on this occasion, I really stuffed up big time! Kind regards --- Gordon Smith --- --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
List Owner's Return
Hello everybody Those of you who know us will be aware that we always set aside the Wimbledon tennis fortnight for our annual holidays. That fortnight has just ended and what a fortnight it has been! But aside from that I'd like to take this opportunity to welcome all of our new members, and welcome back our returning members. I was delighted to see so many new subscribers to the group. Now, on to another related issue. Gordon has received many requests for accounts on our new Software page. In actual fact, the response has been amazing. He's slightly overwhelmed at the moment by a mountain of work that's been awaiting his return. But he'll get to your account shortly. I just wanted to write and let you know that we haven't forgotten you or lost your mail. We only got home earlier this afternoon, having prolonged our stay in London by just under a day. Gordon is actively working on your requests as I write, so you can expect to hear from us within the next not very long. Once again, if you'd like an account you have only to ask. All we ask in return is a little common sense and fair play. If you'd like to contribute something to the collection which you think would be good for others, we are creating an uploads section for that purpose. You'll be able to upload to it, but not delete anything or see other people's uploads. All we ask is that you either mail us a message describing what you've uploaded, what kind of application it is, etc., or else include a text file. Please, it goes without saying, do not upload anything commercial to which we have no right. We want to keep this above board and we will have no association whatever with software piracy. All we ask in return is a little common sense. Please don't, for example, try to download an entire folder of files where that folder comprises several gigabytes. If we detect behaviour like that we'll have no option but to suspend the account pending further explanation. Anyway, it is good to be back. Thank you all for your responsible use of our mailing list. We appreciate it greatly. It's a pleasure for us to provide this resource for you all to use. Many thanks. Lynne --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Change Of Plan; Regarding Our New Service
Hello everybody Regarding the new software updates service; Gordon and I were supposed to be heading off back to London this morning. However, a second medical appointment has just been confirmed by telephone and we are now obligated to postpone our departure until Wednesday evening. This means that Gordon will have time to work on the new service before we go so we may be able to get some of you set up. Interest has been far greater than we had anticipated so thank you everybody. We will contact you individually when we get you set up. Just a quick one which may be of interest to some. The reason for all this medical stuff is that Gordon is in line for a cochlea implant in September or October, all being well. This should have a very big impact on his life. We'll tell you more about this either individually (contact me at ly...@mac-access.net for more info) or on our other group, Techno-Chat; I'd rather not clutter this group up with off-topic stuff but I know there are several hearing-impaired members of this group. If you want to join techno-chat, the website is at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat/H or else send a message to techno-chat-requ...@techno-chat.net with the word subscribe without the quotes in the subject line. Anyway, when Gordon gets home this afternoon he will be working on the new software stuff. Thank you for reading this. Lynne --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
To All Mac Access Dot Net members, and all Mac Users; An Invitation, And A Suggestion
Good afternoon as it is here, everybody. We are just home from London for a couple of days as Gordon has an appointment on Monday morning, then it's strait back down there for the tennis on Monday afternoon. Anyway, to the point. We have decided to implement a little idea which we've been talking about for a while, but never got around to doing. We regularly update software on our systems and, as some of you know, we run a small server to host a number of services; most notably our Take Control books. But what we've decided to do is to add a new section to our software site where we will include every piece of software which we ourselves update. That would mean that it's all available in a one-stop location. Would anybody be interested? We invite you all, as this service will be a public access service as long as those using it are members of 1 or more of our groups. It'll take Gordon a little setting up, but he's willing to do it before we head off back to London if there is any demand. One of the titles we will be including for definite is VMWAre Fusion. We are aware that many have difficulty downloading that application from the VMWAre website. So this would be an alternative method of staying up to date. If there are other titles which members use, although we cannot promise to maintain the updates we will certainly look into the possibility of doing so. If you're interested please drop us a line at the support address, supp...@mac-access.net so as not to clutter up the group. We would be happy to answer any questions you may have, use the same contact address. Warm regards supp...@mac-access.net --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
As An Adendum
Hello again everybody I forgot to tell you that, if you subscribe to our updates service we will automatically send you an email when an update is added to the system so you won't have to continually keep checking in. This way we think we can do the job more efficiently. We could also utilise DropBox as part of our system so that could possibly be another way you can download from us. Warm regards Lynne --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Software Backup Solution
Hi all Please read all of this message if you're interested in the software service I'm going to set up. Alright. Those interested in the software backup service, if you'd like to join it now, send us a unique user ID that you'd like to use. The user IDs are case sensitive, and the passwords are server-generated, but we do have a Forgot My Password facility should you need it. Our servers are SSL secured, running the very latest in SSL encryption so you can be sure of no prying eyes. We have invested heavily in security encryption, entirely at our own expense. We support FTP, SFTP, FTP with implicit Encryption, https and WebDAV so you could log in directly from the Mac's Finder which is a pretty cool feature. So you could add the server as a volume from your desktop. Again, if you want to join us, we need a user ID, oh yes, and we also need an E-Mail address where we can contact you. That is crucial since the server needs to send you account info as a security mechanism, so you must must must use an email address to which you have access. Oh yes, and just two more little things. We will support software for both OS X and the other platform where appropriate. Most of the updates will be on the Mac side, but we'll try to do some Windows stuff as well. If you want us to include a specific application, send us details off list. So again, we need a user ID and E-Mail address and then our servers will be in touch with you. Finally, please be aware that account sharing is strictly off limits. If we discover that an account has been shared, we will delete it no questions asked. We do maintain extensive logging. So do the right thing by us and we will by you. And super super finally, absolutely nothing illegal is permitted. Don't ask us to host cracked or hacked applications because we simply won't do it. Music and video are also off limits for this facility. Kind regards Gordon --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
New Member Welcome
Hello everybody Please do not reply to this message on list. If you wish to comment, please contact the new member or the support address directly. It is traditional when new members join the Mac Access Dot Net email forum that Gordon, Tracy and I try to welcome the new member(s) personally. In keeping with that tradition, we are delighted to welcome: Amy Beatty to our number. We are gratified by the fact that Mac Access is growing globally. We hope that you will find Mac-Access@mac-access.net a pleasant, friendly and worthwhile place to be. In here you will find a wealth of knowledge, and people with a variety of skill levels ranging from the total novice, to the application developers with advanced skills. Then there are those who don't yet own a Mac, but have a keen interest; and those who just use iOS devices but who are keen enthusiasts. We hope you will feel free to post your questions and constructive comment, whatever your skill levels may be. Be assured, there will be none of the ridiculing and flaming which we know takes place in other groups. That kind of behaviour is not tolerated in Mac-Access. Anything Mac OS and iOS is on topic for this group. In the case of virtualisation applications such as Fusion and Parallels Desktop, the configuration of the applications themselves, plus the configuration of the virtual machines is on topic. However, the configuration of Windows or any other operating systems within that virtual machine is off topic. The exception to that is if you're using another instance of OSX within the virtual machine. This has always been a bit of a grey area; but we hope this clarifies the position. We should also make clear the fact that Apple's Windows applications are off topic for this group. This is strictly an iOS and Mac OS discussion forum. If you have any list-related queries, please do not hesitate to contact Tracy, Gordon and myself, (the list owners), at supp...@mac-access.net, and we will be happy to help you. Finally, I thought you might like to know that currently we are offering all Mac-Access. members the opportunity to purchase the Take Control Of Your Mac publications, published by Tidbits.com, at an 80% discount. If you want to know more, please contact the above support address. For a listing of the books available please visit: http://www.mac-access.net/Take-Control.html Get back to us with a list of books or the name of the book that interests you and we'll tell you how to proceed. We should make it clear that under the current rules, group members must have ben, and agree to remain a member of Mac Access for a period of no less than 28 days prior to their first purchase. This rule now exists because, sadly, we were getting some members joining to exploit the system and then leave. Once again, a very warm welcome to the group. We hope you find your membership an enjoyable, instructive and stimulating experience. Season's greetings to all members. Lynne --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
New Members Welcome
Hello everybody Please do not reply to this message on list. If you wish to comment, please contact the new member personally. It was, until a little while ago, traditional when new members join the Mac Access Dot Net email forum that Gordon, Tracy and I tried to welcome the new member(s) personally. Sadly we've been unable to do that of late; but hope to revive the tradition now that our work load has decreased. In keeping with that tradition, we are delighted to welcome: Timothy Emmons and: Fresco Sam-Sin to our number. We are gratified by the fact that Mac Access is growing globally. We hope that you will find Mac-Access@mac-access.net a pleasant, friendly and worthwhile place to be. In here you will find a wealth of knowledge, and people with a variety of skill levels ranging from the total novice, to the application developers with advanced skills. Then there are those who don't yet own a Mac, but have a keen interest; and those who just use iOS devices but who are keen enthusiasts. We hope you will feel free to post your questions and constructive comment, whatever your skill levels may be. Be assured, there will be none of the ridiculing and flaming which we know takes place in other groups. That kind of behaviour is not tolerated in Mac-Access. Anything Mac OS and iOS is on topic for this group. In the case of virtualisation applications such as Fusion and Parallels Desktop, the configuration of the applications themselves, plus the configuration of the virtual machines is on topic. However, the configuration of Windows or any other operating systems within that virtual machine is off topic. The exception to that is if you're using another instance of OSX within the virtual machine. This has always been a bit of a grey area; but we hope this clarifies the position. We should also make clear the fact that Apple's Windows applications are off topic for this group. This is strictly an iOS and Mac OS discussion forum. If you have any list-related queries, please do not hesitate to contact Tracy, Gordon and myself, (the list owners), at supp...@mac-access.net, and we will be happy to help you. Finally, I thought you might like to know that currently we are offering all Mac-Access. members the opportunity to purchase the Take Control Of Your Mac publications, published by Tidbits.com, at an 80% discount. If you want to know more, please contact the above support address. For a listing of the books available please visit: http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/catalog Don't buy from there, get back to us with a list of books or the name of the book that interests you and we'll tell you how to proceed. We should make it clear that under the current rules, group members must have ben, and agree to remain a member of Mac Access for a period of no less than 28 days prior to their first purchase. This rule now exists because, sadly, we were getting some members joining to exploit the system and then leave. Once again, a very warm welcome to the group. We hope you find your membership an enjoyable, instructive and stimulating experience. Season's greetings to all members. Lynne --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Subject Lines
Hello everybody Gordon and I are seriously behind on mail at the moment. But despite what feels like millions of times reminding the group we are still seeing a degree of inappropriate subject line selection. For instance, things like Odd behaviour, Yes, tell nobody anything. When composing your subject lines please make it clear what you are talking about. I would also like to remind the group that those responding to such messages have an equal responsibility; please please play the game. Those not doing so spoil the list archives not to mention wasting people's time. Oh, and whilst I'm here, if you want to discuss Jaws, Window-Eyes or anything else Window even in the context of a virtual machine environment, please use our sister groups Windows-Access or Techno-Chat. If you need details of those groups write to us. But your cooperation on list would be very much appreciated. Thanks. Lynne --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Keep Your Subject Lines Topical: [Was Tips Please!
Hi Desi Just a gentle remoinder, plea keep your subject lines topical. Tips Please, doesn't tell people what you're asking about so they have to open every message even if they cannot help you. Again , just a gentle reminder. Gordon On 27 Apr 2013, at 00:57, Desi Noller desiandca...@q.com wrote: Hi Everyone, I am having trouble answering an incoming call while already on a call. The problem is, that there's never a chance to practice this until you need to do it! Can some of you who do this often, let me know how you do it? Thanks! Desi --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/ --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Official Assistant List Controllers Now In Place
I have great pleasure in being able to announce that Zachary Cline and Roger Firman are now assistant list controllers of this group. Roger and Zach very kindly offered a couple of weeks ago but this has been the first free day I've had to do anything about it. I hope that one other will be joining shortly. But I need to confer with that person before I announce their identity. Once again though, welcome Zach and Roger. I will update the list guidelines documents accordingly shortly. --- Gordon Smith --- supp...@mac-access.net Telephone: United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Mobile: +44 7907 823971 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada: +1 646 9151493 / +1 209 436 9443 Vic. Australia: +61 38 8205930 Vic. Australia +61 39 0284505 Fax: +44 1642 365123 Follow Us On Twitter: http://twitter.com/maciosaccess Skype: skype:mac-access-dot-net?call -- --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Mac Access Welcomes New List Moderators
Good morning all This message is to officially welcome the new members of our team who have kindly offered their services as list controllers. But first I would like to thank them all publicly. These three persons are: Roger Firman Sean Murphy and: Zachary Cline We are in the process of updating the list policy document as appropriate; but we'd like you all to know that the three individuals named above may now also be contacted for resolution of list queries in our absence. We suggest, in order to expedite your query resolution more quickly that you try us first; but if we don't respond, please accept our apologies, understand that our lives are now very hectic indeed, and feel free to contact one of the above. Kind regards Gordon, Lynne And Tracy; --- supp...@mac-access.net --- Telephone Support is now available by arrangement with Mac Access Dot Net If you require assistance and we cannot resolve your issue via the E-Mail mechanism, you can arrange to call us directly – or we may be able to call you. United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada: +1 646 9151493 Or: +1 209 436 9443 Vic., Australia: +61 38 8205930 Or: Vic., Australia: +61 390284505 Fax: +44 1642 365123 Please Note: All Support Requests By Phone Will Be Handled By Gordon. Follow Us On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/maciosaccess -- --- Gordon Smith --- gor...@mac-access.net Telephone: United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Mobile: +44 7907 823971 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada: +1 646 9151493 / +1 209 436 9443 Vic. Australia: +61 38 8205930 Vic. Australia +61 39 0284505 Fax: +44 1642 365123 Follow Us On Twitter: http://twitter.com/maciosaccess Skype: skype:mac-access-dot-net?call -- --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
A Recent Example Of Messages to multiple destinations
I approved this message on this occasion but please would you all remember that you may not send to multiple destinations when writing to this group. The next person to do so will be placed into moderator mode, no questions asked. Don't post to Mac Visionaries and Mac Access at the same time, and expect to get away with it. I'm tired of warning people so this is where it stops, you have been warned for the very last time. ;-) Kind regards Gordon, Lynne And Tracy; --- supp...@mac-access.net --- Telephone Support is now available by arrangement with Mac Access Dot Net If you require assistance and we cannot resolve your issue via the E-Mail mechanism, you can arrange to call us directly – or we may be able to call you. United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada: +1 646 9151493 Or: +1 209 436 9443 Vic., Australia: +61 38 8205930 Or: Vic., Australia: +61 390284505 Fax: +44 1642 365123 Please Note: All Support Requests By Phone Will Be Handled By Gordon. Follow Us On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/maciosaccess -- --- Gordon Smith --- gor...@mac-access.net Telephone: United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Mobile: +44 7907 823971 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada: +1 646 9151493 / +1 209 436 9443 Vic. Australia: +61 38 8205930 Vic. Australia +61 39 0284505 Fax: +44 1642 365123 Follow Us On Twitter: http://twitter.com/maciosaccess Skype: skype:mac-access-dot-net?call -- On 6 Apr 2013, at 03:02, Danny Noonan da...@familynoonan.net wrote: I've just started to play with GB after well over a year and am quite impressed. If anyone has done or even better still is using it ive got a few questions and will probably have more so if willing would love a mail chat off list. If there is a more appropriate list to ask, please let me know. Thanks. Danny. Sent from my iPhone --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/ --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
List Controller Position
Hi all Believe it or not, this is Gordon once again in the support pilot's chair. :) First of all I would like to say thank you to those who have offered their services in the capacity of assistant list controller. We very much appreciate your kind offers. Later today we will be appointing three assistants. Lynne and I feel that it would be a help to have one in as many different major time zones as possible so that, in the event that we are not available which, given what is coming up in our lives, (more on that privately if you're interested), will probably be quite frequent, there is somebody on hand to resolve issues. Please don't panic if we haven't already acknowledged your message. We had a provider outage during the night which caused significant problems. That is now fixed. Also, we want to sit down and talk this through properly this time, so as not to make the same erros we made last time we did this. Yes, we have learned important lessons from that episode so it wasn't a waste of time. Anyway folks, we will make the announcement regarding who we have selected after we have spoken to the individuals concerned privately. We believe that is the courteous way forward, and we are anxious not to offend. Kind regards == Gordon, Lynne And Tracy; supp...@mac-access.net Telephone Support: If you need our help and we cannot resolve your issue via the E-Mail mechanism, you can arrange to call us directly – or we may be able to call you if you prefer, United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada: +1 646 9151493 Australia: +61 38 8205930 Or: +61 39 0284505 Fax: +44 1642 365123 Please Note: All Support Requests By Phone Will Be Handled By Gordon. Follow Us On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/maciosaccess -- --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Fwd: 2 step berafication
I'm forwarding this on behalf of George. I'm having trouble with apples 2 step verification. I've gone to the my apple site, and logged in. I've than clicked on password and security. I can't see the link for 2 step verification. Is this a topic I can post to the list? Or can you please help me? George, Sent from my iPad --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Evaluating Assistant List Controllers
Hello everybody Firstly, I would like to publicly thank all of those who have, during the past 24 hours, responded to our initial invitation to apply for list assistant controllers positions. The response has been far more positive than I had expected, and I am humbled by the amount of interest there is from members to help up run the group efficiently. Gordon and I have been mulling this one over and we believe now that it would be best to have maybe a minimum of three controllers in different time zones to us, as well as perhaps, one in the same time zone to cover those times when we simply don't have the ability to monitor any longer. I shall be contacting all of those who have so far responded to the call. Gordon is suggesting that possibly you might like to do a short Skype or telephone chat with him about what you see your role as and how you'd feel you can fit in. Does anybody have any issues with that? If so, please feel free to raise them off list when I respond to your message. Many thanks yet again. Lynne == Gordon, Lynne And Tracy; supp...@mac-access.net Telephone Support: If you need our help and we cannot resolve your issue via the E-Mail mechanism, you can arrange to call us directly – or we may be able to call you if you prefer, United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada: +1 646 9151493 Australia: +61 38 8205930 Or: +61 39 0284505 Fax: +44 1642 365123 Please Note: All Support Requests By Phone Will Be Handled By Gordon. Follow Us On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/maciosaccess -- --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Seeking Responsible Individual Willing To Help Out
Hello everybody Owing to the now very much higher traffic levels on this list, Gordon and I have decided that we need to try to recruit a responsible individual who has the same goal as we do; to promote this group and maintain orderly and, by inference mutually beneficial discussions. Some time ago we had a couple of people who were kind enough to offer their services when Gordon was in poor health and I did not have the time to devote to the group. Our reasons this time are very different. Gordon, now that he has mastered the art of pain management, is bursting with rood health and is also now entering stage two of his quest for full-time employment. I too am full-time self-employed, and our colleague Tracy is also. Therefore, we are now actively seeking a list controller who will assist in the moderation of the group. I don't actually like the term moderation, but that seems to be the accepted terminology. So be it. We are seeking an assistant, call it what you will. The last time we did this, one of our assistants resigned his commission because we took an action of which he didn't totally approve, and, to put it more plainly, because we didn't consult with him before the event. At the tine we didn't feel we had acted improperly; but on reflection, perhaps we were a little hasty. That, however, is now history and we can only learn by the error. We will endeavour to consult with whoever is kind enough and technically knowledgeable enough to be appointed for the post. This is a responsible post and we'd like to get it right this time. We wouldn't want any of the misunderstanding of last time to recur this time. We are, therefore, offering the chance for list members who feel they could spare us the time and, naturally, who would be willing to fit in with the list's policies and also be capable of taking responsibly arrived at decisions in a capacity of assistant list controller in our absence. I should perhaps make it clear that, although we do plan to give the responsible applicant who we feel best suits the job, access to the list's moderation interface, we, as in Gordon, Tracy and myself, retain the right to make the final decision in the event that a controller decision is disputed. That is most unlikely to happen, however. We will, thanks to the lessons learned on previous occasions, do our utmost to consult whoever we appoint before we take any drastic decisions related to list policy or list actions. If anybody is willing to give a little back to the group, please firstly accept our thanks, and secondly feel free to reply to this post, using the support address: supp...@mac-access.net. We look forward to hearing from you if you believe you have what it takes. You don't have to be a technical wizard, nor do you have to possess a masters degree in computer sciences. All we ask is a little technical experience, plus a responsible and mature attitude to dealing with other people. Kind Regards Lynne == Gordon, Lynne And Tracy; supp...@mac-access.net --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
New Take Control Books
Hello everybody Well, it's taken us a little time to get to this; but the new TC books are now available from here, including the latest edition of Tak Control Of Your iPad, Second Edition, Tak Control Of Working With Your iPad [Second Edition], and Take Control Of Mountain Lion Basics MacWorld Superguide. If any of these interest you, please do let us know via the usual channels. By the way, the Mountain Lion book and the working with your iPad books are rather more expensive than the majority of titles for whatever reason. Lynne == Gordon, Lynne And Tracy; supp...@mac-access.net Telephone Support: If you need our help and we cannot resolve your issue via the E-Mail mechanism, you can arrange to call us directly – or we may be able to call you if you prefer, United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada: +1 646 9151493 Australia: +61 38 8205930 Or: +61 39 0284505 Fax: +44 1642 365123 Please Note: All Support Requests By Phone Will Be Handled By Gordon. Follow Us On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/maciosaccess -- --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Off Topic
Hello everybody Please refrain from discussing applications for operating systems other than iOS or OS X in this forum. The list policy document which everybody receives and, presumably, reads when they join this group is taken as an agreement to remain within the list's guidelines. Gordon, Tracy and I are some way behind on mail just at the moment but we are making an effort to catch up over this weekend and, if we discover persistent breeches of guidelines by a specific individual or group of individuals, we will take action. Many on list have understandably grown tired of the Softly Softly approach, and we don't have the time to adopt it any longer anyway now that all three of us are effectively in full-time employment. Therefore, we will be left with no option other than to restrict posting access to repeated offenders in order to maintain the list as an orderly place for our members to discuss everything Apple. Finally, a reminder that it is also unacceptable for members to discuss details of as yet unreleased products or applications if that information is not legally within the public domain. If we receive information that this is happening, and we do encourage members to inform us of any post which they believe to b in breech of list policy, we will firstly follow up that information by initiating our own investigation and, if at the conclusion of that process we believe that the informant was justified in his or her concerns, we will take action. Rest assured that we will protect the anonymity of any informant, as we recognise that their motive was merely to hop us keep the list on policy. So please, don't make it be you who is the first to be placed into moderated mode! We really don't relish the prospect of having to take that kind of action. But be aware please that, if we have to take it, then take it we will! Thank you for your time and understanding. Lynne == Gordon, Lynne And Tracy; supp...@mac-access.net Telephone Support: If you need our help and we cannot resolve your issue via the E-Mail mechanism, you can arrange to call us directly – or we may be able to call you if you prefer, United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada: +1 646 9151493 Australia: +61 38 8205930 Or: +61 39 0284505 Fax: +44 1642 365123 Please Note: All Support Requests By Phone Will Be Handled By Gordon. Follow Us On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/maciosaccess -- --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Re: Announcement, For Immediate Release
Hello everybody We at Mac Access would love to be affiliated with this group. I am posting this on behalf of Marcy who contacted us yesterday. Marcy, I apologise for the delayed response. Life is incredibly hectic for us now that Gordon is back in employment and we are finding it quite a difficult juggling act to fulfil our responsibilities to the group. Anyway, yin order to minimise the delay, I am posting on your behalf. SNIP FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Justin Romack, Fedora Outlier, LLC Phone: 817.727.8542 Email: jus...@fedoraoutlier.com ATLANtA, Georgia (Feb. 27, 2013) -- In conjunction with the release of the first ever multimedia ebook created for the blind, by the blind, Fedora Outlier, LLC, is offering an opportunity to win a free 16GB iPad Mini to those who enter the giveaway and answer the question, What was your biggest challenge when learning to use your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch? Anyone interested in entering can find a registration form and official rules by visiting http://www.oldhatguide.com/giveaway. The book, The Old Hat Guide to iPhone Accessibility, is slated for release sometime next month, and the winner of the iPad Mini will be announced during the company's first Twitter chat, #AccessChat, held on April 2nd at 8:00PM EST. Our team is beaming over the opportunity to share this book with the community, Scott Rumery, a senior partner with the company, said Tuesday. This release is part of the direction we've wanted to head for a long time, so it's exciting to finally release the book and giveaway to the public. Fedora Outlier, LLC, is a nationally-recognized teaching and support firm based in Atlanta, GA, and is one of the first agencies to focus on support and education for the array of accessible devices made available by Apple Incorporated. #AccessChat is the first blindness-oriented Twitter chat committed to highlighting accomplishments and innovations by mainstream developers, assistive technology vendors and educators working with blind and low vision students. For more information about the upcoming book release, the iPad Mini giveaway or Fedora Outlier, LLC, please contact the company's president, VaShaun Jones, at (678) 404-2635, or via email at excelle...@fedoraoutlier.com. ### -- Marcy weinberg Junior Partner Fedora Outlier, LLC Top down, BETTER THAN EXCELLENT ™ consulting, teaching and support http://www.fedoraoutlier.com 888-958-6979 ext.3801 --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Re: Support Reminder: [Was : Airport Express set up with Airport Utility and Voiceover question]
Hi all I'm posting this on behalf of the owner because it looks as though she CC's this message to another group, which you cannot do when posting to Mac Access. So, a gentle reminder. Please do not CC other destinations when sending to this group. It will result in a bounce which will usually just be deleted by us and which, therefore, means that your message does not make the group. if we receive excessive messages of this type from the same originating member, we will place the member into moderation mode which we, not to mention the member themselves, would rather didn't have to happen. But now especially, when we are about to start searching for a responsible person to assist us with list traffic owing to a lack of time on our part, we simply don't need to have to take this type of action. I know that Debbie is new to the group so I'm taking a very liberal view at this time. But I strongly urge that everybody who hasn't done so take a few minutes to familiarise themselve s with the list policy document. It will pay dividends. OK, here's Debbie message: From: Debbie April Yuille debbieyui...@bigpond.com Subject: Airport Express set up with Airport Utility and Voiceover question Date: 2 March 2013 00:27:08 GMT Hi All I'm thingking of getting an Airport Express to use as a wireless range extender. Has anyone managed to set it up completely using the Airport Utility with Voiceover. If so, how usable did you find Voiceover to be and did you require any sighted assistance. Thanks in advance Debbie --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Re: proximity sensor?
Hello all This thread has absolutely no relevance to the topics of this group. Please do not continue this discussion. If you wish too, please take it off list. This group is an Apple discussion forum, not a mobility or other non-Apple group. Your compliance with group policy would be greatly appreciated. Kind regards Mac Access Support == Gordon, Lynne And Tracy; supp...@mac-access.net Telephone Support: If you need our help and we cannot resolve your issue via the E-Mail mechanism, you can arrange to call us directly – or we may be able to call you if you prefer, United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada: +1 646 9151493 Australia: +61 38 8205930 Or: +61 39 0284505 Fax: +44 1642 365123 Please Note: All Support Requests By Phone Will Be Handled By Gordon. Follow Us On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/maciosaccess Mac Access Dot Net; The British Mac Accessibility Network, is a totally non-profit organisation whose aims are to assist and support sensory-impaired people who wish to get the very best out of their Apple products and services. -- --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Those In DDijest Mode
Hi all As you know, we ask everybody to be mindful of subject lines. However, we are getting quite a few messages on list which not only use the digest subject line, but which also contain the entire daily digest of which the message they are responding too is a part. Please try just a little harder for the benefit of your fellow members, and follow the instructions within your digest packet. Your cooperation will be very much appreciated. Gordon == Gordon, Lynne And Tracy; supp...@mac-access.net Telephone Support: If you need our help and we cannot resolve your issue via the E-Mail mechanism, you can arrange to call us directly – or we may be able to call you if you prefer, United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada: +1 646 9151493 Australia: +61 38 8205930 Or: +61 39 0284505 Fax: +44 1642 365123 Please Note: All Support Requests By Phone Will Be Handled By Gordon. Follow Us On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/maciosaccess Mac Access Dot Net; The British Mac Accessibility Network, is a totally non-profit organisation whose aims are to assist and support sensory-impaired people who wish to get the very best out of their Apple products and services. -- --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Reminder Header Removed
OS X group; Windows Discussion is strictly off topic and will no longer be tolerated. Hi all You may recall that at the weekend there was an issue on list where we were seeing a lot of Windows off-topic discussion. At that time, we introduced a header which was prepended to all messages posted to the group reminding members that Windows traffic is not appropriate for this group. We always intended that this would be a temporary measure and, in the light of subsequent events, we have now removed that header. Please all let's work together to make Mac Access a profitable place to be for all members. That means refraining from straying off topic as far as is possible. However, I just wanted to reiterate where we stand on the topic of verbalisation. As we make clear in the list policy document sent to all users, if you wish to discuss the configuration of your Mac-side virtual machine within Fusion, Parallels Desktop, Crossover or whatever verbalisation platform is your preference, that is absolutely fine. Since Fusion, Parallels etc. are Mac applications, you're at perfect liberty to discuss them. Where we draw the line is When it comes to discussing the Windows applications, including screen-readers, within your virtual machines. Those are clearly Windows or guest operating system applications and, unless we're talking here about a virtual instance of VoiceOver, they are off topic. I should also mention in order to curtail any personal ill-feeling which may exist towards us that we never, at any stage, instead to make this a personal issue. It is true that Lynne got a little frustrated over the weekend by certain comments made off list. However, we harbour absolutely no ill-feeling towards anybody. I trust that this message will serve to clarify the position but, if you still have issues which you wish to raise with us, by all means contact us off list and we will do our best to address them for you. As of now though, as far as we are concerned the issue is closed. Yes, we do intend to reduce the softly softly approach a little where breeches occur but we also recognise that sometimes breeches occur inadvertently and we are more than willing to acknowledge that fact. Anyway, you'll notice that there is no longer a reminder header and here's hoping that it can stay that way. Kind regards == Gordon, Lynne And Tracy; supp...@mac-access.net Telephone Support: If you need our help and we cannot resolve your issue via the E-Mail mechanism, you can arrange to call us directly – or we may be able to call you if you prefer, United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada: +1 646 9151493 Australia: +61 38 8205930 Or: +61 39 0284505 Fax: +44 1642 365123 Please Note: All Support Requests By Phone Will Be Handled By Gordon. Follow Us On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/maciosaccess Mac Access Dot Net; The British Mac Accessibility Network, is a totally non-profit organisation whose aims are to assist and support sensory-impaired people who wish to get the very best out of their Apple products and services. -- --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
off Topic, please discontinue; [Was Re: Windows Fusion questions]
This question is off topic for this group. Please do not continue this thread. Lynne == Gordon, Lynne And Tracy; supp...@mac-access.net Telephone Support: If you need our help and we cannot resolve your issue via the E-Mail mechanism, you can arrange to call us directly – or we may be able to call you if you prefer, United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada: +1 646 9151493 Australia: +61 38 8205930 Or: +61 39 0284505 Fax: +44 1642 365123 Please Note: All Support Requests By Phone Will Be Handled By Gordon. Follow Us On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/maciosaccess Mac Access Dot Net; The British Mac Accessibility Network, is a totally non-profit organisation whose aims are to assist and support sensory-impaired people who wish to get the very best out of their Apple products and services. -- --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
This Is The Final Reminder: [Was how to install JAWS on a mac using VM fusion and windows 7]
Hello everybody Please refrain from discussing Windows material on this list. Be aware that this is a Mac group and, as is clearly stated in the list policy document which every member was sent upon subscription to this group, we do not accept the discussion of Windows configurations or any other non-Apple material. Please don't take this in any way personally. But we have to implement list policy strictly otherwise we would find the group rapidly losing members. We do not want this group to follow so many others which have fallen into kayos because they permit anything at all regardless of topical guidelines. So, if you wouldn't mind, please do not continue this thread. Anybody who responds to this thread with advice pertaining to Windows is equally at fault here. Unfortunately we are going to have to come down hard on repeated offenders. Please don't make that something we have to do here because we really don't want to do it. But we must stress very strongly the need for this group to be disciplined for the good of the group as a whole. We know that there are members who are really tired of this sort of reminder being posted and equally tired of the Windows stuff being raised. So let's try not to have this happen again, please! The next person to offend in this way will most likely fi nd themselves in moderation. It's true that the configuration of a virtual environment is a bit of a grey area. However, we do clarify this in the list policy document. We just don't know what else we can do to persuade people to comply! I'm sorry to sound so harsh, but this really is becoming a very tedious reminder to have to post. Everybody was sent the list policy document, so we cannot accept I didn't know, or ignorance as an excuse. If the member concerned did not bother to read the list policy document when they joined, that isn't our fault. So please, everybody, no more Windows questions. This really is not the place. Ask about Fusion, Parallels, things like that, by all means. But definitely not Jaws, Window-Eyes, NVDA and all the rest of it. It's off topic and won't be tolerated any longer. To clarify, just one more time. You can discuss how to set up your virtual machine. You can discuss how to configure VoiceOver or anything else on the Mac side. But the configuration of Windows or any other non-Apple applications within a non-Apple guest operating system is definitely, absolutely most definitely, off topic. Again, this is nothing personal, but this is the final reminder we will post to the group. The next person to re-offend in this way goes into moderation mode. That option is outlined in the list policy document which, if you didn't read it when you were sent your welcome pack, you may view at any time by browsing to http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/Mac-Access-Welcome.html Alright, that's the end of the final reminder. Yet again I am sorry to sound harsh; but we simply don't have the time, let alone the patience, to keep posting gentle reminders to this effect over and over again. Clearly the message is not getting through. So next time, there's no warning, it will just be actioned. If you wish to discuss this with us off list, by all means feel free to contact us at supp...@mac-access.net and we will try to explain a little I am deliberately not quoting Laurel's post below because I don't want there to be anything personal. This is a general group reminder, and it's the final time it will be posted. Thank you for your understanding. --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Just a gentle little reminder
Hi all We have several new members who have joined since we last posted on this topic. So here's just a gentle reminder, which won't be repeated on list too frequently I promise you.. Please put a bit of thought into your subject lines. We've had some pretty meaningless ones lately which don't help others to help the person with the problem or question. I will not nam names or point the finger at any individual, this is just a general gentle reminder. If you keep your subject lines topical and, throughout the course of a thread, if the thread wanders away from the initial subject line, it's down to everybody who responds to take responsibility for making sure that their subject line is relevant to what is being discussed in the response. This kind of good procedural behaviour would make a huge difference to searching power in the list archives, not to mention save people the bother of opening messages in which they have no interest. So, please everybody, can we all try just a tiny little bit harder please to take responsibility and not just automatically hit the send button after a totally off topic response. Let's start the new year in a good way and, by doing so, help one another to help one another, if you get my meaning. I am aware that 99.999% of members probably couldn't be bothered to read the list policy document that they were sent upon successfully subscribing to the group. This is an unfortunate fact. We are looking into ways to try and improve that percentage. If you are interested in reading the official list policy document, you can always find the most up-to-date and, therefore, the currently applicable policy document at this URL: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/Mac-Access-Welcome.html Thank you for your time and, even more importantly, thank you for your cooperation. Gordon == Gordon, Lynne And Tracy; supp...@mac-access.net Telephone Support: If you need our help and we cannot resolve your issue via the E-Mail mechanism, you can arrange to call us directly – or we may be able to call you if you prefer, United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada: +1 646 9151493 Australia: +61 38 8205930 Or: +61 39 0284505 Fax: +44 1642 365123 Please Note: All Support Requests By Phone Will Be Handled By Gordon. Follow Us On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/maciosaccess Mac Access Dot Net; The British Mac Accessibility Network, is a totally non-profit organisation whose aims are to assist and support sensory-impaired people who wish to get the very best out of their Apple products and services. -- --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Re: an introduction
Hi all Just a reminder. Please do not respond just to say Hello and welcome. This is nothing personal but it would be appreciated if you would reply to intro messages privately if you just wish to welcome the new member. I have actually done that on this occasion. Thank you for your understanding. Gordon == Gordon, Lynne And Tracy; supp...@mac-access.net Telephone Support: If you need our help and we cannot resolve your issue via the E-Mail mechanism, you can arrange to call us directly – or we may be able to call you if you prefer, United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada: +1 646 9151493 Australia: +61 38 8205930 Or: +61 39 0284505 Fax: +44 1642 365123 Please Note: All Support Requests By Phone Will Be Handled By Gordon. Follow Us On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/maciosaccess Mac Access Dot Net; The British Mac Accessibility Network, is a totally non-profit organisation whose aims are to assist and support sensory-impaired people who wish to get the very best out of their Apple products and services. -- --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
New Members Welcome
Hello everybody Recently we have not posted these welcome messages, because we've had so many new members join and some leave, and we felt it would have been tedious to continually post new member welcomes and group members would have been justifiably irritated by them. However, we feel that the time has come to post just one of them so that new members may know what we have to offer besides just list membership. So we hope that the rest of the group will tolerate just one new member welcome message. Important: Please do not reply to this message on list. If you wish to comment, please contact Mac Access Support or the new member personally. It was, until recently, traditional when new members join the Mac Access Dot Net email forum that Gordon, Tracy and I try to welcome the new member(s) personally. In keeping with that tradition, we are delighted to welcome Judy Pryor to our number. We are gratified by the fact that Mac Access is growing globally. We hope that you will find Mac-Access@mac-access.net a pleasant, friendly and worthwhile place to be. In here you will find a wealth of knowledge, and people with a variety of skill levels ranging from the total novice, to the application developers with advanced skills. Then there are those who don't yet own an Apple device, but have a keen interest; and those who just use iOS devices but who are keen enthusiasts. We hope you will feel free to post your questions and constructive comment, whatever your skill levels may be. Be assured, there will be none of the ridiculing and flaming which we know takes place in other groups. That kind of behaviour is not tolerated in Mac-Access. Anything Mac OS and iOS is on topic for this group. In the case of virtualisation applications such as Fusion and Parallels Desktop, the configuration of the applications themselves, plus the configuration of the virtual machines is on topic. However, the configuration of Windows or any other operating systems within that virtual machine is off topic. The exception to that is if you're using another instance of OSX within the virtual machine. This has always been a bit of a grey area; but we hope this clarifies the position. We should also make clear the fact that Apple's Windows applications are off topic for this group. This is strictly an iOS and Mac OS discussion forum. If you have any list-related queries, please do not hesitate to contact Tracy, Gordon and myself, (the list owners), at supp...@mac-access.net and we will be happy to help you. Finally, I thought you might like to know that currently we are offering all Mac-Access. members the opportunity to purchase the Take Control Of Your Mac publications, published by Tidbits.com, at an 80% discount. If you want to know more, please contact the above support address. For a listing of the books available please visit: http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/catalog Don't buy from there, get back to us with a list of books or the name of the book that interests you and we'll tell you how to proceed. We should make it clear that under the current rules, group members must have ben, and agree to remain a member of Mac Access for a period of no less than 28 days prior to their first purchase and subsequent from their current purchase. This rule now exists because, sadly, we were getting some members joining to exploit the system and then leave. Once again, a very warm welcome to the group. We hope you find your membership an enjoyable, instructive and stimulating experience. Season's greetings to all members. Lynne == Gordon, Lynne And Tracy; supp...@mac-access.net Telephone Support: If you need our help and we cannot resolve your issue via the E-Mail mechanism, you can arrange to call us directly – or we may be able to call you if you prefer, United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada: +1 646 9151493 Australia: +61 38 8205930 Or: +61 39 0284505 Fax: +44 1642 365123 Please Note: All Support Requests By Phone Will Be Handled By Gordon. Follow Us On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/maciosaccess Mac Access Dot Net; The British Mac Accessibility Network, is a totally non-profit organisation whose aims are to assist and support sensory-impaired people who wish to get the very best out of their Apple products and services. -- --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing
Re: People: Please Stops Forwarding Messages!
Hello Chris I would prefer to discuss this off list if that's alright. However, I'm going to answer your questions on this one occasion. if you wish to continue the discussion, that is fine. Please use the support address: supp...@mac-access.net and we will be happy to discuss with you, same goes for anybody. There is a very good reason behind the policy of not allowing forwarded messages. Actually, there are more than one; but I'll try and keep this brief. Firstly, Mac Access was established as an independent group, where people don't have to tolerate all of the issues which happen elsewhere. We do not wish to be seen as a Dumping Ground for all of that stuff which appears on similar groups. That issue is the most common reason why members who leave this group have given for doing so. They just don't want to see echoes of traffic. Further, we are very aware that many of our European and Australian members are restricted in terms of their broadband throughput. We do not think it is fair that they should have to download the same stuff over and over again. That is why we request that people remove the headers from anything they send to the group. We make very clear our policies in the policy document which we send everybody upon their subscription to this group. ignorance isn't an excuse. If people don't read the document that isn't our fault. Further, it is always available here: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/Mac-Access-Welcome.html so anybody can view that document at any time. It would appear though, and I am sorry to have to say this, that the Softly Softly approach where we ask for cooperation is not working. People are simply ignoring our requests. So, when we get time, it's going to be enforced. Our technical person will sort that out. But we feel that the Softly Softly approach, where we simply issue a gentle reminder, is just not working. So henceforth, persistent offenders will be placed into moderation mode. We'd rather not do that as our life style is now very busy. But it seems we have little option. Like it or not, the policy document is going to be more rigorously enforced for the good of the group as a whole. If people which to send information to our group regarding something they think people should know about, all they need to do is write to us first and then, on the assumption that their message is okayed and the relevant consent obtained from the original author, wee will advise them as to how to proceed. That's all I want to say on list. If you wish to discuss this further, feel free to use the above reply address. Lynne On 9 Dec 2012, at 02:45, Christopher-Mark Gilland ch...@clgproductions.com wrote: I don't mean to be rude, please don't take it as such, and if I seem a bit snappy, please know, that there have been otherpet peavs tonight which have done by far and away more than tick the heck outta me, so just know before I ask this, I am not trying to sound rude, if I do. What exactly though is the point of not forwarding msgs to the list? I mean, the way I see it is, if there is useful information, then it may be worth others to read. Also, Gordon, don't take this rudely, but from an i t tech standpoint, as I am i t certified, allow me to remind you something that you probably didn't consider. Remember that copy and paste is a really nice thing. Also, I don't think it's gonna be possible to filter forwards, mainly for the reason that you could make a script, or filter, or server sided c g i, or php or whatever script to handle this by means of a boolien statement while loop, that says if this variable is true, then, delete the message, else, let it through. Then in the variable, you could say something like let variable=fw or fwd but even doing this could easily be hacked. People easily could either delete f w / fwd out of the subject field. Boom! There went your filter. Or, they could delete the forward indicator, fw, fwd, whatever, out of the subject, then could even go as far as to then just grab the mail to be forwarded, do a select all in the body, compose a new mail with command+n, type the list address, tab to the subject, call it whatever, tab to the body, and command+V, then delete the person's name from the bottom, put their name in place instead, then command+shift+D to send it off, and for all everyone else knows, it wasn't even a forward to start with. It would look as if they themselves typed it from scratch. The bottom line is, I don't see much point in this polacy, as though I understand maybe it not being good netiquet, you! all have to understand that trying to not allow this probably is gonna be very difficult to implement at best. I didn't say you and Lynn had to agree with my opinion, but at least consider it. I think you'll find, much as you both hate admitting it, I do have a very very valid point. == Gordon, Lynne And Tracy; supp...@mac-access.net
People: Please Stops Forwarding Messages!
It has come to our attention that the practice of forwarding messages to this group is still happening, despite our repeated requests for people to desist. Forwarding messages to this group is not within our list policy. We've made this clear time and time again, but people just take no notice it seems. OK, people may forget, but it seems i'm going to have to reinforce my efforts to develop filters to prevent forwarding. I didn't want to have to do this because I had hoped for member co-operating. Everybody, without exception, agreed to abide by the list policy document which they were sent, by virtue of the fact that they remained a member of this group. However, it seems that people are either being forgetful or just disregarding our requests not to forward. OK, so this was done in the best of spirit, that isn't in dispute. But it contravenes list policy. So, I'm gong to have to find the time to develop a mechanism to prevent forwarding. I don't mean to in any way victimise anybody, nor do I mean to vilify anybody. However, this has to stop! So please, all, abide by the policy document which you were sent upon joining. If you have lost, deliberately deleted or simply didn't read that document and you'd like too, you can always find the latest revision of it here: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/Mac-Access-Welcome.html Meanwhile, I will redouble my efforts to enforce compliance unilaterally. Gordon == Gordon, Lynne And Tracy; supp...@mac-access.net Telephone Support: If you need our help and we cannot resolve your issue via the E-Mail mechanism, you can arrange to call us directly – or we may be able to call you if you prefer, United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada: +1 646 9151493 Australia: +61 38 8205930 Or: +61 39 0284505 Fax: +44 1642 365123 Please Note: All Support Requests By Phone Will Be Handled By Gordon. Follow Us On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/maciosaccess Mac Access Dot Net; The British Mac Accessibility Network, is a totally non-profit organisation whose aims are to assist and support sensory-impaired people who wish to get the very best out of their Apple products and services. -- --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Policy Reminder; [Getting To Know You]
Hello everybody This is only a gentle reminder. Whilst we have not, in recent times, posted our personal welcome messages to Mac Access when new members join and reveal their names, we would request that people please not follow up on initial introduction messages on list by new members. We discontinued the policy of sending personal welcome messages, against our preference, when we began receiving private complaints from members regarding them. We will review that policy again if list members think it a good idea). However, in the light of the complaints which we received earlier this year, may I ask that should you wish to personally welcome a new member to the group, you please do so privately. This is not intended as a rebuke, a snug, and definitely not as an attempt to dictate, of which we have been accused by mostly now former members in the past. We are merely attempting to minimise the amount of off-topic messages in this forum which members have to wade through as traffic on the list is now far higher than it used to be. Again, if members believe that we, as the owners and administrators of Mac Access, should resume our former policy of issuing a personal welcome message when a new member joins the group, then do by all means drop us a line privately. The address to contact is supp...@mac-access.net and we welcome your input, as always, on this or any other group-related policy. This group exists for the sole purpose of helping the community of Mac OS, iOS and accessibility tools users and we always welcome your constructive input regarding list policy as long as it is sent to us privately. Tracy, Gordon and I would like to make it clear that we are, and always will be, approachable to group members and that we do listen to your views. We may not always be able to implement them but, if you have any suggestions regarding group policy, please write to us at the above address and explain why you think your suggestion would be to the benefit of the group as a whole. Please understand that the reason we discourage public Getting To Know You type messages is that we try to maintain the list archives as well as the list itself with topical discussion being the only form of traffic. This is in no way personal as I said earlier, and I sincerely hope nobody will take it as such. It is merely a gentle reminder for the good of the group. As one of the characters in a favourite movie of Gordon's once said: The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few; or the one!. Thank you kindly for your cooperation and understanding. Lynne == Gordon, Lynne And Tracy; supp...@mac-access.net Telephone Support: If you need our help and we cannot resolve your issue via the E-Mail mechanism, you can arrange to call us directly – or we may be able to call you if you prefer, United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada: +1 646 9151493 Australia: +61 38 8205930 Or: +61 39 0284505 Fax: +44 1642 365123 Please Note: All Support Requests By Phone Will Be Handled By Gordon. Follow Us On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/maciosaccess Mac Access Dot Net; The British Mac Accessibility Network, is a totally non-profit organisation whose aims are to assist and support sensory-impaired people who wish to get the very best out of their Apple products and services. -- --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Re: Patricia's Post
Hi Patricia and all Patricia, we had to forward your post to the list because the server interpreted your subject line, help as an administrative syntactical command. Please avoid using subject lines like help because in future we will be rejecting messages like that without notification. I know it was innocent and you didn't mean any harm, which is why I opted to let this one through. But from now on we won't be doing so. This is to cut down the amount of time I have to spend each day on list admin. Your cooperation would be appreciated. Gordon On 20 Nov 2012, at 17:13, Patricia Taylor zaylyiala...@talktalk.net wrote: hi all the apps you are talking about , being novice with Apple system how can I get any apps onto my iPhone do I have to attach it to my iMac? Any help will be gratefully received it is helping me quietest deal with understanding our Apple system by reading your email thanks again folks zaylyiala...@talktalk.net The past is history the future is a mystery the pressants is a gift . --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/ == Gordon, Lynne And Tracy; supp...@mac-access.net Telephone Support: If you need our help and we cannot resolve your issue via the E-Mail mechanism, you can arrange to call us directly – or we may be able to call you if you prefer, United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada: +1 646 9151493 Australia: +61 38 8205930 Or: +61 39 0284505 Fax: +44 1642 365123 Please Note: All Support Requests By Phone Will Be Handled By Gordon. Follow Us On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/maciosaccess Mac Access Dot Net; The British Mac Accessibility Network, is a totally non-profit organisation whose aims are to assist and support sensory-impaired people who wish to get the very best out of their Apple products and services. -- --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
List Behaviour
Hello everybody We have received a notification that certain list members are now writing to others and telling them how they should and should not behave on list. Furthermore, they are recommending that the member in question first asks on another list. We would like to make it clear that it is not acceptable for list members to dictate to others how they should behave on list. That, as list owners and moderators, is our job and nobody els's. So, would those people who are doing this please refrain from doing so. If you have problems with the actions of another list member, please bring the matter to our attention rather than approaching the person directly. It isn't the job of any third party to tell others not to ask for help on list. Your cooperation would be very much appreciated. Again, if you have concerns regarding another group member, please approach us and do not take it up with them. We define list policy; nobody else has that function. Thank you. Lynne == Gordon, Lynne And Tracy; supp...@mac-access.net Telephone Support: If you need our help and we cannot resolve your issue via the E-Mail mechanism, you can arrange to call us directly – or we may be able to call you if you prefer, United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada: +1 646 9151493 Australia: +61 38 8205930 Or: +61 39 0284505 Fax: +44 1642 365123 Please Note: All Support Requests By Phone Will Be Handled By Gordon. Follow Us On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/maciosaccess Mac Access Dot Net; The British Mac Accessibility Network, is a totally non-profit organisation whose aims are to assist and support sensory-impaired people who wish to get the very best out of their Apple products and services. -- --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Re: List Policy gentle reminder, [Was: Accessible DVR]
Can't you use any of NCH Software's video tools, in conjunction with Air Play? By the way folks, just a gentle reminder. You are all quoting entire threads here plus everybody's lengthy signatures over and over and over again. Please let's all try to stop being quite so lazy when responding to messages. You'd also make it easier on your friendly list administrators as we wouldn't have to explain quite so many bounced messages to their authors. There is a 40K size restriction on messages to this group, and we see no reason to increase that value. After all, the actual response is only usually a couple of sentences at most, so why waste all that throughput? Sorry to harp on about this kind of thing but it was stipulated in the list policy document which you were all sent upon subscribing. By virtue of the fact that you're still here, you were deemed to have agreed with that policy document. In case you didn't read it, you can find that document at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/Mac-Access-Welcome.html This is nothing personal, but let's all please try just that little bit harder to play fair with those members who have capped data throughput. We have lost a number of members recently because of this problem so we are keen to see it resolved. Thanks for your understanding. Gordon == Gordon, Lynne And Tracy; supp...@mac-access.net Telephone Support: If you need our help and we cannot resolve your issue via the E-Mail mechanism, you can arrange to call us directly – or we may be able to call you if you prefer, United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada: +1 646 9151493 Australia: +61 38 8205930 Or: +61 39 0284505 Fax: +44 1642 365123 Please Note: All Support Requests By Phone Will Be Handled By Gordon. Follow Us On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/maciosaccess Mac Access Dot Net; The British Mac Accessibility Network, is a totally non-profit organisation whose aims are to assist and support sensory-impaired people who wish to get the very best out of their Apple products and services. -- --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Re: Microsoft to Close Messenger and consolidate Im Services on Skype
William This is not a Mac issue as such. Please also be mindful of list policy, messages should not be forwarded from one group to another. == Gordon, Lynne And Tracy; supp...@mac-access.net Telephone Support: If you need our help and we cannot resolve your issue via the E-Mail mechanism, you can arrange to call us directly – or we may be able to call you if you prefer, United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada: +1 646 9151493 Australia: +61 38 8205930 Or: +61 39 0284505 Fax: +44 1642 365123 Please Note: All Support Requests By Phone Will Be Handled By Gordon. Follow Us On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/maciosaccess Mac Access Dot Net; The British Mac Accessibility Network, is a totally non-profit organisation whose aims are to assist and support sensory-impaired people who wish to get the very best out of their Apple products and services. -- --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
iOS6.1
Hi all I probably don't need to post this, but I'm going to do so just to cover our backs. :) The topic of iOS6.1 is not open for discussion or debate within this forum until Apple sees fit to release the product and or information into the public domain. I'm not interested in how many people may care to speculate on the subject or release hacked versions into torrents or newsgroups. This forum is not to be used in that fashion. But as of now the thread is closed until release time. Thank you for your cooperation. Gordon Dónal acted entirely innocently and we have discussed that privately. == Gordon, Lynne And Tracy; supp...@mac-access.net Telephone Support: If you need our help and we cannot resolve your issue via the E-Mail mechanism, you can arrange to call us directly – or we may be able to call you if you prefer, United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada: +1 646 9151493 Australia: +61 38 8205930 Or: +61 39 0284505 Fax: +44 1642 365123 Please Note: All Support Requests By Phone Will Be Handled By Gordon. Follow Us On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/maciosaccess Mac Access Dot Net; The British Mac Accessibility Network, is a totally non-profit organisation whose aims are to assist and support sensory-impaired people who wish to get the very best out of their Apple products and services. -- --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Re: Take Control; A Question
Hello Esther Oopse! I totally forgot about that URL. It was actually created when Gordon talked with Adam on this subject a while ago. Lynne, hanging her head in shame and embarrassment! Thank you for saving me an awful lot of unnecessary work Esther. Lynne On 26 Oct 2012, at 19:31, Esther mori...@mac-access.net wrote: Hi Lynne, Wayne, Jim, and Others, There is a more accessible version of the catalog of Take Control titles at their web site. I'll just excerpt from the end of the reply I wrote to Mark yesterday (on the subject of upgrading to Lion): For a more accessible list of their titles than the default Take Control catalog list display provides, check out this URL: http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/catalog-accessible The table columns are simpler to negotiate with VoiceOver, and you can just activate links of titles you want to view in more detail with VO-Space or by pressing your up + down arrow keys if you're in QuickNav mode. Does this work for people? HTH. Cheers, Esther On Oct 25, 2012, at 10:20 PM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith ly...@mac-access.net wrote: Hello everybody Those interested in the Take Control titles, could you please answer me a question? Would anybody find it beneficial if I were to create an accessible catalogue of the Take Control titles and put it up on our website? This is a huge ask, but I'm willing to do it if there is a need. We will also clear it with the publishers of course. Lynne --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/ == Gordon, Lynne And Tracy; supp...@mac-access.net Telephone Support: If you need our help and we cannot resolve your issue via the E-Mail mechanism, you can arrange to call us directly – or we may be able to call you if you prefer, United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada: +1 646 9151493 Australia: +61 38 8205930 Or: +61 39 0284505 Fax: +44 1642 365123 Please Note: All Support Requests By Phone Will Be Handled By Gordon. Follow Us On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/maciosaccess Mac Access Dot Net; The British Mac Accessibility Network, is a totally non-profit organisation whose aims are to assist and support sensory-impaired people who wish to get the very best out of their Apple products and services. -- --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
New Take Control Title Available
Hello everybody There is a new Take Control book available for purchase if anybody is interested. Take Control of Safari 6 is a 143-page book which helps you to get the best out of Safari. It may also provide tips on configuration, although I need to stress that this does not make any reference to VoiceOver, although as I say it may provide information which would help. If you're interested, please contact your usual distributor. If you wish to go via Travis, that is fine. However, if you wish to use our bookshelf facility, you'll find it easier to use supp...@mac-access.net regardless of whether you're in the US or anywhere else. Lynne == Gordon, Lynne And Tracy; supp...@mac-access.net Telephone Support: If you need our help and we cannot resolve your issue via the E-Mail mechanism, you can arrange to call us directly – or we may be able to call you if you prefer, United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada: +1 646 9151493 Australia: +61 38 8205930 Or: +61 39 0284505 Fax: +44 1642 365123 Please Note: All Support Requests By Phone Will Be Handled By Gordon. Follow Us On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/maciosaccess Mac Access Dot Net; The British Mac Accessibility Network, is a totally non-profit organisation whose aims are to assist and support sensory-impaired people who wish to get the very best out of their Apple products and services. -- --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Calling Support
Hi all Somebody is calling our support number from the Greater Manchester area here in the UK. If that person is a member of this group, could I ask that they please contact us via E-Mail to arrange a call time. This is what we always prefer so that we can keep the support at the most efficient level. After all, it is a free phone number, for the caller. We pay for the call, so it is in our interests to make sure it is used to the maximum efficiency. Thanks for your understanding. == Gordon, Lynne And Tracy; supp...@mac-access.net Telephone Support: If you need our help, you can call us directly by prior arrangement; email is always the preferred first port of call So, after agreeing a time and date to call, use the following telephone access depending upon where you are in the world:. United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada: +1 646 9151493 Australia: +61 38 8205930 Fax: +44 1642 365123 Please Note: All Support Requests By Phone Will Be Handled By Gordon. Follow Us On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/maciosaccess Mac Access Dot Net; The British Mac Accessibility Network, is a totally non-profit organisation whose aims are to assist and support sensory-impaired people who wish to get the very best out of their Apple products and services. -- --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Deep Message Quoting: Was learning ally troubles again
People This thread is in serious danger of exceeding the 40K message sized limitation. Just a reminder: Please do not quote multiple messages in a chain. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation. Gordon == Gordon, Lynne And Tracy; supp...@mac-access.net Telephone Support: If you need our help, you can call us directly. If you have a SIP phone, just dial supp...@mac-access.net United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada:S.: +1 646 9151493 Australia: +61 38 8205930 Fax: +44 1642 365123 Please Note: All Support Requests By Phone Will Be Handled By Gordon. Follow Us On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/@maciosaccess Mac Access Dot Net; The British Mac Accessibility Network, is a totally non-profit organisation whose aims are to assist and support sensory-impaired people who wish to get the very best out of their Apple products and services. -- --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Re: Mac-Access Digest, Vol 883, Issue 3
You can change this via the list's web interface at your personal subscriber page. This is listed at the foot of every message posted to the group. If you still require further assistance please contact us off list: supp...@mac-access.net and we will try to help you. Please let us have as much information as you can regarding your issue. The most important being the email address whose subscriber options you wish to modify. Lynne On 30 Sep 2012, at 17:01, wayne coles wayne...@gmail.com wrote: Hello is there a way that i can change from the digest to receiving all the lists email thanks in advance ---wayne coles--Original Message- From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net [mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of mac-access-requ...@mac-access.net Sent: 30 September 2012 07:04 To: mac-access@mac-access.net Subject: Mac-Access Digest, Vol 883, Issue 3 Send Mac-Access mailing list submissions to mac-access@mac-access.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to mac-access-requ...@mac-access.net You can reach the person managing the list at mac-access-ow...@mac-access.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Mac-Access digest... ___ This is the daily digest of messages posted to the Mac-Access E-Mail forum. Today's Topics: 1. Re: Rumola is unique! Rumola beats the CAPTCHA test! (Sarah Alawami) 2. Re: Rumola is unique! Rumola beats the CAPTCHA test! (Courtney Curran) 3. Re: Have any of you used this app? (Diane Bomar) 4. Re: My Thoughts on the Mac Accessibility was RE: Making The Most OfYour Accessible Tools; A Passionate Rant [Was so wish apple had done this] (Shaun Oliver) 5. Making The Most Of Your Accessible Tools; A Passionate Rant [Was so wish apple had done this] (Lyn her faithful furry friends) -- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 20:55:05 -0700 From: Sarah Alawami marri...@gmail.com To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility mac-access@mac-access.net Subject: Re: Rumola is unique! Rumola beats the CAPTCHA test! Message-ID: 40a6e2fe-0a5c-4527-8a84-6b2625a00...@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Odd. Mine came up with an error which I sent to you over twitter. Will try it out and see if the page just made a mistake. or what ever. Tc all. On Sep 29, 2012, at 7:50 PM, Orin orin8...@gmail.com wrote: Yes it does work under safari six. Even though the page said that, i tried it anyway. Orin orin8...@gmail.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/orinks Skype: orin1112 On Sep 29, 2012, at 10:48 PM, Sarah Alawami marri...@gmail.com wrote: Unfortunitally I cannot try this as it says that the browser (safari 6) is not supported at this time but those of you using firefox nightly can tell us using safari if it works or not. Be blessed. http://skipinput.com/ --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/ --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/ -- Message: 2 Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 23:58:13 -0400 From: Courtney Curran moopiecur...@gmail.com To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility mac-access@mac-access.net Subject: Re: Rumola is unique! Rumola beats the CAPTCHA test! Message-ID: -3218708197362626193@unknownmsgid Content-Type: text/plain;
Re: Windows 7 bootcamp installation guide
Hello Phil Since this isn't really on topic for Mac Access, and I will explain why, it really isn't a thread for this group. The reason this isn't on topic is that Windows 7 installation under Boot Camp is exactly the same as Windows 7 installation on your PC. Therefore, in no respect other than the fact that the hardware platform happens to be Apple, is this a Mac related topic. I'm sorry to be so strict, but we cannot afford to have this kind of traffic populating the group as we are Mac OS and iOS only. Configuration of Boot Camp itself is on topic; but *not* the installation of Windows. By all means join our sister groups, Techno-Chat and Windows-Access and discuss these topics if you wish. Lynne == Gordon, Lynne And Tracy; supp...@mac-access.net Telephone Support: If you need our help, you can call us directly. United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada:S.: +1 646 9151493 Australia: +61 38 8205930 Fax: +44 1642 365123 Please Note: All Support Requests By Phone Will Be Handled By Gordon. Follow Us On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/@maciosaccess Mac Access Dot Net; The British Mac Accessibility Network, is a totally non-profit organisation whose aims are to assist and support sensory-impaired people who wish to get the very best out of their Apple products and services. -- On 24 Sep 2012, at 19:42, Phil Halton philh...@comcast.net wrote: Would anyone on list who has installed windows7 via bootcamp care to write up a little guide for those of us who are about to take the plunge? It wouldn't have to be anything too elaborate. I'd just like to know what I'm getting into before wading in. Particularly, what is the step-by-step procedure, and at what points will I be in need of sighted assistance? I plan to install windows 7 64-bit edition on a late 2011 iMac QuadCore I5 with 8gb ram and 500GB HD. Is this something I can do without sighted assistance? --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Please Read: Mac Access Dot Net Former Partner Is No More! | Mac Access Dot Net
Hi all First, publicly for the first time, happy birthday Lynne. OK, I'm off topic. But now, the sad bit. If you remember us announcing a software partnership for Mac Access. Please visit the below URL which will take you to our blog if you'd like to know what has happened: http://mac-ios-access.net/2012/09/23/mac-access-dot-net-former-partner-is-no-more/ == Gordon, Lynne And Tracy; If you need to contact us by telephone, please do so by prior arrangement only. Use the below E-Mail address to request such an arrangement: supp...@mac-access.net Telephone Support: If you need our help, you can call us directly. United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada:S.: +1 646 9151493 Australia: +61 38 8205930 Fax: +44 1642 365123 Please Note: All Support Requests By Phone Will Be Handled By Gordon. Follow Us On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/@maciosaccess -- --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Re: Please Read: Mac Access Dot Net Former Partner Is No More! | Mac Access Dot Net
Hi Zack I doubt it, but it's possible. The domain hasn't been registered in quite a while now according to the whois databases. Gordon == Gordon, Lynne And Tracy; supp...@mac-access.net Telephone Support: If you need our help, you can call us directly. If you have a SIP phone, just dial supp...@mac-access.net United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada:S.: +1 646 9151493 Australia: +61 38 8205930 Fax: +44 1642 365123 Please Note: All Support Requests By Phone Will Be Handled By Gordon. Follow Us On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/@maciosaccess -- --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Re: Wake-Up Call: [Was my last message]
Hi Sarah Thank you for clarifying this. Had you not done so I would probably have suspended your list membership at the very least! OK, we'll put this down to a mistake. Please take more care in future though if you wouldn't mind. Always check the To and CC and BCC fields (If they are visible to you, I think they are hidden by default) before you hit the Send button. Things like Oh, I was tired, Oh, I'd had a couple of jars, don't excuse carelessness. However, I sense your obvious embarrassment so I will lessen the pain for you by refraining from further lectures on the subject of taking care when posting. :) I hope that this serves as a Wake-Up call for all those who let their fingers do the talking, as the old UK advertisement for Yellow Pages, the business phone directory) used to say. In other words, those who type so fast and don't always error check, resulting in lots of errors and the occasional howler. :) Gordon == Gordon, Lynne And Tracy; supp...@mac-access.net Telephone Support: If you need our help, you can call us directly. If you have a SIP phone, just dial supp...@mac-access.net United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada:S.: +1 646 9151493 Australia: +61 38 8205930 Fax: +44 1642 365123 Please Note: All Support Requests By Phone Will Be Handled By Gordon. Follow Us On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/@maciosaccess -- On 14 Sep 2012, at 02:48, Sarah Alawami marri...@gmail.com wrote: Ok. I have no idea how this happened, how ever I was trying to send a message to my spam reporting service I use called spam cop for those who use it. I think I've not gotten enough sleep as that report went to the list instead. I could just melt in to the nearest hole and die right now. I think I need to get some sleep or slow down as I never intended to send such a message. I hope you all will forgive me and I hope that this will *never* happen again. --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Introduction and a question about turning screen off on a MacBook Air
For some reason this bounced, so I'm forwarding it on in the hope that Debbie's posts will be alright in the future. Begin forwarded message: Hi All I've just joined this list as I'm intending to purchase a MacBook Air soon. I'd like to know the command to disable the screen as I will be using Voiceover and won't be looking at it much. Many thanks Debbie This message was written using 100% recycled electrons. Gordon, Lynne Tracy supp...@mac-access.net Follow us on Twitter: @maciosaccess --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Typically Topical; Get The Joke?
at Mac Access shouldn't really have to handle for you when it's so easy to do it yourself. Of course, and I cannot stress this enough; we are always willing to help you should you encounter difficulties and you cannot resolve them unaided. But where possible please please try a little tiny bit harder to save us time. We do a great deal of work in order to try and maintain this list's integrity. Every day we encounter spam at tacks which we have to block or take other remedial actions to rebut. The list's in-built defence mechanism is quite robust, but not perfect. But it would make our job just that little bit easier if users could take the time to try and resolve their own issues. That's why their web pages exist. :) Thank you for your time. If you wish to comment on this topic, please write to us off list: supp...@mac-access.net and we will be happy to discuss this with you. Lynne This message was written using 100% recycled electrons. Gordon, Lynne Tracy supp...@mac-access.net Follow us on Twitter: @maciosaccess -- --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Support; [Please Read]; Just another gentle reminder
Hello everybody First off all, I would like to take this opportunity to bulk welcome the twenty plus new members who have joined this group in the last couple of weeks. Lynne is currently away, and she's the one who generally tries religiously where the information exists to welcome new members personally. On behalf of Mac Access Dot Net, however, I would like to welcome you all and I hope you find your membership of this group to be of value. Now, to the reminder. Pleas let's all try just a little tiny big harder to keep subject lines current. I know that, as thread topics vary, the subject lines often get forgotten about and, subsequently, messages which could be helpful to members, or which members could contribute helpful input, all get trashed or overlooked because the member in question doesn't think that the subject under discussion is of any interest to them. The other reason for maintaining subject lines is the list archives. The search options become far less efficient, whether you op to use the archive which we maintain here or the public list archive, it is more difficult to search for valuable information if the subject line of a message or thread is inappropriate. This is actually specified within the list policy document that every member received upon joining this group. If you would like to check it at any time, you can always find the most up-to-date version of that document at the following URL: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/Mac-Access-Welcome.html On behalf of Mac Access Dot Net, I would like to thank those users who do take the time to keep their subject lines current. We appreciate your diligence very much, and encourage others to follow suit. This is not intended in any way as a rebuke. Nor is it a personal reprimand towards any individual in this group. It's merely a gentle and general reminder, request, call it what you will. We believe it is for the benefit of everybody that this policy is adhered too. With very best regards to all on list. This message was written using 100% recycled electrons. Gordon, Lynne Tracy supp...@mac-access.net Follow us on Twitter: @maciosaccess --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Take Control Title Owners; Please Read
Hello to all Take Control title owners who have bookshelves here on our servers. Just a quick note of apology. It has come to my attention that after yesterday's power outage when we were forced to close down all of our servers, I neglected to restart the bookshelf server. Please accept my apologies for any inconvenience. It's up and running again now. Yours, a very embarrassed Gordon. :C --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Emergency Outage, PLEASE READE!
Hello everybody We very much regret that we have to inform you of an emergency outage which will occur at approximately 14:30 (UTC), 15:30 (BST), 16:30 (CET), 12:30 (EST) today, 1 August 2012. This is because of emergency repairs to cabling which has to be done in our location. What's basically happened is that workmen repairing pipelines have inadvertently cut through the main electricity supply cable for our street. We are currently operating on our own emergency power supplies which have a lifespan of approximately 1 hour at a 1KW output. These supplies are always here for just this type of incident. The energy company informs us that the repair will take up to 2 hours, (hopefully less). Although in a situation like this it isn't always possible to give specifics. We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience caused. However, we hope you will appreciate that the outage is beyond our control. Once power is restored, normal services will resume. However, it is necessary for us to close down the servers in the proper way in order to prevent data loss. Again, you have our profound and sincere apologies for the inconvenience. Gordon --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Members Contributions, please read
Hello everybody This point has been brought to our notice by a group member, but it is something we have been growing concerned about for some time. If you ask a question on the list regarding a problem you're experiencing with your Apple hardware or a piece of related software, etc., could I ask that you please consider responding after, rather than before, you have tried the suggestion. Let me give you an example of what I mean. Member 1 asks a question such as: How do I open folder on my desktop? Member 2 responds by saying: Just press Command+Down arrow when you have the folder highlighted. Following that reply to the question, member 1 responds with: Thanks, I'll try that. That message then requires another response in which member 1 proudly tells the group that they are now able to open folders on their desktop. To be honest, the Thanks, I'll try that. response was really not necessary. Although I do concede that it's the natural thing to do in some cases. However, may I ask you all to take a moment and just consider whether your response really is appropriate. Consider waiting until you've actually tried the suggested action, rather than responding before you do. That would not only help others to help you, but it would also cut down on extraneous traffic to the group, it would avoid wasted space in the list archives and it would also mean that when reviewing the traffic in the group, member 2 who made the initial suggestion to resolve the issue raised by member 1, and offer follow-up advice or suggestions if appropriate. What Im basically saying is please take a moment to consider your responses before you send them. Traffic in this group is rising steadily; an absolutely understandable and desirable circumstance as our membership increases. However, some of the traffic is unnecessary. That is why we encourage you to use the list archives. This has been mentioned several times both by us and also by fellow group members. If you take a moment to do that before you ask questions, you may very well find the answer to your problems in our repository of knowledge which is our list archive. This way you get an answer as and when you need it, rather than having to wait until fellow members respond. In summary; all I'm advocating is taking a moment to consider your posts. If you feel that your question hasn't been adequately answered by fellow members, then by all means do follow up on it. But if it's simply a case of saying something like Thanks, I will try that, please delay your response until after you have tried the suggestion, then let the group know whether or not the responses were adequate. We would all appreciate your cooperation here, and I think you'll find that, by doing this, you encourage others to read your message. I happen to know that some members deliberately avoid reading post authored by other specific members because of this issue. That is definitely not a desirable circumstance, and we really hope that you don't make that avoided member be you. Thank you again, If you wish to comment on the contents of this post, please do so off list, not on it. I promise you that every message which reaches supp...@mac-access.net does get read, unless we know for sure it's spam or something similar. If a group member contacts us, we will always respond in some way. Lynne --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Brief Service Outage
Hi all You may notice a very small disruption to list traffic in about a couple of hours from now. This is because I am planning to move the old server from one machine to another. You shouldn't find things go down for very long, hopefully only a couple of minutes. But the best laid plans can sometimes go wrong, so I make no guarantees except for the fact that whatever happens the outage will be very very short. Gordon --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Replication, a gentle reminder
Hi all Just a gentle reminder. It has been brought to our attention by a number of members that there have been a number of posts to this list which have been replicated on at least one other list with similar content in recent times. As stated in the list policy document, this is not desirable behaviour as it threatens our unique identity. There's a difference between posting links to something which is a general point of interest, as long as we are not being used as, in the words of one member, a dumping ground for content posted elsewhere primarily. So let me be blunt about this, then we all know where we stand. If you're going to send something to Mac Visionaries or somewhere similar, don't bother sending to Mac Access. We are going to be monitoring certain places over the next little while to see exactly what is replicated on our list and by whom. It's unfortunate that I've had to post this message. But we are losing members quite frequently at the moment and most of them are siting replication of content as their primary reason for leaving the group. Your cooperation would be appreciated. Gordon --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
An Idea Which Might Improve This E-Mail list
Hi everybody If I was to implement topics for this list, would anybody be interested? Don't worry, it's nothing complicated. It is possible for me to assign a number of topics and for subscribers to visit the list's website and define certain topics that interest them specifically. For example, if I assign the name iOS to a topic, and Mac OS X or Mac OS to a topic, users would then only see messages which contain those topics in the body or subject of the message, if another topic exists. So, if you only use an iOS device, and have no interest in Mac OS X, you could filter out all the Mac OS X messages, and only see iOS messages. Of course, if the message contained neither of these topics in the body or subject line, then everybody would see the message. Would anybody be interested in this facility? Please respond privately to the list support address, supp...@mac-access.net if you have comments. Thank you. Gordon --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
