On Wednesday 4 October 2000 tracer wrote:
John:
> Something I've noticed a couple of times is how ungraceful TB is in
> low-memory situations.
>Oleg:
>> When I studied at university I was taught that the program managing
>> resources of a computer system is called 'operating system
He's in the army, you know.
Something I've noticed a couple of times is how ungraceful TB is in
low-memory situations. Microsoft have things to say about this. (Most
of their own apps, and virtually all of anyone else's, fail to follow
these guidelines, but that doesn't stop them being good guid
On Friday 15 September 2000 Oliver Sturm wrote:
> I just found that in the middle of my message text there is the
> following line, obviously created by the list server somehow. Maybe
> also a bug? Of course the following line wasn't in the original
> messages:
>> You are subscri
On Thursday 31 August 2000 Marck D. Pearlstone wrote:
GE>> But what, if that person just harvests our adress out of our
GE>> PGP-sigantures ?
> I'm not going to do the research myself but I must say that this seems
> to be the most likely source for the harvest that was done. With a PGP
> SDK a
Someone with access to the TBUDL and TBBETA membership lists (using
the From: address <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, passing through a relay which
claims to be cyberpass.net) seems to believe I might be interested in
buying a CD packed full of what is clearly pirated commercial
software, for $15. Ho h
On Wednesday 16 August 2000 SyP wrote:
> message (I thought it's a common abbrev.), so I asked if anybody using
> "Parking messages in History dropdown menu". Sorry for the confusion.
For the record, I use this feature, and I'm sure several parked
addresses have dropped off my To: list at various
On Tuesday 15 August 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> it allows me to turn OFF html decoding of messages (when i want a web browser,
> i'll use a web browser)frankly i wish that ability had never been added to the
> bat either
[ditto with newsreader capability, etc...]
Actually, I'd normally be
On Friday 28 July 2000 Marck D. Pearlstone wrote:
TF>> I now believe it depends on the MTA. Some MTA's will let a comma
TF>> within the quotation marks pass as a part of the "real name",
TF>> others will assume a comma is always where two email addresses are
TF>> seperated.
> The latter is 100
On Saturday 15 July 2000 SyP wrote:
> Katsmeow wrote on 7/15/2000, 6:21 PM
K>> Ummm...just once thing. What do you do to restore being shown all the
K>> messages?
> Hit ESC.
...unless your in the Search window, in which case you almost
certainly want to be hitting Ctrl+= instead.
(This still ge
I often want to forward web-pages between various systems. To do this
I view the page in Internet Explorer and choose File->Send->Page by
E-mail. Then I type the first few letters of the target address in the
To: box.
I'm just so used to Auto-Complete working within The Bat!'s address
fields tha
On Saturday 18 March 2000 Paula Ford wrote:
> I may be wrong, but I don't think ESC is the "official" way of backing
> out of the filter. It's ctrl=. So, perhaps this slipped by the
> developers.
Christopher has already pointed this out, but I too definitely remember
Stefan's post a while back w
The Bat! detects sections of quoted text and pieces of text which look
like URLs and displays them in a different style to the rest of the
message.
Why not allow the user to enter a series of regexps for each class and
use them to override TB's built-in method of recognizing them?
(I regularly
I'm currently using 1.42 Beta/3, but this issue has been around for ages
now (including many proper releases).
When I do Tools->Search... to find some messages, the search window
itself has a close box, a close button, a Message->Exit menu item, and
it also responds to the Escape key. The same
On Thursday 16 March 2000 Justin D. Paine wrote:
> of course.. but RBL requires that a spammer actually exploits a server
> before it is blacklisted.. for inclusion in ORBS, a server just has to
> be open to relaying.. Makes no matter if it's ever been used for spam,
> the mere fact that "it could
On Friday 3 March 2000 Steve Lamb wrote:
Or forwarded, whatever...
> 2. "The Bat!" doesn't check headers of the incoming message to contain
> this header (and this is even more dangerous). Intruder can spoof this
> header, for example to specify
> X-BAT-FILES: C:\WINDOWS\user.dat
> in messa
On Thursday 27 January 2000 Sir Jinx! wrote:
> I have two programs that need new versions of mfc42.dll and
> comctl.dll. But I can't remove them in _any_ known way I tried
> _everything_: deleting, renaming or cutting them didn't work. Even
> from DOS [Norton Commander] -
On Friday 14 January 2000 Marck D. Pearlstone wrote:
> ... the quickest way of finding such a message given the above
> stipulations about "In-Reply-To" etc. (provided that it resides in the
> same folder) is to press Alt-1 - thread by reference. Of course, if
> it's in another folder,
When I search for messages, I can click Follow on the results to
locate the message in my folder hierarchy.
On a given message, if I have replied to it, I can find that reply
(Right Click->Specials->Open Reply).
What I'd *really* like to be able to do, is from a message I have in
some folder so
This one has been around for a while now, even though I'm sure it was
listed as fixed in one set of release notes. I thought I'd just point
out that it's still there ;-)
Dead easy to reproduce: in the message list hit the End key (focus
moves to bottom of list, and only last message is selected.
On Wednesday 12 January 2000 Marck D. Pearlstone wrote:
> It is now clear that TB sends the "Reply-To" name in the SMTP FROM
> address when talking to SMTP relay servers.
ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/rfc/rfc821.txt
ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/rfc/rfc822.txt
> I can see the sense in
> this. Any re
On Tuesday 11 January 2000 Steve Lamb wrote:
> Tuesday, January 11, 2000, 5:14:26 AM, John wrote:
>> Or auto-completion of header lines, integration of the Address Book
>> into header lines.
> Incorrect, these are still a part of TB! and are editable there. See
> PMMail.
I often alter these
On Tuesday 11 January 2000 Oleg Zalyalov wrote:
> I like UltraEdit. It is multiwindow and is almost always resides in my
> tray. If I will have to close external editor to let TB! know that I
> have finished message editing -- I don't like the idea of using my
> favorite editor within TB!
Y
On Tuesday 11 January 2000 Jason Thompson wrote:
> Usenet, on the other hand...Well, I know none of the technical aspects
> of Usenet,
Even programmers have assumed that they are technically closer than
they are. The PINE team even used the same underlying code as the
email half of the program to
On Monday 10 January 2000 Steve Lamb wrote:
> Monday, January 10, 2000, 2:05:18 PM, John wrote:
>>[calling external editor to edit mails]
> Well, PMMail does it just fine. I fail to see why other's can do it. A
> convention is started by people just doing it in a constant manner.
Well, ind
On Monday 10 January 2000 Steve Lamb wrote:
> This is exactly my point. 3 people, 4 different opinions of editors. So
> why do people insist on making editors inside applications part of the
> application and forcing people to use them when they can just pass the text
> off to the preferred
On Sunday 9 January 2000 Owen Carter wrote:
> Actually this makes me wonder -how- the browser is invoked? Is it via
> a 'com' call or some other Windows jiggerypokery, or is it a
> command-line style invocation?
There are basically four ways to launch the browser. The first is
directly via the co
On Sunday 9 January 2000 Alexander V. Kiselev wrote:
> On 9 Jan 00, at 3:24, Steve Lamb wrote:
>> Plug-ins are not the end-all, be-all answer, trust me.
I agree here. After all, the logical extension of this is the null
application which does *nothing* other that to make calls to its
plug-ins
On Saturday 8 January 2000 Alexander V. Kiselev wrote:
> Parizh) and London (we pronounce it with two "o"s):-))
And that's probably not too far from the truth ;-)
John
--
you gave me something that i could touch in a world where i'd had too much
something i could feel with my broken hands full
On Saturday 8 January 2000 Januk Aggarwal wrote:
> As I understand it, RIT has
> already said that in V2, they will support plug ins. So what more do
> we need?
I hope they read Microsoft's documents on good Object Model design,
and the value of automation. And, unlike Microsoft, follow that
adv
I'm current using The Bat! 1.38e.
I'm wondering how the Quick Search functionality actually works.
Under Miscellaneous Commands in the help, is listed:
> Search for a string Ctrl+Q F
> Search and replaceCtrl+Q A
> Repeat the last searchCtrl+L
> Cancel operation Esc
>From wit
On Wednesday 5 January 2000 Markus Gloede wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 05, 2000, Marck D. Pearlstone wrote:
>> Right click on the toolbar for the AAV window and select 'Always on
>> top'.
> The remaining problem is that in this case 'Always' really means
> always, no matter if the Bat! itself
On Wednesday 5 January 2000 Carsten Dreesbach wrote:
> Guess I'm missing something... I guess to then see the pictures, I'd
> have to create an entry in my address book, add the pictures to it and
> then I'd "see" who I'm writing to? ;]
Yes, exactly.
> In that case, is an address book al
On Wednesday 5 January 2000 Rob wrote:
> btw ; how do you view the pics from TB! ; with 'View - Address auto-view' ??
> every time i select a new message, TB! pushes the address window to the
> background :-( is there a 'stay on top' setting somewhere ??
Yes - right-click on the Address Viewer
On Wednesday 29 December 1999 Steve Lamb wrote:
> Tuesday, December 28, 1999, 6:14:39 PM, Sashka wrote:
>> IMHO, Bat doesn't generate them,
> TB! does generate them. From my last message on this topic:
>> mail server adds them to headers.
> This *can* happen if a message doesn't have a M
I just noticed something which is puzzling me:
When I have Automatic checking turned on, and I type certain
non-dictionary/non-English words, they are underlined in red. All well
and good.
However, some words are underlined with a zig-zag/triangular line, but
others are underlined with an up-an
On Wednesday 6 October 1999 Roel wrote:
> I enclosed a list I got earlier, but I don't know from who anymore...
> It was on this list, but I lost nearly all my files last week...
A fews of these are out of date: in general Ctrl+Enter should have
been replaced with the Windows-standard Alt+Enter t
On Monday 4 October 1999 Alexander V. Kiselev wrote:
> On 5 Oct 99, at 2:18, Thomas Fernandez wrote
>> PGP (Pretty good privacy) is an encryption programme. You can encrypt
>> your messages [...] so nobody else can read them.
>
> Thomas, it seems that either my English is far poorer I thought
>
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