On Sun, 07 May 2000 14:33:05 -0600, Douglas Hinds wrote:
> If it's in your machine and is activated you will become infected. While
> you may not disseminate to others, you will lose data. I am willing to
> lose messages that come with vbs files attached, since I can visualize
> no reasonable context in which I want to receive one.
What I meant was delete the message when you see it. Imprecise filters can
perhaps do more harm that good. This is why spam filtering by exclusion
and confinement works so well instead of filters that delete from the
server. If it hits an innocent, it's gone forever.
> I have dedicated a three character wide space for my memo column, which
> I use only to indicate the presence of a memo and it's importance. Being
> more or less convenient or functional may be user dependent.
What really matters is that the functionality exists. The fact that you
don't use it is largely irrelevant. Others, like myself use a wider memo
column than you do, therefore the initial text of large memos or entire
short memos are visible. Changing this to an icon would force me to always
open the memo window to see my memos as you chose to. :-) The idea is not
to break existing functionality.
> Too wide for my needs.
That's quite OK. You can easily make it thinner as you're doing now. :-)
Others like me prefer it wider.
> The ticker does not suit my needs since most or many messages are never
> read. If it were possible to program the ticker so that it showed only
> messages that arrived within a given time frame, then it would be useful
> to me. As is, I can either turn it off for all folders or cuss the hell
> out of it when I'm forced to wait until it counts the thousands of
> unread messages that have accumulated in TB! since September of '99,
> when it's activated unintentionally.
Open the ticker, right click on it and select Messages | Age Limits. What
do you think of that addition? You /can/ set age limits.
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