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On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 00:47:40 +0000, Larry Elmore wrote:
Yousuf Khan wrote: George Macdonald wrote: Well jsavard is using an *old* version of Free Agent but even the 1.93 I'm using doesn't have a right click and "Save Link Target As.." I dunno what the big deal is on either side here - copy/paste of a URL is always coming up as a nuisance for file downloads, especially with the Adobe reader 6.0 being so damned slow to get started - the plugin has to load its err, plugins to get started and then you also have to have it configured to turn off "fast web view" to get the whole document without paging through the bugger... all a royal PITA. I've switched over to Thunderbird now for all mail and news (except binary news). Agent is still the one to use for binary news. Outlook Express is still the one to use to gather dust. :-) I thought it gathered flies... Flies? ...perhaps bugs or viri! -- Keith |
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On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 02:51:02 +0000, Larry Elmore wrote:
keith wrote: On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 00:47:40 +0000, Larry Elmore wrote: Yousuf Khan wrote: George Macdonald wrote: Well jsavard is using an *old* version of Free Agent but even the 1.93 I'm using doesn't have a right click and "Save Link Target As.." I dunno what the big deal is on either side here - copy/paste of a URL is always coming up as a nuisance for file downloads, especially with the Adobe reader 6.0 being so damned slow to get started - the plugin has to load its err, plugins to get started and then you also have to have it configured to turn off "fast web view" to get the whole document without paging through the bugger... all a royal PITA. I've switched over to Thunderbird now for all mail and news (except binary news). Agent is still the one to use for binary news. Outlook Express is still the one to use to gather dust. :-) I thought it gathered flies... Flies? ...perhaps bugs or viri! Well, I was thinking "draws flies" in the way dog **** does, but I didn't word that well. :-( You did well enuff. I wuz trying to bring your virtual-visual back to computereese. ;-) -- Keith |
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keith wrote:
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 00:47:40 +0000, Larry Elmore wrote: Yousuf Khan wrote: George Macdonald wrote: Well jsavard is using an *old* version of Free Agent but even the 1.93 I'm using doesn't have a right click and "Save Link Target As.." I dunno what the big deal is on either side here - copy/paste of a URL is always coming up as a nuisance for file downloads, especially with the Adobe reader 6.0 being so damned slow to get started - the plugin has to load its err, plugins to get started and then you also have to have it configured to turn off "fast web view" to get the whole document without paging through the bugger... all a royal PITA. I've switched over to Thunderbird now for all mail and news (except binary news). Agent is still the one to use for binary news. Outlook Express is still the one to use to gather dust. :-) I thought it gathered flies... Flies? ...perhaps bugs or viri! Well, I was thinking "draws flies" in the way dog **** does, but I didn't word that well. :-( |
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Yousuf Khan wrote:
George Macdonald wrote: Well jsavard is using an *old* version of Free Agent but even the 1.93 I'm using doesn't have a right click and "Save Link Target As.." I dunno what the big deal is on either side here - copy/paste of a URL is always coming up as a nuisance for file downloads, especially with the Adobe reader 6.0 being so damned slow to get started - the plugin has to load its err, plugins to get started and then you also have to have it configured to turn off "fast web view" to get the whole document without paging through the bugger... all a royal PITA. I've switched over to Thunderbird now for all mail and news (except binary news). Agent is still the one to use for binary news. Outlook Express is still the one to use to gather dust. :-) Pan. Not all that great for text, doesn't seem to want to forward articles as mail, but for multipart binaries it is the nuts. -- bill davidsen ) SBC/Prodigy Yorktown Heights NY data center Project Leader, USENET news http://newsgroups.news.prodigy.com |
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Bill Davidsen writes:
Pan. Not all that great for text, doesn't seem to want to forward articles as mail, but for multipart binaries it is the nuts. Gnus. Its functionality is a superset of the union of all other newsreaders :-) |
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On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 03:50:10 +0000, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Yousuf Khan wrote: George Macdonald wrote: Well jsavard is using an *old* version of Free Agent but even the 1.93 I'm using doesn't have a right click and "Save Link Target As.." I dunno what the big deal is on either side here - copy/paste of a URL is always coming up as a nuisance for file downloads, especially with the Adobe reader 6.0 being so damned slow to get started - the plugin has to load its err, plugins to get started and then you also have to have it configured to turn off "fast web view" to get the whole document without paging through the bugger... all a royal PITA. I've switched over to Thunderbird now for all mail and news (except binary news). Agent is still the one to use for binary news. Outlook Express is still the one to use to gather dust. :-) Pan. Not all that great for text, doesn't seem to want to forward articles as mail, but for multipart binaries it is the nuts. I guess I simply don't understand PAN, then. I find it rather good for reading text groups, less so for posting (speel chequer?), and horrible for ninary groups. Gravity has a wonderful Binary reading tool, that PAN can only dream about. -- Keith |
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On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 23:33:56 -0500, keith wrote:
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 03:50:10 +0000, Bill Davidsen wrote: Yousuf Khan wrote: Pan. Not all that great for text, doesn't seem to want to forward articles as mail, but for multipart binaries it is the nuts. You have to set up a profile that allows you to mail, it's not the same as posting. Mail has different rules than Usenet. You may have to identify yourself with a real email address for example. I guess I simply don't understand PAN, then. I find it rather good for reading text groups, less so for posting (speel chequer?), and horrible for ninary groups. Gravity has a wonderful Binary reading tool, that PAN can only dream about. Perhaps I could be of some help. When you see red words, they are misspelled. If you see a red word, click on the right mouse button for suggestions from the dictionary. It took me a long time to find this feature because the spelling suggestions only come up when you right click and only when the mouse is over a red word and there is no "batch" spell checker on the menu bar. |
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On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 09:42:01 +0000, Craig Bergren wrote:
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 23:33:56 -0500, keith wrote: On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 03:50:10 +0000, Bill Davidsen wrote: Yousuf Khan wrote: Pan. Not all that great for text, doesn't seem to want to forward articles as mail, but for multipart binaries it is the nuts. You have to set up a profile that allows you to mail, it's not the same as posting. Mail has different rules than Usenet. You may have to identify yourself with a real email address for example. I guess I simply don't understand PAN, then. I find it rather good for reading text groups, less so for posting (speel chequer?), and horrible for ninary groups. Gravity has a wonderful Binary reading tool, that PAN can only dream about. Perhaps I could be of some help. When you see red words, they are misspelled. If you see a red word, click on the right mouse button for suggestions from the dictionary. It took me a long time to find this feature because the spelling suggestions only come up when you right click and only when the mouse is over a red word and there is no "batch" spell checker on the menu bar. Hmmm, perhaps I'm missing something in the setup then. There are no redd worrds herre. KNode works for me the way you suggest above, but its off-line reading is non-existant making on-line reading tedious, at best. It's also *slow* as dirt, even on this Opteron 146. -- Keith |
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keith wrote:
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 03:50:10 +0000, Bill Davidsen wrote: Yousuf Khan wrote: George Macdonald wrote: Well jsavard is using an *old* version of Free Agent but even the 1.93 I'm using doesn't have a right click and "Save Link Target As.." I dunno what the big deal is on either side here - copy/paste of a URL is always coming up as a nuisance for file downloads, especially with the Adobe reader 6.0 being so damned slow to get started - the plugin has to load its err, plugins to get started and then you also have to have it configured to turn off "fast web view" to get the whole document without paging through the bugger... all a royal PITA. I've switched over to Thunderbird now for all mail and news (except binary news). Agent is still the one to use for binary news. Outlook Express is still the one to use to gather dust. :-) Pan. Not all that great for text, doesn't seem to want to forward articles as mail, but for multipart binaries it is the nuts. I guess I simply don't understand PAN, then. I find it rather good for reading text groups, less so for posting (speel chequer?), and horrible for ninary groups. Gravity has a wonderful Binary reading tool, that PAN can only dream about. You can go to a group, one with many binary posts, like "adult digital images" or many multipart binaries, like alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.blues, and select what you want to download, click "save attachment" and have it download and save hundreds of posts, assembling the multipart ones, saving all of it in various directories, using as many threads (sockets) as you are allowed to use, and then go to bed. I just added another 200GB drive to my home system... Another nice one is nget, will grab missing parts from another server. -- bill davidsen ) SBC/Prodigy Yorktown Heights NY data center Project Leader, USENET news http://newsgroups.news.prodigy.com |
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