Re: More newbie Questions

2000-07-13 Thread Steve Lamb
Thursday, July 13, 2000, 12:48:38 PM, Katsmeow wrote: > creation or when I insert it. I am sure I am doing something > wrong...but what? Not hitting return? -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to th

Re: Newbie questions

2000-07-13 Thread Steve Lamb
Thursday, July 13, 2000, 12:20:18 PM, Ming-Li wrote: > Really? I use it quite a lot. I might be visually less obvious than > color group, but it's easy to use (with one mouse click), and easy > to sort by flag (so all flagged messages would be presented > together, which is more cumbersome to do w

Re: OK, what am I missing?

2000-07-13 Thread Steve Lamb
Thursday, July 13, 2000, 11:54:57 AM, SyP wrote: Tom>> No. I think Ctrl-(Numpad)* expands and Alt-(Numpad)* collapses Tom>> all threads, but there is no auto-expand. > Here Ctrl-(Numpad)* expands all threads, but Alt-(Numpad)* collapses > only the current thread. Should be a bug since CNTL-

Re: The Bat! - bug report

2000-07-13 Thread Steve Lamb
Thursday, July 13, 2000, 11:48:57 AM, Jason wrote: SL>> Create a new filter. Try to use the mouse to enter the text box for the SL>> string to search on. Will not work. > Not confirmed. Works here. >[The Bat! v1.45 Beta/7, Win98] Might be a WinNT specific problem. --

Re: Newbie questions

2000-07-13 Thread Steve Lamb
Thursday, July 13, 2000, 11:42:30 AM, Katsmeow wrote: > 1. What is a "colour group"? Just colors. > How do you use it and how do you create it? In 1.44, which you have, they are just for highlighting. As for creating, Message:Color Group:Edit Color Groups. > 2. What is the purpose o

Re: OK, what am I missing?

2000-07-13 Thread Steve Lamb
Thursday, July 13, 2000, 10:20:51 AM, Tom wrote: SL>> -- SL>> Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your SL>> ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. SL>> ---+

Re: OK, what am I missing?

2000-07-13 Thread Steve Lamb
Thursday, July 13, 2000, 10:20:51 AM, Tom wrote: > No. I think Ctrl-(Numpad)* expands and Alt-(Numpad)* collapses all > threads, but there is no auto-expand. Actually, it is CNTL-*. However, CNTL-Shift-8 switches desktops for me and CNTL-Numpad* is WAY too far off the main block on my keybo

OK, what am I missing?

2000-07-13 Thread Steve Lamb
Any way to have threads expanded by default from the start? -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. ---+

Re: bug report- idle looping window

2000-07-13 Thread Steve Lamb
Thursday, July 13, 2000, 7:49:25 AM, Radek wrote: > I'm using The Bat! Version 1.45 Beta/7 Is it just me or shouldn't this be going to TBBETA not TBUDL? -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the s

The Bat! - bug report

2000-07-13 Thread Steve Lamb
down boxes next to it. Will not work. Regards, Steve Lamb -- -- View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com To send a message to the list moderation team double click here: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To Unsub

Re: smtp problem

2000-06-30 Thread Steve Lamb
Friday, June 30, 2000, 5:57:01 PM, tracer wrote: > I asked the isp and they came back with telling it was security for > them, I think they confuse the situation as I log in with them but > use a different mailserver which is something I should be able to > do... > On the other hand if t

Re: Upgrades are the only reason to use a software package?

2000-06-28 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, June 27, 2000, 12:45:08 PM, Tom wrote: > If you really see lots of bugs then I can see where you're coming from, but > TB! is stable for me. It isn't the bugs you see, it is the bugs ya don't see. > However, to say that it's time to look for alternatives when new > versions don't co

Re: Macros Addition

2000-06-26 Thread Steve Lamb
the local document. See enclosed attachment. Cordially, Steve Lamb CC: Stewpid Fork, Lame-Nuts, Bert Pirate. Att: Something or other I'm sorry, but those conventions were made for a non-digital world. We

Re: win95->98 problems

2000-06-21 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, June 21, 2000, 10:36:55 AM, octave wrote: > I have nothing inside of the new TB! !! > I tried ctrl-alt-shift-L but it does not give all > filters, old emails etc. You need to either recreate the accounts with the exact same name or move the registry information over. -- S

Re: Side Issue: Grey (was:Re: Display only unread messages)

2000-06-14 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, June 14, 2000, 6:09:12 AM, tracer wrote: > Doesnt it depend on who makes you keyboard who is right?? (g) Most certainly. Show me the grey * on this one: -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm

Re: Visual Basic Scripting

2000-06-07 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, June 07, 2000, 5:52:51 AM, Jast wrote: > Morning Thomas Fernandez, >> The hype about the recent LoveBug, made me believe that Outlook has >> such an option. If that is not correct, how come it spread? > I belive millions of people were "incautious" enough to click on the > attachmen

Re: %Quotestyle question

2000-06-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, June 06, 2000, 11:10:31 AM, Tom wrote: > I've found this too. The contents are of practically zero use to > someone who's actually got a running installation of TB!. I looked > and couldn't even find REs in the index, I had to do a search for > them ;( For me it is a general p

Re: %Quotestyle question

2000-06-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, June 06, 2000, 8:07:55 AM, Jast wrote: > I know it's not in the index. Check the "contents" tab instead. Sheesh, even TB!'s help is user hostile. Can we get some consistency in here, please? I never look in the contents because rarely does it ever have anything of value. --

Re: %Quotestyle question

2000-06-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, June 06, 2000, 1:15:44 AM, Markus wrote: >> ! isn't listed as a special and I don't think it is a >> control. So is #, $, %, ^, &, *, -, _, +, =, ', /, ?, \, |, `, ~. So, >> technically, those can be used for an email address. So... > Actually ! may appear in an email address when

Re: %Quotestyle question

2000-06-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Sunday, June 04, 2000, 9:25:05 PM, Jast wrote: > Not quite :) Check out Help Topics/Regular Expressions... Registration, Reply Templates. Those are the only REs in there. I checked before posting. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ

Re: %Quotestyle question

2000-06-05 Thread Steve Lamb
Just to show how hard it is to do this... Monday, June 05, 2000, 10:39:58 AM, Steve wrote: > specials= "(" / ")" / "<" / ">" / "@" ; Must be in quoted- > / "," / ";" / ":" / "\" / <"> ; string, to use > / "." / "[" / "]" ; within

Re: %Quotestyle question

2000-06-05 Thread Steve Lamb
Monday, June 05, 2000, 10:12:02 AM, Tom wrote: > The regexp would be "([a-zA-Z]*)@" and the match would end up in "\1". > I don't have any idea how to set this up in TB!. Erm, no. This is the classic problem of trying to define what is a "legal" email address. [a-zA-z]* doesn't match, for e

Re: OT: Networking with DHCP (was: Resend/Edit)

2000-06-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, May 31, 2000, 11:23:48 PM, Tom wrote: > Actually, I try to subvert my cable modem service provider's routine > and assign myself rogue IP addresses that I expect to receive > meaningful traffic, and then when I carry my laptop to work I also > expect that same IP address to work. F

Re: Resend/Edit

2000-05-31 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, May 31, 2000, 12:02:21 PM, Tom wrote: > Scenario: DHCP with lease expiration happening while ethernet cable Why anyone would use DHCP is beyond me. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to t

Re: Resend/Edit

2000-05-31 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, May 30, 2000, 8:47:54 AM, Thomas wrote: > Right. Disconnect from your LAN server, edit the message, and then > reboot your machine in order to reconnect. That's what you get for running Windows. 1: Constant reboots. 2: The penchant to constantly reboot when it isn't needed.

Re: Reply-To or From?

2000-05-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Thursday, May 25, 2000, 10:43:02 AM, Deryk wrote: > Ooh my pet hate... sarcastic answers... Who said it was sarcastic. Seems like you're reading something that isn't there. That's a personal problem. You ain't seen me sarcastic. You don't /want/ to see me sarcastic. 2 lines ain't sarcast

Re: Reply-To or From?

2000-05-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Thursday, May 25, 2000, 4:48:18 AM, Oleg wrote: > Server admins are acknowledged about this problem (last time I told to > them about it about a year ago) but since there were no customer > complaints about it and changing this behavior will somehow affect > billing they do not plan to r

Re: Reply-To or From?

2000-05-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, May 24, 2000, 3:02:55 PM, Deryk wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> could anybody point me towards a possibility of making it an option >> to reply to the Reply-To or the From field? > I'd like to see this as well. Why? It works now. Hit reply, reply-to is used. Us

Re: alternatives for extarenal editor ?

2000-05-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, May 24, 2000, 3:03:17 PM, Cristian wrote: > Which can handle quoting (quote a desired paragraph, reformat quoted > paragraph, etc.) ? Joe, Vim. > Which can handle (simple) HTML editing (text size, bold, italics, > underline, text color) ? Well, define this? I mean, really, w

Re: The Bat! - bug report - Message Truncated after =00

2000-05-23 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 09:30:18AM +0100, Marck D. Pearlstone wrote: > >> the sequence "=00". At this sequence the message get truncated by > >> the mail server (Zero Byte means often "end of Text"). > > Uhm, in what context. > In the context of 'C' and 'C++' programming where a nu

Re: The Bat! - bug report - Message Truncated after =00

2000-05-22 Thread Steve Lamb
Sunday, May 21, 2000, 3:37:39 PM, Dirk wrote: >Sometime the messages generated by the Bat! (quoted printable >coding) contain the sequence "=00". At this sequence the message >get truncated by the mail server (Zero Byte means often "end of >Text"). Uhm, in what context. Last

Re: a wish

2000-05-22 Thread Steve Lamb
Friday, May 19, 2000, 7:09:39 PM, Nick wrote: > At the time, I didn't really see any difference between using UE with > PMMail, and using Word as an Editor with Outlook 2K. Both scenarios were > just too much overhead for my System, and of course overkill for my needs, > aside from the fact I had

Re: a wish

2000-05-19 Thread Steve Lamb
Friday, May 19, 2000, 4:00:10 PM, Nick wrote: > of an external editor (I chose UltraEdit I think) was not even remotely > intuitive. How could it /not/ be intuitive? You enter the address in the to: field, enter, cc/bcc as needed, enter, subject, enter, it automatically goes into the externa

Re: Re-wrapping text

2000-05-18 Thread Steve Lamb
Thursday, May 18, 2000, 10:53:49 AM, Tom wrote: > You don't even need to select the region to reformat, just put the > cursor in the paragraph and it (almost always) does the right thing. If you define removing first line indention and double spaces after periods the right thing, yeah. :P -

So how many are you?

2000-05-17 Thread Steve Lamb
http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame1.html A good list of email list and usenet flamers. So, which one are you? More importantly, be honest now, which one /aren't/ I? :) -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main

Re: Introducing Myself: With a request for tips!

2000-05-14 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 11:55:57AM +0200, Trevor Roberts wrote: > I have recently registered my own domain, and plan to use The Bat! to > receive and process the E-Mail for that domain. If anyone is using The > Bat! to do this at the moment, please E-mail me with any tips you may > have. I am

Re: Why is "thebat.exe" from tb142f.zip so big?

2000-05-13 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 12:04:09PM +0200, Oliver Sturm wrote: > No. Then they'd have to wait for another day to get their diskette and > fiddle around with it, which they can't. Alternatively, they'd have to > go learn how to use other internet services, which they won't. Or you could put a

Re: (No Subject)

2000-05-12 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 04:38:54PM -0700, Nick Andriash wrote: > which you could then save with the message if you so desired. What happens when the message is changed? :) -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main

Re: Why is "thebat.exe" from tb142f.zip so big?

2000-05-12 Thread Steve Lamb
Friday, May 12, 2000, 1:41:25 PM, Tom wrote: > I'd rather waste CPU cycles decompressing than wait the extra time it > takes to load (given the orders of magnitude of speed difference > between reading off of disk versus out of L2 cache) Being, what, exactly? A magnitude of difference, sure.

Re: (No Subject)

2000-05-12 Thread Steve Lamb
Friday, May 12, 2000, 12:46:01 PM, Allie wrote: > receiving by it's developers and many are also impressed by the timely > fashion in which user issues and problems are dealt with. Timely fashion in which users issues and problems are dealt with? Uhm, Allie, what team are you talking about?

Re: Why is "thebat.exe" from tb142f.zip so big?

2000-05-12 Thread Steve Lamb
Friday, May 12, 2000, 11:38:45 AM, Oliver wrote: > what tiny program you are trying to write before sending them to > customers via mail. That's one version of user friendliness. Not sending them via mail would be even more user friendly. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your p

Re: Why is "thebat.exe" from tb142f.zip so big?

2000-05-12 Thread Steve Lamb
Friday, May 12, 2000, 10:57:31 AM, SyP wrote: > OK, call me petty-minded if you like, but I don't like wasting MBs if > I can avoid it... It's a matter of personal tastes, you know. OK, call me petty-minded if you like, but I don't like wasting CPU cycles if I can avoid it... It's a matter o

Re: Why is "thebat.exe" from tb142f.zip so big?

2000-05-12 Thread Steve Lamb
Friday, May 12, 2000, 10:28:44 AM, SyP wrote: MH>> This is a 3,179 KB file, in contrast to the 1,679 KB file of TB! MH>> 1.42c executable. > If you liked the smaller executable, download UPX from http://upx.tsx.org ! > It's a freeware, open source, executable compressor. > (And also can be us

Proving my point...

2000-05-11 Thread Steve Lamb
Remember a while ago that I stated that Windows was user hostile because of the overuse of popup warnings? From: http://slate.msn.com/Features/lovebug/lovebug.asp "How could people be so stupid? Simple. We've seen these fine-print warnings thousands of times. We've had to learn to click on p

Re: Importing from YARN

2000-05-08 Thread Steve Lamb
Monday, May 08, 2000, 1:33:12 AM, Thomas wrote: > I could easily write a program that converted this to .msg (anybody know > where I can find a simple description of this format? It seems as if the > messages are just seperated by a "From " (with a space instead of > colon), is that correct?), but

Re: Flagging?

2000-05-07 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 01:04:29PM +0200, Oliver Sturm wrote: > You are aware of that "Use the account default column settings" > checkbox, aren't you? Yes. Unfortunately that doesn't work on custom folders nor on newly created ones like in the folder view. -- Steve C. L

Re: Flagging?

2000-05-07 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 01:28:49PM +0800, Thomas Fernandez wrote: > I don't need the colours. I played with them a bit, my screen turned > into a circus, and I'm back to default. If you say the signle flag is > bloat, well, what about the colours which require a lot more code? :-P You could d

Re: Flagging?

2000-05-06 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 08:51:26PM -0600, Douglas Hinds wrote: > The flags are pretty and don't really bloat TB! - and the column can > be hidden. Although I agree, the colors do more and would have > sufficed. The column can be hidden, yes. And it must be hidden on all new folders twice. N

Re: Flagging?

2000-05-06 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 06:36:53PM -0600, Douglas Hinds wrote: > Without flagging, the only way to imbue a message with a specific > importance was to either park it or to file it in another folder. This was a problem? I parked them so they don't get nixed and so they would be different tha

Re: Flagging?

2000-05-05 Thread Steve Lamb
Friday, May 05, 2000, 3:34:00 PM, carolaina wrote: >>> What's that new flagging function for? J>> Nothing specific. > but now we need a new `glyphs.bmp` file... And to think, in another thread just a day or two ago people were trying to tell me to trust RITLABS not to include anything th

Re: Flagging?

2000-05-05 Thread Steve Lamb
Friday, May 05, 2000, 1:53:35 PM, Allie wrote: > This flags messages. Go to the column settings and you'll see new entries. > One of them is flagging. Right, what does that have to do with me pointing out that colors doesn't have a keyboard shortcut? --- SNIP --- > BTW a even more versatile

Re: Flagging?

2000-05-05 Thread Steve Lamb
Friday, May 05, 2000, 1:29:44 PM, SyP wrote: SL>> Too bad there isn't a keyboard shortcut attached to these so one can just SL>> mark messages without resorting to the moose. > What about Ctrl+G? :) What is CNTL-G, doesn't do anything here. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your

Re: Flagging?

2000-05-05 Thread Steve Lamb
Friday, May 05, 2000, 12:03:25 PM, Jast wrote: > BTW a even more versatile feature are the color groups (Options/message list > colors) Any 1.42 newcomer should try these! Too bad there isn't a keyboard shortcut attached to these so one can just mark messages without resorting to the moose.

Re: TB! 1.42 final

2000-05-05 Thread Steve Lamb
Friday, May 05, 2000, 10:00:41 AM, Pim wrote: > Am I the first to have noticed that 1.42 Final is out? Nah, we've been running it for a few years now, just had to hide the fact that we had time travel for that long from people like you. Enjoy, but look out for that pesky macro bug. --

Re: email virus's

2000-05-04 Thread Steve Lamb
Thursday, May 04, 2000, 12:04:05 PM, Tom wrote: > Umm, I remember some discussion on getting inlined images to show up > in HTML-view pages that called those images. TB! doesn't do that. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343

Re: VIRUS warning (OT)

2000-05-04 Thread Steve Lamb
Thursday, May 04, 2000, 9:09:04 AM, tracer wrote: > We are getting signs that a new worm is spreading rather wildly.. > Update any AV you use and donot open ANYTHING claiming it loves > you > A reformat and clean install could be the consequence. > Check whatever Av tool's Homepage you use.

Threading (Was: TB! WishList)

2000-05-04 Thread Steve Lamb
Thursday, May 04, 2000, 9:00:26 AM, Allie wrote: > Aaaah, the beauty of threading. > I used to make that sort of mistake before re-implementing threading. We went over this. Threading's interface, to me, is severely broken compared to mutt's. When it approaches that ease of use and pow

Re: TB! WishList

2000-05-04 Thread Steve Lamb
Thursday, May 04, 2000, 8:22:41 AM, Steve wrote: > Thursday, May 04, 2000, 4:32:26 AM, Cristian wrote: >> Implementing a new feature, doesn't necessarily involve ruining an >> existing one. > It causes bloat which ruins the product. Gah, sorry, sorry. After this was sent I saw the rebuk

Re: Digest (05/04/2000 01:43) Special Issue (#2000-174)

2000-05-04 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, May 03, 2000, 3:25:48 PM, Marck wrote: > 1) Refer to the online help (which isn't *all* bad). > 2) Check the TB FAQ (at http://www.pcwize.com/thebat/faq.shtml) > 3) Check the TBUDL archive > 4) Experiment and explore > 5) Ask a question of your peers on TBUDL - not all of us respond >

Re: Digest (05/04/2000 01:43) Special Issue (#2000-174)

2000-05-04 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, May 03, 2000, 2:39:17 PM, Gene wrote: > As a Newbie here with TB, I'd really *love* to RTFM. But an earlier > post I made about that got the response that there is no manual, and the > best I can do (beyond the help file) is to check out the archives and > monitor this list. The h

Re: TB! WishList

2000-05-04 Thread Steve Lamb
Thursday, May 04, 2000, 4:32:26 AM, Cristian wrote: > Implementing a new feature, doesn't necessarily involve ruining an > existing one. It causes bloat which ruins the product. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | m

Re: TB! WishList

2000-05-03 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, May 03, 2000, 12:34:10 PM, Eberhard wrote: > IMHO it is no valid reason to deny this just bcs it would make TB! > more similar to those other mailers. Not everything is bad that the > majority likes, and not everything is cool just bcs it's different. And not everything the majorit

Re: auto-format is too robotic isn't it?

2000-05-03 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, May 03, 2000, 9:26:41 AM, Michael wrote: > Yes, Steve's message was rude. But: Apart from the flaming I can't find > any wrong statement in there. He's not being nice, but he's right with > what he's saying in terms of the topic. Trust me, the moderators have dinged me for it. I

Re: TB! WishList

2000-05-03 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, May 03, 2000, 9:35:07 AM, Allie wrote: > It doesn't take long before one realises that unless one writes his/her > own application, one will never use a complex application out there that > will do things exactly the way one wants. Developing the willingness to > make concessions and ge

Re: TB! WishList

2000-05-03 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, May 02, 2000, 2:53:20 PM, Eberhard wrote: > That the architecture of current IBM PCs is based on technology developed in > the late 60s. That it is a miracle of marketing rather than quality how this > OS could acquire the postion to grant its copyright owners monopoly power in > the firs

Re: auto-format is too robotic isn't it?

2000-05-03 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, May 02, 2000, 5:58:49 PM, Allie wrote: > The reason why I wish to clarify this is because with TB!, when composing > and the lines get wrapped, these CR's, although inserted by the editor, > really equate to hard CR's. The wrapping isn't redone upon sending as far > as I can tell. This is

Re: auto-format is too robotic isn't it?

2000-05-02 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, May 02, 2000, 3:14:59 PM, Alexander wrote: > Mistake #1 on your side: you think plain ASCII is a limitation of some > (unknown to me) sort, whereas _I_ think ASCII is a _power_, a well-thought > standard that those guys who invented "soft returns" and things alike (read: > M$ with its Wor

Re: auto-format is too robotic isn't it?

2000-05-02 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, May 02, 2000, 2:25:04 PM, Alexander wrote: > Allie, no personal offence, please! I didn't mean to insult you, just wanted > to stress the idea that if we stay on the grounds of _plain_text_ medium, we > need to take into account that there is _no_ paragraph concept applicable to > this me

Re: TB! WishList

2000-05-02 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, May 02, 2000, 11:25:13 AM, Allie wrote: > Oh, so there are other reasons. :-) Major reasons. How would you like a thread to be broken up into 5 parts and you completely lose your place because of it? :/ The backend works, the interface is beyond the normal TB! quirkiness into

Re: TB! WishList

2000-05-02 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, May 02, 2000, 10:58:42 AM, Allie wrote: > Anyway, TB! does it here. Each beta has at the bottom "And some minor > cosmetic fixes". I see from your message headers, that you're using > beta18. Could this be the reason why you think that I may be smoking? :-) > I suggest that you chec

Re: TB! WishList

2000-05-02 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, May 02, 2000, 10:18:20 AM, Allie wrote: > TB!'s threading is useless to you for that single reason?! Especially > since deletes the message? > delete message > Delete whole thread. Yes because Shift-CNTL-Del doesn't delete a single message. You're missing the point. When I rea

Re: TB! WishList

2000-05-02 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, May 02, 2000, 9:06:47 AM, Alexander wrote: > Nah, I don't think TB's threading is so bad. It could be made much better > when the _usability_ is concerned, but technically it's implemented very > well Agreed. See previous message. >> *whistles innocently in the background.* >

Re: TB! WishList

2000-05-02 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, May 02, 2000, 9:18:51 AM, Allie wrote: > Deleting messages therefore no longer collapse threads as easily and also > deleting a message doesn't no longer collapsed the thread. Problem is that TB! doesn't intuitively delete threads, either. Let me give you an example. Select a messa

Re: TB! WishList

2000-05-02 Thread Steve Lamb
Monday, May 01, 2000, 7:07:10 PM, Allie wrote: > Have you thought of using the 'total' and 'total unread' columns in the > message list? It can easily tell you how many messages are in each thread > and how many messages in each thread are unread. You can therefore get the > exact information that

Re: TB! WishList

2000-05-02 Thread Steve Lamb
Monday, May 01, 2000, 10:57:53 PM, Eberhard wrote: > Thanks for your kindness. I guess I will stick to TB! despite of what > you say. Thank God you don't seem to be the programmer. We had a great > mailer at its time on Amiga - it was called Voodoo. On the respective > mailing list the author was

Re: TB! WishList

2000-05-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Monday, May 01, 2000, 8:22:51 AM, Marck wrote: > i.e. everything coincided. GAAA. *thud* I hate English. Pardon me as I go back to Perl where I can grok it. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343

Re: TB! WishList

2000-05-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Monday, May 01, 2000, 6:54:58 AM, Cristian wrote: > Next is *not* intuitive. To you. > When I am saying "what's next ?" I mean what's new. What's the new > message that follows in time, not down in the list, where the newer > message is up. In received descending that would be previous.

Re: TB! WishList

2000-05-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Monday, May 01, 2000, 6:17:52 AM, Cristian wrote: > I find no real use of this hidden message list, as it occupies a lot of > space from the window. The window becomes like the preview pane - in > fact this is the reason I opened the message separately, to have more > space. Reduce the size o

Re: TB! WishList

2000-05-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Monday, May 01, 2000, 4:31:07 AM, Eberhard wrote: >>> 3. Extremely important: Mailing List Support >> %TO=""%TO="%OFROMNAME on TBUDL<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" > Hahaaa! Thanks! It works! =B-D Gee, and a while ago when I wrote that folder templates did it you replied that it didn't have anything

Re: TB! WishList

2000-05-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Monday, May 01, 2000, 4:04:36 AM, Cristian wrote: > Yes, but in the *received* list, not in my own displayed list. And it > follows a reverse logic ("next" brings the previous in time message). No, it /is/ in the list given. *sigh* In the folder view (It is not a message view) turn on m

Re: TB! WishList

2000-05-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Monday, May 01, 2000, 3:05:19 AM, Cristian wrote: > On Sun, 30 Apr 2000 19:26:38 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: >>Oddly enough it works exactly as you described for me. > How is that ? You did read the rest of the message, right? >> ... What, you weren't aware that the

Re: TB! WishList

2000-05-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Sunday, April 30, 2000, 10:26:15 PM, Eberhard wrote: > a) Is it possible to change the order of folders in any account? Yes. RTFM. > Oh, a general note before wrapping this one. I am positively surprised > by the quality of this list. I had expected some RTFM mails but none > so far. Thanks

Re: TB! WishList

2000-05-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Sunday, April 30, 2000, 9:31:55 AM, Eberhard wrote: >>> He meant that if you are in a miling list's folder, and hit CTRL+N, >>> the new message should be automagically addressed to the list. >> I am aware of that. You define a template for that folder to add the >> mailing list address. you

Re: TB! WishList

2000-05-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Sunday, April 30, 2000, 8:39:53 AM, Eberhard wrote: > Now you can say: Duh... stupid, create some filters and do it with one > real and one pass-through account at home. Sure, that's possible, but > inconvenient to have to check all external accounts manually (or use a > different key) isn't it.

Re: TB! WishList

2000-04-30 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 02:52:40AM +0300, Cristian Secara wrote: > In short, at present, I find it unusable. Oddly enough it works exactly as you described for me. ... What, you weren't aware that the message window doesn't inheirit the parent window's sorting order? Turn on the mes

Re: TB! WishList

2000-04-30 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 03:15:50PM +0200, SyP wrote: > >> 3. Extremely important: Mailing List Support > SL> Already there, folder templates. > He meant that if you are in a miling list's folder, and hit CTRL+N, > the new message should be automagically addressed to the list. I am aware

Re: TB! WishList

2000-04-30 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 01:55:08PM +0200, Eberhard Hafermalz wrote: > 1. The editor > The problem has been discussed before so I only mention it as a matter > of showing an interest in changing the "free carret" behavior. Do away with the editor, go external. > 3. Extremely important: Maili

Re: OT: Modifications to English;-)

2000-04-27 Thread Steve Lamb
Thursday, April 27, 2000, 7:29:45 AM, Alexander wrote: > During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" > and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After > zis fifz year, vi vil hav a realy sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls

Re: Continuosly message downloading

2000-04-27 Thread Steve Lamb
Thursday, April 27, 2000, 6:09:24 AM, Sir wrote: > My TB keeps downloading old messages again, and again, although I've checked > "download from server". Did anyone have a similar problem? Is it a TB > problem, or my providers? Have you told TB! to delete messages once downloaded? --

Re: Slogans - was Re: Sentence on download.com

2000-04-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, April 26, 2000, 9:04:58 AM, tracer wrote: > I thought that was an Amiga game?? Unlike the Amiga, Esperanto isn't dead. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls.

Re: Slogans - was Re: Sentence on download.com

2000-04-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, April 26, 2000, 7:54:26 AM, Steve wrote: > Wednesday, April 26, 2000, 7:49:01 AM, Allie wrote: >> True. We take our understanding of it for granted. :-) > English is tough stuff! Whoops. I think this makes reply-to mistake #3 in my email career. :) Sorry for the spam, people. -

Re: Slogans - was Re: Sentence on download.com

2000-04-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, April 26, 2000, 7:49:01 AM, Allie wrote: > True. We take our understanding of it for granted. :-) English is tough stuff! Dearest creature in creation, study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, m

Re: Slogans - was Re: Sentence on download.com

2000-04-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, April 26, 2000, 5:17:12 AM, Thomas wrote: > However, English is still very easy as you don't have any > declinations, conjugations, and other niceties that German, Finnish > and I believe Russian have. And talking about meanings of words > changing with the context - English is again ea

Re: Slogans - was Re: Sentence on download.com

2000-04-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, April 26, 2000, 3:59:50 AM, Soth wrote: > *grin* don't be so sure -- that word has been... introduced... through > popular media. Esp. movies. A Clockwork Orange, Trainspotting, just to name two. Of course I want to see those two together. One has Malcolm McDowell doing narratio

Re: Sentence on download.com

2000-04-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, April 25, 2000, 10:50:14 AM, Tom wrote: > Forget the rest, The Bat! is useful and doesn't have a dumb tagline. "We don't need no steenkin' tagline." -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to th

Re: Send and save to folder in one operation.

2000-04-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, April 25, 2000, 10:25:16 AM, Christian wrote: > What I would like to be able to do is "Send and save to folder" in > one operation. I was able to do this with my Linux mailer > (Postilion) and it was really handy. You could send a mail to "Bob" > and have it saved to the folder "B

Re: Cutsy fluff.

2000-04-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, April 25, 2000, 5:38:14 AM, Allie wrote: > On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 12:34:54 +0100, Tony Boom wrote: SL>>>Look at KJofol or Sonique skins sometime, that is true skinning. >> It's also what I would consider 'cutesy fluff'. They may enhance the >> appearance but do nothing for the func

Re: Sentence on download.com

2000-04-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Monday, April 24, 2000, 4:36:28 PM, Allie wrote: > It may not be skins as you see it, but if I can change how > TB!'s window looks apart from simply changing the colours, then I'm > skinning it as far as I can tell. Look at KJofol or Sonique skins sometime, that is true skinning. --

Re: Sentence on download.com

2000-04-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Monday, April 24, 2000, 12:09:01 PM, Allie wrote: > facilitators for many users. This 'cutsey fluff' is what attracts many > users to TB!. That's my point. Whether one feature is always used as > opposed to another feature being not so often used is irrelevant. But is that something you want

Re: Sentence on download.com

2000-04-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Monday, April 24, 2000, 11:50:57 AM, Allie wrote: > Hmmm. That's a sort of egocentric position to take. If the features aren't > useful to *you*, then they're 'cutsey fluff'. Lovely. :-) Well, let's see, interface is something everyone uses 100% of the time. Macros and templates are somethin

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