Re: [DUG]: Alternative list hosting?

2001-07-09 Thread Peter Harrison
I have been keeping a Delphi List archive for a while now. I have also written listserver - written in Java. Currently my system allows you to get a web based 'digest' of the last month, last week, or todays list mail. I would add a search, but currently I'm the only one using it... If there i

Re: [DUG]: Alternative list hosting?

2001-07-09 Thread Mark Derricutt
I'm on several lists on yahoogroups, the largest of which maxed out around 400 posts per day, things kept up quite nicely, with message turnaround less than 8 minutes, but there was been on occasion when messages either turn up late, or out of order (yahoogroups does handle a lot of mail, and

Re: [DUG]: Alternative list hosting?

2001-07-09 Thread Nello Sestini
I'm not advocating changing or not changing (not that anyone would care) but I think the claim that posts to lists in YahooGroups always have adverts appended to them isn't true. I'm subscribed to several groups we use internally and they don't have ads. There is a small TOS URL and a few URLS

Re: [DUG]: MIDAS....

2001-07-09 Thread Moises Lopez
more whiteys MIDAS Technical White Papers An Overview of MIDAS A Technical View of Borland MIDAS Building Scalable Applications with Windows NT and DCOM Why Multi-tier? Files and Components for MIDAS Copyright ) 1996 Borland International, Inc. http://www.tietovayla.fi/BORLAND/midas/papers.ht

RE: [DUG]: similar type is used. [virus warning]

2001-07-09 Thread Patrick Dunford
Ads at the top of messages was done before Y! by egroups and only lasted a few weeks. I have run a list on Y! for two years with 150 members. Firstly onelist then egroups and now Y! Service quality is not IMO significantly different from this current service which for some reason misses posts eve

RE: [DUG]: Alternative list hosting?

2001-07-09 Thread Stephen Barker
Thanks for the reminder Mark, I have also put the link on the sig line as suggested by Peter, cheers, Steve > -Original Message- > From: Mark Derricutt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, 10 July 2001 13:18 > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi > Subject: Re: [DUG]: Alternati

Re: [DUG]: MIDAS....

2001-07-09 Thread Moises Lopez
hey there.. more like an article but... oh well ClientDataset as a Replacement for Cached Updates by Dan Miser - DistribuCon  http://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,22571,00.html   i once saw a tutorial from marotz (www.marotz.com) they may have sth there cheers moises lopezDo You Yahoo!? Get

[DUG]: MIDAS....

2001-07-09 Thread Donovan J. Edye
All, Can anyone suggest any on-line tutorials? TIA -- Donovan -- Donovan J. Edye [www.edye.wattle.id.au] Namadgi Systems [www.namsys.com.au] Voice: +61 2 6285-3460 Fax: +61 2 6285-3459 TVisualBasic = Class(None); Heard ju

RE: [DUG]: similar type is used. [virus warning]

2001-07-09 Thread Mark Derricutt
At the bottom was fine, but when they moved the adverts to the top of the message it became annoying having to page scroll through the adds, hence writing the procmail filter to get rid of them. --On Monday, July 09, 2001 5:36 PM +1200 Patrick Dunford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A few lines

Re: [DUG]: similar type is used. [virus warning]

2001-07-09 Thread Mark Derricutt
Don't remind me about that filter :P When Yahoogroups took over, they changed the advert layout and my filter stripped out all the email bodies instead for a week or two :P hehe. --On Monday, July 09, 2001 5:03 PM +1200 Nic Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yes it does. And it also appends an

RE: [DUG]: similar type is used. [virus warning]

2001-07-09 Thread Mark Derricutt
Yahoo Groups also offers a lag time so hideous it often takes 3-4 hours for messages to show up (at times), they're also known for loosing posts now and then. --On Monday, July 09, 2001 4:35 PM +1200 Patrick Dunford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a user of Yahoo Groups and it offers heaps m

[DUG]: MIDAS Primer....

2001-07-09 Thread Donovan J. Edye
G'Day, I am about to dive into my first MIDAS project and was wondering if there were any on-line resources that people could point me at? TIA -- Donovan -- Donovan J. Edye [www.edye.wattle.id.au] Namadgi Systems [www.namsys.c

Re: [DUG]: Alternative list hosting?

2001-07-09 Thread Mark Derricutt
Just as a note, the delphi lists here are being web archives, and have been for the last few years after I setup delphi and offtopic on www.mail-archive.com. http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/ and http://www.mail-archive.com/offtopic%40delphi.org.nz/ respectivly. Mark --On

RE: [DUG]: Alternative list hosting?

2001-07-09 Thread Steve Aish
Um - blocking viruses? Is it a big issue? If an attachment comes through (like it did with this particular one) the first thing that comes to mind is "I bet THAT'S a virus" so I don't open it. With the possibilities of viruses coming through email etc everyonne should know NOT to open unknown a

RE: [DUG]: Alternative list hosting?

2001-07-09 Thread Patrick Dunford
But you can block all unsafe attachments in Outlook. And Y! just admitted that their attachment checker can't detect UUencoded attachments. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Peter Hyde > Sent: Tuesday, 10 July 2001 09:03 > To: Multiple

Re: [DUG]: Alternative list hosting?

2001-07-09 Thread Peter Hyde
Seth wrote: > Having said that, if the list moved there, I'd still sign up, and I > can see the point of webarchives for people who don't just keep a > mail-folder with 6000+ archived messages in it like I do This list is already archived (perhaps the archive URL should be in the list sig) so t

Re: [DUG]: Alternative list hosting?

2001-07-09 Thread Mark Howard
Seth said > Just my US$0.0085 > Afraid it's only US$.8144 this morning! Mark> --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send emai

[DUG]: Alternative list hosting?

2001-07-09 Thread Seth Wagoner
> > There were some other issues raised like archives, address munging, > > digest mode, multiple address subscription and so on. YG happens to > > offer all > these > > features. > > Then why dont we move over to YG then? Have you read their "privacy" policy? At least they tell me about all th