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On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 17:35:55 -0500, "MaryL"
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>I'm not familiar with what you mean by "spamcop," though, although I can
>guess at the basic concept.

Look at spamcop.net. Not usable at Yahoo, however.


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On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 07:38:03 -0500, wrote:

>Question.... Ive been thinking abt using a separate app
>for email...and a separate app for news (Agent).
>
>Do YOU have separate apps for email and news everyone?

I do, Outlook for email and Free Agent for News. To me, email and
news are so different that I don't like the idea of trying to use one
for both.

But if you like Agent for email, you can set up two copies of it. I
use Free Agent to read two different news servers, and I use different
signatures and user information. The second server is a private
company server and I don't munge my address there. The instructions
to do this are somewhere at the forteinc.com web site.


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> On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 17:35:55 -0500, "MaryL"
> <carstan101TAKE-OUT-THE-> wrote:
>
> >I'm not familiar with what you mean by "spamcop," though, although I can
> >guess at the basic concept.
>
> Look at spamcop.net. Not usable at Yahoo, however.
>
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Thanks. I'll look into that -- couldn't connect tonight. As far as I can
tell, "nothing" really works with Yahoo. I probably should look into some
other servers that are available over the Internet.

MaryL

wrote:
>>What you gotta do, then, is have one email box for your friends/family, and
>>another for other stuff. I have one I use for online purchases, another for
>>signing up for stuff I don't really want (but when I have to sign up for it to
>>get stuff I do want), another for normal use, one for my gaming persona, one I
>>use for email lists, and I create and destroy throw-away addresses like this one
>>for usenet posting.

> Yeah..... I kinda have that right now

> But my real problem is using my news
> resader....Agent..... with such a setup.

> You see I use Agent for BOTH news and email..... and if
> you use Agent you'd know that it not a simple matter to
> have one email for news posting and another for email

> Question.... Ive been thinking abt using a separate app
> for email...and a separate app for news (Agent).

> Do YOU have separate apps for email and news everyone?

I wouldn't have it any other way.

If you can use Agent, you can probably handle PegasusMail.

http://pmail.com

It will do "selective downloads", so that you can look at a list
of just the headers on the mail servers, and delete *from* the
server anything you don't want to bother downloading.

It does Other Stuff well, too.

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> How so? Do you use that many instances to make up for the fact that
>Agent only supports one email account or because it only supports one
>news server or because it only supports one connection per instance?
>Any one of those could be a deal-breaker, I'm just curious.
> In Options|User and System Profile|System you can configure the Title
>Bar to say anything you want, which makes it easy to see which instance
>is what.

Yes.... Im using several instances for different news
servers..since Agent will only support one new server.

It just gets a bit unwieldy doing this tho. Say you
want to use a sig line in all your posts. Well then
you have to create and turn on THAT sig line in all
five instances of Agent. There are many other things
like that..... but you get the idea.

Still..... I haven't found any other news reader that
works the way I like for new except Agent.

Cant put my finger on it.... but just just seems like
Agent "works" the way I think it should in news. Maybe
its cause it was designed as an "offline" reader.....
where as the others are designed for full time online
connections. Or maybe I just haven't given Xnews and
other enough time to "wrap my brian" around it. lol

>I do, Outlook for email and Free Agent for News. To me, email and
>news are so different that I don't like the idea of trying to use one
>for both.

Im thinking of doing the same thing..... using Outlook
for email....and Agent for news

I KNOW that Outlook can be a platform for
virus's....... but we use Outlook here at work and in
my spare time Im kind of the "computer guy" here at
work helping people and such..... hence I need to know
Outlook better than I do right now.

Plus.... Im debating if I like the PIM features in
Outlook. In some ways I can see PIM and email being
toed together....

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 07:54:38 -0500, wrote:

>> How so? Do you use that many instances to make up for the fact that
>>Agent only supports one email account or because it only supports one
>>news server or because it only supports one connection per instance?
>>Any one of those could be a deal-breaker, I'm just curious.
>> In Options|User and System Profile|System you can configure the Title
>>Bar to say anything you want, which makes it easy to see which instance
>>is what.
>
>Yes.... Im using several instances for different news
>servers..since Agent will only support one new server.
>
>It just gets a bit unwieldy doing this tho. Say you
>want to use a sig line in all your posts. Well then
>you have to create and turn on THAT sig line in all
>five instances of Agent. There are many other things
>like that..... but you get the idea.
>
>Still..... I haven't found any other news reader that
>works the way I like for new except Agent.
>
>Cant put my finger on it.... but just just seems like
>Agent "works" the way I think it should in news. Maybe
>its cause it was designed as an "offline" reader.....
>where as the others are designed for full time online
>connections. Or maybe I just haven't given Xnews and
>other enough time to "wrap my brian" around it. lol

Hey John,

In just 3 posts you went from 'john63401' to 'me' to 'me63401' and you
don't use a sig line.

Between this and T5 it's getting hard to keep track without a
scorecard <g>

Bill

>> Do YOU have separate apps for email and news everyone?
>
>I wouldn't have it any other way.

Blinky..... care to tell me why you like separate apps
for mail and news?

And what you use for each one?

Actually you must be using slrn for news, right?

So what you use for mail?

And..... of the subject here.... but what's your
thoughts on Outlook....where the mail app and PIM app
are "tied" together?

>Hey John,
>
>In just 3 posts you went from 'john63401' to 'me' to 'me63401' and you
>don't use a sig line.
>
>Between this and T5 it's getting hard to keep track without a
>scorecard <g>
>
>Bill

yeah I know....Im sorry

Im just unsure of what to do to prevent any more SWEN
worm emails....so Im playing around with options

wrote:

>>> Do YOU have separate apps for email and news everyone?

>>I wouldn't have it any other way.

> Blinky..... care to tell me why you like separate apps
> for mail and news?

It is my belief that stand-alones are generally better than
Swiss Army Knife applications. An exaggeration that nevertheless
represents my point: would you really want to do try to rebuild
your car's engine with an "all-in-one" tool?

> And what you use for each one?

Linux.

But back in the Win world:

Xnews http://xnews.newsguy.com

PegasusMail http://pmail.com

And *definitely* pick up news:news.software.readers ! A generally
good bunch, and a lot of expertise on various news clients. Post
your quest there, for that matter -- it'll introduce you to the group,
and the group to you via the responses. And you will Learn Stuff.

> Actually you must be using slrn for news, right?

Yes.

> So what you use for mail?

Above.

A question for you: are you sure "me numbers" higher than 9 work at
privacy.net? (Granted, if they don't, they still keep some spam off
your back (except for all of the harvesting that's been done on real
addresses you may have exposed in the past).)

> And..... of the subject here.... but what's your
> thoughts on Outlook....where the mail app and PIM app
> are "tied" together?

Back in Windows, I used the Outlook calendar, but that's all. I
have an extreme dislike for OE, but I don't feel like a rant, just
now.

See you in news.software.readers.

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