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Re: Smokers are smarter, I say.

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On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 18:02:25 +0100, Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:

> On 4/23/17, 9:50 AM, in article op.yy5qeu1bjs98qf@red.lan, "James Wilkinson
> Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> wrote:
>
> ...
>>>> I've never set it to do that, it did it out of the box.  It's possible they
>>>> fucked it up on the Mac version.
>>>
>>> Quit and re-launched and it was fine. Cannot replicate the broken behavior.
>>> Call it a bizarre quirk I ran into... if I do not see it again it is a
>>> non-issue (though still odd it was happening).
>>
>> It's a buggy bit of software, and they aren't putting much effort into the
>> mail/news program since it split from the browser.
>
> Fair enough.
>
>>>>>>> and even then have to be very careful to select the front of a line.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Not sure what you mean there.
>>>>>
>>>>> Say I am selecting the start of line 10... if I am too far to the left it
>>>>> selects from the very top of the post. Have to position my mouse very
>>>>> carefully before the text.
>>>>
>>>> That's a known bug that's pissed off many people.  I often find myself
>>>> clicking below all the text to type at the bottom, only to find the cursor's
>>>> at the top.  The text editing function is apparently taken from something
>>>> else, and they never fixed it.
>>>
>>> It is pretty bad -- might be a deal breaker. If the rest is great, though, I
>>> can live with it. The not having colored text in replies is pretty annoying
>>> for me, too, though.
>>
>> Opera's the only newsreader I've ever known to use coloured text anywhere!
>
> I think Thunderbird does and I have seen others. Even my ancient horrid ones
> does.

I guess I haven't tried that many.  I like to get used to one and stick with it.  I've only really used Netscape, Agent, and Opera for any length of time.

>>> Still, the better filtering, etc. is appealing.
>>
>> Agreed.  Forte Agent had a lot of filters, but you needed to be a programmer
>> to understand them.  I don't think it would filter on stuff in the body
>> though, which is very useful.
>
> Yes. For me that is a must.

You're the first person I've heard say they've used it.  Most people are surprised I can do so.

>>> Also do not like how you add and remove buttons, but how often do you have
>>> to do that?
>>
>> Worked for me.
>
> Right... it works but is not done well. But, again, once you set it up not a
> big deal.

Not sure how they could make it any simpler.

>>> Would like to make list text smaller and did not see that in the
>>> font options but that is pretty minor.
>>
>> Never tried that.  Seems the perfect size for me.  I assume you're referring
>> to the list of folders/newsgroups.etc?
>
> The list of posts. Again, not a big deal.

That does seem odd, I just looked and you can change the compose and display, but not the list.

>>>> I do a similar thing using labels.  It's how I look at all replies to me.  I
>>>> only search when I'm looking at something in the past I remember sending a
>>>> week ago and want to find the thread.  I have no need to save it.
>>>
>>> With the saved searched they get placed with the labels... maybe they call
>>> them that? But you do a search and hit "save" as one way to get them. :)
>>
>> Sounds confusing to me.  I create a label manually and type in the rules to
>> define it.  A search isn't specific enough.
>
> Same idea just different ways to get there. And what it has is reasonably
> good.
>
> I later ran into it not setting posts to be shown as read even when set to
> do so after 1 second. Will play with that more later.

Dunno, I mark as read manually (or with filters).  It has another thing called "touched" when you click on one.  Blue if never touched, black if touched, grey if marked as read.

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Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-23 17:50 +0100
  Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-23 10:02 -0700
    Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-23 20:05 +0100
      Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-23 12:14 -0700
        Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-23 21:27 +0100
          Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-23 14:38 -0700
            Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-24 00:47 +0100
              Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-23 16:57 -0700
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-24 01:06 +0100
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-23 17:13 -0700

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