Re: OS 8.6 submenu limit? Other questions.

2012-02-15 Thread t...@io.com
On Feb 13, 9:15 pm, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: Changing the subject line does NOT start a new thread. You MUST do a completely separate New Message or else the reply will hijack the previous thread and automatically thread into the prior posting no matter what the subject line

Re: OS 8.6 submenu limit? Other questions.

2012-02-15 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 15, 2012, at 9:58 AM, t...@io.com wrote: Yes. This is a problem with how Google wrote the software for Google Groups. They apparently assign their idiot programmers to the project, or people so young and/or ignorant that they have no idea how a news group nor an email list is meant

Re: OS 8.6 submenu limit? Other questions.

2012-02-15 Thread Barry Levine
Re getting laserwriter to save defaults I seem to remember having a similar issue with one of my HPs (4ml, 4m, 4000 or one of that era). The fix I remember was that you had to hold down either one of both of the Command or Control key when hitting OK when closing the page setup dialog box.

Re: OS 8.6 submenu limit? Other questions.

2012-02-14 Thread Joshua Juran
On Feb 13, 2012, at 10:21 PM, Tina K. wrote: On 2012/02/13 08:23, Barry Levine so eloquently wrote: I changed the subject line. That always has seemed to start a new thread. There is a number in the headers that determines what thread a message belongs to, what the subject line contains is

Re: OS 8.6 submenu limit? Other questions.

2012-02-14 Thread Tina K.
On 2012/02/14 01:08, Joshua Juran so eloquently wrote: The great thing about standards is... you can always ignore them and do it your own way! That is an excellent idea Joshua, why didn't I think of that?!?!?! Tell you what, you go ahead and remove all standards from your life then let us

Re: OS 8.6 submenu limit? Other questions.

2012-02-14 Thread Joshua Juran
On Feb 14, 2012, at 12:56 AM, Tina K. wrote: On 2012/02/14 01:08, Joshua Juran so eloquently wrote: The great thing about standards is... you can always ignore them and do it your own way! That is an excellent idea Joshua, why didn't I think of that?!?!?! Tell you what, you go ahead and

Re: OS 8.6 submenu limit? Other questions.

2012-02-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 14, 2012, at 1:08 AM, Joshua Juran wrote: Not to pick on you in particular but it's happening more and more with each passing month. I recall hearing that certain mail clients disregarded other header fields when the Subject differed, perhaps to appease such practices, with the

starting new threads was Re: OS 8.6 submenu limit? Other questions.

2012-02-14 Thread Cameron Kaiser
ALL email clients will happily sort by subject line; only clients with the view sorting by threads have this problem. (and the execrable Google Groups web interface) Be liberal in what you accept, and strict in what you produce. The key is the In-Reply-To field (I left it intact on this

Re: OS 8.6 submenu limit? Other questions.

2012-02-13 Thread Josh Juran
On Feb 12, 2012, at 8:43 AM, Barry Levine wrote: Is there any way to increase the number of items that can be displayed in apple menu submenus? I'm not sure what the limit is, but I see that folders with a large number of items won't display them in a submenu. Please don't Reply to send

Re: OS 8.6 submenu limit? Other questions.

2012-02-13 Thread Tina K.
On 2012/02/13 02:48, Josh Juran so eloquently wrote: Please don't Reply to send an unrelated message -- it hijacks the thread. Also, consider posting your questions to the macos9 mailing list instead. Word. I've gotten to the point that I delete hijacked threads because when I collapse the

Re: OS 8.6 submenu limit? Other questions.

2012-02-13 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 12, 2012, at 9:43 AM, Barry Levine wrote: Another thing that's been going on: On some apps, I'll open docs using the Open dialog box. And the mac will chew on this for over a minute before displaying the list of files. When this first happened, I thought I had a freeze. Perhaps

Re: OS 8.6 submenu limit? Other questions.

2012-02-13 Thread Len Gerstel
On Feb 13, 2012, at 11:29 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Feb 12, 2012, at 9:43 AM, Barry Levine wrote: Lastly, I also have a hardware/software question that maybe someone will know. Re the default Page Setup for a laserjet 2100M - it's ALWAYS US Letter Small, and defaults back to that

Re: OS 8.6 submenu limit? Other questions.

2012-02-13 Thread Barry Levine
I changed the subject line. That always has seemed to start a new thread. On Feb 12, 2012, at 8:43 AM, Barry Levine wrote: Is there any way to increase the number of items that can be displayed in apple menu submenus? I'm not sure what the limit is, but I see that folders with a large

Re: OS 8.6 submenu limit? Other questions.

2012-02-13 Thread Kris Tilford
On Feb 13, 2012, at 9:23 AM, Barry Levine wrote: I changed the subject line. That always has seemed to start a new thread. Changing the subject line does NOT start a new thread. You MUST do a completely separate New Message or else the reply will hijack the previous thread and

Re: OS 8.6 submenu limit? Other questions.

2012-02-13 Thread Tina K.
On 2012/02/13 08:23, Barry Levine so eloquently wrote: I changed the subject line. That always has seemed to start a new thread. There is a number in the headers that determines what thread a message belongs to, what the subject line contains is irrelevant. Not to pick on you in particular

OS 8.6 submenu limit? Other questions.

2012-02-12 Thread Barry Levine
Hello, Is there any way to increase the number of items that can be displayed in apple menu submenus? I'm not sure what the limit is, but I see that folders with a large number of items won't display them in a submenu. Running OS8.6 on an 8600 G3, 384MB RAM, 300mhz It's my everyday workstation