How do I display full paths instead of the truncated (tilde) f
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From: Karl E. Peterson on 5 Feb 2010 13:54 GS wrote: > What do you think of using Mozilla Thunderbird as a replacement for OE? I know a lot of folks who like it. I never acquired the taste, myself. But it's a Coke versus Pepsi thing at that level. (I loved pissing off the Pepsi Challenge girls 30 years ago, by always picking Coke! But I digress. <g>) -- ..NET: It's About Trust! http://vfred.mvps.org
From: Karl E. Peterson on 5 Feb 2010 13:55 Tom Shelton wrote: > On 2010-02-05, Karl E Peterson <karl(a)exmvps.org> wrote: >> Tom Shelton wrote: >>> On 2010-02-04, Karl E Peterson <karl(a)exmvps.org> wrote: >>>> GS wrote: >>>>> How can I get the NNTP for this newsgroup? >>>> >>>> Depends what client you're using. Outlook Express (OE) is sort of the >>>> fallback standard, if it's available. Last supported version came with >>>> XP. Vista had WinMail, which (so I'm told) sucked far worse than OE. >>>> And Win7 doesn't even offer that by default. I use MesNews in Win7, >>>> myself, which is free and very portable as it's written with Delphi. >>>> There are many others, as well, and the discussion can get very >>>> religious (almost like programming languages) if it gets going. So, >>>> pick yer poison, then connect to the server (msnews.microsoft.com) and >>>> subscribe to this group. >>>> >>> >>> slrn + console mode vim + powershell.... Now that's a newsreader. >> >> Evangelist! ;-P >> > > How can you argue with this: > > http://www.tom-shelton.net/files/slrn.png > > :) LOL! OMG, I haven't seen something like that in ages! Nothing wrong with a little nostalgia every now and then. :-) -- ..NET: It's About Trust! http://vfred.mvps.org
From: Karl E. Peterson on 5 Feb 2010 13:56 Schmidt wrote: > "Tom Shelton" <tom_shelton(a)comcastXXXXXXX.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag > news:eqhTBonpKHA.5328(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > >>> Evangelist! ;-P >>> >> >> How can you argue with this: >> >> http://www.tom-shelton.net/files/slrn.png > > Hehe, real men use telnet for that... > www.datenhaus.de/Downloads/telnet-nntp.png > <g> Show-off! <bg> -- ..NET: It's About Trust! http://vfred.mvps.org
From: Tom Shelton on 5 Feb 2010 14:36 On 2010-02-05, Karl E Peterson <karl(a)exmvps.org> wrote: > Tom Shelton wrote: >> On 2010-02-05, Karl E Peterson <karl(a)exmvps.org> wrote: >>> Tom Shelton wrote: >>>> On 2010-02-04, Karl E Peterson <karl(a)exmvps.org> wrote: >>>>> GS wrote: >>>>>> How can I get the NNTP for this newsgroup? >>>>> >>>>> Depends what client you're using. Outlook Express (OE) is sort of the >>>>> fallback standard, if it's available. Last supported version came with >>>>> XP. Vista had WinMail, which (so I'm told) sucked far worse than OE. >>>>> And Win7 doesn't even offer that by default. I use MesNews in Win7, >>>>> myself, which is free and very portable as it's written with Delphi. >>>>> There are many others, as well, and the discussion can get very >>>>> religious (almost like programming languages) if it gets going. So, >>>>> pick yer poison, then connect to the server (msnews.microsoft.com) and >>>>> subscribe to this group. >>>>> >>>> >>>> slrn + console mode vim + powershell.... Now that's a newsreader. >>> >>> Evangelist! ;-P >>> >> >> How can you argue with this: >> >> http://www.tom-shelton.net/files/slrn.png >> >> :) > > LOL! OMG, I haven't seen something like that in ages! Nothing wrong > with a little nostalgia every now and then. :-) > You laugh - but, it's all I use for my nntp access :) Have for years - on both linux and windows. -- Tom Shelton
From: Schmidt on 5 Feb 2010 15:12
"Karl E. Peterson" <karl(a)exmvps.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:%23r$ckTppKHA.4532(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > Schmidt wrote: > > "Tom Shelton" <tom_shelton(a)comcastXXXXXXX.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag > > news:eqhTBonpKHA.5328(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > > > >>> Evangelist! ;-P > >>> > >> > >> How can you argue with this: > >> > >> http://www.tom-shelton.net/files/slrn.png > > > > Hehe, real men use telnet for that... > > www.datenhaus.de/Downloads/telnet-nntp.png > > <g> > > Show-off! <bg> :-) You may have a point here, but in this case I actually had to *google* the correct NNTP-commands beforehand, to come up with that screen... SCNR <g> Olaf |