Re: [discuss] Re: Ooo lists publishing subscribers IP addresses, was: hi I need you to fix...

2006-09-03 Thread Terry
Thanks for the information. I do not altogether understand it but I think I have personally settled on a procedure to reduce the risk of spam. I don't want to go through the procedure, again, of eliminating an email address and notifying all contacts of the change. Your point 1 is surely

Re: [discuss] Re: Ooo lists publishing subscribers IP addresses, was: hi I need you to fix...

2006-09-03 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 17:05:52 PM +1000, Terry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Do you have that much sway with your ISP? Of course not. But the right thing to do, if one is really bothered, is still to complain publicly if they screw, and switch, complaining publicly again, if they keep doing it. I

Re: [discuss] Is there a list of known file format incompatibilities?

2006-09-03 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
(Yes, I know I've already replied...) On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 15:14 +0100, Jim Ottaway wrote: So I was wondering if there was a list of known incompatibilities that I could look at to anticipate any potential problems. I have looked around, and the closest thing I could find was the issues

Re: [discuss] Re: Ooo lists publishing subscribers IP addresses, was: hi I need you to fix...

2006-09-03 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 17:21:48 PM +1000, Terry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Thanks for the information. I do not altogether understand it but I think I have personally settled on a procedure to reduce the risk of spam. I don't want to go through the procedure, again, of eliminating an email

[discuss] Re: Is there a list of known file format incompatibilities?

2006-09-03 Thread Jim Ottaway
Shawn K. Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 15:14 +0100, Jim Ottaway wrote: A prior question, I suppose, would be whether my lack of confidence is misplaced. I haven’t any empirical evidence of such problems, but, as I said, I am very risk-averse about losing time by

[discuss] Re: Is there a list of known file format incompatibilities?

2006-09-03 Thread Jim Ottaway
Shawn K. Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (Yes, I know I've already replied...) On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 15:14 +0100, Jim Ottaway wrote: So I was wondering if there was a list of known incompatibilities that I could look at to anticipate any potential problems. I have looked around, and the

[discuss] Re: Is there a list of known file format incompatibilities?

2006-09-03 Thread Jim Ottaway
Richard/g [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jim Ottaway wrote: I have been using OpenOffice.org mostly because I have been doing lots of editing work on files originally authored by others in MS Word, Powerpoint, and Excel, which I have to return in their original file formats. I use GNU/Linux, and

Re: [discuss] Re: Is there a list of known file format incompatibilities?

2006-09-03 Thread Richard/g
Jim Ottaway wrote: Richard/g [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jim Ottaway wrote: I have been using OpenOffice.org mostly because I have been doing lots of editing work on files originally authored by others in MS Word, Powerpoint, and Excel, which I have to return in their original file

[discuss] Re: Is there a list of known file format incompatibilities?

2006-09-03 Thread Jim Ottaway
Richard/g [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jim Ottaway wrote: Richard/g [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can check here. There are a couple 'dozen articles concerning compatibility. Thank you, but did you forget to put the link in? Yes, I did. :-} Here they are: […] Thank you, those links look very

[discuss] Re: Ooo lists publishing subscribers IP addresses, was: hi I need you to fix...

2006-09-03 Thread NoOp
M. Fioretti wrote: On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 17:30:24 PM -0700, NoOp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: M. Fioretti wrote: You are of course correct on all points. My apologies for not adding the Of course, I too agree that information like that should not be published on the Internet. quote. In any

[discuss] Modifying the REPLACE function

2006-09-03 Thread ericmarshall
There is one function Microsoft word has in their replace that I use to clean up or convert documents, and that is the ability to find and replace special characters, such as Paragraph marks, page breaks, and manual line breaks. The document I am currently looking at is a good example. The

Re: [discuss] Re: Ooo lists publishing subscribers IP addresses, was: hi I need you to fix...

2006-09-03 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 16:45:39 PM -0700, NoOp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I don't receive a local copy as I only access via the gmane nntp server. However, when I look at your msg source via gmane those IP's etc are _not_ shown. So what is being put on the archives is more extensive than what