OT: new mail at top/bottom

2003-09-25 Thread Leif Gregory
Hello Bill, Wednesday, September 24, 2003, 6:13:58 PM, you wrote: BBTE The same is true of things like eBay and dBASE. There is no need BBTE to follow goofy capitalization in running text. Ebay and Dbase BBTE are just fine. moderator Note: This moderator's interjection is a note to all readers

Re: new mail at top/bottom

2003-09-25 Thread ken green
Urban wrote: Do you say the Eudora, the Becky, the Outlook Express? Well, I was being somewhat silly. But you need to see the context in which I was asking this question: ken green wrote: I noticed that the TB* archives use newest thread at top, And in that case, YES, I would say I noticed

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2003-09-24 Thread Edgar
Hello Elaine, Wednesday, September 24, 2003, 3:51:44 AM, you wrote: Indeed. Returning to the last message viewed allows me to leave a folder to look at something else, then return and pick up where I left off. I like the option as well, but I compact every night before signing off. Alas,

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2003-09-24 Thread ken green
rich gregory wrote: I finally decided that TB likes OLDEST mssgs at the top! I noticed that the TB* archives use newest thread at top, with the messages themselves sorted date ascending - using the oldest message of that thread at the top-level. For those using newest at top, this is a really

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2003-09-24 Thread Urban
Wednesday, September 24, 2003, ken green wrote: Is is redundant to say the TheBat! ? Do you say the Eudora, the Becky, the Outlook Express? -- Urban The sun never set on the British Empire because the British Empire is in the East and the sun sets in the West.

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2003-09-24 Thread Deborah W
On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, 5:14:40 PM, Urban wrote: U Do you say the Eudora, the Becky, the Outlook Express? No, because the names of those programs are Eudora, Becky Outlook Express spit G But the name of this one is The Bat. The The is part of its name. Confused yet? -- Deborah

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2003-09-24 Thread Chris
On Wednesday, September 24, 2003 at 2:31:28 PM, ken green wrote in the message new mail at top/bottom mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: *off-topic Is is redundant to say the TheBat! ? And how do you punctuate that last sentence? Even with quotes, it still looks weird: Is is redundant to say the TheBat

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2003-09-24 Thread Urban
Thursday, September 25, 2003, Deborah W wrote: No, because the names of those programs are Eudora, Becky Outlook Express spit G But the name of this one is The Bat. The The is part of its name. Confused yet? Not really... The The Bat e-mail client... could be a bit mind-boggling, but it

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2003-09-24 Thread Bill Blinn Technology Editor
At 7:13 PM on 9/24/2003, Chris typed ... From looking at the Ritlabs web site, I have determined the following: C 1) The Bat! should be written as such. It is not the Bat, TheBat, CtheBat!, TheBat!, or variation thereof. As much as I like The Bat, as an editor I abhor this advice from the

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2003-09-24 Thread Mary Bull
Hello Deborah! On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, 5:26 PM, you wrote: U Do you say the Eudora, the Becky, the Outlook Express? D No, because the names of those programs are Eudora, Becky Outlook D Express spit G D But the name of this one is The Bat. The The is part of its name. Very clearly

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2003-09-24 Thread Mary Bull
Hello Chris! On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, 6:13 PM, you wrote, in part: C I LOVE The Bat!!! C NB: Number four is more so a matter of style than the others. And opinion, as, I *Love* The Bat! g SCNR! :) -- Best regards, Mary The Bat! 2.00.6 on Windows XP 5.1 2600 Service Pack 1

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2003-09-24 Thread Chris
On Wednesday, September 24, 2003 at 7:08:32 PM, Urban wrote in the message new mail at top/bottom mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Canis meus id comedit. That looks like latin. I don't know latin. Translation pleease. My dog chewed it up. -- Chris Quoting when replying to this message is good

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2003-09-24 Thread Deborah W
On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, 7:08:32 PM, Urban wrote: Canis meus id comedit. U That looks like latin. I don't know latin. Translation pleease. My dog ate it :-) -- Deborah Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough. - Mary McLeod Bethune

new mail at top/bottom

2003-09-23 Thread ken green
I'm curious how other TB users approach this. I currently have all my folders that receive mail sorted by date ascending (that is, newest message at the bottom). I have gone back and forth over the years, and sometimes used ascending just for mailing lists and such and descending for regular

Re: new mail at top/bottom

2003-09-23 Thread Martin Webster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello ken, On 23 September 2003, 01:18 -0500 (07:18 local time) ken green [KG] in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: kg The reason I'm bringing this up is that TheBat! (v1.62r) seems to kg prefer new messages at the top. I know one or the other probably

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2003-09-23 Thread rich gregory
kg I have gone back and forth over the years, and sometimes used ascending kg just for mailing lists and such and descending for regular Inboxes. kg The reason I'm bringing this up is that TheBat! (v1.62r) seems to kg prefer new messages at the top. That's funny... I finally decided that TB

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2003-09-23 Thread MAU
Hello ken, Heck, maybe I'm the only one who sorts with newest at the bottom! No, you are not :-) I have most of my folders set to view Threads by Reference and then sorted by Created date with newest at bottom. -- Best regards, Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial - Spain) Using The Bat! v2.00.6

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2003-09-23 Thread Edgar
Hello ken, Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 8:18:58 AM, you wrote: I'm curious how other TB users approach this. I currently have all my folders that receive mail sorted by date ascending (that is, newest message at the bottom). snip This is pretty minor - I can press the End key and quickly

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2003-09-23 Thread Roelof Otten
Hallo ken, On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 01:18:58 -0500GMT (23-9-03, 8:18 +0200, where I live), you wrote: kg I'm curious how other TB users approach this. I currently have all my kg folders that receive mail sorted by date ascending (that is, newest kg message at the bottom). I've been always most

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2003-09-23 Thread Mary Bull
Hello Ken! On Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 1:18 AM, you wrote, in part: k Heck, maybe I'm the only one who sorts with newest at the bottom! You're not alone--I do that, too. And, even more eccentric, I often have View set at None, so that I'm reading the messages chronologically, rather than by

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2003-09-23 Thread Deborah W
On Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 2:18:58 AM, ken green wrote: kg I claim TB prefers descending (new mail at the top), because after kg clearing a Quick Filter (Alt + select: name, subject, etc.) by kg pressing Ctrl+=, the focus returns to the top of the list. Not a kg huge deal, but if that's your

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2003-09-23 Thread ken green
rich gregory wrote: That's funny... I finally decided that TB likes OLDEST mssgs at the top! When in preview mode with focus in the message list hit delete. Focus moves DOWN (to the next newsest message). Right. That's one of the reasons I like date asc order (new at bottom) - especially

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2003-09-23 Thread ken green
Edgar wrote: I also have the messages sorted ascending and the only thing that I noticed was that if you read a mail, close the folder and open the folder later (and in the meantime messages were placed into the folder), the mail highlighted is not the bottom one (newest) but the one you read

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2003-09-23 Thread Dave Goodman
On Tuesday, September 23, 2003, ken green wrote: ... if you read a mail, close the folder and open the folder later (and in the meantime messages were placed into the folder), the mail highlighted is not the bottom one (newest) but the one you read last. I would like that to be the last mail

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2003-09-23 Thread Deborah W
On Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 5:42:05 PM, ken green wrote: kg That's funny. I *LIKE* returning to the last message viewed. So do I, but that's not what happens in the circumstances we've been discussing, I think that's the issue for Ken too. Usually, when you exit a folder then go back into

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2003-09-23 Thread ETM
That's funny. I *LIKE* returning to the last message viewed. Indeed. Returning to the last message viewed allows me to leave a folder to look at something else, then return and pick up where I left off. I like the option as well, but I compact every night before signing off. Alas, my