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Sorry to be off topic, but you are a knowledgeable lot.

Can anyone point me in the direction of a newsgroup that will help me in my
endeavour to build a PC from scratch? I have got info from the web but would
like a bit of personal advice from people who have experience of this kind
of thing.

Thanks,
Dave.
 
dave smith, 7/24/2006, 1:23:35 PM,
Sorry to be off topic, but you are a knowledgeable lot.

Can anyone point me in the direction of a newsgroup that will help me
in my endeavour to build a PC from scratch? I have got info from the
web but would like a bit of personal advice from people who have
experience of this kind of thing.

Thanks,
Dave.
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alt.comp.homebuilt
 
dave said:
Sorry to be off topic, but you are a knowledgeable lot.

Can anyone point me in the direction of a newsgroup that will help me in my
endeavour to build a PC from scratch? I have got info from the web but would
like a bit of personal advice from people who have experience of this kind
of thing.

Thanks,
Dave.
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As well as the above...
you might find some help in the high traffic
microsoft newsgroup for hardware...

there are some very helpful people there

news://msnews.microsoft.com
 
Subject: Re: newsgroups
Date: 24 Jul 2006 20:01:41 +0200
Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869
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John,

You probably don't realize this but Outlook Express strips the OT: from
the subject header. Any text with a colon afterwards is stripped.
This is a known bug. You may want to consider this for future replies
you make to OT: posts.
 
badgolferman said:
John,

You probably don't realize this but Outlook Express strips the OT: from
the subject header. Any text with a colon afterwards is stripped.
This is a known bug. You may want to consider this for future replies
you make to OT: posts.
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doesn't on mine.
 
strange....I never noticed this...

why does this happen... and how to correct this?

What about Re: why doesn't it strip that colon?

I must look into this.. strange... lol

I personally use OT with a parenthesis or bracket...
 
strange....I never noticed this...

why does this happen... and how to correct this?

What about Re: why doesn't it strip that colon?

I must look into this.. strange... lol

I personally use OT with a parenthesis or bracket...
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I have some suggestions for you:

1) If you insist on using OE consider OE-Quotefix as an add-on that
adds some other functionality. It even makes bottom-posting available
if you choose to use that.
2) Consider a different newsreader. I migrated from OE to Xananews
and have never looked back.
3) Put the OT: back in the subject line like I just did.
 
The bat ?


: I have all newsreaders.. and have used them...
:
: with the expectance of THE BAT... any comments on this one?
:
: Xananews is ok.. but still not good enough for me to make the change
: permanently....
:
: I would need something exceptional in all aspects...
: (meaning not only functionality but as a "user experience")
:
:
:
:
: : > John Jay Smith, 7/24/2006, 3:08:07 PM, <[email protected]>
: > wrote:
: >
: >> strange....I never noticed this...
: >>
: >> why does this happen... and how to correct this?
: >>
: >> What about Re: why doesn't it strip that colon?
: >>
: >> I must look into this.. strange... lol
: >>
: >> I personally use OT with a parenthesis or bracket...
: >>
: >
: > I have some suggestions for you:
: >
: > 1) If you insist on using OE consider OE-Quotefix as an add-on that
: > adds some other functionality. It even makes bottom-posting available
: > if you choose to use that.
: > 2) Consider a different newsreader. I migrated from OE to Xananews
: > and have never looked back.
: > 3) Put the OT: back in the subject line like I just did.
:
:
 
I have all newsreaders.. and have used them...

with the expectance of THE BAT... any comments on this one?

Xananews is ok.. but still not good enough for me to make the change
permanently....

I would need something exceptional in all aspects...
(meaning not only functionality but as a "user experience")
 
strange....I never noticed this...

why does this happen...
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This bug was deliberately introduced as a workaround for another bug
they deliberately introduced. By default, many non-English versions
of OE don't use the standard "Re:", instead using some other
letters. There are many, but the only ones I recall are "AW:" and
"SV:". I believe in more recent versions, default behavior is to
use "Re:".

A side effect of that deliberate bug was that after a few
replies, a Subject header could look like
"Re: SV: Re: AW: Re: AW: topic".

The brillig solution was to have OE strip out any string of letters
followed by a colon which appears at the beginning of the Subject,
and just replace it with "Re:" (or "AW:" or "SV:", &c).
and how to correct this?
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Get a decent newsreader or learn to put the OT back in the Subject
every time you reply to a post marked "OT:".
What about Re: why doesn't it strip that colon?
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It is stripped and replaced with a fresh "Re:"
 
I have all newsreaders.. and have used them...

with the expectance of THE BAT... any comments on this one?
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Your question is very unclear. If you mean to ask about
RITLabs' The Bat!, my comments are that it's not a newsreader
and that it's not freeware.
 
sorry.. saw this but I didnt have time to test it .. too many things going
on at the same time.. I was refering to this
http://www.ritlabs.com but as far as I can see now it only does email and
not news
 
John said:
perhaps this will be fixed in the new vista windows mail client....
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There seems to be a rumor going around that MS is in negotiations with
certain freeware newsreader authors.
 
perhaps this will be fixed in the new vista windows mail
client....
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Or in the version after that or the one after that. There's no hurry;
I think these bugs have only been around eight years or so.
 
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