News reader?

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dszady :
For a Beta it is very stable, lots of features and it's not abandonware
like one other very popular Newsreader. Just my opinion.
After you've tried the rest, come back to the best.
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what's "abandonware"? Does that mean the authors abandoned the project
and don't support it anymore?


Viele Grüße,
Sascha
 
MightyKitten :
Just my ? 0,02 ( At least it is nowadays more then $0,02 ;-) )
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depends on the exchange rates between ? and $.
If ? = ¤, you're right :)

SCNR!



Viele Grüße,
Sascha
 
I've never used Agent 2.0, so I can't comment on it. However, the reports I
have read merely suggest that it's Forte's attempt to catch up with Dialog.
;)
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Dialog stacks up very well with Agent 2.0 except in filtering and the cheesy
E-Mail address book. If Dialog fixes these 2 things, I could probably
switch to Dialog and not really miss Agent.

Bob

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Hi Bob,
Agreed. If it had more powerful filtering, it would be a 9.5/10! Since it's
in active development, I am confident the filtering will come.
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"More powerful filtering" !! ????

Dialog has a truly amazing number of filtering/viewing options. Care
to explain your comment more fully ?

Regards, John.

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Kram wrote:

[Top posting fixed]
Xnews I use the majority of the time. Small, quick.
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[...]

...and GNSKA compliant.

Please bottom post. Xnews, you will find, correctly places your cursor
at the bottom of quoted text by default. Why break with convention?

Thanks.
 
Bob Adkins said:
Dialog stacks up very well with Agent 2.0 except....
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What is really lacking in Dialog is the ability to save messages to text
files. Agent has always been very good in that respect.

When I used Agent I could use folders to store messages reliably and later
sort them in time order, set the savings options, and save all messages to
a long text file.

The save selected messages option in Dialog is practically always
unavailable when I need it.
 
Roger Johansson scribebat:
What is really lacking in Dialog is the ability to save messages to text
files. Agent has always been very good in that respect.
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I do not know what you are doing, but my Dialog can save messages and
even whole threads as text files, exactly as Agent could.

File - Save selected articles
change the extension from mbx to txt

bye,

Onno
 
Onno Tasler said:
Roger Johansson scribebat:
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I do not know what you are doing, but my Dialog can save messages and
even whole threads as text files, exactly as Agent could.
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File - Save selected articles
change the extension from mbx to txt
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Have you tried to select multiple messages in your Sent folder to save as a
text file?
To save my own messages is the most important issue for me.

It doesn't work in the Drafts folder either.

I have yet not tried filtering incoming mail to different folders for
different mailing lists, but I suspect that I would get the same problem
there.

The author has allowed saving multiple messages in just some folders and
not in others, and the most important one, to save your own articles does
not work.
 
mercoledì 25/feb/2004 _Roger Johansson_ ha scritto:
Have you tried to select multiple messages in your Sent folder to save as a
text file?
To save my own messages is the most important issue for me.

It doesn't work in the Drafts folder either.

I have yet not tried filtering incoming mail to different folders for
different mailing lists, but I suspect that I would get the same problem
there.

The author has allowed saving multiple messages in just some folders and
not in others, and the most important one, to save your own articles does
not work.
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To automatically save your articles in the folder "myArticles", you have
only to put this rule in score and actions:

!copy(myArticles) From "yourEmail"

Then from that folder you can save as .txt files, if you want.
 
To automatically save your articles in the folder "myArticles", you have
only to put this rule in score and actions:
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I don't have any folder called "myArticles",and why all this mess?
My sent articles are already saved in the Sent folder, I just want to
select all articles there and save them to a text file.
!copy(myArticles) From "yourEmail"
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I don't have any folder called "yourEmail" either.
Then from that folder you can save as .txt files, if you want.
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I already have 300 articles saved in the Sent folder.
How do I sort them in time order and save them to a text file?
 
A few other problems in Dialog:

I click the "Stop all tasks" button, and then I try to close the program.
It says "Do you really want to close while tasks are still running?"
And I think: Is this program nuts? I just told it to stop all tasks.

Every time I save an article to a text file I get a message box popping up,
telling me that I just saved an article to a text file, and I have to click
an OK button to get rid of the message box.

I already know I saved a message to a text file, I don't need a message
about that afterwards every time which I need to use an extra click to get
rid of.
There should only be a message if the saving could not be done.

Dialog should save all sent usenet messages in one folder and all sent
emails in another.
Both folders should have good sort features, to enable the user to save all
messages, sorted by time, and subject, and newsgroup, and thread, in
different combinations of sorting.
Or to hide all messages which are not to be included, sort the visible
ones, and save them to a text file.
The user should be able to choose which headers are to be included in the
saving.

There are lots of things like this in Dialog which need fixing before it
can be really useful.

And I haven't even tried setting up folders to filter incoming mail in yet,
but those folders should have the same possibilities.

In spite of all these shortcomings I still think Dialog is the best
news/mail program I have found so far.
 
Kram wrote:

[Top posting fixed]
Xnews I use the majority of the time. Small, quick.
Click to expand...

[...]

..and GNSKA compliant.

Please bottom post. Xnews, you will find, correctly places
your cursor at the bottom of quoted text by default. Why
break with convention?

Thanks.
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DC,
Did Luu fix that version of Xnews that top posted by default, or
is that the last newest version, if you know?
 
mercoledì 25/feb/2004 _Roger Johansson_ ha scritto:
I don't have any folder called "myArticles",and why all this mess?
My sent articles are already saved in the Sent folder, I just want to
select all articles there and save them to a text file.
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I thought it was clear that "myArticles" was only a way to say the folder
you want to copy your messages to.
I don't have any folder called "yourEmail" either.
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"yourEmail"is not a folder, is the indication for the email address that is
in your "From:" header. In your case: <[email protected]>.

However, this procedure works only for the messages you'll send since you
put the rule on. For the old messages I think you can't do anything.
 
MLC said:
However, this procedure works only for the messages you'll send since you
put the rule on. For the old messages I think you can't do anything.
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That is exactly what I suspected.
Well, thanks anyway.
We will have to wait for new versions of Dialog with some of these problems
fixed.
 
"More powerful filtering" !! ????

Dialog has a truly amazing number of filtering/viewing options. Care
to explain your comment more fully ?
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John,

I really like Dialog, and I gave it a longer than normal tryout.

I don't remember many details, but there was something about the filter
capabilities or setup that was a total turnoff. Perhaps a feature to delete
or move filtered e-mail addresses was missing, or perhaps the filters are
unnecessarily hard to use. I honestly don't recall.

When the next update of Dialog is released, I will install it and pay
special attention to the filters and the e-mail address book.

Bob

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