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(...) control. (...) no (...) Correction...What I meant was that most/all companies have no need to allow employees access to the internet. Maybe some want to try and entice people using the internet to buy their products by having a website, but (...) (24 years ago, 12-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message ... <snippedysnippy'o machine> (...) is (...) Could you please explain furter why this is neccesary? As a consultant in the business for 10 years I really have not found any evidents of trouth in this statement. (...) (24 years ago, 12-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Of course you have, with a probability of at least 95%, if your machine is not more than 6 years old, and especially if it have an Award BIOS. Selçuk (24 years ago, 12-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) It was a socratic question. The point was that you certainly do have control over whether your messages appear threaded. (...) Already answered. RTRFC. (...) I meant that nothing on the lugnet.com server is preventing you from posting from (...) (24 years ago, 12-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) As he just said, it's for e-mail *and* news. (24 years ago, 12-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Just a suggestion...look at the email address it came through...The threaded ones are done on the web view at home, while the others are through email at work. (...) I'll have a look when and if I ever get time. (...) But what about SMTP [I (...) (24 years ago, 12-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I have virus protection? WHOOOOOOA MAN! News to me! Rick (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Beg all you want. You can't deny responsibility. You've been told what not to do, if you persist in doing it, you're responsible. Therefore you have control. (...) No company "has little or no need to use the internet". Not if it wants to (...) (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) How would you explain that your message just now (which I'm replying to) appears properly threaded? (...) Actually, it is. See RFC822 "Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet Text Messages" and RFC1138, RFC1148, RFC1327 and RFC2156. (...) (...) (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Is your BIOS virus protection feature enabled? Windows needs it to be disabled during setup. Selçuk (...) (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I beg to differ on this...I have NO control over whether messages appear threaded...The software I use is MS Outlook. From this, the message goes to a MS Exchange server. It is this that causes the problem. Unfortunately, this piece of (...) (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yes (...) Says, for distrubution for a new PC. The error i get is right after the End-User LA. There is no cause for the error, just the error and how you might fix it. I will have the 'Exact' error name and stuff when i go to work today. Rick (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) It's (at least) MS Outlook, or some variant, or the MS Exchange server that processes the mail, or something in the way some sysops configure it, or something in the way users use it, based on the quick tests I conducted. That's not to say (...) (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Berating? I saw no berating. I merely suggested that he ought to stop complaining about how things are done here at LUGNET until his own house is in order. Further, you see, he actually DOES have control. He can change jobs, he is working for (...) (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) It identifies itself as: X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.####.#) in the SMTP headers, and that's about all I know. LarryP posted some more info though that might help. --Todd (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ... <snipped a few lines> (...) from (...) this (...) software -- (...) disasterous. (...) Do you know what software that is causing the problem? Would be a nice thing to know, so I can avoid it. /Joakim (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) My totally-not-knowing-...-situation guess is: the install CD is of the "upgrade only" variety. (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Count your blessings? *ducks, runs* (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) What exactly happens? You need to give some more information before anyone can really help you with something like that. FUT set to .geek (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Totally agree. It's not that it works weirdly, it's that it acts brokenly. If enough places rejected broken postings/messages, the offending software would get fixed. (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Benjamin may not have control over what mailer his employer uses, but he certainly has control over whether or not his messages appear threaded. If he posts using software that works correctly, his messages will appear threaded. If he posts (...) (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) how about, instead of rejecting such messages, make a "soft" threading feature... and activate it only for mailers you know are broken (lke that Internet Mail Service, Eudora, etc)... Just write a little proggie that will attempt to guess what (...) (24 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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This broken thread garbage has got to stop. Example: (2 URLs) countless other examples in the .loc.au group.) The question is, how do I detect this broken mailer that Ben's using? It reports itself as: X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) (...) (24 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Actually, I tried this initially, and found it much worse. It's not intuitive enough -- even after playing for quite a while, you keep forgetting which button is going to go which direction. When I get around to implementing a Settings dialog, (...) (24 years ago, 8-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Also, Tom Cook says that instead of having the right button switching between vertical and horizontal, make the right button only do horizontal lines, and the left button start a vertical lines... This also will help faster play, which is (...) (24 years ago, 8-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Ooh, great idea! That seems a lot less arbitrary than a time limit. I'll put that in and see how it works. (24 years ago, 8-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) the longer you take to do a level, the lower your score! muahahah (24 years ago, 7-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I haven't figured it out yet exactly. I think it's going to be a set time per level. However, I'm not sure what will happen when the time runs out. It might just be for a bonus. (24 years ago, 7-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) heh... I guess I need to work at it some more - I'm only at 3200 or so :) (...) oh no! Jenn keeps saying I drive her mad cause I wait too long... is it going to be a timer with a set time per level, or just a limit how long you can wait (...) (24 years ago, 7-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Actually, I'm not sure yet. I've spent more time coding than playing. Karen's top score is 6000-something so far, but I'm pretty sure one can get past that. Also, I think I'm going to add a timer. It's possible to do really well if you spend (...) (24 years ago, 7-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) i use wordpad all the time, what are you talking about? :P (24 years ago, 7-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) yup... pretty different situation... if I ever need to touch a win box at work, it's usually to set up the network on it, or install something for a client. Never do any kind of development or even desktop use on it. yah, right now I have (...) (24 years ago, 7-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) be (...) be (...) au contraire. It's partly a style issue and partly a matter of the type of work you do, but I totally disagree, at least for me. I was just at a client in Alabama (monday thru yesterday) teaching them how to use our product (...) (24 years ago, 7-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) while I used to use vi only in emergancies, I found that lately I use it (vim) almost exclusivly. Not really sure why, cause I did install emacs on my laptop... weird. (...) well, on windows you rarely actually need to edit text files... (24 years ago, 7-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Indeed. vi sucks... however I feel it's good to know since it is likely to be on every unix box you walk up to. My preferred editor (emacs) often has to be installed in order for me to use it. I feel the same way about notepad on Windows (...) (24 years ago, 7-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Took a few tries but here is what I got back (heavily excerpted, the person responding wasn't really having a good day and I wasn't helping matters much for him with my queries) (...) I have no intention of destroying any of my mice (!!) but I am (...) (24 years ago, 6-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) nod, it's pretty cool! what's a good score? :) (24 years ago, 6-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) And vice versa, of course -- if the black line finishes, you can start another... (24 years ago, 6-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) actually, I didn't know you could do that! the ability to start only one line is even better! :) now I'll have to try... (24 years ago, 6-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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