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Gentlemen, I use Outlook as well. You may want to try OE QuoteFix.
Works wonders with posts and sigs.

http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/

Cheers!


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Thanks for the tip Ace ... as you can see, it would appear this useful
little tool will resolve my laziness issues ..

Much appreciated.

 

[Ace Fekay [MVP]]

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Thanks for the tip Ace ... as you can see, it would appear this useful
little tool will resolve my laziness issues ..

Much appreciated.

LOL, now you know why I use it! That tool even gives colors to better read
the responses in a post/thread.
Here's a few more:

CopyURL (For IE). Helps copy/paste URLs and their descriptions from your
Favorites:
http://www.moonsoftware.com/freeware.asp

OEBackup 6.5 (not free), which I use the older 5.0 version:
http://www.genie-soft.com/download.html

OE Backup Freebie:
http://oehelp.com
http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx

URLRun (may remember this from the MCT groups):
This utility lets you capture and clean URLs (wrapped URLs too], and paste
them into a browser automatically:
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,21420,00.asp

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[Kenneth Porter]

So Xnews is the answer? I have a love/hate relationship with Outlook
Express.

I resist getting religious about it. I just haven't found anything better
(yet).

Download it, give it a try. There's a huge amount of support for it in
news.software.readers, just put "[Xnews]" in the subject line. To see the
scoring feature, view an article and select Article | Add to score file
(last item on Article menu). You'll get a dialog where you can select how
much to score, what to score on, and how long to keep the entry in your
score file (useful for stuff you're transiently interested in).

Xnews supports multiple servers, multiple "identities", and per-group
assignment of identity. So you can use your personal address in one group
and your office address in another. You can also use separate From and
Reply-to values, very useful for fighting spam while providing a real
address. (Alas, Outlook Express ignores Reply-to in newsgroups, so it
always picks the decoy address in the From line.)

 

[Herb Martin]

I resist getting religious about it. I just haven't found anything better

(yet).

Download it, give it a try.

Downloaded, not installed yet. Thanks.

There's a huge amount of support for it in
news.software.readers, just put "[Xnews]" in the subject line. To see the
scoring feature, view an article and select Article | Add to score file
(last item on Article menu). You'll get a dialog where you can select how
much to score, what to score on, and how long to keep the entry in your
score file (useful for stuff you're transiently interested in).

Right now I am falling in love (or getting religion) with Privoxy and
SpamBayes. Very slick. (Different subject of course.)

Netscape isn't so bad -- I run it about every 2 years and actually have
never liked it but this version is BETTER than IE (tabbed browse
windows is enough right there.)

 

[Ace Fekay [MVP]]

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So Xnews is the answer? I have a love/hate relationship with Outlook
Express.

I resist getting religious about it. I just haven't found anything
better (yet).

Download it, give it a try. There's a huge amount of support for it in
news.software.readers, just put "[Xnews]" in the subject line. To see
the scoring feature, view an article and select Article | Add to
score file (last item on Article menu). You'll get a dialog where you
can select how much to score, what to score on, and how long to keep
the entry in your score file (useful for stuff you're transiently
interested in).

Xnews supports multiple servers, multiple "identities", and per-group
assignment of identity. So you can use your personal address in one
group and your office address in another. You can also use separate
From and Reply-to values, very useful for fighting spam while
providing a real address. (Alas, Outlook Express ignores Reply-to in
newsgroups, so it always picks the decoy address in the From line.)

Does Xnews support HTTP email accounts, such as Hotmail? That's pretty much
the reason I stuck with OE. I had Gravity running, which I really like, but
it doesn't support HTTP email accounts.

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[Kenneth Porter]

[posted and mailed]

Does Xnews support HTTP email accounts, such as Hotmail? That's pretty
much the reason I stuck with OE. I had Gravity running, which I really
like, but it doesn't support HTTP email accounts.

AFAIK, no. Xnews' mail support is rudimentary, and one reason I don't get
religious about it. My biggest beef is that it can't send to more than one
mail recipient, or send BCC.

Mind you, Xnews doesn't *receive* mail at all. It only supports sending
mail by SMTP, and primarily for the purpose of sending private to-poster
responses. There's also a Forward-by-email option for sending those fun
posts to your friends.

For demonstration purposes, I'll check the box to both post and email this
reply, so you can inspect the headers. Xnews also puts the "posted and
mailed" at the top when I do this. I'm setting it to email to me using my
decoy address, so Ace's address doesn't show up for spam harvesting.

 

[Ace Fekay [MVP]]

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[posted and mailed]

Does Xnews support HTTP email accounts, such as Hotmail? That's
pretty much the reason I stuck with OE. I had Gravity running, which
I really like, but it doesn't support HTTP email accounts.

AFAIK, no. Xnews' mail support is rudimentary, and one reason I don't
get religious about it. My biggest beef is that it can't send to more
than one mail recipient, or send BCC.

Mind you, Xnews doesn't *receive* mail at all. It only supports
sending mail by SMTP, and primarily for the purpose of sending
private to-poster responses. There's also a Forward-by-email option
for sending those fun posts to your friends.

For demonstration purposes, I'll check the box to both post and email
this reply, so you can inspect the headers. Xnews also puts the
"posted and mailed" at the top when I do this. I'm setting it to
email to me using my decoy address, so Ace's address doesn't show up
for spam harvesting.

Thanks Kenneth.
However, I haven't received your email yet.

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Ace

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[Herb Martin]

I use SpamAssassin on my Linux mail server, which includes Bayes analysis

along with keywords and patterns. You can buy a commercial version for use
with Exchange, and I believe people have it working as a plugin to OE or
Outlook. SA is written in Perl, which makes it easy to add yor own rules or
tweak scoring as necessary. Quite a few people set up a small Linux box
running sendmail or postfix and SA to act as an "Internet condom" for their
Exchange server.

I have a like SpamAssassin too but my experience with it has
been all at the SMTP or POP3 proxy level -- SpamBayes has
a small and much more manageable install, for Outlook.

SpamAssassin uses Razor 2 for the Bayesian component.
Razor 2 has been difficult to install and compile on Win2000;
and hasn't typically had a "binary install package" requiring on

Netscape, or Mozilla? I've been using and loving Mozilla for web browsing

Netscape 7.1.

and IRC since it went 1.0 (it's now up to 1.5 alpha). The planned roadmap
for Moz is to go to ultra-lightweight (and hence fast-loading) modules
instead of the monolithic monster suite it is now. I got addicted to tabbed
browsing with Opera, and had to adapt to Moz as it slowly acquired all the
features I'd loved in Opera.

Tabs are neat. Surprising how big a difference that makes to organization
and coherent browsing.

Also, the "Google search" browser (changes to other search engines on
request -- I just use Google mostly. Having that browser pane even after
you go visit other sites is great -- no more having to "start in new window"
to keep the search results available as you check various hits.

One nice bit with Moz not normally visible to the average user is very
selective JavaScript control. You can disable all the obnoxious JS popup-
enabling functions in your prefs.js file without totally disabling JS and
cutting yourself off from sites that use it responsibly. For instance, just
disabling the ability to open another window from the OnClose function
eliminates a lot of problems.

That's cool too.
I wonder if Netscape does these (I am a newbie at Netscape.)

 

[Herb Martin]

I am learning (again) Emacs and looking at just using Gnus
to do News, right there in the editor -- or maybe Netscape.

Netscape is (right now) a MUCH better browser than IE 6.
(I was shocked by this and prepared to uninstall it if it turned
out to be a dog like in the past.)

 

[Kenneth Porter]

SpamAssassin uses Razor 2 for the Bayesian component.

I thought Razor and Bayes were separate, and that Razor is looking at
others' reports of spam (central database), while Bayes is looking at
your own word frequency database. I didn't think the two were related.

Also, the "Google search" browser (changes to other search engines on
request -- I just use Google mostly. Having that browser pane even
after you go visit other sites is great -- no more having to "start in
new window" to keep the search results available as you check various
hits.

Have you found the middle mouse button? I use that to open links in
background tabs, rapidly opening several search results before looking at
each one by one. You'll need to play with the tabbed browsing options to
enable that.

I wonder if Netscape does these (I am a newbie at Netscape.)

Probably, it wasn't documented, I just found them in a random post
somewhere. Here's the ones that were suggested. Just put them in prefs.js
while the program is not running (since that's rewritten on program
exit). Remember to keep a backup of the file before modifying it.

user_pref("dom.disable_window_flip", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_move_resize", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.close", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.directories", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.location", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.menubar", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.minimizable", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.personalbar", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.resizable", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.scrollbars", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.status" , true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.titlebar", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.toolbar", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_status_change", true);
user_pref("browser.block.target_new_window", true);

 

[Kenneth Porter]

Thanks Kenneth.
However, I haven't received your email yet.

As intended. I noticed you obfuscate your address, so I didn't want to
include your address in a posted reply where it could get harvested. So I
used my own obfuscated address as the email target.

 

[Ace Fekay [MVP]]

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As intended. I noticed you obfuscate your address, so I didn't want to
include your address in a posted reply where it could get harvested.
So I used my own obfuscated address as the email target.

Yes, as I normally do here. Sorry about that, thought it was clear what to
change it to. Curious about the headers.

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Ace

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Microsoft Windows MVP - Active Directory

 

[Herb Martin]

Sorry, I got confused. Razor is about a database of
reported Spam (as you indicate.)

Bayes is internal to SA.

Those Netscape tricks are very cool and very helpful.