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J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
VanguardLH WROTE: J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: And Outlook-Quotefix I left that out deliberately. It's a bad kludge. As I recall, you had to install AutoHotkey because the "fix" relies on a hotkey triggering a macro defined in AutoHotkey. Once the user opens a new write window to compose a new message (even for a reply), the user must remember to hit the AutoHotkey before clicking on the Send button. Install software, remember to run macro before Send. Kludge setup. I'm pretty sure I'd have remembered if I had to do anything like that. I installed it on the work machine, since that's where I had to use Outlook, and they were fussy about letting anything extra work - I was surprised to get O-Q to. But you might be right - it's so long since work was using a version (of Outlook) where O-Q would work, I might have forgotten. Oops, the part about needing AutoHotkey was wrong. See: https://sourceforge.net/projects/mac...QuoteFixMacro/ (Used to be at http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/outlook-quotefix/) It is a VBA macro installed into Outlook. It was still a manual operation: the user had to remember to run the macro before. It used, before a certain version, to _appear_ to do news: Nope, never in Outlook, only in Outlook Express (which was Microsoft's renaming of Internet Mail and News hence the filename of msimn.exe - Microsoft likes to [re]name products with confusing names, even when the filename doesn't change). The only way to get Outlook to support NNTP was to install an add-on, like: Newshound add-on http://www.shorelinesoftware.com (but they disappeared a while ago) MapiLab's NNTP add-on https://www.mapilab.com/outlook/nntp/ I forget the details, but it actually called the OE that it knew would be there. Oh yeah, I remember something like that. There was a "Go News" menu bar entry that all it did was call msimn.exe to open in its own window to do newsgroups. There was a command-line switch to load OE only it newsgroups mode. The menu entry in Outlook (to separately run OE) got dropped back in Outlook 2003, so it was available only in prior versions. https://www.outlook-tips.net/how-to/go-news-is-missing/ Outlook didn't do newsgroups. It merely had a menu-ized link to an external program (msimn.exe aka OE) to do newsgroups. Well, having a desktop or taskbar toolbar shortcut or a key shortcut to msimn.exe was just as easy. OE first came bundled with IE version 3. Microsoft dropped OE from IE7 (OE6 was last available in IE6), so there was no guaranteed msimn.was was on the host and Microsoft dropped the hardcoded link in Outlook that might point to an executable that doesn't exist. Windows XP came with IE6 as the base version of that program (although it could get updated up to IE8). Plus Outlook wasn't doing newsgroups, anyway. In e-mail, top-posting is the de facto norm in replies. De facto is right, unfortunately. And HTML formatting, too, despite the entire message might only require plain text. For awhile, e-mail providers were not including both MIME parts (text and HTML) for text-only e-mails. I remember when Hotmail (when using its webmail client), would format outbound e-mails in HTML, add the MIME part for HTML, but omit the MIME part for the text versions. The result is that switching to plain-text only in some e-mail clients resulted in see the HTML code since there was no text MIME part to grab and render. Some clients would try to render the sole HTML MIME part as text but sometimes that rendering would not be the same as if a text MIME part had been included in the message. |
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J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , VanguardLH writes: J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: You know what's worse? People who post just to whine about stuff they don't like. I hate it when people do that. You are Tom Lehrer and I claim my $5 ... (-: Wow, now that brings back ancient memories: Tom Lehrer. He did some comical songs, didn't he? I had to go look him up. Ah, now I remember: [] But I don't remember what of his had to do with "I claim my $5". From his spoken introduction to (I think) "National Brotherhood Week": "I know there _are_ people in this world who _do not like_ their fellow man. (Pause) I _hate_ people like that." The "ICM5P" may have been a British only thing: In, I think it might have been, the 1930s, one of the national newspapers had a member of staff who visited, incognito, various tourist spots; anyone who recognised him was supposed to say "You are Lobby Ludd and I claim my five pounds" (quite an appreciable sum in those days). It became a meme, such that if anyone did something characteristic of someone else, the response "you are xxx and I claim my five yyy" was common - still is in a few limited circles. Let me just check ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobby_Lud; OK, I got some of the details wrong. Does appear to have been mostly a British (English, even) thing. Getting old is only for the brave. If the young knew what was awaiting for them, they'd commit suicide by 50, maybe 40. "Getting Old" by George Calin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT3nEDN9elI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPFCn3itBFE - Geez, "caregiver" instead of "unregistered nurse" or "non-medical helper" or "a family member stuck with tending to their aged". - Timemark: 4:46 - I laughed remembering me and sis waiting in the for my aunt to come out of the pharmacy but getting in the wrong car. I pounded on the closed door window to warn her before she got in but sis said, "Hush, let's see what happens." She didn't realize she got in the wrong car until a soft voice by an even older lady came from the back seat saying, "Sorry, dear, I think you got in the wrong car." |
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In message , VanguardLH
writes: J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: [Outlook] It used, before a certain version, to _appear_ to do news: Nope, never in Outlook, only in Outlook Express (which was Microsoft's That's why I said "appear". [] I forget the details, but it actually called the OE that it knew would be there. Oh yeah, I remember something like that. There was a "Go News" menu bar entry that all it did was call msimn.exe to open in its own window to do newsgroups. There was a command-line switch to load OE only it newsgroups mode. The menu entry in Outlook (to separately run OE) got dropped back in Outlook 2003, so it was available only in prior versions. https://www.outlook-tips.net/how-to/go-news-is-missing/ Outlook didn't do newsgroups. It merely had a menu-ized link to an external program (msimn.exe aka OE) to do newsgroups. Well, having a desktop or taskbar toolbar shortcut or a key shortcut to msimn.exe was just as easy. OE first came bundled with IE version 3. Microsoft dropped OE from IE7 (OE6 was last available in IE6), so there was no guaranteed msimn.was was on the host and Microsoft dropped the hardcoded link in Outlook that might point to an executable that doesn't exist. Which makes sense. [] In e-mail, top-posting is the de facto norm in replies. De facto is right, unfortunately. And HTML formatting, too, despite the entire message might only require plain text. Indeed. For awhile, e-mail providers were not including both MIME parts (text and HTML) for text-only e-mails. I remember when Hotmail (when using its webmail client), would format outbound e-mails in HTML, add the MIME part for HTML, but omit the MIME part for the text versions. The result is that switching to plain-text only in some e-mail clients resulted in see the HTML code since there was no text MIME part to grab and render. Some clients would try to render the sole HTML MIME part as text but sometimes that rendering would not be the same as if a text MIME part had been included in the message. Nowadays, some email systems - I don't say clients, as so far I've only come across it in emails from companies (though including some quite small ones) - _do_ include a text and an HTML part, but the text part doesn't contain what the HTML part does (not even the text part); one I get often just says something like "we tried to send you this email in HTML (text and pictures) ..." in the text part. [_Without_ then adding the _text_ of what they were trying to say.] -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Never make the same mistake twice...there are so many new ones to make! |
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On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 16:51:35 -0400, Wolf K wrote:
OP was asking for a free one. The only place he's likely to find a free one is in a yard sale. Just after the seller has decided to pack up and put all the unsold crap in a dumpster. Hence the "good luck." I totally missed that part. :-o -- s|b |
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On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 20:16:01 -0400, Paul wrote:
Regarding ImgBurn... And a first time user tip - turn down the audio volume on your computer, before running Imgburn. The program developer has a sense of humor, and it comes out of your speakers on occasion. Turning down the volume is to avoid scaring you right out of your chair. His sound effects are a little too loud. I just checked two PCs here and both had the ImgBurn sound effects disabled (Settings, Sounds panel, uncheck the boxes). Surely that's something that I did, many moons ago, for the reason you suggested. -- Char Jackson |
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