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I'm curious; where did you expect the files to be placed?

Hey Q! I just found out that XanaNews has a provision for moving the message
base. File,,Move Message Base

It's now in \Xananews\Data, right where it belongs! :)

Bob
 
Not very "green", are they? :)

They're following best practices for security and flexibility.
I complain to every author about crap strewn in the Windows user
and system folders. There are many good programs that do this, but
that doesn't make it right.

I doubt you will be able to convince any authors to follow your advice.
For Microsoft's explanation to developers of what makes it to keep
data in the data directory, see
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnw2kcli/html/w2kcli_chapter4.asp>.
Even if you don't personally care about multiple users or roaming,
keeping data in the executable's directory makes for access control
headaches. I'll go out on a limb here and guess that you run as an
administrator at all times. ;)
When some programs are un-installed, they leave junk behind in the
user and system folders. Grrrr!

Incomplete uninstalls are a separate issue.
 
Hey Q! I just found out that XanaNews has a provision for moving
the message base. File,,Move Message Base

It's now in \Xananews\Data, right where it belongs! :)

:)

Sounds like Colin has done will, putting it where it should be by
default but letting the user change the configuration if he chooses.
 
Incomplete uninstalls are a separate issue.

No they're not.

If the program's files are not scattered all over the HDD, they're less
likely to be left behind.

Look, Q... I know you do not put a high value on green programs. I do. We'll
just have to agree to disagree, OK?

Now be quiet. I gotta watch Star Trek. :)

Bob
 
No they're not.

Are too.
If the program's files are not scattered all over the HDD, they're
less likely to be left behind.

But we weren't talking about scattering files all around the hard
drive. What you have been objecting to is placing them in a specific,
easy-to-find directory in %appdata%, from which it is easy to remove
them.
Look, Q... I know you do not put a high value on green programs. I
do. We'll just have to agree to disagree, OK?

I can't agree to disagree about whether green programs are a good
thing, just your apparent belief that mixing executables and data is a
good thing. It's much more green to use %programfiles% and
%appdata%.
 
I can't agree to disagree about whether green programs are a good
thing, just your apparent belief that mixing executables and data is a
good thing. It's much more green to use %programfiles% and
%appdata%.

I do not mix EXE and Data files. I create "Data" sub directories for data.
My Xananews program files go in \Xananews, my data files go in
\Xananews\data. Now take that back before I hold my breath and turn purple.
:)


Bob
 
R. L..exe executou uma operação ilegal e será fechado:
Have you tried to use Hamster (classic) with it? I use Xnews
and it doesn't have offline capacity either, so I use Hamster
with it (and in fact also to handle my email) - a bit steep
learning curve (just a bit) but really great program!

http://www.tglsoft.de/

(btw, if you want to try it, I suggest to get the lastest
build 2.0.5.5. Although they call it beta, it is indeed quite
stable)

Never tried. I can try this, as I need more filtering features for my
newsreader (Gravity).

[]s
 
R. L..exe executou uma operação ilegal e será fechado:
Never tried. I can try this, as I need more filtering
features for my newsreader (Gravity).

[]s


I don't often heard Gravity people want a better filter.
Doesn't Gravity has a pretty good filter? Never use Gravity
myself but I have been imagining that Gravity's filter would be
as good as the one that Xnews has.



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I do not mix EXE and Data files. I create "Data" sub directories
for data. My Xananews program files go in \Xananews, my data files
go in \Xananews\data. Now take that back before I hold my breath
and turn purple.
:)

You shouldn't do that! I know you won't take my advice, so we'll have
to count on your wife to save you.

;)
 
n e a d said:
Hey, isn't Xananews that song Olivia Newton-John sang...?

Now this would be one of the funniest lines i've seen in this group for a
quite a while...........



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You shouldn't do that! I know you won't take my advice, so we'll have
to count on your wife to save you.

;)

Uhhhhhhhhhhh! I think you're right. I better not do that! :)

Bob
 
Now this would be one of the funniest lines i've seen in this group for a
quite a while...........

If I wasn't her biggest fan (and badly smitten), I would have found it funny
too.

Bob
 
FATAL: panic at R. L., line 666, address
ingomeinew@_hot_mail_.YOU_KNOW_THE_REST:
I don't often heard Gravity people want a better filter.
Doesn't Gravity has a pretty good filter? Never use Gravity
myself but I have been imagining that Gravity's filter would be
as good as the one that Xnews has.

Gravity does not allow you to filter by a header. I faced this problem:

- on the rec.games.roguelike.adom newsgroup, there are trolls that crosspost
to 100% unrelated groups. Let me call those 'BAD_GROUPS'.

- I wanted to kill *ANY* crosspost to those 'BAD_GROUPS', but keep
crosspostings to other groups.

The logic is:

if ('Header: Newsgroups' contains ANYTHING that is on 'BAD_GROUPS') delete
message

For this I would implement: if the 'Newsgroups' header contains any of those
groups, instant delete. But Gravity don't allow me to do that.

So I need better filters.

[]s
 
If I wasn't her biggest fan (and badly smitten), I would have found it
funny too.

Bob

AAhhhhh, I understand

She's the one that you want, the one that you want, now, ooh, ooh ooh
etc...

:)

JB


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FATAL: panic at R. L., line 666, address
ingomeinew@_hot_mail_.YOU_KNOW_THE_REST:
Gravity does not allow you to filter by a header. I faced
this problem:

- on the rec.games.roguelike.adom newsgroup, there are
trolls that crosspost to 100% unrelated groups. Let me call
those 'BAD_GROUPS'.
- I wanted to kill *ANY* crosspost to those 'BAD_GROUPS',
but keep crosspostings to other groups.

The logic is:

if ('Header: Newsgroups' contains ANYTHING that is on
'BAD_GROUPS') delete
message

For this I would implement: if the 'Newsgroups' header
contains any of those groups, instant delete. But Gravity
don't allow me to do that.

So I need better filters.

[]s


Hamster's filter can be quite powerful if you know how to set
it, although I don't know much about that particular way of
filtering you are mentioning. I use Xnews and set hamster to
collect only one or two NGs. This NG alone is heavy traffic
enough for me already :)



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On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 00:16:21 -0300, Chaos Master

- I wanted to kill *ANY* crosspost to those 'BAD_GROUPS', but keep
crosspostings to other groups.
The logic is:
if ('Header: Newsgroups' contains ANYTHING that is on 'BAD_GROUPS') delete
message

< snip >

IMO that would NOT be a problem to implement in Dialog. I suggest you
go to news.software.readers and ask your question there. Be sure to
put "Dialog" in your header.

Regards, John.

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