Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-25 Thread Allie Martin
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000 08:59:27 +0700, tracer wrote: [..snip..] Not sure what Steve thinks: system adding blank lines(g). Maybe we need some tab called netiquette where all that sort of stuff is set AutoCorrectors, Grammatik, etc. They all get in the way IMHO. The most infuriating is

Re[3]: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-24 Thread Keith Russell
Hello, fellow Bat-lovers. On Monday, 24 January, 2000, 12:00:47 AM, tracer wrote: t Hello Keith Russell, t On Sun, 23 Jan 2000 20:54:19 -0700 GMT your local time, t which was Monday, January 24, 2000, 10:54:19 AM (GMT+0700) my local time, t Keith Russell wrote: Keith It frustrates me that I

Re[4]: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-24 Thread tracer
Hello Keith Russell, On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:08:47 -0700 GMT your local time, which was Tuesday, January 25, 2000, 1:08:47 AM (GMT+0700) my local time, Keith Russell wrote: Keith Hello, fellow Bat-lovers. Keith That's better! Once it becomes a habit, you won't have to think to Keith remember

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-24 Thread Januk Aggarwal
Hello Marck, On Monday, January 24, 2000 at 07:15:30 GMT + (which was 11:15 PM where I live) [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I'll tell you what I think: you already have this facility by corectly placing the %CURSOR macro following the %QUOTES in your reply template :-). Ah, but you can't

Re[2]: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-23 Thread Lone-Wolf
Newsreading with Bat? Hello Nick, Wednesday, January 19, 2000, 8:18:32 PM, you wrote: NA On Tuesday, January 18, 2000, 2:02:43 PM, Allie Martin wrote: Yes, I used the Agent combo for sometime myself but realized that Agent failed quite substantially on the e-mail side. It also fails quite

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-23 Thread Allie Martin
On Sat, 22 Jan 2000 16:23:40 +1100, Lone-Wolf wrote: [..snip..] Perhaps if anyone could tell me how to use Xnews off line I would be eternally grateful (well, at least grateful, don't know about eternal) I've been unable to use X-News offline in any meaningful manner. I guess that you

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-23 Thread Keith Russell
Hello, fellow Bat-lovers. On Saturday, January 22, 2000, 5:07:34 AM, tracer wrote: t Hello Jast, t On Sat, 22 Jan 2000 05:36:20 +0100 GMT your local time, t which was Saturday, January 22, 2000, 11:36:20 AM (GMT+0700) my local time, t Jast wrote: Jast Not every (net) community has the same

Re[2]: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-23 Thread tracer
Hello Keith Russell, On Sun, 23 Jan 2000 20:54:19 -0700 GMT your local time, which was Monday, January 24, 2000, 10:54:19 AM (GMT+0700) my local time, Keith Russell wrote: Keith It frustrates me that I and several others have asked you to put lines Keith between quotes, and that even in

Re[2]: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-22 Thread tracer
Hello Jast, On Sat, 22 Jan 2000 05:36:20 +0100 GMT your local time, which was Saturday, January 22, 2000, 11:36:20 AM (GMT+0700) my local time, Jast wrote: Jast Not every (net) community has the same standards and rules, and in some good Jast message trimming and formatting might not be

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-22 Thread Allie Martin
On Sat, 22 Jan 2000 16:39:53 +0100, Jast wrote: Spmeone told me that one really should have a separator line as a feature of the bat when quoting, or a blank line. Anyway, I donot see lines after quotes in your msg so I do musunderstand it? Looks like it :-) As you can see, I left a blank

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-22 Thread Jast
Morning tracer, Spmeone told me that one really should have a separator line as a feature of the bat when quoting, or a blank line. Anyway, I donot see lines after quotes in your msg so I do musunderstand it? Looks like it :-) As you can see, I left a blank line between the quotes and my

Re[2]: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-21 Thread tracer
Hello Christopher J. Trybowski, On Thu, 20 Jan 2000 01:29:54 +0100 GMT your local time, which was Thursday, January 20, 2000, 7:29:54 AM (GMT+0700) my local time, Christopher J. Trybowski wrote: Christopher Hello Allie, Christopher On Wednesday, January 19, 2000 you wrote: Christopher [Gravity]

Re[2]: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-21 Thread tracer
Hello Allie Martin, On Thu, 20 Jan 2000 06:20:52 -0500 GMT your local time, which was Thursday, January 20, 2000, 6:20:52 PM (GMT+0700) my local time, Allie Martin wrote: Allie On Thu, 20 Jan 2000 01:29:54 +0100, Christopher J. Trybowski wrote: [Gravity] Yes, but considering that I have

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-21 Thread Allie Martin
On Thu, 20 Jan 2000 18:52:26 +0700, tracer wrote: Yes, but considering that I have to pay for the damn thing, the editor is UTTERLY unacceptable. How can you create a popup message saying that the flow of text is too long and that some readers may have problems reading the message

Fwd: Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-21 Thread Thomas Fernandez
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Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-21 Thread Nick Andriash
On Thursday, January 20, 2000, 8:01:43 AM, Steve Lamb wrote: Thursday, January 20, 2000, 7:54:19 AM, Nick wrote: I'm just curious, but what purpose would be served by trying to run Xnews with Hamster? What added functionality would it serve that is not already present in Xnews? Wild

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-21 Thread Allie Martin
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000 08:30:16 -0800, Nick Andriash wrote: Wild guess, Hamster is a local news server. XNews doesn't have true offline reading capabilities so it needs a local news server to do that. I was thinking more about this Steve, and remembered that Xnews has a storage feature.

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-21 Thread Steve Lamb
Friday, January 21, 2000, 2:56:11 AM, Allie wrote: trimmed) is far more than what I have written and if I'm sure that I still want to send? Now tell me In Gravity (IIRC) there is an option to set a threshold on that warning. IE, messages under x lines don't get checked on the quote

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-21 Thread Steve Lamb
Friday, January 21, 2000, 8:30:16 AM, Nick wrote: I was thinking more about this Steve, and remembered that Xnews has a storage feature. Would not storing of bodies serve the same purpose as running Hamster with Xnews? Are they not one in the same, only using different Folders basically?

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-21 Thread Nick Andriash
On Friday, January 21, 2000, 8:44:59 AM, Allie Martin wrote: Yes, but I can't seem to get at these stored messages without first going online and opening the group with the connection going. You could however disconnect after having opened the group and continue reading offline. I have

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-21 Thread Allie Martin
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000 09:21:53 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: Also who said colors are for news. Personally I find black on white blinding. I am upset at Windows for tying certain color values together which force people to use a dark on light color scheme than a light on dark. Configuring

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-21 Thread Jast
Morning Allie Martin, The netiquette rules are global. Not necessarily... I'm involved in a community where shouting is just another way of expressing irony or used for fun, were you greet each other with "BITCH" and the likes and a song consisting only of cusswords is the

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-20 Thread Christopher J. Trybowski
Hello Allie, On Wednesday, January 19, 2000 you wrote: [Gravity] Yes, but considering that I have to pay for the damn thing, the editor is UTTERLY unacceptable. How can you create a popup message saying that the flow of text is too long and that some readers may have problems reading

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-20 Thread Allie Martin
On Thu, 20 Jan 2000 01:29:54 +0100, Christopher J. Trybowski wrote: [Gravity] Yes, but considering that I have to pay for the damn thing, the editor is UTTERLY unacceptable. How can you create a popup message saying that the flow of text is too long and that some readers may have

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-20 Thread Nick Andriash
On Wednesday, January 19, 2000, 4:29:54 PM, Christopher J. Trybowski wrote: Oh, come on, this program is a winner as far as bugs are concerned. Too long lines is one of them. But there are plenty of others, and plenty of lacking features (like Base64 and Quoted Printable support for

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-20 Thread Steve Lamb
Thursday, January 20, 2000, 7:54:19 AM, Nick wrote: I'm just curious, but what purpose would be served by trying to run Xnews with Hamster? What added functionality would it serve that is not already present in Xnews? Wild guess, Hamster is a local news server. XNews doesn't have true

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-20 Thread Nick Andriash
On Thursday, January 20, 2000, 3:20:52 AM, Allie Martin wrote: I didn't give it enough of a chance to discover other problems. Upon using it to post a couple messages, the decision was clear. If certain basic things/issues are not properly addressed, I don't care about the rest of the

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-20 Thread Nick Andriash
On Thursday, January 20, 2000, 8:01:43 AM, Steve Lamb wrote: Wild guess, Hamster is a local news server. XNews doesn't have true offline reading capabilities so it needs a local news server to do that. Oh right... yeah, I forgot about the off-line reading issue. Thanks. :o) -- -=Nick

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-19 Thread Nick Andriash
On Tuesday, January 18, 2000, 2:02:43 PM, Allie Martin wrote: Yes, I used the Agent combo for sometime myself but realized that Agent failed quite substantially on the e-mail side. It also fails quite markedly on the news side as well with it's inability to support multiple servers without

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-19 Thread Allie Martin
On Wed, 19 Jan 2000 01:18:32 -0800, Nick Andriash wrote: [..snip..] I have the same feelings toward Agent, and although I haven't tried X-News as yet, I am currently trying Gravity 2.2. It configures multiple servers easily, and has scoring as well. Have you tried this Program yet Allie?

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-19 Thread Pasquale J. Festa Sr.
Hello Grant, January 18, 2000, 8:10:22 AM, you wrote: GB I'm a long time user of Agent, and have to admit that this is the GB first program to come along in _years_ that turned my head at all! I GB really like the functionality of the Bat. However, mail is probably GB only 1/4 of my needs. The

Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-18 Thread Grant Baxter
I'm a long time user of Agent, and have to admit that this is the first program to come along in _years_ that turned my head at all! I really like the functionality of the Bat. However, mail is probably only 1/4 of my needs. The other 3/4 is newsgroups. Are there any plans to add newsgroup

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-18 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, January 18, 2000, 5:10:22 AM, Grant wrote: I'm a long time user of Agent, and have to admit that this is the first program to come along in _years_ that turned my head at all! I really like the functionality of the Bat. However, mail is probably only 1/4 of my needs. The other 3/4 is

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-18 Thread Grant Baxter
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:49:09 -0800, you wrote: GB I'm a long time user of Agent, and have to admit that this is the GB first program to come along in _years_ that turned my head at all! I GB really like the functionality of the Bat. However, mail is probably GB only 1/4 of my needs. The other

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-18 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, January 18, 2000, 1:16:58 PM, Grant wrote: No, not really. Use Outlook, it does both. Agent does both, from what I hear. I'd much rather prefer to keep this specialized client specialized since it is so damned hard to find a good specialized client in this madness to include

Re: Newsreading with Bat?

2000-01-18 Thread Allie Martin
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000 16:16:58 -0500, Grant Baxter wrote: [..snip..] No, not really. Anyone (like me) that has interests in things that span both newsgroups and maillists, would like (as I do) to be able to file pertinent info from both newsgroups _and_ maillists into the same folder. For