{"conf": "apps", "generated_at": "2026-04-26T08:00:02.954878Z", "threads": [{"num": 0, "subject": "", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 1, "subject": "Introductions", "response_count": 235, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Jul 28, 1996 (14:26)", "body": "I'm Paul Terry Walhus (terry@spring.com) and I created most of the topics in this conference. I am working on a project with NetRabbit to expand and extend the capability available in Stoud's site. We're building a \"commerce engine\" which will enable folks to purchase software that Forrest reviews on his site. And this conferencing system will be a way for folks to talk about the software that Forrest reviews and to get additional informaiton about the \"consummate winsock apps\". We're talking about applications that enable you to access and ulitize the Internet in this conference. This conference is one of many that we are building at http://www.spring.com to cover a wide range of topics (politics, culture, entertainment, etc.) and this conference is unique in that we are subdividing it into categories (eg. web servers, graphics tools, etc) to make it easier to get around. I frequent several online conferences on the Internet, my own Spring, the WELL, ECHO and others. The Spring, which I started, is Austin, Texas online watering hole for meeting good folks and talking about a wide range of subjects."}, {"response": 2, "author": "nettod", "date": "Thu, Aug 15, 1996 (06:18)", "body": "I just managed to get on for the first time a few days ago. I like the in depth review of apps although I don't always agree. I am interested in other things besids computer & would like to participate in conferences of various topics Clive"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Aug 15, 1996 (08:36)", "body": "You're in luck Clive, because we're creating several hundred other conferences on a wide range of topics. What kinds of conferences would you like to see, what are your favorite subjects?"}, {"response": 4, "author": "george", "date": "Sun, Aug 18, 1996 (00:07)", "body": "I'm looking for information regarding anti virus scans.Is this the right place, or should I be at a FAQ site.I don't know much about computers, but I needed to get one for my business and since I been on the internet I have found many interesting and worth while sites,but I'm worried about picking up viruses.In a nutshell, I'm looking for help ,from a site that is reputable,that will have patients with a person who has had no computer experience ever.If this is not the site I should be at,would you be so kind as as to steer me in the right direction?Thanks a lot! ps,I'm using a HP Pavilion,w/ win95."}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Aug 18, 1996 (01:35)", "body": "You've come to the right place, at least we hope this place will evolve into the kind of place you're looking for. We're still kind of fresh out of the gate and we're aiming toward a \"critical mass\" where we have enough folks talking to each other where we can rely on this forum to solve the kind of problems you're talking about. There is a section on anti-virus programs, both a general discussion and discussion of specific programs. A good place to start your search for information: http://www.spring.com/apps/virus95.html"}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Aug 18, 1996 (01:35)", "body": "You've come to the right place, at least we hope this place will evolve into the kind of place you're looking for. We're still kind of fresh out of the gate and we're aiming toward a \"critical mass\" where we have enough folks talking to each other where we can rely on this forum to solve the kind of problems you're talking about. There is a section on anti-virus programs, both a general discussion and discussion of specific programs. A good place to start your search for information: http://www.spring.com/apps/virus95.html"}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Aug 18, 1996 (01:35)", "body": "You've come to the right place, at least we hope this place will evolve into the kind of place you're looking for. We're still kind of fresh out of the gate and we're aiming toward a \"critical mass\" where we have enough folks talking to each other where we can rely on this forum to solve the kind of problems you're talking about. There is a section on anti-virus programs, both a general discussion and discussion of specific programs. A good place to start your search for information: http://www.spring.com/apps/virus95.html"}, {"response": 8, "author": "Ammerlaan", "date": "Wed, Aug 21, 1996 (07:44)", "body": "A great idea to start this list. What is the exact the meaning just a review or may I also ask questions about programs. I am looking for programs regarding server deamons for Windows 3.X. I will create a link from from my homepage to you."}, {"response": 9, "author": "Ammerlaan", "date": "Wed, Aug 21, 1996 (07:47)", "body": "I have questions I can make hot-links to a group i.e. apps is it also possible to make a hot-link to a apps i.e. serv-u."}, {"response": 10, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Aug 21, 1996 (09:24)", "body": "Sure you can. Just copy the url that you see in your browser location window. That's what Forrest does from the reviews on his site. And you can hotlink to the apps main menu with this address: http://www.spring.com/apps/win95.html And welcome aboard. We appreciate the link from your website. By the way, what is *your* website address?"}, {"response": 11, "author": "Zerses", "date": "Tue, Aug 27, 1996 (00:02)", "body": "Wow! And I thought it couldn't get much better! So far, people don't seem to have found this little spot on the internet map, but they WILL!! I am currently a computer tech and tech freak. I read most magazines for about a year and then switch and find that the perspectives are not just different, but that the information can be \"biased\" or \"slanted\" to one application or another depending on whom you are reading. But changing magazines seems to keep the views as balanced as possible. Thanks for the opportunity to see what other people are saying and doing with the applications, since none of us can keep up with even a fraction of them...it's hard enough trying to keep abreast of the hardware changes needed to keep today's (and LOTS of yesterday's!) machines working and workable. Zerses- spiesrus@cris.com"}, {"response": 12, "author": "ace", "date": "Wed, Sep  4, 1996 (02:40)", "body": "I was hoping to find an application to run 32 bit Netscape w/ AOL as my server. Officially, AOL claims that it is not yet possible. An associate tells me there is and app to trick the aol system for 32 bit usage. Can you help me?"}, {"response": 13, "author": "Soter", "date": "Sun, Sep 15, 1996 (13:01)", "body": "I'm new men. Send me a message or something"}, {"response": 14, "author": "Soter", "date": "Sun, Sep 15, 1996 (13:03)", "body": "Hey somebody on the comutern. COuld you send me a message? PLEASE"}, {"response": 15, "author": "MAndre", "date": "Mon, Sep 16, 1996 (22:55)", "body": "And it keeps getting better. Nice add guys, Ive been a stroud fan for awhile! I head up a tech service dept for a large reseller. Most of the time I only hear the bad of the products I sell. Nobody calls me when thier computers are working :) Nice to see an area on the net where people can share info on current software apps and hardware. Will be anxious to see this site grow! Thanx"}, {"response": 16, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Sep 17, 1996 (10:31)", "body": "Yo soter. I'm sending you a message in delayed time. This isn't really a chat board although that's a feature that we're considering. Glad to have you onboard. And glad to see you here too Mike, what does your reseller resell? Hardware? Software? Or both? What are the hottest selling products you carry?"}, {"response": 17, "author": "CWSmith", "date": "Sat, Sep 28, 1996 (02:16)", "body": "Wow! This is not what I expected. I just came over here to see if people agree or disagree with the ratings on CWSapps pages. I just changed to Win95 and needed an MPEG player. I got Vmpeg1.7 and compared it with ActiveMovie. How could he think that Vmpeg is better? No mention was even made of ActiveMovie. I put them side-by-side on my screen and compared them. ActiveMovie's sound, video, controls, and Information is MUCH better. Am I missing something? Am I comparing apples and oranges, or what? Thanks for letting me play on your screen, folks."}, {"response": 18, "author": "Jeep", "date": "Mon, Sep 30, 1996 (19:45)", "body": "Is the irst time I write this way .It i ok"}, {"response": 19, "author": "Jeep", "date": "Mon, Sep 30, 1996 (19:46)", "body": ""}, {"response": 20, "author": "Jeep", "date": "Mon, Sep 30, 1996 (19:47)", "body": "What I do now for write ok Excuse my englis but normaly I speak french"}, {"response": 21, "author": "Jeep", "date": "Mon, Sep 30, 1996 (19:59)", "body": ""}, {"response": 22, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Sep 30, 1996 (23:54)", "body": "merci beaucoup pour votre contribtuion de ses conferences."}, {"response": 23, "author": "EASHAM", "date": "Fri, Oct  4, 1996 (16:05)", "body": "YA i gotta agree active x is better"}, {"response": 24, "author": "lanprojekt", "date": "Tue, Oct  8, 1996 (03:49)", "body": "I am looking for adding our links and software."}, {"response": 25, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Oct  8, 1996 (17:38)", "body": "What are they?"}, {"response": 26, "author": "golden", "date": "Thu, Oct 17, 1996 (00:16)", "body": ""}, {"response": 27, "author": "dglenn01", "date": "Thu, Oct 17, 1996 (20:22)", "body": "Looking for a Terminal app that will take the place of 95's Hyperterminal and also do telnet. Also would like to be able to set up macros. Kind looking for Win3.x terminal.exe that does telnet. Anyone know of something like this?"}, {"response": 28, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Oct 18, 1996 (14:40)", "body": "I'd check out Hyperterminal's website for their more robust version. It's at http://www.hilgreave.com I believe."}, {"response": 29, "author": "HOLE", "date": "Sat, Oct 19, 1996 (22:23)", "body": ""}, {"response": 30, "author": "Lazarus", "date": "Wed, Oct 23, 1996 (15:47)", "body": "Iphone by VocalTech is a great product but... I have a problem with their registration fees. I registered 2 copies of IPhone late last year at their $69 rate. The reg fees went down to $49 a month or so later. No problem with that, it happens. When they came out with the new version 4 the registration codes for the origonal IPhone wouldn't work. Vocal Tech wants another $20 per copy to register the new version. Is this fair? It had been way less than a year since I registered the origonal. I e-mailed Voca Tech regarding this and they didn't even have the courtesy to respond. This is why I don't register software anymore. You pay and are milked for more $ a few months later for the new improved version and more a few months later... What if Microsoft released a new version of Windows $89, and another 4 months laster and so on. They don't because the know users wouldn't put up with it. I detest having to pay to test someones software. We are saving them thousands of dollars by testing it for them. Why can't hey be a little more loyal to their users/testers. If anyone has had a simular expierence speak up... I'd like to hear about it, and I'm sure others would as well."}, {"response": 31, "author": "Hakm", "date": "Wed, Oct 30, 1996 (17:19)", "body": "You are right !!"}, {"response": 32, "author": "Hakm", "date": "Wed, Oct 30, 1996 (17:30)", "body": "Please, send me a message."}, {"response": 33, "author": "PHILOR", "date": "Sun, Nov 17, 1996 (20:41)", "body": "wHY IS THE PROGRAM NOT READABLE?"}, {"response": 34, "author": "PHILOR", "date": "Sun, Nov 17, 1996 (20:43)", "body": "wHY IS THE PROGRAM NOT READABLE?"}, {"response": 35, "author": "Sharley", "date": "Thu, Nov 21, 1996 (21:31)", "body": "It looks like David Glenn and I have something in common. I am looking for an alternative terminal emulator that will do telnet 5250. Most of the emulators I have run across will only do the VT-type emulations. Currently using Rumba Office from WallData. It provides some fairly versatile connectivity, but on a large scale, it is expensive and does not have all the functionality we need."}, {"response": 36, "author": "shannon", "date": "Sat, Nov 23, 1996 (17:04)", "body": "By way of introduction. I recently began work on the tech support line of an ISP. I have a good background in electronics, UHF and VHF radio, digital and analog communication systems and multimedia. I am interested in reading the reviews and comments of others. I find that many gaps in my knowledge will get filled out quicker."}, {"response": 37, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Nov 24, 1996 (01:39)", "body": "Glad you're here. Check out our radio conference while you're at it."}, {"response": 38, "author": "Kennebec", "date": "Thu, Nov 28, 1996 (21:18)", "body": "Sometimes I feel like a real infant on the internet. But, what I lack in technical expertise I try to make up in creativity. Currently I am interested in creating a Home Page. What book or imformation can you pass along? I am interested specifically in creating animation on the page. Thanx"}, {"response": 39, "author": "Kennebec", "date": "Thu, Nov 28, 1996 (21:21)", "body": "Sometimes I feel like a real infant on the internet. But, what I lack in technical expertise I try to make up in creativity. Currently I am interested in creating a Home Page. What book or imformation can you pass along? I am interested specifically in creating animation on the page. Thanx"}, {"response": 40, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 28, 1996 (21:35)", "body": "Laura Lemay has some excellent books on html and covers animated gifs, although she doesn't like Microsofts gif animation program as well as I do."}, {"response": 41, "author": "billboy", "date": "Tue, Dec  3, 1996 (15:16)", "body": "Hi Terry--Now you're really stuck with me. Found you in your own lair. Looks like lots of great stuff here.This is the first conference I'm checking out. Any Mac type stuff anywhere at the Spring?"}, {"response": 42, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Dec  3, 1996 (15:32)", "body": "Uh oh, I said goodnight Billboy one too many times on EM. Well, glad you stopped by. We need more Mac stuff here and I'll workk on getting some here, after all, this is a town that is 40% Macs from what I hear. That's about 60,000 Macs in Austin. What is the Mac site equivalent to Forrest Strouds site?"}, {"response": 43, "author": "billboy", "date": "Tue, Dec  3, 1996 (18:40)", "body": "You're right Terry, you did. I generally just go to MacUser Software Central for shareware type stuff ( http://www.zdnet.com/macuser/software/ ) because they seem to have most of what is out there and their reviews, though minimal, seem pretty on target). I think there might be some big Mac ftp archive at the University of Texas, now that I think about it. Truthfully, I have more software than I really know how to use competently at the moment and no money for the really hot stuff I'd like to buy and no ti e to do any of it cuz I've gotten so sucked into this conferencing stuff. Is this an addiction that will subside with time?"}, {"response": 44, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Dec  3, 1996 (19:26)", "body": "Not good news billboy. There's not much hope of this addication subsiding with time. Well, at least it's a healthy addiction, one that will feed your mind. There are worse addictions (eg. Leon Lett). If you want to see \"serious addiction\" there's the \"austen conference\". These nice folks even have their own addiction topic. And better conferencing than barbecue and fried chicken, right?"}, {"response": 45, "author": "Profdav", "date": "Fri, Dec  6, 1996 (11:24)", "body": "Terry, this is my first time on .Could you brief me on what all is involved?"}, {"response": 46, "author": "Profdav", "date": "Fri, Dec  6, 1996 (11:24)", "body": "Terry, this is my first time on .Could you brief me on what all is involved? philip davenport"}, {"response": 47, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Dec  6, 1996 (12:11)", "body": "What would you like a briefing on? Take a look around. Join some conferences. Build a conference list of your own. What topics and subjects are of most interest to you?"}, {"response": 48, "author": "fantasy", "date": "Tue, Dec 10, 1996 (08:50)", "body": "Why don't you answer me? Are you xenophobic or ruse or just ignorant???"}, {"response": 49, "author": "fantasy", "date": "Tue, Dec 10, 1996 (08:51)", "body": "Not ruse - rude"}, {"response": 50, "author": "mudhen", "date": "Tue, Dec 10, 1996 (23:13)", "body": "Hi, I just signed on, but as yet don't fully understand your mission.I'm interested in graphics programs and read about the Paint Pro and others. Currently I'm using Seattle Film works program and Softkeys Photofinish4 program, but am abit dissatisfied with both as they can erase your photos without warning, so Im looking for something better. Also, Id like to know how to transmit JPG's via E-Mail. Can I look foreward to any help here on these subjects? Thanks in advance."}, {"response": 51, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec 11, 1996 (07:45)", "body": "Check in to the TransSoft Mail Control topic and pose your question about jpegs there. You'll most likely get a good answer."}, {"response": 52, "author": "tedchong", "date": "Wed, Dec 11, 1996 (08:53)", "body": "Re: transmit jpeg files via e-mail simple. If you are using Win95/3.1/NT, just download Eudora Lite (free) from any of the winsock sites (eg www.tucows.com) and just attach your jpegs (or any binary files) files using uuencode method. If you are using unix shell account, use uuencode to encode the jpegs files and attach in emails make sure the receiver has uudecode facility"}, {"response": 53, "author": "DerRogue", "date": "Thu, Dec 19, 1996 (01:40)", "body": "I'm the newest \"geezer\" in the forum. (Remember, Old geezer is redundant!) I'm here because I got tired of dealing with E-Mail directly through my IPS, who have been after me for two months to use Eudora or Pegasus. (Pegasus seemed to be the first choice of most, so that's what I'm starting to work with.) Any helpful suggestions would be appreciated."}, {"response": 54, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Dec 19, 1996 (07:39)", "body": "Check out many reviews here on email programs. There is a general topic on email and specific topics on Eudora, Pegasus, TransSoft Mail Control (which is a very promosing app), and others."}, {"response": 55, "author": "nathan", "date": "Fri, Dec 20, 1996 (12:25)", "body": "hi what the crap is this thing?"}, {"response": 56, "author": "dieckert", "date": "Fri, Dec 20, 1996 (23:31)", "body": "I got to this site via a lycos search for Windows95 scripter. I am desparately trying to find the \"script.doc\" file that was supposed to be with my version. I would appreciate it if someone could send it to me. My e-mail address is dieckert@myriad.net. Thanks. Joe"}, {"response": 57, "author": "dieckert", "date": "Fri, Dec 20, 1996 (23:34)", "body": "I got to this site via a lycos search for Windows95 scripter. I am desparately trying to find the \"script.doc\" file that was supposed to be with my version. I would appreciate it if someone could send it to me. My e-mail address is dieckert@myriad.net. Thanks. Joe"}, {"response": 58, "author": "HC", "date": "Sat, Dec 21, 1996 (17:46)", "body": "Please bare with me. My first time here.Can I learn about HIJAAK95 here. Have installed it 3 times on 2 different PC's and after boot up, the A: and hard drive \"Thrash\" for 5 to 10 seconds.Sounds bad. Any help?"}, {"response": 59, "author": "CrazedLoc", "date": "Mon, Dec 23, 1996 (02:13)", "body": "Hi! I am into Adult Stories is there anyone here that can tell me a site that has alot of information for this subject!. Thanks!!!"}, {"response": 60, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Dec 27, 1996 (08:26)", "body": "Wrong conference. Try the sex conference."}, {"response": 61, "author": "scarfer", "date": "Sat, Dec 28, 1996 (03:53)", "body": "will mirosoft beat there comp. or do you think this new netscape 4.0 will take Why dont they test all the bugs out of things to put on an internet market Im sure there is an better way to do so then saying hear it is at the end of the year to make an poor efert at keeping up?"}, {"response": 62, "author": "scarfer", "date": "Sat, Dec 28, 1996 (03:56)", "body": "will mirosoft beat there comp. or do you think this new netscape 4.0 will take Why dont they test all the bugs out of things to put on an internet market Im sure there is an better way to do so then saying hear it is at the end of the year to make an poor efert at keeping up?"}, {"response": 63, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Dec 28, 1996 (10:17)", "body": "I agree. But I'll detail my thoughts on Communicator and Netscape 4.0 in a brand new topic I'm opening today just for this subject. Follow me there if you like."}, {"response": 64, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Dec 29, 1996 (17:20)", "body": "Take a look at all of Forrest's reviews and ratings. And check out the newcome, TransSoft Mail Control."}, {"response": 65, "author": "tombo", "date": "Sat, Jan 11, 1997 (14:07)", "body": "Any ideas on what criteria Forrest uses for adding apps to his list? I submitted NetSketch, the worlds first shareware illustration app months ago. It's a Top Pick at http://www.download.com blah, blah, blah... Yet, no luck, here. Anyone tried NetSketch? It's at http://www.vegasfx.com Tell Forrest!!!"}, {"response": 66, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Jan 11, 1997 (14:08)", "body": "You can email Forrest from his website. I'll mention it to him in my next email or discussion with him."}, {"response": 67, "author": "Medb", "date": "Mon, Jan 13, 1997 (11:31)", "body": "I am an independent IPP and am always interested in the most economic and functional software for WWW development and connectivity. I try to supply my clients (mostly small businesses) with a cost effective way to obtain a workable internet presence. I am of the opinion that shareware applications are the best and most reliable way of doing this. My business is built around a shareware environment and I have obtained nearly all of my applications from CWAS. I would like to know how many others are doing s and what applications they have chosen. I am always in the process of streamlining my environment."}, {"response": 68, "author": "gilcarvr", "date": "Fri, Jan 24, 1997 (17:29)", "body": "hello, we're new to this site and interested inhearing what folks have done with STB Lightspeed 128...we aren't happy...but also new to this level of computer power...(cyrix 6x86 166)...in WIN95... has anyone else managed to get the performance up to speed? ...also looking for Netscape 3.0 Gold users..."}, {"response": 69, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Jan 24, 1997 (22:36)", "body": "Welcome Tom and Jonathon"}, {"response": 70, "author": "BethFunk", "date": "Tue, Feb  4, 1997 (12:00)", "body": "I am new to this site and am very excited to have found it! Came here to try and find information on APP2SOCK, but haven't done a search yet either. I saw the Austen conference and went after signing up first! Yes I could become addicted. Looks like a real fun and informative place to be, good work! mfunk@camasnet.com beth"}, {"response": 71, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Feb  5, 1997 (04:58)", "body": "Glad you're joining us Beth, make yourself at home."}, {"response": 72, "author": "n5yeo", "date": "Sat, Feb  8, 1997 (14:47)", "body": "Greeting everyone!!!!! I am N5YEO 147.160 Repeater (203.5) Universal City -- San Antonio"}, {"response": 73, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Feb  8, 1997 (22:28)", "body": "Welcome YED, glad you made it. Maybe this will get the ball rolling in our new radio conference. Will you spread the word?"}, {"response": 74, "author": "Wildman", "date": "Wed, Feb 12, 1997 (13:16)", "body": "where am I?"}, {"response": 75, "author": "Wildman", "date": "Wed, Feb 12, 1997 (13:17)", "body": "where am I?"}, {"response": 76, "author": "hlcox", "date": "Thu, Feb 13, 1997 (21:48)", "body": "Hey All----I'm H. L. Cox----New to this site and I do part time consulting for IBM PC's. I have working knowledge of about 300 PC programs and can help with almost anything. If you need a consultant I can be reached by e-mail....hlcox@concentric.net......I can answer some of your more basic questions via e-mail and will be glad to help. Based in Austin. I can help you on your pc or on mine. If a dire need arrises for Macintoshes, my wife sholud be able to handle that part."}, {"response": 77, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Feb 13, 1997 (23:30)", "body": "Glad you're joining us Henry! What is the name of the other company in Austin that makes Mac clones besides PowerPC?"}, {"response": 78, "author": "usnseal", "date": "Mon, Feb 24, 1997 (21:01)", "body": "Dear Sir, I am interested in becoming better at information gathering. I found you looking for more informaion on wais systems. Are they a dinosaur ? My interest very from electronics,paint,information,economics,sex,long-life. I 'll be back Jack"}, {"response": 79, "author": "hoopty", "date": "Wed, Feb 26, 1997 (18:12)", "body": "hello im a computer illiterate i like to find new cool sites and i need a lot of help finding one reallly important software but im haveing trouble finding it if you know how to help me id be greatful.(AUTOCAD 12 for windows)"}, {"response": 80, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Mar  1, 1997 (10:44)", "body": "Welcome Jack and Shawn. Jack you'll find places for all these topics here. Please enter some things in these various topics (if you can't find 'em or they don't exist we'll help you find them and create new topics). Shawn, what is the meaning of the Autocad 12 in parentheses?"}, {"response": 81, "author": "Jorge", "date": "Thu, Mar  6, 1997 (09:24)", "body": "I have a twinsock aplication 16-bit , Can I use a 32-bit twinsock."}, {"response": 82, "author": "Jorge", "date": "Thu, Mar  6, 1997 (09:25)", "body": "I have a twinsock aplication 16-bit , Can I use a 32-bit twinsock?"}, {"response": 83, "author": "Jorge", "date": "Thu, Mar  6, 1997 (09:28)", "body": ""}, {"response": 84, "author": "Terry", "date": "Wed, Mar 12, 1997 (15:30)", "body": "I think I get it!"}, {"response": 85, "author": "ahmadrad", "date": "Sat, Mar 22, 1997 (10:13)", "body": "Cool programm"}, {"response": 86, "author": "Springwoman", "date": "Sat, Mar 29, 1997 (14:39)", "body": "the mass suicide was really sad"}, {"response": 87, "author": "weff", "date": "Sun, Mar 30, 1997 (10:51)", "body": "Hi I'm new here. I downloaded Lview, I have a Jpeg photo that I downloaded from the net and I would like to make it my wallpaper. I think I have to make it a bmp file. Could somebody help me it would be much appreciated."}, {"response": 88, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Mar 30, 1997 (17:08)", "body": "Are you using Windows 95? Yes, it has to be a bmp."}, {"response": 89, "author": "doroeser", "date": "Mon, Apr 14, 1997 (12:09)", "body": "Just found the Stroud site last week and downloaded NetTerm, Anzio Lite and CRT. We have applications for different users that require either VT100, Wyse 50 or Wyse 60 emulation. Anzio allows us to use Wyse 50 & 60 emulations but I couldn't get the correct keymapping for our specific VT100 needs. So I am using CRT and Anzio Lite. I prefer CRT, it is a very clean product and user-friendly. Is there any chance that the Vandyke company will be including Wyse 50/60 emulations into their software soon. W would like to purchase a single terminal emulation program as it will be much easier to service one piece of software. Also, when I registered I dropped a character off my name. Do I have to reregister or can I get it edited? Donna"}, {"response": 90, "author": "blackbird", "date": "Tue, Apr 15, 1997 (00:46)", "body": "o.k. I have no idea whereinth'ether Iam, but hello anyways. Most of the conversation here seems to be of a technical nature. I'm a new pc owner, just browsing, not looking for anything in particular, just whatever comes along. Just got my system back up after the clowns at Gateway tech support spent 8 hours yesterday trying to help me recover from some stupidity on my part. So, I have this new pc right? So, I install First Aid 97 on it to make sure I don't catch any diseases from playing with all those other pc-s. Well First Aid starts to give me general protection fault messages and I panic and start to monkey with files I oughn't. By the time I get to the cybermedia website and find out that First Aid 97 has some sort of problem with Windows 95b and Internet Explorer or WinWord, well the rest of my system is all screwed up. So I get to spend the next 8 hours talking to Gateway tech sup't from Houston to Oklahoma to North Dakota in accents from cowboy to Indian to Harlem. What a joy. Oh well, think I'll go to Disney World. DP"}, {"response": 91, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Apr 15, 1997 (23:27)", "body": "Welcome Blackbird. We have lots of conferences here beside this apps conference that are nontechnical in nature, books, movies, tv, unix, the internet, the web, these are just a few of the other conference areas."}, {"response": 92, "author": "Alyssa", "date": "Sat, Apr 19, 1997 (23:13)", "body": "Hi All, I'm a newbe on the net and got connected with Stroud's site. Good info compliments of a tip from my ISP. Browsing several of the conference areas. Lots of topics!! Terry, thanks for providing a good place to conference with others of like minds with their toys!! Anne"}, {"response": 93, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Apr 20, 1997 (14:09)", "body": "Thanks Anne, what topics would interest you most? What conferences? Is there anything we can add that would interest you?"}, {"response": 94, "author": "valerie", "date": "Fri, May  9, 1997 (22:34)", "body": "I'm in the process of becoming web literate. I am enjoying learning to write html code and improving my skills so that I can put graphics into my web site."}, {"response": 95, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, May 10, 1997 (14:02)", "body": "Welcome Valerie! Good luck with your web page at http://www.spring.com/~valerie"}, {"response": 96, "author": "daveman", "date": "Sun, May 18, 1997 (23:22)", "body": "How does Mr. Stroud go about selecting which programs to review? The programs that he has are rated and reviewed (although there is a lot that I disagree with), but he has fewer programs than most sites that I've seen. Therefore, I'm assuming that he is more selective, but I don't know what the criteria is. David Ancell"}, {"response": 97, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, May 18, 1997 (23:30)", "body": "Good question for Forrest. I know he's up till all hours of the night crusing the net for new stuff. I've suggested a few things that he has reviewed. Do you have any specific programs that you would like to see reviewed?"}, {"response": 98, "author": "Ducksquat", "date": "Mon, May 19, 1997 (20:24)", "body": "Howdy all! Up in Denver, CO area...a lost exTexan looking to return to my great homestate. I do at-risk youth and adult mentally ill counseling/casework. My wife is a case worker and interested in being a nursing home surveyor. Any ideas or connections? I'd appreciate anything ya'll could do for us."}, {"response": 99, "author": "Ducksquat", "date": "Mon, May 19, 1997 (20:25)", "body": "Howdy all! Up in Denver, CO area...a lost exTexan looking to return to my great homestate. I do at-risk youth and adult mentally ill counseling/casework. My wife is a case worker and interested in being a nursing home surveyor. Any ideas or connections? I'd appreciate anything ya'll could do for us."}, {"response": 100, "author": "Ducksquat", "date": "Mon, May 19, 1997 (20:26)", "body": "Howdy all! Up in Denver, CO area...a lost exTexan looking to return to my great homestate. I do at-risk youth and adult mentally ill counseling/casework. My wife is a case worker and interested in being a nursing home surveyor. Any ideas or connections? I'd appreciate anything ya'll could do for us."}, {"response": 101, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, May 20, 1997 (09:14)", "body": "Another one of Springeurs is Stacey, she lives in Denver too. What does a \"surveyor\" do in this context. And Welcome!"}, {"response": 102, "author": "ginger", "date": "Wed, May 28, 1997 (01:43)", "body": "Did you get in touch with Stacey, Don?"}, {"response": 103, "author": "Cassia", "date": "Mon, Jun 16, 1997 (18:31)", "body": "Hello, one and all. I just decided to check you out while I wait for all of my Rufus Sewell pages to print (very old printer) and I can't seem to get on to Pemberley.com ( yea, I am one of them !) Too bad I din't find yopu guys during the Middlemarch discussions; it's one of my favourite novels and I love Rufus Sewell. (It all began when I saw him in Arcadia and I nearly died from hormonal overdose. Sigh!!! Let's see, I know nearly nothing about Internet and anything else computer based because I've been avoiding them outside of work (at home I have a word processor, on purpose) because during my undergrad days I was a Bitnet junkie and looked much like a vampire (dead pallour, fear of the sun). So I now post from the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh which closes at 9:00 insuring I will have a regular life even if I don't want to."}, {"response": 104, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jun 16, 1997 (19:57)", "body": "Can you get into the austen conference?"}, {"response": 105, "author": "ginger", "date": "Sun, Jun 22, 1997 (14:53)", "body": "Welcome Cassia!"}, {"response": 106, "author": "frisco", "date": "Wed, Jun 25, 1997 (14:36)", "body": "(terry)I just found out about this place today while I was putting my last posts the commons. So is this where all those folks at EMinds will wind up? I will be back after I explore this place."}, {"response": 107, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Jun 25, 1997 (15:06)", "body": "They could. It's way up in the air now. Check in to the minds conference for more details or check out http://www.minds.org which is the Spring's refugee camp for Electric Minds."}, {"response": 108, "author": "yoda", "date": "Wed, Jul  2, 1997 (08:20)", "body": "does anybody have where you can watch jpg pictures. because I only can look at gif pictures. I can`t look at JPG pic`s. I`ve looked every where. Does anybody knows or has this sort of program. YODA"}, {"response": 109, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Jul  2, 1997 (11:53)", "body": "Lview. The old tried and true. Forrest did a great review of this product."}, {"response": 110, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Sep 22, 1997 (13:02)", "body": "hey out there, i've been denied permission to post once or twice, what's up?"}, {"response": 111, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Sep 22, 1997 (21:47)", "body": "Where were you denied? We'll make sure you won't be denied Stacey Leigh!"}, {"response": 112, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Sep 23, 1997 (10:59)", "body": "Let's see, was it food? Was I denied access to food? How could you be so cruel?"}, {"response": 113, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Sep 24, 1997 (07:08)", "body": "That's going too far, I can't imagine why you would be denied access to food? I'll check in to it."}, {"response": 114, "author": "cathy", "date": "Fri, Oct 24, 1997 (10:19)", "body": "I am looking for an application to keep my schedule on the computer, freeware only. I thought stroud.com might have one but no. Any ideas? - Cathy"}, {"response": 115, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Oct 24, 1997 (11:52)", "body": "Well Netscape has a calendar program that you can run off of a website. Exactly what type of computer setup do you have?"}, {"response": 117, "author": "Shaved24M", "date": "Tue, Dec  2, 1997 (12:17)", "body": "Hello??"}, {"response": 119, "author": "Anton", "date": "Sun, Dec  7, 1997 (13:45)", "body": "Hello! iS THERE ANYBODY listening to me?"}, {"response": 120, "author": "Anton", "date": "Sun, Dec  7, 1997 (13:47)", "body": "Fuck you!"}, {"response": 121, "author": "Robbrian", "date": "Tue, Dec  9, 1997 (13:35)", "body": "Hi All, I'm new to this issue, but would like to comment on NetAttache Pro. I purchased the S/W and have had great difficulty in ferreting through what I believe to be a very obtuse set of instructions. There is no stepwise guide, not even in the tutorial which, I believe, skips a number of steps. For ex. How do you retrieve a brief after having created, saved, and then moved on to another brief? Every time I go to file open I get the message \"file already opened....\" If so where is it?"}, {"response": 122, "author": "russt", "date": "Tue, Jan 13, 1998 (13:20)", "body": "Can I get help with ICQ here"}, {"response": 123, "author": "russt", "date": "Tue, Jan 13, 1998 (13:32)", "body": "Anyone out there?"}, {"response": 124, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jan 13, 1998 (22:21)", "body": "What kind of help do you need? Have you been to the http://www.mirabilis.com website? Details?"}, {"response": 125, "author": "werner", "date": "Sun, Jan 18, 1998 (10:57)", "body": "Hello, everyone, and greetings from western New York. I'm a college instructor of English, but I'm off duty while on the net. Hobbies include travel, reading, movie-going, and classical music, especially opera. Is someone reading this introduction? Email welcome at werner@www.spring.com. Craig"}, {"response": 126, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Jan 18, 1998 (15:32)", "body": "Welcome Craig, glad you're checking in."}, {"response": 127, "author": "pandikar", "date": "Wed, Jan 21, 1998 (13:01)", "body": "Hello, Im still new with this stuff. Can u help me to obtain free picture viewer softwares eg. Lview,Jpeg etc. One more thing..I need to have MSIMN.EXE...mine was corrupted or missing...where can I get it? Thank You."}, {"response": 128, "author": "pandikar", "date": "Wed, Jan 21, 1998 (13:12)", "body": "Err..sorry to bother u again Terry...my Internet Mail woulnt open up everytime I wanted to access my E mail, everytime I tried to open it...internal error message keep coming...i have scan my cpu but no error was listed on Explore...there are some bad sectors on my HD.....about 6 MB...how do I overcome this problem..? Thank You again. Please help."}, {"response": 129, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Jan 21, 1998 (21:24)", "body": "I would do a re-install. And as for the missing Windows file, do you have any friends with Windows or the orginal CD?"}, {"response": 130, "author": "Fermi", "date": "Thu, Jan 22, 1998 (15:49)", "body": "Does anyone have experience with First Aid 95 Deluxe, and if so, how would you rate it for effectiveness and ease of installation/use? Is the newer version worth nearly doubling the price (First Aid 98)"}, {"response": 131, "author": "AllisonM", "date": "Sat, Jan 24, 1998 (09:56)", "body": "Haveyou ever seen the photograph of Livia and Colin bringing home a vacuum cleaner? It used to be on the FoF pages (I don't think it still there). CF looked identical to the scene in FP where Paul and Sarah are carrying there shopping. That predated FP, so I am inclined to believe that the leather jacket, at least was his. That might be why it looked well worn in. Though I am in total agreement with you about not believing every word you read in interviews!"}, {"response": 132, "author": "mnpMike", "date": "Fri, Feb  6, 1998 (22:47)", "body": "Hi, I am looking for other users of TextPad . I would like to configure it for use with the Sun Java Development Kit (JDK). Does anyone discuss this type of thing around here? BTW, this is my first time here, so any general pointers on where to start would also be appreciated. Thanks, Mike"}, {"response": 133, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Feb  7, 1998 (05:44)", "body": "There's a textpad topic in the apps conference. I've used textpad and it's a real decent html editor. Especially for folks with a little bit of familiarity with UNIX commands. http://www.spring.com/yapp-bin/public/read/apps/335"}, {"response": 134, "author": "mindspace", "date": "Tue, Feb 10, 1998 (19:17)", "body": "Hi there! I lives in Sweden,and are interressted in a site about 'the Farm' in theese days! Know that I have been in here before,but I don`t know under what pseudonym,so....! I`m a member of the LYCAEUM! And there my 'Pseudonym' are"}, {"response": 135, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Feb 10, 1998 (22:54)", "body": "What's the LYCEUM? Curious. And welcome aboard!"}, {"response": 136, "author": "AllisonM", "date": "Fri, Feb 20, 1998 (13:35)", "body": "There is a photograph in today's Evening Standard magazine of CF and Livia at the London premiere of \"As Good As It Gets\". He looks cute and happy! She looks happy - so she ought."}, {"response": 137, "author": "Vicious", "date": "Fri, Mar 13, 1998 (04:46)", "body": "My name is Gianandrea Terzi (jonny@galactica.it), I'm a developer/designer but by now internet apps are still my hobby. I'm currently developing an auto-seek utility that could be able to download all of a site and let you browse it off-line. (as I say it's an hooby). What i'm askin (please), is if someone knows of some of the tricks of the MSINET.OCX control. I'm experiencing a lot of problems installing my application on some old W95 or WNT with wich it's supposed to work fine. I hope this is the right place for asking help ! Thanks As sonn as the pages are ready, you'll be able to download the app at: Http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/4841"}, {"response": 138, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Mar 13, 1998 (14:02)", "body": "That's awesome, Gianandrea. We hope you get to be a regular here and we can give you some feedback on how this works. Have you talked to Forrest Stroud, our boy in College Station, about this?"}, {"response": 139, "author": "DALE", "date": "Fri, Mar 13, 1998 (15:28)", "body": "I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF THERE IS ANY WAY TO SET THE LINE WRAP FOR INCOMING MAIL! I HAVE A NETWORK AND PEGUSAS MAIL IS OUR MAIL SYSTEM BUT THERE ARE OTHER USERS IN OUR SYSTEM THAT USE GROUPWISE, WHEN THEY SEND OUTGOING MAIL THE LINE WRAP EXTENDS PAST THE SCEEEN SIZE AND WE ARE NOT ABLE TO READ THE ENTIRE MESSAGE."}, {"response": 140, "author": "Vicious", "date": "Mon, Mar 16, 1998 (06:19)", "body": "Thanks! I'm going to send him an E-mail. Anyway, if could help someone else, i've found the solution to (some) of the problems : Installing Microsoft's Visual Studio Service Pack 3 helps to get rid of error messages such as 'No answer from site\" or \"request time out\". DO NOT INSTALL Microsoft's Visual Studio Service Pack 2 (Some of the controls will soon expire!) But my proggy still won't work on some (very) old W95. Bye!"}, {"response": 141, "author": "Tah", "date": "Wed, Mar 18, 1998 (19:36)", "body": "I'm new at this too, just to tell you how new...i didn't even know i was signing up for this site, i thought i was on my way to finding out how to download \"World Chat\" the virtual chat..I had it a year ago, but heard it costs now, trying to find out some info., can you tell me where to go? Anyone else that likes to chat..check it out...it's great!! But since i'm here i'd like to add that this is a fantastic idea, now i have somewhere to go with computer problems. I'm sure you'll hear from me again...than ."}, {"response": 142, "author": "winter", "date": "Thu, Mar 19, 1998 (23:39)", "body": "welcome salla! welcome darcy! hope to have you come here often. have either of you seen \"photogrpahing fairies'? it hasn't been released in the States (don't know if it ever will be), and I'm dying to know about his performance. BTW, I finally DID see the camomile lawn, and ... my, my.... toby certainly was a bit 'chunky' back then! but of course, gives us something to grab onto, doesn't it?! lucky jennifer ehle... I wonder what was the cause of that break-up."}, {"response": 144, "author": "Vicious", "date": "Mon, Mar 23, 1998 (11:09)", "body": "Out at last....Go and check Web On Flight!! It's far from being perfect but it's already something... http://www.geocities.com/researchtriangle/lab/4841/ the file is 'wof10.zip'. bye!"}, {"response": 145, "author": "EEK", "date": "Wed, Apr  1, 1998 (12:57)", "body": "Hi everyone!! I am new to this virtual community. I go to the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa and I am taking a American Values class and everyone is to research a virtual community. I stumbled upon the Spring and I am enjoying the topics and the people so far. I am interested in movies, any kind of music, photography, the outdoors, cooking, TV, anything. I look forward to talking with everyone. Any information on this website for my class would be helpful or direct me in the direction, or I c uld ask a specific person the questions, whatever. Thanks for letting me visit and I will be back! =)"}, {"response": 147, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Apr  2, 1998 (17:41)", "body": "I think we have all these things and fire away with your questions!"}, {"response": 148, "author": "Tabby", "date": "Fri, Apr 17, 1998 (00:03)", "body": "Hello Im new to computers and I am having a problem with Quicktime and was wondering if anyone could help me.."}, {"response": 149, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Apr 17, 1998 (23:43)", "body": "What kind of problem?"}, {"response": 150, "author": "ba", "date": "Sat, Apr 18, 1998 (10:57)", "body": "hi, i have been searching for 3 days for an answer to an eudora light problem I have, can you help me?"}, {"response": 151, "author": "ba", "date": "Sat, Apr 18, 1998 (11:00)", "body": "all my new letters are automatically \"queued\", and altho you can change it manually to \"sendable\", there is one letter that refuses to be changed! I am new to all of this and have tried to read about the settings, but can't find out this answer!"}, {"response": 152, "author": "daniel511", "date": "Wed, May 13, 1998 (01:09)", "body": "I am not new to computerers but i am new to interactivity and the world of the web. Hello out there"}, {"response": 153, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, May 13, 1998 (07:08)", "body": "Howdy Daniel. What's going on?"}, {"response": 154, "author": "shey", "date": "Sat, Jul  4, 1998 (11:43)", "body": "From the hills of Sonoma county this is the newest telnetter. My name is Shey and I still don't really know what I'm doing."}, {"response": 155, "author": "gzone", "date": "Fri, Jan  8, 1999 (16:33)", "body": "I am a musician/songwriter with my own home analog studio. I am looking for tools that will allow me to record from my sterio out(4track) to the line in on my computer. I would also like to mix and manipulate the sound in the digital domain."}, {"response": 156, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Jan  9, 1999 (21:24)", "body": "Welcome! You need to meet Bob, nagy@mail.utexas.edu. Drop him a line about your interests and mention me."}, {"response": 157, "author": "Chad", "date": "Mon, Jan 25, 1999 (14:40)", "body": "THIS SUCKS"}, {"response": 158, "author": "cesclc", "date": "Fri, Jan 29, 1999 (17:13)", "body": "I've just signed up! It is a pretty interesting idea?! It is similaring to my cybercourse structure."}, {"response": 159, "author": "cesclc", "date": "Fri, Jan 29, 1999 (17:14)", "body": "Typo!"}, {"response": 160, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Jan 30, 1999 (03:52)", "body": "What is your cybercourse structure?"}, {"response": 161, "author": "Moon", "date": "Tue, Jun  8, 1999 (13:56)", "body": "You have built up MD's character nicely Laura, it looks like a lead role to me. :-)"}, {"response": 162, "author": "Moon", "date": "Tue, Jun  8, 1999 (14:25)", "body": "Huh? How did this get here? Sorry Terry!"}, {"response": 163, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Tue, Jun  8, 1999 (16:17)", "body": "Hey! Strayed off your path? You're welcome to, anytime... You know, we's old folks always says, there's more to life than drool... ;=} BTW, this side of the springs also builds characters up nicely..."}, {"response": 164, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Tue, Jun  8, 1999 (16:17)", "body": "Hey! Strayed off your path? You're welcome to, anytime... You know, we's old folks always says, there's more to life than drool... ;=} BTW, this side of the spring also builds characters up nicely..."}, {"response": 165, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Tue, Jun  8, 1999 (16:20)", "body": "...though you might get a hickup hickup hickup..."}, {"response": 166, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, Aug 28, 1999 (15:30)", "body": "Shall refrain from introducing myself, but is there really more to life thank Drool? Not on weekends, there isn't. That is why I am telnetting and making comments where I have never been before."}, {"response": 167, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Mon, Sep 27, 1999 (18:21)", "body": "\"Boldly venture where no Marcia has ever gone before...!\""}, {"response": 168, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Wed, Sep 29, 1999 (19:28)", "body": "this is true, but I find good friends in these remote places. This is the best part of telnetting."}, {"response": 169, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Sep 29, 1999 (20:37)", "body": "I can't understand why this conference is so quiet with all the links on Forrest Strouds million hits a day site! This conference should get much more traffic. Maybe Forrests links are buried too deep. Back to watching Sex in the City."}, {"response": 170, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Wed, Sep 29, 1999 (20:59)", "body": "\"Back to watching Sex in the City.\" Lucky you!!! Could it be that when there is a problem they go to other topics such as porch's New User Helpline or one of the Ask the Experts topics? Apps is full of goodies I use regularly and would be happy to assist with learning about for a new user. Other than that...I cannot figure why you do not get more traffic...because I get email about stuff like this!"}, {"response": 171, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Wed, Sep 29, 1999 (21:00)", "body": "...oh...I thought you were having Sex in the City...sorry!"}, {"response": 172, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Sep 29, 1999 (22:57)", "body": "No, just watching. But I should be having while watching. Back to apps in the city."}, {"response": 173, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Wed, Sep 29, 1999 (23:20)", "body": "*sigh* I understand...!"}, {"response": 174, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, Dec 17, 1999 (23:32)", "body": "You're right Terry...everyone has gone on Hiatus and that island is gonna sink if they do not come back!!! Sorry no one answered that lady's question on Eudora lite. I have used Eudora for ages and am very familiar with it and love it."}, {"response": 175, "author": "Schooner", "date": "Thu, Mar 23, 2000 (00:22)", "body": "Is Terry still there? I just tried emailing and couldn't get through to 'terry'. Anyway, if anyone reads this, my name's Paul and I'm new to all this. I came across this site in my search for info on VRML. I currently study web page design and one of my assignments is to present on a web topic, and I ended up with VRML (not by choice). Bloody hard to find any recent information on it and I can't find anything on the net about VRML post-1997. Is it still around or has it been superseeded by some other application? If anyone can tell me anything about this topic I'd be most appreciative as I'm stumped at the moment and have no idea how I'm going to fill a 45 minute presentation on a topic I have no idea about and can't get any information on (nothing recent anyway). Thanks in advance for your help. And my email address is paul_brewin@hotmail.com Paul"}, {"response": 176, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Mar 23, 2000 (12:53)", "body": "You're in the right place, but I am not the right person to answer your quesions. Help is nearby, though. Welcome!"}, {"response": 177, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Mar 23, 2000 (12:56)", "body": "Yup, Paul, Terry is around - and he reads if he does not answer right away. Others do too... hang in there. Aloha"}, {"response": 178, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Thu, Mar 23, 2000 (16:16)", "body": "I'm still here. My email's working. But it's no longer terry@spring.com it's terry@spring.net."}, {"response": 179, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Mar 23, 2000 (17:55)", "body": "Thanks for theupdate on the email - I was wondering if that one still worked - rather, worked again! ('Twas incredible talking to you today - finally! I am so happy you succeeded.)"}, {"response": 180, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Thu, Mar 30, 2000 (13:25)", "body": "Welcome, Paul!"}, {"response": 181, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Apr 20, 2000 (14:48)", "body": "\"Virus\" Warning... If you receive an email entitled \"Badtimes,\" delete it immediately. Do not open it. Apparently this one is pretty nasty. It will not only erase everything on your hard drive, but it will also delete anything on disks within 20 feet of your computer. It demagnetizes the stripes on ALL of your credit cards. It reprograms your ATM access code, screws up the tracking on your VCR and uses subspace field harmonics to scratch any CD's you attempt to play. It will re-calibrate your refrigerator's coolness settings so all your ice cream melts and your milk curdles. It will program your phone auto dial to call only your mother-in-law's number. This virus will mix antifreeze into your fish tank. It will leave dirty socks on the coffee table when you are expecting company. It will replace your shampoo with Nair and your Nair with Rogaine. It will cause you to run with scissors and throw things in a way that is only fun until someone loses an eye. It will rewrite your backup files, changing all your active verbs to passive tense and incorporating undetectable misspellings which grossly change the interpretations of key sentences. If the \"Badtimes\" message is opened in a Windows95/98 environment, it will leave the toilet seat up and leave your hair dryer plugged in dangerously close to a full bathtub. It will not only remove the forbidden tags from your mattresses and pillows, it will also refill your skim milk with whole milk. WARN AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN!!"}, {"response": 182, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Fri, Apr 21, 2000 (00:08)", "body": "Hey, I live near the University of Texas, will it cripple all their computers and cause the Texas Tower to collapse?"}, {"response": 183, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, Apr 21, 2000 (19:48)", "body": "Prob'ly...keep us posted!"}, {"response": 184, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, Apr 21, 2000 (19:49)", "body": "Then we can post it in \"Stupid things in the News\" Just don't get in the way. We could not do without you!"}, {"response": 185, "author": "sarah19", "date": "Fri, May 19, 2000 (01:39)", "body": "Hi, I just discovered this place through RoP. I loved the stories over there and saw the link to this one. I enjoy your stories as well. :) I doubt I'll be able to write my own but I love reading yours. Thanks"}, {"response": 186, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, May 19, 2000 (12:54)", "body": "Which Application are you planning to use - or are you just introducing yourself to the entire Spring then heading for the Drool conference? Welcome, in any case, and aloha!"}, {"response": 187, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, May 19, 2000 (13:00)", "body": "Sarah, don't be a stranger - I am delighted you enjoy the stuff we post which is Non Firthian. Feel free to wander around - there is a staggering array of topics and conferences, and I try to get to all of them one way or another."}, {"response": 188, "author": "pterson", "date": "Sun, May 28, 2000 (15:55)", "body": "Hi, I'm a virgin to chat. This is my first time ever posting any kind of a message on the net. What I was really looking for were discussion groups dealing with xDSL and Cable. Does anyone have any info??"}, {"response": 189, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, May 28, 2000 (16:15)", "body": "Aloha Tom...it is good to see you posting. There are several conferences which might deal with it and you sort of have to hunt through their topic lists to see which ones deal with your question, and if all else fails, I can create a topic for you to hold forth upon. First, though, try Internet, and Web Conference Or just post it in one of those conference's Q&A topics. Terry does know about this stuff...otherwise, be patient till he telnets in and finds your comment and responds to it!"}, {"response": 190, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sun, May 28, 2000 (16:16)", "body": "Sure, what do you need to know about xDSL and Cable Tom? I've got cable and I just ordered DSL. They both work fine. Cable is fast and cheap but not good if you're running servers. DSL is better for serving up content, which I do."}, {"response": 191, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, May 28, 2000 (16:18)", "body": "(See?! Ask and ye shall receive!)"}, {"response": 192, "author": "octavia", "date": "Thu, Aug 10, 2000 (05:02)", "body": "I joined up cause ther was a cool convo going on with Jane Austen/Pride and Prejudice/Colin Firth/Jennifer Ehle, I am wondering how I can get there?"}, {"response": 193, "author": "octavia", "date": "Thu, Aug 10, 2000 (05:02)", "body": ""}, {"response": 194, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Aug 10, 2000 (13:44)", "body": "aoctavia, use this URL http://www.spring.net/yapp-bin/restricted/browse/drool/all/"}, {"response": 195, "author": "warfairy", "date": "Sun, Sep 24, 2000 (21:24)", "body": "Hey, I have ben here 4 a few minutes and I wonder if this is a safe place to be in the dark? I am the info addict and am a bit clueless to many things mentioned here. Want you all to recall that there is a war goin on 30 years now and if it is unwinnable, those who care should send out some post cards on Feb 15, 2000. My attempt at homepages sites are w.geocities.com/nawdy_seester/index.html or www.geocities.com/nawdy_seester/TREASON.html and I will be improving them. I am a BSN RN (licensed but not insti employed). Have a happy. See ya in November"}, {"response": 196, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Mon, Sep 25, 2000 (00:10)", "body": "Try the cultures conference. Lots about violence and war in there...and the despair it causes. I deal with war in the elemental state in Geo. Volcanoes, floods, earthqaukes and other violence of nature. Porch conference takes all discussions in various venting places. Welcome and aloha. Make yourself comfortable!"}, {"response": 197, "author": "beathoven", "date": "Tue, Jan 16, 2001 (08:32)", "body": "Hello , I'm a new member for this forum ,just signed in. I'm looking for the information about how to set up the web phone services, & what are the instuments I need to have? I just need a basic idea. Thx Regds Beathoven"}, {"response": 198, "author": "beathoven", "date": "Tue, Jan 16, 2001 (08:34)", "body": "Hello , I'm a new member for this forum ,just signed in. I'm looking for the information about how to set up the web phone services, & what are the instuments I need to have? , I just need a basic idea. Thx"}, {"response": 199, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Tue, Jan 16, 2001 (09:28)", "body": "Well beathoven, you need a sound card with a good microphone and set of speakers or preferable a headset/microphone. Which web phone service are you going to use, I recommend you visit the http://www.dialpad.com site as this seems to be the best of the lot. Will you keep us posted of your progress? (sending email reminder to beathoven hertz)"}, {"response": 200, "author": "beathoven", "date": "Tue, Jan 16, 2001 (10:02)", "body": "Thx for u'r quick response spring5, I really appreciate it. But I'm already a heavy user of all these web phones like dialpad.com,delta3,net2phone,hottelephone.com...whatever it is. I think I haven't properly presented my question. Say If I want 2 start my own web phone company(eg: like dialpad.com) where can I get more informations, technical aspects & ppl who do consultancies for these kinda starting up a own web phone company.....I would much appreciate if someone post me basic idea & information about these things(have got Idea 2 start one in my home country!!) Thx"}, {"response": 201, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Tue, Jan 16, 2001 (10:21)", "body": "Now that's going to take a bit more research. What have you found in this regard so far by searching the web for phrases like web phone server etc?"}, {"response": 202, "author": "beathoven", "date": "Tue, Jan 16, 2001 (10:58)", "body": "Yeap... I did some search on webphones, but all I find is webphone companies offering software & improvements etc,etc,etc...& one of the search hit , I found u'r web sites with forums ..so I thought lets ask ppl who knows about these....thats why I'm here....anyway I'll keep on trying thro search engines. If u come accross any websites regs these pls let me know Thanks very much."}, {"response": 203, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jan 16, 2001 (13:47)", "body": "Keep checking back Beathoven, as I'll be on the look out for this topic and I'll post anything I find. Meanwhile, we have lots of other conferences and topics, what are your other interests besides web phones?"}, {"response": 204, "author": "beathoven", "date": "Wed, Jan 17, 2001 (00:11)", "body": "YEap thx, back 2 surf on web 4 information,Other than web phones ....hm...my interests in Astronomy & Music & new tecnologies."}, {"response": 205, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Wed, Jan 17, 2001 (00:38)", "body": "Beathoven - you need to check out http://www.spring.net/yapp-bin/restricted/browse/geo/all/ At least 2 topic there deal with astronomy - and a third touches on it."}, {"response": 206, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Wed, Jan 17, 2001 (09:35)", "body": "And there's a whole music conference. What kind of music do you listen to, beathoven?"}, {"response": 207, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Fri, Jan 19, 2001 (10:37)", "body": "Here's something for you to check out beathoven: Dear HearMe VoiceCREATOR Registrant: It's finally time to say good-bye to VoiceCREATOR Basic and hello to Telcopoint PC Voice Chat powered by HearMe. HearMe will discontinue VoiceCREATOR at 12:00 noon on Friday January 19th, 2001, but not without offering you a great new way to talk to friends and colleagues over the Internet for FREE: It's easy: You get five rooms and up to 50 concurrent users (at the same time). TelcoPoint will also allow you to upgrade your PC Voice Chat to have moderated sessions, 800 phone access and allow additional users. It's better: Telcopoint PC Voice Chat is full duplex (you can talk at the same time like a standard telephone conversation), firewall friendly (allows you to reach behind corporate firewalls to talk to anyone, anytime) and allows multi-party conversations. It's free: Click http://www.telcopoint.com/hearme/hearme.html to try it now. Webmasters - a support forum has been built just for you, get all the inside info and neat new tricks after signing up."}, {"response": 208, "author": "terp", "date": "Tue, Jan 23, 2001 (13:59)", "body": "who in here boxes"}, {"response": 209, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Tue, Jan 23, 2001 (14:57)", "body": "Hello terp."}, {"response": 210, "author": "ann", "date": "Sat, Apr 21, 2001 (03:48)", "body": "test post logged in as ann via telnet session, does it work?"}, {"response": 211, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Apr 30, 2001 (00:40)", "body": "Another test logged in via telnet."}, {"response": 212, "author": "marci", "date": "Sat, May 12, 2001 (15:58)", "body": "Loud and clear via telnet"}, {"response": 213, "author": "root", "date": "Thu, Aug  9, 2001 (10:22)", "body": "test"}, {"response": 214, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Aug  9, 2001 (14:49)", "body": "teset"}, {"response": 215, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Aug  9, 2001 (21:23)", "body": "test 3"}, {"response": 216, "author": "paul", "date": "Thu, Aug 16, 2001 (09:50)", "body": "test."}, {"response": 217, "author": "root", "date": "Sat, Feb  2, 2002 (08:42)", "body": "test."}, {"response": 218, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, Feb  2, 2002 (17:47)", "body": "Looks Good!"}, {"response": 219, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Feb  2, 2002 (17:59)", "body": "We're back!!!!!"}, {"response": 220, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, Feb  2, 2002 (18:05)", "body": "Praise Be! Pass the champagne. Thanks to all involved!"}, {"response": 221, "author": "wolf", "date": "Sat, Feb  2, 2002 (18:16)", "body": "*WOOHOO*"}, {"response": 222, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Feb  3, 2002 (09:15)", "body": "We wuz' hacked, cracked and abused. Big time. This time it was malicious and it took a major reconstruction effort. I went about 24 hours without sleep at one stretch. But now we're back and we're even stronger in the way we've rebuilt the system and I'm doing multiple redundant backups. I had to buy another server a couple of days ago and a cost of about $1400 but it's a place where we can mirror our main system and get back on line quicly if we need to do so. But it cost a lot, and I may have to stretch our pledge drive a bit more to help make up for some of these costs. I want to make sure folks are getting the most they can get from this place and that we're giving them everything they want. And to do this, security and backups are going to play a key role from now on."}, {"response": 223, "author": "belen", "date": "Sun, Feb  3, 2002 (20:45)", "body": ""}, {"response": 224, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, Feb  3, 2002 (21:20)", "body": "Aloha Belen !"}, {"response": 225, "author": "imagayfag", "date": "Wed, Oct 16, 2002 (22:04)", "body": "Hello everyone. My name is Nate reno and I am a homosexual. I really hope that doesn't bother anyone. But if there happen to be any attractive men in this chat that would like to get some, e-mail me!"}, {"response": 226, "author": "catz849", "date": "Wed, Oct 16, 2002 (22:16)", "body": "EW! Thats really gross. sorry everyone, but im a homophobic and i cant really help it. its just real strange to be around a guy who likes men along with you. Then again, it could have its advantages...hey nate, e-amil me. (-:"}, {"response": 227, "author": "catz849", "date": "Thu, Oct 17, 2002 (08:40)", "body": "not at all. in fact, i swing that way too!"}, {"response": 228, "author": "catz849", "date": "Thu, Oct 17, 2002 (08:41)", "body": "lets have an orgy!!!"}, {"response": 229, "author": "MrBehavior", "date": "Tue, Jan 28, 2003 (15:00)", "body": ""}, {"response": 230, "author": "zx6rider", "date": "Sun, Oct 10, 2004 (18:56)", "body": "hmmmm... this thread seems to have died a sudden death? OK folks. I'm back and I'm chatty. Surely there have been new folks join up since 2002? And since everybody has apps (from the last visable post, let me be clear. APPS not abs)lets discuss them. There's probably lots of new stuff out there that isn't currently covered. Maybe we can even get our favorite grand poobah, Terry, to update or add app names. Come on folks... let's get the party started!"}, {"response": 231, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Oct 11, 2004 (06:56)", "body": "Sure, there are lot's of new apps, and some of the apps here have gone by the by. Forrest Stroud is still reviewing apps. For example, these apps could be new topics: Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird: Microsoft Alternatives Come of Age - 9/15/2004 If you're looking to explore the internet without being tied to Internet Explorer or if you yearn for a new \"Outlook\" on e-mail, Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird, respectively, serve as solid alternatives with some intriguing extras. And the price is right \ufffd both are available for free. Zoom Player: A Player for Every Type of Media File? - 9/8/2004 Can you play multimedia files on your computer? Of course you can, but which of the multitude of file formats can you actually use? Zoom Player from Inmatrix claims to support the widest variety of multimedia formats, including the most recent formats, while also giving you ultimate control over your viewing and listening environment."}, {"response": 232, "author": "zx6rider", "date": "Mon, Oct 11, 2004 (08:34)", "body": "That's my man, Terry! Jump in here wit me! We can get jiggy with new apps... I think I'm going to download a couple of browsers so I can test my site with them. My only concern is incompatibility. Most of my apps are MS and I know how 'twitchy' MS apps get in the presence of competitors. Any issues I should know before I begin? OR: Would some of you Springers pop into my site with your diverse bunch-o-browsers and report results back via my guestbook? If you do that, you don't have to leave your 'real' name. Tell me what browser you used and sign with your Spring handle. I'm new to this web design stuff and would appreciate all helpful hints. Visit me at http://www.spazzdog.com"}, {"response": 233, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Oct 12, 2004 (13:14)", "body": "I haven't had any problems running Mozilla on the same system with IE. So it should be ok. I've got Mozilla Firefox on the system I'm using right now."}, {"response": 234, "author": "zx6rider", "date": "Tue, Oct 12, 2004 (19:55)", "body": "thanks terry!"}, {"response": 235, "author": "cfadm", "date": "Fri, Mar 31, 2006 (20:30)", "body": "Gena has some great cycling tour links on this page: http://www.spazzdog.com/race_tour1.htm"}, {"response": 236, "author": "adrianwill", "date": "Wed, Aug 23, 2006 (07:20)", "body": "Hello. I've joined here as I've noted that a whole lot of people have visited my blog from an address under spring.net. I'm curious as to why, but cannot read the pages as these are restricted. My blog is acediscovery.blogspot.com and the post refers to Lamb's Conduit Street in London. Any info gratefully received. Thanks. Adrian"}, {"response": 237, "author": "KarenR", "date": "Wed, Aug 23, 2006 (09:46)", "body": "It was merely to read about your petition to bar Starbucks. A news item that caught our eye. That's all."}, {"response": 238, "author": "Giaciofano", "date": "Fri, Aug 10, 2007 (18:15)", "body": "I was reading the \"Computing\" magazine and came across this article about web2.0 and i decided to take a look. As i am a network administrator, every bit of information come useful."}, {"response": 239, "author": "cfadm", "date": "Thu, Aug 30, 2007 (16:53)", "body": "Great. I'm very interested in web 2.0 apps and designed one myself. http://web2.0slides.com/ apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 10, "subject": "Virtual Places", "response_count": 7, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Jul 13, 1996 (12:56)", "body": "We had to restart this item with the passing of the software conference. It had quite a few responses previously. Let us know about your experiences on Virtual Places."}, {"response": 2, "author": "Gekko", "date": "Thu, Jul 18, 1996 (15:51)", "body": "I just wanted to add my praise for the internet client known as Virtual Places. I have been using it since nearly it's inception and have found it to be one of the best chat clients available at this time. For those of you who may not know what Virtual Places (or VP) is all about, it's a program that allows you to chat with other people while touring the Internet at the same time. The benefit of this form of communication is one where people can guid \"tours\" of their favorite websites as other people move along the information highway in tow. No longer does the World Wide Web have to be a solitary experience. The possibilities are endless. You'd be amazed at the world that awaits you once you've got the VP client up and running. Once you get Virtual Places up and running, look me up... I go by the nickname \"Gekko\" and you can find me in Webtown ( http://www.cyberclay.com/webtown ) It's a blast...btw, W E B T O W N is almost as much fun as VP itself...check it out. But grab VP so you can see all the other people moving around in this Virtual Village."}, {"response": 3, "author": "Ramrod", "date": "Sat, Aug 10, 1996 (05:56)", "body": "Greetings, distinguished users of this forum! :-) I have had trouble getting Virtual Places to come down the pipeline, in previous releases as well as this one. Using the link on the Strouds page, Netscape will get to the \"Saving location\" prompt but the server never seems to send any data. The same situation happens under WSFTP, I can attempt to start the data transfer but nothing is sent. Wanted to mention this in case others have run into this problem. We now resume with our forum...."}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Aug 10, 1996 (09:47)", "body": "Try going directly to Virtual Places website at http://www.gnn.com/vplaces/ There is a \"Beta 3\" version available now. Some of the new features (from their website): More support for MS Internet Explorer - The Beta3 version runs with the Microsoft Internet Explorer 2.0 browser, both the 32-bit and the 16-bit versions. Automatic reconnect to the server If you get disconnected from the Virtual Places server, your Beta 3 client will automatically reconnect you to the community server. Reminder of who you're Ignoring Any VP member you choose to Ignore from now on will show up in Red text in your People list. Nicer buttons! The toolbar buttons controlling Enter/Exit and Places have been redesigned."}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Aug 11, 1996 (12:34)", "body": ""}, {"response": 6, "author": "RamBear", "date": "Mon, Oct 20, 1997 (19:28)", "body": "Greetings, all! I was wondering if anyone had anything unnatural happen to VP after installing MSIE 4.0. I'd used VP and it worked just fine, but I've discovered I am unable to login with my nick and password ever since I ran the MS Explorer 4.0 upgrade. (The screen where the login data must be entered refuses to accept text input.) This happened to both a friend and myself since the upgrade. I sent a note to VP tech support, but... ..."}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Oct 20, 1997 (20:56)", "body": "I had wierd stuff, but not this. I just had crashes with VP. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 100, "subject": "Visual IRC", "response_count": 10, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "paulaf", "date": "Sun, Jul 13, 1997 (16:22)", "body": "OK, Mr. Stroud, this is the second time that I have been lured into trying VIRC by yout 5 star rating. Once again, I cannot understand why you rate this program higher than either mIRc or Pirch. The current beta of VIRC 97 is a quirky affair to say the least. Various oddness or bugginess that I encountered in only a few hours of use included: The program installed itself in the C:\\WINDOWS\\TEMP directory. This was partly my fault as it asked to which directory it should extract its files. However, since t prompted with the TEMP directory, I assumed that it meant that it was extracting temporary installation files. Once underway, the program gobbled up about 30% of the system resources on my P-133 with 32M of RAM!!! This is an astounding number. Pirch, a known resources-gobbler takes only about 10%; mIRC even less. Perhaps too much of the program runs off of scripted events. I did not find the user interface to be particularly easier to use than mIRC or Pirch. (The absence of a help file in the downloa didn't help.) In fact, the developers seem to have pretty much cobbled together features they like from both programs, then added visuals that take up a lot of resources. While a lot of useful user functions have been added to or pre-built into the program in the later versions, some very essential functions. There is no flood protection, for example, except apparently through adding a script, and none of the usual commands for sending a channel operators message worked. There is also no easy way to re direct join/part/quit messages to the server window that I could find. On a net split, the channel window disappeared and the program said that I was disconnected when in fact I wasn't. But, since none of the usual disconnect messages appear in the server window, whether you are disconnected or not, knowing what your status is is very confusing. With the op control panel option on (feature lifted directly from Pirch), when I tiled 3 windows horizontally, the op panel covered the user list, making it inac essible. This on a full screen on 17\" monitor at 1024 x 768. Some of the cutesy features in this program are just dumb and I suspect responsible for resources used. For example, a window pops up when you do a Whois, instead of simply showing the results in the server window. Too many other bugs or anomalies to mention. Finally, the program seems to keep almost all its settings and remotes information in the Windows 95 registry, instead of in *ini files as mIRC as Pirch do. Maybe this is fine, but it d esn't seem like the greatest idea to me. My impression of this program has always been that it is a \"fun project\" of a group of heavy IRC users who primarily want a highly scriptable program. It does not enough built-in functionality for the vast majority of your average IRC users. None of the IRC clients do, but the mIRC and Pirch are far better in this regard. It is not a program for IRC users that feel that IRC does not warrant learning scripting. It's also not a program for people with computers that cannot take the resources hit. In sum, I think the 5-stars is not deserved and will led many people, especially newbies, astray. Paula Ford~"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Jul 13, 1997 (22:53)", "body": "Great assessment Paula, you sound like you're deep into the world of irc."}, {"response": 3, "author": "torrella", "date": "Tue, Aug  5, 1997 (00:14)", "body": "I'm *not* that deep into the world of IRC, and I *quite* agree with Paula. I downloaded vIRC, unzipped it and immediately went hunting for a help file -- sorry folks! A knee-jerk reaction. Amazingly, there was NO help file to be found, despite the fact the installer managed to install an icon for the absentee file!! I went ahead with the install procedure (it says you have to run vIRC97 in order to set things up....duuuhhh, okay). Double-click the appropriate icon, \"splash\" and \"STALL\". \"Nothin' doin',\" says the Taskmanager. vIRC97 stopped responding. (The memory-hog problem?) So I figure I'll hop on the 'net and see if the vIRC site has some hints on where I can locate the missing Help files. Wrong again. The site listed on Stroud's as being the VIRC Home Page comes up a dud -- just like the program. At this point, I've uninstalled vIRC and gone back to my mIRC. Mercifully, it's not so full of itself that it can't even find the where-with-all to install itself!! A swing and a miss on this one, Stroud! Respectfully, Ron Torrella Ypsilanti, MI"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Aug  5, 1997 (08:53)", "body": "Have you tried emailing the folks at the company that put out this irc software?"}, {"response": 5, "author": "megalith", "date": "Sat, Aug 30, 1997 (15:13)", "body": "Hi there, Well, I've read what you've said, and here's my response (as the author of ViRC). First of all, the latest _official_ version of ViRC '96 is 0.92b, and this is available from my home page at http://www.megalith.co.uk/virc . This version includes a full help file, and is quite stable. The versions that have appeared on CWSApps recently are prerelease betas, and I do not provide support for them (which is why they're not available from the official ViRC home page, and why they don't contain a help file, alth ugh the final version, of course, will). As prereleases, they contain a lot of experimental new code and functionality, much of which has not been tested thoroughly (which is why these aren't official, public releases). It strikes me that you've all been using very old releases, with very incomplete functionality. This is no longer the case. You may be interested to know that 1.00almost-final3b, the current release on CWSApps, is very stable indeed, and should cause you no major problems (certainly no crashes), and 1.00 final will be released within the next 3-4 days. This version features an additional setup mode for newbies, which guides you through every step of the setup process, from putting in a nickname to joining a server and channels and speaking to people. Why did Stroud give ViRC '96/'97 a 5-star rating? Well, the latest release has - built-in - everything that PIRCH and mIRC has (and if there's something that either of them have that I don't, let me know). It's also got heaps of extra stuff, like a scripting language that's substantially more powerful than mIRC's or PIRCH's, being totally object-oriented and comparable to C++. It's also got voice chat, which neither mIRC nor PIRCH have, which many people think is great. As for the resource usage, this is an unfortunate side-effect of programs compiled with Delphi. The way forms are preloaded makes resource usage a lot higher than programs compiled with VC++, like mIRC (although note that resources are not a problem under NT). However, I have ordered the Borland Delphi 3.1 update, which should arrive shortly, and will compile ViRC '97 with this as soon as it arrives, and this may reduce resource usage (note also that the amount of RAM you have does not affect resources - ll resources are limited to one 64k memory block on Windows 95, which is a bad design limitation of W95 - for comparison, under NT, there is no practical resource memory block limit) I take any comments very seriously, but I hope that I've addressed all of your possible concerns above, and hope that the latest ViRC '97 prerelease (currently 1.00almost-final3b, also available from http://www.virc.com ) addresses most of them. I look forward to any additional feedback you may have."}, {"response": 6, "author": "zackz", "date": "Sun, Dec 14, 1997 (14:02)", "body": "is it just me or does it seem like virc takes a lot more resources than it should?...i mean...it's just an irc application and according to my resource meter, it takes more than Internet Explorer or MS Word!...seems to me to be a little out of whack mirc starts up in a couple of seconds...virc seems endless...too bad because i like the software but in my system (a 486DX100 with 16mb), it sucks the life right out of it although i can concurrently run all the Microsoft Office products"}, {"response": 7, "author": "Radsoft", "date": "Sun, Feb  8, 1998 (13:10)", "body": "There's quite a difference between an unsuspecting customer looking at an automobile in a showroom and a mechanic giving the car a going over and looking under the hood. Virc 97 is the flashiest IRC client ever. When you run it you feel like Lieutenant Pete Mitchell in an F-14. Such a sense of power! But I don't use Virc 97 anymore - I looked under the hood. For starters, Virc 97 is written in Delphi, and uses a totally incompatible file format. It is not an authentic PE image. It loads and runs ok, but nonetheless. Eyebrows are raised even here. And because it is not an authentic PE, it cannot be bound. Meaning slow loads all around. Virc 97 writes lugubrious amounts of data to the Registry. You can see this data immediately after setup, and reading in this data is what takes the sucker so long to load. Now this data came from somewhere, and one must wonder why Virc 97's right hand doesn't know what its left hand does. mIRC32, on the other hand, still uses the obsolete INI file system. Partly for cross-platform compatibility with 16 bit versions, but also because all this data takes all the more space in the Registry. The Registry is Unicode animal, and each and every key created represents an additional overhead of 260 bytes. Above and beyond what is stored there. There's class info, last write time, the ACL (access control list), etc. Meaning for matters such as these the solution offered by mIRC is actually superior. That background image is amazing. Alone it's worth the price of admission. But until Virc 97 is re-written in C and the use of the Registry is toned down, it's definitely one of those products that look good in the showroom, but, on closer inspection, is a real no-no."}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Feb  9, 1998 (08:35)", "body": "So, if you don't use virc, what do you use?"}, {"response": 9, "author": "S0ccerRules", "date": "Mon, Jul  6, 1998 (13:37)", "body": "Downloaded virc, found out it's loaded with things I don't want. It's terribly slow and no on line channels for support that I could find. I also uninstalled and immediately went back to mIRC where I can load the addons I want and unload those I don't need. AND find the help file and 'live' help on line on every network I log on to. I too feel the 5 star rating is very over blown. If I want voice chat, I use a voice chat client which specializes in it. If I want video, I use video software which specializes in it. There is a sacrifice for this 'bundle' application, speed and the intrusion of my registry is way too much. Strouds, what are the perks you get for this 5 star rating ? yeah, thats got to be it."}, {"response": 10, "author": "NickC", "date": "Tue, Aug 11, 1998 (11:53)", "body": "You know what? If I was introduced to IRC through mIRC or PIRCH, I would have been scared away. However, I was introduced through ViRC, which I like and will keep. I've found lots of help chanels on the Big Three (especially on Undernet: #New2ViRC), can load and unload scripts I want, and use the \"bundle\" apps in ViRC. I'm not sure if this is the best choice, but it sure seems it. Thanks, Mr Cable, for all the work you've put into this. Good luck on ViRC '98. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 101, "subject": "mIRC", "response_count": 10, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "messimer", "date": "Sat, Aug 24, 1996 (13:37)", "body": "I like it it's nice and pretty easy not to easy though to config! But overall i like it alot it is easier to understand and has good features But how is it compared to Pirch?"}, {"response": 2, "author": "moonshado", "date": "Sat, Sep  7, 1996 (01:31)", "body": "Mirc isn't hard to use, but it is more complicated than another IRC client I prefer, Netscape's nschat. Nschat offers a much smaller feature set, but is much more intuitive [IMHO] and perfectly integrated with the leading [IE notwithstanding] web browser. It offers server selection, group selection, individual selection.. private conversations, open conferences, moderated conferences.. automated URL transmission and reception.. Kicking, ignoring, inviting/granting speaker and moderator privileges, whispering, actions, filtering, etc etc, etc. - and all in a very graphical intuitive interface. What more could you ask? Honestly, I think mirc is for Unix- type hackers [and I'm one] who enjoy command line interfaces and esoteric features that are only of interest to those who would rather hack than chat. NSCHAT is the best IRC client for newbies and netvets alike. Bernie Verreau, bverreau@netcom.com, Redwood City, CA"}, {"response": 3, "author": "Wilhelmy", "date": "Mon, Sep 23, 1996 (11:49)", "body": "Hi everybody"}, {"response": 4, "author": "AFTERSHOC", "date": "Tue, Nov 26, 1996 (11:52)", "body": "how is everyone today"}, {"response": 5, "author": "AFTERSHOC", "date": "Tue, Nov 26, 1996 (11:53)", "body": "hey wilhelmy how are you"}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Nov 26, 1996 (12:23)", "body": "This isn't a chat board. It's a conferencing system."}, {"response": 7, "author": "WhytKnyt", "date": "Tue, Dec 10, 1996 (09:45)", "body": "Moonshadow is WAY wrong about Netscape Chat being better than mIRC 4.7. Granted, if you don't like installing/configuring Windows programs, NSChat may be easier to get up and running. But mIRC has a better interface and a lot more features than NSChat. mIRC also supports the nschat and iChat links and allows you to integrate easily with Netscape Navigator. You can run the 32-bit version of mIRC in Windows 3.x, using Win32s and a 16-bit WinSock, or you can run it in Windows95/NT. Check out mIRC 4.7 before you decide to settle for Netscape Chat. John jmtubbs@ico.com"}, {"response": 8, "author": "markp", "date": "Tue, Dec 10, 1996 (21:40)", "body": "\"Cons: Lacks some features, limited to text-based conversations.\" So, can someone tell me what features are missing? I have mIRC, Pirch, and ViRC on my system now, and have used Comic Chat, MS Internet Chat, WS-IRC, win ircII, OrbitIRC, chat conxion, DOS clients, unix ircII, and others I can't remember, and don't see any missing features. Any features other clients have that mIRC doesn't have are simply useless items to make it *seem* better. mIRC is all I use, and has all I want. About the other \"con\": Why is being limited to text-based conversations a *bad* thing? IRC *is* text-based. Voice chat uses an entirely different protocol from IRC, and the two should not be considered as one entity. If I wanted voice chat, I'd get a voice chat client. I don't want a client that is bloated, because it is to be used for two different purposes. I want a client that specializes in one area of another; not one that attempts to do both, and ends up doing neither well. mIRC excels in text chat, and the best voice chat client I've seen has no text capabilities. This is simlilar to the way Netscape attempts to handle email and news fall well short of any *specialized* email/news clients. I would consider this a pro, rather than a con. And certainly not something to lose half a star over. Any replies may be directed at email (pacman@nbnet.nb.ca). If I recieve any useful suggestions, perhaps I'll pass them along to the author, for consideration for the next version."}, {"response": 9, "author": "mrme", "date": "Mon, Dec 16, 1996 (21:47)", "body": "Hello! I was wondering if the new version of mIRC was time-bomb ware, nag ware or if the \"30-day-trial\" period was just a suggested guideline, but nothing was going to happen after those 30 days. Thanks! Please e-mail me at mrme@eskimo.com Thanks! matt"}, {"response": 10, "author": "tjerk", "date": "Fri, Feb 27, 1998 (14:55)", "body": "Hello Matt, mIRC is not time-bomb-ware or nag-ware. The 30-day-trial period is just the suggested amount of time before deciding to register mIRC ...or to throw it away ;-) Thats the main idea behind Shareware. Even if you decide not to register mIRC nothing is going to happen after those 30 days. mIRC will work on just as nice as always. We dont believe enforcing registrations will help you to enjoy IRC, or help us with making mIRC. Mind you though, we need at least some friendly people to register mIRC otherwise Khaled can not afford working on on it. Writing and supporting a program like mIRC is a full time job! Really :-) To put an end to the blabla; have lots of fun on IRC with mIRC and dont worry about the 30 days! Best wishes, Tjerk Vonck. - webkeeper of www.mirc.com apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 102, "subject": "PIRCH", "response_count": 13, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "Matthew", "date": "Mon, Sep 23, 1996 (00:44)", "body": ""}, {"response": 2, "author": "Matthew", "date": "Mon, Sep 23, 1996 (00:48)", "body": "spitart"}, {"response": 3, "author": "MAndre", "date": "Sun, Oct 27, 1996 (23:30)", "body": "For those of us who are not IRC junkies PIRCH is a godsend. It makes IRC fun again and easy to use, it doesnt have all the scripts that MIRC has, but for \"useability\" I give it an A."}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Oct 28, 1996 (05:37)", "body": "Mike, have you checked out http://www.ichat.com ? They have a very interesting and fun approach to irc."}, {"response": 5, "author": "AFTERSHOC", "date": "Tue, Nov 26, 1996 (11:57)", "body": "hello how is everyone today"}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Nov 26, 1996 (12:24)", "body": "Good, except this isn't a chat board."}, {"response": 7, "author": "Any1", "date": "Sun, Jan  5, 1997 (00:24)", "body": "I dont agree, with terry when he says that mIRC is better then Pirch and when he says that only novices choose Pirch, and thats a BIG LIE, its a bit stupid to talk about software that u dont even know very well, for ex.: when u talked about pil, u only said it was a scripting language, the only thing u forgot to say was that just because it has pil, its the best damn irc client nowadays, know why, cause with pil, u can create prompt windows, toolbar windows, lists to display information, everything u can do almost on a programming language... Now, if u go to mIRC, if u look real hard u wont see any windows, toolbars, list, nothing unless its made outside, mIRC, and then it wont be mIRC related, cause pirch can have that 2. If u want some examples just go to #pirchpil, and if u see me there, i'll give u some hundred pils, that will prove that pirch is superior to mIRC 100x. And, one more question, u said that Virc, was better cause it had, audio chat, over the IRC, well... i dont see any LIVE VIDEO THERE, nd did u talk about that in pirch did u say it was kewl, dont see that either!!! And if ur saying that pirch is bad, just cause it's a bit slow d/l the channels list, and doesnt have mask for it, who do u think will worry about that? novices or experts? experts will make a pil with a graphical interface that will get the channels list put it like THEY want it, WHERE they want it... do u see mIRC guys doing that? About VIRC, its a good IRC client, but for novices, i dont think it will be very good, for experts, its a good tool, but i dont think the experts will go use VIRC, since no one is using it. Now if i were u i'd go check out pils and Pirch scripts, and remake ur opinion about PIRCH, cuz WHO CARES if the lists download slower, i dont even do a list, when i get on-line!!! and do u know whats the TDCC file transfer protocol, of course not, its a file transfer protocol that transfers files about 3 times faster han the ordinary DCC one, of course its more reliable, but till now, i didnt get any corrupted file. Ur opinion about whats best pissed me so much!!! It makes me think how guys like u can put stupid opinions like that... And if ur thinkin i dont know mIRC, i do know it, i used some time ago, when it was the best one, till pirch came... and it wasnt easy changing to pirch, but once i saw the pil capabilities of pirch, there was no stoping me... And have u heard about the ON INPUT event that pirch has and m RC DOESNT, of course not, the only thing u did was go to pirch's homepage and look at the stuff, didnt even d/l it from the web site... ON INPUT lets u write something to the channel or a msg or something and before its sent it lets u do whatever u want with that writted stuff, u can use a text manipulating script, writing in a diferent color just by pressing some buttons in a toolbar (made with pil) thnx to ON INPUT, so dont gimme the s*** about being slow d/l the channels list cause its shining points m re than make for that. I thank PG for making such a damn good IRC client... And i will be back to see ur reply, if u think of one........"}, {"response": 8, "author": "ZoneM", "date": "Thu, Jan  9, 1997 (23:11)", "body": "And another thing, (I LOOOOOVE PIRCH .9x) .... That thing about bad filtering? that's a joke.... right click on the channel list for filtering, you can save it, you can save filter types, and you can control filtering at the server... THE REAL WAY IT'S DONE... by true unix IRC clients. The Faster and better way. Don't even try to tell my why mIRC is better: Pirch has all features and 2x as many... Pirch's speed goes up just like mIRC's when you turn off logging for some windows... and you can do ANYTHING you damn well want with it! You ask me what you wanna do? YOu wanna make an eggie? been done! A good Scripter has created something called the Gumdrop bot.... EXACT SAME... just in Pirch PIL in GUI."}, {"response": 9, "author": "Any1", "date": "Fri, Jan 10, 1997 (02:14)", "body": "Let him have it opencore :) Well... im still waiting for u to remake the homepage on Win95 IRC clients mIRC doesnt stand a chance against PIRCH, NEVER did, never WILL!!!!!! Its this guys that dont deserve to have freedom of speach, hehhe I'll keep coming here!!!!!! Only cause i wanna see u changing the page and/or replying Ohh, did i tell u the pirch is going to have a pil-opoly (monopoly) game and ALREADY has a tic-tac-toe game ALL GRAPHICAL, well, i dont see mIRC doing stuff like that!!! There's a poker game for 4 already being done too!!! mIRC's a looooooooooosssssseeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrr PPPPIIIIRRRRRCCCCCHHHHHH RRRRRUUUUULLLLLEEEEEZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!! FOREVER!!!!"}, {"response": 10, "author": "Ostrich", "date": "Thu, Jan  9, 1997 (23:50)", "body": "Yes i do agree wif any1, mIRC is just another IRC program, I am an irc addict and I do use both mIRC and PIRCH , but I still use Pirch more than mIRC , the fact is that Pirch has been better than mIRC since Pirch 8 was release, Pirch has better environment, can connect to a few servers at the same time and is able to use certain functions easily unlike mIRC. mIRC4,7 and Pirch9.0 release about the same time and i already see that Pirch9.0 is better than mIRCH4,7 , Irc users are already starting to change t Pirch after what they heard about the advantages of Pirch. In some channels you could see people setting their topic \"PIRCH9.0 HAS BEATEN MIRC4,7... PIRCH LIVES!! PIRCH RULZ IRC WORLD !! USE PIRCH, MIRC IS OUTDATED\" The popularity of Pirch is increasing.... The creater of Pirch, Please dun let us down..!!"}, {"response": 11, "author": "monsta", "date": "Tue, Jul 21, 1998 (10:44)", "body": "is pirc98 as hackable as the betas ? paulskin@hotmail.com"}, {"response": 12, "author": "Solarboy", "date": "Sat, Sep 26, 1998 (04:50)", "body": "Haven't tried it yet,l'm just a beginner but instructions are a lot easier on other chat programs l have tried and given up on."}, {"response": 13, "author": "Solarboy", "date": "Sat, Sep 26, 1998 (05:12)", "body": "All the chat programs are similar or are they? l'm trying to find a relativly easy way of conversating. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 103, "subject": "WS-IRC", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 104, "subject": "Winsock IRC", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "eholly", "date": "Wed, Sep  4, 1996 (17:37)", "body": "Where would / could you get a copy? E Holly eehollingsworth@mmm.com"}, {"response": 2, "author": "eholly", "date": "Wed, Sep  4, 1996 (17:37)", "body": "Where would / could you get a copy? E Holly eehollingsworth@mmm.com apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 105, "subject": "Netscape Chat", "response_count": 13, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "moonshado", "date": "Sat, Sep  7, 1996 (01:59)", "body": "Mirc isn't hard to use, but it is more complicated than another IRC client I prefer, Netscape's nschat. Nschat offers a much smaller feature set, but is much more intuitive [IMHO] and perfectly integrated with the leading [IE notwithstanding] web browser. It offers server selection, group selection, individual selection.. private conversations, open conferences, moderated conferences.. automated URL transmission and reception.. Kicking, ignoring, inviting/granting speaker and moderator privileges, whispering, actions, filtering, etc etc, etc. - and all in a very graphical intuitive interface. What more could you ask? Honestly, I think mirc is for Unix- type hackers [and I'm one] who enjoy command line interfaces and esoteric features that are only of interest to those who would rather hack than chat. NSCHAT is the best IRC client for newbies and netvets alike. Bernie Verreau, bverreau@netcom.com, Redwood City, CA"}, {"response": 2, "author": "Bettyg", "date": "Sat, Sep 14, 1996 (08:57)", "body": "I am trying to find out to get into the IRC #refunders chat Line?????"}, {"response": 3, "author": "vivi", "date": "Sat, Sep 14, 1996 (10:13)", "body": "Is there anybody here"}, {"response": 4, "author": "vivi", "date": "Sat, Sep 14, 1996 (10:13)", "body": ""}, {"response": 5, "author": "bcbg200", "date": "Mon, Sep 16, 1996 (00:44)", "body": "I'm one of the newbies to this internet stuff. i don't have that much info about irc's. i'm looking for a freeware software to install in my netscape browser so i can chat with my friends out-of-state. i having got a clue on how to proceed. what are the procedures to chat online person-to-person, chat groups, etc? could one of you gurus out there help me out? it would be most approciated. thanx, a rookie at bcbg200@erols.com"}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Sep 17, 1996 (10:32)", "body": "What freeware stuff have you downloaded from Forrest's site? Have you read his reviews and tried some downloads? Jump in and get your feet wet! That's the best way to get started."}, {"response": 7, "author": "Pegas", "date": "Sat, Sep 28, 1996 (12:55)", "body": "hello"}, {"response": 8, "author": "plitton", "date": "Thu, Nov  7, 1996 (08:37)", "body": "What is Forest's site?"}, {"response": 9, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov  9, 1996 (22:12)", "body": "http://www.stroud.com or http://www.cwsapps.com"}, {"response": 10, "author": "rain", "date": "Tue, Nov 19, 1996 (17:28)", "body": "an"}, {"response": 11, "author": "AFTERSHOC", "date": "Tue, Nov 26, 1996 (11:41)", "body": "hello pegas"}, {"response": 12, "author": "AFTERSHOC", "date": "Tue, Nov 26, 1996 (11:42)", "body": "anybody want to talk"}, {"response": 13, "author": "Amy", "date": "Tue, Nov 26, 1996 (12:08)", "body": "Anybody tried M-S Comic Chat? You can be a cartoon character. Third party but supported MSIE add-on (plug in) or stand alone. Limited choices now but there are vapor dreams for custom characters. Though it has not gone so far yet, the possibilities are almost frightening. Think of being a character of your choice, now that would be cool -- the sort of thing that could get real addictive, real, quick. Be a characiture of yourself, or somebody else, famous or not. Also supports web links as the Netscape package does. See it at microsoft.com: http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ie3/comic.htm Amy apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 106, "subject": "IRC 4 Windows", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 107, "subject": "Mail Clients", "response_count": 7, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jul 30, 1996 (05:43)", "body": "above review by Forrest Stroud."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Aug  5, 1996 (17:16)", "body": "Mike Worley wants to know if there is a program that shows you a list of what email is available before it actually downloads it or allows you to select which ones to download."}, {"response": 3, "author": "XTreme", "date": "Fri, Aug  9, 1996 (08:08)", "body": "Yeah. Look for an email client that supports IMAP4. The mailserver has to be running IMAPD, though. I prefer IMAP rather than POP. It does exactly what you want and you don't have to have your email client to check like every 10mins for an email. If I'm not mistaken, Pegasus Mail will support IMAP4 if it doesn't already. But I know that Email Notify 95 does it."}, {"response": 4, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Tue, Nov 14, 2000 (08:40)", "body": "If you have access to your mailserver host via telnet, you can use elm, pine or unix \"mail\" to prescreen your mail before you gather it up with your pop server."}, {"response": 5, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Tue, Nov 14, 2000 (12:42)", "body": "Yup, I have that ability with Hawaii On Line. In fact, when my Eudora is not behaving (the new and improved is new but most certainly NOT improved!)I do hjust that and Telnet in to check my mail. Later, it downloads what I saved and does not bother with the junk I deleted. Pine is the one I use."}, {"response": 6, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Wed, Nov 15, 2000 (09:20)", "body": "I use elm mostly. I never got off the ground with pine for some reason. Pine offers a lot more options."}, {"response": 7, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Wed, Nov 15, 2000 (17:25)", "body": "Was not offered an option and was taught Pine by my son... apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 108, "subject": "Pegasus Mail", "response_count": 39, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "sges", "date": "Fri, Aug  9, 1996 (07:49)", "body": "Pegasus Mail now supports mutiple signatures and HOT URLs. These are not mentioned in the review. In fact one of the supossed advantages of Eudora Pro over Pegasus is multiple signatures which Pegasus also has."}, {"response": 2, "author": "XTreme", "date": "Fri, Aug  9, 1996 (08:14)", "body": "I read a review of several email packages in a magazine the other day (Think it was Byte). They reviewed lots of email clients, but failed to mention Pegasus Mail. I just can't understand why. Pegasus' load of features is large enough to put any email clients to shame and you just can't beat the price. I wonder how many other email clients supports MultiPOP like PMail does? I have a copy of PMail set up on a computer at work that fetches everybody's email and distributes them on our LAN..."}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Aug  9, 1996 (20:04)", "body": "Cool, I've been looking for something that supports multipop. Can you go into more detail on this?"}, {"response": 4, "author": "XTreme", "date": "Sat, Aug 10, 1996 (12:45)", "body": "Pegasus Mail's MultiPOP support is pretty new so you might find it a bit rough around the edges. The idea around the MultiPOP supports is for someone with multiple POP accounts. But you can easily get around that to manage multiple POP accounts of several Netware users. The problem being that the full name appearing in the FROM: field will be the one set up on the Pegasus Mail copy dealing with MultiPOP. It means that if you send something from your own PMail copy (with your full name in the FROM: field), that full name will be changed when the other copy of PMail (somewhere on the network) will pick your message from your outgoing queue to send it out. That's not a big problem, though. You just put your company name. :-) I asked that all users of PMail use their default directory for their mail to I know where to put newly arrived email and where to pick up the ones to be sent. I just tell PMail where that location is, reply-to address, POP/SMTP servers to use, etc, and that's it. MultiPOP is easy to use and set up. If you need any specific help, you can email to me."}, {"response": 5, "author": "dkocmoud", "date": "Fri, Aug 30, 1996 (14:52)", "body": "While MultiPOP can correctly handle incoming POP3 mail for a whole network of users (i.e. Multiple POP), it cannot handle outgoing mail for a whole network without some custom tweaking by using a user-defined gateway (UDG) definition for WinPMail. This is necessary since you must have any outgoing SMTP messages converted immediately into SMTP final format before MultiPOP can do anything with it; what SMTP final format means is that file attachments have been encoded and attached to the message, encryptio has been activated, your signature has been added, the message headers have been specified (From: field, etc.), etc. To configure everything properly, do the following: Run PCONFIG.EXE and create a User-Defined Gateway definition for Pegasus Mail with the following settings: Gateway name : SMTP *New mail path : Is ^ a program to run? : N *New mail search mask : *Outgoing mail path : ~h *Run for outgoing mail : *Filename format : ~d~d.PMX Run to validate address : *Reply address format : \"~p\" Accepts SMTP addresses? : Y Simple message headers? : 'Glue' headers UUEncode attachments? : Y Burst messages? : N Gateway processes BCC? : N Strip gateway name? : Y Force all mail through? : N Also, make sure everyone has specified their Internet e-mail address within the Default Reply-to address field in their WinPMail General Settings preferences so that the UDG and MultiPOP will use their Internet e-mail address correctly for outgoing mail. Enjoy! David Kocmoud Pegasus Mail Tech Support Member"}, {"response": 6, "author": "dkocmoud", "date": "Fri, Aug 30, 1996 (14:58)", "body": "Sorry about the lousy wrapping job above--I cut and pasted that in and it didn't work out too well. Anyway, If anyone is interested, I wrote a book on Pegasus Mail for Windows that can be ordered from your local bookstore for about $34.95 + tax. The book shows you how to use Pegasus Mail's features to enhance your productivity. For more information and some sample chapter text, check out the following URL: http://www.browsebooks.com/Kocmoud/ You'll also find a Foreword section there written by David Harris, the author of Pegasus Mail. It may help explain why he gives away this wonderful software. Enjoy! David Kocmoud Pegasus Mail Tech Support Member"}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Aug 30, 1996 (16:02)", "body": "Thanks for that helpful information. I hope you'll be checking in here more often and that we can get the word out to other users of Pegasus Mail. All the folks I know who use Pegasus mail rave about it."}, {"response": 8, "author": "TomG", "date": "Thu, Sep  5, 1996 (11:46)", "body": "I've used Pegasus mail at home for a while. Though you can't beat the price and the feature list is extensive, a few rough edges remain. The spell check feature (new feature) is deficient in that the edit window does not scroll to display the context of the unrecognized word. Also, I guess the dictionary is not US English since \"color\" was not recognized. Another useability deficiency is word wrap, which works during initial text entry but not during subsequent editing. These deficiencies would not b overlooked by some, when deciding to change mail systems / clients."}, {"response": 9, "author": "Henrik", "date": "Fri, Sep  6, 1996 (08:12)", "body": "I\ufffdve have some problems installing pegasusmail. I\ufffdm tryiing to install the program in a novell netware environment for a student organisation. Everyone in the organisation will use the same netware login. When I start up pegasus it doesn\ufffdt requast any password so I get access to everyone\ufffds mailacount. Is there a way to solve this problem. Or do I need some other mailprogram? The last time I tried to install it I didn't eaven get the chance to register sevrel users? Annyone that knows the answers to my problems? Would be very greatful for help in this matter. Henrik Ingvarsson Finansekonomerna, University of Stockholm, Sweden."}, {"response": 10, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Sep  6, 1996 (09:08)", "body": "Do you use Novell's GroupWise on this system? What we do at MagRabbit is route everyone's mail from our BSDI UNIX Server to their smtp addresses in GroupWise and they get their email that way. We also leave a copy on the server so they can pick up their email with Netscape, Pegasus, Eudora or whatever other email program they are using. GroupWise allows you to send and receive Internet email. But perhaps you can tailor Pegasus to operate in this environment, I'd be interested in seeing if anyone comes up with an answer on this one. Good question!"}, {"response": 11, "author": "elvira", "date": "Fri, Sep  6, 1996 (11:32)", "body": "i have installed Pegasus email and i am using it with netscape 2.old. i can't get rid of the email service that came with the provider. how do i make pegasus the main, the one and only email service on my pc? i want only one mailbox and i want that mailbox to be pegasus! help! Judy Mitchell"}, {"response": 12, "author": "hjfouill", "date": "Thu, Sep 12, 1996 (05:28)", "body": "I have been waiting for Pegasus to update the print options. Can anyone tell me if they have yet? I understand there has been a new release. Up till now I've used Eudora Lite cause it allows me to print selected pages. What if a printjob fails on page 11 of 12??? Who wants to reprint the entire document? NOT ME!!! Or maybe only page 6 has the info you want to hang onto, why print 11 pages more than you have to?? If anyone knows if this feature has been fixed, please let me know. If not, please forward a request to David Harris! Heidi"}, {"response": 13, "author": "artfest", "date": "Thu, Sep 12, 1996 (15:51)", "body": "Is there a way to import my address.htm (Netscape address book) into Pegasus?"}, {"response": 14, "author": "artfest", "date": "Thu, Sep 12, 1996 (15:55)", "body": "One other item. My newmail.wav does not work. It was fine during setup and when I tested it."}, {"response": 15, "author": "indy500", "date": "Wed, Sep 18, 1996 (17:16)", "body": "I am trying to locate the Pegasus Mail zip file. It was not on ftp://risc.ua.edu/pub/network/pegasus/wpm32wb3.zip as indicated. Where else may i find it?"}, {"response": 16, "author": "bead", "date": "Fri, Sep 27, 1996 (19:29)", "body": "On Sept 12 artfest wrote: Is there a way to import my address.htm (Netscape address book) into Pegasus? I would like to to the same, as well as move old messages from Netscape to Pegasus. Can I do this? If so, how? Tnx!"}, {"response": 17, "author": "bead", "date": "Sat, Sep 28, 1996 (23:11)", "body": "On Sept 12 artfest wrote: Is there a way to import my address.htm (Netscape address book) into Pegasus? I would like to to the same, as well as move old messages from Netscape to Pegasus. Can I do this? If so, how? Tnx!"}, {"response": 18, "author": "dkocmoud", "date": "Fri, Nov 15, 1996 (15:12)", "body": "I guess I need to check this discussion list more often. ;-) PLEASE NOTE: if you have questions about Pegasus Mail, the place to ask is: winpmail-support@pmail.gen.nz Also, please subscribe to the PM-NEWS mailing list for announcements on new releases of the software. This is a low-volume list and a MUST for Pegasus Mail sites and users. To subscribe, send a message to LISTSERV@UA1VM.UA.EDU with a single text message line of: SUBSCRIBE PM-NEWS Firstname Lastname At this point, the latest versions of Pegasus Mail are: WinPMail/16 v2.42a, WinPMail/32 v2.42a, PMail/DOS v3.40, PMail/Mac v2.1.2 You can download the latest versions from: http://www.pegasus.usa.com/ Let's see if I can answer all the questions asked up to this point: 1) Why is Pegasus Mail not reviewed by the big rags? David Harris would actually prefer they NOT review Pegasus Mail since they usually have a hidden agenda or a different desired feature set than what David believes there should be. Often the reviews are misleading or biased, so he requests that Pegasus Mail not be reviewed. 2) Problem using Pegasus Mail for Windows in NetWare envrionment with multiple users logging in with same username? Pegasus Mail can run in one of two modes: NetWare or Standalone. While in NetWare mode, Pegasus Mail will use the NetWare username and the user's SYS:MAIL\\userid mailbox directory (or a subdirectory under a user's home directory in NetWare 4.x NDS environments). Thus, if you've got hundreds of students logging into your file server as the same user, they will all look like the same user to Pegasus Mail. Thus, you'll probably need to use Pegasus Mail in standalone mode instead. In fact, I recommend th following: Purchase some zip drives for your common-access machines. Have each student purchase a zip disk (about $20 max), which can hold 100MB of data. Configure Pegasus Mail in single-user standalone mode to use the zip drive for mail storage (e.g. mailbox dir: E:\\MAIL). You'll need to have a zip disk in the drive for this to work initially. Now, when a new student sticks a zip disk in the drive and starts Pegasus Mail, it will tell them that it could not find their mailbox and will prompt to create one. After creating it, the student can then set up all their POP3/SMTP parameters and basically customize it all they want. In this way, students can access mail from any computer with Pegasus Mail and a zip drive on it, assuming the student has a zip disk with them. Additionally, all mail is stored only on the zip disk, so security and privac are not big issues anymore. Although the zip drives are expensive up front ($150 - $200 per drive), they can be a real headache-remover. I recommend the SCSI INTERNAL ZIP drives. They cannot be stolen easily and are faster than the parallel version. You'll also need a SCSI card--I recommend a plain Adaptek 1500 series ISA card--doesn't have to be a screamer because of the zip drive's slower disk access speeds. 3) Want to use Pegasus instead of Eudora or Netscape (or MS IE) mail; how? With Windows 95, there is a helper utility available from John Navas to allow Netscape to call Pegasus Mail (or WinPMail, as it's affectionately referred to) for mail-related tasks: http://www.aimnet.com/~jnavas/winpmail/helpers.html For MS Internet Explorer, follow this link for a utility that will work: http://www.netaccess.on.ca/~medmonds/sw/runmail.html Note that this only works with Win95 and WinPMail/32 (not WinPMail/16). 4) How can I tell WinPMail to only print pages 5 through 10 of a large message? This is still a wish list item--stay tuned to the PM-NEWS list for updates that might finally have this feature. 5) How do I convert my address books from/to Pegasus Mail to/from Eudora/Netscape/Pine/Elm? There is a web site that includes a script to convert your address books for you. http://www.interguru.com/mailconv.htm 6) How do I convert my mail folders from Eudora to Pegasus Mail? Use the following conversion utility: http://risc.ua.edu/pub/network/pegasus/misc/conv01g.zip 7) New Mail wave sound notification not working, why? First go to the Advanced Settings preferences and click on the TEST button to be sure it's functionally configured. If it doesn't play, reselect your .WAV file (or choose one known to not be corrupted) and try the TEST button again. If it still doesn't work, most likely your sound drivers are messed up. If the TEST button does work, the problem is probably just with how Pegasus Mail operates normally. The only time WinPMail normally play the sound notification is when WinPMail is minimized or running in the background. If you want it to play even when not minimized, modify your WinPMail shortcut icon to include the \"-Z 512\" command line switch (hopefully, this option will be moved into the program itself in the next release or will be unnecessary). e.g. c:\\pmail\\winpmail.exe -z 512"}, {"response": 19, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov 16, 1996 (09:56)", "body": "Wow, I really do hope you check in more often. We've found the answer man."}, {"response": 20, "author": "owenml", "date": "Tue, Nov 26, 1996 (21:14)", "body": "Hm- Does this product work under NT 4.0, or just Win 95?"}, {"response": 21, "author": "dkocmoud", "date": "Tue, Dec  3, 1996 (15:56)", "body": "<<Does this product work under NT 4.0, or just Win 95?>> Yes, it works under Windows NT v4.0 and v3.5x."}, {"response": 22, "author": "decam", "date": "Thu, Jan  9, 1997 (16:14)", "body": "Is there a utility that converts Microsoft Internet Mail folders to Pegagus Mail folders?"}, {"response": 23, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jan  9, 1997 (20:01)", "body": "Do Pegasus mail folders use ascii text or are they a binary format?"}, {"response": 24, "author": "rsmiller", "date": "Mon, Jan 20, 1997 (14:46)", "body": "Re: Pegasus 2.52 At the moment, Pegasus does not allow auto-decoding of UUencoded, BinHEX, or MIME binary files via mail filters."}, {"response": 25, "author": "dkocmoud", "date": "Mon, Feb  3, 1997 (22:49)", "body": "\"Is there a utility that converts Microsoft Internet Mail folders to Pegagus Mail folders?\" I don't remeber there being a mail folder converter for converting from MS Internet Mail. However, you should be able to save each mail message from within MS Internet Mail as individual .CNM text files (e.g. 12345678.CNM) within your WinPMail mailbox and WinPMail will treat the messages as new mail messages. \"Do Pegasus mail folders use ascii text or are they a binary format?\" WinPMail uses two files per each mail folder: 1) .PMR: data file containing a 128-byte binary header followed by all the text messages in the folder, each separated from each other by a Ctrl-Z character. 2) .PM!: binary index file containing pertinent header info and status info of each mail message in the folder. \"At the moment, Pegasus does not allow auto-decoding of UUencoded, BinHEX, or MIME binary files via mail filters.\" Correct. Due to the complexity and possible consequences involved here, it may not be wise to let rules be able to automatically extract attachments from mail messages. Additionally, there is no such thing as an \"attachment\" within MIME. Instead, MIME has \"parts\", each of which can contain differing pieces of information, some of which just may happen to be binary files, but not necessarily the case. For UUencoded or BinHex'd file attachments, you can get around this limitation by running a batch file to handle the decoding process via an external decoder utility."}, {"response": 26, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Feb  3, 1997 (23:06)", "body": "What a comprehensive answer! Do you work for Pegasus?"}, {"response": 27, "author": "garion", "date": "Wed, Feb  5, 1997 (17:50)", "body": "I've used many mail programs. I work for an ISP, so I've supported a lot and used a lot. THIS IS BY FAR THE BEST ONE OUT THERE!! With pine, you have to use procmail to filter things. Pegasus has it built in. If you're a beginner, you might have a problem setting it up, but otherwise it's cake. AND IT'S FREE!!!!!!"}, {"response": 28, "author": "sammi", "date": "Fri, Mar 21, 1997 (12:31)", "body": "I'd like to thank David J. Kocmoud for his postings. I have been bouncing back and forth between Pegasus and Eudora for almost 2 years, and for the last 6 months have been using Eudora Pro 3.0/3.01 at home almost exclusively. Because of this, I have quite a large number of mailfolders/addresss book entries developed in Eudora. I've finally settled on Pegasus at work, and now comes the task of trying to set up Pegasus at home...Thank you David for your information on converting my Eudora stuff to Pegasus. If all goes well, you will have saved me a LOT of work :)"}, {"response": 29, "author": "houdini", "date": "Thu, Apr 24, 1997 (04:22)", "body": "I'd like to say that I use Pegasus 2.42a (win32)...and am very happy with it. I recently uploaded the newest version of Pegasus to the new office computer and was horrified that the \"distribution list\" doesn't work the same as mine does! whenever you send email to the distribution list, instead of saying \"whatever\" it says \"whatever@hostname\" this is a pain! I like my older version better! Why the change? Tom Reedy http://www.landslide.com"}, {"response": 30, "author": "DKocmoud", "date": "Mon, May 19, 1997 (14:47)", "body": "**What a comprehensive answer! Do you work for Pegasus? No, but I'm an official volunteer tech support member for Pegasus Mail. **I'd like to say that I use Pegasus 2.42a (win32)...and am very happy with it. **I recently uploaded the newest version of Pegasus to the new office computer **and was horrified that the \"distribution list\" doesn't work the same as mine **does! **whenever you send email to the distribution list, instead of saying **\"whatever\" it says \"whatever@hostname\" this is a pain! I like my older version **better! Why the change? **Tom Reedy I'm not sure exactly what you mean. If you are trying to suppress the recipient addresses, edit the list and type something into the \"To: field\" field within the list editor. This will cause whatever is typed here to appear in the To: field of outgoing messages rather than listing all of the recipient addresses. If you are talking about something else, please rephrase the problem and question. Be specific. Thanks."}, {"response": 31, "author": "BobV", "date": "Wed, Sep  3, 1997 (03:44)", "body": "I've been using PMail 2.53 32 bit for Win95 on several machines, with frequent malfunctions (lost index in folders, and reindexing causes loss of messages). The installation that crashes most frequently (almost daily) has a high incoming message volume, around 2000 messages per month, which are kept in multiple folders and trays. These messages are kept for a month or longer before being archived to a zip disk, employing unique folder names so that the archived folders can be moved back to the \\mail direc ory and accessed as \"new\" folders if desired. At any given time, 2000-3000 messages may be in various folders in the active \\mail directory on the hard disk. Does v2.54 fix this indexing problem? Is my volume of messages too high for Pmail to be reliably used, or do I have a problem with my setup?"}, {"response": 32, "author": "DKocmoud", "date": "Mon, Oct 13, 1997 (11:57)", "body": "**Bob V writes: **I've been using PMail 2.53 32 bit for Win95 on several machines, with frequent malfunctions (lost index in folders, and reindexing causes loss of messages). The installation that crashes most frequently (almost daily) has a high incoming message volume, around 2000 messages per month, which are kept in multiple folders and trays. These messages are kept for a month or longer before being archived to a zip disk, employing unique folder names so that the archived folders can be moved back to the \\mail direcory and accessed as \"new\" folders if desired. At any given time, 2000-3000 messages may be in various folders in the active \\mail directory on the hard disk. Does v2.54 fix this indexing problem? Is my volume of messages too high for Pmail to be reliably used, or do I have a problem with my setup? ** I think you have a problem with your machine. Does Scandisk report any lost clusters after a crash? Make sure to run scandisk anytime Win95 locks up. You may also want to look into using Mercury/32 instead of WinPMail as the mail-receiving machine. It serves as a better POP3/SMTP mail client/server than WinPMail. I also recommend upgrading to WinPMail v2.54, which is more stable than previous versions."}, {"response": 33, "author": "DKocmoud", "date": "Mon, Oct 13, 1997 (12:11)", "body": "For those who are interested, I wrote a book on Pegasus Mail for Windows that was published back in May of 1996. While the book was written in the WinPMail v2.23 and v2.31 era, much of its hints and tips still apply in the lastest versions. There is also an HTML \"Cyberbook\" version of the book available. In the future, I *may* provide an update to the HTML version for a possible WinPMail v3.0 release in the future (I have very limited time for such projects now). I wrote this book with the help of a long-time friend and peer of mine, Matt Pierce, who also works for Texas A&M University, and a high-school English teacher from New York, who has the authorship experience and skills to see us through this huge project. Here is the URL for the book, which contains sample text from some of the chapters: http://www.browsebooks.com/Kocmoud/ Please direct any purchasing and other acquisition questions to the publisher, I'm only the author and have no control over pricing."}, {"response": 34, "author": "kneighbour", "date": "Thu, Apr 16, 1998 (03:01)", "body": "I have been trying to find a professional email app for ages (and I am still looking!). I have been a bit bemused by the reviews on Strouds (have they run the programs at all?? Sometimes I wonder). I have recently downloaded V3, and I cannot find any Multi-POP support. Any comments on this from anyone? It was in V2.55, but only through a plugin- whic which now no longer works, of course. I have also been a bit puzzled by frequent comments I see to being \"easy to use, etc\". I am an extremely experienced user, and I found it far from user friendly. The MDI interface is a real pain. How on earth do you read the mail if you have 20 folders? Popping up \"Open mail\" folders all over the place is just ludicrous. An autoviewer is a total must nowadays."}, {"response": 35, "author": "scarritr", "date": "Sat, Apr 25, 1998 (20:49)", "body": "If there's a simple answer, I'll be very embarassed ... but I think there is and I need to know. Why can't I block out text in an email message by swiping the cursor across it (as in most mail and word processing programs)? Be nice ...."}, {"response": 36, "author": "markhb", "date": "Wed, Jun 10, 1998 (14:09)", "body": "To respond to the last two comments: 1. MultiPOP is now part of the Identities feature... each identity can have a unique set of config data, which encompasses the entire Settings notebook. 2. The \"swiping\" behavior in pre-3.0 versions of Pegasus for Windows has been changed... dragging now highlights text in the usual manner. When downloading the updated version, make sure you get the file named w32-301.exe (assuming your platform is Win 95)."}, {"response": 37, "author": "DKocmoud", "date": "Tue, Jun 16, 1998 (18:30)", "body": "A couple of comments on the above: 1) MultiPOP is still there under Tools | Extensions | MultiPOP. It is still an extension (plug-in) and has been updated to work with v3.01. If you don't see it, the installation might not have worked properly. Check to make sure the MLTPOP32.FFF, MLTPOP32.DLL, and MLTPOP32.HLP files (assuming 32-bit version) are located in the WinPMail program directory. Reinstall WinPMail if they are not there. If you do see it there, it might still be the old version and you might have the files set to \"read-only\" o avoid overwriting. MultiPOP is still very useful for checking and downloading mail from multiple POP3 account *automatically*. I have mine set to autoload when WinPMail starts up and periodically check mail on my secondary accounts. 2) The Multiple Identities extension has been encorporated into the program as Identities. These settings allow you to set up multiple paradigms, each of which you can set most of WinPMail's settings separately (i.e. most of the Options dialog settings), and then quickly switch between the identities whenever you want. 3) MDI not easy to use?! I find it much better than those stupid pre-view panes in other mail clients. Such panes are a real pain (pun) when you want to quickly switch between multiple messages and such. With a large enough display, you can easily use WinPMail for its drag-and-drop features. Also, using the Prev/Next buttons helps to re-use message reader windows when going to the next or previous message in a mail folder. Plus, have a preview pane adds a lot of extra time to loading the folder. Loo ing at a couple of mail clients with this feature, it takes a while before anything even shows up in the preview pane. Oh yeah, and as a veteran user, I have no trouble switching between multiple folders and windows opened on the desktop. Try Ctrl-F6 or a larger resolution. Having said that, David Harris is considering adding a frames look as an option for those who are less-dextrous. 4) Blocking out e-mail??? I think you meant to say \"How do I select a portion of a line of text in the message reader\". This is a limitation of the old WinPMail v2.x message reader code. V3.01 now sports a new editor and reader. The reader now allows you to start and end a selection at any point within a line of text."}, {"response": 38, "author": "DKocmoud", "date": "Tue, Jun 16, 1998 (18:35)", "body": "A couple of helpful hints for new WinPMail users: For information about Pegasus Mail updates, you should subscribe to the low-volume mailing list PM-NEWS. It contains announcements about updates to all versions of Pegasus Mail. To subscribe, send a message to LISTSERV@UA1VM.UA.EDU with the following in the body of the message: SUBSCRIBE PM-NEWS Firstname Lastname The following support channels exist for WinPMail: mailto:winpmail-support@pmail.gen.nz news:comp.mail.pegasus-mail.ms-windows You can also subscribe to a high-volume Pegasus Mail discussion list. To subscribe, send a message to LISTSERV@UA1VM.UA.EDU with the following in the body of the message: SUBSCRIBE PM-WIN Firstname Lastname The Official Pegasus Mail and Mercury Home Page: http://www.pegasus.usa.com"}, {"response": 39, "author": "andrys", "date": "Sat, May 15, 1999 (22:14)", "body": "To: David Kocmoud (DKocmoud [Said] Oh yeah, and as a veteran user, I have no trouble switching between multiple folders and windows opened on the desktop. Try Ctrl-F6 or a larger resolution. [EndSaid] I'm reading this older thread because I happened on it for the first time while getting ready to download the latest Pegasus 3 update. Found some enlightening answers here from you, even though I do peruse the newsgroup sometimes. Re getting around the multiple windows -- Once people know that Ctrl-Tab (the equivalent, it seems, of your Ctrl-F6 but easier to do with one hand) lets you alternate between windows within one application (as Alt-Tab does between applications), I've found they really appreciate it. I think that \"kneighbor\" probably had never used that feature. It's terrific to respond to an e-mail while being able to reference notes in old folders with Ctrl-Tab etc. The one thing I do wish for is better attachment-handling, still. But especially, with multiple identities, I'd like a way to view *in front* (lotsa space on right) while writing a note, which Identity you happened to be 'on' when starting the note or chose, instead of having to click on 'Special' tab or pressing F9 to make sure it was the one that's correct for the ISP mail servers you're using, now that Relay is such a no-no especially. Hoping you still pop in here. I liked that I could read old answers that were especially coherent, clarifying a couple of old questions I had. - Andrys apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 109, "subject": "Eudora Pro", "response_count": 13, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jul 30, 1996 (05:44)", "body": "above review by Forrest Stroud."}, {"response": 2, "author": "Bruce", "date": "Sat, Aug 17, 1996 (18:51)", "body": "How do I get Eudora Pro 2.2 to launch from Netscape, as with Windows Internet Explorer?. Now, Netscape's mail client launches when I click on a hypertext mail address. Respectfully submitted... ... Bruce"}, {"response": 3, "author": "Marak703", "date": "Sat, Aug 17, 1996 (19:22)", "body": "Bruce, go to Qualcomm's homepage which is at \" http://www.qualcomm.com/quest/ \" and search for a free program called \"Mailto.\" If you do not have a constant Internet connection then you will have to launch this little program each time you start Netscape or before you click on a hypertext mail address whichever is easiest. I keep it on my Desktop so that it is easy to open whenever I need it."}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Aug 18, 1996 (01:41)", "body": "You can get Mailto: directly by clicking on the following link: ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/quest/windows/utils/Mailto.exe"}, {"response": 5, "author": "daveman", "date": "Sat, Sep 14, 1996 (21:44)", "body": "I must say that I think that this Eudora Pro 3.0 is fantastic. Pegasus does have some great features, but the program interface doesn't look very good. It is also hard to get the filters to do exactly what I want them to. I just wish that Eudora Pro 3.0 would make it a bit easier to use the automatic reply feature."}, {"response": 6, "author": "WhytKnyt", "date": "Fri, Sep 20, 1996 (23:12)", "body": "BETA 24 is now out (I'm downloading it now). I fail to see much advantage for 16-bit users over Eudora Pro 2.2. I'm really angry that Eudora engineers took out the \"Reply To:\" option from the message menu in Eudora Pro 3.0. John"}, {"response": 7, "author": "WhytKnyt", "date": "Sun, Sep 29, 1996 (20:08)", "body": "BETA 28 is out! You can download it now. (3978K)"}, {"response": 8, "author": "daveman", "date": "Wed, Oct  9, 1996 (18:55)", "body": "I must take back what I said earlier about Eudora Pro 3.0. I found a bug that I cannot overlook. If you send a message to someone else, the word wrap looks really funny. Some lines only contain one word, and you know that you didn't do it. It is listed on the known issues, but they state that it is a function of the rich-edit control rather than Eudora. In other words, I don't think they'll fix the problem. Personally, I think they should scrap the colors, underlines, and whatever else that is messing up the messages. I don't think that I will be buying Eudora Pro 3.0."}, {"response": 9, "author": "MAndre", "date": "Sun, Oct 27, 1996 (23:34)", "body": "Have had the same problems with text wrap, but overall 3.0 is nice. Needed multi mailbox feature and they added that in the new one. I have been using Eudora and pegasus and tend to lean towards eudora."}, {"response": 10, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Oct 28, 1996 (05:38)", "body": "How does the multi mailbox feature work? How many mailboxes does it allow and how functional is it?"}, {"response": 11, "author": "mhaas", "date": "Tue, Nov 12, 1996 (17:48)", "body": "16-bit Eudora 3.0 causes my system to crash. The betas did, and so does the final version. I've gone back to ver. 2.2 and it works just fine. Now you'll notice Qualcomm is beta testing ver. 3.0.1. Gee, that's fast! I wonder why they are so quick to introduce another version . And only for 16-bit Eudora? What a coincidence! Blahhhhh!"}, {"response": 12, "author": "AndreS", "date": "Sat, Mar 14, 1998 (09:28)", "body": "Why is there a dial and hang-up function??? Maybe I dont want to hang-up on my ISP but stay on the line. It\ufffds bad."}, {"response": 13, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, Aug 28, 1999 (15:49)", "body": "I use EudoraPro. If I am not mistaken, the dial-up function it to connect you to your email provider if you wish to login that way. I have never used that option becausae I do not always want my email downloading large files and using the juice I need for something else. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 11, "subject": "NCSA Mosaic", "response_count": 3, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "Critter", "date": "Tue, Oct  1, 1996 (09:38)", "body": "I have just received word that version 3.x beta should be out soon for windows platforms. It is already available for Mac systems. Of course, it does catch up quite a bit with the big two but still falls just a little short. It does help raise the baseline HTML level so programmers can code to about the same level and reach most people on the Internet. If anyone has further information please post."}, {"response": 2, "author": "joedoe", "date": "Tue, Jan 21, 1997 (16:53)", "body": "Version 3.0 is out for win95/NT, as of several weeks ago, I think. It is available for download, through a revised web page, linked to the old page. I am downloading it now, so I haven't actually seen it yet, but it would be great if you could review it, or at least link to it."}, {"response": 3, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Tue, Jan  9, 2001 (09:43)", "body": "Good ol Mosaic, the U of I browser that started it all! apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 110, "subject": "E-Mail connection", "response_count": 4, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jul 30, 1996 (05:44)", "body": "above review by Forrest Stroud."}, {"response": 2, "author": "seahorse", "date": "Wed, Aug 14, 1996 (03:39)", "body": "I think this product has a pretty package, and a number of features. But it comes up real short, as this version has been out for over a year. The only thing that has changed is their website. The other problem is that this isn't a Windows 95 product and it takes up a lot of computer power. If you like to check mail every 5 minutes like I like to do, everything stops for Email Connection. I will stick to Eudora until they can produce more updates faster than a turtle and solve the CPU hog time. Chris"}, {"response": 3, "author": "cinann", "date": "Thu, Jun 19, 1997 (20:44)", "body": "I loved the free version of Email Connection so much that I bought the $50 full version. I had all sorts of trouble with it and Windows 95 so I tried to call tech support. That very week they stopped providing phone support and hired an outside firm to take care of support for a dollar a minute. I was very upset and wrote the company. Three months after the letter I've still received no response and I'm giving my copy of EMC to a friend who has Windows 3.1."}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Jun 20, 1997 (18:32)", "body": "Eamil them and let them know you posted this here. Give them the url. Let's get this out in public. Or I should say, let's get a public response from the company. Maybe they'll fix you up. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 111, "subject": "Voice E-Mail", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "lrdavis", "date": "Sun, Aug 18, 1996 (08:05)", "body": "It's not surprising that Voice-Email has a high compression rate. They are using PKZIP (the VEM file is actually a ZIP file) and encoding the files so that we are locked into using their software. I'm not complaining, it's a fine program, but a little truth in advertising would be a pleasant change. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 112, "subject": "Graphic Email", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 113, "subject": "NETcetera II", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "dataman", "date": "Tue, Oct  1, 1996 (05:25)", "body": "This review is sadly lacking as it is little changed since its original inclusion on this site.. NetcPlus have added many more features that are not provided by ANY OTHER packages, such as support for PGP etc, and there are also THREE distinctly different versions now available - Netc-Lite, Netc-Pro and Netc-Gold No comparison or mention is made of the other versions, the pricing quoted is WRONG and comments and claims made about other products are utterly incorrect as the NetcPlus range provide virtually all the fetaures claimed as unique in other products reviewed on these pages. Please update your site with a valid review so that visitors get true information on what is available in this market place."}, {"response": 2, "author": "buzz", "date": "Mon, Oct  7, 1996 (04:42)", "body": "There has been a new review of the Netc-Plus trio since the release of version 2.6x, which incidentally does present a valid review with 'true' information...The new review remains where it always has been: http://www.stroud.com/smail.html#netcetra Hope this helps. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 114, "subject": "Eudora Light", "response_count": 4, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "pthompso", "date": "Tue, Dec 10, 1996 (18:38)", "body": "BEWARE! BEWARE! BEWARE! I am really upset with both Stroud's and Qualcomm for their lack of explicit notification about this release moving from a freeware offering to a 30-day trial period one. If that weren't bad enough, since I had been using the freeware version (V1.5.4) for several months, the new version automatically expired my trial period, leaving me to spend a significant amount of time restoring the old version. This was a highly unprofessional way to attempt to force a user from what was reviously a freeware offering to a trial version. Needless to say I will no longer download any other versions nor will I ever consider migrating to the Pro-version. I will now begin to migrate, albiet slowly, to the mailer that comes free with Netscape. SHAME ON YOU!"}, {"response": 2, "author": "siggy", "date": "Fri, Dec 27, 1996 (01:53)", "body": "Hi, I recently had my provider install Eudora Lightbon my hard drive because I couldn't get results with Netscape mail. It was free so I don't have any booklet on what it does. There are alot of features that I donn't understand. Where can I get info about the Eudora Light program? Thanks, Dick Sigston (Siggy)"}, {"response": 3, "author": "edy", "date": "Mon, Apr 14, 1997 (10:10)", "body": "Thanks pthompson for letting me know that this newer version of Eudora Lite is deadware. I wonder when these people are going to figure out that deadware is what they are supposed to use on their commercial produts. Anyway thanks again - saved me the trouble of the 4Meg download of so-called Eudora LITE 32 bit."}, {"response": 4, "author": "mhrosen", "date": "Thu, Aug 14, 1997 (20:49)", "body": "I have used both Pegasus and Eudora Light for years. Eudora has been insidiously adding features throughout that time, leaving it far ahead of Pegasus. In addition to the filters the programs share, Eudora has PureVoice allowing convenient voice attachment, inernal HTML reader, and now an easy PGP encryption plug-in. Pegasus has been standing pat the entire time. Do you ever update your reviews? apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 115, "subject": "Multimedia Viewers", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "MUSHER", "date": "Sat, Mar  8, 1997 (20:08)", "body": "i am new to the computer and really knw little about it so bear with meI am interested in Jane Austin books, but like to read awide varity of books one of the best being Louis Lamour's The Last Of The Breed and Haunted Mesa. Lucie"}, {"response": 2, "author": "MUSHER", "date": "Sat, Mar  8, 1997 (20:08)", "body": "i am new to the computer and really knw little about it so bear with meI am interested in Jane Austin books, but like to read awide varity of books one of the best being Louis Lamour's The Last Of The Breed and Haunted Mesa. Lucie apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 116, "subject": "NET TOOB", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "MICHAEL", "date": "Thu, Mar 13, 1997 (17:10)", "body": "SEND ME YOUR BEST AVIS AT: GOALIEMAN5 apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 117, "subject": "StreamWorks", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jul 30, 1996 (05:54)", "body": "Note - the above review by Forrest Stroud. Streamworks has an impressive set of programming options and may very well be the precursor to the next age of television, which will pull people off of their traditional tv sets and onto a new generation of \"smart\", internet ready hybrid computer-tvs. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 118, "subject": "VDOLive", "response_count": 3, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jul 30, 1996 (05:55)", "body": "This may be the fastest rising and most promising of the new video apps."}, {"response": 2, "author": "tonys", "date": "Tue, Nov 26, 1996 (19:29)", "body": "Hi I am new to this"}, {"response": 3, "author": "tonys", "date": "Tue, Nov 26, 1996 (19:29)", "body": "Hi I am new to this apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 119, "subject": "VMPEG LIte", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 12, "subject": "", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 120, "subject": "Enhanced CU-SeeMe", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "reb", "date": "Sun, Oct 20, 1996 (21:55)", "body": "Question: Does anybody know if this app will work with Intels ProShare Hardware?? Answers to ques1@inforamp.net please"}, {"response": 2, "author": "reb", "date": "Sun, Oct 20, 1996 (21:57)", "body": "Correction: To e-mail address quest1@inforamp.net apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 121, "subject": "QuickTime for Windows", "response_count": 6, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "Lances", "date": "Wed, Aug 14, 1996 (08:28)", "body": "As of 8/14 the plug-in version of quicktime does not appear to be available. You get a 'NOT AVAILABLE' error when you try to down load it. Does anyone know why ?"}, {"response": 2, "author": "WhytKnyt", "date": "Fri, Sep 20, 1996 (23:18)", "body": "Is anyone else getting an error message at the end of installation, saying the installation was not completed due to an error in updating SYSTEM.INI? John"}, {"response": 3, "author": "tony", "date": "Mon, Dec 16, 1996 (22:24)", "body": "No, John, I didn't get any error saying that it couldn't update my SYSTEM.INI. But, on the other hand, I can't get any .MOV files to run either so, I just took it off my system. Any tips? Anyone can respond. Eamil me at reynolds@cyberport.net"}, {"response": 4, "author": "BOWESTBROOKS", "date": "Tue, Jan 20, 1998 (15:26)", "body": "Looking for QuickTime for Windows. Heretofore, I'm unfamiliar with it, but I have a company which submitted a CD catalog for music to me. The CD indicates that it requires this program to run. I am currently running Windows 95. Please e-mail response to bowestbrooks@alpha.nlu.edu. Thanks"}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jan 20, 1998 (19:39)", "body": "Follow the link in the introduction of this topic, or get it off of Forrest's site at http://www.stroud.com"}, {"response": 6, "author": "DavidOwens", "date": "Mon, Jul 19, 1999 (00:38)", "body": "I downloaded Quicktime 4.0 & forgot to uninstall the old version. After running 4.0 the first time, I opened a movie file & got the big blue screen saying VDX error. I had to turn off my computer & restart it ( reset didn't work ) I uninstalled the old quicktime & now it's doing fine. I really like the new version. BUT !! they need to tell us these things, or add the uninstall old version option to the 4.0 install. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 122, "subject": "QuickTime VR for Windows", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 123, "subject": "MPEGPlay", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 124, "subject": "Video for Windows", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jul 30, 1996 (05:56)", "body": "reviewer above - Forrest Stroud. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 125, "subject": "CU-SeeMe", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 126, "subject": "Newsreaders - general discussion", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jul 30, 1996 (05:58)", "body": "Above introduction by Forrest Stroud. My favorite newsreader? tin. To use tin, telnet to your Internet provider and, at a shall prompt, type tin. Another popular unix newsreader is called trn. Both of these are available at the shell prompt on www.spring.com. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 127, "subject": "Netscape News", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jul 30, 1996 (06:00)", "body": "My next favorite newsreader, next to tin (which comes with unix). I find it interesting that the early versions of Netscape are more efficient at reading news than more recent releases. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 128, "subject": "Pointcast Network", "response_count": 3, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jul 30, 1996 (06:01)", "body": "Get ready for an all out blitz of your desktop. Be prepared, this app could take over your life."}, {"response": 2, "author": "awilson", "date": "Sat, Jan 18, 1997 (03:34)", "body": "PCN is wonderful. Except for the stringent requirements for your computer. I have a 486/120 and PCN is slow. I click on something and like the Commodore 64 I can go to the restroom and do my hair B4 it has finished loading. PCN, fix it ! Ashley"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Jan 18, 1997 (17:33)", "body": "It's been a while since I tried this app, what is the procedure for turning it on and off? apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 129, "subject": "Agent", "response_count": 13, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "Marak703", "date": "Mon, Aug 12, 1996 (07:24)", "body": "Right on. Agent is worth the registration. However, Forrest is right in saying that new users may get lost. Can someone recommend a third party book on how to use Agent?"}, {"response": 2, "author": "XTreme", "date": "Mon, Aug 12, 1996 (08:07)", "body": "Well, if they can release Agent 1.0 is this lifetime, maybe there will be a book. But what's the point of releasing a book on a software that is beta meaning that your will will be missing information with the next beta of fill release."}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Aug 12, 1996 (08:15)", "body": "A couple of years ago there was a presentation by Pattie Maes at the MIT Media Lab about her work on Agents. Her group was looking into agents for filtering/priortizing mail, filtering usernet news, and agents for alerting a user to good books. The best source for finding books on the net that I know about is http://www.amazon.net but a search there didn't turn anything up except hundreds of books with the word Agent in them (a lot of spy novels!). So I sent an email to the folks at Agent asking them if they knew of any books."}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Aug 12, 1996 (08:16)", "body": "Correction: that book site is http://www.amazon.com"}, {"response": 5, "author": "XTreme", "date": "Mon, Aug 12, 1996 (15:27)", "body": "Huh Terry? I think you're talking about something else here... I don't think there was an Agent a couple of years ago... Is this section dedicated to Agent from Forte (or maybe FreeAgent too)."}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Aug 13, 1996 (01:46)", "body": "Well, I got this today: I would like to point out that the review posted on your site (I believe it was taken from Stroud's review) is a little bit outdated. The lack of Kill Lists are mentioned in the \"Cons\" section, however I just wanted to be sure that you were aware that Kill/Watch Filters have been added to Agent, in the current version, .99e. The next release of Agent .99, .99f, will include MIME support and the ability to read and write newsrc files. This version is currently in beta. Regarding books which include information on Agent and Free Agent, we keep a listing of such publications on the Preferred Publishers List on our Web site. This Publishers List is located at . I hope that this information is helpful! Thank you for your support of the Agent products. Sincerely, Julie Murdoch Agent Marketing 619.431.6448 Thanks Julie!"}, {"response": 7, "author": "XTreme", "date": "Tue, Aug 13, 1996 (08:48)", "body": "Agent 0.99f will also include the much awaited cross-post management feature. There was a post from forte in alt.newsreaders.agent (can't remember the exact name) which described where they were in the Agent 0.99f development. Release is planned before end of August."}, {"response": 8, "author": "eragfon", "date": "Mon, Dec 16, 1996 (10:28)", "body": "Agent 0.99g is great. I use it both at work and home. Incredible value. /gunnar"}, {"response": 9, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Sep 13, 1999 (11:34)", "body": "Forrest's latest review of the number one downloaded app on his site. Agent -- Agent, Forte's industrial-strength commercial newsreader, is several steps above and beyond its freeware sibling, Free Agent. Agent retains Free Agent's unique interface and extensive collection of features as well as its recently added speed infusion. As with Free Agent, there are so many options and features in this newsreader that new users may get lost. Standard features include offline/online newsreading, multithreading, thread watching, thread ignoring, mark for later retrieval, database co pression and purging, quick find, send mail, word wrap, automatic 'catch up', customizable font colors and screen sizes, and a whole lot more. This, however, is the point where the similarities between the two products end and the real fun for power users begins. Perhaps its strongest feature is the implementation of a multilingual spelling checker -- for many news junkies (like myself) this alone is reason enough to fork over the registration fee. An American English dictionary comes preloaded with Agent; International English, Italian, Spanish, German, and French dictionaries are also freely available from the Forte FTP site. Enhanced e-mail functionality (including mail receival capabilities), a much-needed status bar (progress indicator), MIME support, cross-p st management, advanced sorting (on five different keys) and filtering, kill/watch lists, right mouse button functionaliy, multilinqual support (for the entire program), user-defined folders, single-key navigation, a native 32-bit release, auto-launching for URLs (full hypertext support), and import/export newsrc files are additional features that have been recently added to help further distance this consummate newsreader from the competition. The latest release of Agent, v1.5, rounds out an already stacked feature-set with MAPI support, news filtering, global message searching capabilities, spam detection and prevention tools, mail and news secure login capabilities, and customizable toolbar capabilities. With the best newsreading features available on the 'net, it will probably come as a shocking surprise that Agent is so attractively priced. For $40 you can have the shrink-wrapped version mailed to you, or better yet, you can order Agent ove the 'net for only $29. Purchasing the product also entitles you to three months of free support and free interim upgrades. Without a doubt Agent, like Netscape and WinZip, is an absolute, must-have 'net app, and at less than $50, even I can afford it! Pros: Tons of features, easy customization, extensive on-line help available Cons: Lacks advanced features in Outlook Express and Netscape Messenger"}, {"response": 10, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Sep 13, 1999 (11:53)", "body": "So, to sum it up, this is the killer newsreader app. But to me, an \"agent\" implies something that will multitask in several areas on the web. I wish it were in a more narrowly defined app category like news agent or something."}, {"response": 11, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, Feb 13, 2000 (02:38)", "body": "I love Agent. Forget about the name. Would you name a great email program Eudora? Anyway, it is a great program and I would not bother with any other."}, {"response": 12, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sun, Feb 13, 2000 (09:05)", "body": "How do you use Agent?"}, {"response": 13, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, Feb 13, 2000 (13:10)", "body": "Do you mean in ways I'd admit to my son? There are disasters, disasters: aviation, California Earthquake, Ham radio and other topics I use for posting information on Spring. It is usually verifiable if I dig deeply enough. I almost always do that before posting. If I cannot, I note that, as well. It is also a good place to check out a piece of expensive equipment - like a digital camera - before you decide which one to buy. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 13, "subject": "I-Comm - a web browser that doesn't require SLIP/PPP access", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 130, "subject": "Gravity", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 131, "subject": "Agent", "response_count": 4, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "acumen", "date": "Thu, Aug 15, 1996 (23:16)", "body": "While I may be wrong, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to view binaries with fagent. It seems that a seperate grafics viewer is required."}, {"response": 2, "author": "rljl", "date": "Tue, Oct  8, 1996 (17:46)", "body": "Try News Express, it has an inline viewer for jpg files."}, {"response": 3, "author": "jake", "date": "Mon, Nov 18, 1996 (11:31)", "body": "I tried FreeAgent on my Windows 3.1 system last night for the first time. A couple of notes comparing it with NetScape. I hope there is a way around these operational issues. Switchable Servers NetScape's newsreader displays a list of news servers and even allows me to add other news servers to the list. This was especially important to me because I *do* use an alternate news server for symantec product issues. I saw no such capability in FreeAgent, nor does the review on Agent mention such a feature. To my personal needs, this could be a showstopper issue. It was apparent that I could MANUALLY change the server name by typing over it. Yuchh! I wanna list box (at the very least). Compacting Newsgroup Names (Not to be confused with compacting databases) NetScape's reader groups the newsgroups nicely. For example, the family \"alt\" is the beginning of the name of over 1000 newsgroups. I just saw it as \"alt\" next to a folder icon. CLick on the folder and it expands the alt family down one level, many of which still have the folder icon. This makes it very easy to scan which newsgroups to subscribe to. Again, I could find no such capability in Agent. I would have to look at every blessed newsgroup, in orde to scan for what I want. If this is not necessary, please tell me about it! On the up side: Someone in this forum commented that Agent seems to need a separate JPG viewer. That's a problem? Get'em (viewers) by the dozen off the net! If Agent had it's own viewer, it would take much longer to download. And who needs the wheel reinvented yet again?"}, {"response": 4, "author": "cfiases", "date": "Mon, Jun  8, 1998 (23:07)", "body": "I've been trying to get FreeAgent settled down and keep running into various bugs. One problem is that the dates have now become \"06/DD/YY\" (the \"DD\" and \"YY\" is exactly what is thrown in ALL date fields). Another is that FreeAgent has a mind of its own when marking news items read. No matter how often you set the option to stop doing that -- next boot-up and things are back to what the \"default\" is. I do like the layout but can't think of why it got 5 stars. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 132, "subject": "News Xpress", "response_count": 12, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "rljl", "date": "Tue, Oct  8, 1996 (17:43)", "body": "The best newsreader yet and i have tried them all."}, {"response": 2, "author": "bcostin", "date": "Sun, Jan 12, 1997 (19:23)", "body": "NewsX is a great newsreader. Every couple months I break down and try out the latest beta of Free Agent, but I always come back to NewsX. It does everything I need a newsreader to do, and does it quickly and with a minumum of hassle. I infinitely prefer its more flexible interface to Agent's tiled-window approach."}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Jan 12, 1997 (20:48)", "body": "How does it compare to the Newsreaders that come with Netscape and Internet Explorer?"}, {"response": 4, "author": "tedchong", "date": "Sun, Jan 12, 1997 (23:15)", "body": "where can we get (url or ftp) the latest copy of NewsX 32-bit for windows95?"}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jan 13, 1997 (02:48)", "body": "Off of Forest's site. Have you visited http://www.spring.com . I love to give Ted a hard time!"}, {"response": 6, "author": "tedchong", "date": "Mon, Jan 13, 1997 (08:46)", "body": "I don't visit www.spring.com often because the link from my place is very slow. I visit www.windows95.com more often as the link is faster. Also I like to get NewsX directly from the source, I think is somewhere in Hongkong. Ya, Terry, you are giving me hard times, but I am still alive and well... :-)"}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Jan 15, 1997 (07:39)", "body": "We have two T-1 connections, you'll have to try the other one sometime and see if it is faster. Try http://www.austen.com sometime and tell me how the speed compares."}, {"response": 8, "author": "tedchong", "date": "Thu, Jan 16, 1997 (01:54)", "body": "http://www.austin.com ? I tried both of them, below are the PING results, look the same to me: ping www.austin.com PING vern.bga.com (205.238.128.38): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 205.238.128.38: icmp_seq=1 ttl=240 time=757.2 ms 64 bytes from 205.238.128.38: icmp_seq=2 ttl=240 time=869.2 ms 64 bytes from 205.238.128.38: icmp_seq=3 ttl=240 time=993.5 ms 64 bytes from 205.238.128.38: icmp_seq=4 ttl=240 time=845.0 ms 64 bytes from 205.238.128.38: icmp_seq=5 ttl=240 time=851.1 ms ping www.spring.com PING www.spring.com (208.199.212.10): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 208.199.212.10: icmp_seq=0 ttl=242 time=919.8 ms 64 bytes from 208.199.212.10: icmp_seq=1 ttl=242 time=802.8 ms 64 bytes from 208.199.212.10: icmp_seq=2 ttl=242 time=750.5 ms 64 bytes from 208.199.212.10: icmp_seq=3 ttl=242 time=805.2 ms 64 bytes from 208.199.212.10: icmp_seq=4 ttl=242 time=848.7 ms"}, {"response": 9, "author": "renehoss", "date": "Thu, Feb 20, 1997 (14:00)", "body": "So when will there be a 16bit version available??? Ever...???"}, {"response": 10, "author": "Imagine", "date": "Tue, Jul 15, 1997 (20:37)", "body": "For my money....and that was zero, there is no comparison between NewsX and the other guys....espically \"Free Agent\". For code size alone, NewsX unzips to about 800K....F-A is about 1.1 Meg before extraction. Not to mention that NewsX has in line viewer/decoder, reports lines of code and has numerous filtering (kill-file) options. I'm talking version 2.01....no bugs found yet. Version 2.00 was very buggy, but to bilders credit: Raid Applied"}, {"response": 11, "author": "wta", "date": "Thu, Aug 14, 1997 (14:56)", "body": "NewsX is without a doubt thee best newsreader one can use regardless of price! i will never use anything else. the kill-phile is great. so great i rarely see any SPAM. if i do, it's very little & quickly extinguished! the interface is very intuitive! NewsX really doesn't need a manual. there are a few winsock bugz but i rarely ever crash it except under heavy multi-net-tasking. i'm gonna try 2.01 today. perhaps it's better. Ken Ng has done the net community right in a big way! i wish him nothing but continued success in his endeavors."}, {"response": 12, "author": "squire", "date": "Thu, Mar  9, 2000 (00:03)", "body": "I've noticed that the 16-bit version of News Xpress is limited to 32767 newsgroups. My local newsserver has close to 60000. Is there any way around the limit? I can't post replies without downloading all newsgroups (it seems) and, after the 32767th, the count flips to -32767 and counts up to nearly zero. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 133, "subject": "Microsoft Internet Mail and News for 95", "response_count": 5, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "rickst29", "date": "Sun, Sep  1, 1996 (21:50)", "body": "A newsreader with no 'FIND' function to search the headers is darn near useless (unless you're smarter than I am, and you only subscribe to newsgroups which don't have people doing lots of postings ?!?!?!). I know that a 'FIND' menu entry was present in some of the betas, but it never was implemented and is not present in Final IE3.0 Other minor quibbles. When you 'save' a posting, it goes into a single 'saved folder' folder where you can't tell which group it is from anymore. And I think there is no 'delete' for individual articles *or* headers. Trying to wander through a busy group after just 3 days, its back to Free Agent for me."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Sep  1, 1996 (22:12)", "body": "Have you tried Netscapes News? How does this stack up to IE's news?"}, {"response": 3, "author": "carlcalo", "date": "Sat, Jan 11, 1997 (17:58)", "body": "Agreed, Internet mail & news may be a worthy opponent to the better newsreaders currently available, but I have noticed one small irritation with this particular software. Upon making a reply to a post in a newsgroup, a \"friendly\" reminder appears if the text in the reply is not lengthy enough in proportion to the text in the original post according to netiquitte. I can appreciate criticism from a peer if any of my posts is out of line, but I feel Microsoft has taken a giant leap by instituting this \"reminder\" into the actual software. The software's friendly reminder may be overridden, but I suspect that the mere fact that it exists may very well ingrain this \"unwritten rule\" into the far reaches of the minds of all who use it and perhaps it soon may be a feature that cant be overridden. The fact that many users to the Internet are new also causes me to believe that people may become intimidated and by rule, always adhere to this software generated suggestion. I don't think it is MS's job to insert these \"suggestions\" into their software, and I would much rather receive \"polite reminders\" by other Net users, and not by some programmer over in Seattle who is following orders. Carl Maryland"}, {"response": 4, "author": "nek", "date": "Mon, Apr 28, 1997 (05:54)", "body": "I don't know if it is me because I switched over to Microsft Exchange, but email from mine to my son's computer is missing some parts of some sentences. He uses Eudora Lite. He went to some long distance company called Fonorola. I'm with Telus. Any ideas why he isn't getting all we send?"}, {"response": 5, "author": "subrosean", "date": "Sat, May  2, 1998 (12:51)", "body": "i would like to know if once i've installed internet mail if i can configure microsoft internet explorer to get the mail...am trying to do this on my daughter's computer...we both have mindspring and my explorer gets the mail...however when i was trying to configure her explorer to get her mail internet mail doesn't show up under view/options/programs...just eudora light...on my explorer in view/options/programs internet mail is selected...thanks for reading my post...hope you can help...debi apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 134, "subject": "infoMarket NewsTicker", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 135, "subject": "WinVN", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "wilkinson", "date": "Tue, Sep  3, 1996 (13:32)", "body": "The review says: \"but the low-level killfile support could be improved with a user interface and configurable menu.\" Winvn has has a user interface in v99.8b2 and does now in the v99.8 release. Please update your review to reflect this. jw apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 136, "subject": "News for Windows NT", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "jorge", "date": "Sun, Sep 22, 1996 (20:35)", "body": "apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 137, "subject": "Smart Newsreader", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 138, "subject": "Q News", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 139, "subject": "NewsBin", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 14, "subject": "HotJava for Windows 95", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Jul 24, 1996 (09:56)", "body": "Location ftp://ftp.javasoft.com/pub/hotjava-1_0prebeta1-win32-x86.exe"}, {"response": 2, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Tue, Jan  9, 2001 (09:43)", "body": "This still hasn't evolved much. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 140, "subject": "Trumpet News", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 141, "subject": "Netscape Plug-in modules", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jul 30, 1996 (06:03)", "body": "Above introduction by Forrest Stroud. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 142, "subject": "WIRL plug-in", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 143, "subject": "Shockwave plug-in", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 144, "subject": "VDOLive plug-in", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 145, "subject": "TooVox plug-in", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 146, "subject": "Virtual Explorer for Internet Explorer", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 147, "subject": "Corel CMX Viewer plug-in", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 148, "subject": "Envoy plug-in for Netscape 2.0", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 149, "subject": "Amber Reader for Netscape 2.0", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 15, "subject": "Audio Apps", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "Hans", "date": "Sat, Sep 28, 1996 (08:26)", "body": ""}, {"response": 2, "author": "magic13", "date": "Sun, Apr 13, 1997 (22:37)", "body": "HI I\"D LIKE TO ASK ABOUT AUDIO WHENI USE IT, IT SHUTS OFF IS MY SOUND CARD INTERFERING MAYBE AND IF IT IS HOW DO I RECONFIGURE IT TO WORK THANK YOU CHRIS. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 150, "subject": "ASAP WebShow Plug-in for Netscape 2.0", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jul 30, 1996 (06:04)", "body": "Above written by Forrest Stroud. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 151, "subject": "Stock Tickers", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "jdibble", "date": "Wed, Sep  4, 1996 (23:42)", "body": "need help locating a stock portfolio tracker that will work for Canadian stocks. To track about 200 stocks on a 15 minute delayed basis. Where can one download software for this use? Thanks,"}, {"response": 2, "author": "wxs", "date": "Wed, May 21, 1997 (15:01)", "body": "There is a new stock program available called QuotesNow! QuotesNow! The package accesses many free quote servers on the internet to bring you quotes on stocks, options, mutual funds, intraday graphs, closing graphs, news and much more! You can keep track of your stocks all day by setting alerts to let you know when you want to take a closer look at what is happening. The most configurable of all the quote programs. News, Price and Volume Alerts! Download it at http://www.quotesnow.com apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 152, "subject": "Quote Ticker Bar", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 153, "subject": "WinStock", "response_count": 3, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "spookdog", "date": "Wed, Jan  8, 1997 (22:29)", "body": "Mr Goldsmith: I love the 32 bit version of Winstock !!!! I am having a portfolio corruption problem & cannot run the program. According to the message i received,you have a fix you can E mail to me... I would be eternally grateful if you would do so ASAP. Thank You"}, {"response": 2, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sun, Oct  1, 2000 (18:40)", "body": "Old stuff, showing up as new?"}, {"response": 3, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, Oct  1, 2000 (19:24)", "body": "Not sure... Very odd if that be the case! apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 154, "subject": "NetStock", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 155, "subject": "Pesonal Stock Monitor 32-bit", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 156, "subject": "Terminal Apps - general discussion", "response_count": 6, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jul 30, 1996 (06:09)", "body": "Currently, I am using the telnet program bundled with Windows 95 to write this response but I plan on taking another look a the programs reviewed by Forrest. On my ancient 486 machine which still runs Windows for Workgroups, I am real happy with WS-QVT. I hesitate to touch this combo, as it has worked so effectively as a tool for editing html and administering this system via a myriad of telnet sessions on a huge monitor."}, {"response": 2, "author": "rlgreen", "date": "Mon, Oct 28, 1996 (10:16)", "body": "There are a couple very good freeware telnet clients available- niether of which seems to be listed on your otherwise comprehensive site. These are TerraTerm and SimpleTerm. IMHO both outclass Ewan in a major way- they allow z-modem and Kermit file transfer. I use the 16-bit versions, but I believe 32-bit versions also exist. Links to both of these apps can be found at most other Winsock app sites. (e.g., NoNags at http://ded.com/nonags/main.html )"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Oct 28, 1996 (14:48)", "body": "Thanks! I'm always on the lookout for a better telnet client, one that has controlled scrolling like the terminal app on the Mac that I used the other day. My current favorite is crt."}, {"response": 4, "author": "Yankee", "date": "Wed, Dec 31, 1997 (23:14)", "body": "Does anyone know how to run a telnet program from stroud.com without sending it."}, {"response": 5, "author": "Yankee", "date": "Wed, Dec 31, 1997 (23:15)", "body": "Sorry, I mean saving it onto your hard disk."}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jan  1, 1998 (02:12)", "body": "Not possible. You're going to have to download the software to run it. If you have Windows 95, try typing [ctrl-esc] r telnet www.spring.com (or whatever telnet site you're trying to reach). Hope this helps and that I've understood what you're asking. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 157, "subject": "NetTerm", "response_count": 13, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jul 30, 1996 (06:10)", "body": "I'm not exactly clear on what is meant by \"remote host file editing\" although I could make a pretty good guess."}, {"response": 2, "author": "owenml", "date": "Sun, Oct 20, 1996 (15:11)", "body": "Think the ability to download a file, edit it with your choice, and upload. Tried this product with WIN 95, and had a rather nice keyboard setup for remote access to an IBM mainframe. Unfortunately, I moved up to NT 4.0, and can't get this product to do anything but hang every time it attempts to dial. Didn't work with 3.51 either. Maybe authors can incorporate new NT 4.0 TAPI, and dump the built-in modem information file."}, {"response": 3, "author": "owenml", "date": "Wed, Oct 23, 1996 (21:51)", "body": "Did finally get TAPI option to work well enough to dial the modem. Still can't get mainframe to respond, and can't quit the program without logging out of a system I can't login to."}, {"response": 4, "author": "macG", "date": "Wed, Jan 22, 1997 (01:21)", "body": "wanted to ask a question, i'm new (surprise) trying to be able to connect to my brother's computer also win 95 so we could download files edit files etc. He of course would like to do the same. Will Netterm help, i tried dial up networking but to no avail thanks in advance macG"}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Jan 22, 1997 (06:39)", "body": "Carbon Copy! Will you please do a net search for carbon copy and let us know the website address? This software allows remote control of computers over the net. I'd like to see Forrest tackle this one if it matches his criteria."}, {"response": 6, "author": "tedchong", "date": "Wed, Jan 22, 1997 (22:52)", "body": "You can also try Remote Possible 32 available at ftp://207.126.102.10/pub/avalan/rp32v30.exe Remotely Possible/32 is a true 32 bit remote control utility for Windows 95 and NT. For its speed, ease of use, and compatibility with all versions of Windows, RP/32 is a must have tool."}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Jan 22, 1997 (23:12)", "body": "Ted, is it cross platform? Can you run an NT host from a remote Windows 95 client and vice versa? What have you used it for? How reliable is it?"}, {"response": 8, "author": "tedchong", "date": "Thu, Jan 23, 1997 (07:18)", "body": "terry, no, I did not use Remote Possible 32 before. But my friend used it before and on Win95-Win95 platforms and it is fast. You could check remote possible homepage for more details"}, {"response": 9, "author": "Barrel", "date": "Fri, Jan 24, 1997 (00:46)", "body": "I dunno what the hype is, but I found NetTerm to be very buggy and highly beta. It seems unable to remember any of the settings I've put into it, and it's interface is counterintuitive. I must admit, it trys very hard to be everything, and almost is. With ftpd included, and modem support, that's a lot. But an end user with access to plenty of software on-line doesn't need a total solution as much as he needs a working solution. NetTerm still has some bugs to iron out, and sould feel better. Lots of potential, but plenty of work to be done."}, {"response": 10, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Jan 24, 1997 (00:55)", "body": "I'm pretty hooked on CRT at this stage, the only thing it lacks is the ability to store more automated logon commands. Otherwise, it's extremely intuitive. It sounds like NetTerm has some catching up to do."}, {"response": 11, "author": "bjberard", "date": "Thu, Apr 17, 1997 (12:17)", "body": "Anyone know the code sequence for a backwards tab?"}, {"response": 12, "author": "bjberard", "date": "Thu, Apr 17, 1997 (12:19)", "body": "Anyone know the code sequence for a backwards tab?"}, {"response": 13, "author": "tgi", "date": "Mon, Jul  7, 1997 (11:29)", "body": "bj, Depends on terminal type. I'm not positive (someone \"borrowed\" my original DEC VT-100 manual) but for vt100 I think it's ESC+I (perhaps ESC+[+I, but I don't think so). apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 158, "subject": "CRT", "response_count": 33, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jul 30, 1996 (05:11)", "body": "In my book, CRT is head to head with WS_QVT."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov 30, 1996 (11:27)", "body": "CRT just announced this conference on their website. Thank you! For folks coming here for the first time from the CRT website. You may want to 'signup' so you can post your own comments. I find the new version of CRT with it's multiple windows and new feature set to be the number one terminal program on the Net. I am going to be doing an in depth review of CRT for a new website that will do *very* in depth reviews of software products. We won't do 300 or more like Forrest, but we will review the top twenty or so apps on the Net in great depth and these reviews will be closely tied in to these conference topics."}, {"response": 3, "author": "mgenti", "date": "Sat, Nov 30, 1996 (14:18)", "body": "I agree that CRT is the best terminal app. It is very configurable and I really like the multi window option."}, {"response": 4, "author": "styrmir", "date": "Thu, Dec  5, 1996 (10:45)", "body": "Does anyone know how to enter this sequence in the keymap for E.G F6 ^[[17~^ ? I tried \"\\03317~\" but thats not the Answer."}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Dec  5, 1996 (10:46)", "body": "Could you explain that question a little more, I'm afraid you've lost me!"}, {"response": 6, "author": "styrmir", "date": "Fri, Dec  6, 1996 (02:20)", "body": "This is from the help menu... string (or function): If the virtual key is pressed with the corresponding modifiers, then the associated string is sent as if the user had typed it. The string can include characters represented in octal notation. For example, OP, would be represented as: \"\\033OP\" This works just fine as long as you only have \"one\" escape character, but how do you enter 2 escape caracters in front of a string ?. Eg. if the string i need is 17 and i need 2 escape caracters in front of it, how dow i do it ?."}, {"response": 7, "author": "styrmir", "date": "Fri, Dec  6, 1996 (03:48)", "body": "This is from the help menu... string (or function): If the virtual key is pressed with the corresponding modifiers, then the associated string is sent as if the user had typed it. The string can include characters represented in octal notation. For example, OP, would be represented as: \"\\033OP\" This works just fine as long as you only have \"one\" escape character, but how do you enter 2 escape caracters in front of a string ?. Eg. if the string i need is 17 and i need 2 escape caracters in front of it, how dow i do it ?."}, {"response": 8, "author": "vandyke", "date": "Wed, Dec 11, 1996 (14:37)", "body": "Try: \\033[17~ or \\e[17~ In addition, there are some sample keymaps in ftp://ftp.vandyke.com/pub/CRT/keymaps"}, {"response": 9, "author": "styrmir", "date": "Thu, Dec 12, 1996 (02:38)", "body": "Thank You for your help :)"}, {"response": 10, "author": "styrmir", "date": "Thu, Dec 12, 1996 (02:38)", "body": "Thank You for your help :)"}, {"response": 11, "author": "pauley", "date": "Fri, Jan  3, 1997 (12:00)", "body": "I'm trying to capture screen shots within CRT. Without using printscreen (I want text, not bitmap) I can't get linedraw characters (using VT100 character set) to copy correctly. Does anyone know how to capture/print linedraw characters in a vt100 session?"}, {"response": 12, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Jan  3, 1997 (22:03)", "body": "Are you using Windows 95? I just turn logging on or increase the buffer size and highlight the text, copy and paste it. Copying text is pretty trivial."}, {"response": 13, "author": "vandyke", "date": "Tue, Jan  7, 1997 (09:43)", "body": "It is not currently possible to copy the VT100 line drawing characters to the clipboard. Also, CRT doesn't currently support printing the VT100 line drawing characters because the current VT100 font is not a printer font. We hope to include a TrueType font with VT line drawing characters in a future release."}, {"response": 14, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jan  7, 1997 (10:03)", "body": "What are the maximum number of lines the buffer will hold?"}, {"response": 15, "author": "TASK", "date": "Thu, Jan 16, 1997 (09:27)", "body": "I am using the Telnet with 95 to a Unix Box. The standard Print utility within the Unix Application will not pass through the CRT program. Is there a setting within CRT that will allow proper printing of Applications. I am using CRT in the VT-100 emulation. The Actual VT-100's on the System print properly."}, {"response": 16, "author": "vandyke", "date": "Fri, Jan 17, 1997 (15:03)", "body": "-- What are the maximum number of lines the buffer will hold? The maximum allowable setting for the scrollback buffer is 9999."}, {"response": 17, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Jan 18, 1997 (16:37)", "body": "That's a pretty hefty amount! Are there any plans afoot to increase the lines in the auto script when you logon to a remote server? Right now, you have a dialog box with about 4 lines. I'm talking about the Preferences/Session/Login Script Details which allows you to automate the first four commands that you key in when you log on to a server. Also, (this is nit picking now) do you plan to add a hotkey so you can type 'd' for details instead of using a mouse click? CRT has become one of the single most userful programs we use at the Spring. I give it five walruses!"}, {"response": 18, "author": "tkoehler", "date": "Fri, Jan 24, 1997 (15:04)", "body": "I love the fact that CRT has built-in firewall automation tools. Very cool! One feature I would like to see which doesn't appear to be available is an option to indicate whether or not you would like to turn on the log file immediately upon connect. This would be of great benefit as then I wouldn't have to worry about forgetting to turn it on when doing an expensive online database search."}, {"response": 19, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Jan 24, 1997 (21:39)", "body": "Good enhancement suggestion."}, {"response": 20, "author": "jccheng", "date": "Sat, Feb  1, 1997 (01:30)", "body": "Is there any way that I can login to SCO 5.0 Unix Server at fixed tty (ie ttyp0, or ttyp1) thanks"}, {"response": 21, "author": "MG", "date": "Wed, Feb 19, 1997 (17:29)", "body": "We use CRT under NT to connect to our VMS cluster. It is by far the best terminal emulator we have tried for connecting to a VMS environment. Comparing CRT to freeware is questionable, for the very modest price I have submitted nearly 30 requests for new features or fixes and have gotten almost all of them fixed QUICKLY. My experiance with freeware is turnaround for bug fixes and feature requests is very slow. I have found CRT *well* worth the money. Now a question. We use CRT in a DEC VMS environment that supports the DECTERM mouse locator escape sequences (for editors like Eve). Does anyone know if there is a way to setup the VMS termtable file so that Eve will work with the CRT xterm mouse locator sequences?"}, {"response": 22, "author": "radarme", "date": "Wed, Feb 26, 1997 (21:12)", "body": "Anyone know how to fire off an rlogin session from within Netscape using CRT as a helper app? would I put somoe type of config or session file on the web page and just configure crt as the helper app for that extension? thanks"}, {"response": 23, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Mar  1, 1997 (09:45)", "body": "That's exactly it. Configure crt as your telnet application in Netscape's settings."}, {"response": 24, "author": "seth", "date": "Tue, Jul 22, 1997 (11:33)", "body": "I have tried Netterm and Kermit to login to SCO 5.0.2 Unix Server via TCP/IP from local Win95 workstations. The Wyse 50 emulation is less than ideal -- the Page up and Page down keys won't work at all and the Backspace works poorly. THe display characters are ok. Does CRT have Wyse 50 emulation and a good keyboard map? If not , is there one that does? Seth"}, {"response": 25, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jul 22, 1997 (11:39)", "body": "It has VT100, VT102, VT220, ansi and ansi color. Excellent program!"}, {"response": 26, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jul 22, 1997 (11:39)", "body": "CRT Question: I've just started trying CRT. If I have a direct network connection it works just fine. If I dial-in it garbles what I see on the screen. I'm connecting at 38.4 with a Supra. In HyperTerminal I could set character delays and I can't find that in CRT."}, {"response": 27, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Sep 25, 1999 (09:07)", "body": "Forrest's latest review of the new CRT *version 3* release: CRT -- Combined Rlogin and Telnet (CRT) is an excellent new app that many of the most demanding netizens will take pleasure in using. Its many features include full VT100/VT102/VT220 emulation, SOCKS firewall support (telnet only), NAWS (telnet window size change) and LFLOW (telnet local flow control) support, generic telnet proxy firewall support, and Zmodem file transfer. CRT has many user configurable settings (fonts, colors, screen size, keymaps, and more); it also automatically saves these settings for you upon exit. CRT automatically saves previously visited sites for you as well -- a definite plus over the likes of WinQVT and Trumpet Telnet. CRT works extremely well as an external helper application for common Web browsers like Netscape and Internet Explorer. Another of its better attributes is the fact that there are separate versions available for both Windows 3.x users and Windows 95/98/NT users. There are few features missing in the current version that keep it from being even more competitive with the competition. While not including as many features overall as NetTerm and Kermit for Windows 95, CRT does integrate a solid set of features into an easy to use and attractive interface. Also, at $30, some users will likely find their needs better met by freeware telnet clients like EWAN and Trumpet Telnet. Several features previously missing in CRT have been effectively addressed with the latest release -- multiple telnet sessions can be launched more efficiently with the New Window toolbar icon, Zmodem download and upload transfers are now possible, and ANSI and VT220 emulation modes have also been implemented. Overall, CRT offers an impressive set of features unrivaled by most of the current fare of terminal emulator clients and is a recommended app for anyone in search of the elusive near-perfect telnet application. Pros: Zmodem transfer support, highly customizable, easy to use, SecureCRT version available Cons: Price relative to freeware clients, lacks some advanced features found in NetTerm New in v2.4: VT220 support for the DEC multinational character set, VT220 support for loading character sets into GL/GR, automated reconnect entry, various bug fixes; Release Notes Upgrade Meter: 4 New in v3.0 Beta: ActiveX scripting support, session keyboard mapping, session list folder, SCO ANSI terminal and keyboard emulation; Release Notes Upgrade Meter: 3"}, {"response": 28, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Sep 25, 1999 (09:08)", "body": "I just got an email from Jeff Van Dyke and my license code will be sent to me next week, I'll then have some comments and observations on this new version. Ya' know, it's Saturday morning and I emailed Jeff for a license key and he sent me a personal email reply (*not* an automated letter) within ten minutes. These guys are *responsive*."}, {"response": 29, "author": "surendra", "date": "Sun, May 21, 2000 (07:20)", "body": "Is there any way that I can login to SCO 5.0 Unix Server at fixed tty (ie ttyp0, or ttyp1) from a PC running Powerterm terminal emulator in a local network?"}, {"response": 30, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sun, May 21, 2000 (08:06)", "body": "Have you tried running CRT? Why Powerterm? What is it about Powerterm that made you choose it? Do they have a tech support website? Are you connected via a serial cable to the SCO Box?"}, {"response": 31, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Apr 30, 2001 (01:08)", "body": "I'm still really hooked on CRT, I'm using it as we speak."}, {"response": 32, "author": "marci", "date": "Sat, May 12, 2001 (15:04)", "body": "me too. It really is the best I have used."}, {"response": 33, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Jun 13, 2001 (07:59)", "body": "I just got a reviewer's copy of CRT 3.1.1 (32 bit) and I'll be posting some comments about it. For Linux fans, there's console emulation that supports ANSI color and built-in linux keymap and mouse reporting. This improves the behavior of Linuxconf, YaST and other applications. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 159, "subject": "QVT/Term", "response_count": 3, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "claese", "date": "Fri, Sep  6, 1996 (17:30)", "body": "For talking to VAXen, this has got to be the best telnet client yet. It does a perfect emulation of a VT220 in 8-bit mode, including national characters. The keypad is mapped to the VT200 as you would expect it to be. The only thing I haven't yet figure out, is where the \"Compose character\" key is hiding. I bet it's in here somewhere... :-)"}, {"response": 2, "author": "musicattriumf", "date": "Wed, Apr 30, 1997 (17:42)", "body": "Can you get it to do doublehigh and doublewide characters?? .. FWB music@triumf.ca"}, {"response": 3, "author": "davidsadler", "date": "Fri, Aug 22, 1997 (10:04)", "body": "Our site is a user of QVT net (150 users). Our host machine is an IBM RS6000. We are experiencing problems in that when users close sessions or qvt crashes etc rogue processes are left running on the RS6000. We then have to kill the process, which we believe in certain circumstances is causing file corruption. Is there anyway we can make QVT more user proof. ie no close off unless session is cleanly exited by a logout apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 16, "subject": "RealAudio", "response_count": 16, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "maddog", "date": "Fri, Dec 20, 1996 (15:21)", "body": "Realaudio 3.0 is now out, but will not work on my older 486 with windows 3.1 and 14,400 modem - does anyone out there have a copy of raplayer v2.0 in their possesion that they could share with me? It is no longer available at www.realaudio.com because they are pushing v3.0 now. I lost my backup of version 2.0 and, as a result, lost my realaudio (boo hoo) - I am hoping that someone can point me somewhere aside from www.realaudio.com to get a copy of the older release again. Or maybe someone who has one wou d consider putting it in a .zip file and attaching it to e-mail to me at: maddog@worldpath.net I would be forever in your debt...."}, {"response": 2, "author": "maddog", "date": "Sat, Dec 21, 1996 (22:23)", "body": "I am so impressed. My deepest thanks go out to David Bowles for finding me a copy of RealAudio v2.0 and e-mailing it to me within 24 hours of my original plea for help! I live in a mountainous area with very poor radio reception and had come to depend on news and info via the web and RealAudio until a recent computer crash made me realize I had no backup. My system and modem is too old and slow to run the new 3.0 version. David searched the web, found me a copy (in Italy) and mailed it to me - what a guy! Hats off again to you David, and may you have a very joyous holiday season!"}, {"response": 3, "author": "KornR", "date": "Mon, Jan 20, 1997 (13:15)", "body": "DITTO.... I tried to use (actually the sites are forcing me! ) the new 3.0 and things went bad. I have no choice but to go back to the older Ver 2.x.... I can't find it on the web. Please point me to a copy of the older Real Audio stuff...."}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jan 20, 1997 (15:52)", "body": "Check out http://www.childrenstory.com for RealAudio running at the Spring."}, {"response": 5, "author": "gilcarvr", "date": "Fri, Jan 24, 1997 (18:12)", "body": "hey Kornr what are your specs?...RA 3.0 is wonderful...if yu've got the speed..."}, {"response": 6, "author": "jeremy", "date": "Wed, Apr 30, 1997 (15:06)", "body": "RealMedia can be streamed via http now. This means you dont need a \"specialized\" server, a good ol' fasion web server will do. Also, older Players are available on request. Ask the Real Support crew for an older player if your computer isnt up to spec. If your using the free player and you want to increase your buffer, try setting the player's bandwidth to 19.2 instead of 28.8. The 19.2 setting will play 28.8 clips."}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Apr 30, 1997 (18:08)", "body": "We're running a realaudio server on our bsdi machine now, should we upgrage to realvideo?"}, {"response": 8, "author": "AkemisMan", "date": "Tue, Nov 18, 1997 (03:40)", "body": "I have a 486 SX 33 and connect at 28.8k. At one time I had an earlier version that worked, although it tended to crash more often than I cared for. In trying to run a new version of Real Audio, I get an error message saying I need a math coprocessor. I thought I was downloading an audio program, not some high power math program. Real audio, get a life. It's not a math program!"}, {"response": 9, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Nov 18, 1997 (11:52)", "body": "Guess you'll have to go back to the earlier version, as this version may not see cpu's other than Pentium level."}, {"response": 10, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, Aug 28, 1999 (15:35)", "body": "RealAudio and RealVideo not comes with picture viewer which is the easiest way I have found to downsize very large photographs in preparation for posting them."}, {"response": 11, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Sep  2, 1999 (10:05)", "body": "How do you use this feature?"}, {"response": 12, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Mon, Sep  6, 1999 (21:35)", "body": "find it first (I did a find/file or folder) then plopped it onto my startup list. Boot it and open file and find the picture you want to change. You have the option of cut and paste. I did that to Lview Pro and saved it that size. When I booted the picture on Lview it was the reduced sized one which pleased me very much as none of the others could handle it."}, {"response": 13, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Sep  9, 1999 (01:15)", "body": "That's wild realaudio as an image handler. But you used Lview too? Scratching head (I'm in a dense mood)."}, {"response": 14, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Sep  9, 1999 (01:23)", "body": "When a friend sent me her first image it was tiff and too huge for Lview to handle - or MS photo Suite. I found this wandering around and tried it. It downloaded with my upgrade, I guess. Anyhow, it made a small picture of it and by cut and paste I moved it the same size (20KB as opposed to 451 KB tiff). I saved it on Lview and rebooted it to be sure it had saved the small size. It did! No idea how I came by it... Ooops it is Quicktime add-on. Not RealAudio."}, {"response": 15, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Sep  9, 1999 (09:01)", "body": "Oh, Quicktime, that 'splains it! I was beginning to wonder!"}, {"response": 16, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Sep  9, 1999 (15:59)", "body": "that's why I checked it. I did not remember upgrading my Quicktime but I did upgrade my RealAudio...sorry for the misunderstanding. It is a nice feature, however...it got that huge picture down to reasonable size. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 160, "subject": "CommNet", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jul 30, 1996 (06:11)", "body": "Reviewer above: Forrest Stroud. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 161, "subject": "EWAN", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jul 30, 1996 (06:12)", "body": "Above review by Forrest Stroud. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 162, "subject": "Anzio Lite", "response_count": 3, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "leo", "date": "Sun, Mar 16, 1997 (15:51)", "body": "Terry, I have several clients that use Windows 95 to connect to their SCO UNIX backroom system. They previously used a DOS based emualtion program but it had multiple problems runnning under WIN 95. I evaluated several telnet clients that claimed SCO ANSI Console emulation but the function keys did not work properly. Anzio-Lite's SCO ANSI Console emulation worked perfectly under the customer's application. Also, Anzio has several nice features such as auto-sizing of the screen, whether you are 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, sizable fonts and support for high IRQ settings for COM ports. This is great especially for laptops using PCMCIA modem cards for remote dial-in using high IRQ settings for the COM ports. Anzio-Lite provided the clients with excellent features, performance, and a low cost solution to their connectivity issues. I can definitley recommend Anzio-Lite a solid, feature-rich and low cost telnet solution. Regards, Leo Clugh leo@keystonenet.com"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Mar 16, 1997 (21:49)", "body": "Sounds like a great recommendation. I dropped a line to Robert Rasmussen requesting that he add a link from http://www.anzio.com to this discussion area. Hopefully, we'll get more discussion on Anzio Light happening."}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Feb 14, 1998 (10:39)", "body": "from the Anzio folks: We have just posted version 11.4 of AnzioWin (our Windows telnet client) for beta testing. This is ONLY AnzioWin, and only the 32-bit version, for now. We invite you to try out its new features and provide feedback. It is NOT yet listed on the web site, but is only at the following FTP location: ftp://ftp.anzio.com/pub/anzio114/anzz32d.exe NEW IN ANZIO 11.4 BETA Following is a desription of the major new features included in AnzioWin and Anzio Lite version 11.4. LOGIN WIZARD The Login Wizard, quite simply, handles logins for you, when you connect to most sites via TCP/IP (telnet). It does this by recognizing common prompts for user name (\"login:\", \"user:\", etc.) and password, and responding to them automatically. Of course, to do this it needs to know your username and password. These can be entered through the menu system, and stored in Anzio's settings file (the password is stored encoded). Or, they can be specified as part of an extended URL, as described below. FLEXIBLE URL HANDLING / NAKED PARAMETERS Improvements have been made in the handling of command line parameters (things passed to Anzio when it is started up from the Windows system or from a web browser). Most notably, if a parameter contains a URL which includes a username (and optionally a password), Anzio will strip off and save the username and password and use them with the Login Wizard. For example: you're sitting at a PC, running Internet Explorer, looking at a web page. A cross-reference on the web page refers to the URL: telnet://libcat@somelibrary.com Since you have configured your IE (actually your Windows system) to use Anzio for its telnet, IE starts up Anzio and passes the entire URL as a parameter. Anzio recognizes this, strips off the \" telnet://\" , takes off the \"libcat\" and saves it as the username, and connects to \"somelibrary.com\". When prompted for a login, the Login Wizard sends \"libcat\", and you're logged in. You don't have to log in yourself (or tell someone else how to do it)! FAR-EAST CHARACTER SUPPORT Anzio can now process Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) character output on any Windows 95 or NT system. The Chinese version of windows, for instance, is not required, nor is any add-on package such as UnionWay or MASS. Just update your PC for the correct language support, by going to Microsoft's update page for Internet Explorer, such as http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/ieplatform/lang/lang.htm for IE version 3. Download and execute the correct package, and it will add one or more fonts and translation tables to your system. Now run Anzio. Choose for your screen font (and printer font) the font and \"script\" that match your host system's encoding. Then Anzio recognizes any CJK characters, and displays them correctly. For instance: if you download and install \"ie3lpktw.exe\", the \"Traditional Chinese\" update, you will get the font \"MingLiu\". If you choose this font, the \"script\" selection will be \"Chinese-Big5\". You can then connect to a system that outputs characters in the Big-5 encoding scheme. Note that some schemes, such as EACC and CCCII, are not yet supported. But we're working on it... COURIER NEW OEM FONT You can now have Anzio display and print in the Courier New font (which is nicely scalable), but in the OEM character set (which has the often-needed line-drawing characters). This does NOT work on Windows 3.1. TELEVIDEO 965 EMULATION We have added emulation of the Televideo 965 terminal. What else can I say? MULTIPLE TERM TYPES As part of the option negotiation that occurs behind the scenes at the start of a telnet session, the telnet client (in this case Anzio) can tell the host system what kind of terminal it is emulating. This becomes the TERM variable at the host end. The problem is that different host systems might refer to terminals differently. Anzio now lets you specify a group of terminal types, such as \"vt320;vt220;vt100\". Assuming the host is running up to standards, the host and Anzio will negotiate, and the host will choose the one it likes the best. If you need to connect to a variety of host systems, this allows one configuration of Anzio to work with most of them. BLINKING Some users have applications where displaying blinking information is critical. For others, Anzio's bright background colors are an irritant. With 11.4, users can choose to run with one of the following sets: blink available bright backgrounds blink available dim backgrounds underline available bright backgrounds underline available dim backgrounds bright and dim backgrounds available In the Custom Colors screen, you can choose options in succession by hitting \"P\". HANGUP A little thing, really -- we added a \"hangup\" menu item for use with serial modem connections. Regards, ....Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: ras@anzio.com company e-mail: rsi@anzio.com or sales@anzio.com or support@anzio.com ftp://ftp.anzio.com voice: 503-624-0360 http://www.anzio.com fax: 503-624-07"}]}, {"num": 163, "subject": "QWS3270 Extra", "response_count": 4, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jul 30, 1996 (06:12)", "body": "Above review by Forrest Stroud."}, {"response": 2, "author": "peabody", "date": "Wed, Jan 22, 1997 (15:07)", "body": "Where can one go to download the freeware version of QWS3270 Extra mentioned in app 163?"}, {"response": 3, "author": "clin", "date": "Thu, Sep 30, 1999 (19:01)", "body": "Is wqs3270 shareware version y2k complaint?"}, {"response": 4, "author": "clin", "date": "Thu, Sep 30, 1999 (19:03)", "body": "Is qws3270 freeware version y2k compliant? apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 164, "subject": "Trumpet Telnet", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 165, "subject": "UW Term", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 166, "subject": "Suite Spot", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 167, "subject": "Emissary", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 168, "subject": "Cyberjack for Windows 95", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 169, "subject": "NetRunner for Windows 95", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 17, "subject": "True Speech - real-time audio on demand", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 170, "subject": "GNNWorks", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 171, "subject": "QMosaic Internet Toolbox", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 172, "subject": "Mariner", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 173, "subject": "Softerm Plus", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 174, "subject": "Turnpike", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "rick", "date": "Sun, Sep 15, 1996 (17:54)", "body": "am looking for mass email software. can you help?"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Sep 17, 1996 (10:35)", "body": "What platform do you want to run it on? And what are your requirements? How many emails do you need to send and how often? There are a lot of options but I'd like to know more about your platform and her requirements. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 175, "subject": "WinQVT and QVT/Net", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 176, "subject": "Anti-Viral Software general discussion", "response_count": 8, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jul 30, 1996 (06:20)", "body": "Above introduction written by Forrest Stroud."}, {"response": 2, "author": "GuySmiley", "date": "Thu, Aug 22, 1996 (10:28)", "body": "I just stumbled upon F-PROT 2.24 at datafellows ftp site... it's dated August 21st so get it all who can..."}, {"response": 3, "author": "lyndah", "date": "Wed, Nov 27, 1996 (23:20)", "body": "i'm not sure i'm asking this question in the right place, but here goes! i mark a lot of assignments on diskette and i'm looking for a good virus checker and cleaner. you mention that virusscan is the best, and i have it installed. however, it has yet to tell me i have a virus! when i ran norton disk doctor, it would yell at me now and again when i put in a student's disk, and i would clean off the virus. is there something different about virusscan that it never yells at me? i guess i'm looking for something that will check the diskettes i put in. is virusscan doing that or do i need something else? any advice you can provide would be most welcome!"}, {"response": 4, "author": "Donna", "date": "Sat, Nov 30, 1996 (13:27)", "body": "How do I access ftp site to get upgraded version ofF-PROT 2.24"}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov 30, 1996 (14:48)", "body": "Does Forrest not have this on his site currently?"}, {"response": 6, "author": "PaX", "date": "Mon, May 31, 1999 (13:39)", "body": "Umm sorry to rain on your parade people.... Macafee virus scan is close to worthless,Norton is little better... If you want the best Get AVP or Fprot for DOS..That nice gui you so dearly love loads after some other programs have already run... Nodice is also very good..If you would like any further information please feel free to contact me... PaX [Ultimate Chaos Virus Team]"}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jul  1, 1999 (14:10)", "body": "Macafee worthless? I don't think so!"}, {"response": 8, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Thu, Jul  1, 1999 (14:40)", "body": "My PC runs F-Prot before it load Win95. It scans the whole Windows directory and the directory where my mail programm put the attached files. C'T, a highly respectable German computer mag, recommended it \"for those not scared off by a DOS window\". The DOS version is freeware, and there is also a Windows version available for $$$. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 177, "subject": "VirusScan", "response_count": 15, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "mingshun", "date": "Wed, Oct  9, 1996 (11:03)", "body": ""}, {"response": 2, "author": "McBruce", "date": "Thu, Dec  5, 1996 (23:58)", "body": "I recently purchased Macafee's VS for W95, and am somewhat disillusioned with the company. It appears their main concern is to sell AV software as fast and hard as possible. I'm not questioning the effectiveness of the product, rather the lack of support. The software I downloaded had signature files two and half months old, even though two newer versions had already been made available in the update section. The program did find autoexe on several disks I had, but cleaning essentially destroyed them and until I can track down the cure, they are useless. After spending several hours browsing their \"On-line support\", it appears they have many frustrated clients. What I'm wondering - is the typical of the AV industry? I realize they are in an extremely competetive segment of the software market, but my general consumer instincts tell me I may not have gotten full value for my dollar."}, {"response": 3, "author": "enoch", "date": "Sat, Dec 21, 1996 (04:14)", "body": "Today I just learned that McAfee's Virus Scan for Window's 95 won't work if you have your hard drive compressed with Drivespace3. It returns a \"not enough memory\" notification. When I called and asked them the solution, they just curtly told me to uncompress my hard drive. --John W. Redelfs, enoch@ktn.net"}, {"response": 4, "author": "enoch", "date": "Sat, Dec 21, 1996 (04:14)", "body": "Today I just learned that McAfee's Virus Scan for Window's 95 won't work if you have your hard drive compressed with Drivespace3. It returns a \"not enough memory\" notification. When I called and asked them the solution, they just curtly told me to uncompress my hard drive. --John W. Redelfs, enoch@ktn.net"}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Dec 21, 1996 (10:57)", "body": "Do any of the other virus programs work with compressed drives?"}, {"response": 6, "author": "graf", "date": "Sat, Mar 29, 1997 (12:23)", "body": "I recently bought the new (3.0) VirusScan. I found out to my chagrin that the included product, BackWeb (which supposedly auto-retrieves updates) won't work in my setup: Win95 + Trumpet Winsock. The program tries to init the Winsock Dialer, and since I don't use the Win95 Winsock, it crashes. I contacted BackWeb Tech Support, and explained my problem, namely I need to run Trumpet and not the Win95 Winsock. Their response was not even helpful, to the point of berating my use of Trumpet. In fact, I don't think it was even read before the response was written. Aside from that any TCP app should work with any Winsock, regardless, nobody at BackWeb has seen fit to provide further help. Does anyone know how to work around the impasse?"}, {"response": 7, "author": "graf", "date": "Sat, Mar 29, 1997 (12:24)", "body": "I recently bought the new (3.0) VirusScan. I found out to my chagrin that the included product, BackWeb (which supposedly auto-retrieves updates) won't work in my setup: Win95 + Trumpet Winsock. The program tries to init the Winsock Dialer, and since I don't use the Win95 Winsock, it crashes. I contacted BackWeb Tech Support, and explained my problem, namely I need to run Trumpet and not the Win95 Winsock. Their response was not even helpful, to the point of berating my use of Trumpet. In fact, I don't think it was even read before the response was written. Aside from that any TCP app should work with any Winsock, regardless, nobody at BackWeb has seen fit to provide further help. Does anyone know how to work around the impasse?"}, {"response": 8, "author": "ceh", "date": "Tue, Oct 21, 1997 (12:49)", "body": "Further evidence of the software gap . . . I just downloaded VirusScan for Win95 and unzipped/loaded it. The first time I tried to use it the \"time to register\" screen appeared and informed me that my 30 days were up. Even worse, I was informed that the virus identification database was 16 months old, which must make the product just about worthless. When I tried to find a way to call or send email to ask what was going on, I found that the only way to communicate with McAffee, other than by snail mail (!), was to call them at my expense (they are in California, I'm in New York). Based on past experience with share-ware companies, I had visions of being put on hold for a long time, being accidently disconnected, calling back, being put on hold again, then eventually getting a curt, unhelpful response like those described elsewhere on this page. No t anks. I'm tired of being ignored by arrogant, unresponsive software companies at my own expense. (If I want treatment like that I can always get it from our elected officials. BTW, in case you wonder about the source of McAffee's arrogance, they took in $88 mil last year.) Generally speaking, the more difficult it is to communicate with an Internet-dealing company, the more they are trying to protect themselves from complaints. Ergo, the harder it is to communicate, the less I want to do with them. I'm also beginning to lose confidence in Forrest Stoud's picks. This is not the first time I have been disappointed by one of his five-star rated softwares. The quality of any software, in my opinion, cannot be rated independently of a software company's treatment of its clients. And that includes the low-end buyers, not just the big corporations who spend thousands on their more powerful software and multi-user licenses. Based on my personal experience and that of others I've read here, I intend to avoid McAffee products. And depending upon how I feel after I've slept on it, I might also decide to remove Stroud's URL from my bookmarks."}, {"response": 9, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Oct 22, 1997 (01:43)", "body": "I had a pretty good experience with McAfee. And my friend Albert did as well. He had difficulty with their software and contacted them. When they called back, he was on an errand and I took the call. They seemed genuinely interested in getting through to him and kept trying until they connected with him. Do you want me to see about escalating your problem with McAfee? Don't underestimate the power of the Stroud conferences!"}, {"response": 10, "author": "mozerd", "date": "Sat, Dec 13, 1997 (10:42)", "body": "I've been running McAfee V3.0 for NT/W 4.0 and SP3. I recently found out that Client Service for NetWare for NDS has problems with McAfee V3.0. The problem is that Login Scripts will not process although login into the Tree does take place. Also the login process into NetWare takes anywhere from 3 to 5 minutes with McAfee enabled versus 8-15 seconds if McAfee disabled. I've had to remove McAfee cause I need the login scripts to work. Does anyone know of a solution?"}, {"response": 11, "author": "Felina99", "date": "Thu, Feb 19, 1998 (12:03)", "body": "When VirusScan says that it is available for WinNT they are talking about Windows NT 3.51 NOT Windows NT 4.0. I found this out AFTER downloading it and trying to run it on my Windows NT. I can't believe that a program that is touted to be the BEST of the Windows scanners isn't available to NT 4.0 users. I also went to the VirusScan home page, where I found that indeed, NT 4.0 has been totally left out of the virus scanning game. So much for the BEST!"}, {"response": 12, "author": "Jeanie", "date": "Sun, Aug  9, 1998 (10:32)", "body": "Has anyone been successful in making McAfee Emergency disks with Win98? Creating two disks still does not provide adequate disk space. I have tried creating the 2 Edisks following the support from Network Associates(McAfees new owners) on line forum without success and with out further response from them either. I'm sure they are working on this problem, but in the meantime be aware of potential shortcomings from Anti Virus Scan from McAfee."}, {"response": 13, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Aug  9, 1998 (23:57)", "body": "Thanks for the heads up, Jeannie."}, {"response": 14, "author": "PaX", "date": "Tue, Jun  1, 1999 (10:05)", "body": "Ermm you are still not listening....Virus authors recomend AVP and FProt.. Macafee is close to worthless... Dont believe me ?? get infected with Oblivion and see how well Macafee copes...!!! PaX [Ultimate Chaos Virus Team]"}, {"response": 15, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jul  1, 1999 (14:10)", "body": "What is PaX? apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 178, "subject": "ThunderBYTE Anti-Virus", "response_count": 5, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "evo", "date": "Mon, Nov  4, 1996 (09:36)", "body": ""}, {"response": 2, "author": "gslee", "date": "Fri, Dec 20, 1996 (13:54)", "body": "i private win95 but i am not suffer"}, {"response": 3, "author": "duc", "date": "Sun, Dec 29, 1996 (15:57)", "body": ""}, {"response": 4, "author": "duc", "date": "Sun, Dec 29, 1996 (15:58)", "body": ""}, {"response": 5, "author": "pkolbus", "date": "Sat, May 10, 1997 (19:10)", "body": "Any idea when Thunderbyte 8.00 for Windows 3.1 will be released? The Win95 and DOS versions have been out for a whle now... all updates used to be released for all platforms simultaneously. It has been 4 months since an update was released for this product, that is a very long time in the AV world. Maybe I'll switch to Norton or McAfee... apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 179, "subject": "F-Prot", "response_count": 6, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "bcopelan", "date": "Fri, Aug 23, 1996 (12:51)", "body": "Does the VIRSTOP tsr work in Windows 95. It works very well in DOS/WIN31, because we have caught at least two virus's this way."}, {"response": 2, "author": "briangm", "date": "Fri, Aug 30, 1996 (13:04)", "body": "I have used several versions of F-Prot, and have never found any of them to work under any version of Windows. It is a DOS program, to my knowlege, and works very well, in my experience."}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Aug 30, 1996 (16:03)", "body": "I had a heck of a time trying to download it a few months ago, but not from Forrest's site. I need to make another run at it."}, {"response": 4, "author": "tessera", "date": "Thu, Sep  5, 1996 (01:55)", "body": "I use F-prot (last I remember 2.19a) for Windows as a better than most virus protection with Windows style \"gatekeeper\" windows heap of virus signatures which chews a lot less of the lower memory than DOS style virus protection set-ups. The last DOS mode version I know of was 2.16 which admittedly worked, but was really a DOS program working under windows. The new ones are fully windows based. I'm not sure what the shareware/freeware level is since I am a registered corporate liscensee (we paid for it so don't count)"}, {"response": 5, "author": "safety", "date": "Wed, Nov 13, 1996 (16:05)", "body": "F-Prot scanning technology is also used in VirusNet 95, which supports Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows 3.x and DOS. It includes a Windows interface and background VxD protection in Win95."}, {"response": 6, "author": "MickinMD", "date": "Fri, Jul 25, 1997 (14:33)", "body": "I teach and have colleagues/students whose PC's are often afflicted with viruses. F-Prot - the free DOS version - is great to have lying around on a clean floppy when you discover your hard drive is infected. The Windows-based AV programs on your infected drive can't handle the situation and you can't install a working AV program on an infected drive, so a Windows Start-Up Disk and F-Prot ( latest free version still fits on a single floppy) clean floppies make clean-up easy. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 18, "subject": "Internet Wave", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 180, "subject": "Carmel Anti-Virus for Windows NT", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 181, "subject": "Norton Anti-Virus for Windows NT", "response_count": 8, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Jul 24, 1996 (13:35)", "body": "The above review by Mark Johnson."}, {"response": 2, "author": "samuel", "date": "Mon, Dec  8, 1997 (06:35)", "body": "I would like to use this and try out. My only concern is the polymorphic and macro viruses like Laroux-D/C which seem to be difficult to clean. Could you let me know the site where I can download Norton Antivirus ver 4.0 trial."}, {"response": 3, "author": "emmoskal", "date": "Mon, Feb  2, 1998 (09:34)", "body": "Try www.symantec.com"}, {"response": 4, "author": "madchadder", "date": "Mon, Feb  2, 1998 (10:27)", "body": "NORTON SUCK BIG COCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!"}, {"response": 5, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Mon, Jun 14, 1999 (14:50)", "body": "Too bad he never let us know why... (and how much *did* he pay, one wonders)"}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jul  1, 1999 (14:11)", "body": "One wonders."}, {"response": 7, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Thu, Jul  1, 1999 (14:27)", "body": "So that's, like, two wondering now?"}, {"response": 8, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Thu, Jul  1, 1999 (14:28)", "body": "Terry, do you think a virus infected file *contained in a zip-file* could do any harm? apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 182, "subject": "Oracle Powerbrowser", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 183, "subject": "UdiWWW", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 184, "subject": "Craig's Connect Monitor", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "mweinberg", "date": "Tue, Dec 10, 1996 (11:45)", "body": "how do I start with craig?"}, {"response": 2, "author": "idecard", "date": "Sun, May 10, 1998 (03:24)", "body": "this app has a home page - why isnt it listed on the apps review ? http://edge.net/~scraig/ apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 185, "subject": "WS-Timer", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "Rick", "date": "Sun, Dec  8, 1996 (19:55)", "body": "This version does not start timing unless I press the force key. It has lost the history of previuos version. No response from an email to the author on what I could do to fix the problem. If you log on a second time without shutting the programme down you have to hangup then Connect. If you switch to another provider tou have to play with the aprovider check boxes to get to the correct provider. Setting it on the main window does not carry ibnto the connect screen. Other than that it does what it i supposed to."}, {"response": 2, "author": "hisself", "date": "Fri, Apr 25, 1997 (08:18)", "body": "I tried Version 6.01. If I start the program, then it won't let my modem initialize. Obviously, i need to change something, but there is no information that I could find. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 186, "subject": "e-Mail Notify for Windows", "response_count": 5, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "ludovic", "date": "Fri, Aug  9, 1996 (13:42)", "body": "Hi, I'm Ludovic Dubost, the author of this program and will be very happy to answer questions about e-Mail Notify. (as long as the long stays reasonable) I'll come back from time to time..."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Aug  9, 1996 (20:17)", "body": "Hi Ludovic! Is the above review a fair assessment? What would you add or comment on about Forrest's evaluation? How has the response been by your users. By the way, if you feel inclined to add a link from your website to the conference we would welcome this. Glad you've joined in this new conversation and look forward to hearing more from you."}, {"response": 3, "author": "ludovic", "date": "Sat, Aug 10, 1996 (04:33)", "body": "Hi, In my opinion it's one of the most complete review I've seen on the web for my program. If I had to add some more comments, these would be: 1/ Mutli Mailbox monitoring is very important as most mailers don't take into account that you can have more than one email address 2/ e-Mail Notify's main idea is not to disturb the user during his work. This means that you can configure e-Mail Notify to be very silent (on errors) and just change the icon or play a sound for new mail.. 3/ There isn't any talk of the AUtomatic launcher feature which allows to do some custom things whenever there is new mail. Some people wrote some batch file to dial in their pager when they get new mail. Concerning the user's response. I'm very happy with it. It helped me change a lot of thing in my program to make it more easy to use. v1.20 includes a lot of minor changesand corrects a lot of behaviors of e-Mail Notify that were annoying.. This is all thanks to the users. User feedback is very important. Even if I do not get time to answer very fast all mails, I try not to leave any in my mailbox without response. Unfortunately e-Mail Notify is not my main activity and I lack a lot of time to maintain a beautifull Web site for it. I should upgrade the web site in a while and Credit Card registration will also be avaiable soon. I'll post links here when this happens..."}, {"response": 4, "author": "kpl", "date": "Wed, Aug 14, 1996 (00:55)", "body": "e-mail Notify is a great program, granted. I just d/l'ed it again for 1.20, and the interface is cleaned up, more features are included, and beats all of the other mail checkers out there. But there is one problem, that being the price. $5 is a good deal on any piece of software. However, I just checked the readme files of e-mail Notify and found the price to be at $15 for the 32-bit version. Now, perhaps my value system is a bit jilted, but I believe $15 is too much for the small convenience of a mail checker. To put the value of e-mail Notify in perspective, I bought my copy of Agent at $29. It features offline newsreading and mail reading capabilities. e-mail Notify weighs in at about half the price of Agent, but delivering nowhere ne r half the functionality. $10 would make my decision a little easier. $8 would be ideal for me. But $15 is just too much for just a fancy, but mere mail checker."}, {"response": 5, "author": "ludovic", "date": "Wed, Aug 14, 1996 (10:09)", "body": "Dear Kevin, I will try to explain to you why I raised the price to 15$. To really understand what brought me to this price, you need to understand what it takes to handle a registration process and answering questions about a program you wrote. First, for every user, I need to create a registration key and send it by mail. This is a much more lengthly process than you might think. With registration coming up by mail, I have to extract the name and email of the person, and it sometimes not typed and difficult to read. I have to enter it in my database and send the mail. If the email is wrong or if I read it wrong, I need to check out in my mail to see if the person sent me an email and find out out the real address. Now, in a few weeks, registration for email notify will be possible using a credit card through www.windows95.com. They take 20% to do that. If I priced my app at 10$ this would mean 8$ for me to handle the sending of the registration key. Now see it from your side and instead of comparing e-Mail Notify with Agent, compare it with anything you buy in your real life. How much do you pay to go to see a movie ? 7 or 8$ ! How long does it last ? 2 hours... How much do you spend for your food every day ? e-Mail Notify will be usefull for you for month... and any upgrades will still work with the key I send you... I'm working on e-Mail Notify for the pleasure of doing it. If it can bring me some money then fine. But right now if I look at the time I spend answering mail, sending registration keys and working on making my program better, then the fact is that is for 5 or 10$ a copy.. then it's not worth it... Ludovic apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 187, "subject": "Mail-Check", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jul 25, 1996 (14:47)", "body": "I think the caveat here, and correct me if I'm wrong, is that this is strictly a checker and not a mail reader. Now, if someone comes along with a program that will automatically gather mail from multiple mailboxes and store it in convenient folders by account name, I'll be a happy camper. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 188, "subject": "VRML browsers - virtual reality comes to the net", "response_count": 4, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jul 30, 1996 (06:22)", "body": "Above introduction by Forrest Stroud."}, {"response": 2, "author": "coolkaty", "date": "Sun, Apr  6, 1997 (01:44)", "body": "terry i don't know much about vrml . because i never see it before so please help me to understand ."}, {"response": 3, "author": "badtothebone25", "date": "Wed, Jun  5, 2002 (10:36)", "body": "i am lookin for a vrml browser that is open source. can anyone help me or show me the right direction??"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Jun  5, 2002 (21:51)", "body": "FreeWRL is an open-source(R) VRML and X3D browser written by Tuomas J. Lukka, John Stewart and others, placed under the Gnu Library General Public License. It is written for Unix/Linux workstations and it's primary goal is to enable Shared Virtual Worlds, so emphasis is on controlling the VRML/X3D Scene from external sources (via Javascript, perl, or the Java with either the SAI or EAI interface). Much work has been performed recently to enable FreeWRL to become closer to obtaining VRML and X3D compliancy. There is still some work to be done, but, check out the screen shots to see some examples of what you can do. Integration with external sensor inputs, VR Goggles is here - strap on your Virtual Research goggles, and literally walk around your own virtual world http://www.crc.ca/en/html/FreeWRL/home/home What 'cha gonna do with it? apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 189, "subject": "CyberPassage", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 19, "subject": "WHAM - short for Waveform - Hold and Modify", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jul 29, 1996 (12:08)", "body": "How does this compare to COOL Edit? I believe that's the name. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 190, "subject": "Pioneer", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 191, "subject": "V-Realm", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 192, "subject": "VR Scout for Windows 95", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 193, "subject": "VRweb", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 194, "subject": "WebSpace", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 195, "subject": "WorldView", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 196, "subject": "Ion for '95", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 197, "subject": "VDOLive Player", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "cyberguy", "date": "Sat, Nov 16, 1996 (20:32)", "body": "I have VDOLive on my pentium. I think it's great. Even though I only have a 14.4 bps modem, the video and audio is till pristine. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 198, "subject": "NCompass ActiveX Pro", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 199, "subject": "Acrobat Amber Reader", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 2, "subject": "What's New?", "response_count": 12, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jul 11, 1996 (07:53)", "body": "FreeTel Version 1.00 Date 4/10/96 Rating **** Size 265 Kb Location ftp://freetel.inter.net/pub/freetel/ft100.exe Description Totally free real-time voice communication over the 'net Status Freeware. Commercial Version - $29.95 Company FreeTel Communications, Inc. Information The FreeTel Page at http://www.freetel.com/sponsor.htm#company FreeTel -- FreeTel is a new real-time voice communications application in the Internet Phone mold. The product is free for non-commercial use (albeit with heavy advertising) or just under $30 for the commercial version (the price you have to pay to get rid of the advertising). Audio quality for FreeTel is surprisingly solid (though not quite in the same league as Internet Phone or WebPhone's audio quality). Additionally, FreeTel is currently the only Internet phone client to offer separate bass and trebel controls as well as microphone and speaker volume controls. While FreeTel does offer superior audio quality, the delays between sending and receiving messages do tend to be longer than in comparable clients. Like most high-end phone clients, FreeTel supports both full-duplex (if you have the necessary hardware) and half-duplex (if you don't) voice communications. Although real-time voice communication is FreeTel's forte, you can also communicate via old-fashioned text mode as well as send files to other users. Additional FreeTel features include CallerID, introduction messages, multiple user configurations, phone web links, and the Booster option. Booster is a feature designed to improve sound quality during peak time periods (when the Internet is overloaded or congested with traffic) at the expense of minimal delay increases. FreeTel's electronic phone directory is testament to the popularity of the client; unfortunately, there are often so many people on-line that it can take a while to get a complete listing of users. A major annoyance in the free version is the inability to fully minimize the program - attempting to do so will minimize the interface, but you're still stuck with the advertising! The free version also has a permanent 'stay on top' feature that provides further hindrance to your attempts at removing the advertising (or working on other programs while in auto-receive mode). If you can look past these quirks, or if you take advantage of the inexpensive price tag for the commercial version, FreeTel can be a surprisingly fun client to use; if not, you're better off looking elsewhere. Pros: Real-time voice communication once again achieved on the 'net, freeware status Cons: Quirky design in the free version due to advertising, lacks some of the competitions' features New: This is the initial review for FreeTel Version Reviewed: 1.00 Date of Review: 7/10/96"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jul 11, 1996 (07:54)", "body": "Above review: from Forrest Stroud"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jul 11, 1996 (10:06)", "body": "Today's \"what's new\" at Stroud's site is Map This! \"Map This offers users an intuitive, graphics-based interface for creating and modifying image maps. Map This includes grid lines; zoom in/out; rectangle, polygon, and circle tools; right mouse button functionality; and a map area editor for quick and efficient map editing.\" - Forrest Stroud"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jul 15, 1996 (19:17)", "body": "Graphics Workshop -- Graphics Workshop is a do-it-all graphics utility program from the makers of the GIF Construction Set, Alchemy Mindworks. Graphics Workshop goes above and beyond its sibling by sporting more powerful features as well as offering support for over 30 different graphic formats. Cool features in Graphics Workshop include tools for graphics conversion (quickly and easily convert nearly any type of graphic to another format), quick image viewing and/or printing, special effects (sharpen, dither, reverse, soften, crop, color balance and reduction, etc.), screen capturing, thumbnails and image catalogs, graphics scaling, and slideshow prensentations. Graphics Workshop's extensive array of graphic filetypes includes Windows Bitmap (BMP), MacPaint, self displaying pictures (EXE), Kodak Photo CD (PCD), Sun raster (RAS), icon (ICO), JPEG (JPG - with support for progressive JPEGs), Targa True Vision (TGA), Tagged Image Format (TIF), GIF (GIF - with support for transparent, interlaced, and animated GIFs), Corel Draw (CDP), and PiNG (PNG) images. Similar to Thumbs Plus, multimedia formats like Microsoft Video for Windows (AVI), Quick Time for Windows (MOV), and audio (WAV), and UUEncoded files (UUE) are covered as well. This super deluxe graphics manipulation client is not without its shortcomings, though. Suprisingly, Graphics Workshop lacks support for the Photoshop (PSD) graphics format. Additionally, while Graphics Workshop does offer more features and graphics formats than GIF Construction Set, it costs twice as much ($40) and lacks the special GIF features like animation wizards, image transitions, and graphics merging. Graphics Workshop also comes up short in terms of image decoding speed when compared to apps like ACDSee and VuePrint. Whereas GIF Construction Set and WebImage are designed primarily for the power web designer, Graphics Workshop is targeted more towards the serious graphics user. Against its competition in this area, Graphics Workshop lacks the features and raw power of an app like Photoshop, but it does measure up well to clients closer to its price range like LView Pro and Paint Shop Pro. Its file conversion capabilities are second to none and its special effects tools are above average, but it does lack Paint Shop Pro's extensive feature-set of image manipulation tools, especially its advance image filtering and color replacing tools. Despite these few limitations, you simply can't beat a deluxe do-it-all graphics program that costs less than $50. Pros: Tons of graphics formats supported, image conversion and other great features Cons: Lacks advanced image manipulation tools and support for Photoshop graphics New: This is the initial review for Graphics Workshop Version Reviewed: 1.1w Date of Review: 7/14/96"}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Aug 26, 1996 (11:17)", "body": "There's a new item on FTP2000. See topic 286. A potential hot new app!"}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct 31, 1996 (00:58)", "body": "These are the last few topics entered, and I'll point out a few things. 288 8 HomeSite for Windows 95 289 1 Northern Exposure 290 1 NetFerret 291 2 Teleport Pro 295 0 Shareware 296 0 Shareware 297 1 LDS 298 0 PhotoImpact GIF Animator 299 0 PhotoImpact SmartSaver 300 1 WebCompass for Windows 95 301 0 FreeLoader 302 0 FTP OutBox for Windows 95 303 3 HOTDOG PRO 304 1 DynamIP 305 0 Transoft Mail Control Note that Northern Exposure, which a great series, is not one of Stroud's apps or is it likely to be a candidate for one. We have a tv conference for topics like this. Well, I guess someone could develope an app with this name. I'm not sure what someone had in mind with 295 and 296. Shareware? Well, ok, we've got lots of shareware here but usually topics are more specific. I froze 303 HOTDOG PRO because we already have a HotDog Pro. But I also transplanted the comments in this item to the other item. Will the real HotDog Pro topic please stand up? DynamIP, FTP Outbox for Windows 95, FreeLoader, Webcompass, PHotoimpact, etc are from Forrest bag of tricks. And Transoft Mail Control is not a Stroud reviewed product (at leat not yet), it came via an email today. That's the wrapup for the latest stuff. Please, if you're going to create a new topic, keep it relevant and make sure that it hasn't been entered already. OK. OK. That's my lecture for today."}, {"response": 7, "author": "fantasy", "date": "Tue, Dec 10, 1996 (08:54)", "body": "I love Northern Exposure - that's why I'm here! How can you help me find it - it is listed on your site???"}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec 11, 1996 (07:46)", "body": "Go to the tv conference ------ >"}, {"response": 9, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Tue, May 16, 2000 (16:29)", "body": "Video on Your PDA? Its Not Just Talk, Its Here REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 16, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Users of Microsoft Pocket PC and WindowsCE handheld devices are getting a pleasant surprise these days when they find that a simple download of some free software will let them view high-quality video and animation in addition to the datebooks, stock market quotes, and games that are a staple of personal digital assistants (PDAs). Whats more, the enabling technology, from a startup company called ActiveSky, will soon be available for PDAs using other operating systems, such as many of the popular Palm devices that have so far dominated the market. In April, ActiveSky was a Launch Partner with Microsoft at the introduction of the Pocket PC, and just three weeks later introduced the WindowsCE version. Users of those devices are now downloading the ActiveSky Media Player in increasing numbers from the companys website, www.activesky.com. Until now, PC users could routinely watch video on their desktop computers, but t ..."}, {"response": 10, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Tue, May 16, 2000 (16:30)", "body": "Microsoft Adds New Security Features to Outlook May 15, 2000 (Tech Web - CMP via COMTEX) -- Microsoft said Monday it will offer new security features for its Outlook e-mail program in the wake of the destructive \"Love\" virus. The Outlook Email Security Update, scheduled to be available for free download the week of May 22, will offer three security features designed to combat viruses. One prevents users from accessing several file types when sent as e-mail attachments, including executables and batch files that contain executable code used to spread viruses. Another feature prompts customers with a dialog box when an external program tries to access their Outlook address books or send e-mail on their behalf. The third increases the default Internet security zone setting within Outlook from \"trusted\" to \"restricted,\" which disables most automatic scripting and ActiveX Controls from opening without the users permission. Microsoft (stock: Copyright (C) 2000 Cmp Media Inc. Tech Web on May 15, 2000"}, {"response": 11, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Tue, May 16, 2000 (16:38)", "body": "Opera Software Announces Release of Opera for Windows 4.0 Beta 4 -- The First Windows Browser with Wap-Wml Capability OSLO, Norway, May 16, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Opera Software is proud to announce Beta 4 of the Opera for Windows 4.0 browser. Beta 4 includes experimental support for WAP-WML. WAP stands for Wireless Application Protocol; it gives devices access to information written in the Wireless Mark-up Language (WML). Many WAP-WML sites are available on the Internet, but ordinary browsers cannot access them. \"Opera 4.0 gives Web users access to WAP services, opening up a whole new frontier for the entire WAP industry,\" says Hakon Wium Lie, CTO, Opera Software. \"Operas formatting engine is very fast and flexible.\" With the added support for WML, Opera Software re-affirms its position as a technological leader in the Internet browser market. The Opera browser combines Internet standards-compliance with fast and effective graphics and text layout, giving the Opera user a better Internet experience. \"Part of the Opera vision is to make the Internet open and accessible to all,\" says Jon S. von Tetzchner, CEO Opera Software, \"The ability to surf WAP-WML sites is a natural part of this.\" Opera for Windows 4.0 beta 4 includes the following features: E-mail, faster rendering speed, small size, low resource requirements, plug-in support, standards-compliance, 128-bit encryption, TLS, SSL 2 and 3, CSS1, CSS2, XML, HTML 4.0, HTTP 1.1, WML, ECMAScript and JavaScript 1.3. Beta 4 can be downloaded for a 30-day free trial period at www.opera.com/download About Opera Software Opera Software AS is an industry leader in the development of Web browsers for the desktop and device markets. The Opera browser has received international recognition from end-users and the industry press for being faster, smaller and more standards-compliant than other browsers. Opera Software AS is a privately held company headquartered in Oslo, Norway. You can learn more about Opera on the Web at www.opera.com Copyright (C) 2000 Business Wire. All Rights Reserved. Business Wire on May 15, 2000"}, {"response": 12, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Tue, May 16, 2000 (16:42)", "body": "The complete articles of the above headline stories are available at http://www.inyouremail.com/workstationezine.com/ apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 20, "subject": "Midi Gate plays midi files", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jul 29, 1996 (12:08)", "body": "What do you need on the Server side to support Midi Gate? apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 200, "subject": "Web Accessories", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jul 30, 1996 (06:23)", "body": "My favorite web accessory: Virtual Places. See my comments in the Virtual Places topic. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 201, "subject": "Netscape PowerPack for Windows", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 202, "subject": "Map This! 32-bit", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 203, "subject": "WebWhacker", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "geodesic", "date": "Tue, Nov 25, 1997 (16:48)", "body": "I'm not sure if anyone reads these reviews- but I'd love to put two bits in all the same. I have tried most of the Web Agents- NetAttache 2.50, Anawave WebSnake 1.23, WebWhacker 3.2 (Stroud's only lists 3.0), Teleport Pro 1.28; Smart Bookmarks 3.0, and so on. I simply cannot understand how poorly designed they are, in general. Currently I use WebWhacker 1.0 to store sites, and Smart Bookmarks to keep track of changes and my bookmarks. That's right Web Whacker 1.0. One of the main problems with WebSnake, eleport Pro, etc. is that they don't allow you to chose the links you want to add, link by link. Suppose you find a Web published paper you like. You might get options to download the paper in different formats. By going level by level, Teleport Pro, etc. will end up downloading ALL the versions. WebWhacker has always allowed this degree of user discrimination. Furthermore, WebWhacker has the best browser integration- Teleport Pro, Anawave Snake, etc. tended to open a new browser when I looked at the docu ents it was storing, never realizing that one was already open. WebWhacker can also grab a URL from the current page in the browser at the touch of a button. Nice. However, the 'Proxy' system of WebWhacker 2.0 and later means that you don't necessarily know whether the document you are accessing is on your machine or elsewhere! It's the worst! You can no longer trust what the 'location' listed above. Furthermore, all the downloaded material is put into a proprietary database format. I download web based material so that I can look at or search through documents with a variety of methods, such as browsing with Quick View Plus. The 'export' function of WW3.2 doesn t work well, and is nowhere as open as Teleport Pro's mirroring. WebWhacker 1.0 doesn't do updates (I use Smart Bookmarks for that), starts in a funny directory, etc. but solves most of these problems mentioned above. So if you can find a copy of WebWhacker 1.0, grab it."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Nov 25, 1997 (17:24)", "body": "You know the best of this breed may be the new FrontPage 98s ability to capture whole directory structures intact. Anawave is running a close second. I don't know why WebWhacker can't get things screwed on right, they blew their lead in this category. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 204, "subject": "Netscape SmartMarks", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 205, "subject": "WebForms", "response_count": 3, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jul 30, 1996 (06:25)", "body": "I believe WebForms may have a way to convert all those email messages into a Microsoft Access format. The emails it generates are pretty cryptic, and you may have to upgrade to get the Access interface. Also, make sure you \"plan ahead\" when you use WebForms!"}, {"response": 2, "author": "time", "date": "Fri, Dec 13, 1996 (12:13)", "body": "I read your good review on WebForms. I will be using a form for readers to send me their e-mail address, copyiny e-mail addresses for use in an e-mail distribution list, and then automatically replying to the sender. You mention that for replying to the sender, I may want to consider the other alterntives. What are those alternatives?"}, {"response": 3, "author": "time", "date": "Fri, Dec 13, 1996 (12:15)", "body": "I read your good review on WebForms. I will be using a form for readers to send me their e-mail address, copyiny e-mail addresses for use in an e-mail distribution list, and then automatically replying to the sender. You mention that for replying to the sender, I may want to consider the other alterntives. What are those alternatives? apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 206, "subject": "Envoy Viewer", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jul 30, 1996 (06:26)", "body": "Above review by Forrest Stroud. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 207, "subject": "NSMED", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 208, "subject": "URL Grabber", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 209, "subject": "OnLive! Traveler for Windows 95", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 21, "subject": "WPlany", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jul 29, 1996 (12:09)", "body": "This little apps should probably be in every ISP's give away applications to help new users get started. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 210, "subject": "Online News - general discussion", "response_count": 4, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "willy", "date": "Sun, Sep  1, 1996 (10:03)", "body": "This question may not be in the right group but I could not find an appropriate group. Can you tell me if there is a l;ater version of win G than 9/23/94? Thank you"}, {"response": 2, "author": "willy", "date": "Sun, Sep  1, 1996 (10:07)", "body": "This question may not be in the right group but I could not find an appropriate group. Can you tell me if there is a l;ater version of win G than 9/23/94? Thank you"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Sep  1, 1996 (10:54)", "body": "What is Win G? Is it an online news application?"}, {"response": 4, "author": "JVoss", "date": "Mon, Jan 20, 1997 (15:52)", "body": "Does anyone know of a news reader that replaces the old '.' group hierarchy naming structure with a more modern equivalenet based on a hiearchical folder within a folder interface? JVoss@belmont.kminc.com apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 211, "subject": "Weather Apps - general discussion", "response_count": 3, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "Jesus", "date": "Fri, Sep  6, 1996 (20:10)", "body": "Well, what is the weather?"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Sep  7, 1996 (08:37)", "body": "Cloudy and humid here in Austin, welcome to our apps conference."}, {"response": 3, "author": "pjhong", "date": "Fri, Dec  6, 1996 (00:27)", "body": "Here is Kumi in Korea.... It's dry and clear day in winter... apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 212, "subject": "WinWeather", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, Mar 18, 2000 (19:13)", "body": "Have this program - love it enough that I have purchased it for others as well as paying for my own. You can add your own webcam favorites to the images list. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 213, "subject": "Blue Skies", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 214, "subject": "WetSock for Windows 95", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "xanu", "date": "Fri, Aug 30, 1996 (17:53)", "body": "The file posted on the apps list says version 2 for wetsock. When you download it, it is still the 65k version 1.5b. This is the second time the list has indicated this file was upgraded, when in fact, it has not."}, {"response": 2, "author": "susan", "date": "Fri, Sep  6, 1996 (12:47)", "body": "2.0 hit a snag as soon as it was released and had to be withdrawn for re-tooling. BUT 1.5b (and 2 when it's fixed) is GREAT. It is a tiny little program which eats up almost no resource (sure wish more programs would use this model!). I love the little weather icons on my tray... they change as the weather changes and are really cute. A weather warning triggers audio (first time this happened it took me a while to find out what was making that sound - we don't get many weather warnings in Seattle). V ry cool program - very very reasonable price. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 215, "subject": "Gophers - general discussion", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jul 25, 1996 (15:41)", "body": "The utility used to browse and navigate these sites are called gophers, named after the mascot of the University of Minnesota, which created the first gopher site. The gopher clients included here are all viable candidates for gophering, but it is very important to get a gopher client with a large collection of pre-installed, bookmarked sites. The gopher with the most bookmarked sites is WS Gopher; the others don't even come close. - Forrest Stroud (continued from above). apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 216, "subject": "WS Gopher", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 217, "subject": "BC Gopher", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 218, "subject": "HGopher", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 219, "subject": "GIF Construction Set", "response_count": 5, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jul 30, 1996 (06:28)", "body": "Does anyone know how many separate gifs can be combined into an animated gif? What is the upper limit?"}, {"response": 2, "author": "jstrike", "date": "Sun, Aug 11, 1996 (10:33)", "body": "I did one a short time ago that had about 20 images. (Check it out at www.wje.com - you need a browser that can handle frames) I don't think there's any reasonable limit to the number of images, it's more a factor of how big you're willing to let the animaged image get. Mine is something like 45K."}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Aug 11, 1996 (11:29)", "body": "That's a pretty cool three dimensional revolving sign you made. What did you use to make this? What software tools? It has the appearance of being very fluid motion."}, {"response": 4, "author": "zx6rider", "date": "Mon, Oct 11, 2004 (11:37)", "body": "And almost 10 yrs later this app is still pretty dern cool! I just ordered it... guess I better learn to draw."}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Oct 12, 2004 (13:15)", "body": "Yeah, haven't really tried it. It will be interesting to hear your comments. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 22, "subject": "Communications Clients", "response_count": 27, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terryd", "date": "Sat, Oct 26, 1996 (15:50)", "body": "Hi Terry, I just wanted to reccomend that CWSA do a review of IRISphone. I don't work for them but I like the product. Check it out. T.D."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Oct 27, 1996 (13:18)", "body": "What's their website? And what do you know about it?"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terryd", "date": "Sun, Oct 27, 1996 (15:35)", "body": "www.irisphone.com I've been using the demo for a couple of weeks now and it has as good a sound quality as the other phones I've tried and a voice mail feature that is fairly dependable. U get photos. with the phone book listings, and they only want $19.95 to register it. It's pretty easy to use also."}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Oct 27, 1996 (16:55)", "body": "Thanks, I'll check out their website."}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Jan 25, 1998 (20:13)", "body": "Important news for all users of communications clients: Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 12:41:06 -0500 (EST) From: Jeff Pulver To: Free-World-Dialup Subject: [Free World Dialup]: Internet Telephony SHOULD NOT Be Regulated Sender: owner-free-world-dialup@Pulver.COM >From the January 22, 1998 issue of: The Pulver Report -------------------------------------------------------- Internet Telephony Should not be Regulated - The EU made the right Decision. The European Union recently announced that they felt that Internet Telephony should not be regulated. This is good news. However due to the continued hype and hysteria by some in the media about the potential harm to certain PTTs - Internet Telephony has become illegal in countries like India and something should be done about this. On the open Internet - the majority of Internet Telephony use remains in the hands of hobbyists. These users pose no threat to anybody and should continue to be allowed to use PC to PC telephony. If there are some people operating Telecom businesses where they are terminating with data circuits instead of voice circuits just to avoid paying the access charges in a certain country - one word of advice - make as much money as you can now - since this loophole will be closed in the near future. I first heard about India attempting to regulate the IP Voice market a few months ago when the Indian marketplace was deregulated. These days ISPs in India do not have the ability to connect PSTN/IP Gateways. Friends of mine have reported that actual PC based Internet Telephony usage in India is also illegal. This I feel is a decision that was made in part by somebody in the Indian Government who clearly did not know about all of the issues and technologies surrounding IP Voice. In 1996 when I founded the Voice on the Net Coalition we were able to find a common ground to work with both ACTA and the FCC. While the ACTA Petition has yet to be acted upon, there are now open lines of communication between all parties and I hope that with continued pressure nobody in Washington, D.C. will be making UNinformed decisions. The same can not be said about the possibilities of International Regulation of Internet Telephony. Now is the time for the VON Coalition to go Global. If there are companies which have a vested interest in this space who can make a commitment to help establish open dialogs with Government Agencies around the world please let me know. I'm willing to spend some of my time meeting with other Government Agencies - but we need to be able to scale. Now is NOT the time for the industry to sit idle - doing so will threaten the future use for the International Internet Community to use IP Voice products. Best Regards, ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Pulver Tel. 516.753.2640 Publisher Fax. 516.293.3996 The Pulver Report http://pulver.com Conference: Video on the Net '98 http://pulver.com/video98 Conference: Spring '98 Voice on the Net http://pulver.com/von98"}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Aug 21, 1998 (12:47)", "body": "Here are, in general, the best apps for communicating over the net (not just videoconferencing in some cases) in order of effectiveness and overall quality: Iphone 5.01 ftp://ftp.vocaltec.com/pub/iphone/iphone50.exe WebPhone ftp://ftp.netspeak.com/pub/wpsetup.exe VDOPhone ftp://ftp.vdo.net/vdptrial.exe NetMeeting http://mssjus3.www.conxion.com/msdownload/netmeeting/Nm21.exe OnLive! Traveler http://www.onlive.com/cgi-bin/travreg.cgi PowWow32 ftp://ftp.powwow.com/powwow36.exe PhoneFerret ftp://ferret.aitcom.net/pub/ferret/PFT111.exe Virtual Places http://download.vplaces.com/clients/VP32r21.exe Active Worlds http://aw.mpl.net/downloads/awb.exe Speak Freely http://www.fourmilab.ch/speakfree/windows/speakfb.zip WinTalk ftp://ftp.elf.com/pub/wintalk/wtalk127.zip VoxPhone ftp://papa.indstate.edu/winsock-l/Windows95/tx32v20.exe"}, {"response": 7, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, Aug 28, 1999 (15:38)", "body": "My son and I communicate with WebPhone, and I recommend it highly. It also has the feature of a notepad if you are having trouble on one end which the other end is not aware of...pop up your note pad and tell them you are having a mic problem or you cannot hear them...whatever."}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Sep  2, 1999 (10:05)", "body": "Have you tried any other of these communication apps?"}, {"response": 9, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Sep  2, 1999 (11:44)", "body": "Like, for example, NetMeeting. That's what I'm trying to get my sister to use."}, {"response": 10, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Mon, Sep  6, 1999 (21:37)", "body": "I have not simply because he had this setup in place. I am not aware of anyone using NerMeeting, butI will ask David if he know anything about ."}, {"response": 11, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Mon, Sep  6, 1999 (21:43)", "body": "...make that NetMeeting...shall ask about it."}, {"response": 12, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Tue, Sep  7, 1999 (18:31)", "body": "Asked my son David about NetMeeting. His response: \"NetMeeting works pretty well. I tried it with a couple people and it is the standard conferencing tool for IT Corp. I just happen to like Webphone better and I already paid for it. \" IT Corp is the company he works for."}, {"response": 13, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Sep  9, 1999 (01:17)", "body": "That's what I have. I've had a few good exchanges with it, but it's been a while. Too bad these programs can't talk to each other. It's a polyglot world when it comes to comm programs, isn't it?"}, {"response": 14, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Sep  9, 1999 (01:48)", "body": "Most unfortuantely, I think it is \"buy mine and talk only to me.\" Otherwise we could actually hear each other! THAT would be really cool!"}, {"response": 15, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Sep  9, 1999 (09:32)", "body": "Tres cool. What's your contact information in your communicaitons program? You know, like your icq id or whatever."}, {"response": 16, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Sep  9, 1999 (16:02)", "body": "I use Instant Messages for Non-AOL users and my WebPhone uses my email address for my contact number. I had an ICQ # but it was so poorly explained I never did use it. Will send you for information by email as there are those I do not need to have it right now..."}, {"response": 17, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Sep  9, 1999 (16:33)", "body": "Understand."}, {"response": 18, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Sep  9, 1999 (16:52)", "body": "Anyone desiring to download or information on Instant Messages for non-Aol users http://www.aim.aol.com/netscape/whatis.html"}, {"response": 19, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, Dec 18, 1999 (00:31)", "body": "Terry did I ever send you the information on ICQ you requested? I cannot remember doing so, and If I did not, I shall if you are still interested. I believe it was about my ICQ number..."}, {"response": 20, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Dec 20, 1999 (09:11)", "body": "Sure, we also have a topic somewhere for posting your icq number, maybe we should open one in inner. A topic like \"Contact information, icq number etc.\""}, {"response": 21, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Mon, Dec 20, 1999 (13:51)", "body": "That is probably a better place to reveal such information than out here on the public topics. The only one I have at present other than my own is Nan's, so I can put that there, as well."}, {"response": 22, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Mon, Dec 20, 1999 (13:55)", "body": "I also have an Instant Messaging program for which I do not wish the public to know my screen name. That would also fit into your parameters. I think that would really be a good idea to have all of the ways to communicate with each other in times of need. When You have time, of course, or I could do so...?!"}, {"response": 23, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Dec 21, 1999 (09:48)", "body": "Of course you could."}, {"response": 24, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Tue, Dec 21, 1999 (14:07)", "body": "Did *grin*"}, {"response": 25, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, Feb 13, 2000 (01:44)", "body": "I know you have been terribly busy of late, but did you ever set your sister up with a communications application? If so, which one did you choose?"}, {"response": 26, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sun, Feb 13, 2000 (09:11)", "body": "Not yet, she's got a new computer and I'd like to see her get set up with NetMeeting. ou know, sometimes, I just turn on the webcam live in my office and talk to folks that way. They get on icq and I get on the webcam with audio. I've got my notebook working as a mobile webcam now, using Roadrunner in my office."}, {"response": 27, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, Feb 13, 2000 (13:17)", "body": "You must do that when I am not around. I'd love to do that...! But, first, I'd have to learn to use my ICQ program. When you wrote this, it was 3AM here. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 220, "subject": "Graphics Workshop", "response_count": 3, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "jay", "date": "Mon, Nov 18, 1996 (19:17)", "body": "it's good"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 18, 1996 (22:01)", "body": "What do you like about it, Jason?"}, {"response": 3, "author": "overdrvss", "date": "Wed, Jul  2, 1997 (23:45)", "body": "it's a good program from what i've seen but i have problems with the dll files being on the window portion. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 221, "subject": "LView Pro", "response_count": 9, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "pandikar", "date": "Wed, Jan 21, 1998 (13:27)", "body": "Where I can get this Lview..if possible free please....TQ"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Jan 21, 1998 (21:25)", "body": "From, guess where? http://cws.internet.com our beloved leader's place with all the cool apps."}, {"response": 3, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, Aug 29, 1999 (18:30)", "body": "get the most basic program they offer. It is freeware if you are a private individual, and it works much better than the upgrade which is not free."}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Sep  2, 1999 (10:13)", "body": "I use this and it's great for resizing gifs and putting together \"slide show\" like presentations. It also has an easy to use cropping tool."}, {"response": 5, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Sep  2, 1999 (14:20)", "body": "It is also the best and easiest way to make a thumbnail sheet. and to photograph your desktop and on and on. It is my favorite photo program."}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Sep  3, 1999 (09:02)", "body": "It's a good program. I guess it's major competitors are Thumbs Plus and Paint Shop Pro. Anyone have a favorite technique for making transparent gifs? I have a license for LView Pro 2.0 but I want to start using Version 2.6. so I'm going to cough up the $20.00 and do the Secure Online Credit card ordering thing."}, {"response": 7, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, Sep  4, 1999 (01:18)", "body": "Terry, my son did that, and he ended up uninstalling it and downloading the old W3.1 program again which he still uses. Let us know what you think of it - perhaps they have improved it?!"}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Sep  9, 1999 (01:18)", "body": "Got the CD but haven't installed it yet. Man I've been busy and full of wonderment these days. So many choices, so many things to do, and such a great town to do them in."}, {"response": 9, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Sep  9, 1999 (01:25)", "body": "I'm so incredibly jealous!!! Enjoy! apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 222, "subject": "Earthtime for Windows 95", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 223, "subject": "FIGleaf Inline Plug-in for Netscape 2.0", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 224, "subject": "Formula One/NET Plug in for Netscape", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 225, "subject": "Lightning Strke plug-in for Netscape", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "fhausman", "date": "Mon, Jan 27, 1997 (08:41)", "body": "Infinop's Lightning Strike 2.5/2.6 images at all compression ratios are superior to JPEG images. A prior review (unfairly) barely mentioned LS advantages over JPEG. In informal tests compressing BMPs to GIFs, JPEGs, and Lightning Strike files and evaluating the results with a jury of visual artists: 1. At compression ratios chosen to maintain image quality, LS images are indistinguishable from GIF-encoded images. The resultant LS files are much smaller than their JPEG counterparts, and vastly smaller than their GIF counterparts. 2. At compression ratios chosen to match a JPEG file's size, the LS image quality is much higher than JPEG - detail is better, and color blotching is gone. 3. At compression ratios chosen to match a JPEG image's quality, the LS files are 3 to 8 times smaller than JPEG files. Due to reduced disk usage, shorter network transfer times, and increased available compute power, JPEG-compressed images replace non-animated GIFs on web sites worldwide; for the same reasons, wavelet-compressed images will replace JPEGs. I'm not associated with Infinop. Rating: **** Pros: Smaller files and better image quality than JPEG. Small footprint. Cons: needs fast CPU for good performance. Compression s/w price high for casual web development."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jan 27, 1997 (08:48)", "body": "Can you point us to any example web sites that are using these types of files? I assume they have Netscape and Explorer browser support? apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 226, "subject": "OPenscape for Netscape", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 227, "subject": "SLmail for Windows 95", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jul 30, 1996 (06:30)", "body": "With the upgrades promised, this should become a pretty full featured mail reader. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 228, "subject": "Personal Stock Monitor 32-bit", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 229, "subject": "Fractal Viewer plug-in", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 23, "subject": "Internet Phone", "response_count": 6, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "link", "date": "Thu, Aug 22, 1996 (17:03)", "body": "I think this program is great. Could you send me a copy right away?"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Aug 22, 1996 (18:39)", "body": "I'm not sure what you mean by send a copy, do you want to buy the boxed product or are you looking to download the current version of off the website or ftp site?"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 21, 1996 (10:48)", "body": "Here are some useful email addresses at Vocaltech: * Technical Support: support@vocaltec.com * Order Status: orders@vocaltec.com * Marketing Inquiries (North America): market@vocaltec.com * International Sales Inquiries: intl-sales@vocaltec.com * OEM Partners: oempartners@vocaltec.com * Channel Partners: channelpartners@vocaltec.com * Press and Investor Relations: pr@vocaltec.com * Developers: devpartners@vocaltec.com * Trade Shows: events@vocaltec.com"}, {"response": 4, "author": "NsAng", "date": "Mon, Nov 24, 1997 (09:14)", "body": ""}, {"response": 5, "author": "NsAng", "date": "Mon, Nov 24, 1997 (09:17)", "body": "how to download?"}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Aug 21, 1998 (14:49)", "body": "And the latest updated review: Internet Phone -- VocalTec's Internet Phone client was the first application to offer real-time voice communication over the 'net, and thanks to its continual development and impressive new features, Internet Phone remains the best client in a now over-crowded market of 'net phone products. Using advanced compression schemes, the folks at VocalTec have designed an amazing tool that allows for both audio and video high-quality transmissions, even over 14.4 and 28.8 Kbps SLIP/PPP connections. Of course, Internet Phone's audio and video quality improves relative to the speed of your connection, allowing for excellent quality in both areas for those with dedicated connections to the 'net. Internet Phone supports both half and full-dupex audio transmissions. The half-duplex transmission mode is subject to slight delays during conversations, but these tend to be minimal, especially relative to other 'net phone clients. And if you have the necessary equipment, you can use the full-duplex mode to enjoy better quality and fewer delays during your conversations. The latest release also offers direct PC-to-Phone calling capabilities which gives Internet Phone users the ability to call regular telephone numbers anywhere in the world and thereby save a bundle on long distance charges (this feature does require the use of an internet telephony service provider, or ITSP). Sound quality is extremely high considering the medium, but it's still a far cry from being as clear as a telephone conversation. Still, the quality has improved with each new release of Internet Phone and will likely continue to improve with each new release of the client. The latest major release of Internet Phone, Release 5.0, once again helps the client distance itself from the competition. Recent improvements include a native Windows 95/NT release, the ability to switch between full/half-duplex modes during a conversation, full live-motion video support, voice mail capabilities, whiteboarding and document sharing, animated assistance and an integrated support wizard, file transfer functionality, and all the technological amenities made available to users of conventional telephones (including caller ID; call waiting, muting, screening, and blocking; directory assistance; and more). Similar to speed dialing, IPhone saves up to three hundred of the most recently called people for one-click access. The new release is also compliant with ITU H.323, the new international standard for audio and video communications over the Internet. Release 5.0 makes it easier than ever to connect with other users. There's an online web directory for finding users to call as well as an integrated global directory built into the client. And perhaps best of all, there's the brand new Community Browser which features web-based chat rooms that combine the best of the web, internet chat, and internet phone capabilities. The Community Browser provides general and specialized chat rooms that work in a fashion similar to IRC channels -- only you can speak with and view other users through Internet Phone. IPhone offers codecs for transmitting and receiving video feeds from several developers, including Radius Cinepak, Crystal Net, Intel Indeo, Microsoft Video, and VocalTec Video. The demo release of Internet Phone is limited to two weeks of use (or one minute of use in the Windows 3.x version), so if you like IPhone, you better have your Visa ready. At $49, this product is well worth its weight in gold. Pros: The killer communications app of the 90s keeps getting better and better, excellent real-time audio/video Cons: Two week time limit in the demo release, the competition continues to close the gap New: Community Browser, enhanced audio/video, direct telephone calling capabilities, improved interface, more Version Reviewed: 5.01 (Build 171) Date of Review: 3/15/98 http://www.spring.net/yapp-bin/public/read/apps/23 apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 230, "subject": "AMSD Ariadna for Windows 95", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 231, "subject": "Surfbot (formerly WebWatch)", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 232, "subject": "Cooltalk", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Aug  6, 1996 (12:24)", "body": "I've got static ip or fixed ip or whatever. And I leave this workstation on 24 hours a day. Unfortunately, actually fortunately, I don't sit in front of it 24 hours a day. But I have my cooltalk answering machine on it turned on and I have several messages on it already. What's *cool* is that you can click on the message and dial the person back. Fun stuff! My ip address - if you want to ring me up on cooltalk - is 207.101.72.3 apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 233, "subject": "HTML Quick Viewer Suggestions?", "response_count": 3, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Aug  9, 1996 (22:46)", "body": "I hope I'm close to an answer, but would WebWhacker do the job or does this fit into your definition of an \"entire net package\"? This program gets an A plus for effectiveness and ease of use (in my book)."}, {"response": 2, "author": "Neptune", "date": "Sat, Aug 10, 1996 (04:33)", "body": "\"WebWhacker\"? I've seen and heard of it. I know there is a CD version...figured it had to be fairly large then. I use NetAttache and SmartMarks 2.0 for my bookmarking and automated web browsing. But neither give you a QuickView option under Win95's Explorer. Can WebWhacker do that and is it reasonable in size (file space)? I'd be happy with less than two megs taken up, elated with a meg or less."}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Aug 10, 1996 (09:53)", "body": "I'm not up on what a QuickView option is in Explorer. There is a separate item on WebWhacker in this Apps conference that you may want to check out, as well as Forrest's review on this program. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 234, "subject": "Microsoft Money for Windows 95", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "haverkar", "date": "Mon, Oct  7, 1996 (12:04)", "body": "According to Microsoft, they couldn't distribute the software with with online banking, online bill payment, etc. due to international encription distribution laws. Unfortunately, the Fed seems to be to blame for not getting the full functionality of Money 97. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 235, "subject": "ASAP WordPower", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, Mar 18, 2000 (19:18)", "body": "Not sure if this is the place to ask, but how can I download the program with these options: apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 236, "subject": "Envelop Engine", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 237, "subject": "Spell Check for Edit Boxes", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "rtbrain", "date": "Fri, Aug 30, 1996 (10:09)", "body": "I like this product a lot and use it frequently; the only issue I have with its behavior is that when checking a long document, the editing window doesn't scroll as the checker moves through the doc, so that you get presented with words flagged as possibly in error, but you can't see the context of the word or phrase in question. Getting to that spot requires you to shut down the spell checker, find the spot, and then restart from there. Otherwise, everything is pretty cool. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 238, "subject": "Spell Check", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, Mar 18, 2000 (19:17)", "body": "I have AutoSpell and when you purchase the program you can put it on wordpad, aol, eudora, and just about everything else on your PC other than browsers."}, {"response": 2, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, Mar 18, 2000 (19:41)", "body": "Pros: It was the only one I knew about and Son recommended it as the one he used. Cons: Cost= $34.95 for all apps on your pc including Eudora, aol, wordpad and Word; Vocabulary is weak so you end up adding just about everything to your custom dictionary. I am currently having problems having it find the correct dictionary to use on apps because of interface with using it on Word is so bad that it gets lost and you have to rebuild the entire custom dictionary. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 239, "subject": "WinCode", "response_count": 6, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "petebot", "date": "Sun, Aug 11, 1996 (00:29)", "body": "Wincode is okay, but unnecessary, if you have a good news reader. The news reader can decode a file as readily as an article."}, {"response": 2, "author": "drill", "date": "Sun, May  9, 1999 (00:56)", "body": "Wincode - help required I recently have obtained a copy of WINCODE 2.7.3, replacing an older version which had served its purpose well but had a few drawbacks. I am experiencing problems with 2.7.3 that I hadn't got with the old version and am not experienced enough to find a quick way around them. I have found that where I could take multipart documents from a newsgroup and encode/join(using a text editor)/decode them to produce a single file, but I can't make it work on 2.7.3. Because I now have many more options available I have probably set one incorrectly. Also the limited help that comes free does not mention the join facility, which sounds like it would be useful if I new exactly what condition the files or parts must be in to be joined etc. I assumed that the help file was going to reveal all and if Snappy still existed, I intended to purchase one! Can anyone help?! Also I would like to find a simple text editor that is better than the MS dos editor that I have been using. Any ideas?"}, {"response": 3, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Sun, May  9, 1999 (13:48)", "body": "Have you tried WinEdit yet?"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jul  1, 1999 (14:11)", "body": "What's your experience with WinEdit Alexander?"}, {"response": 5, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Thu, Jul  1, 1999 (16:55)", "body": "I once landed in a Java training, and the tutor liked it a lot. He was an old professional in the field (and I mean Old, and I mean Professional), and had several good reasons, my favorite was the shareware argument. I got it myself, and it is okay. I guess it'll do the job, but then, I'm not a programmer."}, {"response": 6, "author": "joana", "date": "Thu, Sep  2, 1999 (09:57)", "body": "I would like to know about y2k compliance of \"wincode v2.7.3 for windows\" apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 24, "subject": "WebPhone", "response_count": 20, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jul 29, 1996 (12:10)", "body": "The cellular phone graphic is impressive but daunting at times. If you're one of those cell phone users, you might feel a little more at home with it. It's a bit of curve to get up on this app, but it's well worth the investment of time. The help menus clear up the obscure codes on the cell phone keys."}, {"response": 2, "author": "Jesus", "date": "Fri, Sep  6, 1996 (20:06)", "body": "Hello"}, {"response": 3, "author": "Hemmerling", "date": "Sat, Nov 16, 1996 (02:14)", "body": "The most important thing with WEBPHONE is that a \"light / lite\" version is distributed with CREATIVE SOUNDBLASTER cards, now ! Although the version is limited, it is not limited as the demo version."}, {"response": 4, "author": "DON", "date": "Thu, Nov 28, 1996 (02:32)", "body": "My experience with Web Phone has been somewhat disappointing. Primarily due to \"lock-ups\". Other users have had similar experiences although the Netspeak folks tend to minimize this problem. They have consistantly been very nice and willing to assist, but I still have the problem. I have submitted two bug reports which they claim to be working on to no avail. Same experience as other users have reported to me. Great features and good sound quality. What more could we ask except for it to work without lock ng up. I have been told a new version is due out shortly which will correct the problem. I'm waiting. Anyone know anything about when a new version will be released?"}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 28, 1996 (13:48)", "body": "Try this email for Webphone support: mailto:support@netspeak.com"}, {"response": 6, "author": "stanley01", "date": "Sun, Dec  1, 1996 (20:29)", "body": "I'm really glad that I found this forum! I am in the process of searching for a communications program for myself (here in the U.S.) and a friend that lives in Portugal. I have Windows95 he has Windows3.X. I've been struggling with \"Net- Meeting\" by Microsoft and since he doesn't have Windows95 I need something we ~both~ can use. Right now I'm torn between Web Talk and Web Phone... I really don't think that either of our sound cards will support \"full duplex,\" can anyone give me a little bit of assistance on what THEY think would be the wise choice? Please E-mail me, and please believe me... your help will really be appreciated! Gratefully, Stanley Koehler stanley@dialnet.net"}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Dec  2, 1996 (00:14)", "body": "Have you considered either iphone or powwow? This is where I'd start out for you cross platform situation."}, {"response": 8, "author": "Preston", "date": "Fri, Dec 13, 1996 (09:33)", "body": "Has anyone tried the CURRENT version of Webphone.... 3.0 second beta? This is an improved Webphone now sporting video capabilities. Preston"}, {"response": 9, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Dec 13, 1996 (17:28)", "body": "No, how does it stack up to iphone and to NetMeeting?"}, {"response": 10, "author": "tedchong", "date": "Tue, Dec 17, 1996 (19:46)", "body": "Anyone know which internet phone package can be used on a http proxy setup (Unix host connected to the Internet, Win95 client)?"}, {"response": 11, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Dec 17, 1996 (21:47)", "body": "What have you tried?"}, {"response": 12, "author": "tedchong", "date": "Wed, Dec 18, 1996 (19:38)", "body": "I have tried WebPhone, InternetPhone 4, NetMeeting and Intel Internet Phone and all need UDP support on http-proxy. I am using Squid http-proxy at the moment as Internet gateway."}, {"response": 13, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec 18, 1996 (23:05)", "body": "If you go on WebPhaone right now you would see my video. Connect to terry@spring.com."}, {"response": 14, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, Dec 18, 1999 (00:54)", "body": "Can we still get you on WebPhone?"}, {"response": 15, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Dec 20, 1999 (09:12)", "body": "I've got it running on a computer out in Cedar Creek, you can get me on it when I'm out there."}, {"response": 16, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Mon, Dec 20, 1999 (14:00)", "body": "Using your current \"salamander\" email address (without putting in out for the world to see)?"}, {"response": 17, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Dec 21, 1999 (09:48)", "body": "Yep. I have NetMeeting on various computers also."}, {"response": 18, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Tue, Dec 21, 1999 (12:37)", "body": "Gotcha. Have to investigate NetMeeting..."}, {"response": 19, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec 22, 1999 (10:29)", "body": "http://www.microsoft.com/netmeeting Also, it's on Stroud's site http://www.stroud.com"}, {"response": 20, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Wed, Dec 22, 1999 (13:45)", "body": "Thanks, Terry! I appreciate the URLs. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 240, "subject": "Win32s OLE-Enabled", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "kakaku", "date": "Sat, Apr 24, 1999 (08:11)", "body": "I noticed there is no \"indepth\" of what the program will do for me.... I need something,for Win 3.1, to cover up DOS 6.21 and enable me to use MORE than three letter extensions. I have a need to be able to upload HTML files as \".html\" as opposed to \".htm\" for a web site (the site can't see .htm!) Of course, DOS, in Win 3.1, does not allow more extension characters than three..... help!!! My email address: bromine@pris.bc.ca apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 241, "subject": "WinG", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 242, "subject": "Galahad for BIX", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 243, "subject": "Cleanup for Windows", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 244, "subject": "TrustedLink INP", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 245, "subject": "Beyond Mail for Windows 95", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 246, "subject": "Pronto Mail", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 247, "subject": "Post Office", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "gtorger", "date": "Mon, Mar 10, 1997 (12:26)", "body": "This is the first time I've ever posted anything to this area so I am not sure anyone will see this or if I am doing this correctly. However, my question is regarding Post Office. I downloaded it and am having trouble opening it up. I see the icon on my desktop (win95) and when I click on it I get asked what program I want to open it. If I pick my Internet Explorer or my mail & news program it looks like it is throwing files from the download for about 10 seconds and then stops and I get nothing. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong so I can use Post Office. Thanks ANYONE for your help."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Mar 10, 1997 (21:41)", "body": "You probably need to reload it from the site. It's either an incomplete download or you need Winzip. What was the file size? That's the giveaway. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 248, "subject": "e-Mail Notify", "response_count": 5, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "sergio", "date": "Tue, Oct 22, 1996 (01:40)", "body": "Caution ! I have sent to the author on October 1st the money for purchase e-Mail Notify and FIVE messages, but till today (October 22th) I haven't received ANY reply ! What's happened ? Is the author in holiday ? ill ? dead ? or he doesn't like to reply ? I don't know, but I think it's better don't to send money ! If I'll have some news I'll write again."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Oct 22, 1996 (09:59)", "body": "What's his email? I'd like to invite him to join this topic."}, {"response": 3, "author": "sergio", "date": "Tue, Oct 29, 1996 (01:13)", "body": "Here is the author address: ldubost@pobox.com"}, {"response": 4, "author": "sergio", "date": "Tue, Nov  5, 1996 (01:40)", "body": "I have received today the key for the program. Thanks also to Terry and his Conference !"}, {"response": 5, "author": "maxvue", "date": "Fri, Aug 15, 1997 (21:46)", "body": "POSTED August 15/97 I sent e-mail and cash to the author of E-mail Notify on July 19/97 and still have not received the key to the program. In fact, my e-mails (3 so far) have not been opened (return notification) yet. I have tried several times to link to the author's web page from Stroud's review and there is only a blank page. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 249, "subject": "Mail-Check", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 25, "subject": "VDOPhone", "response_count": 3, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "MEgabiT", "date": "Sat, Jan  4, 1997 (10:16)", "body": "Hi I downloaded VDOPhone and tried to install it, but one of the installation utilities (called tokenutil) caused IPF in Kernel32.dll The installation completed, but the program doesn't work. When launched, it complains about missing or corrupted registry entries and shuts down. Can anyone help?"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Jan  4, 1997 (10:22)", "body": "Try to re-install it with all other programs on your desktop closed."}, {"response": 3, "author": "megabit", "date": "Fri, Jan 10, 1997 (14:53)", "body": "Nothing gives, Terry... apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 250, "subject": "Ladybird", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 251, "subject": "Gravity", "response_count": 3, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "mits", "date": "Sun, Feb  9, 1997 (12:35)", "body": "I was initially impressed by the speed of Gravity (talking about the 32 bit 1.1 beta 1version). In my opinion it's about two times speedier than Agent 1.0 (for '95). I cannot explain it except by believing the claim that it's a true 32-bit app. (God knows which apps don't use _any_ 16 bit code...) However, the program shouldn't be released at this state of beta development: I am experiencing serious crashes (don't ever think of testing any beta software without Norton Crashguard). In particular, don't try to select all articles in order to delete them or mark them as read. There must be a serious bug in the programming of the display, since the crash ts reproducable in all circumstances. However, I still refrain from using Agent because I need multiple server support. If you need details, mail me: evangelinos@physics.auth.gr"}, {"response": 2, "author": "craigh", "date": "Sat, Mar 15, 1997 (22:21)", "body": "Does anyone know if Gravity will support becoming your default Newsreader and be able to be launched from within Internet Explorer like Agent currently can be? I have to say that I have tried both Agent 0.99g and Gravity 1.1 beta 1 and I much prefer Gravity - its got speed, very good personal customisation, and the rules (once you get used to them) are just brilliant."}, {"response": 3, "author": "redman", "date": "Tue, Aug 11, 1998 (17:09)", "body": "\"The usual fare of newsreader....features are handled with ease -- send and receive mail capabilities...\" This is an incorrect statement!Gravity allows mail to be sent (usenet related only) but does NOT allow you to receive mail. Al al dudley ... jbl at dcsol dot com wash dc metro area , usa apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 252, "subject": "OnLive! Traveler for Windows 95", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 253, "subject": "Freetel", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "kappa", "date": "Thu, Aug  7, 1997 (04:05)", "body": "Yes, Freetel is a nice software but I'm having some problems with it .... Can anyone tell me whats the host server and port of Freetel ? so that I can connect .......... apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 254, "subject": "Net2Phone", "response_count": 15, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "DeannaLynnTuband0", "date": "Mon, Aug 11, 1997 (16:25)", "body": "I downloaded version 8.23 a month ago. It works pretty well except for 2 problems. The main problem is that the individual I call cannot hear me. I have turned up the microphone setting and that doesn't do it. The second problem is that when the internet is experiencing high usage, the audio comes in \"bursts\" and is hard to understand. I really like the concept of this software if I could get the first problem handled. We are temporarily living overseas and calls back to the states can get extreme y expensive. Because we call people that don't have computers, we need software like Net2Phone. Any suggestions or other software to try? Thanks. Deanna Tubandt"}, {"response": 2, "author": "ajeraisy", "date": "Sun, Feb 15, 1998 (03:36)", "body": "I downloaded ver. 8.23, but when it comes to using it i couldn't access the www.net2phone.com, I also tryed to access the web site from the browser but it was unaccessable. I send E-mail to the technical support to help me to access the web site but I didn't recive there answer yet. If anyone knows about this problem I well apreseate any kind of help. Thank you : Ajeraisy"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Feb 15, 1998 (12:22)", "body": "I was able to access the http://www.web2phone.com site just now. While visiting their website, I downloaded and filled out their \"Net2Phone\" Agent Contract and will try and help folks get connected to Net2Phone via this topic. More on this as I find out details."}, {"response": 4, "author": "ajeraisy", "date": "Mon, Feb 16, 1998 (00:33)", "body": "I'm so glad to read terry's response to my help requist, Thank you terry! I was able to connect to (www.web2phone.com), but, it was under construction The web site that i cacn't access it at all is (www.net2phone.com) by (IDT) Please if you can access that web site let me know. Thank you : ajeraisy"}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Feb 16, 1998 (01:38)", "body": "I've been able to get to this site reliably and was able to download the latest version of their software."}, {"response": 6, "author": "ajeraisy", "date": "Tue, Feb 17, 1998 (05:25)", "body": "Hi terry! Thank you so much for your kindenes to responding to my problem, the message i always get when i try to get to (www.net2phone.com) is connection timeout, can't connect to web site. Thank you very much terry yours ajeraisy"}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Feb 17, 1998 (11:33)", "body": "Are you having better luck now?"}, {"response": 8, "author": "ajeraisy", "date": "Wed, Feb 18, 1998 (10:35)", "body": "No ): Terry! I couldn't connect to (www.net2phone.com) at all. I don't know what seems to be the problem?"}, {"response": 9, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Feb 19, 1998 (00:55)", "body": "Details?"}, {"response": 10, "author": "ajeraisy", "date": "Sat, Feb 21, 1998 (02:58)", "body": "Hi terry! Every time I try to connect to (www.net2phone.com) I get the same message (ERROR CONNECTION TIMEDOUT). I don't know if there is any kind of restrictions to that web site or not? I spent more than a year of trying to access that web site with no success at all. I well be very thankfull if you can help me to access there web site, yours : ajeraisy"}, {"response": 11, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Feb 21, 1998 (19:37)", "body": "We'll see if we can get in touch with the Net2Phone folks on this one."}, {"response": 12, "author": "ajeraisy", "date": "Mon, Feb 23, 1998 (04:50)", "body": "I realy apreciate it terry, Thank you so much."}, {"response": 13, "author": "ajeraisy", "date": "Sat, Feb 28, 1998 (02:34)", "body": "Hi terry! It's me again, Sorry if i ask too much. My friend was able to connect to (www.net2phone.com) he has an account with a provider, While I'm working with in a LAN. I don't know if the problem tht I can't connect if i'm behind a firewall. Thanks again terry. : ajeraisy"}, {"response": 14, "author": "ajeraisy", "date": "Tue, Mar 17, 1998 (05:04)", "body": "is there any news terry"}, {"response": 15, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Mar 18, 1998 (10:14)", "body": "I'll do a followup! apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 255, "subject": "Internet Global Phone Project", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 256, "subject": "Koan Pro and Koan plug-in", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 257, "subject": "Statbot", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "jbrunett", "date": "Thu, Sep 26, 1996 (21:08)", "body": "Has anyone heard from the author of this fine program, or have information about ports, such as Win95 or NT? Jason apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 258, "subject": "WebTrends", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 259, "subject": "AccessWatch", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 26, "subject": "Cyberphone", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Thu, May 18, 2000 (22:13)", "body": "Oldy."}, {"response": 2, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, May 19, 2000 (21:14)", "body": "Older than webphone? Maybe you would like to weed out some of the outdated apps in this most voluminous conference... apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 260, "subject": "Internet Audit Bureau", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 261, "subject": "Web-Counter", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "short", "date": "Mon, Mar 17, 1997 (16:09)", "body": "how do I add counter to my home page apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 262, "subject": "Web Audit", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 263, "subject": "I-View", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "prs", "date": "Mon, Sep 28, 1998 (17:02)", "body": "This program isn't supported any longer (since 1996!) Please do not attempt to register for this shareware. Pierre R. Schwob PRS Corporation apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 264, "subject": "SlipKnot", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 265, "subject": "TradeWave winWeb and MacWeb", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 266, "subject": "Opera for Windows", "response_count": 3, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "martyn", "date": "Mon, Jul 14, 1997 (12:11)", "body": "Your review is now a little out of date - the current release is 2.12 (Feb 97) This release does now support frames (which can be disabled), and is also available for Windows 95. Although Opera does not yet have all the bells and whistles, it can be installed from a single floppy disk (it's self-extracting exe file is 766kb) - how many are needed for Netscape or MIE? Also, Opera is at least as fast as the main players and can run reasonably on a 386 or 486 PC - there are still quite a few users on that sort of platform. Okay, so its not purfect, but what is, and it does do most of what most people need most of the time. Please look at it again."}, {"response": 2, "author": "PhilipM", "date": "Sat, Feb 14, 1998 (09:23)", "body": "I must agree with Martyn's comments. I look at browsers the way I look at PIMs. I have tried a variety of PIMs but somecome with features that are particulary sophisticated but might be rarely used. I have settled down comfortably with a \"smaller\" PIM that has all the \"basic\" features needed but which features are used and used often. Some people want a fast, easy to configure, browser for going to a site, getting some information, or downloading some material and get out. Some of use are not really looking for a multimedia experience. I have Opera and one of the \"major\" browsers installed. Each serves its own purpose."}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct 29, 1998 (08:23)", "body": "I downloaded the beta of Opera 3.5 and it seems great. I can't remember what I didn't like about 3.0, but so far my only problem with 3.5 is that I can't set the background color, but I think that's just a bug. Definitely worth checking out if you're not totally happy with Netscape or MSIE. http://www.operasoftware.com Ya, Opera. It still fits on one floppy! I like Opera a lot and I've been using it as my main browser since late in the 3.0 beta. It's the only browser I ever paid for. I like the way you can save settings so you can open a bunch of pages at once when it starts and I use a trick I got from the Opera site where you can have different setups tied to different icons. I have one that gets 5 different weather sites with one click. The main thing it won't do is Java which is a problem since one site I go to actually does a useful thing with Java which is rare (it's a directional sea wave energy spectra which is really cool). It could be done another way, but it isn't so I need one of the big 2 browsers for that. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 267, "subject": "NetShark", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 268, "subject": "Spry Mosaic", "response_count": 4, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "oplion", "date": "Thu, Aug 15, 1996 (13:59)", "body": "Terry: I have Spry,and you have hit the nail again.I also have Netscape 2.0, I'm sure I'm not fully utilizing either.My main use derives search. If I can't access a web page on Netscape,I can usely pull it up with Spry.I think this is because so many pages have changed sites,but I am not sure.Still learining to use the BOX, J.Johnson"}, {"response": 2, "author": "butch", "date": "Thu, Aug 22, 1996 (21:51)", "body": "Hello, I am using netmanage internet chameleon and i must say that this suite offers so many nadvantages over a pure browser. now netscape is integrating mail and news but they are not on the same level as the finctions within such packages as chameleon and spry internet office and the prices are very low currently. guess it shows you cnnot believe the hype, allan"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Aug 22, 1996 (23:41)", "body": "What do they offer for telnet and ftp?"}, {"response": 4, "author": "iwilsker", "date": "Fri, Sep 20, 1996 (00:17)", "body": "While I use IE 3.0 and Netscape Gold 3.0 mostly, I use the SPRY Mosaic 2.0A when collecting URLs to include on my website. SPRY Mosaic 2.0A (and the \"real\" Mosaic) have the best way to organize URLs and export to HTML (IMHO), which is MUCH better than IE and NS 3.0. Does anyone know if the \"new\" SPRY Mosaic 2.01 offer the same method of collecting links as the older 2.0A, or does it use the Microsoft 2.0 method? Thanks! iwilsker@ih2000.net apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 269, "subject": "SuperHighway Browser", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 27, "subject": "World's Chat", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Thu, May 18, 2000 (22:13)", "body": "Is this still alive?"}, {"response": 2, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, May 19, 2000 (21:15)", "body": "Don't know, but there is chat available everywhere on the 'net these days. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 270, "subject": "Pythia", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 271, "subject": "Video On Line Browser", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 272, "subject": "EINet winWais", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 273, "subject": "WAIS for Windows", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 274, "subject": "NetAttache", "response_count": 10, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "Neptune", "date": "Wed, Aug 14, 1996 (00:21)", "body": "Folks, If your spending more than 1 hour a day on the 'net then this IS the tool that you MUST have! It will save you TIME and ENERGY! Spend Time with friends and family in the \"real\" world, while NetAttache does your 'surfing' for you!"}, {"response": 2, "author": "paulhoff", "date": "Fri, Aug 16, 1996 (10:45)", "body": "Although this tool produces nice looking reports, you don't have nearly the control over which pages get downloaded that you do with a tool like Open Market Express. Open Market lets you set detailed filters on the pages you want to download and the pages you want to skip which means you only get the ones you need."}, {"response": 3, "author": "Forrest1", "date": "Fri, Aug 16, 1996 (13:39)", "body": "I just wanted to point out a memory leak problem with the 32-bit version of NetAttache which is documented on their homepage. They recommend using the 16-bit version until it is fixed and to use the 32-bit app only as a demo."}, {"response": 4, "author": "Neptune", "date": "Fri, Aug 16, 1996 (23:06)", "body": "32 bit? Do they have a new Beta out? Their last 32 bit Netattache had a 15 Aug end of use date under its Beta program. I have not heard of a updated 32 bit version out yet."}, {"response": 5, "author": "Neptune", "date": "Sat, Aug 17, 1996 (06:41)", "body": "Ahhh... I checked back in at Netattache's (Tympani's) Website. They have indeed posted the 32 bit version of Netattache Beta 20. Posted 14 Aug. They also have a FIX for the memory leakage problem, which is available on the Microsoft Site. It is called, Kernal Update (KRNLUPD.EXE). If your using Win95 get the 32 bit version (Don't forget to uninstall the 16 bit version first if you have it on your system)."}, {"response": 6, "author": "yeti", "date": "Wed, Aug 21, 1996 (03:31)", "body": "Hi, I'm new to this discussion group. I hope I have not done anything out-of-the etiquette in entering this discussion. This question is for John: Where exactly in MS web site did you find KRNLUPD.exe? I roamed all over and could not locate the file. Your help is greatly appreciated."}, {"response": 7, "author": "Neptune", "date": "Fri, Aug 30, 1996 (01:28)", "body": "Sorry for the delay in answering, Yeti. The original link started from the Tympani Web site (NetAttache's web page) and goes to Microsoft's Home Page. At MS it is found in the \"support\" pages. If you still don't find it, let me know and I'll put the link in my next msg. Later"}, {"response": 8, "author": "michaels", "date": "Wed, Sep  4, 1996 (02:06)", "body": "I've found a problem using Netscape 3.0 Gold beta 5a (for Win 95), and NetAttache Pro 32-bit 1.0 beta 21a. Fairly often, I get an Application Error dialog with a couple of different addresses. Saying OK closes up all of NetAttache, except for the Server. I plan to try again later with Netscape 3.0 Gold beta 8, and if that doesn't work, I'll go to the 16-bit version."}, {"response": 9, "author": "akirsch", "date": "Sat, Sep 21, 1996 (14:08)", "body": "Pros: Does a great job of getting the files. Cons: 1) Stores results in a proprietary file format, instead of just placing on your hard drive the way files appear on the web. 2) Why does this thing have to connect to my ISP so I can view my brief \"off-line\"???? That's not what I call \"offline\" viewing. 3) When you view your collected pages it pollutes your results by putting it's own header \"plug\" at the top of every web page. I'll keep looking for what I want. Maybe someone will get it right!!!"}, {"response": 10, "author": "Neptune", "date": "Sat, Oct 19, 1996 (01:41)", "body": "Excuse me Allan, I just saw your post about Netattache. In reference to the three points you make against it, only the first point is right. #2, Off-line viewing is just that. Using your ISP for a psuedo-server is nothing new. Your system does not have to be \"online\" for you to view the results of using Netattache. #3, The header you mentioned only appears when you are viewing thru the psuedo-server. There is an icon to the top that allows you to go straight to the document via the Internet/Network. BTW, Have you seen any program that does a better job? apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 275, "subject": "WebAgent and SuperbookMarks", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 276, "subject": "AutoWinNet", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 277, "subject": "Internet Control Center", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 278, "subject": "WSTBar", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 279, "subject": "WS-Watch", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 28, "subject": "PowWow", "response_count": 9, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jul 29, 1996 (12:13)", "body": "Someone told me these guys live on top of a mountain and are really into the Indian metaphor. I wonder if they live in teepees? This is a neat app and challenges Virtual Places with it's website touring, I wonder if they're attracting anything like the population at Virtual Places?"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terryd", "date": "Sat, Oct 26, 1996 (15:56)", "body": "The new ver. 3.0 beta 1 is awesome. be sure to check out the text to speech feature. I've never had much luck getting the voice chat feature to work but there are lots of other apps. for that. T.D."}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Oct 27, 1996 (13:18)", "body": "What is awesome about it?"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terryd", "date": "Sun, Oct 27, 1996 (15:27)", "body": "I think what really got me going was the text to speech feature. When you're a really crappy typist like I am, It's cool to have the 'puter read the incoming text. That way I can keep looking at the keyboard. To say nothing about what that would mean to someone with a visual disability. T.D."}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Oct 27, 1996 (16:56)", "body": "That is cool, I have a lot of friends around Austin with visual disability. It's on my download list to checkout."}, {"response": 6, "author": "Godfree2", "date": "Thu, Feb  5, 1998 (11:42)", "body": "This area appears to be dead! Anyway my gripe with PW is the limited communities, lack of depth. Tribal seems to think everyone is spiritual and ignores the active groups / interests under life-stances such as: -skeptics -debunking: UFOlogy, scams, myths -Humanism -Atheism -Cult awareness -Deprogramming"}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Feb  5, 1998 (23:04)", "body": "Galen, what's the latest with PowWow? Are you using it? Is it improving?"}, {"response": 8, "author": "berkey", "date": "Sun, Jul 26, 1998 (15:51)", "body": "I would like someone to send me a comparison between PowWow and ICQ. Which is better? Aren't they basically the same? I like the drawing board in PowWow, and from what I see, ICQ does not have it. But I want to use the best, so which one? And why?"}, {"response": 9, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Jul 26, 1998 (21:58)", "body": "How do you use the drawing board? I think ICQ is just the 900 lb. gorilla of contact software, it's so widespread. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 280, "subject": "Internet Phone - Using two sound cards", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Aug 16, 1996 (18:53)", "body": "I believe Jeff Pulver has this info. Check out http://www.pulver.com for a discussion of dual sound cards / full duplex operation. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 281, "subject": "Oil Change for Windows 95", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "jdalexa", "date": "Mon, Sep 23, 1996 (14:35)", "body": "I've run into a serious problem with installing Oil Change. When I run the self-extracting executable, it starts the installation, but crashes after installing TrueSpeech. I'm running a P100 16MB and already have TrueSpeech installed. Anyone else having this problem? mailto:jdalexa@his.com apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 282, "subject": "Cool App of the Week", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 283, "subject": "HyperTerminal", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Aug 20, 1996 (18:56)", "body": "This is the Windows 95 HyperTerminal program on steroids. They have a commercial version and a beta version which is downloadable for free. The above version is the shareware, beta edition. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 284, "subject": "InContext WebAnalyzer", "response_count": 3, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "mikew", "date": "Mon, Aug 26, 1996 (09:47)", "body": "For Web Masters looking for a better and cheaper alternative to Web Analyzer, have a look at Linkbot by Tetranet Software. Linkbot can be downloaded from Tetranet's site at: http://www.tetranetsoftware.com/"}, {"response": 2, "author": "dpare", "date": "Sun, Nov  1, 1998 (23:21)", "body": "Given that this guy is the ceo of Tetranet - I believe his comments are totally unsuitable and do believe an appology- public - is do - for this cras commercialism and \" putting down your competition \" which is never done by professionals in the industry!!!"}, {"response": 3, "author": "dpare", "date": "Mon, Nov  2, 1998 (02:40)", "body": "HOWEVER, to be fair, the Linkbot product is truly excellent and very nicely priced -- an avid user.. don pare CEO Execmail apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 285, "subject": "Mail Explorer for Windows 95", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 286, "subject": "FTP2000 for Windows 95", "response_count": 6, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Aug 25, 1996 (09:44)", "body": "Cool, a new contender in the race to come up with the perfect ftp program. This sure has some impressive features but some glaring omissions. Hmm, I wonder if it has view source with notepad?"}, {"response": 2, "author": "glc", "date": "Mon, Aug 26, 1996 (04:13)", "body": "umm.....just a thought......how does an app like this rate 5 stars when the review says its expensive and is lacking a lot of things the competition has? I understand its an early beta, but lets compare apples with apples...."}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Aug 26, 1996 (07:27)", "body": "Not only does it have a souped up notepad, according to an email I just got, but it has colored html tags to go along with it. This may be an application on the move up."}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Aug 26, 1996 (08:02)", "body": "Some more details from Jim Friskel's email: \"I've just put a new version of FTP2000 up at http://www.qoi.com/qoi.cgi [ I got it from http://www.qoi.com/cgi-local/qoi.cgi ] It includes a builtin remote editor. It's a souped-up notepad which allows you to edit the file and save changes back to the FTP site without download-edit-upload. It also has a builtin HTML editor which provides syntax coloring when editing HTML files, remotely or locally.\""}, {"response": 5, "author": "buzz", "date": "Mon, Aug 26, 1996 (20:10)", "body": "In response to George Carey's post, FTP2000 was inadvertantly given a 5-star rating. The correct rating is 3 1/2 stars but watch for this to change as more features are added..."}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Aug 27, 1996 (13:59)", "body": "Whew! Forrest's rating system is still on track. I've started using FTP2000 and feel like it could use a few lessons from WS_FTP but it appears to be changing and moving on a fast track. How do you save a directory location once you've connected to a site so that this directory location comes up automatically the next time you visit that ftp site? And just what is Diva2000? I take it you have to have this for remote file editing? apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 287, "subject": "FTP Explorer for Windows 95", "response_count": 3, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "faeros", "date": "Sun, Jan 19, 1997 (19:15)", "body": "\"Still, several areas that need improvement keep FTP Explorer from taking the crown; most notably, FTP Explorer only displays the remote site's files as opposed to WS-FTP and CuteFTP's side-by-side display of both the local site and the remote site.\" I found that this particular limitation was not a limitation at all... as FTP-Explorer features drag-n-drop which can be used with Windows Explorer running. Too, it is far easier to see how large files on the remote server are with this program than with WS-FTP."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Jan 19, 1997 (19:17)", "body": "Grey, can you send a file to a website by doing a \"Save As...\" from a word processor program or html authoring program?"}, {"response": 3, "author": "devco", "date": "Wed, Feb 19, 1997 (12:54)", "body": "I am looking for an FTP program that can be automated to transfer file unattended. Can anyone help me find one. bo@boco.com apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 288, "subject": "HomeSite for Windows 95", "response_count": 17, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "chesterb", "date": "Tue, Sep  3, 1996 (15:38)", "body": "I just downloaded the program and began evaluating it, and find it difficult to make the transition from HTMLEd to HomeSite. The project management functions will be nice to use, but I first need to figure out simpler things, like where is the extended character map (if one is present), how to create a simple \"name\" target, etc. For now, HTMLEd still is powerful enough when I need it to be, and keeps all of the functions I need close at hand, in a more convenient way than HomeSite."}, {"response": 2, "author": "PBeim", "date": "Tue, Sep  3, 1996 (22:01)", "body": "I've used a great many Editors, but I have to agree with Strouds evaluation, for $25 you CANNOT beat this editor. 1.0 was great, but 2.0 is fantastic. One of the items that was overlooked in the write up was the ability to right click on an existing tag and edit it using the same dialog box used to create it."}, {"response": 3, "author": "feign", "date": "Wed, Sep  4, 1996 (23:24)", "body": "I've been a devoted Hot Dog Pro user for over a year now. Two days of trying out HomeSite 2 have made me a convert. While Hot Dog has degenerated into silliness in their 32-bit version with barking sounds and reinventing the wheel by eliminating all the familiar icons and introducing ugly, difficult to understand cartoon icons, along comes HomeSite. I think the interface is not only extremely attractive, but everything is designed with the serious web author in mind. I disagree with Stroud's assertion that start-up of the program is so slow that it's a disadvantage great enough to point out. Start-up is a few seconds slower, sure. But I find that my own work goes at least 33% faster using HomeSite rather than Hot Dog. Let me also say that though I've used Hot Dog Pro for over a year, I still find it difficult to figure out many of the features. With HomeSite I seem to have mastered it within two days. I strongly recommend HomeSite. It's fantastic!"}, {"response": 4, "author": "ComputerGenie", "date": "Sat, Sep  7, 1996 (10:39)", "body": "I've been a Hot Dog fan for about 2 years, using the Hot Dog Standard version because the 32 bit would lock up my system.. One look at Home Site and that was it.. I used to Cut and Paste between my pages.. now with Home Site I just make a custom tag of everything I used to paste (Mail, LeBanner Code, etc).. One cllick and it's all in. I like the Drag and drop for images, links.. Needless to say, Hot Dog is a thing of the past in just a few days.. Home Site makes keeping up 15 pages a breeze."}, {"response": 5, "author": "Cricket", "date": "Sat, Oct 19, 1996 (18:43)", "body": "I've used Homesite since almost the beginning. Homesite 2's project feature is a blessing for me since my web site now has over 50 pages. Homesite is IT as far as I'm concerned. As far as the 'cons' in the review are concerned, it's so easy for me to upload my pages via ftp with Norton Navigator that having it done 'automatically' seems a bit of overkill. As for how long it takes to load, yes, especially if the directory Homesite is loading is a long one, it will take a while. I've found, however, that I eep Homesite 1 around for those times I've uploaded my pages, am checking them live with a browser and find a link I missed or something. Then I quickly load Homesite 1 and make a quick change. For updating my pages (I update from 6-15 pages every 3 or 4 days) I use Homesite 2 exclusively. This program is the best I've found...and I keep looking at other editors, out of curiosity more than out of need, so I've tried a lot of what else is out there."}, {"response": 6, "author": "Cricket", "date": "Sat, Oct 19, 1996 (18:43)", "body": "I've used Homesite since almost the beginning. Homesite 2's project feature is a blessing for me since my web site now has over 50 pages. Homesite is IT as far as I'm concerned. As far as the 'cons' in the review are concerned, it's so easy for me to upload my pages via ftp with Norton Navigator that having it done 'automatically' seems a bit of overkill. As for how long it takes to load, yes, especially if the directory Homesite is loading is a long one, it will take a while. I've found, however, that I eep Homesite 1 around for those times I've uploaded my pages, am checking them live with a browser and find a link I missed or something. Then I quickly load Homesite 1 and make a quick change. For updating my pages (I update from 6-15 pages every 3 or 4 days) I use Homesite 2 exclusively. This program is the best I've found...and I keep looking at other editors, out of curiosity more than out of need, so I've tried a lot of what else is out there."}, {"response": 7, "author": "daveman", "date": "Sun, Oct 20, 1996 (11:50)", "body": "I began to use HomeSite 2.0 about a month ago. It is a fantastic program. I tried Hot Dog for Windows 95, but I couldn't stand those annoying, floating tool bars that I kept having to move out of the way every time I tried to do something. Besides, the program ran so slow on my computer that I could probably type an entire paragraph before any of it appeared on the screen. Besides, it took considerably more hard disk space than HomeSite, too. I really like the file list on the side. It makes it easy to maintain several pages. I use to use Web Media Publisher. It was okay, but it wasn't necessarily good for multiple file editing. It didn't seem to be updated very often anymore, either. I would recommend HomeSite 2.0 to anyone."}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Oct 21, 1996 (09:00)", "body": "You and Laurie (see the HotDog Pro item) could start a user group. Well, I'm a HotDog Pro user but I keep finding myself going back to a simpler way of writing html, like the Windows Notepad or pico at a unix prompt. I'll have to give Homesite a look. What's the learning curve like compared to HotDog Pro? What features does in *not* have that HotDog Pro has? Does it have a good multiple file search and replace?"}, {"response": 9, "author": "Jackson1", "date": "Sun, Nov 17, 1996 (00:02)", "body": "As someone who works day-to-day as the producer of a number of large, commercial web sites, I have tried a number of HTML editors, from Notepad to WebEdit to HotDog to Fusion (which isn't exactly your daddy's HTML editor). It amazes me when I hear criticism of programs like HomeSite because they \"take a long time to launch\", or they don't have a built-in FTP program, etc., etc. Here's my take on HomeSite. It's a damn good HTML editor, especially when you consider the $25 price tag. It does not take any longer to load than any other Windows95 apps (in fact, it's quicker than many) and I've used it more than one PC. So that criticism is unsubstantiated in my book. As for the lack of a built-in FTP app, that's no biggie. Everyone I work with uses WS FTP or (are you ready?) DOS to prop files to our servers. (Truth is, the more you become conversant in HTML, the fewer features are needed in an HTML editor. That's why Notepad is so popular as an editor.) I certainly wouldn't suggest that the capability of editing HTML online is a good thing, either. The few extra moments it takes to pull the file, make your edits and re-prop it to the server is time well spent. Nick Bradbury deserves a lot of credit for developing a great HTML editor at a ridiculously low price. (No, I don't know the guy, so this isn't a commercial.) He's constantly improving the program to make it more functional, not more carnival-like. If you're shopping for the most toolbar buttons per dollar, barking dogs and other useless appendages then you might be interested in HotDog 3.0, but I'll take a lean, fast, effective HTML editor like HomeSite any day (when I'm not using Notepad or the like)."}, {"response": 10, "author": "butley", "date": "Sun, Dec  1, 1996 (09:10)", "body": "I've been following HomeSite's development from the start, since mention of it first appeared in the comp.html newsgroup. It's a winner of an app. Though as a dedicated WebEdit user, it takes a bit of time to get used to, it's got extraordinary power. My job is the creation and maintenance of Web sites, and I have no problem recommending HomeSite to other users, including those who work for me. Since WebEdit was sold by Nesbitt to Luckman, I've lost faith that my favorite HTML editor would be around for much longer, and so have begun using HomeSite more and more. It loads _much faster_ than either WebEdit or that bowser Hot Dog Pro, which is a bloated app that I still can't take seriously."}, {"response": 11, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Dec  1, 1996 (10:52)", "body": "How does it stack up to FrontPage? I'd be real interested in hearing your comments on FrontPage."}, {"response": 12, "author": "FloB", "date": "Sun, Jan 19, 1997 (15:04)", "body": "I also work day to day producing web pages for one commercial web site. I am delighted to have found HomeSite. The \"project management\" feature is what I have needed for over a year. I attempted to get HotDog Pro 3 to work mainly because I needed that feature. Plain and simply stated...HomeSite delivers what HotDog only promises. As for comparing it to FrontPage, that is for a different audience. My experience with FrontPage has been using it to convert existing \"Word\" documents into HTML. It will convert, but it adds so much garbage that you then need a \"real\" html editor (or notepad) to rework the page before it can be published. Recently, I had to find an editor to replace HotDog, and I tried HomeSite and WebEdit. At that time I went with WebEdit, but I wish I had waited. It has been over 6 months and there have been no updates, and I agree with the message above. I don't think Luckman will keep up with either Sausage or HomeSite. I am very excited about HomeSite. This latest beta does everything I need it to do and with NO errors or crashes. And I don't find it slow to load either."}, {"response": 13, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Jan 19, 1997 (15:09)", "body": "I've been hearing lots of good things about Homesite. I'll give it a try one of these days soon."}, {"response": 14, "author": "DavidCNelson", "date": "Sat, Jan 25, 1997 (16:27)", "body": "I'm a newbie to Web authoring tools. The Hotdog site sent me packing in a hurry. Does anyone know how the 16-bit version (Is there one?) of Homesite works? I still use Windows 3.1, and I want to keep doing so, since I can't afford to replace my little 425-SX system yet."}, {"response": 15, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Jan 25, 1997 (19:33)", "body": "Have you visited their website. I don't know the answer offhand."}, {"response": 16, "author": "daveman", "date": "Sun, May  4, 1997 (13:05)", "body": "I've noticed that something was overlooked in the recent review of HomeSite. The program's speed has been increased significantly. While it's true that drag and drop is temporarily unavailable (It's supposed to be fixed in two weeks.) and that the editor only allows fixed-width fonts, it's nice to see a new version of a product actually increase it's speed. I could care less about drag and drop or proportional fonts. Furthermore, many users have noticed that the loading time has decreased with this new version. Nothing was said about it in the review. I wonder whether or not whoever wrote that review even used the new version. If you look at the comments that were made on the HomeSite Discussion Forum hosted at deerfield.net, you will find that few, if any, of them were mentioned in the review. It kind of makes you suspicious."}, {"response": 17, "author": "maryjo", "date": "Sun, Jul 27, 1997 (22:42)", "body": "Well, I am a die-hard Homesite user...and several other webpage folks at my workplace use it and love it too! The comment in the review about it loading slow is totally unfounded....especially after the last revision. Compared to the likes of Front Page, it loads just fine. I don't think you'll find any editor that can load a file and completely color-code the tags as fast as this one either...it's incredible! One thing to also note...the designer of Homesite continues to work on the program to improve it, even though it was sold to Alliare. There is a discussion board there where users can post comments/complaints/suggestion about the program and what they would like...and the amazing thing is Nick actually listens to and implements the suggestions! For instance, so many people were upset that Drag-and-Drop was removed from version 2.5, that Nick worked overtime putting that functionality back in without losin the speed increase that was the reason it was taken out in the first place. That kind of dedication to your users is hard to find. I do miss built-in-FTP, although the Web Publishing Wizard is reasonably easy to install and use, and integrates well into the program. I can't imagine anyone really liking HotDog better than Homesite...I found the icons in HotDog very hard to understand, and the program overall just too overdone...a lot of \"Aren't we cool?!\" kinds of things. Homesite is the most complete, easy-to-use and clean program for HTML I have ever seen. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 289, "subject": "Northern Exposure", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Sep  7, 1996 (08:38)", "body": "Would you like to re-ener this item in the tv conference? That would probably be a better place to get a response."}, {"response": 2, "author": "moocow2", "date": "Tue, Jul 29, 1997 (20:26)", "body": "Yeah apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 29, "subject": "TeleVox", "response_count": 3, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "jenny", "date": "Sun, Nov 24, 1996 (12:15)", "body": "where can i download the freeware for Televox from? email: jenny@kuwait.net"}, {"response": 2, "author": "javed100", "date": "Wed, Sep  9, 1998 (20:53)", "body": "please let me know how can i use freeware for televox like freetel"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Sep 10, 1998 (21:28)", "body": "Could you be more specific in your question? apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 290, "subject": "NetFerret", "response_count": 5, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "kgiii", "date": "Sun, Sep  8, 1996 (17:46)", "body": "The problem I had with News Ferret was that it does not have the capability to login to NNTP servers that require user authorization, as mine does. As a result I have to use the nothing-server provided by my ISP with News Ferret. I thought you might want to include this in your \"cons.\""}, {"response": 2, "author": "jkoerner", "date": "Sat, Nov  2, 1996 (21:23)", "body": "The URL for NewsFerret does not work."}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov  2, 1996 (22:02)", "body": "You're right, I just tried http://www.vironix.com to no avail. Maybe their server is down?"}, {"response": 4, "author": "Thrakazog", "date": "Thu, Jan 23, 1997 (18:07)", "body": "PhoneFerret looks to be the next piece of this family. It lets you search for phone numbers and addresses of people."}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jan 23, 1997 (20:29)", "body": "That would be real useful. Except that a lot of folks change their names so often by marriage, etc. http://www.four11.com and other such search engines are very useful for finding folks and email addresses. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 291, "subject": "Teleport Pro", "response_count": 7, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "stardust", "date": "Fri, Sep 20, 1996 (00:16)", "body": ""}, {"response": 2, "author": "barryblu", "date": "Wed, Oct 23, 1996 (09:00)", "body": "So far, I have found TP to be buggy when used under WinNT 3.51. Most notably, clicking on a downloaded web page always brings up a blank Netscape screen. Not very useful."}, {"response": 3, "author": "LucyJ", "date": "Tue, May 20, 1997 (12:49)", "body": "When I first used Teleport Pro, I thought it was great. After I registered, I set it to work one night and it spent 5 hours downloading a site for me (about 3000 files, 60 MB). Then I could quickly go through the pages with no waits. Wonderful. My next project was a collection of sites. It seems to be having a lot of trouble with it. I have been re-trying it several times, and it keeps locking up the computer after anywhere from 10 minutes to 2 hours. It gets successively more files/pages each time, but I want it to be able to run through the night. I am presently contacting Tennyson Maxwell to see if they have any suggestions for me. I have plenty of hard drive space and am not running any other programs concurrent with TP, but I do have only 8 B RAM. Will post back if I get anything useful from Tennyson."}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, May 20, 1997 (14:01)", "body": "Sounds like it's time to bump up your ram to 16 or 32 mbs. It pretty much takes this much in general to keep up these days. What is your processor?"}, {"response": 5, "author": "tedchong", "date": "Thu, May 22, 1997 (10:08)", "body": "It's very common these days PC comes with 32 or even 64M RAM to have a smooth trouble free Win95/NT running. Also you need a fast CPU (166 or better) since TP uses multi sessions to grab www's contents."}, {"response": 6, "author": "stevef", "date": "Thu, Nov 20, 1997 (15:02)", "body": "So has this Company gone out of business or what? They're web page remained almost static for months, and today (11/20/97) it doesn't seem to be responding at all?"}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 20, 1997 (15:23)", "body": "I guess we need to check on this. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 295, "subject": "Shareware", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 296, "subject": "Shareware", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 297, "subject": "LDS", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Oct  2, 1996 (21:32)", "body": "Latter Day Saints?"}, {"response": 2, "author": "nek", "date": "Mon, Apr 28, 1997 (12:11)", "body": "check out the official site at http://www.lds.org/ apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 298, "subject": "PhotoImpact GIF Animator", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 299, "subject": "PhotoImpact SmartSaver", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 3, "subject": "What are your favorite apps?", "response_count": 26, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jul 11, 1996 (10:09)", "body": "My current favorite app, and it changes often as does the 'net, is Virtual Places. I started Topic 10 to cover VP. With VP, you can meet and talk to other folks and interactively tour web sites either as a pilot or a passenger. And they are adding video and audio capability via VDOPhone. Cool stuff!"}, {"response": 2, "author": "KK", "date": "Sat, Jul 13, 1996 (16:49)", "body": ""}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Jul 13, 1996 (21:10)", "body": "What is the location of this Karen?"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jul 23, 1996 (09:12)", "body": "There's a really good shareware plug-in called PhotoGif that does interlacing and transparency. http://www.aris.com/boxtop/"}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Aug  8, 1996 (09:13)", "body": "Caveat: It's a Mac product."}, {"response": 6, "author": "XTreme", "date": "Mon, Aug 12, 1996 (15:29)", "body": "Just a small suggestion.... Do you people think this service would be better on an NNTP server instead of Web based?"}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Aug 13, 1996 (01:40)", "body": "This system runs on telnet at the same time it runs on the web. Is that what you mean? We use basically an extended version of the software they use on the WELL."}, {"response": 8, "author": "XTreme", "date": "Tue, Aug 13, 1996 (08:51)", "body": "WELL? What's WELL? Anyways, NNTP server = Usenet. But it doesn't have to be public like the majority. By the way, this is just a suggestion. Please, by no mean take that as a critisism. :-)"}, {"response": 9, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Aug 13, 1996 (09:05)", "body": "The WELL is one of the first online communities to get started, it's in the Bay Area and the letters stand for Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link. The Spring is a similar concept for the Austin area and Apps is only one of many conferences sponsored by NetRabbit, the Spring and other organizations. There's probably a way to link one of these topics to a newsgroup. We could try it an an experiment. But newsgroups are too clunky compared to the elegant interface that Dave Thaler has designed here. If you stick around a little while longer, you'll find that you can create your own conference list, you can 'forget' topics you aren't interested in and you can read only topics that you haven't read before every time you re-enter here. In the Yapp Conference, the topics are linked to Dave's email. It wouldn't be that much harder to link to a newsgroup. Forrest has his own set of newsgroups on our news server, we just haven't pumped them up yet. Should we pump these up?"}, {"response": 10, "author": "Neptune", "date": "Wed, Aug 14, 1996 (00:08)", "body": "Pump 'em up!"}, {"response": 11, "author": "XTreme", "date": "Wed, Aug 14, 1996 (11:13)", "body": "Oh yes, please! Pump 'em up! :-) I like Usenet because I just have to fire up Agent, let him do his work and come back later to find all the latest posts waiting for me to be read. I don't have to stay on-line. But that's okay. I'm enjoying this place so anything will suit me. :-)"}, {"response": 12, "author": "bildun1", "date": "Tue, Sep 17, 1996 (12:08)", "body": "I use a telnet program a lot to edit the html files on our web server & so far the best telnet client I have found is CRT. I have tried Yawtel but it doesn't allow me to use the whole screen. When I try to use VI I have to read past line 25 one line at a time. With Trumpet telnet it seems to work great until the display doesn't get updated. Can't do anything if I can't see what I'm doing. So far I haven't had any trouble what-so-ever with CRT."}, {"response": 13, "author": "arch1234", "date": "Wed, Dec 11, 1996 (00:21)", "body": "Well, I am moving around your site first time. Let us wait for some time to find out my favourites."}, {"response": 14, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec 11, 1996 (07:46)", "body": "I'd love to hear your choices when you try some out."}, {"response": 15, "author": "awilson", "date": "Sat, Jan 18, 1997 (03:07)", "body": "I have tried almost all the available Web browsers and have determined that Microsoft would do good by adding one single feature to it's Browser to make it King. That feature is; right click = back/forward. Period. I would be using IE right now if it wasn't for that, because of it's ability to display the text first faster. Until then, IE sucks! There seems to be nothing worse than having to go find the BACK button. It needs to be on my mouse. I use other apps for Mail and the USENET so they don't ount. If either one of those companies(Netscape/Microsoft) want me to use them for Mail or the Newsgroups then they better get faster and handle errors better. Agent and E-mail Connection fill the void. Ashley"}, {"response": 16, "author": "awilson", "date": "Sat, Jan 18, 1997 (03:15)", "body": "Agent or Free Agent needs one more thing... It need to be able to decode binary files other than UUENCODE. Why is it that netscape can decode files that Agent can't? Netscape has all this other crap to do, but still it decodes B64 and other stupid encoded types of files. Why can't they all just get along and decide which Encoding scheme to go with and make us consumers happy? I will purchase the first program to come along and decode everything and recognize multiple attachments and so on... I have any friends who surf and browse the internet. They all agree. The company that completes the task above will be king. Ashley"}, {"response": 17, "author": "awilson", "date": "Sat, Jan 18, 1997 (03:24)", "body": "E-mail. What is it and what is it good for? Again, I have tried just about every E-mail program available and I have come to the conclusion that E-Mail Connection is the best. It handles attachments just fine. It gives you an excellent address book. It is small. It adds addresses automaticly. What more can you ask for? I have tried Pegasus mail. It was good, until I tried to update to the newest version. BOOM! Wouldn't install correctly... Didn't recognize my Winsock (Trumpet Winsock). Wouldn t let me log on. E-Mail Connection has performed all tasks perfectly. I frequently x-mit mail from home to work and vice-a-versa, E-Mail Connection has recognized every attachment (I use CC:Mail at work). Stroud has unfairly given Pegasus a higher rating. Ashley"}, {"response": 18, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Jan 18, 1997 (17:30)", "body": "Have you looked at TranSoft Mail Control. Tis may be a comer!"}, {"response": 19, "author": "niemeyer", "date": "Wed, Jan 29, 1997 (20:45)", "body": "Well, my favorite 2 so far are PaintShopPro and GifConstructionSet. I teach with both of these programs (on win3.1) and my high school kids love 'em. Very interesting. We're just beginning to do gif animations, etc. I teach HTML and am getting into c++ but for graphics, I prefer to use well-made idiot-proof software that beginners can use."}, {"response": 20, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Jan 29, 1997 (23:04)", "body": "Dave, have you tried Microsoft's gif animator? It might fit in to your criteria."}, {"response": 21, "author": "daveman", "date": "Sat, Apr  5, 1997 (22:54)", "body": "My favorite application is HomeSite 2.5. It has the best interface of anything that I've ever used. Everything is located right where I can reach it. I can load files by clicking on a file list box. There is a tabbed toolbar for reaching many of the tags. I can also browse my document using Internet Explorer with the click of a tab. Instead of using that standard MDI that is a pain for me, I can use the tabs on the bottom of the screen to switch between documents. In short, I have never found an ap lication that is better designed than this one. David Ancell"}, {"response": 22, "author": "PaulLouis", "date": "Wed, Jun 18, 1997 (18:59)", "body": "The apps I use (aftrer exhaustive research) are as follows: News/Email: Agent Graphics: PSP 4.1 WWW: IE 3.02 FTP: FTP Explorer It's pretty ordinary up untill FTP Explorer. I have to say that having used WS FTP, Cute FTP and FTP Explorer there is no doubt in my mind which is best. It has the best interface, a transfer resuming function that actually works and, best of all, it's free! FTP Explorer is often seen as 2nd or 3rd best of the big FTP clients but I'm here to say it ain't so."}, {"response": 23, "author": "ginger", "date": "Sun, Jun 22, 1997 (14:53)", "body": "When is the new IE coming out?"}, {"response": 24, "author": "tedchong", "date": "Mon, Jun 23, 1997 (11:05)", "body": "New IE: check Microsoft homepage, heard IE PR 2 will be out next month. BTW Microsoft homepage has been hacked last week, those using IIS servers beware, a fix can be found at MS homepage."}, {"response": 25, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, May 13, 1998 (09:10)", "body": "I ran across this review in www.cooltool.com/todaystool.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Drip. Drip. Drip. flopflopflopflopflop... SPOOOIIIINNNGGGG! Wow... Yes, those were just a few of the noises coming outta Cool Tool World Headquarters today when we first took a gander at the new Drumbeat 2.0. Drool dripped. Tounges flopped. Eyeballs literally \"spoing-ed\" outta Andres' head. But many of us just reverently bowed our heads and whispered a stunned \"wow...\". It's amazing. We just gotta say it now, get it off our chests...this thing is REALLY FREAKIN' COOL! Yes, there, we said it. And we mean it. Really. We see lots of tools around here. Gobs. We've got stolen milk crates stacked to the ceilings stuffed with review software that's been sent to us in a desperate attempt at garnering a coveted \"Cool Tool of the Day\" award. Many don't make the cut. Some do. And a few, a wee few, a small set of shining stars stand at the tippy-top of our esteem and make us glad we're in this crazy biz. Drumbeat 2.0 is one of those tools. Why the hype? Could it possibly be as cool as we insinuate? Have we lost our ever-lovin' minds? Have they sent us a chunk o'cash in a desparate attempt to curry favor? Yes. Maybe. Definately not (though that tactic may work in some cases). Let's tell you why. First of all, the documentation. The documentation? Yup, the docs. Whoever wrote these things needs a Pulitzer (or tech writing equivalent) quick. Clear. Concise. Easy to follow. Printable in a Word document (no juggling online doc windows). It made us see the power of this thing quick...really quick...and helped us see how easy it was to use this powerhouse to do the stuff we wanted to do. A good tool let's you realize your ideas. A truly Cool Tool let's you realize your ideas and inspires you to new heights. Drumbeat did that to us today. First, we dove in to the program. Super easy to set up with a very clear and intuitive interface. Following the docs we loaded the asset files from the sample site, set up a site structure, and created the home page in about 10 minutes. Then, using the super-simple effects editor, we assigned nifty DHTML effects to the buttons we created and then flipped over to the \"Preview\" window to see 'em in action. Cool. But then we really got down to biz. Popping into Page Set mode, we opened a database, made some quick modifications to it -- adding a field for images -- and saved it. A few clicks later we took that database and dynamically generated a whole new set of pages based on the database (including using IE 4.0 DataBinding features). Poof. Database pages done. Time elapsed, 25 minutes. OK. Big deal. Other programs'll sorta do this stuff, right? Sorta is right. We've never seen such click-n-drag goodness before...not like this. But we weren't done yet. We'd generated static pages from a database...but what if we wanted live database files that could be updated, deleted, and browsed online? No problem! Flipping to page 26 in the docs, we rolled up our sleeves and dove in. First we chose the database. Then we chose the SQL fields to query. Then we setup all the ODBC stuff (from handy dandy dialog boxes). Popped in a description. Picked the fields to return. Checked the database. Set up the page structure in the DataForm Wizard. Finally, we tweaked our page designs, added some navigation features, and published our site to the Web, complete with ASP code and all the hooks to make it work. Done. Just like that. A beautiful, live-data, database driven site up online. Time elapsed, 65 minutes. Good grief! OK. OK. So it took 5 more minutes than the tutorial promised. You know we're a little slow. But it worked. It worked!. No coding. No obscure scripting commands. No complicated server stuff. No hassles. Just Web, baby...pure Web! What more can we say? You gotta check this thing out. Right now it's in sorta-beta \"preview\" release form so some of the features aren't completely implemented yet. But there's enough here to keep you goin' until they are. Dynamic HTML. Cascading Style Sheets. No-coding Interactions. Smart Pages which automatically conform to the browsers your users have. Layout Inheritance for superquick template-driven designs. WYSIWYG editing. And that's just stuff for the designers! Drumbeat also includes an integrated Asset Manager for keeping all your site pieces in one place, automatic updating of site text via RTF file import, extensibility for build-it-yourself Java, JavaScript, and Active X. The works. We may be a bit giddy today, but we really think this thing could change the way you do Web sites. Give it a whirl. And be prepared to be blown away. Home Page http://www.drumbeat.com/"}, {"response": 26, "author": "cfadm", "date": "Fri, Mar 31, 2006 (20:32)", "body": "Drumbeat, at least the name is no longer, this link just led to Adobe's site. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 30, "subject": "AlphaWorld", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 300, "subject": "WebCompass for Windows 95", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "dmiller", "date": "Mon, Oct 21, 1996 (17:14)", "body": "I'm puzzled, and maybe I'm missing something, but it appears that unlike the search engines themselves, WebCompass doesn't seem to permit entering multiple search terms with AND, or with NEAR (or equivalents) or to filter results by such criteria. All multiword searches appear to only behave as if they were written as \"word1 OR word2 OR ... wordn\", making it somewhat of a chore to filter out the results returned. For instance, in searching for references to my company name, \"Business Visions, Inc.\" I would like to be able to enter the search string surrounded by double quotes and have the actual search engines ONLY return results in which the three words were adjacent and in the indicated order. Lycos and Infoseek permit such a thing, and for engines that don't, WebCompass should filter the results for me. It *is* however an almost mitigating convenience to only have to enter the search ONCE and get results from all those search engines ... apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 301, "subject": "FreeLoader", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 302, "subject": "FTP OutBox for Windows 95", "response_count": 4, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "mannfai", "date": "Mon, Nov  4, 1996 (20:33)", "body": "I totally flattered that a discussion about my program has been started here. I've drafted out plans to improve on the program. Version 1.1 is scheduled to make its debut by the end of this month (November). Unforunately, none of what is proposed above will implemented in this release. There will be 2 new features in 1.1. It will have GeoCities (a place where they are host our web pages for free, check out http://www.geocities.com ) support. The program will automatically append the user's username and password to the end of the HTML file when FTPing their files to GeoCities. This will provide lots of convenience for GeoCities 'residents' as they do not have to manually rename their HTML files when they need to upload them. I have a page in GeoCities and I find it a hassle everytime. The 2nd feature will allow users to optionally view responses from the FTP host while the file is being uploaded. Many more features are planned for later releases. Most of what is suggested by Forrest. Others includes support for proxies, binary and ascii format, uploading of directories, etc."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov  4, 1996 (22:31)", "body": "Please post something when 1.1 comes out. I look forward to downloading this right away. I have already found FTP Outbox to be an indispensable part of my Windows 95 desktop."}, {"response": 3, "author": "mannfai", "date": "Tue, Nov 12, 1996 (21:26)", "body": "Scheduled uploading with FTP OutBox ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You can use Win95's System Agent to help u perform scheduled uploading using FTP OutBox. This is what u'll have to do... 1. Double-click on the System Agent icon to start the System Agent window. (U'll find this in the tray). 2. Select 'Schedule a New Program' in the 'Program' menu. A 'Schedule a New Program' dialog box will appear. 3. Browse and select the Outbox (all outboxes created are found in the ..\\Boxes sub-directory) into the 'Program' combobox. 4. Append the file(s) that u want to upload. Eg. c:\\FTP_Outbox\\Boxes\\MyBox.exe c:\\MyDir\\MyFile.txt The above example uploads a file called MyFile.txt using the box called MyBox. 5. U can use System Agent to select your scheduling preferences."}, {"response": 4, "author": "mannfai", "date": "Sun, Dec  1, 1996 (08:22)", "body": "Version 1.10 has already been released. Please visit http://home.pacific.net.sg/~mannfai/ to download it. New features includes: * ASCII and Binary upload modes support * Scheduled batch uploading * Built-in GeoCities logon and publishing option * Able to view response from FTP host. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 303, "subject": "HOTDOG PRO", "response_count": 3, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Oct 28, 1996 (14:49)", "body": "Can you add these comments to the Hotdog Pro item that we already have? We need to turn this item into something else to avoid duplication of topics."}, {"response": 2, "author": "steve", "date": "Mon, Oct 28, 1996 (18:42)", "body": "this is one of the best sites i have been in for a longwhile steve"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Oct 29, 1996 (04:56)", "body": "We're gonna throw this in the deep freeze, but don't dispair. This discussion is continued in topic 81 (you won't miss a beat). Please go to topic 81: http://www.spring.com/yapp-bin/restricted/read/apps/81 apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 304, "subject": "DynamIP", "response_count": 179, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct 31, 1996 (00:41)", "body": "Thanks for alerting us to this app!"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov  4, 1996 (07:29)", "body": "I looked at their web page http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~cmu/DynamIPsetup.htm#requirements and it has some very detailed technical information about how all this works. I'm very curious about how DynamIP will post your dynamic address to web pages and then automatically upload those files via FTP. I'd be interested in hearing from Forrest, from the users of this software and from the authors about this feature. What are some examples of how this is being used? I'd suggest you look at their web page before downloading this as there are quite a few caveats and requirements that you need to know about before using this app. As far as getting your time from your isp, don't . Get it from the Naval Observatory. I wouldn't trust some geek at your neighborhood isp with having the right system time. Would you? Of course, if I'm wrong and DynamIP does get your time from a more reputable source than your local isp, then I stand corrected. If you want the time, get Netdate v2.02 for Win32 by Steeve McCauley. It's free and it snatches the time from the Naval Observatory. http://www.cam.org/~oneguy for Netdate."}, {"response": 3, "author": "Yuckster", "date": "Mon, Nov  4, 1996 (15:11)", "body": "Look at http://www.missouri.edu/~c640902 for an example of what happens. It only uploads the html file that you want updated. It reads the HTML file and replaces a set of dummy variables you specify. In my case, it replaces NOT.ON.LINE.NOW (in both places) with my IP address. The last updated date is a dummy variable replaced each time DynamIP uploads. The time updater defaults to a naval server, I think."}, {"response": 4, "author": "JP60", "date": "Thu, Nov  7, 1996 (00:59)", "body": "Greetings all! I've been tinkering around with DynamIP too. I had all the bugs worked out untill I relocated the directory and somehow lost some of those *.ocx files. Oh well, I should be able to fix that up tomorrow. Terry; You ask how this is being put to use? I use it for CoolTalk so that I don't have to be logged into a server. That way it kinda limits the number of folks calling me. Too many people call and I can always change the URL and give it out to family and such. One feature that I wish it had is a feature I found in a similar program called \"OnLine\" version 1.9. It does the same basic thing as DynamIP does but has nothing near the power of DynamIP. The feature it has is a thing called \"NetNote\". I think it is like a small builtin html/www server. Someone comes to my online page, types a message into a form field, submits, and they get a new web page loaded. I get the message and a spot to reply. My reply is sent the the new web page that the sender received when he/she submited the form. Very neat! I like it so much because my daughter is sometimes very limited on what she can do on the internet by her step-father. When she is allowed to use the browser only, NetNote gives us the ability to still chat somewhat. Does anyone know if there is an app that I can set up to do the same thing with DynamIP? If I didn't make myself very clear about the NetNote, you can check it out at http://www.4dcomm.com/~rrhubott/rhusoft.html My online page is located at url http://www.gnt.net/~parsonsj/online.html Keep in mind that if I haven't fixed my DynamIP yet then you'll see the screen from OnLine v1.9. Take care all. JP"}, {"response": 5, "author": "billmeek", "date": "Thu, Nov  7, 1996 (03:28)", "body": "I thought you might be interested in this information. btw - I'm just another user of this product. ***Quote*** I'm very curious about how DynamIP will post your dynamic address to web pages and then automatically upload those files via FTP. I'd be interested in hearing from Forrest, from the users of this software and from the authors about this feature. What are some examples of how this is being used? ***End Quote*** You have a template file that DynamIP reads and replaces variables with current info such as time and IP address. It then uploads the output file to your web site. You can see an example on my personal webpage at http://edge.edge.net/~billmeek/ . Click on the link \"Is Bill Online???\". (Note - The first time you load my webpage, it might take awhile. It'll install the MS ActiveX PowerPoint viewer for 95 if not already installed) ***Quote*** As far as getting your time from your isp, don't. Get it from the Naval Observatory ***End Quote*** You specify where DynamIP is to get the correct time from in the configuration settings. The default is timeserver \"tick.usno.navy.mil\". Bill billmeek@edge.net http://edge.edge.net/~billmeek/"}, {"response": 6, "author": "Ned", "date": "Thu, Nov  7, 1996 (07:36)", "body": "I work for an Internet Service provider, and many times I will leave my computer logged in from home with both my FrontPage web server and my ftp server running. I am constantly getting and sending files from my office to my home system, and this app makes it far easier to check what my IP address is. It's not unknown for my system to drop it's connection, (we have a 1 hour no activity time-out), and when the redialer kicks in my IP address will change. This way I don't have to go fishing through our connect logs to see what my number is. I just check out my web page kept on our main server. I kave placed a link from my home page to the DynamicIP default page, (Which I have modified), and from there you can visit my little web server. If anyone has any interest, my URL is http://www.empire.net/~traveler"}, {"response": 7, "author": "N8WEI", "date": "Sat, Nov  9, 1996 (13:56)", "body": "Howdie All, I'm running DynamIP 2.4 and have had some problems with one thing. First of all, I've got two ports on this machine. One is a dial-up connection to my ISP via 28.8k USR Sportster. This port has the dynamically assigned IP Number that I want to have posted remotely. I also have a second port connected to our local LAN via 10mb Ethernet. This port has a static internal IP Number of 200.0.0.11 My WebSite & FtpServer are running on a remote Local LAN machine at 200.0.0.12 I am running WinGate on my local computer, so when users connect to my IP Address, they come in through the modem connected to my machine and get transferred over the Ethernet to my secondary \"Server Machine\". Well, I update two (2) remote web pages with DynamIP. One is at GeoCities and this one is first in succession. This is the page that users connect to from the Internet. I also update a simple .TXT file on the remote server at 200.0.0.12 on my local lan. This text file gets used to display my current IP Number to people that are viewing my WebSite. Well, if I leave DynamIP up and running for an extended period of time, I seems to revert to the IP Number of the Ethernet port on my pc. Every time this has happened, I've been away from my computer for more than an hour or so... I have no idea why this happens, but when I get home, I see the remote page at GeoCities showing my current IP Number as 200.0.0.11, which of course nobody will ever be able to get to... :) What I'm suspecting is happening, is that GeoCities is down for a few moments. At that time, DynamIP is \"autosensing\"... And from what I can tell, DynamIP gets the current IP Number by pinging the remote host, then pulling the IP Number out of the response packet from the ping. Well, when DynamIP can't get to GeoCities, it tries to ping the second remote host and promptly gets a response from my \"secondary server\" on the local LAN. This response packet comes back via the Ethernet port with the IP of 2 0.0.0.11 So, up until this time, I've left DynamIP in my DUN AutoStart (via Dunce), and let it run the first time, then I just close it down. It's still ran by Dunce if I get disconnected and it re-connects automatically. But if I'm not arround, after about 4-5 hours or so, it re-posts my IP to GeoCities as 200.0.0.11 I would realy like to just leave the thing up and running full time, but have not figured out a solution to this. If anyone else has had a similar problem, please let me know if you found a way arround it... Thanks! -Todd W. Powers N8WEI n8wei@ix.netcom.com http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Park/4761"}, {"response": 8, "author": "CyberDoc", "date": "Sat, Nov 16, 1996 (14:30)", "body": "Hey, can anybody help me with this stupid DynamIP It always gives me errors!"}, {"response": 9, "author": "CyberDoc", "date": "Sat, Nov 16, 1996 (14:36)", "body": "Ok, when I am having a problem with DynamicIP v2.6. When I run the program, and then click on the menu Setup, when I try to do any of those options, it comes up with \"Runtime error 3107, error loading from file\" Please help me out!"}, {"response": 10, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov 16, 1996 (18:25)", "body": "I emailed the nice Finnish folks at Dynamip about your queries. Hopefully, help is on the way!"}, {"response": 11, "author": "cmu", "date": "Sat, Nov 16, 1996 (19:07)", "body": "Kory Grandy's problem has been solved. Please check out the detailed information available on the DynamIP trouble-shooting page . Chris (I'm Swiss BTW; Hellu is Finnish ;-) )"}, {"response": 12, "author": "PAL", "date": "Sun, Nov 17, 1996 (13:24)", "body": "DynamIP... is FAR-OUT!! easy setup (follow instrution, let the template do the work) THANX DynamIP!!!!!! Alfredo PAL"}, {"response": 13, "author": "PAL", "date": "Sun, Nov 17, 1996 (13:30)", "body": "DynamIP... is FAR-OUT!! easy setup (follow instruction, let the template do the work) THANX DynamIP!!!!!! Alfredo PAL"}, {"response": 14, "author": "PAL", "date": "Sun, Nov 17, 1996 (13:31)", "body": "DynamIP... is FAR-OUT!! easy setup (follow instruction, let the template do the work) THANX DynamIP!!!!!! Alfredo PAL"}, {"response": 15, "author": "Harmony", "date": "Tue, Nov 19, 1996 (04:56)", "body": "Help! I attempted to install DynamIP but without success. I dl MS control tools beta2 and dl DynamIP v2.6 as well as v2.7. According to the programmer web page the controls package should come w/the *.ocx files but upon executing dynamip it kept requesting these files. I also dl several of them ftpct.ocx, richtx32.ocx, winsck.ocx, etc and used the regsvr32.exe but received an error when doing so. Can anyone help me?"}, {"response": 16, "author": "cmu", "date": "Tue, Nov 19, 1996 (19:35)", "body": "Harmony, MS ICP beta2 might have trouble installing some of the controls (*.ocx files) if they are in use. It's definitely a good idea to shut down all the other programs before you install the MS ICP. If the normal installation process is not able to register the controls and you can't register them manually either, then you might have to delete the appropriate registry entries, reboot Windows, delete the *.ocx files, and finally try to reinstall the ICP again. Problems with the ICP beta 2 are really out of my control, but most people get it to work after some trying ;-) If DynamIP reports other missing files, then you can get them from http://www.stanford.edu/~cmu/DynamIPsetup.htm#installationtrouble . Chris"}, {"response": 17, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Nov 19, 1996 (20:07)", "body": "Please explain exactly how you\"delete the appropriate registry entries\"; this may be cryptic to a new user. I'm glad you have a missing files area!"}, {"response": 18, "author": "ordred", "date": "Fri, Nov 22, 1996 (15:09)", "body": "I'm using DynamIP to update my web page and especially like the tutorial that allowed me to set up my web page to automagically allow NetMeeting calls. Using Dunce and RoboDun, my total suite of 'net clients is loaded with a single click while the interaction of DynamIP and Dunce allows me to shut everything down when I close DynamIP. This is a powerful set of utilities! Give me a call at http://www.infocom.net/~ordred"}, {"response": 19, "author": "je1077", "date": "Fri, Nov 22, 1996 (15:19)", "body": "According to the Help facility, \"As soon as you start DynamIP it figures out whether you're connected to the Internet or not.\" As soon as I start it, it just sits there with \"Disconnected\" showing in the lower left hand corner. I've double checked that the Internet Control Pack is installed, and all DynamIP files are in place. Earlier errors indicated I had to download richtx32.ocx, and then comctl32.ocx, and run regsrv32 to get them in the registry; but now DynamIP just sits there dumbly with no error in ication. Any chance the problem is that I've installed DynamIP on my D: drive, while \\windows\\system is on C:? I wouldn't expect this to be a problem, and have successfully installed quite a few apps this way. Note that I'm a career software professional who even remembers when this was the arpanet, but this one has me baffled. I'm obviously connected, else how did I post this? Has anyone else seen/solved this one?"}, {"response": 20, "author": "cmu", "date": "Fri, Nov 22, 1996 (23:21)", "body": "John, The \"Disconnected\" in the lower left corner (which is called left pane of the status bar) means only that currently none of the DynamIP services has established a connection. If you're connected then DynamIP shows your current IP address in the top left field (just to the left of the button \"Refresh IP\". For this to happen you must define at least 1 active connection handle or 1 active POP mail acccount. If you're not connected DynamIP will say so in the 2nd field from the top just below the IP field (which should say 127.0.0.1). Hope that helps, Chris"}, {"response": 21, "author": "ment", "date": "Sat, Nov 23, 1996 (00:04)", "body": "Chris, In regard to your message to Harmony about deleting registry entries. Can you suggest where to look for these entries? I'm having trouble registering the .ocx's and don't have enough knowledge to tackle the registry on my own. Please, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Chris Lawson"}, {"response": 22, "author": "cmu", "date": "Sun, Nov 24, 1996 (22:16)", "body": "Chris, Editing the registry is only for \"advanced\" users. Before you attempt playing around with the registry you should definitely make a BACKUP of your registry files (you might have to reinstall Windows if things go badly wrong!!!). You might also want to read a bit about the registry at http://www.creativelement.com/win95ann/registry.html . I might also add some more info to the DynamIP site. Chris"}, {"response": 23, "author": "csaba", "date": "Wed, Nov 27, 1996 (00:49)", "body": "Hey Chris! Nice product, but.... It goes as follows: 1. I lose connection to my ISP. 2. DynamIP turns purple, displays localhost address 127.0.0.1 3. RAS reials and gets connected. 4. DynamIP reports \"Run Time Error 1048 Address in use\" Have to click o.k. then restart it. This error just kills the automatic reconnect functionaly. Happens every time without exception. Any ideas? Platform NT4.0 WKS, everything else works fine. Csaba"}, {"response": 24, "author": "Franck", "date": "Thu, Nov 28, 1996 (11:29)", "body": "This application is probably nice but I really couldn't get around the installation : could never register these damn ocx files, and I tried a lot of things (I have been playing in computers for a long time and I know what I am doing) All that it did finally is that there is a missing dll in my system windows dir required at the startup of w95 : msvcirt.dll I cannot find it on my desktop PC, where by luck I didnt try to install this software, anyone could send it to me as an attachment ? thanx in advance molinf@crhsc.umontreal.ca"}, {"response": 25, "author": "cmu", "date": "Thu, Nov 28, 1996 (13:26)", "body": "Csaba: Error 1048 (address in use) is currently unresolved. It should affect people with multiple IP addresses on their system (e.g. static LAN plus a dynamic dial-up). Frank: It is not quite obvious from your post which part of the installation is causing problems. A precondition for running DynamIP is that you can successfully install Microsoft's ICP beta 2. There are unfortunately quite a few issues with that installation pack, and one thing you could try is to delete all registry entries refering to controls that come with the ICP (check out the DynamIP home page for more info. Once you've installed these controls there are only 4 more controls left that shouldn't be too hard to install manually. My apologies for causing grief on your side, but I doubt that installing DynamIP deleted any files on your machine. Happy Thanksgiving to all, Chris"}, {"response": 26, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 28, 1996 (14:18)", "body": "Happy Thanksgiving to you too, Chis and thanks for participating in our conference. We encourage your continued presence here."}, {"response": 27, "author": "cmu", "date": "Fri, Dec  6, 1996 (06:59)", "body": "I need help If you've read the info regarding DynamIP's future you know that I will be moving away from the MS ICP. Right now I'm looking for a file called \"WININET.BAS\" with declarations for all the functions/constants available in \"WININET.DLL\". I do have the C++ header file \"WININET.H\", but manual conversion seems painful. Please drop me a line if you have the file or know where I can get it from. Thanks in advance, Chris"}, {"response": 28, "author": "hankus", "date": "Tue, Dec 10, 1996 (21:18)", "body": "I appreciate the freeware, that you're not a professional DynamIP programmer, and that you're continuing to search for WININET.BAS, Chris, but I believe that amongst the bigger fans of your fine app, we could get a groundswell to collect the $250 to get you a nice, shiny new toolbox for xmas (or the spring, when you need it!). We're not rich, but it'd be worth it. Anyone else out there care to jump on this contingency bandwagon? -Hankus"}, {"response": 29, "author": "cmu", "date": "Wed, Dec 11, 1996 (06:06)", "body": "Thanks to all of you who e-mailed me hints/tips for WinINet.dll. I have the most important stuff converted and it's working. Still some work to do in order to get the TCP/IP stuff working. Chris PS: Hankus, money is not the issue. However, I'm strongly opposed to the strategy of giving away beta controls (MS!!!) and then gauge those who built on them (NetManage). I don't blame anybody but myself for using the controls in the first place, but I'm surely not throwing any money at either company and reward them for this approach. We've got time until March and things are moving along on my side..."}, {"response": 30, "author": "pbb", "date": "Wed, Dec 11, 1996 (08:57)", "body": "Dynamip is to me a very usefull application. One of it\ufffds attractions was its use of ICP, as i'm doing programming in VB4 + ICP myself. I quite agree with you Chris, regarding your feelings toward MS/NetManage, although I am at the moment considering paying up the 250$ ! I think this Beta looked promising.... I will be very interested in your experiences with WinINet.dll, and would appreciate any hints or links, if you find that this package covers your needs. I think your work with DynamIP, and your web support pages, is great and I look forward to following the progress. It is though, a minor concern that i haven't been able to find your site (www-leland.stanford.edu) for several days ?! Preben"}, {"response": 31, "author": "pantera", "date": "Wed, Dec 11, 1996 (14:00)", "body": "First off, a thank you to Chris for writing this fine piece of software. Now for the punch line. The one and only problem that I've got with DymanIP is the memory foot-print that it has on the system. One day I was curious as to how much memory each of the programs that I run take up. So I started up Norton System Information (from the Norton Utilities) and saw that DynamIP was the largest user of memory on my system, taking up a whopping 6+ megs of memory. Just to clarify, I love what this program does, but I was just wondering Chris, if there was any way you could trim down the amount of system resources that this \"utility\" program uses. Yes, it does a lot, but say a person (such as myself) is running their system with 32 megs of ram. DynamIP thens takes up close to 20% of the physical memory just to monitor email and update their web page with the dynamic IP address. Personally I hate on-line chat, so that's pretty useless to me, but the other stuff is really nice, especially the system tray icon. Sorry for the rant, but since I don't know what's in your head, I have no idea if you even know about this problem. I realize fully that this is a spare time project and that you receive no compensation for doing it, but if you could figure out this memory foot-print problem, then you surely will gain some amazing experience in programming in doing it. Later, Jim"}, {"response": 32, "author": "swhitney", "date": "Wed, Dec 11, 1996 (22:29)", "body": "I have installed DynamIP on my computer with no problems. My father and I are using it mainly to be able to find each other when we are both online. My father is having a strange problem where his IP number is listed for 2 min then the box below turns purple and the default IP comes up for 30 sec. After which the correct IP comes back up by itself. The problem with this is that while the box remains purple he can type in the chat box but when he tries to send it will not. After the correct IP comes back u he is then able to hit return and send the waiting text. He is not using any of the Online Offline FTP or HTTP functions and has that disabled. He only uses the Mail POP function and Chat. Any suggestions out there. We both really like the program, but would like to resolve this one problem. Thanks for and help Steven nfn00805@gator.naples.net"}, {"response": 33, "author": "SergeAhead", "date": "Thu, Dec 12, 1996 (08:20)", "body": "I would like to echo the problem that Steven Whitney expressed regarding the Rapid Onset of the Purple Plague. However, in my case our ISP has lost/misplaced/disabled FTP altogether. The DynamIP log files appear to indicate that FTP is tried and fails then a connection to my POP server occurs. Since the IP address is resolved frequently the purple box appears to be related to the check of my POP server and loss of FTP. Disabling FTP kills the Autosense process altogether. Pointing to some other FTP site fails the autosense test also. Given that not everyone has an ISP-provided FTP (ie, web page hosting elsewhere) this appears to be a problem. Is there another way to establish a user's IP address without requiring FTP via the local ISP? Well, obviously there is, but how does that affect the rest of DynamIP? Thanks for the ability to comment (and your willingness to listen) on your excellent, personal gone public, software, Chris! Billy (aka SergeAhead aka EvenKeel aka Nancy aka Billy :)"}, {"response": 34, "author": "swhitney", "date": "Thu, Dec 12, 1996 (17:45)", "body": "Billy Colemans comments about the purple box in responce to my message, reminded me that the reason my dad has the online, offline, ftp functions disabled is because his account is purely POP. He has no shell account to which he can upload any files. I do not have the problem and do have a shell account which I have set up. If I remember correctly when I first started using DynamIP I did have the problem and it cured itself when I got the FTP Online and Offline straightened out. Thanks again for any help Steven"}, {"response": 35, "author": "SteveMarshall", "date": "Sat, Dec 14, 1996 (03:10)", "body": "First off, a thank you to Chris for writing this fine piece of software. I am running DynamIP on a Windows 95 machine along with a FTP server and WinGate. I want all my local users to be able to connect to internet FTP sites through WinGate so I have set up WinGate to listen on Port 21. I have set up my FTP server to listen on Port 22. The question I have is there a way to get DynamIP to reflect this port in the FTP address that it posts to my homepage. Thanks in advance... //Steve//"}, {"response": 36, "author": "cmu", "date": "Mon, Dec 16, 1996 (19:02)", "body": "Hi all, In this message I'm gonna try to address a bunch of questions/concerns: -------pbb-------- I'm confident that I can do without paying $250 to NetManage. I've made good progress with my own controls and the basic functionality of DynamIP is working without loading any controls of the ICP. I think I'll be able to release a beta version sometime in February that will do w/out ICP alltogether... I'm not in charge of the Stanford WWW server and since they keep my pages free of charge I'm not really in a position to complain about you not being able my pages. Things are usually a bit slow early in the morning (PST) when they do their updates, but other than that I've found them to be quite reliable... ---------pantera------------ I'm aware of the memory hogging issue. Let me blame it on the ICP (things are better in my current alpha version that does w/out the ICP)... ---------swhitney---/----SergeAhead-------- DynamIP keeps a live connection to either an FTP server or a POP server. That was the only \"easy\" way to figure out whether a connection exists or not using ICP. This will (hopefully) be changed with my own controls, but for the time being you want to connect to a server that doesn't disconnect you too quickly after you established a connection (POP servers usually kick you within a few minutes, FTP servers let you hang around for quite a while). DynamIP \"turns purple\" when the connection is lost until a ew one is established. The \"Purple Plague\" (I like the name ;-) ) is on my \"to do\" list, but solving the \"ICP desease\" is currently more urgent. Thanks for your understanding. -------SteveMarshall-------- Instead of using the built-in functionality to generate a FTP (or HTTP)-link on your web page you can add the link in your template and put the IP dummy as a place holder for your IP address. E.g. you could have the following in your template (look at the source of this page to see the html code...): http://NOT.ON.LINE.NOW/AnyPage.htm When DynamIP updates the template it will also replace the string \"NOT.ON.LINE.NOW\" with your current IP address and the link will work. The FTP link works pretty much the same. Please refer to any good HTML reference for further details... All right. I wish you all Happy Holidays, Chris"}, {"response": 37, "author": "MEgabiT", "date": "Wed, Dec 18, 1996 (05:54)", "body": "I'm using dynamic option to my PPP connnection to the ISP. Each time I connect, I'm given different IP. So - after disconnecting from my ISP - I always have to start a new session of IE in order for it to be able to find addresses... Will installing DynamIP help me with this problem?"}, {"response": 38, "author": "cmu", "date": "Mon, Dec 30, 1996 (12:49)", "body": "Peter, DynamIP will NOT solve your particular problem. Chris"}, {"response": 39, "author": "jbeets", "date": "Sun, Jan  5, 1997 (14:18)", "body": "Hello I am having the same problem with the Internet Control Pack not being able to register the .ocx files. This is apparently a common problem with the Beta2 of this software because it was the first item listed in the FAQ I found for the software. Apparently the registry update information in Beta2 is for a different format version of the windows registry than some of us have. There was a .reg file update but it was for WinNT and doesn't work on my windows95. So what I am asking is for anyone who has the Beta2 installed in windows 95 to export the \"license\" part of their registry that has the info for the .ocx files in it and email to me so I can import it into mine. From what I read this should fix it.. I will post in here and let everyone know if it works or not. My email address is jbeets@intellisys.net Thanks Jon Beets jbeets@intellisys.net"}, {"response": 40, "author": "jbeets", "date": "Sun, Jan  5, 1997 (14:19)", "body": "Hello I am having the same problem with the Internet Control Pack not being able to register the .ocx files. This is apparently a common problem with the Beta2 of this software because it was the first item listed in the FAQ I found for the software. Apparently the registry update information in Beta2 is for a different format version of the windows registry than some of us have. There was a .reg file update but it was for WinNT and doesn't work on my windows95. So what I am asking is for anyone who has the Beta2 installed in windows 95 to export the \"license\" part of their registry that has the info for the .ocx files in it and email to me so I can import it into mine. From what I read this should fix it.. I will post in here and let everyone know if it works or not. My email address is jbeets@intellisys.net Thanks Jon Beets jbeets@intellisys.net"}, {"response": 41, "author": "jon", "date": "Tue, Jan  7, 1997 (05:54)", "body": "I'm using DynamIP v2.7a and I keep getting a run-time error '91' when trying to go online. It logs into my ftp server just fine, but then it comes up with the error and says \"object variable or With block variable not set,\" thus crashing the program. Can anyone help?"}, {"response": 42, "author": "jon", "date": "Tue, Jan  7, 1997 (05:55)", "body": "I'm using DynamIP v2.7a and I keep getting a run-time error '91' when trying to go online. It logs into my ftp server just fine, but then it comes up with the error and says \"object variable or With block variable not set,\" thus crashing the program. Can anyone help?"}, {"response": 43, "author": "cmu", "date": "Tue, Jan 14, 1997 (08:12)", "body": "Try the all new DynamIP v3.0 beta 1!!! - download it from http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~cmu/DynamIPdownload.htm - read setup/configuration info and get the required ActiveX controls and DLLs from http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~cmu/DynamIPsetup.htm#requirements Chris"}, {"response": 44, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Jan 15, 1997 (07:40)", "body": "Thanks Chris. Would you give us a summary of the practical applications of how folks are using this app. I'm still a bit in the fog about what it does. Some real case studies would be useful."}, {"response": 45, "author": "swhitney", "date": "Wed, Jan 15, 1997 (20:09)", "body": "I have installed v3.0 beta 1 and am having the following problems. I get a Runtime error 5 invalid procedure call or argument The program continues to load after that error but then I get another error Runtime error 430 class doesn't support OLE Automation After the 2nd error the program exits. Any suggestions out there. I tried to delete my ini file and re-enter all my setup info but the same errors occured. Thanks for any help. Steven"}, {"response": 46, "author": "Lord", "date": "Wed, Jan 15, 1997 (23:56)", "body": "I am having a bit of a problem running DynamIP I get a \"Run-time error '13': Type mismatch\""}, {"response": 47, "author": "cmu", "date": "Sun, Jan 19, 1997 (20:39)", "body": "Paul, I don't really have time to write a case study. However, I'm happy to compile one if people e-mail me their stories. Also, I wanted to thank everybody who e-mailed me bug reports for v3.0 beta 1. I just uploaded beta 2. You can get it from http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~cmu/DynamIPdownload.htm . The bad news is that my motherboard blew up today and it will take a while until I'm back up and running again (Manhattan, as it turns out, is a true wasteland if it comes to computers; it's impossible to find the right stuff...). Please don't overreact if I'm offline for a while ;-) Cheers, Chris"}, {"response": 48, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Jan 19, 1997 (20:51)", "body": "NO problem. Sorry to hear about this. Stay in touch as best as you can."}, {"response": 49, "author": "emmoskal", "date": "Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (14:10)", "body": "I love DynamIP! Well I did until v3. I got beta2 installed and everything works (with the old .ini file) until I try to see what's new and dare to click on Setup followed by ANYTHING. CRASH! Included is a note about \"appropriate licence.../Error 429\". I did EVERYTHING that the trouble-shooting page recommends. After deregistering the 5 controls the only references to the controls was one each under \"shared DLLs\". I deleted the registry keys (Windows still works! and I know how to put these keys back). I reregistered the controls. Result? Nochange! Help!"}, {"response": 50, "author": "webb", "date": "Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (19:43)", "body": "I really have gotten a lot of use out of Dynamip and enjoy using it. Unfortunatly I have exactly the same problem with v3b2 as Ed Moskal (error 429). I tried the recommended fixes with no sucess. Is it possible that the error message is correct and that I don't have an appropriate license? I don't own visual basic. Help!"}, {"response": 51, "author": "emmoskal", "date": "Wed, Jan 29, 1997 (08:46)", "body": "The only good news from the last message is that I am not alone."}, {"response": 52, "author": "lail", "date": "Wed, Jan 29, 1997 (13:26)", "body": "I'm having the same problem. I also had problems with the tcp ocx in the full zip file, but then downloaded the tcp ocx by istelf zip and noticed it had a different file date. It worked. Can't look at settings however. -- jacklail"}, {"response": 53, "author": "cmu", "date": "Fri, Jan 31, 1997 (07:33)", "body": "Try DynamIP v3.0 beta 3. It comes with an installation program that should solve most of the above mentioned problems... Chris"}, {"response": 54, "author": "emmoskal", "date": "Fri, Jan 31, 1997 (17:08)", "body": "Thank you Chris. Beta 3 seems to have solved all my problems. Now to look at the WebChat feature. Thanks again. I love this little program!"}, {"response": 55, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Jan 31, 1997 (23:54)", "body": "Can folks share some examples of how they use this program?"}, {"response": 56, "author": "renzo", "date": "Sat, Feb  1, 1997 (05:48)", "body": "After much juggling, hair pulling and finally installing the last beta... IT WORKS!!!! Thankx Cris, for putting so much effort into to this program... Now I can use it as a pager off of my web boards...Thankx again -renzo"}, {"response": 57, "author": "cmu", "date": "Sun, Feb  2, 1997 (22:45)", "body": "Get DynamIP v3.0 beta 4 (solves a whole bunch of problems). It's available here . PS: My apologies for another huge download, but there was another small problem in cmuTCP.ocx"}, {"response": 58, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Feb  3, 1997 (00:53)", "body": "Thanks Christoph. I'm still hoping we get some good examples of how users are utilizing this program. Some real world examples would be great!"}, {"response": 59, "author": "renzo", "date": "Mon, Feb  3, 1997 (03:01)", "body": "one can be found here , also if ya dig around in the site you'll find it in place on a couple of weboards..."}, {"response": 60, "author": "renzo", "date": "Mon, Feb  3, 1997 (03:05)", "body": "oops pasted in the wrong link, sorry try this one instead..."}, {"response": 61, "author": "BC", "date": "Tue, Feb  4, 1997 (03:41)", "body": "I've just gotten Ver. 3.0b4 installed. I'm pretty sure I've done it right. After startup (the app) it uploads and then quits. Any ideas? I've gone over the troble shooting tips more than once. I didn't see the solution there. I would really like to get this going so as to porvide access to my FTP and WEB server at home."}, {"response": 62, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Feb  4, 1997 (09:20)", "body": "What is the url going to be of your webserver? Or root ip? I added a dynamip address to our list of users last night. Any more dynamip of participants here? Any other folks want to be listed?"}, {"response": 63, "author": "BC", "date": "Tue, Feb  4, 1997 (23:42)", "body": "I use DynamIP to post MY WEB and FTP server IP address on to my home page at my ISP site. From there you can click on the link to my home computer. My local URL is phill2.bills.net. (1.2.3.1) This is only good for my local network, but any others can access from the internet using my dynamic address. It really does work. Check it out. I got Ver 3.0b4 to work, for the most part. It won't run with the IPchat or HTTP scan."}, {"response": 64, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Feb  5, 1997 (04:59)", "body": "I'll check out http://www.pacifier.com/~bchurch"}, {"response": 65, "author": "BC", "date": "Fri, Feb  7, 1997 (02:53)", "body": "DynamIP: 5 stars!, 5 Cows!, 2 thumbs up!"}, {"response": 66, "author": "kennethp", "date": "Fri, Feb  7, 1997 (14:33)", "body": "I've installed V3.0B5 and everything appears to work fine after moving a few of the ocx files to system directory and registering them. My question is concerning the interface. It does not match that of the one displayed on your web page. Everything to the right of the refresh IP button does not exist. The alignment of the numbers for the mail portion are half way covering the envelope button and the red or green line under each connection are probably only one pixel thick. I am not sure if this is the wa it is supposed to be or if it supposed to look like what is on your web page. By the way it was the same way when i had beta 4. Any suggestions?"}, {"response": 67, "author": "henryr", "date": "Sun, Feb  9, 1997 (21:35)", "body": "I just installed V3b6 and this is the best thing since sliced bread! I really like the WebChat. Very Cool. I agree 2 thumbs up, 5 stars, 5 cows, 5 whatever's...The best."}, {"response": 68, "author": "montgom", "date": "Tue, Feb 11, 1997 (19:58)", "body": "Using 3.0b6. Nice. How do I get it to update my webpage (or does it) excpet when I log on and log off? is it supposed to update my IP while on? Bob"}, {"response": 69, "author": "cmu", "date": "Wed, Feb 12, 1997 (15:30)", "body": "Please do not bother with old betas. Get DynamIP v3.0 beta 8 from here . This latest beta fixes lots of problems, especially under NT. Also, it would be nice if somebody with a static IP address could convince Stroud to change his mind: he still thinks that DynamIP is mainly of use to those with a dynamic IP address. Good counter-examples are WEBchat, IPchat, POP check, etc. which all work just fine on a LAN... Thanks to all of you who contributed to the 5 \"golden\" cows from TUCOWS. To those of you who can't get DynamIP to upload their web page anymore, please read the docu about the new DEL switch (you can choose between overwriting and delete/put). For some people, either setting will work - others must choose one or the other (it all depends on the FTP server you're uploading to...) Chris PS: How do people like the new DynamIP web site? Appealing, useful, garbage, or what?"}, {"response": 70, "author": "SergeAhead", "date": "Fri, Feb 14, 1997 (11:10)", "body": "Chris, Thumbs up on the \"new and improved\" web site! The kids all think that the music Dad 'listens' to is strange though ! Personally, I find it strangely appealing ... Regarding the use of DynamIP with a static IP ... My wife and I have used DynamIP from a very early edition to communicate between the office (static IP, EvenKeel) and the house (dynamip ... uh, dynamic IP :). I found that it saved a lot on the local long distance bill for those \"Hey, would you mind picking up ...\" type of calls. Besides, with homeschooling the two oldest and the three younger ones running about, sometimes she just needed some quick support. I also liked the ability to use the web page to access my home computer to retrieve files that I needed for work (or send files home for working late at night :) With the changes in the 3.0 versions, I can now take advantage of the email checking and time sync at the ofice without having yet another app to run. In fact, if I were able to track down the RT6 failure when I fail to respond to the WebChat, I would use the auto-online feature to enable chat for non-DynamIP users. Just a few comments ... I _really_ do admire your efforts at growing this program and yet still maintaining it as freeware. I have considered recommending it to my ISP as software to include in their New User Package. Billy"}, {"response": 71, "author": "Larson", "date": "Sat, Feb 15, 1997 (13:22)", "body": "DynamIP doesn't seem to obtain an IP when I go online. It creates and uploads the html file to my www site, but the IP address is blank. The DynamIP window displays nothing where there should be an IP address. To the right of that field is a bit \"D\" with green background. Selecting \"Refresh IP\" does nothing. Other applications seem to be able to get my IP address (in particular, when I go to My Computer, select the properties for my connection icon, then look at Server Type and TCP/IP settings, it sh ws my current IP address. I have a dynamic IP address (changes with every connection). When I look at the log file, there is a line that says: 2/15/97/11:39:02 AM: IP : (IP address is blank here, too). Is there a known problem in getting an IP address with some servers? I have a LARGE ISP (University of Minnesota). Would this make a difference? I once copied a program from a book which was supposed to obtain my IP address, but it had the same problem -- couldn't get it. And yet, I know there are applications which can get it just fine. So, could there be some little-known manner in which an IP address might be obtained? Thanks"}, {"response": 72, "author": "cmu", "date": "Tue, Feb 18, 1997 (13:41)", "body": "First a \"thank you\" to Billy. I'm glad you think DynamIP's getting better. Greg has hit on an issue that needs to be resolved on my side: currently, DynamIP can only determine your IP address if you establish a PPP connection. There's nothing broken, it's been designed like this. However, I do understand that some people use other protocols, and I'm working on a solution. Chris"}, {"response": 73, "author": "BC", "date": "Fri, Feb 21, 1997 (03:25)", "body": "FTP ERROR Template not found. What is this? Template names and locations are as they should be. Any hints?"}, {"response": 74, "author": "emmoskal", "date": "Fri, Feb 21, 1997 (15:04)", "body": "After being away for a bit, I've discovered that beta 3 has gone to beta 8. Wow, better than ever! For those who want to know how I use this: My family are all over the place but most have access to the Web. Web chat makes a nice, simple way to say hello. I've retired as a professor but still teach occasionally. Since I'm not regularly in an office but students may still want to discuss something, they can simply see if I'm on line and then immediately get in touch using my IP address and some kind of communication software ( such as DynamIP). This is getting too long! Thanks again Chris."}, {"response": 75, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Feb 23, 1997 (00:57)", "body": "What's your url there?"}, {"response": 76, "author": "cmu", "date": "Thu, Feb 27, 1997 (06:49)", "body": "Great that even a \"Prof\" is using DynamIP . Thx for the kudos! Anyway, just wanted to let everybody know that DynamIP v3.0 beta 9 is out. This latest beta should fix most of the problems that were reported with beta 8. Furthermore, I enabled the last batch of options I've been working on: - DialOnDemand for user selectable dial-up connection - Hide the annoying \"Connected to\" window - template for WEBchat (for those who don't like yellow...) - enhanced algorithm to determine IP address (should now also work with a bunch of newer devices like cable modem, etc.) - lots of little things If you have at least beta 3 installed you can download the upgrade to beta 9 which is only 135KB. Please follow the installation instructions available at http://DynamIP.home.ml.org/DynamIPinstallation.htm Enjoy, Chris"}, {"response": 77, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Mar  1, 1997 (14:46)", "body": "Well, I just downloaded the newest version and I'll be looking at this from the user's viewpoint. The three part install went fairly well. What solutions are folks using to stay connected. What is the reocmmended solution Christoph for staying connected. I've been using RAS+95 which is supposed to run on NT. Are you providing NT and RAS+95 support? Are these compatible apps or do you plan to provide this functionality within Dynamip?"}, {"response": 78, "author": "MaxHS", "date": "Mon, Mar  3, 1997 (00:16)", "body": "First, thanks for writing DynamIP. On top of that, making it FREEWARE! I am using v3.0b9. Install without a hitch. However, istead of FTP to my webpage, my web page is mapped network drive (F:). I setup the \"Local File\" to to be the mapped drive directory and left the FTP remote host as default. This way it will write the html file to the web server. However, now I always get an FTP Error when it tries to \"upload\" the html file. Although this is only a cosmetic problem, I still get satisfactory results, is there a way around this? -- Max S"}, {"response": 79, "author": "cmu", "date": "Thu, Mar  6, 1997 (07:36)", "body": "DynamIP v3.0 beta10 is out. Get it from here . This is the first beta that reveals the new user interface. Some other new features are: - enhanced DialOnDemand (should answer Paul's question) - Toolbar - built in support for (re)dial - several bug fixes Chris PS: The final release of DynamIP will allow you to update the local file only (which should solve Max S's problem)."}, {"response": 80, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Mar  6, 1997 (22:21)", "body": "How about NT 4.0 compatibility?"}, {"response": 81, "author": "cmu", "date": "Sat, Mar 15, 1997 (04:20)", "body": "I'm on NT4 ;-) (the problem is NT3.51 where some functionality is not available [e.g. Tray]) Chris"}, {"response": 82, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Mar 16, 1997 (21:50)", "body": "Good to hear it. Now, since my RAS+95 expired to figure out how to get it to dial up and keep me connected to my isp. Any shortcut tips on how to do this."}, {"response": 83, "author": "kwiebe", "date": "Tue, Mar 25, 1997 (00:51)", "body": "Hello, Just a note to say that all appears to be well in the refresh department now. I didn't really change anything - it just started working! What I think happened is, you know how when you're testing something and you have run through umpteen different configurations, all to no avail, then you reboot a few times and come back to it fresh, and it works? I think that's what happened. If I had started out with the configuration settings I finally settled on, it probably would have worked all along. I just had several stops along the way before I finally got there. Thanks for a fine program, and thanks for your attentiveness in trying to solve my phantom problem! Cheers! Ken Wiebe"}, {"response": 84, "author": "kwiebe", "date": "Tue, Mar 25, 1997 (00:53)", "body": "Well, I just posted a followup (#83) to my post about refresh not working, but I don't see my original post. #83 doesn't make much sense without the original post, FYI. Anyway, Cheers!"}, {"response": 85, "author": "cmu", "date": "Sat, Mar 29, 1997 (07:00)", "body": "Hi all, I've had some connectivity problems myself. If you sent me e-mail between 25-March-97 and 29-March-97 and haven't received a reply, please resend your message to cmu@bigfoot.com . DynamIP v3.0 beta 11 is out. Please READ the Readme.txt file BEFORE you install it (it will upgrade lots of controls on your computer...). You can get it from http://DynamIP.home.ml.org/DynamIPdownload.htm . The DynamIP home page is at http://DynamIP.home.ml.org/ . As I'll be moving back to California between 2 April and 7 April I won't reading my mail during that time (and therefore you won't get any replies either). Happy Easter to everybody, Chris"}, {"response": 86, "author": "pwmeek", "date": "Sun, Apr  6, 1997 (19:43)", "body": "On Pent Pro 200 dual proc; winnt4.0ws 1381 sp2, v30b11 seems to be working. I did the install to a machine that had never had DynamIP installed. I copied all local files (that I had) which were in the file \"Setup.lst\" to a new folder on another drive. It turned out that everything still works, so the effort has to be considered as cost of insurance. If I understood the Spring/yapp instructions correctly, this link should work for anyone who would like to see what it looks like or to test their IPchat feature. Check to see if I'm on-line Thanks, Chris, for a useful app. --Pete"}, {"response": 87, "author": "hphuong", "date": "Tue, Apr  8, 1997 (18:07)", "body": "Yet another use for DynamIP --------------------------- Besides using DynamIP v3.0b11 to post my IP address to a WebPage for Internet Phone purposes, I am also using it in conjunction with Craig Lauer's NotifyMail program ( http://www.notifymail.com ) to get instantaneous e-mail notifications. This eliminates the need for programs like Eudora, Pegasus, MS Exchange, etc. to constantly poll the POP3 servers for new mail. One of the requirements of NotifyMail was a \"full (shell) account on a UNIX or VMS machine running a POP server AND a static IP address.\" Well with DynamIP, you no longer need to have a static IP address because you can now just post your address when you first connect and remove your address when you disconnect from DUN/RAS. After a few hours of tinkering, everything works flawlessly now! You can e-mail me if you have any problems setting this up. Suggestions ----------- Chris, the only complaint that I have with the product is its memory usage (Norton SI reports 6.23MB). Here are some suggestions that I have thought up that might help improve the product: - since people are not always configuring the application when they run it, you can probably improve on it's memory usage by breaking DynamIP into two applications: DynamIP and a Setup program. - DynamIP would be the exact same as it is now but the Read Configuration & Save Configuration menu items and the Setup menu would be removed. - the Setup program would then consist of a tabbed Dialog-based application that reads/writes the setup information to/from the INI file. - by doing this, you can eliminate the need for the Tab control (and depending on where you used it, the Rich Text Edit control too) to be loaded into memory. - this alone should result in a savings of about 350 - 400K. - the number of elements on your tab control may also be wasting a lot of memory. If you have separate labels, text edit boxes, check boxes, combo boxes, etc. for each tab then this amounts to a huge waste of memory and resources. You can change this by just having say 20 controls that you would reposition into their appropriate locations when a tab is selected. Of course this is quite difficult to implement and it's complexity might not be worth the hassle. (Please ignore this comment if you are alrea y doing this.) OR as an alternative, might I suggest changing the interface into one that is similar to that of Explorer's or RegEdit's (i.e. a Tree Control and a List View control with a splitter bar in the middle). So, as the user adds more Launch definitions, Uploader information, etc... you can just add more tree branches to your display. Chris, if you have any questions/comments or need clarifications on any of these suggestions, please feel free to contact me at: yu108694@yorku.ca Keep up the good work! -- Hiep"}, {"response": 88, "author": "cmu", "date": "Mon, Apr 14, 1997 (10:59)", "body": "A quick note to those of you who've been playing around with IE4. When you install IE4 a new version of \"wininet.dll\" gets installed (v4.71.0544.1). This new version changes the behavior of the FTP engine somewhat (after login a SYST command is issued). If your FTP server doesn't support the SYST command then you might not be able to upload any files anymore because the FTP control aborts if the server doesn't support SYST. DynamIP uses high level commands, i.e. there's no way for me to get around this pr blem (I simply hope that the MS folks are finally getting their act together). Other than that, DynamIP should work fine w/ IE4 (at least it does on my machine). Chris"}, {"response": 89, "author": "cmu", "date": "Sat, Apr 19, 1997 (01:04)", "body": "DynamIP v3.0 RC1 released. Get DynamIPv3RC1.zip now! Chris"}, {"response": 90, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Apr 19, 1997 (01:58)", "body": "What's hot in the new release, Christoph?"}, {"response": 91, "author": "cmu", "date": "Sat, Apr 19, 1997 (10:30)", "body": "..hmmm... fewer bugs? RC1 features an improved dialer/launcher (you can now dial directly from the DynamIP menu up to 3 of your dial-up connections), KeepAlive (generates a bit of traffic every 2 minutes so that your ISP doesn't disconnect you). Chris"}, {"response": 92, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Apr 19, 1997 (21:01)", "body": "What if your isp asks that you disconnect every 4 hours or some interval and then reconnect. Do you handle this?"}, {"response": 93, "author": "cmu", "date": "Sun, Apr 20, 1997 (13:48)", "body": "DynamIP can handle this with the \"Dial with Timer\" functionality. You can specify the times (time intervals) you want DynamIP to establish a connection. It's all explained here . My advice would be, however, to sign up with a real ISP and ditch that \"LEGO\" company... Chris"}, {"response": 94, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Apr 20, 1997 (14:11)", "body": "How does DYNAMIP handle dedicated connections. What advice do you have for folks wanting to connect a subnet of NT and Windows 95 machines to an isp and have each machine maintain an ip address with webservers with virtual webservers?"}, {"response": 95, "author": "lazarus", "date": "Tue, Apr 22, 1997 (03:56)", "body": "I have only one problem with dynamIP. when i try and change the background or forground colors it allways resets to the default???????? I haven't yet tinkered with the reg file cause that too much trouble fer such alittle thing. any suggestions??"}, {"response": 96, "author": "Baldguy", "date": "Tue, Apr 22, 1997 (17:49)", "body": "I setup a *.lnk file to start Netscape Mail. That Link file contains the command line: C:\\blah blah blah\\netscape.exe -mail In DynamIP (RC1) Mail setup, when using the Browse button to point to this link file, it reads the above command line contained in the link file directly into the field once the browse window closes. (It's not supposed to do this, is it?) But it doesn't pull in the command line parameter (i.e, -mail ). If I ignore the Browse button and manually type in the path to the *.lnk file it stays. C:\\blah blah blah\\NSMail.lnk Works fine now. Is the Browse thing a bug or a feature? ;-) Regards, Marty"}, {"response": 97, "author": "Baldguy", "date": "Tue, Apr 22, 1997 (17:55)", "body": "I setup a *.lnk file to start Netscape Mail. That Link file contains the command line: C:\\blah blah blah\\netscape.exe -mail In DynamIP (RC1) Mail setup, when using the Browse button to point to this link file, it reads the above command line contained in the link file directly into the field once the browse window closes. (It's not supposed to do this, is it?) But it doesn't pull in the command line parameter (i.e, -mail ). If I ignore the Browse button and manually type in the path to the *.lnk file it stays. C:\\blah blah blah\\NSMail.lnk Works fine now. Is the Browse thing a bug or a feature? ;-) Regards, Marty"}, {"response": 98, "author": "Baldguy", "date": "Tue, Apr 22, 1997 (18:01)", "body": "I apoligize for the double post. Don't know how I did that."}, {"response": 99, "author": "Baldguy", "date": "Wed, Apr 23, 1997 (11:20)", "body": "Another thing I've been meaning to address... Terminal Envelope Roll. When the scheduled POP mail checker kicks in... it doesn't always connect and the envelope icon rolls for what seems like forever. If I force DynamIP to scan for mail while it's in this state, it's usually successful. Sometimes it takes 2 or 3 clicks to get it to respond. Any ideas? Regards, Marty"}, {"response": 100, "author": "cmu", "date": "Thu, Apr 24, 1997 (12:27)", "body": "some comments to messages above #94 Dedicated connections (w/ static IP addresses) are best handled by entering that information manually in Setup|DUN/RAS: - select Static IP address - enter the static IP address Note, however, that DynamIP currently doesn't support proxy servers and the like... #95 I was under the impression that this bug was fixed in RC1. If you have RC1 installed and still can't permanently change fore/back-ground colors, please drop me a line at cmu@bigfoot.com and don't forget to attach all your relevant system info (e.g. what version of Windows (95, 95SR2, NT4, language, etc.). #96 It seems that the file dialog automatically resolves shortcuts (at least it's not something I tried to program; it just happens and I haven't figured out how to prevent it...). Any hints welcome... #99 I'm looking into this right now. I don't think it causes any harm, but something is definitely broken. Thx for the info. Chris"}, {"response": 101, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Apr 24, 1997 (17:01)", "body": "What's next Chris?"}, {"response": 102, "author": "Baldguy", "date": "Thu, Apr 24, 1997 (17:44)", "body": "Chris is going to get real sick of me...sorry...but I fell in love with this program. :-) Every now and then...when I exit DynamIP...everything that was launched closes, and DynamIP exits normally...at least it appears to. The hard drive will churn for a bit and then DynamIP magically starts up again, connects, and launches everything again. This still happens with RC1. I don't know if it's something I'm inadvertantly doing or what. Regards, Marty"}, {"response": 103, "author": "cmu", "date": "Sat, Apr 26, 1997 (14:48)", "body": "Marty, This has happened to me too (but only once, so far). Annoying (even though it doesn't cause any harm) - I'll look into it. For the time being, you just have to shut it down again. Chris"}, {"response": 104, "author": "cmu", "date": "Tue, May  6, 1997 (01:57)", "body": "DynamIP v3.0 RC2 released! Get it from the DynamIP home page . Chris"}, {"response": 105, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, May  6, 1997 (10:14)", "body": "Great. What new features are planned for future releases?"}, {"response": 106, "author": "Woodchuc", "date": "Mon, May 19, 1997 (04:00)", "body": "Many thanks for a great program. However, I seem to have a little problem. When I use auto offline and 'file' 'disconnect' dynamip goes offline and locks up, not the whole computer, just dynamip. If i exit, it logs off and exits correctly. Do you have a fix for this problem, or will I need to not use auto offline and od it manually if I want to keep Dynam open. By the way, it works fine in manual. For reference, I am using win95'B' (sr 2) on a pentium machine. Your help is appreciated. Thanks agai , Woody"}, {"response": 107, "author": "cmu", "date": "Tue, May 20, 1997 (19:26)", "body": "DynamIP v3.0 Final Release is available from http://DynamIP.home.ml.org/ . DynamIP v3.0 now supports DIPS, a new and exciting service that allos people to publish web content with a fixed URL from a dynamic IP address. This is great if you're running a web server on your home machine. You can check out all the details about DIPS at http://DIPS.home.ml.org/ . Please drop us a line at DIPS@bigfoot.com and tell us how you like this new service. Chris"}, {"response": 108, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, May 20, 1997 (21:35)", "body": "Cool!"}, {"response": 109, "author": "mep3", "date": "Thu, May 22, 1997 (15:46)", "body": "I've just installed the new v3.0 release on an Win95 machine (95a) with the MS isdn update 1.1 installed. It seems that the dynamIP installation installed a version of rasapi32.dll over the version that the isdn update loaded (4.00.1150). With this version installed, any attemps to create a dial-up connection would fail with a user/password error (but I could log in using a post-dial-up terminal screen), I was getting random but frequent explorer faults in kernel32 and online file up/down load ftp fail d frequently. Putting the (older?) isdn 1.1 version of rasapi32.dll back seemed to fix these problems. Where did this new version (4.10.1434) of rasapi32.dll come from and why would the newer version cause these problems? Any ideas?"}, {"response": 110, "author": "rage", "date": "Fri, May 23, 1997 (01:49)", "body": "I have just installed DynamIP v.3 and am getting an error '7': Out of Memory when trying to run it. All versions of installed files are the latest, I have installed the file from a clean install of Win95 rev.B. I have 48 megs total RAM and have 593,737 bytes free in lower memory. Pulling all extraneous Windows apps out and leaving only Explorer running still gives the same error. I have redownloaded the file, reinstalled several times and run Reg Clean 4.1. Any suggestions would surely be appreciate . Thanks, Roger"}, {"response": 111, "author": "cmu", "date": "Sat, May 24, 1997 (23:54)", "body": "The new version of rasapi32.dll is included in the Win95 PPTP upgrade. On some systems this new version disables DUN. Hence, it is important that you make a backup copy of your old rasapi32.dll BEORE you install DynamIP so that you can go back to the old version if your Dial-Up Networking doesn't work anymore after installing DynamIP. Alternatively, you can upgrade your DUN to version v1.2 (the PPTP upgrade). Details are available on the DynamIP download page. As for the memory error, I have no idea what could be causing it (I know that DynamIP takes up quite some resources, but not that many...). I'll look into it if I find time. Sorry for the bad news. Chris"}, {"response": 112, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, May 25, 1997 (10:41)", "body": "Is Dynamip compatible with Symantec's iShare? Have you seen this product? Do you plan on incorporating anything similar into your product (sharing a single Internet connection across several computers using Netbeui)?"}, {"response": 113, "author": "cmu", "date": "Sun, May 25, 1997 (17:48)", "body": "Haven't seen iShare and if DynamIP is compatible with iShare then it's just a lucky coincidence. I have no plans to incorporate Internet sharing capability into DynamIP. We're currently putting a lot of resources into developing DIPS (Dynamic IP Server). You can check it out at http://DIPS.home.ml.org/ . DIPS is great if you want to publish web content using a fixed/static URL even though you have a dynamic IP address. We're working on some more cool features, i.e. ch c,k the DIPS pages on a regular basis. Also, we appreciate everybody's input/thoughts about the service. Drop us a line at DIPS@bigfoot.com . Chris"}, {"response": 114, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, May 26, 1997 (14:45)", "body": "Thanks Christoph, keep us posted on Dynamip's new features. This program is a great service for folks who have dynamic ip access to Internet servers. One problem I see is that a lot of folks may not understand the need for this. But you're doing a good job of educating folks. I'll check out the above url."}, {"response": 115, "author": "cmu", "date": "Thu, May 29, 1997 (12:30)", "body": "DynamIP v3.01 released. Get it from http://DynamIP.home.ml.org/ . Some minor bug fixes (DUN related) and now with full DIPS support. DIPS (Dynamic IP Server) is our new free service that allows people to publish web content from their own computer through a fixed URL even though they are on a dynamic IP address! Detailed information about DIPS is available from http://DIPS.home.ml.org/ . Again, support for DynamIP will very reduced until I'm fully installed back in Europe. It would be nice if some you the \"insiders\" could provide peer support to those who need it right here in this groups. Thanks in advance! Chris"}, {"response": 116, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, May 29, 1997 (16:00)", "body": "Who needs Hannah Storm and Ahmad Rashad, get the \"inside stuff\" here."}, {"response": 117, "author": "faithkills", "date": "Thu, Jun 12, 1997 (16:12)", "body": "Help! I installed Dynamip 3.01 and I get \"system error &H80604065 (-2147467259). unspecified error \" whenevver I try to run it. I never installed it before so legacy OCX can't be an issue. I've tried skipping my startup files, and killing everything but explorer in the task list. I have the all the updates to DUN/winsock available from MS, and to W95 for that matter. My DUN works perfectly otherwise. I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling, but all it does when I try to start it is a pause then a dia og with that message. Please help! JP P.S. Is this the only source for help? This board wasn't working for a while, and I wonder if during that period ppl gave up on this board."}, {"response": 118, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jun 12, 1997 (17:19)", "body": "Nope. We were only down for installaiont of a new hard drive for a few days. We're pretty much been up solid for three years. Usually the dynamip folsk check in. Will you email them and tell them there's some activity here for them please?"}, {"response": 119, "author": "pantaki", "date": "Sun, Jun 15, 1997 (19:57)", "body": "I've just installed dynamic IP 3.0.1 and I'm having some problems with the uploader. I've verified the ids, paths, passwords etc. and everything is OK. But what happens is it tries to connect and then tells me the connection failed. I experimented a little and put junk in the id and password fields and I got the same error! Is there anyway to see a log of the commands that are getting sent to the ftp server? I suspect it's a timing issue."}, {"response": 120, "author": "AoNoX", "date": "Thu, Jun 19, 1997 (21:16)", "body": "Augh! I've just installed the newest ver (new user) of DynamIP and finally figured it out. But NOW when it posts, this is all it ever posts: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- content=\"text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\"> DynamI -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Yeah, I know I had to alter some of the tags so I could post... Obviously, this does little good... =\\ Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks, Terry"}, {"response": 121, "author": "AoNoX", "date": "Thu, Jun 19, 1997 (21:22)", "body": "Bummer... The last post was all wrong... trying again... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN\"> <html> $lt;head> meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" <content=\"text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\"> <meta http-equiv=\"REFRESH\" content=\"120\"> <meta name=\"GENERATOR\" content=\"Microsoft FrontPage 2.0\"> <title>DynamI -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I hope that works... Hey, pantaki, the same was happening to me at first. Try the \"Async\" box on the \"Upload\" tab... That's what fixed it for me. Good luck, Terry"}, {"response": 122, "author": "gvence", "date": "Fri, Jun 20, 1997 (20:57)", "body": "I'm having the same problem as #117 above. Also, the regsrv32.zip doesn't exist according to the browser Please help. Thanx -- Greg."}, {"response": 123, "author": "mrosens", "date": "Wed, Jun 25, 1997 (12:03)", "body": "Can anyone tell me where to enter the userid/password for dialing for my PPP connection when using DynamIP to dial? I am not able to connect due to authorization errors - Dunce has a place in the configuration to enter the account information but i cant find it in dynamicIP DUN setup."}, {"response": 124, "author": "Baldguy", "date": "Mon, Jun 30, 1997 (11:10)", "body": "Hi Mark, Your userid/password should be entered in the standard Windows 95 Dial-Up Networking dialog for the connection you created for your ISP. (I'm assuming you're using Windows 95) You then tell DynamIP which Dial-Up Networking connections(s) to use. Go into DynamIPsetup - DUN/RAS Set the connection status to \"Dynamic IP Address (RAS)\" (At least try that one first) Then in the AutoConnect / AutoDisconnect section you can set it use up to 3 of your dial-up networking connections. You don't have to set them all. But whatever you do set, make sure you have checked the box to the left of the connection(s) you've selected. Make sense? Good luck. Marty"}, {"response": 125, "author": "faithkills", "date": "Tue, Jul  1, 1997 (10:51)", "body": "Ok, this is off topic but related. I got Dynamip working by unregistering and reregistering the ocx's. My problem now is that whenever I setup servers they grab the IP of my ethernet adapter instead of my dial up apapter. I had this problem before once upon a time and resolved it by removing all the network components and readding them making sure I added the dial up adapter first. But apparently somewhere along the line a dun upgrade has caused that to no longer work, and it grabs my ethernet adapter IP ddress no matter what. The only way I can get winsock servers to get the right ip now (which is alas dynamic) is to remove tcpip for the ethernet adapter. This is a pain and involves a restart and there's got to be a better way. Does anybody know, or have any ideas where to look? WINIPCFG doesn't do anything.\\ AUAHWBGA, JP"}, {"response": 126, "author": "faithkills", "date": "Tue, Jul  1, 1997 (11:02)", "body": "Chris M, A terrific app! One minor thing I haven't seen anyone else point out. One wonderful thing that dynamip does is close and open apps. I use it to close com port using apps on startup (works fine) and open them on exit. Unfortunately it starts the apps before the com port is released. I realize this is most probably due to latency in the os, and that the disconnect call has very likely indeed been issued, but not completed. If that is the case, and programming a check is a big hassle, maybe you could add a d lay checkbox? One second ought to do nicely, although variable wouldn't hurt. A simple fix that could make dynamip a little more useful. Not intended as a criticism, just a thought. Again thanks for a great program! JP"}, {"response": 127, "author": "hooaah", "date": "Wed, Jul  2, 1997 (03:18)", "body": "I think DynamIP is potentially one of the best Internet Applicaitons around and I thank Christoph for creating it. However, I am having a problem which is probably more common that I thought originally. I have configured everything correctly and have been able to locate my web page on a couple of occasions. But after the first connect, things seem to fall apart. I can never find it again. I get a message that no server is registered at DIPS, and can't locate my page or my ftp server again. I'm sure some o you gurus can identify with little thought the source of this problem and give me some advice as to how to correct it. It would certainly be appreciated. I wonder if it's something with the DIPS relay service or...God forbid...I really didn't have things configured properly in the first place. But that wouldn't explain the fact that I have been able to connect with this configuration."}, {"response": 128, "author": "Everest", "date": "Thu, Jul  3, 1997 (20:00)", "body": "Hi, I am new to this conference. I want to post a new topic but find only this \"response\" window. I hope it doesn't go to the wrong place. I want to use PCanywhere to connect my laptop (remote) to my desktop (host) in Network Mode, using TCP/IP. I got the following instruction from Symantec: On desktop: 1. setup desktop PCanywhere to \"Be a Host\", \"Network\", and use \"TCP/IP\" 2. log into my ISP (IBM Global Network, using IBM dialer software) 3. start up PCanywhere, and a window will show the dyna IP and message of \"waiting for connection\" On my remote: 1. start up PCanywhere, run \"Remote Control\" and \"Network\" 2. enter the host IP address, in this case, the dyna IP assigned to my desktop The problem is how can I know the dyna IP address if I am not in the office. How can I use DynamIP to inform me and let me know from my remote laptop what IP address to use? I have a commercial web site with a web hosting company. I thought about keeping a \"dummy\" page there (no one knows it's there except me), then after my host logs in, received IP address and upload that IP to the page, I can then FTP my web site (WS-FTP32, login and password required), read that dummy page to see what IP address is assigned to my desktop. But I am not sure whether DynamIP can write to my dummy file since to modify my web site pages might require proper user login and password. The other possibility is to put dummy page on my desktop and subscribe to DIPS service. Then from my laptop I can just start browser and read that dummy page. I need to do all this because I will be remote control from abroad (desktop in California) and want to avoid international call charges. Desktop will either be on all the time or be started by timer, with all necessary application lauched by scheduler so it will be ready for me to access. Thanks for everyone's help Charles Lin"}, {"response": 129, "author": "IBDoomed", "date": "Fri, Jul  4, 1997 (02:49)", "body": "I read a post by someone about not being able to connect using DynamIP 3.01 I am having the same problem, my DUN connector will not save my password therefore it has to be entered everytime it is dialed. Dunce does this and i was wondering if there is a place to enter the password in DynamIP? I have read through all the help files I think and I have not found this. Except for this little problem the programs looks awesome! IBDoomed ICQ:1233243"}, {"response": 130, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Jul  4, 1997 (09:42)", "body": "Actually we need to create a PC Anywhere topic but it may not fall under the definition that Forrest uses to select his apps. Perhaps Forrest could explain the criteria that he uses. We have other conferences on the Spring that deal with other subjects, for example, we have a web conference, an Internet conference, a Windows conference, etc. I'll create a conference in the Windows conference and try to alert the support people at Symantec to it's existence. Join the Windows conference for a discussion of PC Anywhere."}, {"response": 131, "author": "daniel", "date": "Sat, Jul  5, 1997 (11:08)", "body": "When trying to upload numbers to geocities, it won't let me unless I have the async box checked. Any suggestions as what to do??"}, {"response": 132, "author": "cmu", "date": "Sun, Jul  6, 1997 (11:22)", "body": "My apologies for not checking and answering questions for such a long time. My move to Switzerland went ok, but I spent the last 2 weeks in hospital (slipped disk which had to be fixed with surgery). I'm currently not in a state to do any programming (I'm not allowed to sit down for 2-3 months...), but at least I should be able to answer questions... Chris #117 and #122 can be solved by uninstalling and then reinstalling all the OCXs used by DynamIP (see the requirements page at http://DynamIP.home.ml.org/ ) #123 and #124: if Win95 doesn't save your password you have probably installed ServicePack 1 and are missing the Password Upgrade (both available from MS). This problem is NOT related to DynamIP at all. #125: I assume DynamIP fetches the correct IP address (if not, change the method in Setup|DUN/RAS). I would not know how to tell a third party server how to get the correct IP address. #126: I'm currently not in a state to do any programming (see above). Hope you'll be able to work around this problem somehow. #127: I'm not sure I understand the nature of the problem. If your problem is DIPS related, you can try the new thin client available from http://crubelier.stanford.edu/~cmu/DIPSClient/ If the problem is DUN/RAS related, you might try to upgrade to the latest version of Winsock (use the PPTP upgrade available from MS). Also, some problems exist if you have WINS enabled. #128: both methods will work (DynamIP is certainly able to upload a web page to your ISP using FTP). if all you need is the dynamic IP address of your desktop you might get away with using fewer resources by subscribing to DIPS and using the new thin client available from http://crubelier.stanford.edu/~cmu/DIPSClient/ #129: looks like a \"ServicePack 1 installed\" problem. Get the Password Upgrade available from MS to fix this. Has nothing to do with DynamIP. #130: I haven't tried Geocities in a long time, but from my own experience there are all kinds of problems using their service. Most annoying of all is the more or less random delay between you uploading your updated page to their FTP server and the page being available from their HTTPD. Not very good if your IP address changes frequently..."}, {"response": 133, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Jul  6, 1997 (22:47)", "body": "Sorry to hear about your slipped disk, Christoph, no wonder we havne't been hearing much from you. Here's wishing you a total recovery, hope you're ok."}, {"response": 134, "author": "Baldguy", "date": "Tue, Jul  8, 1997 (09:41)", "body": "Hi all, Sorry to hear about the slipped disk/surgery woes, Chris. Here's wishing you a speedy recovery. In reference to the above posts about the password not sticking in the Dial-Up Networking screen... I'm not sure what this \"Password Upgrade\" is all about that Chris mentioned, but I will check it out. In the meantime... here's a workaround... Create a Windows 95 Login with the SAME username as you're using with your Dial-Up Networking account. (Note: you don't need to set a Windows 95 password with this username. It's up to you.) The way you do this is simple. Click \"Start\" - \"Shutdown\" - \"Close all programs and log on as a different user\". Type the same username that's in your Dial-Up Networking screen. (The password is optional and not necessary.) Once you're logged in to Windows 95, initiate a non-DynamIP logon to the internet. Type your password into the Dial-Up Networking screen and make sure the \"Save password\" box is checked. (This is a one time thing.) From then on... no matter what username you're logged into Windows 95 as... the password sticks. Worked for me anyway. Good luck. Regards, Marty Kopp"}, {"response": 135, "author": "Everest", "date": "Wed, Jul  9, 1997 (07:29)", "body": "Result of response 128: I decided to use DIP service. I installed DynamIP, registered with DIPS, enabled my local web server, created a default page for the server to open at start up, and configured DynamIP and modified DynamIP.INI file to enable DIPS. But it does not work. DynamIP does receive the correct dynamic IP address, but when I click on \"Online\" button, I get a series of beeps and \"Warning - Upload #1 failed\" and then \"FTP error\". I think problem is in my setting, but I don't know where or what are the correct value to enter. I ran into some confusion when setting up Setup|Uploader options. I am not sure what to enter for Remote Host, Login ID, Password, Remote file. I assume host is my desktop PC and file is my \"dummy\" html file. But I am not sure I gave my desktop PC a \"host name\", nor \"login ID\" and password. I am not familiar with network setup and security, so perhaps I had configured my PC to have some sort of security, but how can I find out, since I seemed to have forgotten what and how I set it up. Also, I registered the .htm file using lower case, but after reading about the VB5 bug of converting file name to uppercase, I rename html file into uppercase and also made the case change in my MS Web Server \"default Page\" entry. Thanks for the help. Charles Lin, clin@ibm.net"}, {"response": 136, "author": "Barsonixon", "date": "Sat, Jul 12, 1997 (23:20)", "body": "I have a little problem with uploading DynamIP pages on a Server where my site is in a directory and not the root. I usually use Front Page to publish my pages and I have a login check to enter that directory (login is obviously different to access root). I'm working to build a new site there and I need to solve that problem. Hope someone could help. Thanks. Luis Martins"}, {"response": 137, "author": "egriffin", "date": "Sun, Jul 13, 1997 (10:02)", "body": "DynamIP 3.0 Runtime error OUT OF MEMORY. Clean install, no errors; nothing else running, 32M mem avail., above error from ANY attempt to configure. ????????"}, {"response": 138, "author": "cmu", "date": "Sat, Jul 19, 1997 (07:16)", "body": "Thanx for the good wishes. I'm doing quite ok again (well, considering the circumstances...). Some walking around and getting the most important stuff done again. Here some quick answers: #135 Check out the DynamIP site. Under \"Use WEBchat without uploading files\" on the page for advanced users you'll find all the correct settings. #136 The remote directory can be specified together with the remote file name (e.g. public_html/DynamIP.htm). Note that depending on the settings the directory/file name gets converted to all caps because of a bug in the VB5 FTP library... #137 First of all, you should upgrade to the latest version DynamIP v3.01. If you still get the same error, I would try to manually install the OCX files (make sure you have the correct versions on your machine...). Chris"}, {"response": 139, "author": "jblackst", "date": "Tue, Jul 22, 1997 (13:15)", "body": "The previous problem with the wininet.dll installed by IE4.0 b1 seems to have been fixed in the 2nd preview release. I couldn't upload to ftp with pr1 but everything works fine with pr2. Have a speedy recovery, Chris... Justin"}, {"response": 140, "author": "apmuthu", "date": "Fri, Jul 25, 1997 (22:24)", "body": "Has the bug in VB5 FTP library for all CAPS directory/filenames been sorted out as yet? Singnet in Singapore will accept only Asynch uploads onle and has directory names for users in lower case only. Speedy Recovery Chris. Ap.Muthu"}, {"response": 141, "author": "apmuthu", "date": "Fri, Jul 25, 1997 (22:27)", "body": "Where can we get DynamIP's earlier versions which worked fine for Asynch uploads - ver 2.6, ver 2.7, ver 2.8 - Chris please keep an archive of your earlier versions till the FTP error in the VB5 library gets sorted out. Regards, Ap.Muthu"}, {"response": 142, "author": "jumpy", "date": "Mon, Jul 28, 1997 (09:26)", "body": "pentium 166 with 16Mo ram has problem with dynamic Ip : When i want setup dynamic ip, i have this message : runtime error '7' out of memory and the programm close please help me, i have no solution thank you, greeting from france"}, {"response": 143, "author": "cmu", "date": "Thu, Jul 31, 1997 (11:37)", "body": "#140/141: I'm not aware of any bug fixes, but if somebody has information available, please drop me a line at cmu@bigfoot.com so that I can take care of this annoying problem. As for old versions, I simply don't have the resources to keep them up (let alone support them...). #142: Out of memory problems are most likely caused by wrong versions of libraries (OCX). Verify that you've got the correct version on your machine and register the libraries manually. Instructions are available on the DynamIP site. Chris"}, {"response": 144, "author": "brownie", "date": "Mon, Aug 11, 1997 (03:08)", "body": "I am having some upload problems. I think that I have the ftp information set correctly. When I click on \"online\", the program gives me an immediate ftp error and beeps about 7 times. I have successfully ftp-ed to the site using the same name with the NT command-line ftp. Any ideas? Everything else seems to work ok. Thanks, Chris"}, {"response": 145, "author": "crossbow", "date": "Wed, Oct 15, 1997 (22:40)", "body": "FTP Problems. First I would like to say that I LOVE this program and that it has saved me a small fortune not paying for the server space that I would use on an IP server. I have found that on the FTP hyperlink that DynamIP adds a / after the end of the hyperlink insertion. The problem is that Netscape and IE both mistake the / of the hyperlink as a UNIX subdirectory of the root, and unless that IS the root you get an error everytime. Is there a workaround to the IP hyperlink path problem? Any mods in the future planned for path statements??? Please??? lol."}, {"response": 146, "author": "crossbow", "date": "Wed, Oct 15, 1997 (23:11)", "body": "Nevermind Chris.. I worked it out! I wouldn't do without this program.."}, {"response": 147, "author": "famaco", "date": "Tue, Nov 25, 1997 (15:26)", "body": "I found DynamIP with Tucows. In their description they state \"and establish point-to-point connection with MS NetMeeting\". Is this correct? How does it work? Thanks for your reply."}, {"response": 148, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Nov 25, 1997 (16:46)", "body": "That means you can simulate two computers that have ip addresses. Which allows private netmeetings."}, {"response": 149, "author": "famaco", "date": "Wed, Nov 26, 1997 (14:17)", "body": "Thanks for your reply, Terry. Could you give me more details. I am a newby. MS told me that with their NetMeeting program a third server (chat room) is needed and point-to-point is not possible. As their chat rooms are very busy and difficult to get in, it would be great to use DynamIP. I just dont know how to make NetMeeting work without the third server (chat room). Can you give me an answer?"}, {"response": 150, "author": "cleger", "date": "Fri, Dec 12, 1997 (01:24)", "body": "Hi Chris, I'm trying to figure out why people using America Online are unable to use the WebChat feature of your program (which is a killer-app by the way!!) I am guessing that AOL doesn't like the use of port 1498 or something. I am using an ISP and have no problems from anyone but AOL users... I can receive all messages sent by the person via WebChat, but as soon as I respond, the following message comes up (on a blank web page): Cannot retrieve http://152.174.91.232POST (where the IP address is that of the AOL user!) Help please! Thanks, Chris Leger"}, {"response": 151, "author": "cmu", "date": "Fri, Dec 12, 1997 (04:52)", "body": "Response to question #149: Here's how the NetMeeting stuff works. The problem of establishing a direct point-to-point connection with NetMeeting is that you have to know the IP address of the computer you want to connect to. Either you connect to one of the many servers, or you can use DynamIP to scan a particular range of IP addresses to find the other computer (note that the other computer must be running DynamIP as well). This scanning of IP addresses works quite well if your ISP assigns you a dynamic IP address where only the l st bit changes each time you logon (e.g. 195.114.68.xxx), it is quite tedious if you're using something like AT&T WorldNet or MSN because one has to scan many ranges to find your computer. Once the two DynamIP clients have found each other, you're only a click away from establishing a point-to-point connection with NetMeeting. Note, however, that the real challenge is how to find out the IP address of the other computer (once you have the IP address, you might as well just type in this IP address into the NetMeeting client). You can read more details on the DynamIP web site at http://DynamIP.home.ml.org/ . I hope that helps. Response to question #150: I have no idea why it doesn't work on AOL, but it is quite likely that they filter out traffic on the WEBchat port. Somebody who's using AOL could maybe try to play around with the port number (there are instructions on the DynamIP web site about how to change the default WEBchat port to something else). I have never used AOL (and quite frankly, I don't intend to use it), i.e. I can't really help you out on this one. However, if somebody figures out what exactly is wrong, I'm happy to change things on the DynamIP side if necessary. Chris"}, {"response": 152, "author": "cmu", "date": "Fri, Dec 12, 1997 (04:55)", "body": "DynamIP v3.30 beta 1 released. Get it from http://DynamIP.home.ml.org/ . Microsoft finally fixed the control MSINET.OCX so that the DynamIP uploader works properly now (fully asynchronous). Some minor bug fixes (DUN related) and now with full DIPS support. DIPS (Dynamic IP Server) is our new free service that allows people to publish web content from their own computer through a fixed URL even though they are on a dynamic IP address! Detailed information about DIPS is available from http://DIPS.home.ml.org/ . For a limited time there is also a mirror site available in Europe at http://home.clara.net/cmu/ Support for DynamIP is alo back to its normal level as I've fully recovered from my back surgery. Merry X-mas and a Happy New Year to all of you. Chris"}, {"response": 153, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Dec 13, 1997 (19:52)", "body": "Congratulations on your recovery, I'm glad to hear you're well. Please come see us often and share your insights. Perhaps we can ease the entry of new users in the DynamIP sphere."}, {"response": 154, "author": "swhitney", "date": "Sun, Dec 14, 1997 (10:52)", "body": "I have downloaded and installed the new DynamIP v3.30 beta 1 Am having a problem with the uploader. It seems to connect to my ISP, logon, and exchange passwords. Then it just times out. I have reset all the template files as per the DynamIP instructions. I have also deleted my dynamip.ini file and started over from scratch with the same results. I have unchecked the delete before put box. Here is the info from my log file. 12/14/97/9:00:16 AM: going Online... 12/14/97/9:00:16 AM: Resolving Name [ftp.gate.net] 12/14/97/9:00:16 AM: Name Resolved 12/14/97/9:00:16 AM: Connecting [ftp.gate.net] 12/14/97/9:00:16 AM: Connected | Authentication 12/14/97/9:00:17 AM: Connected | Transfer 12/14/97/9:00:25 AM: WEBchat ON (init) 12/14/97/9:00:55 AM: WEBchat ON (init) 12/14/97/9:00:58 AM: timeout... ftp.gate.net (link #1) 12/14/97/9:00:58 AM: WARNING: Upload #1 failed! [DynamIP Warning] 12/14/97/9:00:58 AM: Disconnecting 12/14/97/9:00:58 AM: Disconnected 12/14/97/9:01:01 AM: FTP error I have uninstalled and gone back to release 3.02 and managed to get the FTP working again. Had to go through the manual unregistering and deleting of the ocx files first. Any suggestions?"}, {"response": 155, "author": "finn61", "date": "Mon, Dec 15, 1997 (00:00)", "body": "I'm having the exact same problem as #154! Frustrating as I haven't had DynamIP working yet. The error log is a bit too basic to help in this situation. Anyone come across this before?"}, {"response": 156, "author": "Baldguy", "date": "Mon, Dec 29, 1997 (16:51)", "body": "The uploader in 3.30 beta 1 works for me *sometimes* and sometimes not. Haven't noticed any pattern. When it doesn't work I get the same log as 155 above is getting. I have noticed that when it *does* work when I first connect, if I click on the OFFline button without disconnecting... it times out. Then I can't get DynamIP to exit (or quit) without brute force. i.e., rebooting."}, {"response": 157, "author": "Baldguy", "date": "Mon, Jan 12, 1998 (12:01)", "body": "I've signed up for the DIPS service since the previous message and now the uploader works 99% of the time. Is this a coincidence or did I do something else to fix it? Also...is it my imagination or did the iphone link in uploaded pages used to work with Netscape Navigator 3? I'm using Communicator 4 now and it doesn't work. Checked out the DynamIP pages and it only mentions it working with IE. So... was it a dream? :-)"}, {"response": 158, "author": "cmu", "date": "Mon, Feb  9, 1998 (03:08)", "body": "DynamIP v3.30 beta 2 released. Get it from http://DynamIP.home.ml.org/ . Some minor fixes with the uploader, but the true improvement is in the module that detects your computer's IP address: DynamIP supports environments with multiple IP addresses and multiple adapters (multihomed). Even if you're on a LAN and use a modem to dial up every now and then DynamIP is now capable of detecting your IP address correctly. Unfortunately, DynamIP still won't work properly with some FTPDs out there. If you are having problems with the uploader (e.g. it times out and you can never upload your file), please activate logging and check where exactly the thing doesn't move anymore. I am a little reluctant to write my own FTP client just because MS still hasn't been able to put everything into MSINET.OCX, but maybe it just has to be. However, if you have already installed a web server on your own machine (e.g. MS personal web serve [free like many others]), you could actually serve the page with your IP address directly from your own computer. Sign up for a free DIPS account and then use DynamIP's DIPS client capability. DIPS (Dynamic IP Server) is our new free service that allows people to publish web content from their own computer through a fixed URL even though they are on a dynamic IP address! Detailed information about DIPS is available from http://DIPS.home.ml.org/ . What happened to www.iceinc.net, the new DynamIP home? Well, I have no idea myself. I lost contact with the guys shortly after the big storms hit the US and I don't know whether it's just a technical problem or whether they folded for good... In the mean time, DynamIP is available from my Stanford mirror site at http://graphics.stanford.edu/~jbasch/cmu/DynamIP . DynamIP.ml.org will automatically take you there for the time being. And here a hint as to whether iphone, callto, and stuff works with the Netscape products. In principle it does, but it depends on the server settings. Unless your Netscape browser gets a clue from the server it won't know what client to start. With Internet Explorer the callto tag is always associated with NetMeeting (assuming it is installed), regardless of the server settings. Well, thx for your continued support. Chris PS: Oh, if anybody knows why Stroud's still not willing to cough up that last bit of the 5th star, please tell me. He still complains about DynamIP being mostly of use to those with dynamic IP addresses, but that is really a bit short sighted. Lots of people (including myself) use DynamIP in LAN environments."}, {"response": 159, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Feb  9, 1998 (08:37)", "body": "How is it useful to you in LAN environments and is it useful at all to people with LANS running dedicated ip addresses? Have you heard that they are going to start charging for IP addresses?"}, {"response": 160, "author": "W2893066406", "date": "Thu, Feb 12, 1998 (13:38)", "body": "Hello every body i can' t Setting dynamix ip ....Please help me my email is jansengrat@usa.net"}, {"response": 161, "author": "cmu", "date": "Fri, Feb 13, 1998 (03:20)", "body": "DynamIP v3.30 beta 2 is the first version that allows you to clearly specify (using include/exclude filters and adapter numbers) to which IP address DynamIP should \"react\" (assuming you have multiple IP addresses, e.g. if you're on a LAN [with a static IP address] and use a modem to connect to your private ISP [and therefore get a static IP address]. Previous versions of DynamIP simply returned the first IP address found and more often than not this was not the one \"dynamic IP address\" people wanted to us for template updates, etc. Not a big issue for most DynamIP users, but those who struggled with this problem in the past (and asked me for a fix) got exactly what they wanted. Obviously, if you are on a LAN and have only 1 static IP address this improvement won't do anything for you (DynamIP has been working fine in such environments before). Haven't heard anything about being charged for IP addresses... Chris"}, {"response": 162, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Feb 13, 1998 (09:44)", "body": "I hear it's on the way, when that happens dynamic ip will get even more popular. I just got a Compaq Notebook and I'll be using it on a lan at home and connecting to an isp on the road. Do you have any recommendations for a national isp that would be good to use on the road in terms of being compatible with dynamip? (eg. AOhell, MindSpring, AT&T, etc.)"}, {"response": 163, "author": "orangeassets", "date": "Tue, Mar  3, 1998 (21:50)", "body": "I have an intersting problem. DynamIP runs normally but sometime after the session is over Rnaapp hangs, locking up the system. When I start a session without DynamIP, Rnaapp terminates normally 10 or 15 min. after the session is over. I am at a loss on how to troubleshoot this one. Any ideas? I am running Win95 OSR2 with explorer 4.01."}, {"response": 164, "author": "skzzi", "date": "Wed, Apr  8, 1998 (23:21)", "body": "I have to say that I really like the concept of DynamicIP, however I am having a problem with the Upload feature. I have traced the process as best I could and was able to determine that it logs into my ftp, enters the password and then times out for some reason. Anyone have a posible solution to this. After reading the documentation I have the feeling it involves the ftp commands issued by DynamicIP. Is it possible to modify the Upload action itself? Anyone with suggestions or input please feel free o email me at: twinz@bellsouth.net or lost@dione.ccti.net (text only;ELM;UNIX system) Rob E."}, {"response": 165, "author": "lynch", "date": "Sat, May  2, 1998 (15:34)", "body": "Hi all. It looks like everyone else is having good luck with the new release. Unfortunately, that's not the case for me. I'm running NT4.0 with SP3 and RAS installed and working perfectly. Apparently, the install program for DynamIP is having problems registering some of my OCXs. When I try to start the program, it says that msinet.ocx is not functioning or not registered or something. I double checked the version numbers AND sizes of all the files. I have also tried the whole manual register a few time with no luck. When trying to register/unregister msinet.ocx, an error message pops up which reports the error code as some hex number. After looking through these posts, I know people were having similar problems in the past, but it seems that the actual solutions people found were never reposted. Does there happen to be a newsgroup for DynamIP? This system is a little cumbersom... Thanks in advance for ANY and ALL help! Ryan lynchrl@colorado.edu olequt32.dll riched32.dll"}, {"response": 166, "author": "cmu", "date": "Sun, May 10, 1998 (11:48)", "body": "DynamIP v3.30 beta 4 released. Get it from http://www.bigfoot.com/~DynamIP/ . This new beta is especially useful if you had problems with the uploader (probably caused by MSINET.OCX which still doesn't work properly with some FTPD). Anyway, beta 4 supports DIPFTP Client which uses FTP routines available in WININET.DLL (you can even get the source code if you need to fine-tune the upload). Also, if you have IE4/ActiveDesktop installed, DynamIP now features IE4 tyle toolbars (coolbars). Enhanced support for machines with multiple IP addresses. Some minor bug fixes (DUN related) and now with full DIPS support. DIPS (Dynamic IP Server) is our new free service that allows people to publish web content from their own computer through a fixed URL even though they are on a dynamic IP address! Detailed information about DIPS is available from http://postmodem.com/dips-admin/ . The DynamIP site has been redone completely. It also got a new home at xoom. Check it out at http://www.bigfoot.com/~DynamIP/ ! Chris"}, {"response": 167, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, May 10, 1998 (13:52)", "body": "Wow, a total makeover! What's next? Is this you only product?"}, {"response": 168, "author": "Baldguy", "date": "Tue, May 12, 1998 (08:52)", "body": "I downloaded the new beta 4 quickupgrade (yes, I was using beta 3 successfully) and now I'm getting the same errors that response 165 above is getting... (The only difference is that I'm using Windows 95) \" ... I try to start the program, it says that msinet.ocx is not functioning or not registered or something. I double checked the version numbers AND sizes of all the files. I have also tried the whole manual register a few time with no luck. When trying to register/unregister msinet.ocx, an error message pops up which reports the error code as some hex number. \" The error code that regsvr32 is spitting back is \"LoadLibrary(\"msinet.ocx\") failed. GetLastError returns 0x0000001f.\" This happens whether trying to register or unregister. Any ideas?"}, {"response": 169, "author": "Baldguy", "date": "Mon, May 18, 1998 (08:39)", "body": "OK...problem solved to the above. Turns out it was the newer version of WININET.DLL that I installed. There's a link to it on the DynamIP page. As soon as I went back to the older version I was able to unregister msinet.ocx."}, {"response": 170, "author": "cmu", "date": "Mon, May 18, 1998 (08:39)", "body": "DynamIP v3.30 final release released. Get it from http://www.bigfoot.com/~DynamIP/ . NEW: DynamIP v3.30 can be installed as an NT Service. Furthermore, DynamIP v3.30 is especially useful if you had problems with the uploader (probably caused by MSINET.OCX which still doesn't work properly with some FTPD). Anyway, this final release supports DIPFTP Client which uses FTP routines available in WININET.DLL (you can even get the source code if you need to fine-tune the upload). Also, if you have IE4/ActiveDesktop installed, DynamIP now features IE4 style toolbars (coolbars). Enhanced support for machines with multiple IP addresses. Some minor bug fixes (DUN related) and now with full DIPS support. DIPS (Dynamic IP Server) is our new free service that allows people to publish web content from their own computer through a fixed URL even though they are on a dynamic IP address! Detailed information about DIPS is available from http://postmodem.com/dips-admin/ . The DynamIP site has been redone completely. It' also got a new home at xoom. Check it out at http://www.bigfoot.com/~DynamIP/ ! The DynamIP web site also features a Chat Room . Give it a try if you need real-time help or just want to hang out with other DynamIP users. Chris"}, {"response": 171, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, May 18, 1998 (08:39)", "body": "Christoph, tell us about your company and your operation if you would. HOw many people and what do they do? Or is it a one person business? How did you get started? How the idea for DynamIP evolve?"}, {"response": 172, "author": "cmu", "date": "Thu, May 28, 1998 (03:01)", "body": "Well, there is no company behind DynamIP (I'm what you call a \"one person business\"). DynamIP is something that I started developing about 2 years ago because I couldn't afford a permanent Internet connection. I needed a tool that would allow me to tell my friends how to get in contact with me once I was online (there was no ICQ back in 1996...). The first versions of DynamIP were nothing more than simple IP Posters, i.e. they would allow you to post a web page containing the current IP Address to a web s rver. Later I just kept adding features that I thought would be useful, e.g. a POP mail checker and a PC clock synchronizer (my PC clock was always off be a few minutes...). With time more and more people started using DynamIP, and with the increased user base I started getting more and more requests for additional features. Quite a few of those requests/suggestions made it into DynamIP over time. The current version DynamIP v3.30 final release includes: - DUN/RAS dialer (timer-controlled w/ program launch) - Uploader (the IP Poster) - POP mail checker - a fully functional DIPS Client - IPchat/WEBchat - HTTP scanner If you want to know more about DynamIP you can move over to http://www.bigfoot.com/~DynamIP/ and read all the details about this free Internet utility. More about myself is available at http://www.bigfoot.com/~cmu/ ."}, {"response": 173, "author": "orangeassets", "date": "Wed, Jun  3, 1998 (22:55)", "body": "I recently load IE 4.0 Service Pack 1. I was using IE 4.01 prior. As soon as I mad the switch, DIPFTP stopped working. comments?"}, {"response": 174, "author": "WhisperPanther", "date": "Fri, Jul 10, 1998 (03:26)", "body": "Hello, I am new to this discussion group and I was stumped by the number of messgaes in here. In any case, can someone PLEASE tell me how to setup WEBCHAT? My computer crashes a LOT whenever I go to CMU's site and I couldn't find any information relevant on how to edit the source code so that the panel appears on my web page. PLEASE help me! -M W"}, {"response": 175, "author": "WhisperPanther", "date": "Fri, Jul 10, 1998 (23:32)", "body": "Well, I don't have the WebChat working but I think I know why now. I have an IP address that changes so I will to read more into your faq CMU. BTW I LOVE the online indicator. It's great!! THanks CMU!! MW"}, {"response": 176, "author": "Lanny", "date": "Mon, Jul 13, 1998 (11:01)", "body": ""}, {"response": 177, "author": "Lanny", "date": "Mon, Jul 13, 1998 (11:04)", "body": "First, a big thank you to Christoph for his fine work. Why is it that much of the really useful software out there is freeware? Here's something that might help some of you having trouble with the ftp upload phase of the IP address stuffer. I had a problem when I installed DynamIP in that everything seemed to work except that last phase. I'd get ftp timeout errors every time. Turned out that simply changing the 'Local File's address from \"c:\\program files\\dynamip\\filename\" to \"c:\\progra~1\\dynamip\\filename\" fixed the problem. Seemed to be a problem, at least on my system, with the long filename with the space. Could I make an enhancement request? I'm with an ISP who has six possible dialup numbers. Could the DynamIP list be expanded to handle the larger number? Also, I'm full-up with the Applications I launch and would like to have DynamIP launch a couple more. Any chance the number could be expanded from 5 to, say, 10 launches? Question: Is there any way to assign a Win95 (win98 in my case) keystroke to command a dialup? I often come to my computer desk with a blank (screen-saved) CRT and instead of waiting for everything to wake up before left-right the DynamIP icon, it'd save me a few to be able to command a default dialup with a Windows keystroke. In other words, is there a command-line argument that would initiate a default dialup? Note that DynamIP is normally already started and is sitting there in the task tray, so simply assigning a keystroke to DynamIP does nothing, even if I have it configured to dial on startup. Thanks again for the great work, Chris."}, {"response": 178, "author": "cmu", "date": "Sun, Jul 19, 1998 (10:17)", "body": "There's a problem with the DynamIP page at xoom. Use the URL http://www.bigfoot.com/~DynamIP/ to get to an emergency page. You will also find a link to the temporary home of DynamIP. Note that you can also download the latest version of DynamIP (v3.30 final release) from any Tucows site/mirror . My apologies for the inconvenience. I hope things will clear up soon. Chris"}, {"response": 179, "author": "cmu", "date": "Sat, Aug 29, 1998 (14:50)", "body": "I activated the DynamIP Forum at Delphi . It features a message board and a chat room. Please post your questions and suggestions to the appropriate topic on the message board. Check it out at http://www.delphi.com/DynamIP/ . Chris Mueller / DynamIP@bigfoot.com apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 305, "subject": "TransSoft Mail Control", "response_count": 110, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct 31, 1996 (20:37)", "body": "Happy Halloween Bjorn, and thanks for bringing this app to our attention. Forrest may see it here and may choose to review it. That's up to him. But this sounds like a good app from your description and I'll try and take a look at it. Right now I'm using Microsoft Internet Explorer's mail program and I'm fairly satisfied with it except for the fact that I have multiple mailboxes. I'm still using elm for a lot of these (sigh). It's interesting about the autocheckins and autoreplies, I've heard of other programs that do these things and I believe a couple of these are already reviewed here."}, {"response": 2, "author": "bubbi", "date": "Fri, Nov  1, 1996 (09:29)", "body": "Happy Halloween Terry! I have not yet seen a full featured email client that has these features - especially not with automatic dial, fetch, reply, disconnect, routine. But, i don't know though. These are, of cause not the only features, mind you. There are many others of interest. You can find the program on my page: http://www.centrum.is/~bhg and download it or read about it from there. I am a bit surbrised about Forrest. I have three times mailed him without a single response...?? Feels like knocking on heavens door...! I do, of cause also use the mailer of my browser. But only when sending to a link from a HTML. The TransSoft's Mail Control gives you much more control over what you have been mailing, what to do with mails so there is the \"tool\" one needs when mailing a lot. The last month i had ~850 messages. I have full control over this. Whom to speak to, when, etc. This i do by means of automatic folder sorting. So when i get mail form persons of choice, those messages are automatically put in special folders, likewise if i am sending to those. I have also used it on clients that are subscribers to changes and articles. These just send message with a special text in their message which triggers an auto-reply that sends a message with selected foles attached. Neat, huh! Anyway, i think i'll browse and see if there are any other full-featured clients with these features around on your site!"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov  2, 1996 (10:20)", "body": "I just downloaded TransSoft and I liked the way it autofilled in my mail server: mail.spring.com after I told it what my email address was. Not correct, but it's a good idea as most systems use this. My pop mail server happens to be barton.spring.com. I checked autofetch so it will get my mail automatically. I like the multiple sig options and the header text. The first thing I wanted to make sure of when I started it up was that the program wouldn't erase all my mail on the server when I fetched it. So I clicked on the 'Host' item on the top menu bar. I pulled it down and it said Control Center. When I clic ked on this it didn't give me options but it did give me a list of all the emails on the server and offered me the option of deleting any of these. Nice feature! The I found the icon at the bottom of the window 'Mail Control Preferences', the default is to leave messages on the server. Good move Bjorn, Netscape and Explorer mail have the default preset to remove mail messages from the server. How considerate! Bjorn has adopted the Explorer type interface where icons brighten and color up when you wave the mouse over them. I'll let you know more after I use this app for a while, these are my reflections after using it for about 10 minutes. But already I'd say that this program is worthy of a review at Stroud's site. It has a feature that automatically will dial your isp and check your mail at whatever internval you specify. I set this up, hoping that it wouldn't conflict with 'Dunce', my all purpose RAS/autodialer program. Four walruses."}, {"response": 4, "author": "bubbi", "date": "Sat, Nov  2, 1996 (17:47)", "body": "I have my fingers crossed, Terry! No, seriously; If there is a conflict, the solution is easy... If you do have a n autodialer you have an alternitive. Don't start the \"Auto-MAil\". I noticed, from above, that you marked the \"auto-fetch\" option in your email properties. This should be eno ugh! Just leave the mailer hanging, with the option of Background checking enabled at a specified interval. Let the system stand with the main screen on. This way it will automatically fetch your mail also. This option would be appropriate for those with ermanent connection also. I'd also like to pay your attention to the auto sorting of the incoming messges; the menu topic: \"Folders/Incoming rules editor\", as well as outgoing. The incoming rules offer you the reply option. More later!"}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov  2, 1996 (18:17)", "body": "That's next on my list. I did notice something when I clicked Host/Control Center. It gave me a text window which showed me all the emails residing on the host. It would be a great feature to be able to select the emails I wanted on the server and then could move them over to the local mail program. One defect of popmail programs is that you can't go back and get emails that you have already transferred. TransSoft Mail did offer the option of being able to save the email as a file on my local hard dri e. Bjorn will send an email to mailto:terry@spring.com so I can test some of these rules? I'm starting to set up some of this stuff."}, {"response": 6, "author": "bubbi", "date": "Sat, Nov  2, 1996 (19:49)", "body": "Well, actually Terry, in about two weeks, you will notice more than this. This is in our new version; \"TMC PRO 3.0\". Not only are we working on the PGP implementation, but also multiple features for the control center among other stuff. These are f.ex.: Being able to select messages and mark them as \"read\" or \"unread\", PLUS beeing able to retrieve a \"selected attached file\" from a message over to the local machine. And there is more... I am preparing emails to send!"}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov  2, 1996 (21:57)", "body": "If you can mark messages on the server as 'read' or 'unread' that's a good feature, one that I could use. How about folks with multiple mail accounts on multiple machines? Are you going to address this?"}, {"response": 8, "author": "bubbi", "date": "Sun, Nov  3, 1996 (18:22)", "body": "??? I thought i had! You can have access to all your mailboxes via one single dial-up connection. - Plus you do have the RAS control for multiple ISP connectivity. You just add as many users, and as many emails to each user as you want. You only need one connection onto the internet to get from all the boxes. Or am i missing something...!!? Next tuesdayafternoon i am posting the new TMS PRO 3.0 to all my beta testers. I think this will be greatly appreciated by the PGP community! We are using very special solutions to the subject. The user will hardly notice the PGP, he just marks a message, encrypted or not, signed or not, and there will be special implementations regarding keyrings and public key authentications. Do you know anything about PGP. It would be great to have somone with the PGP knowledge here to chat. Maybe you should start a new topic: \"PGP in email clients\". Or \"Using PGP\" or something."}, {"response": 9, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Nov  3, 1996 (18:44)", "body": "We can do that! I am very interested in pgp for an electronic commerce application I am developing. I hope to be able to sell a wide line of software apps and other products on various websites that I am developing. And I stand corrected on the multiple mailboxes. Here's a tough question (a hardball, sorry) for you. How do you stack up against the well established \"BeyondMail\" which has similar functionality as far as rules based mail handling? This is the program that I've been most familiar with over the years that does this sort of thing. Are you familiar with it? I just picked up the O'Reilly book which has more than you want to know about pgp encryption. Let's keep this dialog going and hopefully we'll get some traffic from other users on your website soon if you can put a prominent enough link up explaining what this discussion group is all about."}, {"response": 10, "author": "bubbi", "date": "Sun, Nov  3, 1996 (19:50)", "body": "Ahh, eh! I do not know beyondmail! I have but one motto, not to know much about what others do and how they do it!!! My users have developed the system with me, and this is what i think gets me as far as i would like to go! The rule based mail handling is swell, but it is the addition \"Auto-Reply\" that makes our rules special. AND we order outgoing messages onto folder too... Tomorrow i'll make a link on to your pages from our homepage with explanations concerning PGP, asking my visitors to participate. Email me with info's on how it is going with the mailer!"}, {"response": 11, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Nov  3, 1996 (23:33)", "body": "Great then, this will be good open forum for your users to get involved in the evolution of your app. I have my 'wish' list of features that I'd like to see. I'll let you know after I've pounded on your program more. My biggest hot feature would be the ability to scan mail on the server and pick which ones to transfer to the pc. What is the current standing of IMAP support as compared to POP? (we use pop on all the Spring's servers). I've even heard murmurings of a web based email system on the Internet, though I haven't tried it yet."}, {"response": 12, "author": "bubbi", "date": "Mon, Nov  4, 1996 (05:12)", "body": "My system does not yet support imap4. This will be implemented, all in good time. The main reason is my lack of imap4 based resources, that is, an imap4 server where i can have connections for testing... And as i described earlier, you will have your \"hot\" feature; the ability to select mails on host to be downloaded. A web based email system... Please explain!"}, {"response": 13, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov  4, 1996 (06:36)", "body": "There's a program called WebMail which supports a web connection to a Lan based email system. You can compose and send messages from a web page. BeyondMail supports this, among others. There's a bunch of information on their website at http://www.ihub.com/products/webmail/ As far as imap goes, check out ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/imap/imap.software this is a very complete listing on all the software that supports imap on the client and the server side of things. Surprisingly, elm is not supporting it but pine is on the unix server mail side of things. There is something that supports both web based mail and imap. It's \"NDC\". Another web based mail system is called Non-Dairy Creamer (hope it's better than that stuff you have to use sometimes when there's no real milk or cream around). Non-Dairy Creamer uses imap (Interactive Mail Access Protocol version 4) from within a Java application or Applet. NDC provides a layer of abstraction on top of the network protocol so app programmers can build mail reading capabilities into their Java programs (or Applets)."}, {"response": 14, "author": "bubbi", "date": "Mon, Nov  4, 1996 (10:13)", "body": "About WebMail: I built such a program, and you can find it in use f.ex. at: http://www.firmnet.is/icemac/ Browsing their products and services, you'll find links at each line in their products tables. This link leads you to a query page which is emailed when submitted to two key-people in the company.... The trouble is that it is made exclusively for Win-NT based servers. I have not put this on to the commerce. Maybe i should...!? The imap info: I'll look into these things! But the problem with not having access to an imap4 based website still remains. I would have to build a website of my own for the testing, which i know will be enormous...as testing is a great big part of the development. Yet, i promise you, this will be implemented. The date is the question...!"}, {"response": 15, "author": "bubbi", "date": "Mon, Nov  4, 1996 (10:18)", "body": "About WebMail: I built such a program, and you can find it in use f.ex. at: http://www.firmnet.is/icemac/ Browsing their products and services, you'll find links at each line in their products tables. This link leads you to a query page which is emailed when submitted to two key-people in the company.... The trouble is that it is made exclusively for Win-NT based servers. I have not put this on to the commerce. Maybe i should...!? The imap info: I'll look into these things! But the problem with not having access to an imap4 based website still remains. I would have to build a website of my own for the testing, which i know will be enormous...as testing is a great big part of the development. Yet, i promise you, this will be implemented. The date is the question...!"}, {"response": 16, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov  4, 1996 (17:35)", "body": "You're welcome to use one of the Spring's servers for testing purposes. We have three popmail servers right now. Can popmail and imap co-exist on the same server?"}, {"response": 17, "author": "bubbi", "date": "Mon, Nov  4, 1996 (18:12)", "body": "That would be great! I can't see why not... But you would need an imap4 server! This can become pretty complex, i think! I'll check this out better. Your offer is generous and i appreciate it. I am a co-webmaster at http://wwww.firmnet.is so if i am to install a server on a website somewhere it might just as well be there. Maybe i can have a trial version of an imap4 compatible server to develope on."}, {"response": 18, "author": "bubbi", "date": "Wed, Nov  6, 1996 (07:54)", "body": "Well Terry! We are just about finishing our TMC PRO 3.0 beta. An exciting moment is on the horizon. I would appreciate having your \"hot list\", the one you spoke of earlier, as we are currently implementing many users hot list's and ideas. Hope you are satisfied with our mailer!"}, {"response": 19, "author": "dreamer", "date": "Wed, Nov  6, 1996 (11:19)", "body": "I love the features of TransSoft Mail Control....and would most likely register it if it weren't for a few irritating things in the interface. I would like to make some suggestions, and ask you to implement these if possible and let me know. 1. I don't like how when you reply to a message, the first window that is highlighted is the recipient name...so if I start typing my message, it erases the name and I have to cancel and go back. I think the cursor should go to where you start typing since obviously the name field comes from the message being replied to. 2. When I have a stack of email in my inbox, and I reply to one, when I click done it sends me to my outbox. Then I have to go back to the inbox, find where I left off, and start over. I would like to remain in the inbox unless I tell it to go to the out box. 3. I would like to be able to increase the size of the window which shows the contents of folder selected... Make it adjustable so that I can see all my mail. Also, show not just the date received, but the time also. 4. When recieving .gif files, and others, the mailer can't tell what type of files they are and makes me name them other things...then I have to go back and name them... 5. I wish I could just hit the delete key and send the current mail to the trash. I wish you could view what's in the trash and only delete it when I want to.. 6. I want to be able to scroll down a list of email with the arrow keys in the inbox without every one I pass over getting opened... Maybe they would only open if you hit return or clicked? 7. I'd like a key board shortcut for the DONE button in the email editor... 8. I'd like to be able to choose if the quoted text in a reply goes on the top of the bottom of my message. 9. I'd LOVE to be able to choose my own .wav files to play when I recieve email. Ideally, a different sound for each email box.. 10. I'd like to be able to sort the mail in a folder by clicking on the gray bar \"categories\" such as date, or subject, or sender... like Microsoft Exchange allows you to do.. 11. I'd like to be able to set it to send mail every so often like it allows you to check mail every so often... Thanks for your time. Please let me know if these suggestions could be implemented soon and I'll grab myself a copy of this program.. Mike Smith webmaster@mountainside.com http://www.mountainside.com Technical Support Director for Virtual Servers Inc. mike@vserver.com http://www.ververs.com"}, {"response": 20, "author": "bubbi", "date": "Wed, Nov  6, 1996 (15:52)", "body": "Well, hi there Mike! I like you ideas. Many of them have already been implemented in TMC PRO 3.0, but others are not. A few of those will be implemented. But some things must be explained to me better. Here are some of the things we have been working on: a. Implementing complete PGP methods and keywork. Seamless integration. b. More intelligent editor with many control options. c. Rubber Interface. Allows the user to stretch interface objects to and forth...and stay that way... d. Receive mail and send mail are now integrated into the main system, speeding up all folder and message work by as much as down to 1/9th of the time it took to get a message... e. RAS functioning for Win NT 3.5x and 4.0; had faults in previous release. f. More stable interface. F.ex. flickers not while scrolling the folders. g. The \"Host Control Center\", allows re-reads or pre-reads of messages. Also mark them optionally as read or unread. h. More to the point filter engine with \"AND\", \"OR\" and \"NOT\" options. g. Better Auto-reply editor with spell checker and such. h. Much more!"}, {"response": 21, "author": "bubbi", "date": "Wed, Nov  6, 1996 (15:58)", "body": "Well, hi there Mike! I like you ideas. Many of them have already been implemented in TMC PRO 3.0, but others are not. A few of those will be implemented. But some things must be explained to me better. Here are some of the things we have been working on: a. Implementing complete PGP methods and keywork. Seamless integration. b. More intelligent editor with many control options. c. Rubber Interface. Allows the user to stretch interface objects to and forth...and stay that way... d. Receive mail and send mail are now integrated into the main system, speeding up all folder and message work by as much as down to 1/9th of the time it took to get a message... e. RAS functioning for Win NT 3.5x and 4.0; had faults in previous release. f. More stable interface. F.ex. flickers not while scrolling the folders. g. The \"Host Control Center\", allows re-reads or pre-reads of messages. Also mark them optionally as read or unread. h. More to the point filter engine with \"AND\", \"OR\" and \"NOT\" options. g. Better Auto-reply editor with spell checker and such. h. Much more!"}, {"response": 22, "author": "bubbi", "date": "Fri, Nov  8, 1996 (15:08)", "body": "Hi Terry! Got your messages today! PLUS a mailer responce sending receipts for messages i sent yesterday or the day before!!!? Is there trouble? Hope the crash didn't affect your site, SPRING.COM. I would appreciate responce!"}, {"response": 23, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Nov  8, 1996 (15:59)", "body": "We're ok. We're not invisible (I hope). At least Topic 305 is alive and healthy. In fact, this topic is the most active on the Spring right now. Crash! It was *my fault* for not hooking keyboards up to all our servers. We had a power outage. Just call it pure stupidity and try to overlook it ok? I'm glad you're telnetting to us now, Bjorn. I hope we can become as familiar with some of the other autohrs of apps software as we are with you. I hope the users of the Spring and the visitors to your website can join in the conversation going on here and we can build up some critical mass. I'm becoming a big TransSoft Mail Control fan, I like it more and more after using it. I'm looking forward to registering and getting into it deeper."}, {"response": 24, "author": "bubbi", "date": "Fri, Nov  8, 1996 (16:39)", "body": "Thanks Terry! Tomorrow, saturday or next synday, i'll send you a copy of the beta. I'll send it to you with the PGP inactive whereas that is the greatest implementation and is currently in development. This beta has a bunch of interface changes. It's more \"quiet\", not so much popping up windows, and not so many things happening on the screen. Also, we delayed the TMC PRO 3.0 for approx 2 weeks because of incompatibility of RAS versus Windows NT that we experienced. This has been fixed, as we rewrote the whole bunch. That was quite a job, believe me. Would love receiving a reply to my mail, where i was asking further about the account and more!"}, {"response": 25, "author": "bubbi", "date": "Fri, Nov  8, 1996 (16:41)", "body": "Oh, forgot! During all this, we have already decided to implement voice mail with in a few weeks. From the start, we have been aiming for a client that has it all. Sort of a communications center. This is our further approach for this."}, {"response": 26, "author": "justme", "date": "Fri, Nov  8, 1996 (17:05)", "body": "Why don't you post this new beta that works under NT on the webpage? I have yet to see Mail Control, and would like to try it out"}, {"response": 27, "author": "justme", "date": "Fri, Nov  8, 1996 (17:09)", "body": "Why don't you post this new beta that works under NT on the webpage? I have yet to see Mail Control, and would like to try it out"}, {"response": 28, "author": "bubbi", "date": "Fri, Nov  8, 1996 (21:05)", "body": "Hi Greg! I will post it! It will be posted as a prerelease 3.0 beta. I just hope people won't think this is the final release. The final release has much more than this working version which is in development at this point. But i will take that chance, explaining the lot. When it has been posted it will be announced right here. So take a peek to this site sunday!"}, {"response": 29, "author": "justme", "date": "Fri, Nov  8, 1996 (21:43)", "body": ""}, {"response": 30, "author": "justme", "date": "Fri, Nov  8, 1996 (21:44)", "body": "er sorry for the blank message(s)? Posting the 3.0 prerelease will be good.. I'm sure many would just like to see what the overall feel is like (those NT uses among us dont have the chance) I will also wait for the 3.0 final before making nay decisions of course :) Will check back on sunday.."}, {"response": 31, "author": "bubbi", "date": "Sun, Nov 10, 1996 (08:28)", "body": "Terry! I was wondering when your review would be showing up? I have been checking for it at Stroud's every day. I hope it will be showing up soon.... I will be sending you an ftp location to the pre-release of TMC PRO 3.0 tomorrow. It will be a working release with a lot of changes from the 2.3b. But the final version with the PGP active is due to release in two weeks from now! Please respond!"}, {"response": 32, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Nov 10, 1996 (13:18)", "body": "I'm working on writing it still. And I can't guantee if Forrest will use it or choose to do his own review or not review it at all. But I can guarantee that I'm working on a review and plan to submit it to him as soon as I finish with it. I sent you email on possibly using one of our servers as a North America download site for TMC Pro 3.0. I've been busy today installing a RealAudio server on barton.spring.com, the machine I just gave you an account on. That, and the Packers Chiefs game on tv and cutting firewood for a friend have kept me away from finishing up that review today. Maybe later this evening. Ya know, the PGP version will be real useful to folks who want to conduct secure electronic commerce on the web. Like we do."}, {"response": 33, "author": "bubbi", "date": "Sun, Nov 10, 1996 (19:54)", "body": "Hi Terry! You are a busy man! I am looking forward to posting the TMC Pro 3.0 pre-release to you! The PGP: There are quite a lot of users for secure mail clients. Take all club members, Authorities, Governments, Companies, The Health System, The commerce sites, And on and on... I would recommend for you to open a conversation for PGP users somwhere on your site. They have VERY limited source of software. In that conversation you can point them over to this conversation we are having here. It would be nice to hear from them, what they need, how, and what for. As i told you earlier in this conversation my product is conducted by my users, actually. I would learn a great deal from those users. I am having a great help from a few around the world, but the more, the merrier."}, {"response": 34, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 11, 1996 (00:47)", "body": "Good idea, I'll open up a topic in our Internet conference. It's such a boring subject, but so necessary to the conduct of electronic commerce. I'm definitely looking forward to that 3.0 release!"}, {"response": 35, "author": "justme", "date": "Mon, Nov 11, 1996 (01:07)", "body": "Hmm.. I checked here on Sunday like you suggested but found no 3.0 pre-release tsk tsk :)"}, {"response": 36, "author": "bubbi", "date": "Mon, Nov 11, 1996 (04:49)", "body": "Hi Greg! I am sorry for not having the TMC Pro 3.0 ready on sunday! I only had an NT with permanent connection but no dial-up, so i could not test the RAS although i have finished my work, i think. I had to get myself an NT so i hope it will be ready for you today. Please bear with me! I'll mail you when it is here."}, {"response": 37, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 11, 1996 (08:58)", "body": "We have an NT if you need one. It's http://tvpc.spring.com though I just started configuring it Friday."}, {"response": 38, "author": "justme", "date": "Mon, Nov 11, 1996 (12:11)", "body": "tvpc.spring.com doesn't exist.. no DNS entry for it, did you type it correctly?"}, {"response": 39, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 11, 1996 (17:23)", "body": "Ooops, we just moved this machine and I'm going to have to build a dns table on our two dns servers. Isn't moving fun?"}, {"response": 40, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 11, 1996 (17:24)", "body": "I'll email you the ip address and you can get to it without going through dns."}, {"response": 41, "author": "bubbi", "date": "Tue, Nov 12, 1996 (12:43)", "body": "Hi All! The pre-release of TMC pro 3.0 is nor ready for download. But please do not intall to the previous directory of TransSoft's Mail Control. An update version will be made but as this is a pre-release.... It does NOT include PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) as that portion is under severe testing and development. If you would like it to work with your previous data do this: - Install on to a new folder. - Copy all .exe files on to the previous version And here it is: ftp://ftp.centrum.is/TransSoft/TMCpro3.EXE or from my homepage http://www.centrum.is/~bhg This should do it!!! Looking forward to hearing from you!"}, {"response": 42, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Nov 12, 1996 (13:20)", "body": "Great news! I've decided what I like most about TransSoft Mail Control is the ease with which you can handle multiple users. I would still like to see more control over the server directly. Well, I'll go download that new version . . ."}, {"response": 43, "author": "bubbi", "date": "Tue, Nov 12, 1996 (14:22)", "body": "Hi! I've been having difficulties posting the correct version of install package... Hopefully the correct versioon is now BEING post as this is written. So, the links again (correct this time...): ftp://ftp.centrum.is/TransSoft/TMCpro3.EXE or: http://www.centrum.is/~bhg/tranmail.htm Please excuse this! The speed here on all things is approx 250 mph."}, {"response": 44, "author": "bubbi", "date": "Tue, Nov 12, 1996 (15:08)", "body": "Hi! I've been having difficulties posting the correct version of install package... Hopefully the correct versioon is now BEING post as this is written. So, the links again (correct this time...): ftp://ftp.centrum.is/TransSoft/TMCpro3.EXE or: http://www.centrum.is/~bhg/tranmail.htm Please excuse this! The speed here on all things is approx 250 mph."}, {"response": 45, "author": "bubbi", "date": "Tue, Nov 12, 1996 (15:10)", "body": "Hi! I've been having difficulties posting the correct version of install package... Hopefully the correct versioon is now BEING post as this is written. So, the links again (correct this time...): ftp://ftp.centrum.is/TransSoft/TMCpro3.EXE or: http://www.centrum.is/~bhg/tranmail.htm Please excuse this! The speed here on all things is approx 250 mph."}, {"response": 46, "author": "bubbi", "date": "Tue, Nov 12, 1996 (15:37)", "body": "Sorry! ftp link is missing the \"pub\"... ftp://ftp.centrum.is/pub/TransSoft/TMCpro3.EXE"}, {"response": 47, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Nov 12, 1996 (22:43)", "body": "I have an idea for a feature. How about allowing users to control the order of their emails other than the usual sorting. For example, I'd like to assign a number from 1 to 9 to certain emails and then sort them by this number. That way I could order my emails in order of importance. Or I could select a group, say all the emails with the number 9 assigned, and move them to a folder marked 'high priority'."}, {"response": 48, "author": "bubbi", "date": "Wed, Nov 13, 1996 (05:00)", "body": "Good idea! This would allow a more control over you messages, so it suits me. I am implementing a message filter for the new version. With it you can make the system display only messages with a special text in subject, recipient, sender or even in the mail body. Have you downloaded the pre-release yet? I had to rewrite the whole RAS system because of the incompatibility between the platforms '95 and NT4 and NT 3.5x. A new pre-release will be posted soon, as many changes are being tested this moment."}, {"response": 49, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov 13, 1996 (14:55)", "body": "I downloaded the prerelease on this Windows NT 4.0 system. I'll let you know what I bang up against. I'll wait till you have an upgrade version for my Windows 95 system at austin.spring.com."}, {"response": 50, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov 16, 1996 (14:13)", "body": "Here's a big challenger for you, Bjorn. How about adding a feature that pulls email from multiple mailboxes and dumps them all in one mailbox and then - this is the challenging part - **elminates duplicate**. I get mail from about 50 or more different email boxes and I need a way to sort and prioritize this stuff."}, {"response": 51, "author": "bubbi", "date": "Sat, Nov 16, 1996 (17:08)", "body": "Consider i done, Terry! After TMC Pro beta with PGP is out i'll implement this along with other challenging ideas. One great idea came from Mike from virtual server. That one was to let the incoming rule system build up a mailing lists. Great huh? By some ruling stuff, like special subjects or clauses the sending person is guarenteed to have a reply on the subject along with all other persons of the same interrest. Smart, don't you think? Your idea calls other methods along with it. Retrieving, not one, but all email boxes BEFORE evaluating them. AND there must be a predefined, primary mailbox that will keep the single message that comes out from all the duplicates. 50 boxes!!!! Wow! One might think your job was a postman. You really need my program!!!! Whan all is done with TMC Pro, i think you'll gain a smiling face! Until tomorrow! (Hopfully i'll bring you the big news ny then!!)"}, {"response": 52, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov 16, 1996 (18:27)", "body": "You're evolving this program at the speed of light!"}, {"response": 53, "author": "bubbi", "date": "Sat, Nov 16, 1996 (18:52)", "body": "The truth is, i have always lacked the words for what it is i am aiming at with my product. I think this phrase tells just about it: \"A Complete Communications Control Deck\". (CCCD) or: \"Web Messages Control Center\" (WMCC) As above sais: I am aiming at a system that takes over all thinkable needs concerning Web Messages; eMail, Voice-mail, Secure mails (Contracts, money transfers, offers, individuals data), and in addition to this: \"all control over the matter\". F.ex. the Host, The Ras, The folders, The email accounts behaviour etc, etc."}, {"response": 54, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Nov 19, 1996 (10:30)", "body": "Perhaps you could call it \"Total Domination\". heh. The problem with getting all mail from multiple mailboxes end up in one box is that some will be duplicates (especially if you're implementing forwarding) so the elimination of duplicates would be a *great* feature. Neither Netscape nor Explorer does this!"}, {"response": 55, "author": "bubbi", "date": "Tue, Nov 19, 1996 (19:27)", "body": "OK! Skip naming... The new release of TMC PRO beta with PGP and bug fixes is out... You can get it from my page: http://www.centrum.is/~bhg/tranmail.htm or by ftp: ftp://ftp.delphi32.com/pub/delphi32/TMCbeta.EXE Please feel free to take a peek!!!"}, {"response": 56, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Nov 19, 1996 (20:11)", "body": "How do you set up Microsoft Internet Explorer so that when you click on the Mail icon, TransSoft Mail Control launches? Can this be made an option in your install program so that this is automatic. I see being able to do this as eliminating a barrier that folks might have which would keep them from using your software. Let's face it, folks do what offers the least resistance and I find it very easy just to click the mail icon to grab my mail while surfing around the net. Can TransSoft go in a grab mail out of Netscape and Explorers mail programs?"}, {"response": 57, "author": "bubbi", "date": "Tue, Nov 19, 1996 (20:17)", "body": "OK! Skip naming... The new release of TMC PRO beta with PGP and bug fixes is out... You can get it from my page: http://www.centrum.is/~bhg/tranmail.htm or by ftp: ftp://ftp.delphi32.com/pub/delphi32/TMCbeta.EXE Please feel free to take a peek!!!"}, {"response": 58, "author": "bubbi", "date": "Tue, Nov 19, 1996 (20:26)", "body": "Sorry about that extra Submit! I am going to implement this. I am familiar with the methods in Netscape, but i have not had the time yet to look it up in MS IE. I am aware of this! But then again, when you are using win-95 you have two, three, four or more systems going the same time, swapping between them is a snap. And usually you only use the browsers mail-client on hot links in the HTML you are viewing. At least this is the thing with me. These mail clients don't do all these things for you that i am implementing with my features. And the PGP, voice-mail, auto-reply, auto-mailer (automatical dial up mail handling on specified interval)!!! They have a long ay to go, if ever they will get there. The way i see it, there is not a compare! But i will implement this, for my clients to be able to have all mails in one place."}, {"response": 59, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Nov 19, 1996 (21:20)", "body": "Earlier this evening, I was reading through the current issue of Windows Magazine and it detailed a way (toward the front of the magazine) to fix up Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 so that when you click on the Mail icon, that you could launch a mail program *other* than the one that comes bundled with it. It's a simple procedure, one that uses regedit, so it would be useful to provide these directions. By they way, I just downloaded 3.0 from the above ftp link. It came up with no problems and smartly put itself in another directory other than the older version's, since this is not a \"replacement\" version."}, {"response": 60, "author": "perry1", "date": "Fri, Nov 29, 1996 (22:17)", "body": "From what I've tested under TMC 3.0 , I can say that it's the best email program that I've tested. I was looking at the reviews that Cnet are doing with other email programs. I think they need to review this program. They will be surprixed at what they would find. Even with problems that are getting quick solutions, TMC 3.0 is the best email program this year. I would like to submit the final version to Cnet."}, {"response": 61, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov 30, 1996 (00:30)", "body": "I would have to agree. I hope Forrest picks this up as well as the other review sites. But traditionally, Forrest is the leader in spotting new programs. I'm looking forward to the upgrade version coming out."}, {"response": 62, "author": "perry1", "date": "Sun, Dec  1, 1996 (14:55)", "body": "TMCpro has been submited to C/Net for review. TO: C/Net Review [reviews@cnet.com] In regards to the review that was done on email program packages, (Email Essentials by Gregg Keizer) I would like to throw another hat into the ring. I've been looking for an application that would give me the same options that a network email program would ( My favorite is Groupwise for Novell/ formally wordperfect mail) at a reasonable price. I found one,TMCpro version 3.X. The program was created by Transoft Ltd. http://www.centrum.is/~bhg/ What I like about the company is that IDEAS are welcome and good ideas are incorporated ASAP. I know they come out with allot of updates, but that's what a good application does. Immediate bug fixes and new ideas integration. I've attached the homepage address for your review. PERRY-1 TECH CENTER Homepage: HTTP://members,tripod.com/~perry1 Email: perry1@tech-center.com"}, {"response": 63, "author": "bubbi", "date": "Sun, Dec  1, 1996 (17:59)", "body": "Hi you all! Thanks for the above Perry! I really appreciate this!!! I am hoping you'll all be statisfied with my work, whereas i am posting a new pre-release monday evening. The final version will be out this week. AND this new release has an upgrade procedure for those that had downloaded before, so they can install on to their previous TMC folder! This new pre-release has these enhencements among others: 1. Interface greatly changed 2. repeated download of messages via Host Control Center 3. Inbound rule allows one to add the sender to the address book under a specified group. Later the user can send emails to all of these specifically. 4. Auto-connect more reliable. 5. PGP greatly improved with a bunch of options and properties and setups and copying etc, etc... 6. Trash folder for you to undelete.... 7. Supports all platforms, '95, NT3.5x, NT4 with respect to the RAS. 8. One button for Send/Get 8. Great many bug fixes... What we are currently working on and/or testing: 1. A small, iconized, low-resource unit that takes care of the events of the auto-mailer. 2. Macros in auto-reply text. With Macros (variables) you can for example say: Dear {$SENDER} This subject, {$SUBJECT}, is ..... 3. Automatic redirection of incoming messages. 4. Many more features... Please download tomorrow night, and let me know! Thanks!"}, {"response": 64, "author": "bubbi", "date": "Sun, Dec  1, 1996 (18:53)", "body": "Oh! Forgot to tell you Terry! You will no be able to make TMC your default mail client. Processing hot links in HTML's and such... This can be done for those using MS.IExplorer. Netscape is giving me more trouble!! And don't hesitate to try this, whereas the program will allow you to reset it to the MS.MAIL. But i don't think you'll want that....Will you?"}, {"response": 65, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Dec  1, 1996 (19:44)", "body": "Well I run Explorer. So perhaps I'll be able to make it my default mail reader."}, {"response": 66, "author": "bubbi", "date": "Tue, Dec 10, 1996 (21:10)", "body": "Hi Terry! Well, i got the review! And frankly, i am VERY happy with the outcome. Not bad a start i'd say! Right? Anyway, the Final version is out. Many of my users had a complete Christmas-Wish-List that i wanted to fulfill, so i postponed the final for a few days. One of those was a RTF-editor for the messages. This allows them to create good-looking messages with a fearly nice word-processor i made and integrated to TMC. The incoming rules have new features s.a. to add senders to addressbook or remove them from it. There you also can redirect incoming mail to another address automatically. The system is more stable now as it controls RAS in a more sophisticated manner, using alternate techniques. Please download and tell me what you think. Untill later!"}, {"response": 67, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec 11, 1996 (13:43)", "body": "Thanks Forrest! The review is a detailed and fair assessment. This is an example of how the conferences here are uncovering applications for Forrest to review. I'm looking forward to downloading the latest version. Slaps bubbi a cyber \"high five\"!"}, {"response": 68, "author": "bubbi", "date": "Wed, Dec 18, 1996 (13:59)", "body": "Hi Terry (-and of cause, all yea other readers...) ! This is to tell you about updates of TMC! Today i posted a new pre-release 3.25 of TMC. The final release of 3.25 wil add many great new features to TMC. Most of them never seen in a mail client before! This pre-release is a showcase of three of them! New feature no available: 1. - Macros (variables) in auto-reply messages. This allows you to design reply messages that the mailer changes when it is sent in order to address specific things. F.ex. if you would place {$Sender} and {$Subject} TMC would exchange these with the senders name and the receiving message subject. 2. - \"Message templates\". The user can now build up a collection of predefined forms to use on various occasions. This allows those working a lot with email to build the foms with all of the neccessary text. 3. - \"Remote Commands Interpreter\" or RCI. RCI is a very powerful feature which we will be adding a lot of new features into. The first release is out with this pre-release of TMC. RCI allows the owner of TMC to control it remotely in the way that he can tell TMC complete local tasks by sending messages with a special script to it. We have developed a script we have chosen to call \"RCI script\". The user just sends a message with RCI script, from any type of mailer he cooses, from a remote location and he TMC fulfills the Scripting task. This script can be a list of DOS commands to complete; for instance to zip a file, and then he can tell TMC to send the zipped file in a new message as an attchment, to him on his remote location. This can come in handy, if you are downtown or far away: If you need a file from your computer at home, just send it a message and TMC will complete the task and send it to you! Things we are currently working on: 1. - HTML techniques. Due on 12.20.1996 (Viewer) and 1.10.1996 (HTML Editor) We are ipmlementing a HTML viewer for HTML messages. The viewer will be integrated into the mailer and the mailer will recognise wether the message is a HTML, RTF or a normal plain TEXT message. Along with this the system will allow you to create a HTML message, as we are generating a HTML editor for the task. This is to be a WYSIWYG editor (What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get) for those unfamiliar with the HTML language. 2. - RCI \"Remote Command Interpreter\" wizard. Due in end december, 1996 The RCI wizard will make an end user able to create RCI script without any knowledge of RCI at all. 3. Macros in Templates. Due on 12.20.1996 With this feature you will be able to use templates with pre-defined locations of the name of the receiver, sender, date etc. The TMC will automatically put those into the message on these predefined locations. 4. Carbon Copy Capabilities. Due on 12.20.1996 For multiple receivers messages. (Although you are capable of this today, CC is a standard feature that we will not ignore). 5. Blind Carbon Copy Capabilities. Due on 12.20.1996 For multiple receivers messages without the receiver to be able to see that. (Although you are capable of this today, BCC is a standard feature that we will not ignore). Hope you'll enjoy TMC!!"}, {"response": 69, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec 18, 1996 (23:32)", "body": "These are some powerful new capabilities. At work today, I had to try and get a copy of Eudora for our sales team (I mentioned TransSoft but they needed a particular form of encryption that talks to our modem) and set up a beta machine with both Microsoft Mail and Eudora Pro for evaluation. The mailer that comes with Microsoft Internet Explorer has one great feature I like: the ability to click on the top of a column of mail messages and sort by date, reverse date, subject, reverse alpha subject, etc. I'd like to see a feature list comparison of TransSoft, Microsoft, Pegasus, and Eudora Pro and perhaps a couple of others. I think that TranSoft would come off very well in such a comparison. How are you addressing the concerns that Forrest expressed in his review? Has the volume of downloads started to increase? What are your next steps? How is TransSoft positioned among the other software products that TransSoft offers. Is TransSoft strictly an Icelandic operation or are you a \"virtual company\"? How are you organized?"}, {"response": 70, "author": "bubbi", "date": "Thu, Dec 19, 1996 (07:33)", "body": "PLEASE READ THOROUGHLY! First of all: TMC sorts the messagelist when you press the header of it. It can be sorted by date, subject or Sender/Receiver optionally in ascending or descending. Concerning the Strouds review: I will be keeping the mailer at $50 (for now anyway). The reason is the hard work behind the product AND the fact that the my aim for CCCD (Complete Communication Control Deck) has placed TMC in a unique position. NO OTHER CLIENT introduces any of these: - The \"Remote Commands Interpreter\" / RCI Scripting - The automatic Answering machine facilities. Working while you are out, replying to messages and/or sending files. - The RAS control features - The Macros (Variables) handling. - The Message Templates with Variable handling. - Many smaller features that seem to become the natural when you have used them in TMC. Not to mention the upcoming Newbies: - The WYSIWYG HTML-editor, to create HTML messages WITH images. We will also make this editor avaialable as a freeware, standalone program for HTML creation and editing. - The Voice mail feature we are currently adding. - Many others. We also will be adding, within a couple of months, Fax messages. This way you will be able to add to the addressbook individuals that do not have emails but as they have Fax machines the system will determine how to send. F.ex. when send a message to a group of individuals the system will send emails to those that have email addresses, otherwise it will send faxes.... I have been wondering if I should make a smaller version avaiable for free or a tiny amount, thus leaving out all the automation features. I am still wondering... The volume of downloads has increased significantly. I am not much of a marketing guy and i am not much in on how to market products on the Net. Before version 3 i did not want to start any great marketing plans. But now as we are posting the pre-releases of version 3.25 which will add the features i really have been waiting for the due-time of, i am in the position of staring to gather infos for marketing plans. TransSoft's position regarding other products: TransSoft has the most popular Hotel Management system in Iceland. 75% of all computerized hotels here have TransSoft's HMS, called \"Manor\". This is so inspite of the fact that most all other HMS creators have come to the country introducing their products. We are to post a new version of the HMS this spring, a VERY special product, different from other HMS system in most every way. TransSoft also owns the only known communication system for Omron cash registers made for windows. Other products are mostly specially made, large systems that need to be changed for each installation because of their nature. Is TransSoft strictly an Icelandic operation or are you a \"virtual company\"? Answer: TransSoft is ME, and i am TransSoft - and i am Icelandic! = TransSoft is strictly an Icelandic operation. I work in this way: I slice time between projects. I try to make as long periods for each project that i am working on. If i am to get away from a project for a while i try to create a detailed description on what to do and how to do things, and hand over to my companions i talk about on my homepage, to keep the project from stopping. These companions are individuals, working fulltime elsewhere, but tightly standardized into my code and available for me at all times. I would be more than happy to see a feature list comparison of all the mailers. Maybe Stroud or some other freelance individual would make this kind of comparison. Let me know if you need more information!! Thanks, Bjorn"}, {"response": 71, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Dec 19, 1996 (07:44)", "body": "Tell us about your companions and what they do for you wand what they do in general. Will we see them in this topic? Do they have webpages (list urls)?"}, {"response": 72, "author": "bubbi", "date": "Thu, Dec 19, 1996 (10:01)", "body": "OK! First, there is Fridjon Gudjohnsen. He is an emplyee at the icelandic \"Radar agency\" - computer center. He is also a student, studying Computer Science of cause. He also previously had a degree from the USA concerning his job. His main object for me was the external PGP control programming: The Behind-spawning and output spying of a DOS based application. He did a great job there and is still advancing it. He is extremely thorough in all he does, code is well kept and organized. He can be reached through fridjon@itn.is but he does not have a webpage. I'll check and see if he'll be here in this topic! Second, there is Hordur Johannsson. He currently is a webmaster at http://www.firmnet.is . A general working horse, he is. - 24 hours of work is nothing...., we are looking at a lot longer time here.. His job for me is programming standardized procedures and dialogs. He is a very standardized figure, always sniffing for the short cuts in his programming. Fridjon, at least, will be participating here within the next 24 hours!"}, {"response": 73, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Dec 19, 1996 (21:43)", "body": "Now, a real important question, are you having fun?"}, {"response": 74, "author": "bubbi", "date": "Fri, Dec 20, 1996 (12:08)", "body": "***** Y E S ***** :-) :0) :o} {o: (o: (-:"}, {"response": 75, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Dec 20, 1996 (23:04)", "body": "Good, looking forward to seeing some more of your colleagues and other TransSoft Mail users in this topic. Did you know the conferences are pulling about 4,000 hits a day now? A long way from Stroud's 2 million a day, but we're starting to feel something of a \"lift off\" on this site."}, {"response": 76, "author": "fridjon", "date": "Sat, Dec 21, 1996 (06:41)", "body": "Hi all. Bjorn told me about this conference about TMC and I wanted to take a look at it. I have been developing the PGP support for the program and if you have any questions about it, I will do my best to answer them."}, {"response": 77, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Dec 21, 1996 (08:49)", "body": "How about starting with a basic introduction to email security and how PGP fits in to the picture. Just how secure or insecure is Internet email and how do you utilize PGP to protect your email. And Fridjon, would you mind telling us a bit about youself in the \"introductions\" topic in this 'apps' conference?"}, {"response": 78, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Dec 21, 1996 (11:03)", "body": "I was on the Centrum site today and got to this chat: http://www.centrum.is/cgi-bin/vefspjallid Is this something that we could add to the Spring? Where did this web app come from?"}, {"response": 79, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Dec 21, 1996 (15:32)", "body": "Here is the new 3.0 version download ftp site: ftp://ftp.centrum.is/pub/TransSoft/tmc325.exe"}, {"response": 80, "author": "fridjon", "date": "Sat, Dec 21, 1996 (15:59)", "body": "Well, first of all let me introduce myself. I am 29 years old electronics technician and I currently work in the maintenance of radar systems. I have however, always had a big interest in programming and have been programming, in one form or another for the last 15 years or so :=). I am now going to university studying computer science and I have just finished the first semester. Toanswer the question about if conventional email is secure it is, simply said, not secure. The mail that one sends goes through at least 4 computers and usually many more. First, the message is written on the senders computer, then it is sent to the senders mail server, the senders mail server sends it to the recipients mail server and from there it is sent to the recipients computer. How can then someone read your email ? Well, the person does not need to bug your phone, or break into your house, they can simply read the mail at either of the mail servers. In order to do that, that person must have special access to the mail-server, which would mean that he/she is either an employee for the internet service provider, or a hacker that has broken in there. But there is also another security problem related to email : Anyone can send mail to you, pretending to be someone else. There is no guaranty that the sender of a message you receive, is really the one that you think. What all email client programs do, when they send mail is that they connect to the mail server, tell it that they have a message from John Doe and then send the message. There is no checking that the mail is really coming from whom they claim to be. PGP attempts to overcome these limitations of conventional email security and can provide both encryption (scrambling the message so that unauthorized persons can read it) and authenticity (assurance that the message is really coming from its sender). How does PGP work ? It is based upon a system called public key encription. Public key encryption uses two keys. First there is a secret key that only the sender has. Secondly, there is a public key that the sender distributes to everyone that wants to send him messages. This public key is used to encrypt messages to the the person with the secret key. The only way to decrypt a public key-encrypted message is to use the secret key (It is impossible to decrypt a public key-encrypted message with the public key). This means that if someone was reading all your email, both your incoming, and your outgoing mail, he or she, would not be able to decrypt messages to you. This is true even if that person has your public key, because the public key can not be used to decrypt messages. There is a lot of information about PGP available on the WWW. Here are some : The International PGP Homepage A site with information on Cryptosystems in general An excellent introduction to PGP"}, {"response": 81, "author": "bubbi", "date": "Sun, Dec 22, 1996 (19:28)", "body": "Terry! Announcing an update release to TMC pro 3.25 beta. We've added: Voicemail feature and Nicknames in addressbook (Abbreviations) and a few fixes to the recent releases (sorry to admit...) Feel free to download from my pages: http://www.centrum.is/transsoft Let me know what you think!"}, {"response": 82, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Dec 22, 1996 (20:40)", "body": "Can this be installed as an upgrade? Or does this have to be installed from scratch?"}, {"response": 83, "author": "bubbi", "date": "Sun, Dec 22, 1996 (21:15)", "body": "As an upgrade, of cause!! Just choose the Upgrade link for the beta, 3.25. It is a beta which is currently undergoing thorough tests widely spread at all kinds of users! The Voicemail feature is very easy to use (hopefully working as easilly), just a button away in the message editor! Read about latest newbies and upcoming features here: http://www.centrum.is/~bhg/fixes.htm and http://www.centrum.is/~bhg/currentwork.htm Let me know if you have any difficulties at all and i'll fix your machine! Let me know how it is going and what you think!"}, {"response": 84, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Dec 22, 1996 (23:03)", "body": "I'll download it in a couple of days. I look forward to trying out the voice mail feature. What are the early reports on this feature? Are you doing anything with mailing list servers?"}, {"response": 85, "author": "bubbi", "date": "Thu, Jan  2, 1997 (17:28)", "body": "Just letting you know about a new pre-release update. This one is great!!! I'll leave here a part of a message that was sent to my News-subscribers: ---------- From the Newsletter: ------------ The new release implements 2 great new features that no other mailer implements in such way or any way for that matter. The features are: 1. HyperText Markup Language (HTML) Viewing Pane. You can now view HTML messages just like you where in your browser, with inline images, all fonts, forms, tables etc, etc.... We will be adding to this feature in the nearest future, allowing you to use the viewing pane in the manner of your browser, enlarged and hot-linked, serving remote http:// links and FTP requests. When you have downloaded the new release you can test the viewer by sending us a message with the subject as: \"Show-HTML\" and you will receive a message which demonstrates a small portion of the HTML-viewer's capabilities. You are also able to view the HTML message in your default web-browser by clicking the right-mouse button over the viewing-pane and select \"View in your browser\" topic. 2. HTML-wizard. This feature allows HTML-novices to send sophisticated HTML messages without having to type in a single HTML tag or command. This wizard asks you for Header and subHeader along with background image or background color. The second screen in the wizard allows composing of the new message, with your previously made templates, signatures and optional spell checking. As with the HTML-Viewing-Pane we will be adding aggressively to the wizard, allowing you to use the same features as with RTF (no Plain-Text) formatted messages, placing images on fixed spots, adding tables from inside the editor and more. Note that when you have created a HTML message and if you have selected images there, you can move them and/or copy in the original Message-Editor on return. For example if you would like a picture of you to be located near your name you would do something like this: Smith Carlisle The new release fixes previous bugs. F.ex. a problem with Voicemail, resulting in recording failure. Other fixes has also been made but we can not guarantee a bug free beta release as the system is continuously under development. ------------------------------------------------------ Hope you like it! Anyway, the mailer allows you to make HTML message and receive and view complex HTML messages with the ability of full-blown Browser. ...Including Tables, tags, intdents, forms, etc. Hope you'll download it soon Terry! Please let me know what you think!"}, {"response": 86, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jan  2, 1997 (17:38)", "body": "Do you have a version fo rNT Workstation? That's what I run at work."}, {"response": 87, "author": "bubbi", "date": "Thu, Jan  2, 1997 (17:44)", "body": "Yes, for NT 4... We had problems with NT 3.5x which we are fixing. Do you have NT 4?"}, {"response": 88, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Jan  3, 1997 (00:44)", "body": "Yes I do, and I haven't been able to do a successful install yet."}, {"response": 89, "author": "GregHughes", "date": "Sat, Jan  4, 1997 (13:54)", "body": "Well, I have evaluated Transoft Mail Control off and on for a few months now, and am very pleased with the program, personally. My recent system crash pulled me away from working with this program, but I am pleased to see that Bjorn is still working hard on it! I can't wait to try the new features and send him a check!"}, {"response": 90, "author": "GregHughes", "date": "Sat, Jan  4, 1997 (13:55)", "body": "Well, I have evaluated Transoft Mail Control off and on for a few months now, and am very pleased with the program, personally. My recent system crash pulled me away from working with this program, but I am pleased to see that Bjorn is still working hard on it! I can't wait to try the new features and send him a check!"}, {"response": 91, "author": "paulgood", "date": "Sat, Jan  4, 1997 (14:11)", "body": "I recently downloaded TransSoft Mail Pro 3.0 (beta). It seems like a great program with lots of useful features. But I want to be able to read HTML formated mail with TransSoft. So far, any HTML mail appears as just text. Have I not configured something properly? I was told that this new version of TransSoft could display HTML mail in a browser like fashion. (like Netscape displays mail from their In-Box direct program) Thanks in advance"}, {"response": 92, "author": "bubbi", "date": "Tue, Jan  7, 1997 (08:08)", "body": "Update: Paul was using thre previous version, 3.0 while the beta release 3.25 has the option of HTML messages viewing/composing/browsing and more. Terry: I noticed that you were having trouble with installation of the mailer? Would you email me informations about this please? Plus: I am currently adding a few things that i will have in the version 3.25 final. One of these is the \"Priority Marking\" of the messages, one of the wishes you had on your list!! Let me know the details! Thanks!"}, {"response": 93, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jan  7, 1997 (08:32)", "body": "I'll keep trying to run it under NT and send you my notes. I'm switching near all my machines to NT 4.0."}, {"response": 94, "author": "bubbi", "date": "Tue, Jan  7, 1997 (10:59)", "body": "Terry: I checked and saw that there are several users with TMC on NT 4.0 withour problems. I counted up to 30 and then stopped. So there can easily be hundreds. Can it be that the machine you have has not got the RAS installed (Remote Access Services). If so, you can install it through the Network icon and if you do not have a modem, you can associate the RAS with a com to com protocol. (Cheating the RAS). Please check this out and let me know! Send how it goes to me !"}, {"response": 95, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jan  7, 1997 (11:04)", "body": "It does not yet have ras intalled. I'll do that now. But I'm on a LAN without a phone line. Special instructions for this? Do you know of a ras tutorial on the net anywhere?"}, {"response": 96, "author": "ANDE", "date": "Mon, Jan 13, 1997 (22:43)", "body": "I would like to know if anybody out there been to hawaii lately."}, {"response": 97, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Jan 15, 1997 (07:41)", "body": "Not lately. With all this ice and snow, not a bad idea though."}, {"response": 98, "author": "tonyluk", "date": "Wed, Mar 19, 1997 (07:08)", "body": "Hi, well I have been reading all the info and comments on this forum and I would love to try EMC Pro.. Now I am using NT 3.51 Workstation on a standard build. Wen I go to install, its fine, unfortunately when I start the program I get asked for nearly all the RAS .Dll files!! Now I know how to expand these files from the NT CD rom, but am to understand that anyone that has any intentions of installing this app under NT will have to do the same. Believe me it's a very tedious way of expanding and copy the .dll files and I now have one file; RASMAN.DLL that has failed. God knows why as it has been taken from a brand new NT CD rom.. I hate to say this but if i was a standard home user I would have given up long ago.. Is there not any way in the install pocess you can ask: a) what platform are you using. b) where is your system directory. At least that way if the user is on NT then you could include the relavant NT .DLL files, and make sure that the files you include in the install program are yours and are known to work.. So far I have as yet to even start the app. I have searched all the servers for the RASMAN.DLL file in my entire Company Corporation.. and no joy.. can any one help......... Tony"}, {"response": 99, "author": "tonyluk", "date": "Wed, Mar 19, 1997 (07:34)", "body": "Hi, well I have been reading all the info and comments on this forum and I would love to try EMC Pro.. Now I am using NT 3.51 Workstation on a standard build. Wen I go to install, its fine, unfortunately when I start the program I get asked for nearly all the RAS .Dll files!! Now I know how to expand these files from the NT CD rom, but am to understand that anyone that has any intentions of installing this app under NT will have to do the same. Believe me it's a very tedious way of expanding and copy the .dll files and I now have one file; RASMAN.DLL that has failed. God knows why as it has been taken from a brand new NT CD rom.. I hate to say this but if i was a standard home user I would have given up long ago.. Is there not any way in the install pocess you can ask: a) what platform are you using. b) where is your system directory. At least that way if the user is on NT then you could include the relavant NT .DLL files, and make sure that the files you include in the install program are yours and are known to work.. So far I have as yet to even start the app. I have searched all the servers for the RASMAN.DLL file in my entire Company Corporation.. and no joy.. can any one help......... Tony"}, {"response": 100, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Mar 19, 1997 (21:03)", "body": "I know that Bjorn is supporting the NT platform. I'll send him an email alert."}, {"response": 101, "author": "tonyluk", "date": "Mon, Mar 24, 1997 (10:14)", "body": "Well, heres an update on my attempt on this software. I have now managed to unpack all the files that seem to be required under this app. I now have one last hurdle. Here's the fault code: The procedure entry point QueueUserAPC could not be allocated in the Dynamic Link Library Kernel32.dll. There is no way that I'm going to change this file as if I do then I cannot guarantee how stable my NT build will be. I can replace it with the current 3.51 file, but it doesn't like it. I can try the NT4 workstation CD Rom but whether it will boot up correctly I don't know. Some how I think it wont work and I don't want to have to go through the recovery preedure. Can Bjorn offer somemore help. I would try this software on my 95 machine at home and I will try it on my NT4 box but I really do have some doubts about it's viable installation. Can I ask what systems this has been installed and tested on. I even havre gone as far as installing the RAS service on my NT3.51 box and still no joy? hope to hear back soon. Tony"}, {"response": 102, "author": "tango", "date": "Tue, Mar 25, 1997 (15:58)", "body": "Hi There I think this conference is a little slow for the moment. I, as many others, find TMC Pro 3,25 the greatest mailclient on the net. I'm looking forward to use the PGP interface, but i'm not able to make it work on my NT 4.0. I Hope Bj\ufffdrn vil help me soon. (Keeps knocking on heavens door :-) If you are using TSM on NT 4.0, here is an advice. Is TMC make the internetconnection via RAS, the other internet programs like browsers and other might not be able to see the connection. To solve this problem you can add a shortcut to Dial-Up Networking Monitor to the Startup folder. This will make the NT RAS see, when TMC is making an connection, and all other programs will recordnice the connection as well. Thomas, Denmark"}, {"response": 103, "author": "bjorn", "date": "Wed, Apr 23, 1997 (13:00)", "body": "Hello All! Sorry for the delay in getting here! This conference had been a bit low on issues for a few months so eventually i stopped checking it out! :o) ....and when i did, my previous login name \"bubbi\" did not work??? Why is that Terry?? I am hoping that all issues concerning NT problems have been fixed in the latest release 3.25.i - and i am hoping the the final version of TMC will be out later this week or early next! You can download an upgrade by means of \"Help/Download latest...\" from within TMC or you can get a new installation from either of my sites: http://www.transsoft-is.com/ or http://www.centrum.is/transsoft Thanks for the hint Thomas! Let me know how it's going!"}, {"response": 104, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Apr 24, 1997 (17:06)", "body": "I'm going to be doing some heavy duty NT testing when it comes out and working on setting up the Spring's Transsoft site. I have set aside some time to work on this and get this going (finally!). I'll also be doing some performance tuning on our servers, one of which will be a testbed for TransSoft Mail Control. Expect some extensive lists of suggestions for enhancements in upcoming versions as soon as I enter the test phase. In my opinion, Microsoft has missed the boat in their mail program released with IE 4.0. As far as I can tell, it wipes messages off of the server without even giving the user a choice of saving. I'm pretty sure this is true of the \"Outlook\" mail program released with Office 97. At any rate, I am gaining a good perspective on where the mail client market is going and will have some suggestions for TransSoft which, hopefully, will put it in a dominant position vis a vis Microsoft, Netscape, Pegasus and Eudora."}, {"response": 105, "author": "ottercum", "date": "Mon, May 19, 1997 (08:56)", "body": "This is sort of a test message, in response to Terry's request. But I'm a big fan and a user of TransSoft Mail Control despite its relative slow response speed."}, {"response": 106, "author": "ottercum", "date": "Mon, May 19, 1997 (08:56)", "body": "This is sort of a test message, in response to Terry's request. But I'm a big fan and a user of TransSoft Mail Control despite its relative slow response speed."}, {"response": 107, "author": "redman", "date": "Fri, Feb 27, 1998 (13:43)", "body": "TransSoft Mail has to be the BUGGIEST program I have EVER downloaded & setup.It would not run for over a few minutes without GPF's,most of them different!! Plus,after at least three detailed bug reports,I've yet to get a reply,let alone any help,from the so called \"customer-support\". I suggest,instead of trying to hang with the \"big boys\",TransSoft go back to the basic's & start over. jb Btw,I went ahead & ordered Eudora Pro 32bit ($39.00usd).Best mail client,bar none,I've EVER had the pleasure to run."}, {"response": 108, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Feb 27, 1998 (20:13)", "body": "Bjorn Heidarr Gudmundsson would be horrified to hear that his tech support is slipping, because I've known him to be extremely responsive. In addition to that, he's constantly innovating and adding new features. For example, he just added data migration facilites for Eudora and Netscape. Perhaps he'll check in and address this, I know that he checks in on this discussion."}, {"response": 109, "author": "Bubbi", "date": "Sun, Mar  1, 1998 (15:56)", "body": "Hi Paul and all! Yes, I do check in here once in a while to see if there are any new topics around or new messages to this discussion! I have to admit, Paul that the last 4-5 weeks, our support has gone way under because of flooded mailboxes we experienced when TMC version 4 BETA was announced on the Internet. Everyone seemed to be asking questions and our registered users wanted new keys for the new version and a large number of them offered BETA testing and gave large reports. What we *HAD TO DO* was to sort out all emails and prioritize them - and we decided to support all registered users before assisting any evaluators of TMC. By no things are getting back to normal again though... TMC 3.50 had problems on some machines. Most of those were related to third party Screendrivers. The reason: In TMC 3.50 we go far beyond normal use of the screen and some of our techniques are simply not accepted by some screendrivers. TMC 3.50 also used A LOT of resources while executing. This is known to cause some problems on machines with less resources to provide. However, all in all: TMC 3.50 does implement all it's features well and without problems. We cannot however test with all those thousands of screendrivers around. We have over 100 BETA testers worldwide and when we have their clearence we post our projects to the web. We normally try and help those in trouble evaluating although some times are tougher than others. Version 4 BETA is however free of all this problem of resources and screens. The new version only takes approx. 1/4th of 3.50's resources and there are no known problems with third-party screendrivers. The only thing I can do regarding Redman's posting is to ask him to pardon us while we go through these frustrating weeks of finalizing the version. FYI Paul: The next and we hope last BETA will be posted tomorrow night to our sites. Feel free and check it out! Keep in touch Paul! Kindest regards, Bjorn, TransSoft"}, {"response": 110, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Mar  1, 1998 (20:32)", "body": "We'll stay in touch, so you stay in touch. (he says in his Hugh Downs imitation voice). apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 306, "subject": "Dunce-Dial-Up Networking Connection Enhancement", "response_count": 8, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct 31, 1996 (12:46)", "body": "Happy Halloween!"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct 31, 1996 (13:08)", "body": "They also have a reciprocal linking deal. You link to them and they'll link to your page. I told them about our conferences today and sent them our url. http://www.vecdev.com/links.html"}, {"response": 3, "author": "capuccino", "date": "Fri, Nov  1, 1996 (10:58)", "body": "happy birthday everyone"}, {"response": 4, "author": "capuccino", "date": "Fri, Nov  1, 1996 (11:00)", "body": "well, this is new, someone that want talk about something"}, {"response": 5, "author": "vecdev", "date": "Sun, Nov  3, 1996 (02:31)", "body": "Hey everybody. Nice to see some active users of my product. I'll get you guys linked to my Linking to Dunce page soon."}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Nov  3, 1996 (05:44)", "body": "Thanks Ben. I'd like to get some more diverse viewpoints here on your product. Could you tell us about how you got started and how this product was developed and your future plans for Dunce?"}, {"response": 7, "author": "breser", "date": "Sun, Dec 14, 1997 (21:34)", "body": "Terry, Dunce was written when I was seriously disappointed with the way that Microsoft designed Windows95's built in Dial-Up Networking. I looked at the available solutions and none of them fit the bill. Many people went the route of replacing the dialer. I choose to follow a different route. That is of enhacing the dialer and making my product transparent. Currently plans for Dunce include some upgrades to support changes made by Microsoft for Windows 98 and Internet Explorer 4.0. We also are planning on increasing the efficency of Dunce even more than it is today."}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Dec 14, 1997 (23:39)", "body": "Let us know when this release is out. And now they're up to IE 4.01. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 307, "subject": "Starfish Internet Utilities", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov  9, 1996 (22:39)", "body": "The Starfish website is at http://www.starfishsoftware.com/ apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 308, "subject": "Cool Edit 96 - the sound editor", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Nov 10, 1996 (14:49)", "body": "To elaborate on a minor inaccuracy in one of the \"cons\" above. When you start up the program, you select three features that you want to enable. All the other features are disabled. This is \"semi-crippleware\" but not onerous enough to prevent you from getting basic sound files edited. It may cause you to shut down and re-open the program frequently to acheive multiple effects. I'm gonna offer these folks a distribution point on the Spring, the main limitation now is that their software is just plain hard to get. Quit playing hard to get, Cool Edit folks!"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Nov 12, 1996 (00:04)", "body": "Here's where to download it: ftp://ftp.syntrillium.com/pub/cool_edit/filters/prognet.exe They just got their ftp site back up and running. I got an email today apologizing for yesterday's downed ftp site. So that may not be normal for their ftp site to be down. I'm real happy to have this app. The Realaudio add on worked like a champ. Now I can save sound bytes directly as Realaudio files. You just ftp these files into your c:\\cool directory where the cool edit files reside and they work! apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 309, "subject": "Castanet Tuner for Windows 95", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 31, "subject": "Jumanji Pavilion", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Thu, May 18, 2000 (22:14)", "body": "Haven't heard much about this lately."}, {"response": 2, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, May 25, 2000 (14:37)", "body": "Never heard of it till I came in here to see what you posted. Never even heard much about the movie (cannot even remember it, actually...). Must not have been a memorable addition to our cultural heritage?! apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 310, "subject": "Callable ftp", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "Bug", "date": "Sun, Nov 17, 1996 (09:13)", "body": "I am looking for Char Room Management Software. The type of software that automatically sends anyone that logsin a Welcome meassage, etc. Roy Herlocher RHH1095@aol,com apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 311, "subject": "Webstalker Pro", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 18, 1996 (16:39)", "body": "To get a Windows 95 demo: ftp://ftp.haystack.com/pub/ws/wsdemo.exe"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov 18, 1996 (16:44)", "body": "For more details you can visit the website at http://www.haystack.com Haystack is uniquely positioned in the security niche of the Internet industry, drawing upon years of experience working in government agencies (eg. FBI, Defense Dept) to protect webservers \"beyond the firewall.\" Most security breaches are not perpetrated by 15 year olds cracking a firewall but by \"insiders\", competitors and others with access inside the firewall. Haystack really has a huge lead in the industry in the active detection and response suite of protocols they have developed. If their marketing department can \"evangelize\" and tell this story effectively, this company has the potential to \"own\" this sector of the marketplace. They have grown from 9 employees a year ago, to 30 today. Haystack's CEO, Steve Smaha, is world renowned as a security maven. His insightful and clear headed leadership is sparking the efforts of a talented team of developers, marketeers, support and operations people. Haystack is definitely a company to keep an eye on in '97. If you're initiating an electronic commerce strategy on your website, or have a need for security, a firewall will not be enough protection. You really need this kind of active detection and response to provide a comfort zone to website customers and to adequately protect your website and server. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 312, "subject": "VMPEG at Stroud's still #1????", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 313, "subject": "hello everybody", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "smckern", "date": "Wed, Nov 27, 1996 (23:15)", "body": "Hi - consider it said!!! apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 314, "subject": "Let's Chat", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "mumepeg", "date": "Fri, Feb 28, 1997 (21:36)", "body": "Well Im here dont know abouth all the others! apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 315, "subject": "Teens room", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "pnm", "date": "Wed, Sep  1, 1999 (02:56)", "body": "it is good one compare to others"}, {"response": 2, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Wed, Sep  1, 1999 (09:49)", "body": "Indeed... And what do you compare, pn? Welcome to the Spring! apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 316, "subject": "Ras4", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "Pilsbury", "date": "Sat, Nov 30, 1996 (19:09)", "body": "apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 317, "subject": "QuickView Plus", "response_count": 3, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "pepe", "date": "Fri, Aug  4, 2000 (17:58)", "body": "i li ke to submit"}, {"response": 2, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, Aug  4, 2000 (21:10)", "body": "I have and use QuickView Plus. Pepe, tell us more ! Aloha!"}, {"response": 3, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, Aug  5, 2000 (00:08)", "body": "Thanks for cre ating this topic. I am curiou what all it can handle in the way of uncommon files. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 318, "subject": "NetMeeting Q &A", "response_count": 15, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "Kaffeine", "date": "Sat, Nov 30, 1996 (13:03)", "body": "Okay, I don't know if I should have created this topic here, but I keep seeing references to the NetMeeting software, and don't have a clue what you're talking about! Do you need to be using Explorer to use it, or can I use Netscape? How do I find you guys once I have it installed?"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov 30, 1996 (13:17)", "body": "Go to the Apps conference here to the NetMeeting topic. It will give you complete directions on how to download it and it has a full review of the topic. http://www.spring.com/yapp-bin/restricted/respond/apps/34 Let me know if you can download the app from here and if the information there is useful to you!"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov 30, 1996 (16:02)", "body": "You don't need to be using any browser kaffeine. Just Windows 95. Here's the place to pick it up: http://www.microsoft.com/netmeeting/"}, {"response": 4, "author": "jwinsor", "date": "Sat, Nov 30, 1996 (16:04)", "body": "\" Just Windows 95. \" Oh, thanks a lot Bill Gates. Leave Mac users out in the cold, as usual."}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov 30, 1996 (16:09)", "body": "We'll figure out an app for Mac users. Microsoft has ported over Explorer to the Mac so I suspect they'll eventually port this."}, {"response": 6, "author": "jwinsor", "date": "Sat, Nov 30, 1996 (16:25)", "body": "Mac users have been able to do that among themselves using ARA since the advent of System 7."}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Dec  1, 1996 (12:17)", "body": "Terry: Good morning Amy! It's a fine day here in Austin, how's things in hoosierland? How is it going with the unix dreamteam? I notice that several folks have been logging in to the shell in the last day or so. Amy: Amy, let's try again later. Amy is now Your Mom in NetMeeting. Clever eh?"}, {"response": 8, "author": "churchh", "date": "Sun, Dec  1, 1996 (15:21)", "body": "If it only runs under Windosws 95, then I will definitely NOT be able to use it...."}, {"response": 9, "author": "geekman", "date": "Mon, Dec  2, 1996 (04:22)", "body": "G'day, And I (for a change) second HC. How about us poorer users with old systems that won't use Windows 95?"}, {"response": 10, "author": "Anna", "date": "Mon, Dec  2, 1996 (05:07)", "body": "poor? resource starved? HC ????"}, {"response": 11, "author": "Tessie", "date": "Tue, Dec 10, 1996 (00:53)", "body": "I would love to use NetMeeting but have a conflict in my sound card or something? any experts out there? say a prayer for me will ya? and Thanks!"}, {"response": 12, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Dec 10, 1996 (00:58)", "body": "What sound card are you using? What other cards are in your system? Can you change the irq?"}, {"response": 13, "author": "mich", "date": "Tue, Dec 10, 1996 (23:38)", "body": ""}, {"response": 14, "author": "nathan", "date": "Fri, Dec 20, 1996 (12:40)", "body": "Netmeating is a very good program but is on the rather slow side and if you don't have a very fast modem i would not recomend this program, I have a 500 kbps modem and it is still slow. and on the version problem I would recomend for slow modems (beta 1) and for fast modems I would recomend (beta 2)"}, {"response": 15, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Tue, Jan 30, 2001 (09:35)", "body": "Version 3 is out now. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 319, "subject": "Net Objects Fusion", "response_count": 12, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Dec  6, 1996 (12:13)", "body": "CAn you post the specific website for obtaining this via ftp, sunsport. I've heard nothing but raves about this app."}, {"response": 2, "author": "sunspot", "date": "Fri, Dec  6, 1996 (13:22)", "body": "Paul : try http://198.68.191.189/program/free_tools_preview.htm Bob"}, {"response": 3, "author": "dick123", "date": "Sun, Nov 19, 2000 (16:55)", "body": ""}, {"response": 4, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, Nov 19, 2000 (18:05)", "body": "Nice to see your login. Welcome and Aloha Dick! May we be of assistance???"}, {"response": 5, "author": "chuckie", "date": "Sun, Nov 19, 2000 (21:49)", "body": "I need help!"}, {"response": 6, "author": "chuckie", "date": "Sun, Nov 19, 2000 (21:50)", "body": "MarciaH can you help me?"}, {"response": 7, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, Nov 19, 2000 (22:55)", "body": "Please...if I can I surely will...."}, {"response": 8, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, Nov 19, 2000 (23:05)", "body": "I am ever the friendly and helpful sort. Your request, sir??"}, {"response": 9, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Mon, Nov 20, 2000 (09:16)", "body": "I read where NOF is kind of management tool that integrates Front Page, has anyone used NOF? I may want to give it try to manage the Spring's and other websites. Any volunteers to help with some of the Spring websites (besides Ann, who's been very, very helpful)?"}, {"response": 10, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Mon, Nov 20, 2000 (14:40)", "body": "Alas, we have already ascertained that I am a \"people\" person... I think my skills lie elsewhere. Have not found a geek for you but have two with MS depgrees in Computers and one PhD..."}, {"response": 11, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Tue, Nov 21, 2000 (18:14)", "body": "Great!"}, {"response": 12, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Tue, Nov 21, 2000 (20:08)", "body": "Now, if only I can talk them into other pursuits than the obvious ones... Hey, what I won't do for Spring! I give my all... well, almost... depending... apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 32, "subject": "WebTalk", "response_count": 4, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jul 29, 1996 (12:14)", "body": "Audio quality is the name of the game in internet phone apps, hopefull it will improve in the next release."}, {"response": 2, "author": "PvRS", "date": "Fri, Nov 14, 1997 (17:02)", "body": "Trying to logon with WebTalk on 11/12/97, I found no rooms or participants displayed. Tec Reps seemed not to know if WebTalk is still supported. Is anyone using WebTalk successfully?"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Nov 16, 1997 (23:15)", "body": "I'm not sure, but if you do an Alta Vista search for David R. Woolley, his website will tell you the current status of this and other conferencing software."}, {"response": 4, "author": "PvRS", "date": "Tue, Nov 18, 1997 (17:46)", "body": "Many thanks for the David Woolley suggestion. I'll try it apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 320, "subject": "converting mac html to dos ....htlp", "response_count": 3, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Dec  7, 1996 (20:50)", "body": "If they're html files they shouldn't even need converting. You can just open them on the pc as is."}, {"response": 2, "author": "banjo", "date": "Sun, Dec  8, 1996 (17:00)", "body": "the only conversion that's required is to make sure all file names fit the eight dot three restriction of the doswin world. unfortunately this may affect the names used in links which is where the problems are likely to show up. Mac users just have to remember that not everyone in the world has there flexibility when it come to naming files (win95 people will also face similar problems) but if lowecase and eight dot three naming conventions are adhered to there should be no cross platform problems!!!!!"}, {"response": 3, "author": "tgi", "date": "Mon, Jul  7, 1997 (11:24)", "body": "You may also have problems with line endings. MS-DOS/Windows uses CR+LF (0D 0A) to terminate each line, Macintosh uses CR (0D), and Unix uses LF (0A). apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 321, "subject": "Ramble", "response_count": 511, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec  4, 1996 (18:59)", "body": "I've been holed up here all day but I don't have cabin fever. I love it at my place. It's night time. Outside it's drizzling. I've been building new boxes to put on the net, reading, studying and writing today. The evening news is on the tube. I feel like making a pot of coffee. I keep getting a box on my screen that says my outbox in Microsoft Mail is damaged. My outbox is empty! I got some interesting email from Elizabeth Gipps, an old friend today. And that's part of my world tonight."}, {"response": 2, "author": "Saman", "date": "Wed, Dec  4, 1996 (19:02)", "body": "I can't believe I'm actually doing this - I usually steer clear of such threads :). But then this has not been a typical day! I baked muffins for the first time in my life (my mother is slightly obsessive about anyone cooking in her kitchen, but she's w orking at the moment) and they were a success. Hey I'm doing better than the Bennet girls - they couldn't cook. I also just got rudely interrupted from my spring-browsing by a door-to-door salesman wanting to give me a voucher for 20 free meals - only I'd have to pay $30 for it! I blame Neil Finn for it all. Huh? I hear you say. Mr Finn was lead vocalist for Crowded House - my all-time favourite band who announced they were breaking up in June. Their final charity concert on the steps of the Sydney Opera House was televised he re on Sunday, and I'm am currently slowly working my way through a grieving process involving contimuous playing of all my Crowded House CDs - maybe that's why the salesman looked happy to depart. Top that people!"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec  4, 1996 (19:08)", "body": "Tough to top. The only rule in this topic is that are no rules and that you can talk about anything and everything . Total free form."}, {"response": 4, "author": "Amy", "date": "Wed, Dec  4, 1996 (19:58)", "body": "During my one excursion outside, I acquired a stud finder and 16 yards of unbleached muslin. Prize for the most creative use of these wares."}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec  4, 1996 (20:20)", "body": "Hope you find that stud. I'm kicked back watching the music awards on Fox. And I'm scanning in some ancient family photos of my Norwegian relatives in Minnesota. I'm building sort of a family album web page for my folks and family at Christmas. It's my life story too. Dishwalla's playing on the tube."}, {"response": 6, "author": "elder", "date": "Wed, Dec  4, 1996 (21:47)", "body": "Moody Blues boxed set CD is playing (the poetry is a bit surreal), and I just finished making up an algebra exam to give to my students tomorrow. I have not had time to browse here since Saturday evening, and I must say that I have missed all of you. I skipped (church) choir rehearsal to relax this evening, so I suppose I feel a bit guilty. Saman, congrats on the muffins. It has been an absolute age since I used my kitchen stoves to do anything other than heat soup or cook frozen dinners! As soon as the semester is over, I will go to San Diego for a week over Christmas -- mom and one brother's family out there. I plan to take the S&S video to share w/ mom."}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec  4, 1996 (22:23)", "body": "Moody Blues. Santana was just on the music awards getting the Century Billboard award. Only George Harrison and three others have ever won this award. Still scanning pictures and working on some website proposals. I've got 4 computers hooked up to a switchbox here and I'm flipping from one to another. Bastrop Internet Services is working on building up the new server, I popped another 20mb of memory in it last night and Scott's putting NT 4.0 on it. I don't know if it's back on line yet. Their website is http://www.bastrop.net Tomorrow, Matt is going to build up a new primary server to replace http://access.spring.com which bit the dust. I got a 2mb hard drive to replace the 1 gigger that went down. The rains have past. It's quiet out in Cedar Creek, like it always is. I wonder what Amy's doing tonight."}, {"response": 8, "author": "Amy", "date": "Thu, Dec  5, 1996 (04:41)", "body": "Amy slept for a change -- but awoke at 4 am"}, {"response": 9, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Dec  5, 1996 (07:13)", "body": "Good morning Amy, it's 6 am here and you've already been up for two hours, are you ever bright eyed and bushy tailed today! I'm going in to Austin today to take care of lots of business and things that are piling up. I've got to get that contract going with Texaltel (see projects) and get that machine to Matt (to replace the server that crashed) and a bunch of friends are meeting at pub on 6th street tonight. We had some interesting comments in one of the NetMeeting topics yesterday (not the one that's linked to here) and you may want to check them out in the 'apps' conference. Did you know that if you hit the 'enter' key twice that you will get a menu here if you're in a shell? But only about half the menus work so far. I'm writing shell scripts to do a whole bunch of things. Is anyone here good at writing shell scripts?"}, {"response": 10, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Dec  5, 1996 (12:33)", "body": "Even though I won't be online for the next 8 hours. I left my microphone aimed at my radio. So you may be able to hear me talking to other folks if you connect to me on NetMeeting."}, {"response": 11, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Dec  5, 1996 (12:34)", "body": "Here are some of the pictures I scanned: http://www.spring.com/~terry/albumjpg/ And me as a baby: http://www.spring.com/~terry/albumjpg/terry2.JPG"}, {"response": 12, "author": "Donna", "date": "Thu, Dec  5, 1996 (20:49)", "body": "I have to start making Christmas cookies and wrapping presents. I would like to get most of this done while my \"the little angels\" are in school. I will be very busy during the morning hours. Every year I say I will not go crazy but every YEAR we do. Oh w ell, \"tis the seasons to be joLly, fa,la,la,la,la,la,la\" * *** ***** ******* ********* *********** *** ***"}, {"response": 13, "author": "Donna", "date": "Thu, Dec  5, 1996 (20:58)", "body": "1 \"Merry Christmas\" 232 \"Happy New Year\" 34443 4555544 566666665 67777777776 7888888888887 101"}, {"response": 14, "author": "Donna", "date": "Thu, Dec  5, 1996 (20:59)", "body": "I guess half a tree is better then none. HO! HO!"}, {"response": 15, "author": "Anna", "date": "Thu, Dec  5, 1996 (21:37)", "body": "HO!"}, {"response": 16, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Dec  5, 1996 (23:28)", "body": "I have to make it down to see the tree of lights in Zilker Park. See my comments in the food conference about my wonderful dinner tonight."}, {"response": 17, "author": "mich", "date": "Thu, Dec  5, 1996 (23:51)", "body": "I'm having a hard time finding any holiday spirit this year. I usually enjoy gift giving and all the events but Novemeber has worn me out. Someone remind me what's it like to have a life outside of work. Donna, could you pls send a little of your xmas spirit my way? I'm in grave need. Mich"}, {"response": 18, "author": "Donna", "date": "Fri, Dec  6, 1996 (00:03)", "body": "Sure Mich, no, problem it will be a \"surprise\""}, {"response": 19, "author": "JohanneD", "date": "Fri, Dec  6, 1996 (14:45)", "body": "D'Arcy or Pemberley shape cookies anyone ? Donna, you already got some gifts ? Got to get them before the usual 24-hour-prior-to-Xmas-day. And it is a major plus to have kids, they really put you in the spirit don't they. Almost no choice but to feel it. My trick for the past years, particularly when all I had was a job and friends at the other corner of the earth, was to give time to needy causes (filling baskets of food. Nothing like seeing a two/three year old receiving is only plush teddy. Even if my situation as quite change, I remained faithfull to this commitment and it makes me feel great. Sending you my warmest wishes of joy and happiness, mich."}, {"response": 20, "author": "cat", "date": "Fri, Dec  6, 1996 (19:40)", "body": "Not a good day today. Two girls in my homeroom were making fun of my friend Tara because she is skinny and short. They called her a Balemic Monkey (I dan't know if thats spellled right). They spread nasty rumors about her for absolutly no reason. They threw her books in the garbage, STOLE a few of her belongings, and on top of all that they threw away her BIBLE!! I am sooooooo pissed off right now. We also lost our game by ONE piont. It was a good game. I am not going to get any sleep tonite becaus John has invited 4 friends to sleep over. They are all loud and abnoxious (forgive spelling)."}, {"response": 21, "author": "jwinsor", "date": "Fri, Dec  6, 1996 (21:18)", "body": "Cat, hope you were able to give Tara some support and comfort. At a time like that one really needs one's friends. Insecure young people can be so hard on one another. (And some of them never do grow out of it and become Caroline Bingleys!)"}, {"response": 22, "author": "Donna", "date": "Sat, Dec  7, 1996 (00:27)", "body": "They should have a class in grade school/high school to teach people how to to love each other"}, {"response": 23, "author": "Cheryl", "date": "Sat, Dec  7, 1996 (00:38)", "body": "But Donna, I believe that this is what parents are for?"}, {"response": 24, "author": "Donna", "date": "Sat, Dec  7, 1996 (10:34)", "body": "Cheryl sometimes that is not enough."}, {"response": 25, "author": "cat", "date": "Sat, Dec  7, 1996 (19:01)", "body": "People can just be so nasty to each other it disgusting! Tara was hysterical all day yesterday! I feel so bad as if I've done something awful. I feel so helpless! I want to comfort her but I can't. She is too upset. Things like this have been going on since fifth grade with her! I thought people in their last year of high school would at least be mature enough not to do that sort of thing. I hope she can forgive them. I hope I can forgive them. It is times like this to where the only way I can f rgive is when I look back and remember what Jesus did for me. Even though we laughed at Him, spat on Him, beat Him, and even killed the Messiah, the son of God, He asked His Father to forgive us all. He could have just jumped off that cross and destroye d all mankind with the snap of a finger but He didn't. He did not want to die but He loved us all so much. He wanted us to be with Him in paradise when we leave our earthly bodies. We do not deserve His love, but He gives it willingly. For those who a e offended by this message I am sorry for invading your beliefs."}, {"response": 26, "author": "cat", "date": "Sat, Dec  7, 1996 (19:01)", "body": "People can just be so nasty to each other it disgusting! Tara was hysterical all day yesterday! I feel so bad as if I've done something awful. I feel so helpless! I want to comfort her but I can't. She is too upset. Things like this have been going on since fifth grade with her! I thought people in their last year of high school would at least be mature enough not to do that sort of thing. I hope she can forgive them. I hope I can forgive them. It is times like this to where the only way I can f rgive is when I look back and remember what Jesus did for me. Even though we laughed at Him, spat on Him, beat Him, and even killed the Messiah, the son of God, He asked His Father to forgive us all. He could have just jumped off that cross and destroye d all mankind with the snap of a finger but He didn't. He did not want to die but He loved us all so much. He wanted us to be with Him in paradise when we leave our earthly bodies. We do not deserve His love, but He gives it willingly. For those who a e offended by this message I am sorry for invading your beliefs."}, {"response": 27, "author": "cat", "date": "Sat, Dec  7, 1996 (19:02)", "body": "I thought I hit that button once. Sorry."}, {"response": 28, "author": "Grace", "date": "Sat, Dec  7, 1996 (19:56)", "body": "I spent the night waiting in a hospital emergency room....the victim is home and doing well, but meanwhile, I now feel like I am the one who need a doctor's care..... in an unrelated incident, I hit someone's car (black ice...nothing I could do)....my son 's snake is loose in the basement (Indiana Jones and I have similar feelings about vipers;I am contemplating a move to the Hilton)....I have to turn out a shepherd costume for my son by Monday or the PTA gestapo will come after me......On Sunday, I must s epherd a bunch of cub scouts carolling at a nursing home; only threats of bodily harm will get them to behave like angels(Hope the elderly won't notice the 'Batman smells' version of Jingle Bells).....my house looks like a sewer....by way of holiday decor ating,I'm thinking of stringing lights on the pumpkins that have frozen to the front porch......and friends keep wondering why I spit at the TV every time an ad for the Martha Stewart Christmas special comes on. Sorry to ramble, but just wanted to let you know it has been a typical week in the House of Grace. Ho, Ho, Ho! P.S. Amy, if you really want to find that stud, I would advise AGAINST using all 16 yards of the muslin....try working with 2 or 3 yards to make some low-cut little number that will hammer home the right message....be sure to wear that WonderBra (or if y ou don't have one, duct tape works the same kind of Wonders) ;-)"}, {"response": 29, "author": "Amy", "date": "Sat, Dec  7, 1996 (20:17)", "body": "] I hit someone's car (black ice...nothing I could do)... ___ Oh Grace. How awful for you. Do treat yourself to the Hilton. Why not? And popcorn and champaign and P&P tomorrow. Can I come over?"}, {"response": 30, "author": "jwinsor", "date": "Sat, Dec  7, 1996 (20:46)", "body": "Oh dear, Grace! Who is the \"victim\" and of what, if the black ice was an unrelated incident? ANd what variety of snake is loose? Fear not - in general, many snakes make very good pets and many others are of an extremely shy and retiring character and u nlikely to do anything to anyone unless provoked. When in junior high I was one of a group of kids who \"volunteered\" at the museum, and among our duties were, every two weeks, if there were no live mice available with which to feed the snakes, to force-f ed them hamburger, which they would not eat on their own, preferring their food alive. So two of us took on each snake, one holding the mouth open and the other poking the hamburger inside - then we had to hold its mouth shut till it swallowed the bite. The experience really stripped the poor snakes of all dignity and ability to inspire fear. Joan, too"}, {"response": 31, "author": "Grace", "date": "Sat, Dec  7, 1996 (21:40)", "body": "Joan, the victim of last night's hospital escapade was my husband....he had gone to a Detroit Pistons game and was done in by a hot dog.....a piece lodged in his esophagus.......only with an ambulance, drugs, and a surgeon now behind us,and the victim fee ling much better, can I even dream of talking about the whole thing. (My husband was at the game with friends, one of whom is a thoracic surgeon and the other, a pediatrician. I'm left to wonder where they were during this whole thing!) My husband is a man of few words but because of this incident, those few are down to NONE, and he has to lecture on Monday. My son assures me that the snake missing from his collection is a milk snake...but I think this is a conspiracy to paint images of some benign creature hiding down there rather than a horrible lurking monster. (I am the only person on the block with cans of carnivorous snake food and freeze-dried crickets in her refrigerator - Woe to the guest innocently looking for a midnight snack.) Be assured that we are all now doing well.....and the HIlton says they do offer special rates for extended stays. Grace"}, {"response": 32, "author": "jwinsor", "date": "Sun, Dec  8, 1996 (00:40)", "body": "Re: 59:31 - what a nasty and scary experience. One would have thought that in the company he was in, he'd have been in good hands! My husband is a man of few words but because of this incident, those few are down to NONE, and he has to lecture on Monday.\" Hopefully the swelling will have gone down at least somewhat by then. And if not, tell him to borrow a PowerBook, feed it a SimpleText textfile and let MacInTalk read it for him. [grin] I am the only person on the block with cans of carnivorous snake food and freeze-dried crickets in her refrigerator For a year or two I had siamese fighting fish, and was the only one on my block with live brine shrimp tubifex worms in my refrigerator. Equally disgusting- especially the tubifex worms! Joan, too"}, {"response": 33, "author": "Hilary", "date": "Sun, Dec  8, 1996 (22:54)", "body": "You beat me to it with the muslin, Grace. I'm glad you and your husband are okay."}, {"response": 34, "author": "Grace", "date": "Mon, Dec  9, 1996 (08:22)", "body": "About beating you to it with the muslin, Hilary.......I couldn't help myself; Amy gave us an opening that was 'sew' inviting. (By the way,I threw in the duct tape just to please you.) If I had been smart, I would have gotten Amy to whip up my shepherd costume with the extra yardage and send it by overnight mail. The family survived a difficult week....I was just beginning to feel optimistic about life again.....and then I went to that party last night at the home of a Martha Stewart clone...... which was enough to plunge this hapless homemaker into endless depres sion! So begins another week."}, {"response": 35, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Dec  9, 1996 (08:35)", "body": "I'm off to work this morning. I had a nice weekend. We had very pleasant weather here in Austin. I started topic 82 in hopes that some of you will email folks that are interested in the Spring. If you find someone to your liking in topic 82, please email them and let them know they are most welcome here on the Spring. This would be most appreciated. I finished tape one of P&P and am part way in to tape two. I'm savoring the experience of seeing these tapes!"}, {"response": 36, "author": "Hilary", "date": "Mon, Dec  9, 1996 (15:47)", "body": "Who is Martha Stewart? Should I know? Thanks for the virtual ducktape! I should really use some round here - three of our 11 ducklings have died, probably at the beak of our drake. What we will do when we go away is a problem. Saw Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt last night. JB was enjoyable, ultra smooth, BR was WONDERFUL, great voice, fantastic blues slide electric guitar, and one raunchy lady."}, {"response": 37, "author": "Grace", "date": "Mon, Dec  9, 1996 (16:06)", "body": "Martha is the US doyenne of elegant entertaining. 'She' is an empire...does TV specials, has books by the dozen, her own magazine -Martha Stewart Living, and a catalog of upscale merchandise. People either adore her, or, as in my case, live to make fun o f her. Diane White, a columnist at the Boston Globe, has for years kept up an anti-Martha campaign. Martha parody books are a hot item for Christmas around here. Jackson Browne AND Bonnie Raitt? Wow."}, {"response": 38, "author": "Anna", "date": "Mon, Dec  9, 1996 (16:23)", "body": "quote for the day \"Boring Women Have Immaculate Homes\" (from my fridge magnet)"}, {"response": 39, "author": "Amy", "date": "Mon, Dec  9, 1996 (17:40)", "body": "Hil, my nearly dead nap page has a Jackson Brown song as its theme song: http://www.bluemarble.net/~amyloo/wno.html"}, {"response": 40, "author": "Amy", "date": "Mon, Dec  9, 1996 (17:42)", "body": "Donna, tell your story about meeting Hornsby in the music conference, and I will tell about Mellencamp? Did we not tell each other we met them while pregnant?"}, {"response": 41, "author": "Hilary", "date": "Mon, Dec  9, 1996 (18:44)", "body": "Amy, do you mean the music conference here at spring? I haven't got beyond here yet. 'Running on Empty' is a great song, BTW. Sorry it is applicable to your nap page, though. Or are you happy its run its course? Just musing that its 16 years since John Lennon died. I still get sad about it. 'And so this is Chrismas, and what have you done, Another year over, a new one just begun'.... And Joni's still ricochetting around in my head: Its coming on Christmas They're cutting down trees They're putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace. I wish I had a river I could skate away on...."}, {"response": 42, "author": "Amy", "date": "Mon, Dec  9, 1996 (19:46)", "body": "] Just musing that its 16 years since John Lennon died. ___ I happened to be in New York just after the murder and went to the Park for the vigil. I will never for get it."}, {"response": 43, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Dec  9, 1996 (21:25)", "body": "I love those old Joni Mitchell songs!!"}, {"response": 44, "author": "jane", "date": "Tue, Dec 10, 1996 (00:09)", "body": "Hilary, I am so glad that Martha Stewart has not poisoned Australia yet. If she stages a coup and completely takes over here (she decorated the White House last year on her Christma she knows her way around), Grace, Anna and the rest of us may have to co me and hide out at your place. Jane"}, {"response": 45, "author": "Anna", "date": "Tue, Dec 10, 1996 (00:37)", "body": "Jane - I am in Australia :)"}, {"response": 46, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Dec 10, 1996 (00:52)", "body": "... at a safe distance from Martha Stewart."}, {"response": 47, "author": "Cheryl", "date": "Tue, Dec 10, 1996 (02:07)", "body": "I am no where near even the fringe of the nieghborhood of Christmas Cheer. I have baked no cookies, I have sent no cards, I have bought no presents, I have not decorated my house (I did decorate my piano studio for my students, but that's all.) I am up to my eyeballs in Christmas in everything I do but none of it has affected me. This is the busiest time for musicians, everyone wants special Christmas programs- I have 9 more events in addition to my regularly packed schedule in the next two weeks. I a so busy \"Making Christmas Bright\" for everyone else that I have none left for myself. An occupational hazard, I know, and in the past I've always been able to rise above it, but not this year. The only day I can even see a few open hours to shop is Dec . 23, and I get the heebie jeebies just thinking about entering a mall two days before Christmas! Santa, help me!"}, {"response": 48, "author": "jane", "date": "Tue, Dec 10, 1996 (10:23)", "body": "Anna, I realized after I posted my message that I was only guessing that you were within reach of Martha's clutches. That gives the rest of us another potential refulge! Cheryl, I am in a similar boat, not as busy so less of an excuse for failure to make cookies, decorate, shop. My husband is out of town this week so I am with our 2-year old--I tried to go shopping but had to chase her around, and ended up spending a few hours at the mall buying only stuff for her. But here's a shopping tip that I found out about on the Austen-L, and bought for my aunt. Blockbuster has, for $29.99, Persuasion and Sense and Sensibility packaged together. The problem is, it is probably better present for you than for anyone you know! Jane P.S. Music is such a great part of Christmas---at least you can enjoy your work!"}, {"response": 49, "author": "Mixu", "date": "Tue, Dec 10, 1996 (10:24)", "body": "It is funny how the weather changes here in Oulu, Finland. In the morning it is quite warm (about +2 degrees centigrade, which is warm this time of the year), and there's little water in the streets. In the evening, returning home, you have to walk through several inches (20 in worst cases) of snow, and the temperature is -15 degrees C. I have to get used to it. Usually it has been -20 and 20 inches of snow all the time. The worst point is that it is VERY slippery... Hope I'll live through Xmas, I'll visit my parents and eat well... And have a decent sauna, with my mother's healing spells. We belong to a family of witches, after all."}, {"response": 50, "author": "Amy", "date": "Tue, Dec 10, 1996 (10:57)", "body": "Real witches, Mixu? Tell. Jane, just think. Unless you are going to have more kids, it gets easier every second with the little ones. Today you can't shop. In another few months you will be able to avert your eyes for a few more seconds at a time to attend to what you need. Amy"}, {"response": 51, "author": "Grace", "date": "Tue, Dec 10, 1996 (11:27)", "body": "Re 59:32 Joan, just wanted to let you know that my husband was able to croak his way through Monday's lecture and everything went well. (I had dragged him over to read your solution, he got quite a kick out of it.... and said to tell you thanks!) Grace P.S. This madhouse I live in also boasts siamese fighting fish....but we don't spoil ours with the worms you mentioned."}, {"response": 52, "author": "Grace", "date": "Tue, Dec 10, 1996 (11:36)", "body": "Re 59:38 Anna, what an inspirational fridge magnet...BORING WOMEN HAVE IMMACULATE HOMES......I'd love to put one on my fridge but I find the dirt layer keeps magnets from sticking......time to buy a new fridge, I guess!"}, {"response": 53, "author": "Amy", "date": "Tue, Dec 10, 1996 (14:04)", "body": "Hil, Re: Running on Empty 59:32 (Joan I am getting to like this notation) Did the MIDI link work for you? Amy"}, {"response": 54, "author": "jwinsor", "date": "Tue, Dec 10, 1996 (15:16)", "body": "Re: 59:51 - Grace - glad he enjoyed it. :-) If you don't have to \"do\" tubifex worms, you must have a reliable supply of live brine shrimp - mine were too picky to eat the feeeze-dried ones. Amy, re: 59:53 - using the numbers is better than nothing, but not nearly as good as an automatically created link! For example, \"Re: Running on Empty 59:32\" - \"32\" is not about MIDI - it's about tubifex worms. (It's too easy to copy the wrong numbers! - especially for those of us who are numerically challenged! I count myself as one of these, having scored in the 4th percentile in a math aptitude test.) I have been playing around in the redisplay box below and have discovered that to go back just to a referred-to response, typing in \"32-32\" will get just that one response (which is how I knew that it was tubifex worms). And that typing a negative number , say \"-4\", will show just the last 4 responses."}, {"response": 55, "author": "Amy", "date": "Tue, Dec 10, 1996 (16:47)", "body": "] And that typing a negative number, say \"-4\", will show just the last 4 responses. ___ That might be handy."}, {"response": 56, "author": "Kaffeine", "date": "Tue, Dec 10, 1996 (18:19)", "body": "\"Blockbuster has, for $29.99, Persuasion and Sense and Sensibility packaged together\" Thank you! I just called my local Blockbuster and they have it - and my husband is going x-mas shopping tomorrow night. Guess what just made it to the top of my list?!"}, {"response": 57, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec 11, 1996 (07:48)", "body": "I'm busier than you can imagine, and will be till the weekend. Keep the home fires burning Amy!"}, {"response": 58, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec 11, 1996 (08:01)", "body": "Mixu, have you discovered 'austen' yet? You're in for a treat!"}, {"response": 59, "author": "Ann", "date": "Wed, Dec 11, 1996 (19:11)", "body": "I lost my wallet! This must be the worst time of year to be without credit cards."}, {"response": 60, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec 11, 1996 (20:13)", "body": "Gosh, sorry to hear this Ann. Is there any chance of retrieving it? Where did you lose it?"}, {"response": 61, "author": "jwinsor", "date": "Wed, Dec 11, 1996 (23:41)", "body": "Oh Dear - you have my deepest sympathy. This time last year I had mine stolen. Had to stop and change everything - including house and car locks, since there were spares for both car and house in the wallet, and had no ID. Then about 3 weeks later a ma il carrier found it in the bushes in a neighboring community - everything there but the cash."}, {"response": 62, "author": "mich", "date": "Thu, Dec 12, 1996 (12:44)", "body": "Subject: \"software\" Last year, my friend upgraded his GirlFriend3.1 to GirlFriendPlus1.0 (marketing name: Fiancee1.0). Recently he upgraded Fiancee1.0 to Wife1.0 and it's a memory hogger, has taken all his space; and Wife1.0 must be running before he can do anything. Althoug h he didn't ask for them, Wife1.0 came with plug-ins such as MotherInLaw and BrotherInLaw. Some features I'd like to see in the upcoming GirlFriend4.0... - A \"Don't remind me again\" button - Minimize button - Shutdown feature - An installshield feature so that Girlfriend4.0 can be completely uninstalled if so desired (so you don't lose cache and other objects) I tried running Girlfriend 2.0 with Girlfriend 1.0 still installed, they tried using the same I/O port and conflicted. Then I tried to uninstall Girlfriend 1.0 but it didn't have an uninstall program. I tried to unstall it by hand, but it put files in m y system directory. Another thing that sucks -- in all versions of Girlfriend that I've used is that it is totally \"object orientated\" and only supports hardware with gold plated contacts. ***** BUG WARNING ******** Wife 1.0 has an undocumented bug. If you try to install Mistress 1.1 before uninstalling Wife 1.0, Wife 1.0 will delete MSMoney files before doing the uninstall itself. Then Mistress 1.1 will refuse to install, claiming insufficient resources. passing along funnies for the day. Mich"}, {"response": 63, "author": "drymartini", "date": "Thu, Dec 12, 1996 (17:14)", "body": "Amy, #4 response. I got ahold of a stud finder once. It was recommended by Norm Abrams, I think. Well, I figured this device would soon have me in touch with one or more outstanding specimens of manhood. Unfortunately, the device was not a stud finder at all. It was a turkey caller. I guess the items got mixed up in the display; this happens at flea markets. As a turkey caller it was effective. Several real losers showed up and asked me for a date. A week later I donated the turkey caller to the Chamber of Commerce because they were holding their annual Sport-o-rama and there was to be a turkey calling contest. At the height of the contest, my ex flew in from Texas. So I know the turkey caller worked properly, when used by an expert. As for the bolt of unbleached muslin, you could make several sets of sheets. 108\" X 90\" for standard flat sheets, I think. That's after the hems. It's good to have plenty on hand if your stud finder works well. Keep us all posted, hear?"}, {"response": 64, "author": "Hilary", "date": "Thu, Dec 12, 1996 (17:57)", "body": "Amy, I could get through to click on \"Running on empty\" but then it just gave me coded screen messages, it didn't play anything."}, {"response": 65, "author": "trainmaster", "date": "Sat, Dec 14, 1996 (09:06)", "body": "I'm new on this, but after reading this I don't feel so bad. Christmas is kind of a bummer this year. Both daughers left home this summer, and the house is empty. I have a new granddaughter in Germany that I haven't got to hold yet.So am not really in t he Christmas spirit yet. My best to all of you. As for Martha Stewart, I wish she was real. No one can be that creative all the the time. I think she is a defense department robot that went haywire. Have a happy holiday to all, and to all a good nig t!"}, {"response": 66, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Dec 14, 1996 (12:19)", "body": "That explains Martha Stewart! No wonder."}, {"response": 67, "author": "Amy", "date": "Sat, Dec 14, 1996 (18:11)", "body": "I found a nice #7 sable brush half covered with mud under a pine tree during my walk. I think it is a present."}, {"response": 68, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Dec 14, 1996 (21:20)", "body": "I called Scott Holman over at BIS and he got the dedicated ip to resolve. But that's another topic. I've been rambling around the house today, cleaning and organizing. I started today driving through the fog to a breakfast at IHOP. As they say around town, 'onward through the fog'. I feel like going out for a night time walk."}, {"response": 69, "author": "Kennebec", "date": "Sun, Dec 15, 1996 (00:35)", "body": "Hmm. Been pretty noisy today. Attended #1 son's play off basketball game (we won), took same son Christmas shopping (he was miserable), went to my 91 year old grammies for a real baked bean supper (we go every Saturday night), came home around 10:00 to complete chaos. #1 Daughter crying because Dad had carted her away from 3 boys & 2 girls spell TROUBLE. (She is 14 and was horribly embarassed. One of the boys had been RUDE. Dad didn't like it. Parents call. Apologies. More howling. Daughter VERY MAD not at Rude Boy, no, Mad at Dad for intefering) This is the only quiet spot in the whole house (and it's already Sunday). By the way, I agreed with Dad and not Daughter and am trying to convince her that her 'friend' owes her a BIG apology. That the whole incident is really about respect and dignity. Being a parent is the hardest thing I have ever done in my life."}, {"response": 70, "author": "Mlydle", "date": "Sun, Dec 15, 1996 (00:46)", "body": "Well, me and significant other were going out to eat when we decided to go by 15 year old stepson's fathers house (who is out of town) to check it out. Stepson was supposed to be spending the night at a friends house. Seems we had a idea that stepson mi ght be up to something. When we drove up to the house there were and wife unit walked in, about 50-75 adolescents scurried out of the house. The house was full of beer, liquer etc.. When it was time to go stepson had set it up where one of his friends icked him up and he left. We chased after him but to no avail. Needless to say, stepson is grounded till next year, which I do not know if that is more of a punishment for me/us or him."}, {"response": 71, "author": "Cheryl", "date": "Sun, Dec 15, 1996 (02:20)", "body": "I am so glad I do not have kids!"}, {"response": 72, "author": "JohanneD", "date": "Sun, Dec 15, 1996 (02:38)", "body": "And that's what I'll have the privileged to, in about 10 years. Preparing myself, I think...."}, {"response": 73, "author": "Cynthia7", "date": "Sun, Dec 15, 1996 (08:07)", "body": "Hi, I'm new to Ramble. It's about dawn in S.F.Sunday morning the 15th. I hoping to get some leads on how to find out information about who actually makes those holiday ornaments in China, etc. or the toys. Having just watched the TV special last Sunday Mrs. Santa Claus, and the part about the kids making thetoys, I couldn't help wonder, as I went shopping yesterday. Me, I'm getting my elementary teaching credential with an emphasis in technology. If posssible, now that finals are just about over, I'd like to throw up a web page about this topic. The page would be dedicated to Iqbal Masih http://www.digitalrag.com/mirror/iqbal.html a 12 year old who was killed on Easter Sunday organizing against child labor My e-mail address is crapak@sfsu.edu. not the one that I had to register with Any leads would be appreciated. I'll try to check back on this conference but e-mailing me directly would also be appreciated since time is short and I want to have it up before next week shopping. I'll be doing research on who makes toys for leading toy makers, GUND, etc. and other importers who may or may not be using children to make the ornaments, toys. Happy Holidays Please feel free to forward this request to any appropriate list etc. Thanks for the help!"}, {"response": 74, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Dec 15, 1996 (10:15)", "body": "Sure, we'll be happy to let you set up your web page. Send your request to: mailto://terry@spring.com Be sure to let me know what username you would like."}, {"response": 75, "author": "kendall", "date": "Sun, Dec 15, 1996 (11:02)", "body": "Terry and Amy - there are now so many threads - that it takes a long time to review just today's messages. Lots of IO time just to see that person \"A\" is LOL at person B's comment yesterday. I love those comments, but there is a lot of download time inv olved here. If we get a day or two behind, we drown. Is it possible to combined threads - maybe the older ones - on similar topics so we of limited time can cover the ground a little quicker. Maybe after a topic is a week old, it could be folded in with other similar topics. We have two addiction threads, two duckfaces, several minor character threads, lots of others that could be combined so that IO time could be reduced."}, {"response": 76, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Dec 15, 1996 (11:10)", "body": "The way to \"combine threads\" or topics as they're called, would be copy and paste a complete topic into a single response in another topic then \"scribble\" it. Or make it hidden unless you clicked on it. We'd have to ask Dave how to implement a scribble command or hide command or whatever you wanted to call it. It's not currently implemented. But this could be a solution. Is this what you mean?"}, {"response": 77, "author": "Donna", "date": "Sun, Dec 15, 1996 (11:26)", "body": "Re; It seems that you have to be one step ahead of them. At least no one was injuried. I would definitly ground him{a year is pretty hard to enforce} and make him do chores around the house.My son said {who is 13} he should not be allowed to drive until{n o permit} he is 18 years old. I am very surprised at this punishment. He knows that most kids can't wait to drive just, like him."}, {"response": 78, "author": "Cheryl", "date": "Sun, Dec 15, 1996 (21:14)", "body": "I just got caught up on reading my e-mail! 37 messages deleted from the trash bin! Whoohoo!! Free at last, free at last, thank God amighty, I'm free at last! (at least until tomorrow...)"}, {"response": 79, "author": "Saman", "date": "Mon, Dec 16, 1996 (03:50)", "body": "I hate what Christmas does to my hard-earned savings (perhaps dislike is a better word). I went shopping today for the major presents which I have been planning to but for weeks and ended up spending twice as much as I intended - mainly on stuff for me! I just checked my email and I got a lovely reply from the moderator of the Crowded House list I subscribe to. In my eagerness to inform the listies of an upcoming interview I mailed them, and then when it bounced back I mailed it again (and perhaps even a third time). Stupid me - it only bounced from one list member so now people around the world think I'm a hopeless newbie (I really dislike that). But Marck (the list operator) was really sweet and has made me feel a whole lot better. I think I'll stic to lurking on that list, and compensate by posting excessively here, because it's such a supporting environment :)"}, {"response": 80, "author": "Mixu", "date": "Mon, Dec 16, 1996 (09:34)", "body": "Amy (and all the others who are interested) Yes, a sort of. You know, the meaning here in Finland is a little bit different. It actually means \"A family with strange powers\", or something like that. Anyway, in my family there HAS been a real witch (I think it was my great-great-grandfather), who could, for example, make the neighbour's cows to disappear. Then there are some healers (like my mother's uncle, and, to a limited extent, my mother) and my elder little brother sometimes sees the future in his dreams. My gift is the same that my grandmother (from my mother's side, because that's the family) had: I have an inborn empathy towards people and animals. Sometimes I can predict very accurately the actions of some people, even though I don't know them well. It usually works for friends only, though. A disturbing gift, I'd say. I even saw the destruction of my 1,5 year relationship, because my girlfriend fell in love with a good friend of mine. I was the one that knew it first (even before they did), but since I've sworn I won't try to interfere with my empathy, I did nothing. Maybe it wouldn't have helped. They are married now, and happy. I think. I should visit them at Christmas... Okay, that's enough for now about the Finnish witches. I think it was no wonder that in medieval times the Finns were feared wizards. There's still some of the powers left. I know of a couple of other witch families, too."}, {"response": 81, "author": "Ann", "date": "Mon, Dec 16, 1996 (18:34)", "body": "I have a similar ability to your brother's. Sometimes, when I am about to fall asleep, I get a sort of dream, but with a difference--I know that they are predictive of the future. Before I ever went to college, or ever visited the campus, I saw a glimpse of one of the classrooms and the teacher giving a lecture; about two years later what I saw came true. It used to happen much more often when I was younger, but actually occurred t wice on the same day last week. As a physicist and a scientist this is a bit disturbing. I must conclude from personal experience that time is not linear, but folds upon itself in a way which allows information from one time to be viewed in another. I also keep in mind a line from Billy-Boy: There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. (By the way I'm 1/4 Finnish (my paternal grandmother))"}, {"response": 82, "author": "Mlydle", "date": "Wed, Dec 18, 1996 (20:47)", "body": "In regard to the punishment for stepson, we agreed for him to be grounded till Christmas. You all are right, you must stay one step ahead of them. He being only 18 years younger than me helps as well. It only seems like yesterday that I was up to simil ar shaningans. In regards to the above, Well I have to think about whether time is not linear, but folds upon itself. Being of the logical sorts who did too much experimentation when younger, I tend to pulled between logic and experience."}, {"response": 83, "author": "maddog", "date": "Thu, Dec 19, 1996 (16:52)", "body": "Terry, just checked out the apps conference looking for help on a problem I have been having with realaudio - yikes, that conference is huge! - anyhow I kept getting a server error message when I tried to get into the realaudio section - thought I should let you know and also to ask who/where else could I turn for help with realaudio questions - specifically I am looking for a way to obtain a new copy of the old raplayer 2.x plugin for netscape/win 3.x - it seems that now that realaudio has come out with .0, they don't offer it anymore (snobs)- and 3.0 merely taunts me with bandwidth error messages on my poor old 486/14,400 set up.... I tried clicking my red shoes together and saying \"there's no place like version 2.x\", but it didn't work......"}, {"response": 84, "author": "cat", "date": "Thu, Dec 19, 1996 (20:15)", "body": "Hello Peoples! My computer has been used by my mother and younger brother for the past WEEK. It has been hard to be away for so long but I have comforted myself and have started to read Northangar Abbey. Who is ready for the Flu\\Cold season? The Octe t (my singing group) gave a concert this morning. Yours Truely got a solo in \"Emmanuel\" ....in our darkness, in our bondage, child of hope we long for thee, walk among us, dwell within us, be our light and set us free, Emmanuel, Emmanuel, our God is with us now Emmanuel, the daystar of our night is sleeping on the straw, be with us now Emmanuel.....Isn't that song BEAUTIFUL! I am also singing it on Christmas Eve. Is that cool or what?"}, {"response": 85, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Dec 19, 1996 (21:51)", "body": "Maddog, check out http://www.realaudio.com and try our conference again. That server error happens every now and then but you'll probably be able to get in next time."}, {"response": 86, "author": "maddog", "date": "Fri, Dec 20, 1996 (15:03)", "body": "thanks - I all ready been to realaudio, of course they no longer offer 2.0 (must have partners in the modem business) - It's really a drag when a company will not support a product that is less than a year old, just because they have a newer release. It k ind of leaves people like me in the lurch if we can't go buy a new pentium to run their new product. (sounds like some other company I won't mention but whose initials are microsoft!) I will check your realaudio conference again to see if there is anyone that made a backup copy of version 2.0 they might share..."}, {"response": 87, "author": "MaryC", "date": "Sat, Dec 21, 1996 (12:05)", "body": "Ladies, just have to share the words of wisdom on my perpetual calendar yesterday; reading it made my day. \"There's nothing wrong in the world that a sensible woman couldn't settle in an afternoon\". Happy Holidays!"}, {"response": 88, "author": "drymartini", "date": "Sat, Dec 21, 1996 (20:53)", "body": "Amy-- have you used all your muslin? I heard there is a KKK for persons of color: they call it the Black Muslins. Cat-- I hope your friend Tara is doing okay and you are feeling better about that ugly situation. Maybe the kids who stole Tara's Bible will peek inside and find something helpful. I find it very hard to pray for people who are mean to me, or to others. B ut when I am able to, it is liberating. Cheryl-- we have something in common. I teach computer stuff a lot these days, but I have not been able to give up teaching piano. But hey, keyboards is keyboards, hmmm? I like to think about how the piano was developed by Bart. Cristofori, whose huge tro uble was perfecting the escapement. But they said it couldn't be done-- you couldn't have a keyboard instrument that you could control, as to amplitude or loudness, by the way you struck the keys! Then many years later the whole thing was repeated from Mo g on, with electronic keyboards finally becoming polyphonic and TOUCH RESPONSIVE. Wow! I think Bach would have been nuts about electronic music stuff. Joyous holidays, all!"}, {"response": 89, "author": "maddog", "date": "Sat, Dec 21, 1996 (22:55)", "body": "Terry - within 24 hours of posting my plea about my realaudio problems in your apps conference, I have been in contact with a very fine dude named David Bowles who searched/found and mailed me a new copy of version 2.0! I bow long and low to him, you, and The Spring for making this possible - I never fail to be in awe of the power of the net and the kindness of the people I have met here. peace and joy"}, {"response": 90, "author": "cat", "date": "Sun, Dec 22, 1996 (08:54)", "body": "I can't believe Christmas is only 3 days away!"}, {"response": 91, "author": "Donna", "date": "Sun, Dec 22, 1996 (18:10)", "body": "I am so bored I changed the curtains in my kitchen. Just a few things to wrap and a couple of cookies to bake. Hope everyone has most of their shopping done because I know I hate fighting the crowds. that must be the reason why it is so quite around here . Merry Christmas."}, {"response": 92, "author": "Cheryl", "date": "Mon, Dec 23, 1996 (01:32)", "body": "I know that some of my friends here have been concerned about me and my complete and utter lack of Christmas spirit. I have had a few glimpses of it this past week; last Thursday when I attended the Jr. High School Band Concert and watched 11 of my piano or handbell kids play their band instruments in public for the first time, and again at my students Christmas Piano Recital, all of them dressed up in their Sunday best and playing all the old favorites! This morning my church choir offered our Annual Christmas Cantata and I felt the closest to Christmas that I have been, singing the wonderful words about our Lord choosing to become one of us to save us. I even came home and did some decorating! Tomorro w I am spending the day baking, for who can be a Grinch when eating Grandma's famous Christmas cookies! I am very thankful this Christmas for all the new friends I have found here. God bless you all!"}, {"response": 93, "author": "geekman", "date": "Mon, Dec 23, 1996 (03:58)", "body": "God Bless You Merry Gentlepeople at this festive time. I'm so pleased to have met all of the wonderful people who make up the growing band of Austenites. I am especially thankful to Amy and Terry for their time, patience and perseverance, and of course their server space."}, {"response": 94, "author": "lars", "date": "Mon, Dec 23, 1996 (17:56)", "body": "Hi Terry. Hmm. Suspected we had similar ancestry. Pretty nice place! Soon on way to bar to see friends before all take off for xmas. Fill myself with liquid \"charm and intelligence.\" Then probably enter cyberspace - again. Merry holidays to all from Frisco! Lars"}, {"response": 95, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Dec 23, 1996 (23:08)", "body": "You're Norwegian Lars?"}, {"response": 96, "author": "Ann", "date": "Mon, Dec 23, 1996 (23:41)", "body": "Today, my sister and I trekked out into the blizzard we are experiencing here in Minneapolis and went to what locals refer to as the Mega-Mall, also known, more formally, as the Mall of America--the largest shopping mall in the United States (there is a larger one in Edminton Canada). I was pleasently suprised to find that the mall wasn't very crowded--on this Christmas-Eve Eve. Perhaps even hearty Minnesotans were afraid to wade through the snow and ice to go shopping (thank God for 4-WD!). But I believe it is more likely that they were all hanging their heads in shame after the trouncing the Vikings took yesterday at the hands of the Green Bay Packers 38-10 (GO PACK!!!). Your Eternal Cheesehead--Ann"}, {"response": 97, "author": "Mlydle", "date": "Tue, Dec 24, 1996 (01:41)", "body": "Well, here in Austin its a balmy 60-70 degrees. Being of the male persuasion, I find myself compelled to wait till the last 2-3 days to shop, so I was one of the many hurried masses going madly from place to place (thank god for Valium and relaxation tap es) trying to find that perfect gift within my price range. Need a John Madden Super Nintendo ASAP, stepson can't have all clothes. And all the while trying what this years Christmas symbolizes to me. But more on that later, Wallmart is open 24 hours.. ."}, {"response": 98, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Dec 24, 1996 (05:14)", "body": "So, Ann, you're one of those folks we see on tv with face painted green and a big block of cheese mounted atop their heads?"}, {"response": 99, "author": "Ann", "date": "Wed, Dec 25, 1996 (02:17)", "body": "I got a cheesehead for Christmas!"}, {"response": 100, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec 25, 1996 (07:32)", "body": "Can we see a picture of you wearing a cheesehead on your web page?"}, {"response": 101, "author": "Ann", "date": "Wed, Dec 25, 1996 (12:18)", "body": "I'll work on it! Thanks Terry for giving me a home page. It's up and running--and extremely boring at the moment (www.spring.com/~anneh/). It's basically all of my bookmarks. I'll work on making it more interesting. My sister has a scanner and said she will scan whatever I want, but she lives in California, about to embark on a three week trip to Italy, so it will be a while before any cheesehead pictures could possibly appear."}, {"response": 102, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec 25, 1996 (12:58)", "body": "I have a scanner too, if anyone needs to mail pictures to me for their webpage."}, {"response": 103, "author": "churchh", "date": "Wed, Dec 25, 1996 (14:11)", "body": "Hey Ann, I'm majorly bummed out that you didn't include your very own graphic that I made just for you, on your webpage. I spent five minutes looking for the quote and a whole fifteen minutes slaving over a hot Photoshop to make the graphic, so I think i t's the least you could do..."}, {"response": 104, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec 25, 1996 (15:31)", "body": "The cheesehead shot?"}, {"response": 105, "author": "Ann", "date": "Wed, Dec 25, 1996 (22:46)", "body": "Check out my HTML Tags Tutorial: www.spring.com/~anneh/tagsaaaa.html Any advice on changes or additions are very welcome. I do like my graphic Henry. I will put it up."}, {"response": 106, "author": "MaryC", "date": "Thu, Dec 26, 1996 (18:09)", "body": "Thanks Ann for so pleasantly reminding me of why I don't live in Minnesota anymore, and why visiting Minnesota is much more pleasant in the summertime. The Mall of America is awesome, and so close to the airport when I come for those summer visits. Happ y New (and hopefully warmer) Year!"}, {"response": 107, "author": "drymartini", "date": "Fri, Dec 27, 1996 (12:20)", "body": "Careful with those tranks, now. Say, have you seen this new product that contains tranks and aspertame? It's called EqualLibrium. Hope you made it back safely from the bar where you stocked up on charm, etc. I have been doing extensive research into the construction of bottles, there being a major container maker in my town. I have discovered that most bottlenecks are at the t op. Tried to explain this to my managing editor; he is not convinced. Does your research bear out my conclusions, Lars? Or do we need to continue gathering data, replicating our results? When we have enough data, will we be able to perform analyses and re ort our findings?"}, {"response": 108, "author": "Donna", "date": "Mon, Dec 30, 1996 (14:25)", "body": "My girlfriend and I took my 3 kids and her eldest daughter out for Pizza.Of course they always bring the pitcher of soda to soon.By the time the pizza came it was all gone.I had some left in my cup and eldest daughter had some left in hers. When my kids a re thristy watch out for your drink. My six year old says \"Hey Gee\" your not drinking your soda\"\"How come\"? \"May I please have some\" she said \"Sure\". His reply was \"thanks\" \"and If you don't mind I'll take the straw too\".It was done in the politest manner for a six year old don't ya think.We all jumped on the poor kid Scotty! It was funny.Then they had to play the jukebox\"Grandma Got Ran Over by a Raindeer\" it was hilarous.They all started singing. This is why I don't go out very much. What a scene???"}, {"response": 109, "author": "TJ", "date": "Mon, Dec 30, 1996 (15:03)", "body": "WOW, first time i came to this area, but then again i haven't been around in a while....had to read all 108 entries as new.....what an interesting bunch of comments, statements, conversations, questions & answers. Absolutely loved it, sure wish this wa s an open chat..... I would definitely like to talk to many of you regularly........ Terry have you thought about putting in a chat area.......??????????"}, {"response": 110, "author": "Ann", "date": "Mon, Dec 30, 1996 (19:58)", "body": "We have a chat room. You can get to this from the link on the main Austen Conference page. It is the Pemberley Drawing Room: http://www.worldrch.com/cgibin/Chat/nph-chat.cgi"}, {"response": 111, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Dec 30, 1996 (22:21)", "body": "Good to see you coming around again TJ. One of these times I'm gonna make it for darts at the tavern down in Bastrop. Let me know when the next one is going to be ok? We can get our own chat room if folks want it. The kind Pemberly folks have offered us their software if we want it. It's not ichat, but it's not bad stuff."}, {"response": 112, "author": "TJ", "date": "Tue, Dec 31, 1996 (11:31)", "body": "from the looks of the stuff on the ramble page, it might be a good idea to have our own chat area.......at least see if anyone else has an interest.......but right now I think I'll check out the Pemberly Drawing Room.........Paul, yea it is nice to be bac k......do you have anything to do the Bastrop Internet Services??????.......do you know Daryl Kouba??????......hope to see you on Thursday (darts)..........."}, {"response": 113, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Dec 31, 1996 (11:35)", "body": "I have two servers on the bastrop.net. I can't get a hold of the kid who does their web page. I'm looking for someone in the Bastrop area, a high school kid would be ok, who can work part time at the Spring installing networks, configuring servers, and doing data entry work. I have a plan to make the Spring a world class web site and I am starting to sense an organization forming. The folks in the Austen conference are really pitching in and helping out and starting to take part in some website projects. But I need some help locally now."}, {"response": 114, "author": "Linda409", "date": "Tue, Dec 31, 1996 (14:56)", "body": "There are a group of us (about 10) who have formed a music group here at work to exercise our mutual love of music. Twice a month, we reserve a conference room, bring in our instruments and meet together during lunch hour. I play piano and keyboard (at work) and sing, all just a little and very ill, indeed. But, it is something else that affords me an extraordinary source of pleasure (like Jane Austen). We play and sing lots of different kinds of music because we have different tastes which include popular, country, standards, classical. We haven't had the nerve to attempt jazz, yet. One of the pieces that we do frequently is Handel's Largo from \"Xerxe s which is the piece that Mary sings in P&P2 (at the Netherfield Ball, I think). For the past couple of years, we have hosted a Christmas sing-along where we play and sing holiday music in the cafeteria and invite the entire building to join us. It has been well received. Today, I ran into Karen, who is a fellow music group member. As we were chatting, we discovered a mutual love of P&P and P&P2. I'm so excited!! I think that I can create yet another addict. Now, besides you wonderful internet friends, I will be able to talk about Jane Austen face to face with Karen at work and with my friend Barbra after working hours. 1997 is going to be great!!! Happy New Year to you all !!!"}, {"response": 115, "author": "jane", "date": "Tue, Dec 31, 1996 (15:13)", "body": "Linda, That music group sounds really delightful. I recently found out that a woman who works where I do is a longtime committed lurker to this board. She didn't recognize me from my postings, but we found out by accident that we both like this place. And the significant other of a man I work with is a frequent visitor to Firthdom, and has a copy of The Making of P&P that she will lend me. Small world, indeed. Jane"}, {"response": 116, "author": "jwinsor", "date": "Tue, Dec 31, 1996 (21:29)", "body": "Well, here it is New Year's Eve, and the state of the northern part of the state (CA) could be better. The Russian River is now 2 feet above flood stage and the people up there have been told to evacuate or prepare to be stranded. So much for the ir New Year's Eve plans... While the rain has not been excessive in my immediate neighborhood, 3 of our local reservoirs are full-up and spilling over their dams, and our entire TV cable system has \"broken\" somewhere and they don't yet know where or why. Before it broke we saw a few seconds of the New Year's fireworks in Sidney Harbour - and I think I spotted Ian waving at the camera. Happy New Year, all!"}, {"response": 117, "author": "Donna", "date": "Tue, Dec 31, 1996 (21:38)", "body": "Rain has been excessive here {in PA.} to Joan. We had a flood in the Summer of 1972. Are you worried about flooding? The weather man said we only had more rain \"100\" years ago. Now that is very strange."}, {"response": 118, "author": "jwinsor", "date": "Tue, Dec 31, 1996 (21:58)", "body": "I am not concerned for my own estate being flooded, but it is sad to see it happening to our neighbors to the north again - they got it badly in 1986 and again in 1995, and here they go again... Many vineyards are already under 3 to 4 feet of wate r..."}, {"response": 119, "author": "McBruce", "date": "Tue, Dec 31, 1996 (22:32)", "body": "Heading into 1997 in the Last Frontier, our weather isn't threatening just darn inconvenient. Forecast for tonight is 40-45 below, extended forecast thru sunday is 30-60 below. On the plus side, tomorrow we break the 4 hour mark of available daylight! Had the truck plugged in all afternoon so it would start tonight, now the question is how long I can stay out before it freezes up. A happy and peaceful 1997 to all!"}, {"response": 120, "author": "mrobens", "date": "Wed, Jan  1, 1997 (01:00)", "body": "This all makes Boston's 20 degrees F. and 1 inch of snow seem so anemic. I wish you all a more pleasant '97."}, {"response": 121, "author": "Anna", "date": "Wed, Jan  1, 1997 (05:29)", "body": "On the subject of one in a hundred year rainfalls; about 5 years ago sydney had the third of 3 one in a hundred year rains in 4 years - ain't statistics wonderful. In the ritzy part of town a Jaguar was swept down the street and deposited on top of someo ne's Mercedes; truly impressive rain. Still, at least it was summer, so warm, if wet. I hope those in need dry out soon."}, {"response": 122, "author": "jwinsor", "date": "Wed, Jan  1, 1997 (05:54)", "body": "It is warm (relatively speaking) though wet here - it is pouring as I type yet at almost 3 AM it is only 64 F outside. Pineapple express for sure!"}, {"response": 123, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Jan  1, 1997 (11:58)", "body": "Austin's sixth street partied down last night and I got a video of myself at the stroke of midnight on the Springs' main page . I started out at the KOOP party at Armageddon and ended up with the masses on Sixth, watching the big silver start get hoisted by a huge crane. Now, I'm sitting in Cedar Creek with my coffee and toast. Happy New Year everyone!"}, {"response": 124, "author": "MaryC", "date": "Thu, Jan  2, 1997 (00:53)", "body": "For all of you suffering through some absolutely awful winter weather, we in southern California are busy taking good care of all the truly nice weather for you and would be vastly happy to send it your way at any time convenient!"}, {"response": 125, "author": "Inko", "date": "Thu, Jan  2, 1997 (17:20)", "body": "Mary, my visiting daughter would greatly appreciate it if you would send your truly nice weather to Seattle. She's heading back there tomorrow and would like to return to decent weather!;-)"}, {"response": 126, "author": "jwinsor", "date": "Thu, Jan  2, 1997 (18:58)", "body": "and would be vastly happy to send it your way at any time convenient! Please do not stand on ceremony or await an invitation! Any time at all would be convenient! Stepping on my lawn sounds and feels like treading on saturated sponges. :-("}, {"response": 127, "author": "tedchong", "date": "Thu, Jan  2, 1997 (19:23)", "body": "Hi Terry, we still cannot access news.prismnet.com for quite some time after you switch from iamerica.net. It seems like prismnet did not open usenet access for our IP addresses. Hope you can check this matter and happy new year."}, {"response": 128, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Jan  3, 1997 (00:45)", "body": "I'll look into it Ted. Thanks."}, {"response": 129, "author": "tedchong", "date": "Fri, Jan  3, 1997 (01:03)", "body": "Terry, if prismnet granted us usenet access, we can use tin to access the usenet news, but you have to do (at shell prompt): rm /etc/nntpserver ; echo news.prismnet.com > /etc/nntpserver so all of us can access the news. Hope it helps."}, {"response": 130, "author": "lilah", "date": "Fri, Jan  3, 1997 (21:11)", "body": "It's just after 9 pm here in South Florida, and I'm recovering from a day at work that can best be described as, \"OK, folks, the holidays are over.\" Yikes. I'm an editor, learning a new city and looking for a new circle of friends. I just found the Spring yesterday -- not to mention the Austen group. I suspect I've found some kindred spirits."}, {"response": 131, "author": "Amy", "date": "Fri, Jan  3, 1997 (21:45)", "body": "Where did you come from Lilah? What kind of editor?"}, {"response": 132, "author": "lilah", "date": "Fri, Jan  3, 1997 (23:14)", "body": "Amy, I moved here from Hoboken, N J, where I lived for a number of years, working in Manhattan and New Jersey as a newspaper editor. I do the same thing here, for a group of small specialty papers."}, {"response": 133, "author": "geekman", "date": "Sun, Jan  5, 1997 (21:00)", "body": "Terry, you didn't say that this topic was in multiple Conferences! I just thought I'd visit the Cultures Conference and 'lo what did I see but this topis! Tch tch!"}, {"response": 134, "author": "Anna", "date": "Sun, Jan  5, 1997 (21:32)", "body": "]topic was in multiple Conferences! That's been apparent from the postings from \"strangers\" for some time. It's also in porch"}, {"response": 135, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jan  6, 1997 (18:41)", "body": "When you do a listing of topics, it states that it's a \"linked topic\"."}, {"response": 136, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jan  6, 1997 (21:29)", "body": "It also states \"linked item\" every time you read new stuff in it right at the top of the topic. On future \"linked topics\" I'll post a note that they are linked in the intro or in one of the responses to make this clear."}, {"response": 137, "author": "geekman", "date": "Tue, Jan  7, 1997 (05:09)", "body": "Thanks Terry! Will be much appreciated. From within the Austen Conference this time."}, {"response": 138, "author": "Amy", "date": "Thu, Jan  9, 1997 (23:22)", "body": "_______________________________________________________ \"Why did the chicken cross the road?\" ----------------------------------------------------- Plato: For the greater good. Karl Marx: It was a historical inevitability. Thomas de Torquemada: Give me ten minutes with the chicken and I'll find out. Timothy Leary: Because that's the only kind of trip the Establishment would let it take. Douglas Adams: Forty-two. Nietzsche: Because if you gaze too long across the Road, the Road gazes also across you. Oliver North: National Security was at stake. Carl Jung: The confluence of events in the cultural gestalt necessitated that individual chickens cross roads at this historical juncture, and therefore synchronicitously brought such occurrences into being. Jean-Paul Sartre: In order to act in good faith and be true to itself, the chicken found it necessary to cross the road. Ludwig Wittgenstein: The possibility of \"crossing\" was encoded into the objects \"chicken\" and \"road,\" and circumstances came into being which caused the actualization of this potential occurrence. Albert Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends upon your frame of reference. Aristotle: To actualize its potential. Buddha: If you ask this question, you deny your own chicken-nature. Salvador Dali: The Fish. Darwin: It was the logical next step after coming down from the trees. Emily Dickinson: Because it could not stop for death. Epicurus: For fun. Ralph Waldo Emerson: It didn't cross the road; it transcended it. Johann Friedrich von Goethe: The eternal hen-principle made it do it. Ernest Hemingway: To die. In the rain. Werner Heisenberg: We are not sure which side of the road the chicken was on, but it was moving very fast. David Hume: Out of custom and habit. Saddam Hussein: This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and we were quite justified in dropping 50 tons of nerve gas on it. Jack Nicholson: 'cause it (censored) wanted to. That's the (censored) reason. Pyrrho the Skeptic: What road? Ronald Reagan: I forget. John Sununu: The Air Force was only too happy to provide the transportation, so quite understandably the chicken availed himself of the opportunity. The Sphinx: You tell me. Sappho: Due to the loveliness of the hen on the other side, more fair than all of Hellas' fine armies. Henry David Thoreau: To live deliberately ... and suck all the marrow out of life. Mark Twain: The news of its crossing has been greatly exaggerated. Stephen Jay Gould: It is possible that there is a sociobiological explanation for it, but we have been deluged in recent years with sociobiological stories despite the fact that we have little direct evidence about the genetics of behavior, and we do not know how to obtain it for the specific behaviors that figure most prominently in sociobiological speculation. Joseph Stalin: I don't care. Catch it. Crack its eggs to make my omlette. Captain James T. Kirk: To boldly go where no chicken has gone before. Machiavelli: So that its subjects will view it with admiration, as a chicken which has the daring and courage to boldly cross the road, but also with fear, for whom among them has the strength to contend with such a paragon of avian virtue? In such a manner is the princely chicken's dominion maintained. Hippocrates: Because of an excess of pleghm in its pancreas. Andersen Consultant: Deregulation of the chicken's side of the road was threatening its dominant market position. The chicken was faced with significant challenges to create and develop the competencies required for the newly competitive market. Andersen Consulting, in a partnering relationship with the client, helped the chicken by rethinking its physical distribution strategy and implementation processes. Using the Poultry Integration Model (PIM) Andersen helped the chicken use its skills, methodologies, knowledge capital and experiences to align the chicken's people, processes and technology in support of its overall strategy within a Program Management framework. Andersen Consulting convened a diverse cross-spectrum of road analysts and best chickens along with Andersen consultants with deep skills in the transportation industry to engage in a two-day itinerary of meetings in order to leverage their personal knowledge capital, both tacit and explicit, and to enable them to synergize with each other in order to achieve the implicit goals of delivering and successfully architecting and implementing an enterprise-wide value framework across the continuum of poultry cross-median processes. The meeting was held in a park like setting enabling and creating an impactful environment which was strategically based, industry-focused, and built upon a consistent, clear, and unified market message and aligned with the chicken's mission, vision, and core values. This was conducive towards the creation of a total business integration solution. Andersen Consulting helped the chicken change to become more successful. Johnny Cochr"}, {"response": 139, "author": "Anna", "date": "Fri, Jan 10, 1997 (00:18)", "body": "ROFLOL!!!"}, {"response": 140, "author": "Cheryl", "date": "Fri, Jan 10, 1997 (00:52)", "body": "Anna: \"ROFLOL!!!\" Me Too!!! :-)"}, {"response": 141, "author": "churchh", "date": "Fri, Jan 10, 1997 (06:21)", "body": "There's a slightly different collection linked to from near the end of the Jane Austen jokes file at http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~churchh/austt10j.html ; this version includes a Pride and Prejudice version of the chicken joke..."}, {"response": 142, "author": "Mari", "date": "Thu, Jan  9, 1997 (14:11)", "body": "Oh dear... Oh dear... I have to wipe my eyes now to resume my viewing."}, {"response": 143, "author": "Inko", "date": "Thu, Jan  9, 1997 (14:21)", "body": "Another ROFLOL. With your permission, may I e-mail this to my children - they love these things and I usually get jokes from them."}, {"response": 144, "author": "Amy", "date": "Thu, Jan  9, 1997 (14:27)", "body": "Oh, Inko. No permission required. I am on a list of one of those infamous net jokers. These things just get passed around. Usually the things she sends are stupid, but if I get an LOL from any of them as I did with this, I shall put them up."}, {"response": 145, "author": "Ann", "date": "Sun, Jan 12, 1997 (17:50)", "body": "SAY CHEESE!!! WE ARE GOING TO THE SUPERBOWL!!!"}, {"response": 146, "author": "kendall", "date": "Sun, Jan 12, 1997 (18:07)", "body": "Ann - I am happy for you. and for all those barechested men in the stands the announcers kept talking about. what a way to call the rest of us sissies."}, {"response": 147, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Jan 12, 1997 (18:30)", "body": "There's joy in cheeshead land."}, {"response": 148, "author": "mrobens", "date": "Sun, Jan 12, 1997 (19:30)", "body": "]There's joy in cheeshead land. Not to mention Beantown!"}, {"response": 149, "author": "Inko", "date": "Sun, Jan 12, 1997 (20:18)", "body": "Congratulations Ann (Cheesehead) and Myretta (Beantowner) - it's nice to see some different teams in the Superbowl. Now - are you two going to have a bet on the outcome????;-)"}, {"response": 150, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Jan 12, 1997 (20:49)", "body": "Alright, the beaner and the cheeshead toe to toe."}, {"response": 151, "author": "candace", "date": "Sun, Jan 12, 1997 (21:09)", "body": "Yummmm, does this mean that at all the Super Bowl parties -- Bean dip and Cheese Doritos will be served?"}, {"response": 152, "author": "Kali", "date": "Sun, Jan 12, 1997 (21:40)", "body": "Woo-hoo, Ann...maybe it will help you forget last year ? ;)"}, {"response": 153, "author": "Kali", "date": "Sun, Jan 12, 1997 (21:43)", "body": "BTW, people...only a month until catchers and pitchers report to Spring Training. Can't wait. Go Braves."}, {"response": 154, "author": "jwinsor", "date": "Sun, Jan 12, 1997 (21:54)", "body": "PLEASE, Mrs. Bennet, no sports, I BEG you! :-("}, {"response": 155, "author": "Ann", "date": "Sun, Jan 12, 1997 (23:09)", "body": "That's why I put it in the ramble topic, Joan. It is supposed to be for anything one might want to say. As for me, though I will be cheering for Green Bay, I have absolutely no faith in the team and fully expect them to choke."}, {"response": 156, "author": "Kali", "date": "Mon, Jan 13, 1997 (01:26)", "body": "Ann, have a little faith! ;) --- Joan, sports can be a very welcome diversion from computers, I must say...I hope to be able to make at least one Giants-Braves series at the 'Stick (okay, 3-Com!) this year...anybody else out there like baseball? ANYBODY???!!!"}, {"response": 157, "author": "Cheryl", "date": "Mon, Jan 13, 1997 (02:11)", "body": "Kali: anybody else out there like baseball? ANYBODY???!!! Kali, I'm a big Detroit Tigers fan, growing up in Michigan it was a part of my childhood training just like ice skating and mosquito slapping! I spent many happy days at Tiger Stadium as a child...can't believe they're going to tear down that beautiful o ld stadium! :-("}, {"response": 158, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jan 13, 1997 (02:49)", "body": "I grew up a Cardinals fan. St. Louis. Busch Stadium. Joe Garagiola, Harry Carey, Jack Buck and Tim McCarver used to broadcast the games on KMOX."}, {"response": 159, "author": "Kali", "date": "Mon, Jan 13, 1997 (04:13)", "body": "Harry Caray...sigh...I've grown up on Skip Caray... Yay for you guys...baseball lives! And yes, Cheryl...stadiumwrecking is a crying shame...I had the displeasure of seeing Comiskey in varying degrees of demolition whilst the new Comiskey was constructed...almost like the life was being sucked out of the old stadium and being pumped into the new..."}, {"response": 160, "author": "geekman", "date": "Mon, Jan 13, 1997 (04:41)", "body": "Congratulations Ann or should I say Slart ? So your team is in the final. Well, the beleaguered Australian One Day Cricket Team has missed out on the World Series Cricket Finals for the first time in 17 years! And on top of that is the New South Wales Shield Team losing very badly to Western Australia , in their Sheffield Shield match at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Now let me tell yo all that when NSW Cricket is strong, Australia is strong! So come on NSW and Come On Aussie ! Oh, Cheryl , now if you would really like to see some venerable old grounds, come and see our grand stands at our Cricket Grounds!"}, {"response": 161, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jan 13, 1997 (04:44)", "body": "I drove by some folks playing cricket in Austin the other day. Will you please start a cricket topic in the sports conference Ian?"}, {"response": 162, "author": "geekman", "date": "Mon, Jan 13, 1997 (04:51)", "body": "If you'd like me too, Terry! BTW, what are you doing up at this hour?!? Now if you were in Australia... :-)"}, {"response": 163, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jan 13, 1997 (05:42)", "body": "I had to come in to work early today because we're facing an ice storm and the company I work for is on a crash project and need everyone they can to be here. I'm not normally up at this hour. Have you seen that austen is the feature on the Spring's main page today? If I were in Australia I'd probably be warmer now."}, {"response": 164, "author": "Amy", "date": "Mon, Jan 13, 1997 (08:47)", "body": "Another connection, Cheryl. I grew up as a Tiger fan too. Stormin' Norman Cash, Al Kaline (saw him hit a grand slam once), my mother's heartthrob, Rocky Colavito (sp?) And Terry, you lived in St. Louis? Me from 76-80. End of the Lou Brock days, hot muggy afternoons in left field. Attended the 7th game of the 80 world series."}, {"response": 165, "author": "Mari", "date": "Mon, Jan 13, 1997 (13:40)", "body": "Kali, gang; live in Milwaukee, and my hubby was one of the many enjoying themselves at 1 degree above zero yesterday (although I hope, I very much hope, NOT one of the barechested ones! :) ) Anyway, baseball is my game; started as a Braves fan (yes, here in Milwaukee when I was just a sprig), have become a Brewers fan. I can enjoy any baseball game; when we vacation outside of Duluth in the summer we go to Duluth Dukes games; fabulous fun, e specially if the San Diego chicken is visiting."}, {"response": 166, "author": "yairl", "date": "Mon, Jan 13, 1997 (15:19)", "body": "i've got to know how to make a good pizza any ideas????????"}, {"response": 167, "author": "Amy", "date": "Mon, Jan 13, 1997 (15:51)", "body": "Must have a stone, Yair. That is the first thing -- unless you are doing deep disih. Amy Who Used to Live in Chicago"}, {"response": 168, "author": "Cheryl", "date": "Mon, Jan 13, 1997 (16:27)", "body": "Amy: Another connection, Cheryl. I grew up as a Tiger fan too. Stormin' Norman Cash, Al Kaline (saw him hit a grand slam once), my mother's heartthrob, Rocky Colavito (sp?) Cool, Amy...I still look back on my 9th birthday as very special...I spent it with my Mom at Tiger Stadium watching a Twi-Night Double header against the hated Yankees...Tigers won both games, Al Kaline hit a homer in one, Mickey Lolich got a one-hitter i n the other and the Tigers went on to win the Series that year ('68,of course, not '84!) Can still sing the Tiger fight song I learned in 4th grade...\"Sock it to 'em Tigers, show 'em how to play...)"}, {"response": 169, "author": "Hilary", "date": "Mon, Jan 13, 1997 (18:29)", "body": "Not 'Teach me tiger', Cheryl????"}, {"response": 170, "author": "Amy", "date": "Mon, Jan 13, 1997 (18:36)", "body": "We're all behind our baseball team. Go get em tigers. Right? Go get em, Detroit Tigers. Go get em Tigers!"}, {"response": 171, "author": "Ann", "date": "Mon, Jan 13, 1997 (20:14)", "body": "I like the Saint Paul Saints--Northern League team that put the fun back into going to see baseball games. They are a total hoot. (Daryl Strawberry slept here)"}, {"response": 172, "author": "lilah", "date": "Mon, Jan 13, 1997 (20:44)", "body": "Terry, Amy -- St. Louis is my home town. I remember seeing Stan Musial play at old Sportsman's Park (I was a tiny child, OK?) There ARE no announcers to compare with Jack Buck and Harry Caray describing the game on a hot August night on KMOX -- \"this is t he Cardinal baseball network.\""}, {"response": 173, "author": "Kali", "date": "Mon, Jan 13, 1997 (20:48)", "body": "Yay! More baseball fans! Wow, Mari...you're an even older Bravie than I am...I got hooked back in the eighties, when they still sucked...a great time to love baseball, b/c every game was personal. Fay Vincent was even threatening to review our status as an Atlanta team! I still have my Dale Murphy baseball card collection...over 300 cards, including his two rookie cards and one I got autographed. --- Good pizza? Zachary's stuffed is the best...they make their dough with beer and put the sauce on top and the toppings inside (go figure)...unfortunately, you can only get Zack's in Oakland and Berkeley...:("}, {"response": 174, "author": "JohanneD", "date": "Tue, Jan 14, 1997 (00:14)", "body": "Talking, pizza : fav : thin crust with pesto, goat cheese, green and black olives, onions, prosciutto and walnuts. Other one is curried chicken pizza If you're in the vicinity of Montreal, go or order at Pizzedelic."}, {"response": 175, "author": "Meggin", "date": "Tue, Jan 14, 1997 (09:27)", "body": "Another Braves fan here! The Murph was great, also BRUUUUCE Benedict and Jeff Treadway and Lonnie Smith (so what if he fell for the deke--they should have been able to get him home). Go Braves!!!"}, {"response": 176, "author": "Mari", "date": "Tue, Jan 14, 1997 (17:16)", "body": "LLohr (lilah)''There ARE no announcers to compare with Jack Buck and Harry Caray describing the game on a hot August night on KMOX -- \"this is the Cardinal baseball network.\"'' Lilah, I beg to differ; there is nothing like driving home from your summer vacation and enjoying Bob Uecker announcing the Sunday afternoon Brewer's game...''Get up..Get up.. Get outta here....''"}, {"response": 177, "author": "lilah", "date": "Tue, Jan 14, 1997 (19:10)", "body": "Mari, I'd just about settle for any announcer describing any game...are football and basketball seasons over yet???"}, {"response": 178, "author": "MaryC", "date": "Tue, Jan 14, 1997 (23:06)", "body": "I grew up in Minnesota BEFORE the Twins and the Vikes, so am thrilled the 'Pack is Back'. Saw my first major league game in Tiger (then Briggs) Stadium because that's one of the things we always did when we visited our Detroit relatives. Great memories. .are they really going to tear that wonderful stadium down, can't believe it."}, {"response": 179, "author": "Amy", "date": "Tue, Jan 14, 1997 (23:56)", "body": "Moved to collapse topics: Tue, Jan 14, 1997 (10:14) | Laura McCarthy ( LauraM ) Sorry, but I must do this. GO PATS!!!!!!! JAMBALYA YA JAMBALAYA YA.... Think of me doing a really stupid dance right now. 4 responses total."}, {"response": 1, "author": "Amy", "date": "Tue, Jan 14, 1997 (10:22)", "body": "Good. Laura, I am happy for you. Thanks for sharing, dear. Sincerely. (But can we have a little talk about willynilly topic creation/)"}, {"response": 2, "author": "Mari", "date": "Tue, Jan 14, 1997 (17:12)", "body": "Laura; go to the Ramble topic; we are having quite the sports dicussion over there; of course you'll have to excuse us Wisconsinites if we don't join in your cheer;))"}, {"response": 3, "author": "Ann", "date": "Tue, Jan 14, 1997 (17:27)", "body": "Go Pack!!!"}, {"response": 4, "author": "Becks", "date": "Tue, Jan 14, 1997 (22:17)", "body": "Football in a JA bulletin board!!! Insupportable!!!!"}, {"response": 180, "author": "Kali", "date": "Wed, Jan 15, 1997 (01:43)", "body": "Yep, Meggin...Lonnie Smith remains my all-time favorite left-fielder. And Bruce one of my favorite catchers...and Jeff Treadway my favorite second-baseman. BTW, I have one of Jeffy's broken bats...something only the biggest fan would want, considering h is relative obscurity! ;) Oh, and Jeff Blauser is also a god...because he's a Californian...;)"}, {"response": 181, "author": "Kali", "date": "Wed, Jan 15, 1997 (01:45)", "body": "Oh, and Laura...I support your Patriot Victory Topic... :::) Solidarity among the sportsfans!"}, {"response": 182, "author": "McBruce", "date": "Wed, Jan 15, 1997 (02:59)", "body": "Cheryl and Amy- how could you forget Denny Maclean? And not a bad piano player for a jock. What I remember best about Tiger stadium was the smell of the Wonder bread factory on the way in, cruising the Lodge with the windows down. And CKLW on the AM radio."}, {"response": 183, "author": "Cheryl", "date": "Wed, Jan 15, 1997 (03:30)", "body": "Bruce: Cheryl and Amy- how could you forget Denny Maclean? Bruce! Another Michigander has come out of the closet! ;-) I have not forgot Dennt McClain, they could not have won the '68 Series without him! But it was Lolich who won the game I was describing. ;-) I hadn't thought of the Wonder Bread factory in ye ars! Thanks for the reminder! Fresh bread--what a wonderful smell!"}, {"response": 184, "author": "Anna", "date": "Wed, Jan 15, 1997 (06:13)", "body": "Nice collapse Amy :-)"}, {"response": 185, "author": "Amy", "date": "Wed, Jan 15, 1997 (07:12)", "body": "] forget Denny Maclean? __ Hey Bruce. Another link. Tigers and Bob Seger. Nice combo. Denny MaClean, the million dollar arm with the 10 cent attitude. re the Lodge: kid story about that another time. Where did you guys grow up? Me, in Mt. Pleasant, but I worked in Detroit for a couple of years right out of college (Central Michigan)"}, {"response": 186, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Jan 15, 1997 (07:41)", "body": "We have a Tiger Wood topic in sports by the way, the sports conference here."}, {"response": 187, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Jan 15, 1997 (07:46)", "body": "Did I say we had a sports topic here? I believe a Pats topic would be supportablee there, my dear."}, {"response": 188, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Jan 15, 1997 (07:49)", "body": "I meant of course, sports *conference*. Imagine, an entire conference devoted to sports and austenites are more than welcome to elucidate on any topic there."}, {"response": 189, "author": "Cheryl", "date": "Wed, Jan 15, 1997 (12:39)", "body": "Amy: Where did you guys grow up? A Michigan Revival Meeting, eh? ;-) I grew up in Pontiac, a blue collar factory town, about 1/2 mile from the Fischer Body plant...walked many a picket line in my youth...;-)"}, {"response": 190, "author": "TJ", "date": "Wed, Jan 15, 1997 (13:28)", "body": "Grew up in Albany, New York.............but left in 73'."}, {"response": 191, "author": "TJ", "date": "Wed, Jan 15, 1997 (13:41)", "body": "And for the favorite pizza person........ i found that it you use the pilsbury pizza dough it is pretty good, brush it with olive oil and heat it up first with nothing on it for about 3 to 5 minutesR 350 DEGREES then add just all fresh ingrediants......fresh tomatoes, parley, basil, oregano, thyme and ground pepper (both red and black).....Crushed red pepper is ok if you cannot find whole to grind..... then chopped onions, green and red peppers, sliced mushrooms..... then add a fresh ground italian sausage or a good hard sliced peperoni cover with a mixture of cheeses 50% shredded mozzerella and the other 50% a mixture of romano, parmasian, provalone and white chedder return to oven until cheese is melted........"}, {"response": 192, "author": "yairl", "date": "Wed, Jan 15, 1997 (19:55)", "body": "thanks tj but after having second thoughts about it i think i'll keep on letting dominos do the hard work. does anyone know anything about bangkok thailand i'm going to go there and i can realy use some guiding ."}, {"response": 193, "author": "Meggin", "date": "Wed, Jan 15, 1997 (22:20)", "body": "Kali, send me a splinter sometime! :)"}, {"response": 194, "author": "Kali", "date": "Wed, Jan 15, 1997 (22:58)", "body": "You got it, Meggin! :)"}, {"response": 195, "author": "Ann2", "date": "Thu, Jan 16, 1997 (16:06)", "body": "Boy am I an outsider here! Never seen a game of baseball or whatever you're talking of with such eagerness.( Small chance in Sweden .) Have copied and saved those two delicious sounding pizza variations, though. And thanks Hilary for Tiger memento..."}, {"response": 196, "author": "Kali", "date": "Thu, Jan 16, 1997 (16:42)", "body": "Come visit, Ann2, and we'll go to a game..."}, {"response": 197, "author": "candace", "date": "Fri, Jan 17, 1997 (01:16)", "body": "It was thirty years ago that we all met. Five very silly fourteen year old girls. Together we practiced for womanhood. Clothes, make-up, and boys. Little did we know that what really prepared us for the future was the simple act of being together. We would talk deep into the night. Eating junk food and chocolate, sipping sodas. We spoke of our hopes, dreams, and fears always starting so seriously and always ending in laughter with tears running down our cheeks. We grew up together, the five of us. Transforming from girls to young women. We ran gaily then. Each of us, one by one meeting, falling in love, and marrying our soul-mates. Those years were filled with bridal showers, weddings, baby showers, and chil d-birth. After each milestone we would gather, talking deep into the night. Eating junk food and chocolate, sipping wine. We spoke of our hopes, dreams, and fears. Always starting so seriously and always ending in laughter with tears running down our heeks. We went head-strong into our thirties. Each developing a new found independence and calmness which comes when you have finally begun to feel comfortable with yourself. Our careers were established, our children growing, and all five marriages still stro ng. We had all done our jobs well. It was no problem to leave our families for short periods of time. It was then that we began our \"Enchanted April\" weekends. Off to the mountains or the ocean. Talking deep into the night. Eating junk food and choc late, sipping wine. We spoke of our hopes, dreams, and fears. Always starting so seriously and always ending in laughter with tears running down our cheeks. Our thirties began to come to a close. Each time that we would meet, we would sound like a Jane Austen novel -- \"How is your mother?\" \"How is your father?\" -- this would follow with tales of illnesses and hospitals. When or how our chain calls started, I don't really remember. It was a instinctive reaction designed so that the sufferer would not have to repeat their story more than once. One would call the other, each in turn. \"One of us is hurting\" we would tell the next until we made a complete cir le. Again, we would gather. Talking deep into the night. Eating junk food and chocolate, sipping wine. We spoke of our hopes, dreams, and fears. Always starting so seriously and always ending in laughter with tears running down our cheeks. One by one our parents began to leave us. We held hands and our breath and tip-toed into our forties. We now gathered most often at our parent's funerals. Although our husbands tried to comfort us, it was the five of us that we would seek. Talking deep into the night. Eating junk food and cho colate, sipping wine. We spoke of our hopes, dreams, and fears. Always starting so seriously and always ending in laughter with tears running down our cheeks. Just this week another mile-stone has occurred. One of us became a widow. How can this be? Up until this moment, we all still remained with our one and only husbands. How lucky we were -- how well we choose -- how smug we were -- how fearful we are. Did we never think that this type of tragedy would happen? All along the chain call, each one said the same thing, \"I am so scared. We now must face the facts. There will be a time when one by one we will start loosing each other.\" Tomarrow we will bury her husband. After the sevices, when everyone else leaves, we will remain. Talking deep into the night. Eating junk food and chocolate, sipping wine. Speaking of our hopes, dreams, and fears. We will start out quite serious and somehow end laughing. Funny how there will still be tears enough to run down our cheeks. Thank you for letting me ramble."}, {"response": 198, "author": "jwinsor", "date": "Fri, Jan 17, 1997 (03:03)", "body": "Oh, Candace - that is absolutely beautiful. Now where is that box of tissue! Please do share this with your five-some, too."}, {"response": 199, "author": "TJ", "date": "Fri, Jan 17, 1997 (10:52)", "body": "Candace..........THANKS"}, {"response": 200, "author": "Ann2", "date": "Fri, Jan 17, 1997 (12:34)", "body": "Candace, it should really be the other way around....I thank you for letting me follow your rambling. I feel an ache in my throat and my eyes are a bit dim. This past autume my mother died and I miss her so. This life is ours to handle with care, and the way you and your friends do it together is just.... Oddly, I find it comforting that it is the same for us whoever or whereever... We must part from the one's we love. Better think of it now and then..."}, {"response": 201, "author": "elder", "date": "Fri, Jan 17, 1997 (13:22)", "body": "Candace -- what a beautiful \"ramble\" on the blessings of friends. Our thoughts are with you and your friends as you pass another milestone. (And my prayers are with your one friend who is going through this painful time.) Thank you for wanting to share this w/ us."}, {"response": 202, "author": "Inko", "date": "Fri, Jan 17, 1997 (17:09)", "body": "Thank you Candace for rambling and sharing so beautifully. When you think of the sadness, though, also consider the blessings of having five such good friends. It's so rare that friends can stay together through all the stages of their lives."}, {"response": 203, "author": "lilah", "date": "Fri, Jan 17, 1997 (19:34)", "body": "Candace, that was moving, eloquent and beautiful. How lucky you are to have such friends to see each other through the inevitabilities of life. I lost my beloved father in August; watched my mom struggle with the transition into widowhood. That's when I saw the rituals and the resulting strength that a group of women friends give to each other, and that's when I realized I truly believe in a sisterhood. Thanks for sharing with us."}, {"response": 204, "author": "Meggin", "date": "Fri, Jan 17, 1997 (23:28)", "body": "Candace, my father died last week. The first person I really talked to about it was my best friend--her father died 18 months ago. We've been best buddy's since jr. high--a long time ago. Yet she still knows me better than anyone else, despite the fact that we now live miles apart. How lucky you are to have a group of friends to help support each other in time of need. No one else could make me laugh last week, but my friend Kathy could. That is what best friends are for."}, {"response": 205, "author": "Kali", "date": "Sat, Jan 18, 1997 (00:33)", "body": "Everyone, I hate to break the sisterly mood created by Candace's lovely ramble, but it was recently revealed that our own Saman just got into medical school! Congratulations..."}, {"response": 206, "author": "Amy", "date": "Sat, Jan 18, 1997 (00:50)", "body": "Meggin, I am so sorry. Yours and Candace's story make me even more thankful my own mother is better all the time -- just learned two days ago that a heart oblation procedure done a few weeks ago had been successful even though at the time the doctors pron ounced it a failure. S'man, I am very very happy for you. I know how much you wanted this. You deserve it."}, {"response": 207, "author": "kendall", "date": "Sat, Jan 18, 1997 (12:52)", "body": "\"...our own Saman just got into medical school! Congratulations... \" WOW This is so exciting - where will you do to school!!"}, {"response": 208, "author": "Becks", "date": "Sat, Jan 18, 1997 (13:42)", "body": "Way to go Saman!! I'm so sorry. Margaret."}, {"response": 209, "author": "Inko", "date": "Sat, Jan 18, 1997 (15:07)", "body": "My sympathies, Margaret, and all others who have recently lost family members or friends. It's a difficult time, I know, when good friends are invaluable. Congratulations, Saman! Does this mean we'll now have an \"ER\" topic here??"}, {"response": 210, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Jan 18, 1997 (17:51)", "body": "Candace, that is one of the most eloquent, touching ramblings I have experienced. I have a photo in my family album of a group of women I know who match this description very closely. I miss having a similar relationship in my own life and it is touching to hear about it in anothers life. That's the photo on the left of the women I spoke, that's Ann Evans the bride, ex-mayor of Davis California who married a delightful Englishman named David. They are still living in Davis, CA as far as a I know. These women all grew up together. I'm very glad our week long task to put out the new Webstalker has been completed and the product is now being shipped out to reviewers and beta testers. This is the first free moment I've had in well over a week. I'm hoping to get together with the Unix team and the folks who inhabit this community today and tomorrow before I go back to the intense development effort I'm involved in right now. I'm sitting in my office/master bedroom in Cedar Creek looking out over the woods and pastures, feeling good. I've got the Wide World of Sports Ice Skating on the tube, this is one of the most esthetic and relaxing sports to watch. (more about this in a future ice skating topic in the sports conference). Ekaterina Gordeeva is skating now, what a fine skater."}, {"response": 211, "author": "Anna", "date": "Sat, Jan 18, 1997 (18:24)", "body": "Margaret, please accept my sympathy. ] it was recently revealed that our own Saman just got into medical school! That's great Saman, will you be starting this year? You must be really busy as well as please. I hope you'll still be able to join us occaisionally if y ou have to relocate. Amy, I'm really glad to hear your mother is improving."}, {"response": 212, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Jan 18, 1997 (18:53)", "body": "Happy birthday Kathleen Elder!"}, {"response": 213, "author": "lilah", "date": "Sat, Jan 18, 1997 (20:24)", "body": "Margaret, my thoughts and prayers are with you and your family."}, {"response": 214, "author": "kendall", "date": "Sat, Jan 18, 1997 (20:45)", "body": "Margaret - I am very sorry you lost your father. Hope you and the rest of your family ware getting through this."}, {"response": 215, "author": "candace", "date": "Sat, Jan 18, 1997 (22:17)", "body": "Thank you to everyone for the responses to my essay. In truth, what I really thank you for is this wonderful forum and all my wonderful cyber friends. This was truly the best therapy. To Margaret -- I am so sorry for your loss. I lost my own father five years ago. I know exactly what you feel. Peace be with you all."}, {"response": 216, "author": "Meggin", "date": "Sat, Jan 18, 1997 (22:26)", "body": "Thanks to all for the expressions of sympathy. You have touched my heart."}, {"response": 217, "author": "Mixu", "date": "Mon, Jan 20, 1997 (09:22)", "body": "Margaret, otan osaa, as they say here in Finland. It could roughly be translated as \"I take a piece of your sorrow and carry it with me\", and means that I am very, very sorry about your father. Keep on smiling, though. Despite many things the world still is a beautiful place."}, {"response": 218, "author": "Amy", "date": "Mon, Jan 20, 1997 (10:21)", "body": "otan osaa __ That is lovely Mixu"}, {"response": 219, "author": "MaryC", "date": "Mon, Jan 20, 1997 (20:31)", "body": "Terry, figure skating ranks right along with P&P on my list of things I really enjoy. Saturday the 'Stars on Ice' were in town and a group of 8 of us went to dinner and the show. The evening flew by and it is difficult to pick out the best, but Ecaterina's numbers were very special. Torvil and Dean were an awesome presence in the show. Hope some of the other contributors to this board have the opportunity to see this wonderful production. And thanks to you Terry for providing this great home for all f us."}, {"response": 220, "author": "MaryC", "date": "Mon, Jan 20, 1997 (20:32)", "body": "Terry, figure skating ranks right along with P&P on my list of things I really enjoy. Saturday the 'Stars on Ice' were in town and a group of 8 of us went to dinner and the show. The evening flew by and it is difficult to pick out the best, but Ecaterina's numbers were very special. Torvil and Dean were an awesome presence in the show. Hope some of the other contributors to this board have the opportunity to see this wonderful production. And thanks to you Terry for providing this great home for all f us."}, {"response": 221, "author": "MaryC", "date": "Mon, Jan 20, 1997 (20:32)", "body": "Oops, sorry for the extra post."}, {"response": 222, "author": "jwinsor", "date": "Mon, Jan 20, 1997 (22:52)", "body": "I would kill (well almost) to see Torvil and Dean in person!"}, {"response": 223, "author": "JohanneD", "date": "Thu, Jan 23, 1997 (00:47)", "body": "Candace, let me tell you how very deeply touched I was by your \"ramble\", frienship, family and the act of sharing is at the core of the soul. Margaret, accept these thoughts of peace. Loosing someone close, whether one who's life as been a long fulfilled road or, has we experienced last week, loosing a little one who had so much to experience, is never easy. Let us rejoyce in the happiness of their newfound home/salvation. Amy, all my wishes of health for your mother."}, {"response": 224, "author": "Mixu", "date": "Thu, Jan 23, 1997 (09:03)", "body": "Amy, I am glad you liked the expression. I think the reason why we have \"otan osaa\" is because if we said \"Olen pahoillani\" (meaning \"I am sorry\") it would mean that I did the thing I am sorry for. Anyway, I like \"otan osaa\" myself. It even sounds nice. I just happen to love Finnish, and feel myself very fortunate that I have it as a 1st language."}, {"response": 225, "author": "Meggin", "date": "Thu, Jan 23, 1997 (13:25)", "body": "Mixu, I greatlly appreciate the kind sentiment expressed by \"otan osaa\". All of the words of sympathy expressed for me and my family have meant more to me than I could ever have believed possible. You all don't know me and you didn't know my father, yet so many of you have made such an effort to let me know that you care. I am overwhelmed by all of this. Johanne, you write of losing a little one. How terrible. My father was old and sick and in pain and I take a great deal of comfort in the thought that he is in a better place, having lived a full life with many joys. Johanne, my heart aches for you."}, {"response": 226, "author": "JohanneD", "date": "Thu, Jan 23, 1997 (17:16)", "body": "Just to make things clear, I personnaly did not loose my child this past week, heaven forbid, I would'nt be able to be here at all, wondering if I would have any sanity left in such a short time. But my dear friend did loose her very soon expected baby and having lost one myself a couple of years ago, it stirred up memories. So close to the miracle of life but taken away a nano-second before. No choice but to confort ourselves with beliefs of a better place for them and the faith in a destiny much bigger than our mere comprehension may aloud. Thanks."}, {"response": 227, "author": "Amy", "date": "Thu, Jan 23, 1997 (17:24)", "body": "Most people have no idea how much of a loss a miscarriage can be -- at any stage."}, {"response": 228, "author": "Ann", "date": "Sat, Jan 25, 1997 (11:06)", "body": "Most people also do not realise that 25-33% of all pregnancies end in miscarriage. With such I high number, it should be more widely known."}, {"response": 229, "author": "Cheryl", "date": "Sat, Jan 25, 1997 (16:51)", "body": "AN ANNOUNCEMENT I have, this day, taken down all my Christmas decorations!!! *Applause* (Thank you, thank you very much! Now I just have to get it carried out to the garage!)"}, {"response": 230, "author": "Ann2", "date": "Sat, Jan 25, 1997 (17:23)", "body": "That is very good ,Cheryl . I have still the tree as it is so fresh and smells so good; I have not had the heart to throw it away. But I took away the last x-mas cloth the other day and have only kept one electric candlestick in the kitchen-window to brighten our dark and early mornings in January."}, {"response": 231, "author": "elder", "date": "Sun, Jan 26, 1997 (00:56)", "body": "Cheryl & Ann2 -- with both of your messages blinking at the same speed, I began to feel that Christmas was still here! To any interested viewers of CF movies: I recently loaned my copy of \"Dutch Girls\" to Mari. If you are interested in viewing it, let me know via email (kelder@miworld.net for home or k_elder@fre.fsu.umd.edu for work). I can ask Mari to send it to you when she has finished watching it. As long as I get it back sometime, I would be happy to share."}, {"response": 232, "author": "Cheryl", "date": "Sun, Jan 26, 1997 (03:36)", "body": "ANTI-SUPER BOWL PARTY Grace and I were talking at Pemberley today, bemoaning a full day of the Football Fan's High Holy Day, when we decided that we should hold our own party at Pemberley! The madness, I mean game begins at 6pm EST, but the Pregame crap, I mean festivities start hours and hours before that. So the official party shall begin at 4pm EST, earlier if you cannot stand anymore of John Madden! ;-) Y'all come!"}, {"response": 233, "author": "Donna", "date": "Sun, Jan 26, 1997 (10:13)", "body": "Who in your opinion was worse Dandy Don,Howard or John Madden?"}, {"response": 234, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Jan 26, 1997 (10:19)", "body": "Wow, Super Sunday is here. And we have cheeseheads and anti-Superbowl partyin'. Are you going to have your own anti-Superbowl half time show with entertainment?"}, {"response": 235, "author": "Amy", "date": "Sun, Jan 26, 1997 (10:19)", "body": "If you are not watching but only hearing the noise, Madden's yelling is really grating. But! I don't have a football husband anymore. Yay!!!!!!!!"}, {"response": 236, "author": "Amy", "date": "Sun, Jan 26, 1997 (10:20)", "body": "Hey, Terry, we posted at the same time. Are you a football fan? If you have time, would you look in deeper?"}, {"response": 237, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Jan 26, 1997 (10:21)", "body": "Madden's comments on the web are naive and comical. \"How do you dot com something?\""}, {"response": 238, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Jan 26, 1997 (10:22)", "body": "Amy throws a pass and Terry goes deep..."}, {"response": 239, "author": "Amy", "date": "Sun, Jan 26, 1997 (10:32)", "body": "What?"}, {"response": 240, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Jan 26, 1997 (17:15)", "body": "Missed signal. Let's try that play again."}, {"response": 241, "author": "Grace", "date": "Sun, Jan 26, 1997 (17:29)", "body": "Cheryl, I am here. Where are you?? Your thoughts (in chat yesterday)about Darcy as a quarterback have sparked my interest in the game, football...that is. But remember...if you get to be the team masseuse, I get to do the locker room interviews, up close and oh so personal. One more thing.....about those whirlpool tubs for the athletes...are you sure they accommodate two comfortably???"}, {"response": 242, "author": "Grace", "date": "Sun, Jan 26, 1997 (17:32)", "body": "Cheryl, I am here. Where are you?? Your thoughts (in chat yesterday)about Darcy as a quarterback have sparked my interest in the game, football...that is. But remember...if you get to be the team masseuse, I get to do the locker room interviews, up close and oh so personal. One more thing.....about those whirlpool tubs for the athletes...are you sure they accommodate two comfortably???"}, {"response": 243, "author": "Cheryl", "date": "Sun, Jan 26, 1997 (19:00)", "body": "Grace: One more thing.....about those whirlpool tubs for the athletes...are you sure they accommodate two comfortably??? Some things are worth a little discomfort! ;-) (and I'm at Pemberley now...where are you, dearie?)"}, {"response": 244, "author": "Ann2", "date": "Mon, Jan 27, 1997 (02:20)", "body": "Sorry, I missed that party,Cheryl and Grace. But from what I hear it was not totally without sports, eyh eyh, nudge,wink?"}, {"response": 245, "author": "Grace", "date": "Mon, Jan 27, 1997 (10:03)", "body": "Ann, Mostly we made sport of the Neanderthals sitting in front of the tube whooping and hollering over such a stupid game. You'll be pleased to know that after much discussion, we also did reach some consensus about those Lycra pants the gentlemen wear on the gridiron. Should have been there!"}, {"response": 246, "author": "Amy", "date": "Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (01:37)", "body": "Congratulations, Kali! On receiving her first law school acceptance letter But we never had any doubt."}, {"response": 247, "author": "Kali", "date": "Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (02:04)", "body": "Thank you, Amy dearest, for your encouragement and optimism. You're great! :)"}, {"response": 248, "author": "JohanneD", "date": "Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (02:23)", "body": "Brava Kali"}, {"response": 249, "author": "jwinsor", "date": "Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (03:05)", "body": "tHip Hip Hooray! (Which school was it?)"}, {"response": 250, "author": "jwinsor", "date": "Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (03:06)", "body": "Hip Hip Hooray! (Which school was it?)"}, {"response": 251, "author": "jwinsor", "date": "Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (03:06)", "body": "Hey! I did not post that twice - though it does bear repeating. ;-)"}, {"response": 252, "author": "Cheryl", "date": "Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (03:20)", "body": "I have only one thing to say to you, my dearest niece... YAHOOOOOO!!!!"}, {"response": 253, "author": "Kali", "date": "Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (03:48)", "body": "THanks guys! It was Georgetown, Joan...:)"}, {"response": 254, "author": "mrobens", "date": "Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (08:19)", "body": "But, of course, I'm not at all surprised. Congratulations daughter."}, {"response": 255, "author": "Ann2", "date": "Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (13:59)", "body": "Was it not Mr Bingley who found it amazing that young ladies can have patience to be so very accomplished?! And in our midst are several very accomplished, who also posess a certain something in their air, their adress and expressions. They study law, go to medical school and I know not what! Good luck, Kali! (Just saw you in Best of chat!)And Saman too!"}, {"response": 256, "author": "elder", "date": "Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (14:14)", "body": "Congrats, Kali -- and may you receive many more happy responses! I hope you have a large field of choices (although Georgetown is certainly not too shabby)."}, {"response": 257, "author": "Mari", "date": "Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (14:15)", "body": "Kali, Saman; go to it, girls!"}, {"response": 258, "author": "Amy", "date": "Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (14:41)", "body": "Isn't this great? We are all so proud, like a bunch of mother hens. It is sweet."}, {"response": 259, "author": "Inko", "date": "Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (16:37)", "body": "CONGRATULATIONS Kali -- Georgetown is really great. Starting with the cream of the crop!! Congratulations also to Saman. What a bright bunch we have here - nice to know the next generation is in good hands!!;-)"}, {"response": 260, "author": "kendall", "date": "Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (17:13)", "body": "Georgetown!! Great. congratulations, Kali"}, {"response": 261, "author": "alix", "date": "Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (18:57)", "body": "Congrats, Kali! I'm a UGA person, myself, but Georgetown is an awsome school. Just one question, what is a Hoya, exactly? I've heard so many things from people who go to Harrison High School as to what it is, but those Harrison people usually have problems with that whole collective reasoning/agreement thing! Sorry to those that I've offended, but at least McEachern can agree on their mascot. One more question, has anyone noticed that allmost all Latin teachers are either nutty absent minded professor types, or grandmothers-from-hell? Just a thought."}, {"response": 262, "author": "Kali", "date": "Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (19:59)", "body": "Latin teachers? Our Latin teacher in high school was a messy genius type. Here at Cal, Professor Knapp is very normal. He's married, with kids, and very nice. so, you're a Dawg (woof woof woof!), Laura? Oh...and a hoya is actually a retaining wall (selected by students long, long, ago...). It has nothing to do with the bulldog that the athletic department took on as a mascot. --- Thank you for your interest and encouragement, guys...you're great!!!"}, {"response": 263, "author": "Ann", "date": "Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (20:24)", "body": "A hoya is a certain way of throwing a frisbee: Hold the frisbee with your first and second fingers on the inside with the second finger along the inside of the rim, place your thumb on the top of the frisbee, then hold the frisbee in a vertical position (perpendicular to the ground) over your shoulder, then in a motion similar to a baseball throw throw the frisbee with strength and with a flick of the wrist high into the air. The frisbee will then invert and float upside-down back to the earth--that is a oya!"}, {"response": 264, "author": "jwinsor", "date": "Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (21:19)", "body": "A hoya is an ornamental plant that grows well in hanging baskets and has tiny star-shaped flowers."}, {"response": 265, "author": "Susan", "date": "Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (22:55)", "body": "Kali, I haven't been on here long, but want to say Congrats! Georgetown is pretty cool . . . and you must be pretty smart! But then we already knew that. Enjoyed seeing your picture."}, {"response": 266, "author": "Kali", "date": "Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (23:15)", "body": "Thank you, Susan! Glad you liked the pic. Ann, Joan, I had no idea that a \"hoya\" was so many things! The Hoya Laura was refering to is the official Georgetown \"mascot\"...which is not a dog, but a retaining wall. I know not why that was chosen by early Georgetown students."}, {"response": 267, "author": "Amy", "date": "Wed, Jan 29, 1997 (01:08)", "body": "WOW OF THE DAY! Henry's Jane Austen Info site was featured Monday on CNN Interactive: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9701/27/on.the.net/austen/ You know what I think is neat? That sometimes, once in a while, good content is discovered and recognized on its own merit. Nice job, Henry. You deserve the recognition."}, {"response": 268, "author": "Kali", "date": "Wed, Jan 29, 1997 (04:29)", "body": "Woo-hoo, H..."}, {"response": 269, "author": "elder", "date": "Wed, Jan 29, 1997 (08:09)", "body": "That CNN write up is \"mah-ve-lous\" !!! Good work HC -- who's your publicist? ; )"}, {"response": 270, "author": "TJ", "date": "Wed, Jan 29, 1997 (12:55)", "body": "Congratulations Kali.......i did not notice but were you one of the non fans for football.......(I guess i could read back a bit and find out).........but to many of us out here Georgetown is to Basketball what Notre Dame is to Football.....hope you like b-ball........not just the fact they are two great catholic colleges......... Also has anyone tried to make either of the pizza's yet...........been curious to find out if you liked it"}, {"response": 271, "author": "Cheryl", "date": "Wed, Jan 29, 1997 (14:14)", "body": "Cool, HC! ;-)"}, {"response": 272, "author": "Kali", "date": "Wed, Jan 29, 1997 (15:30)", "body": "THank you, TJ...I like football alright, i guess...basketball even less...but then again, I don't go to school for the athletic departments! ;)"}, {"response": 273, "author": "Inko", "date": "Wed, Jan 29, 1997 (17:51)", "body": "Congratulations! HC. That's great publicity and a really nice write-up. IMHO You deserve all the accolades you can accumulate for your pages!"}, {"response": 274, "author": "Inko", "date": "Wed, Jan 29, 1997 (17:52)", "body": "Congratulations! HC. That's great publicity and a really nice write-up. IMHO You deserve all the accolades you can accumulate for your pages!"}, {"response": 275, "author": "Kali", "date": "Wed, Jan 29, 1997 (22:40)", "body": "Inko is obviously very excited! :)"}, {"response": 276, "author": "Mixu", "date": "Thu, Jan 30, 1997 (04:57)", "body": "Congratulations , Kali! (This is the 1st time I use blink... Take a deep breath and embrace yourself, because you deserve it (hug yourself for me, too!). Save the strength to be used later. I'll try to convince a tonttu (Finnish elf, a guardian spirit of places etc.) to follow you... If you think something invisible is living at your flat, just \"forget\" some food on the table - the tonttu loves it!"}, {"response": 277, "author": "JohanneD", "date": "Thu, Jan 30, 1997 (09:53)", "body": "Hip Hip Hourra Henri If not for your webpages I probably would'nt be here, million thanks and **smoosh**"}, {"response": 278, "author": "Cheryl", "date": "Thu, Jan 30, 1997 (11:07)", "body": "Johanne: million thanks and **smoosh** Johanne dear, is this the French equivelent of a *samooch*? ;-)"}, {"response": 279, "author": "Amy", "date": "Thu, Jan 30, 1997 (11:11)", "body": "] Johanne: million thanks and **smoosh** Johanne dear, is this the French equivelent of a *samooch*? ;-) __ Wouldn't that be \"Mmmwwwa!\""}, {"response": 280, "author": "churchh", "date": "Thu, Jan 30, 1997 (11:15)", "body": "If so, I think it should be spelled \"smouche\""}, {"response": 281, "author": "Amy", "date": "Thu, Jan 30, 1997 (12:02)", "body": "Okay, then I guess my \"Mmmwwwa\" would have to be MMMMMMMMoi!"}, {"response": 282, "author": "JohanneD", "date": "Thu, Jan 30, 1997 (12:48)", "body": "Mmouah, Mmouah, Mmouah Amy, I like it very much. Mmouah Henri, and when kissed dearest, something else than the spelling should occupy your thoughts ;) Kissing Fest"}, {"response": 283, "author": "Amy", "date": "Thu, Jan 30, 1997 (12:51)", "body": "Well, I think kissing is a fine topic for this place. I'd not be ashamed to have either Ayelet's mom or mine read about it. We start moving the schwinging today."}, {"response": 284, "author": "Cheryl", "date": "Thu, Jan 30, 1997 (14:06)", "body": "We're moving the Schwinging?"}, {"response": 285, "author": "Kali", "date": "Fri, Jan 31, 1997 (03:08)", "body": "I'm laughing my a** off as I type!"}, {"response": 286, "author": "candace", "date": "Fri, Jan 31, 1997 (22:31)", "body": "Kali -- A big Congrats!! Oh the places you'll go!!!"}, {"response": 287, "author": "Kali", "date": "Sat, Feb  1, 1997 (04:43)", "body": "Thank you, dear Candace and Mixu..."}, {"response": 288, "author": "JohanneD", "date": "Sat, Feb  1, 1997 (11:22)", "body": "What a find :"}, {"response": 289, "author": "Donna", "date": "Sat, Feb  1, 1997 (12:02)", "body": "Congratulations, Kali"}, {"response": 290, "author": "Ann2", "date": "Sat, Feb  1, 1997 (12:39)", "body": "Congratulations to HC on Great CNN presentation ! By the way you must have been doing lots of work on that site this autumn if I remember correctly. I visited and used bibliographies before I found old P&P2 board, in September. Were the colours there then?. Looks nice and inviting."}, {"response": 291, "author": "del", "date": "Mon, Feb  3, 1997 (18:15)", "body": "Relationship No ship, please. Not now. I haven't a captain nor a first mate \ufffd never mind a crew\ufffd It would take all my courage to try a relation inner tube. How about a relation floatie? Frozen margaritas in the pool some sultry summer night? Relation = Relative = Relativity = Energy = ME scared. Time flies when I'm fleeing fun. Marybeth Gradziel June 19, 1995 Reproduction We women need not be alone for long. We can grow friends. Find the right seed. Care for the sprout. and Enjoy the fruit of our labor. Marybeth Gradziel August 22, 1995 Dream Thought I understood it all one night. How men looking for women get mixed up, and flit from one to another \ufffd always looking for more. If only they knew\ufffd Inside every woman is an infinite number of other women just waiting for true love, trust and acceptance, to come out and love the man in an infinite number of womanly ways. Marybeth Gradziel August 24, 1995"}, {"response": 292, "author": "mich", "date": "Tue, Feb  4, 1997 (17:26)", "body": "Very nice Doug,thanks for sharing"}, {"response": 293, "author": "Amy", "date": "Tue, Feb  4, 1997 (20:51)", "body": "OJ verdict is in, not read. I have this terrible feeling something awful is going to happen."}, {"response": 294, "author": "jwinsor", "date": "Tue, Feb  4, 1997 (21:12)", "body": "I wish the media would stop making such a big deal of this. They are now saying that they will delay the President's state of the union address to wait for the reading of the verdict. Where are our priorities, for heaven sake???"}, {"response": 295, "author": "elder", "date": "Tue, Feb  4, 1997 (21:24)", "body": "I agree, Joan too. I was going to shut off the tv when I heard that there was this conflict about what to cover! (However, the snow/ice storm here cut off the cable before I could get to the remote. :-)) It is delightful to come to this civilized oasis, but I had intended to pay some attention to the President's address. Oh well, maybe I'll be a more informed citizen tomorrow."}, {"response": 296, "author": "jwinsor", "date": "Tue, Feb  4, 1997 (21:25)", "body": "At least ABC is going ahead with the President's address as planned. I plan to compliment them excessively!"}, {"response": 297, "author": "JohanneD", "date": "Tue, Feb  4, 1997 (22:26)", "body": "This is really scarry"}, {"response": 298, "author": "JohanneD", "date": "Tue, Feb  4, 1997 (22:27)", "body": "This is really scarry but on the other hand there's a lot of parodies outthere"}, {"response": 299, "author": "churchh", "date": "Tue, Feb  4, 1997 (22:39)", "body": "My TV is broken, so I'm listening over NPR -- they haven't broken into the speech to announce the OJ verdict yet ;-)"}, {"response": 300, "author": "churchh", "date": "Tue, Feb  4, 1997 (22:41)", "body": "Last message outdated -- State of Union solid but unmemorable... OJ verdict: GUILTY!!"}, {"response": 301, "author": "jwinsor", "date": "Tue, Feb  4, 1997 (22:45)", "body": "The ultimate victory! ABC showed the President's entire speech - and then was still able to tune in to the trial just in time to get the verdict live . HA HA HA! Take that CBS and NBC!"}, {"response": 302, "author": "JohanneD", "date": "Tue, Feb  4, 1997 (22:49)", "body": "I'm speechless....."}, {"response": 303, "author": "Inko", "date": "Tue, Feb  4, 1997 (23:15)", "body": "I stayed on ABC all evening, and never realized that CBS and NBC were not on the President's speech. My feelings about the evening - what else is new???"}, {"response": 304, "author": "Inko", "date": "Tue, Feb  4, 1997 (23:15)", "body": "I stayed on ABC all evening, and never realized that CBS and NBC were not on the President's speech. My feelings about the evening - what else is new??? Sorry, I'm feeling cynical!!;-)"}, {"response": 305, "author": "JohanneD", "date": "Wed, Feb  5, 1997 (00:45)", "body": "I'm speechless....."}, {"response": 306, "author": "Ann", "date": "Wed, Feb  5, 1997 (01:21)", "body": "Clinton has an excellent sense of timing. He finished exactly as the verdict came in. Now that's a great politician!"}, {"response": 307, "author": "Kali", "date": "Wed, Feb  5, 1997 (04:56)", "body": "He's a slick one, he is...;)"}, {"response": 308, "author": "Adi", "date": "Wed, Feb  5, 1997 (15:22)", "body": "I'm in such a terrible mood, I had to share it with you: yesterday 73 Israeli soldiers were killed when 2 helicopters collided. Seventy-three young men! the majority of them were just twenty years old. they were just born and now they are dead... I know at least 2 of them (there are still 20 more names not published), and the feeling is awful. If they were killed because of the war in Lebanon - I could at least understand it, but they died because of a stupid mistake, and it was a horrible death (there was ammunition on the helicopters, and it caused fire and explosions when it crashed on the ground). everyone here are so sad. almost everyone knew someone that died. I wish things like that will never happen again to anyone in any place."}, {"response": 309, "author": "Kali", "date": "Wed, Feb  5, 1997 (15:28)", "body": "That's awful, Adi. Even if they had died in actual battle, would it have been worth it? I doubt it. Most wars today are such ego-vehicles that I have trouble justifying them. And I've always considered myself a hawk."}, {"response": 310, "author": "Inko", "date": "Wed, Feb  5, 1997 (17:15)", "body": "Deepest sympathy, Adi. It is always bad whenever young people have to die, but in such a horrible crash it seems even worse. Also agree with Kali, death in battle or in a war would not have made it worth it--but then I'm a dove!! I hate all wars and can see no logical reasons for them."}, {"response": 311, "author": "Anne3", "date": "Wed, Feb  5, 1997 (17:18)", "body": "Adi, I'm terribly sorry. If the helicopters were as explosive as you say, it's likely that they at least died instantly. I hope that's some comfort."}, {"response": 312, "author": "Adi", "date": "Wed, Feb  5, 1997 (17:42)", "body": "Kali, of course it's not worth it, those lives are so precious. those boys should not die, period. but sometimes you just can't help it - our men soldiers don't \"play\" in war, they are defending our northern border from terrorist attacks and from missiles. so it's understandable to die while you are defending your love ones and practically giving them life. I can assure you that in this case no ego is involved. what's killing me is that those soldiers were the top of the top of the youth in Israel: they were fighters in their way to their missions in Lebanon. they weren't just \"Jobnicks\" [=this is the name to describe the men soldiers who do office jobs like clerks]. they were already risking their life in their jobs protecting the rest of us, so they should have a better destiny than they had..."}, {"response": 313, "author": "Amy", "date": "Wed, Feb  5, 1997 (19:22)", "body": "Adi, I can't even begin to imagine how you must feel. But I am so sorry."}, {"response": 314, "author": "kendall", "date": "Wed, Feb  5, 1997 (22:29)", "body": "Adi - I am so sorry. You are bringing the 'other side of the world' closer to all of us."}, {"response": 315, "author": "JohanneD", "date": "Thu, Feb  6, 1997 (11:49)", "body": "Let me had my voice to Inko, Amy and all us in share this pain. We're thinking of you and all who is hurting."}, {"response": 316, "author": "lasalle", "date": "Thu, Feb  6, 1997 (12:26)", "body": "Let me add my sorrow, Adi. Life can be so unfair--the Israeli people have suffered so long; the endless war and persecution. So many Israeli youth gone in past mideast wars. Now, even technology revolts against them. And Israel the only real democratic state in the mideast. The older I get, the more I think the universe was somehow wrongly put together."}, {"response": 317, "author": "JohanneD", "date": "Thu, Feb  6, 1997 (12:34)", "body": "Too many have Carl, Israely and not, whether the're made knowns to us or kept in the back of the medias priorities. Too many innocent victims, especially children."}, {"response": 318, "author": "Adi", "date": "Thu, Feb  6, 1997 (18:50)", "body": "Thank you all for your kind words. Carl, I never thought about it like that but I guess you're right: the universe was wrongly put together. God probably made a mistake when he placed Israel in the middle east. this was another horrible day. most of the funerals took place today. On the radio and T.V there were just quiet and sad songs, and between them - stories about the lives of all the dead soldiers, talks with their families and friends, talks with politicians and basically anything that could make you cry endlessly. I can't take it anymore. I wish this week will be over already."}, {"response": 319, "author": "Kaffeine", "date": "Thu, Feb  6, 1997 (23:48)", "body": "I just had to stop by before I head to bed to recommend a show I just saw. If \"Riverdance - The Show\" comes to your town, RUN to get tickets! I don't think I've ever had two hours in the theatre pass so fast! I'm not even sure how to explain it to you...its main focus is traditional Irish dance, but there's Russian, Spanish, and American dances as well. The energy level is just phenomenal. Also, in the program there was an ad for \"Tap Dogs\" which will be in town in a couple of weeks. Am I right in remembering that this show was highly recommended here?"}, {"response": 320, "author": "Anna", "date": "Fri, Feb  7, 1997 (05:03)", "body": "] \"Tap Dogs\" ... was highly recommended here? mmmmnnnnhhhhh! all male, more 'modern' than Riverdance (at least the shows I saw) but definitely worth a look..."}, {"response": 321, "author": "Donna", "date": "Fri, Feb  7, 1997 (10:00)", "body": "Kathleen, I have seen these ads for \"Riverdance\" but I think it is to purchase the video. What area are you in? I don't think they are coming here."}, {"response": 322, "author": "Ann", "date": "Fri, Feb  7, 1997 (16:56)", "body": "MY CAR JUST GOT STOLEN!!!!!"}, {"response": 323, "author": "JohanneD", "date": "Fri, Feb  7, 1997 (17:01)", "body": "So sorry Ann, hope nothing too valuable in it !"}, {"response": 324, "author": "Anne3", "date": "Fri, Feb  7, 1997 (17:09)", "body": "Oh, Ann, I'm sorry."}, {"response": 325, "author": "Inko", "date": "Fri, Feb  7, 1997 (17:12)", "body": "That terrible. I'm so sorry Ann."}, {"response": 326, "author": "Amy", "date": "Fri, Feb  7, 1997 (17:19)", "body": "That's awful, Ann. What a horrible annoyance x 50 plus disgust and inconvenience and I can't even think what else. Yuck."}, {"response": 327, "author": "elder", "date": "Fri, Feb  7, 1997 (17:28)", "body": "Oh, Ann, how awful. And it makes you feel so angry, helpless, violated -- a truly rotten experience. Were you at work or home when it happened? I hope you are OK."}, {"response": 328, "author": "Mari", "date": "Fri, Feb  7, 1997 (18:25)", "body": "Ann, so very aggravating! Ok in body, if not spirit, I hope."}, {"response": 329, "author": "Kaffeine", "date": "Fri, Feb  7, 1997 (18:28)", "body": "Ann - That's terrible! Its one of those things that's hard to grasp - you know where you parked it and it takes a minute to register that it's really not there. Donna - I'm in the Detroit area. I don't know where its headed next, but hopefully it will end up near you soon. Anna - I think I'm going to check it out (Tap Dogs). :)"}, {"response": 330, "author": "Ann", "date": "Fri, Feb  7, 1997 (20:03)", "body": "My car was parked in the lot in front of my apartment building and was probably stolen sometime last night. The cops were hopeful that they would be able to find it, but I doubt it. This is actually the second car that I've had stolen. The first one was stolen from my brother at gunpoint. The cops eventually recovered that one and the thief got 4 years in jail. Now I've lost another one. It is a pain in the neck to be carless. At least the weather won't be too bad for the next few days, so walking won't b too bad. Thanks for your messages."}, {"response": 331, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Feb  7, 1997 (20:39)", "body": "That's really bad news Ann. I hope you were covered and you get some new wheels soon. What kind of car was it?"}, {"response": 332, "author": "Ann", "date": "Fri, Feb  7, 1997 (20:50)", "body": "1989 Jeep Cherokee Limited Edition with tinted windows and leather seats! I inherited it from my parents when they bought a Land Rover. It is a very popular car among thieves, but is getting on in years. I don't think there is any chance that I will be able to replace it with a comperable vehicle."}, {"response": 333, "author": "Donna", "date": "Fri, Feb  7, 1997 (21:14)", "body": "Very sad indeed Ann. I do hope you get it back."}, {"response": 334, "author": "jwinsor", "date": "Fri, Feb  7, 1997 (21:19)", "body": "Ann, what a bummer!"}, {"response": 335, "author": "Susan", "date": "Fri, Feb  7, 1997 (23:20)", "body": "Ann, I'm somewhat new here -- where do you live? I'm so sorry to hear about your rig; Jeep Cherokees are cool. You have a good attitude about it, though. Hang in there and keep your chin up."}, {"response": 336, "author": "Ann", "date": "Fri, Feb  7, 1997 (23:37)", "body": "I live in Minneapolis, not the best place to be carless in the middle of winter. I figure that there is nothing I can do about it. It's just going to be a pain in the butt to get it replaced!"}, {"response": 337, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Feb  8, 1997 (00:14)", "body": "I lived and worked in Mpls without a car for about a year. I worked as a city planner till I left there in a schoolbus that I recycled into an \"rv\". Bought it from the Owatonna School district. But that was then. In today's world, getting around in a good car is more of a necessity. I really liked the town, I met some very good people there."}, {"response": 338, "author": "Susan", "date": "Sat, Feb  8, 1997 (01:07)", "body": "Will be sending good thoughts your way, Ann. Keep thinking positive. Hope this next week brings better things."}, {"response": 339, "author": "Kali", "date": "Sat, Feb  8, 1997 (04:44)", "body": "Suck."}, {"response": 340, "author": "Ann", "date": "Sat, Feb  8, 1997 (15:05)", "body": "Good news : THEY FOUND MY CAR!!! I haven't seen it yet, so I don't know how much damage was done. I know they broke a window and had to damage the ignition to start it. Thanks to everybody for your support, I'm sure it showed up so quickly because I had so many people thinking about it across the world. Thanks to all!"}, {"response": 341, "author": "Ann", "date": "Sat, Feb  8, 1997 (15:06)", "body": "I didn't realise that yapp takes the word news and makes it into a link!!!"}, {"response": 342, "author": "elder", "date": "Sat, Feb  8, 1997 (15:28)", "body": "Ann, that's terrific. I hope you can get your car fixed and functional really soon. Glad you didn't have to wait too long to find out about it, either."}, {"response": 343, "author": "Susan", "date": "Sat, Feb  8, 1997 (16:41)", "body": "Ann, it's wonderful!!! You did get lots of instant support, and I'm sure it helped."}, {"response": 344, "author": "Becks", "date": "Sat, Feb  8, 1997 (17:38)", "body": "Hope everything works out, Ann!"}, {"response": 345, "author": "Amy", "date": "Sat, Feb  8, 1997 (17:45)", "body": "Gee, maybe we should start charging -- strangers, that is -- for this psychic service. Woman power. Be afraid. (Hil, did you start that \"be very afraid\" stuff?\") Very glad to hear it, Ann."}, {"response": 346, "author": "Inko", "date": "Sat, Feb  8, 1997 (20:27)", "body": "Ann, So glad they found your car. Hope it'll be driveable soon!! There is a terrific review of P&P2 in today's NY Times by Christoper Lehmann-Haupt, a book reviewer. He compares P&P2 to the book and likes it very well indeed, better than any other Austen adaptation. Link is: http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/arts/tv-austen-review.html"}, {"response": 347, "author": "Ann", "date": "Sat, Feb  8, 1997 (20:37)", "body": "That is an increadible review!! (By the way, you probably have to register at the NYTimes site before you can view the stories there. I would heartily recommend that you do. The NYTimes site is one of the best newspapers on the web and includes most, if not all, of the printed paper (including the crossword puzzle!!))"}, {"response": 348, "author": "Ann", "date": "Sat, Feb  8, 1997 (21:06)", "body": "I have sent the NYTimes a E-letter in response to this article. I thought I would share it with all of you: Dear Sir or Madam, Your reporter, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, is not the first to fall in love with the BBC/A&E production of Pride and Prejudice. This production in particular, and Jane Austen in general, has a large and loyal following on the internet. There are several sites which have been founded specifically for the purpose of discussing this production, and which have subsequently been broadened to include all of the works of Jane Austen. Other sites have been established solely to provide information and access to Au ten's works on the internet. Some of the URL's are as follows: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~churchh/janeinfo.html http://www.spring.com/yapp-bin/restricted/browse/austen/all/new (requires registration) http://www.bluemarble.net/~amyloo/wwwboard/ppbb.html It is suprising to me that she, of all authors, has such a strong following in cyberspace. I am continually amazed by the wide variety of Jane Austen information available on the internet, as well as the variety of people interested in her work. The virtual community which has been created around an interest in Jane Austen includes men and women, it includes people from the age of nine to well over sixty, and spans several continents and languages. It represents the best of what the internet can be by bringing together so many people in so many different walks of life, races, and cultures. We have come together and have indeed formed a community. We cry together when one of us suffers from a loss of a loved one, and we celebrate when one of us pa ses a milestone in life. We support eachother, even though few of us have ever met or even know what the others look like. We are grateful to Miss Austen for giving us the reason come together, and are grateful to the BBC/A&E production for introducing so many of us to her work. I am glad that your paper has recognised this wonderful production, which has brought so many people to enjoy Pride and Prejudice and Jane Austen, and which has brought so many of us together in cyberspace. Thank you, Ann Elizabeth Haker haker001@tc.umn.edu"}, {"response": 349, "author": "Donna", "date": "Sat, Feb  8, 1997 (22:47)", "body": "As Lizzie would say \"Beautiful\"."}, {"response": 350, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Feb  8, 1997 (23:03)", "body": "Great news Ann. Whewwww! * slaps Ann a high five *"}, {"response": 351, "author": "Susan", "date": "Sat, Feb  8, 1997 (23:27)", "body": "Ann, what are we going to talk about next? Do keep us posted regarding your now recovered vehicle."}, {"response": 352, "author": "churchh", "date": "Sat, Feb  8, 1997 (23:53)", "body": "Did someone save the review -- it's expired from the NY Times site..."}, {"response": 353, "author": "Donna", "date": "Sun, Feb  9, 1997 (00:00)", "body": "Yes, it did expire. I did a search and found an old review about JA which listed your site HC."}, {"response": 354, "author": "Amy", "date": "Sun, Feb  9, 1997 (00:00)", "body": "February 8, 1997 CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK / By CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT 'Pride and Prejudice': A Great Movie of a Great Book Plenty of bad movies have been made of good books, and a fair number of good movies have come from bad books. But a great movie of a great book? Speaking from a book reviewer's vantage point, I nominate Jane Austen's \"Pride and Prejudice,\" a co-production of the BBC and A&E, which is being rebroadcast by A&E in two parts, on Saturday and Sunday. I had missed the production the first time around, but when a friend lent me the tapes, I was instantly and completely caught up by the Bennet family and the thwarted romances of the two eldest daughters, Jane and Elizabeth. I did not get free until I had watched the entire five-hour production three or four times. The Bennets' world seemed more real than mine. I found myself repeating the memorable lines. I caught myself humming the music. As with a really good book, I discovered more and more to enjoy as I grew familiar with the main action and could concentrate on the smallest of details: for example, the way you can still overhear Miss Caroline Bingley (played with grand imperiousness by Anna Chancellor) after the camera has shifted away from the reception line at the Netherfield ball. But best of all was the way the film spurred me to read the book again after 40 years and to re-experience as literature the wayward romances of Jane and Elizabeth Bennet with Charles Bingley and Fitzwilliam Darcy. Surprisingly, the book proved somewhat disappointing at first. As the friend who lent me the tapes rightly put it when I asked him how the book compared with the film, \"It makes you fear for literature.\" \"Oh! Shocking!\" as Miss Bingley would say. To admit that the literalness of film might surpass the stimulus to the imagination of Austen's language. \"Abominable!\" But this was my experience at first. And it is not simply to be explained by the inherent vividness of film as a medium or by the masterly performances of Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth, Colin Firth as Darcy, David Bamber as Collins, Crispin Bohham-Carter as Charles Bingley, Adrian Lukis as Lt. George Wickham and Barbara Leigh-Hunt as Lady Catherine. Other films of Austen's novels I happen to have seen don't come near to offering the pleasures of this production. One need hardly consider the 1940 Hollywood movie directed by Robert Leonard, with its mangled script (by Aldous Huxley yet!) draining the story of all dramatic tension, its miscasting of a too-old Greer Garson as Elizabeth and its simpering performance by Laurence Olivier as Darcy. Both the \"Emma\" starring Gwyneth Paltrow and a forthcoming BBC/A&E co-production of the novel with Kate Beckinsale (to be shown on A&E on Feb. 16) are entertaining enough but seem thin compared with Austen on paper. While Emma Thompson's \"Sense and Sensibility\" has much to recommend it, it suffers considerably from the lack of the novel's ironic narrative voice, which mercifully distances the reader from the excesses of its two leading characters. And \"Persuasion,\" while the best of the feature-length adaptations of Austen, is so brilliantly cinematic that one almost misses Austen's narrative voice. Moreover, it is not nearly as faithful to the original as the film of \"Pride and Prejudice\" is, and one has to have read the novel to understand certain subplots that are barely touched upon in the movie. (I have not seen the 1985 BBC production of \"Pride and Prejudice,\" directed by Cyril Coke, or the movie \"Clueless.\") In \"Pride and Prejudice,\" an early work of Austen's (at least in its original form, completed in 1797 and titled \"First Impressions\"), little distance exists between the narrator and the viewpoint of the leading characters. In fact, the narrator's outlook is close to that of Elizabeth, who, except for the prejudice that prevents her from seeing the truth about the deceptively charming Wickham and the too-proud Darcy, is one of the most liberated women in all of literature, especially impressive considering the narrowness of the society she lives in. So \"Pride and Prejudice\" translates easily onto the screen. True, the initial hostility between Elizabeth and Darcy is more deeply and subtly developed in the book. And we understand more clearly the extent to which Mr. and Mrs. Bennet are alienated as husband and wife. But consider how the film improves on the book. Take, for instance, the introduction of Collins, the cousin of the Bennets who is to inherit their estate. In the book, Bennet reads aloud the letter to him from Collins detailing how he wishes to \"heal the breach\" that subsists \"between yourself and my late honored father\" and how he plans to visit the Bennets. The family then reacts to the letter, noting the pompousness of its style. A few paragraphs later, the text announces: \"Mr. Collins was punctual to his time, and was received with great politeness by the whole family.\" In the film, Bennet starts reading the letter, but Collins' voice"}, {"response": 355, "author": "Susan", "date": "Sun, Feb  9, 1997 (00:41)", "body": "Amy, thanks for sharing ... but we already knew P&P2 was addicting and very difficult to improve upon. This just proves the point. (Although I don't necessarily agree with his opinions regarding other adaptations)."}, {"response": 356, "author": "Cheryl", "date": "Sun, Feb  9, 1997 (00:45)", "body": "Sounds like Christopher needs to be sent our URL so he may continue to wallow with the rest of us! ;-)"}, {"response": 357, "author": "Inko", "date": "Sun, Feb  9, 1997 (00:47)", "body": "Ann, thanks so much for e-mailing the N.Y. Times. I think it's great that they know their article is appreciated and that there is a bunch of us out in cyberspace who feel the same way their reviewer does! And thanks, Amy, for getting the article here. I wasn't sure how to do that. After all, that was my first link ever!! I'm learning, but ever so slowly!! BTW, I watched A&E tonight but I was disappointed--I really missed all the extra scenes I have on my tapes, and I hate being interrupted by commercials all the time! But it allowed me to get some work done and listen to it in the background!"}, {"response": 358, "author": "Cheryl", "date": "Sun, Feb  9, 1997 (01:28)", "body": "Inko: BTW, I watched A&E tonight but I was disappointed--I really missed all the extra scenes I have on my tapes, and I hate being interrupted by commercials all the time! But it allowed me to get some work done and listen to it in the background! YES Inko! Me too! In fact I only watched the last 15 minutes...the proposal scene...ooh baby, lots of heat in that room! ;-)"}, {"response": 359, "author": "Anne3", "date": "Sun, Feb  9, 1997 (18:54)", "body": "Susan: but we already knew P&P2 was addicting and very difficult to improve upon. This just proves the point. Yes, Susan, but what delighted me about the article was that a big cheese like Lehmann-Haupt, who as regular book critic for the New York Times holds a high position in literary circles, would admit in public to being as obsessed with a t.v. adaptation as an ordinary mortal! P&P2 conquers ALL!"}, {"response": 360, "author": "kendall", "date": "Sun, Feb  9, 1997 (19:05)", "body": "Ann - I am making my way into this conversation late - like Mr. Woodhouse. I am glad they found your car - please let us know more as you get it back and back into working order. Thanks for the letter and the article."}, {"response": 361, "author": "Hilary", "date": "Sun, Feb  9, 1997 (21:13)", "body": "I have just been reading back, having not visited for a while. Adi, I wish I knew some way of comforting you. I hope as time moves on you will feel better. Amy (#345),not me, I think?????....I don't think I'm that scary!"}, {"response": 362, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Feb 10, 1997 (22:25)", "body": "I guess this topic got kicked out of Austen!"}, {"response": 363, "author": "Mixu", "date": "Wed, Feb 12, 1997 (07:36)", "body": "Ramblings, everyone! I have a terrible flu, am low on cash, and on a tight schedule. And yes, I almost forgot: I'm also turning 27 on Thursday! I'm beginning to feel old... On the other hand, it's Valentine on Friday, so: Happy Valentine! Thank you for letting this off my mind. I feel better already. I'll see you next week!"}, {"response": 364, "author": "TJ", "date": "Wed, Feb 12, 1997 (15:08)", "body": "beginning to feel old??????????? old is just a state of mind....take it from someone who is about to celebrate the 21st anniversary of his 21st birthday........."}, {"response": 365, "author": "fuzz", "date": "Sun, Feb 16, 1997 (12:34)", "body": "I have just browsed down through the responses, all 364 of them and find them to be interesting. I thought this would be more of a political discussion than I have found, but am certainly glad for the camaradery."}, {"response": 366, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Feb 16, 1997 (22:50)", "body": "Welcome Don! Hope you keep checking back in with us."}, {"response": 367, "author": "fuzz", "date": "Mon, Feb 17, 1997 (18:42)", "body": "Thanks for the welcome. Where does peoples interest lie? I would be interested in people that have ideas that would lead to organizing the State Univ. of New York (SUNY) students into a voting block, or at least a political voice with a little muscle. I think it is a damn shame what the SUNY Board of Trustees are trying to do to the state system."}, {"response": 368, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Feb 19, 1997 (04:22)", "body": "Open a topic in politics, the conference."}, {"response": 369, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Tue, Apr  8, 1997 (13:53)", "body": "You guys are very interesting but I'm not sure how I fit in since I'm going to go out on a limb here and actually say I'm not a huge Austen fan--I like what I've seen but I guess it didn't hit me the way it hit you all (so what am I doing here? long story). But you welcome even lukewarm fans, eh? You seem like a nice bunch folks, you won't wallop me, right?"}, {"response": 370, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Apr  8, 1997 (20:37)", "body": "You're cool. Come on out and play!"}, {"response": 371, "author": "mtlady", "date": "Thu, Apr 10, 1997 (16:16)", "body": "I wrote my intro. in another section. I heard today that there is a virus out there and it comes in your e mail and says from aol and states free aol on line and when you open it your entire system is wiped out including your antivirus programs. I figure it is for real because the alert was from washington and sent out to gov. fac. recieved in Atlanta at a gov. research fac. anyone heard about this?"}, {"response": 372, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Apr 10, 1997 (21:36)", "body": "No, can you provide more details. Is it documented anywhere on the web or is there any anti-virus company that recognizes it. Have you contacted the folks at F-Prot or Norton to see if it's real. An email to them might clear things up."}, {"response": 373, "author": "stacey", "date": "Sat, Apr 12, 1997 (15:23)", "body": "My,my, my... Terry, this has really grown since last I checked in. At the Denver Public Library today. Brandon is on a plane bound for Philly and I'm cold and lonely. The weather is bringing me down. The middle of April. 10 degrees. Six inches of melting snow. My flowers, the ones I planted three weeks ago, will never bloom. Sad. I'm checking out a Kabir poetry book, an Aaron Copland CD and several other random fiction stories -- sci-fi, romance, modern weird, you know... a little bit of everything to help me get through the week. Miss Austin, miss warm weather. Need a cup of caffeine and a chocolate macad mia cookie. Mountain biking and skating are on hold until the snow melts and the trails dry up. Thinking fondly of my former life..."}, {"response": 374, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Apr 12, 1997 (18:27)", "body": "Wow, Miss Stace' checkin' in... glad you found some access. Are those Interent terminals very busy? Isn't it cool that libraries have net access now. Nearly all the Austin libraries have net access. I get Denver stations on my satellite dish so I got a little glimpse at your weather. I won't mention what kind of day we're having in Austin or that all the plants all over are in multi-colored profusion. Do you go snow skiing? That would seem a natural for you with your athleticism. Have you been in any more ironman competitions (run, swim, bike)? Well, enough of this indoor activity for now, time to get outdoors. Keep on checkin' in, Stacey!"}, {"response": 375, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Mon, Apr 14, 1997 (10:23)", "body": "Stacey stacey check back in! I'm a desperately unhappy Dallasite longing to relocate to Denver/Boulder. Please give me some words of encouragement while I wait out this interminable job-hunt. I miss Austin, too--partly why I'm heading for D/B! It's the closest I've found to that great Austin ambience. Guess I'll trade hellishly hot summers for frosty winters!"}, {"response": 376, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Wed, Apr 16, 1997 (13:57)", "body": "well, I'm bummed...one of the 2 main potential employers I'm looking at in Denver now lists \"no jobs available\" on their home page (they used to have half a dozen) and the other one still has the 2 unsuitable-for-me jobs they've been listing since Feb. Time to do more searching and sending."}, {"response": 377, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Apr 16, 1997 (22:18)", "body": "Did you get in touch with Stacey yet?"}, {"response": 378, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Apr 16, 1997 (22:42)", "body": "Have you thought about moving to Austin? Just a thought."}, {"response": 379, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Thu, Apr 17, 1997 (14:18)", "body": "Like I said in one of my many intros, it would be a dream come true to return to Austin, the town of my heart. Unfortunately, the reality is that I am just too old to live in the squalor afforded by the measly salaries paid for my line of work in Austin...so I visit and dream..."}, {"response": 380, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Thu, Apr 17, 1997 (14:33)", "body": "Plus I'm just too dainty these days for the blistering hellfire of those Austin summers (they made a man of me in my 20s, but now...I can't breathe!)...like Colo winters will be any less hellish!"}, {"response": 381, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Apr 18, 1997 (00:37)", "body": "What work do you do again?"}, {"response": 382, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Fri, Apr 18, 1997 (09:07)", "body": "Molecular biology (got my MD, quit my residency, took up lab work). Sadly, the labs in Austin are easily staffed by peons fresh out of college willing to work for peanuts. There is Ambion, the lone industry. Perhaps I should give them a whirl, see if they'd be willing to pay me vast sums of money to enjoy the Austin ambience...."}, {"response": 383, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Apr 19, 1997 (01:25)", "body": "Talk to my friend Bob Nagy who works at UT Botany when he gets over his throat surgery (about a week). He's mailto://bob@spring.com He may be able to help steer you in the right direction. I'll mention him to you. His home page is at http://www.spring.com/~kreblon There's hope!"}, {"response": 384, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Mon, Apr 21, 1997 (14:07)", "body": "You are very kind, terry. I will definitely look there! Sadly, UT is the lowest-paying, but what the heck, I'll see what's up. My ramble for today: I changed the tire on my car ALL BY MYSELF!!! last Saturday. I'm so proud of myself. Plenty of lacrimal lubrication to get the lugs off (fortunately this all took place in the privacy of my own driveway)!"}, {"response": 385, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Apr 23, 1997 (00:26)", "body": "The folks I know there love it. Despite the low pay. They like the relaxed atmosphere and benefits."}, {"response": 386, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Wed, Apr 23, 1997 (09:55)", "body": "As indeed I did during the 3 1/2 years I toiled in the Micro dept--great people and a fine ambience (ESB is a cool bldg)--much better than the tense unsmiling environs of UTSWMC Dallas! I'll see what the pay scale is for my now-advanced status (cf my previous inexperienced level), eh. I just need enough to pay the vet bills and the car repairman!"}, {"response": 387, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Wed, Apr 23, 1997 (10:24)", "body": "And apropos of nothing, let me just rant about my pet peeve, trafficwise: so you're tooling along virtually alone on the road (plenty of oncoming traffic)(but no one near you in your direction). Mr Doofus is exiting a parking lot, wants to join you on the road. He sees you 10 blocks away and waits. And waits. And waits. When you are right upon him, mere inches from his front bumper, he EASES his tuna boat out directly in front of you. Having used up every last ounce of driving courage on this bold m neuver, he proceeds to drive 5 mph for a block or two, then slams on his brakes without warning, apparently (why use a turn signal? HE knows where he's going) wishing to turn left past all the oncoming traffic. So the pair of you spend eternity waiting for a brek in traffic sufficiently large to accomodate a tuna boat driven by a moron whose used up all his courage. Not a soul behind you; he could have done all of this after you passed, but NOOOOO, he HAD to pull in front of you. Thank you and good ni ht. seriously, any other traffic annoyances out there? Or do I just need to get the idiot magnet removed from my front bumper?"}, {"response": 388, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Wed, Apr 23, 1997 (10:26)", "body": "sorry about the typos--combination of spleen-venting and weird response frame (I can't see half of what I type!)"}, {"response": 389, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Wed, Apr 23, 1997 (10:28)", "body": "I'm over in Austin rambling, go back to main menu, see there's a new response in porch, come over here, and it's ME! This is too fun, chatting with myself (are the voices in my head bothering you?)."}, {"response": 390, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Wed, Apr 23, 1997 (14:03)", "body": "And I return hours later,see another new response, and whaddaya know--ME AGAIN!"}, {"response": 391, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Thu, Apr 24, 1997 (14:04)", "body": "AUBREY RULES THE WORLD!! I am the only responder! I am queen of everything! Ruler of mesopotamia! Goddess of The Spring!"}, {"response": 392, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Apr 24, 1997 (17:09)", "body": "Well, you see, aubrey, the 'ramble' topic is actually replicated throughout several conferences and forms sort of a common thread through all these conferences. It started out in the austen conference and spread out from there (though it's no longer linked to austen after the major metamorphosis it went through. Anyone see the story on the WELL in the latest issue of Wired? Two folks I know pretty well, Cliff Figallo (fig@well.com) and John Coate (tex@well.com) are on the cover looking like guys out of the Xfiles. Also pictured is Stewart Brand. I was one of the original members of the WELL and much of the inspiration for the Spring comes from what Cliff and John did at the WELL, even the name was originally a play on the WELL. Anyway, check it out."}, {"response": 393, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Fri, Apr 25, 1997 (09:13)", "body": "I thought someone was typing in porch while I was typing in austin. Ddidn't realize the computer wouldn't be able to figure out it was me all the time. Will look for Wired and your pals. You're a funny man of the spring/well/geyser."}, {"response": 394, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Wed, Apr 30, 1997 (10:10)", "body": "Once again, aubrey is the queen of all she surveys! I rock the Spring! I am so large and in charge! I think I will chat with myself a while...."}, {"response": 395, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Apr 30, 1997 (18:10)", "body": "I've been offline here about 3 days, I'll be getting back on soon."}, {"response": 396, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Fri, May  2, 1997 (10:26)", "body": "But I'm having sooo much fun! I NEVER get to be the one in charge! However, you are better at it than me...Fun in the lab: I was doing an experiment yesterday that required the use of some truly noxious organic chemicals; when I was pouring them out under the fume hood (like one of those kitchen range exhaust fans, only it's enclosed on 3 1/2 sides)(designed to suck away noxious vapors so they don't enter the lab) I couldn't quite reach the sink at the back of the hood, so without thinking I NATURALLY tuck my head under the hood to get better leverage...just a half a whiff of that stuff and I blacked out and hit the floor. Yikes-a-hootey! I'm still reeling from the shock a day later! Maybe I should consider a different profession? One that doesn't require frequent use of noxious and dangerous chemicals and gene-altering isotopes?"}, {"response": 397, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, May  2, 1997 (14:21)", "body": "I wondered why you hadn't been posting for a couple of days! Wow! Take it easy there. Glad you back with the conscious folks. You're set up as a telnetter now! Let me know if you have any questions about how to use the telnet / yapp interface."}, {"response": 398, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Mon, May  5, 1997 (10:08)", "body": "Well, terry, I've tried every way I can but I still seem to have some sort of block vis a vis telnet. I can get to stroud (but only via typing it into netscape or clicking on the url you left me in tv conf--the url on the welcome page still doesn't work), but get lost therafter. There is a ws-ftp to click on at one point in the depths of Stroud, but my choice seems to be to download it, which (since this is NOT my own computer) I am a bit leery of. There is no Windows95 choice. On this computer (NOT i NetScape) there is a ws-ftp icon which I played with a little, but it couldn't find telnet://www.spring.com so I stopped (but now my password and name are on the ws-ftp page). Maybe I should try this from a personal personal computer (my brother is a computer jockey; I will enlist his help)."}, {"response": 399, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Mon, May  5, 1997 (10:10)", "body": "Where the hell did THAT come from???? All I did was type in the letters for that telnet thing and it went purple!!! Does that work for other sites? http://www.vabeach.com for example?"}, {"response": 400, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Mon, May  5, 1997 (10:31)", "body": "Help terry I'm scaring myself--every time I type in a url it lights up. Did I sniff too much pet ether last week or is this the glorious result of being a telnet gal? Yikes! Stop me before I hurt someone! So that vabeach url is from my e-pal who wants so desperately to join the Spring but cannot get on. I don't know what the site is, it was just the first thing I tried! AND IT WORKS! This is toooo spooooooky for me. How does the computer know where to go if I didn't tell it?"}, {"response": 401, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Mon, May  5, 1997 (10:58)", "body": "Terry I am serious, this is WAY too spooky: I sent an e-mail (via NetScape)to my bros requesting their assistance in this telnet thing, and when I typed in the spring telnet url thingie, IT LIT UP! WHY IS THIS SUDDENLY HAPPENING?? As you will note from my previous comments, I never used to be able to do lit-up urls--when I suggested websites to my e-pals, they never lit up before. How does the computer know I have a telnet account when I'm not logged on that way? IS BIG BROTHER WATCHING ME? I'm getti g paranoid!"}, {"response": 402, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Mon, May  5, 1997 (13:38)", "body": "I just left a lot of responses in ramble via telnet (with the kind assistance of my e-pal and my brother) and they didn't show up here. What's up?"}, {"response": 403, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Mon, May  5, 1997 (14:35)", "body": "And now my responses are gone from telnet, although that last response (left via the website) showed up on telnet. I am deeply confused. Plus, where are the messages left for me in telnet by my e-pal pungo? Terry, take my hand and leadeth me beside the spring waters, for I knoweth not what is happen."}, {"response": 404, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Mon, May  5, 1997 (14:38)", "body": "what happens to the stuff I write here? It vanished! Hmmmm, I went to the web spring and typed that above message in, and when I came back, this last telnet response was still here... I think I need someone else to chat with for this to work? \".\""}, {"response": 405, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Mon, May  5, 1997 (14:41)", "body": "Terry you'd better get here quick. My computer is now sassing back at me. I was roaming around telnet in ramble and it informed me \"a message entered before yours at 403\"--I don't know what it's talking about, but that's pretty spooky. Truly bizarre, tho--I asked it to take me to tv conf, but before it would it asked \"do you feel more enlightened now?\" WHO IS TALKING TO ME???? Are the voices in my head bothering anyone else?"}, {"response": 406, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Mon, May  5, 1997 (14:43)", "body": "response 404 is me in telnet. \".\" is me trying to leave! What happened to my first set of responses a few hours ago? Why did that STUPID response show up? Where did my name come into all of this?"}, {"response": 407, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, May  5, 1997 (23:17)", "body": "Keep after it aubrey, you'll catch on. This telnet stuff really does work!"}, {"response": 408, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Tue, May  6, 1997 (08:49)", "body": "It may work for you. It just scares me."}, {"response": 409, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, May  6, 1997 (10:15)", "body": "It's not all that scary. What editor are you using? vi or pico?"}, {"response": 410, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Wed, May  7, 1997 (09:13)", "body": "ummmm...I am my own editor? Let me ask the computer god who runs the show around here. He's nice and knows everything about our set-up (he should, since he set it up!)."}, {"response": 411, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Wed, May  7, 1997 (09:23)", "body": "I couldn't find anywhere in tv conf to put this, so I'll just yammer away here: last night I got to watch a tv pilot. It was not so good but it was fun getting to watch something that may or may not be a show. The only person I recognized was Cynthia Geary from NExp (so maybe this should go there). It was a lame sitcom about a totally uninteresting couple of 20somethings getting married and all the trouble with involving their families in the wedding (his: NY Jew, hers: Southern crackers; hi-jinks ens e!). You think I could parlay this into a career? I can critique potential shows from the comfort of my own living room! Or not."}, {"response": 412, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, May  7, 1997 (10:13)", "body": "You might want to hold on to your day job till you explore this a little more."}, {"response": 413, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Wed, May  7, 1997 (14:02)", "body": "It's so exciting to have you here during the day, terry! I like! So what, you think they won't pay me vast sums of money to sit around bitching about others' lack of creativity? Am I doomed to knocking myself out with organic solvents for the rest of my natural life? Breathe in, breathe out...."}, {"response": 414, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, May  7, 1997 (19:33)", "body": "Are you and telnet getting along now?"}, {"response": 415, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Thu, May  8, 1997 (13:11)", "body": "Well, not exactly. I've asked my brother the computer chimp to help me out (so don't be surprised if you read some really dull test messages here--I gave him my logon to work it out for me) so we'll see what he comes up with. My friend pungo has given up completely on The Spring (he e-mailed you for help and didn't hear back and since I can't find him on telnet he's going to find somewhere else for us to play--but I'll still be here!). I prefer the web-nased bbs rather than telnet. Maybe I'm a sucker or cool graphics (also this computer is pretty fast) or whatnot. What again are the advantages to telnet?"}, {"response": 416, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Thu, May  8, 1997 (13:11)", "body": "That's \"web Based\" bbs!"}, {"response": 417, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Thu, May  8, 1997 (13:12)", "body": "Oh yeah the tv pilot people never called me for my opinion--what have you been telling them about me, terry?"}, {"response": 418, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Fri, May  9, 1997 (11:06)", "body": "The tv pilot people called last night; apparently the wrong show got beamed out so they didn't even interview me. My shiny new career vanishes like a candle in the wind...."}, {"response": 419, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, May  9, 1997 (15:00)", "body": "like the old Elton John song."}, {"response": 420, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Wed, May 14, 1997 (15:10)", "body": "how time does fly! I can't believe it's been so long since I've logged in. Boss-man really has me totin barges and liftin bales. Plus I've walked out on him a couple of times in the middle of the workin day when he starts smokin in the lab. Anyway, I got a phone interview, out of the blue, from Amgen, a company I applied to back in Feb--thought they'd forgotten all about me but apparently not. I am hopelessly unqualified for the job in question, plus it's in 1K Oaks CA where I'll never live, but who ares! I'll take the interview process as far as she'll go. I need the practice. Hey, also my bro in Denver has mentioned an editing job (for medical journals) so maybe I'll get something after all!"}, {"response": 421, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, May 14, 1997 (17:17)", "body": "I just got offered a webmaster job in Calif and a system network job for Compaq, but I got an even better job offer inAustin. So I'll stick around."}, {"response": 422, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Thu, May 15, 1997 (09:06)", "body": "But even if it weren't a better offer--you'd stay in Austin, right? Calif can't compare! Do you have to move to do a computer job? Can't they just link you up or something and let you stay in that fair city?"}, {"response": 423, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, May 15, 1997 (09:15)", "body": "I would probably stay. If it were Northern Calif I'd be more tempted. I had a good dinner last night with Doug Larue and he has some ideas for pumping up the Spring and Capcity. Doug is a very talented designer and editor of Capitol City Arts and Entertainment magazine. We're working on ways to build traffic and to attract more dedicated websites."}, {"response": 424, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Fri, May 16, 1997 (14:36)", "body": "I can't wait! I'm all aglow! More people would be grrrreat. I've been spending time on another website (wbs.net) and while it's fun having \"live\" conversations, the people and topics are lame. More people here would be ideal. Let me know if I (useless as I am) can help--I'm still doing word-of-mouth promotions to everyone I meet who uses computers."}, {"response": 425, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, May 16, 1997 (18:59)", "body": "Anything you can do would help. I'm working 12 hours a day now so it's harder to promote this thing."}, {"response": 426, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Mon, May 19, 1997 (09:26)", "body": "Terry you must relax! Austin is for slackers! Please tell me you will not keep up this pace. Breathe in, breathe out..."}, {"response": 427, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, May 19, 1997 (13:54)", "body": "I think I pumped it up a bit here on Sunday night. Take a look around and you'lll see some action, Aubrey."}, {"response": 428, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Sun, May 25, 1997 (10:20)", "body": "Where have I been??? I'm back now!"}, {"response": 429, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Sun, May 25, 1997 (10:28)", "body": "hahahaha and I'm STILL fooling myself with this ramble-in-many-conferences gag! every time I put in a response I go and check the other conference!! I have a memory span the size of a GNAT!!!"}, {"response": 430, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, May 25, 1997 (10:43)", "body": "I'm heading off to TJ Cellery's big party today, he's one of our posters in the sports conference and he's got bands, darts, and all kinds of activities going on out in Lake Bastrop today and tomorrow. It's already been going on for two days."}, {"response": 431, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Tue, May 27, 1997 (09:26)", "body": "Hope you had fun terry. I linked the spring from my \"home page\" (such as it is) on wbs.net--hope that's ok!"}, {"response": 432, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, May 27, 1997 (10:31)", "body": "It's more than ok."}, {"response": 433, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, May 27, 1997 (22:38)", "body": "Hiya! Once again found myself within 3 yards of a computer and had to say hello! Miss you. Miss Austin. Should be back in late June early July. We'll do the Dog&Duck/veggie burger thing! Spring has finally reached Denver! Yea! Camping, biking and beer guzzling for Memorial Day. JuneFest this weekend -- more beer, camping and biking! Hope all is well with EVERYONE -- too many new people, I feel lost Paul! Smiles and hugs!"}, {"response": 434, "author": "ginger", "date": "Wed, May 28, 1997 (01:50)", "body": "We had a great party out in Bastrop at TJ Cellery's digs, he had live bands, horseshoes, good friends, great food and four frolicking days. He's been doing this for 25 years now (all around the country). Too bad about the Avs' Stacey Leigh!"}, {"response": 435, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, May 28, 1997 (08:56)", "body": "Stacey, did you hear about Don moving out to Denver?"}, {"response": 436, "author": "msegal", "date": "Thu, May 29, 1997 (11:56)", "body": "Hi. Is there anyone interested in the Canadian federal election?"}, {"response": 437, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, May 29, 1997 (14:50)", "body": "I hadn't been giving it much thought. Fill us in ok?"}, {"response": 438, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Mon, Jun  2, 1997 (09:33)", "body": "There's a Canadienne in my wbs chat group who want the current guy booted out in favor of the contender who she says \"won't let the Frenchies walk all over us\"--I'll ask for more details, eh?"}, {"response": 439, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jun  2, 1997 (12:19)", "body": "How about those Bulls las night?"}, {"response": 440, "author": "ginger", "date": "Sun, Jun  8, 1997 (11:00)", "body": "They're having a quiet war about that, Aubrey?"}, {"response": 441, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Wed, Jun 18, 1997 (08:58)", "body": "sadly ginger that's all I know--and terry see my query in porch intros; I am confused (so what's new!) by these new choices we have! \"preserve as unread\"??? why???"}, {"response": 442, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Jun 18, 1997 (12:42)", "body": "Why? Because Dave Thaler just upgraded our interface. We'll be putting out some upgrade notes soon. Aubrey, so good you're back!"}, {"response": 443, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Fri, Jun 20, 1997 (09:06)", "body": "Thank you terry! glad to be here! so sad that boss-man keeps me away with WORK! So what is with thie COOKIE business????? why do yuo keep asking me to send them? I make a really great oatmeal chocolate chip (to die for!)--wouild a dozen satisfy you? Seriously terry this is getting ridiculous! I can hardly get on the spring for having to machete through a thicket of computer messages about COOKIES--help meeeeee!"}, {"response": 444, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Jun 20, 1997 (18:33)", "body": "Your broswer lets you turn off cookie notification. What browser are you using aub' ?"}, {"response": 445, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Mon, Jun 23, 1997 (09:10)", "body": "I am using netscape...everyone is telling me cookies are the worst thing in the world but you seem relatively calm about this...so I will take heart and attempt to figure out how to turn them off. if I can't can you help!"}, {"response": 446, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jun 23, 1997 (09:30)", "body": "Sure, be glad to help. What version of Netscape do you have?"}, {"response": 447, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Fri, Jun 27, 1997 (13:49)", "body": "yu got me there pal, I just click it on hee hee hee...let me have a look-see..."}, {"response": 448, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Fri, Jun 27, 1997 (13:54)", "body": "the icon says 3.01 but what actually comes up is 3.0...I deselected cookie under the preferences \"show me a warning before accepting a...\" and I sure hope that's ok--I don't know why someone would select that--terry? do I need to know when the computer has accepted a cookie?"}, {"response": 449, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Jun 27, 1997 (13:55)", "body": "Not really. It's mildly interesting. Not something to work up a frenzy over."}, {"response": 450, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Fri, Jun 27, 1997 (14:00)", "body": "hey!! now you actually being here IS soething to work up into a frenzy over!"}, {"response": 451, "author": "aubrey", "date": "Fri, Jun 27, 1997 (14:01)", "body": "And I am frothing! I have never had anyone here when I am here! so I want to hear more about the electronic minds *peering about* are they here right now?"}, {"response": 452, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Jun 27, 1997 (14:45)", "body": "They are, join minds."}, {"response": 454, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jan 15, 1998 (12:12)", "body": "Sure pop it in the wave."}, {"response": 455, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Jan 15, 1998 (19:06)", "body": "and what, praytell, are we rambling about?!?"}, {"response": 456, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Jan 15, 1998 (19:14)", "body": "jesus! I had to go through 2 friggin years worth o crap to get here! And what do I find but the same damn words I posted somewhere else. This is un nerving!"}, {"response": 457, "author": "pmnh", "date": "Thu, Jan 15, 1998 (19:18)", "body": "lol!"}, {"response": 459, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Jan 16, 1998 (11:04)", "body": "Ramble is a mega linked topic. So if you ramble here, you ramble everywhere. Just so you know."}, {"response": 460, "author": "autumn", "date": "Fri, Jan 16, 1998 (13:16)", "body": "That's an intimidating thought. I'm afraid to ramble now."}, {"response": 462, "author": "autumn", "date": "Fri, Jan 16, 1998 (14:44)", "body": "Sorry, I seldom think I have anything worthwhile to say, much less to have it echoed throughout the spring."}, {"response": 464, "author": "autumn", "date": "Sat, Jan 17, 1998 (16:52)", "body": "Ahh, but I'm not a deep thinker like you. An eloquent stream of consciousness always rates higher than inane chit-chat."}, {"response": 466, "author": "autumn", "date": "Sun, Jan 18, 1998 (22:39)", "body": "Well, consider yourself eloquent."}, {"response": 467, "author": "stacey", "date": "Mon, Jan 19, 1998 (18:11)", "body": "\"I was born a ramblin' Maaaaannnnnnnnnn. Trying to make a livin' an doin' the best I caaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnn.\""}, {"response": 468, "author": "pmnh", "date": "Mon, Jan 19, 1998 (18:59)", "body": "roflmao! (that's a pretty excellent dickie betts, especially from someone subject to recurring cat dreams...)"}, {"response": 469, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Jan 20, 1998 (19:21)", "body": "*grin* gotta be too much herb tea!"}, {"response": 470, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jan 20, 1998 (19:41)", "body": "Hey, ramblin' girl, speaking of tea, just got a shipment of chai in today. A free sample from the Pacific Chai company. Who says I never got anything free off the net?"}, {"response": 471, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Jan 20, 1998 (19:45)", "body": "where? Good stuff? I'm a big Celestial Seasonings fan..."}, {"response": 472, "author": "stacey", "date": "Tue, Jan 20, 1998 (19:46)", "body": "JUST POSTED THIS IN MOVIES.... NOW I HAVE TO READ IT AGAIN IN FITNESS!!!!!! AAAccccccccccccccccccck! Paul, what are you doing to me?!?!"}, {"response": 473, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jan 20, 1998 (19:49)", "body": "It's a conspiracy Stace, remember when I told you a few days ago that when you post here you post everywhere (thought I was kidding, eh?). Anyway, I got the free Chai tea from Pacific Chai which I found by searching for the word \"chai tea\" on yahoo's site. http://www.PacificChai.com Good stuff! Spicy, weet, rich, and *instant* chai tea."}, {"response": 474, "author": "autumn", "date": "Tue, Jan 20, 1998 (20:56)", "body": "Stacey, what are your favorite CS teas? I love the mandarin orange spice, and I use their green blend for iced tea."}, {"response": 475, "author": "nike", "date": "Wed, Jan 21, 1998 (12:58)", "body": "Well as the thread in this group goes more into tea, all I can add to that is the fact that I have never drunken so much tea in my life like I do now living in Londo for half a year, you really drink it at nearly anytime in the day it's incredible... Just to continue rambling (I hope nobody minds) I am just not willing to spend hours over what I should be doing, preparing for my finals here in the South Bank University in London. It has been quite a semester here, and I must say to anybody who has the chanceto join such an exchangeprogramme, do it (like the Nike ad tell's you to) It's an expirience I don't want to have missed, and I already have spend a moth in an american Junior high school, a couple of years back (yeah yeah, those were the days) this thred was called Ramble? wasn't it ? ;-) I just could go on for hours, telling you about the freezing weather we had here after we had the warmest day in January two weeks ago, since the recordings began some hundred years ago, the weather is really unpredictable... Somehow I could do with some real proper sunshine, staying here I have acquired one of the most ugly teints I have ever had, the last time I had such a pale skin was after learning for my last exams in Germany for nearly a whole month and not seeing the outside much... Well I guess all you can do about that is either eat a wagonload of carrots (betacarotin) or lie under a artificial sun for some time, which I actually don't have, or I should better say shouldn't have ;-) Rambling on I could now go into the fact that I spent nearly 2 hours downloading the newest Mac OS -8 upgrade to 8.1 Apart from that I found a cool webpage explaining about Java and even offering a whole online store for free (all the scripts and everything that is needed to make such an to run an online store) so if everything else fails (my studies here as a building engeneer) I will open an online store selling ... well I don't know... ah! I got it I'll sell semelly socks ;-) Well what I would really like to do at the moment is continue writing my webpage, but I can't continue, because I couldn't setup my harddisk here, because my friend wanted back his casing for his harddisk ... well just in case you would like to have a little look around, or find out a bit about the thesis that I want to write about, check out my page at http://www.hardlink.com/~nike I would like some feedback... Well I guess I have rambled enough ;-) I should get back to my studies (yuck) See ya around enjoy the tea (I usually just have the normal PG Tips Black tea here) Bye Nike"}, {"response": 476, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Jan 21, 1998 (19:59)", "body": "Just in, the inside scoop on Clinton's woes from the Drudge report in politics."}, {"response": 477, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Jan 21, 1998 (21:23)", "body": "Read it in the politics conference. Either it's over for Clinton or Starr. One of them will bite the dust soon."}, {"response": 478, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Jan 21, 1998 (21:28)", "body": "Nike, now thar's a ramblin' man! Gosh, it's great you're back with us. Buddy, ya know, got a gig with Microsoft up in big D. Funny, Buddy always despised Microsoft now he's getting those BillyBucks. I wish him well. It's a great break for him and he can help a lot of other visually handicapped folks break some barriers."}, {"response": 479, "author": "nike", "date": "Thu, Jan 22, 1998 (11:21)", "body": "Yeah! don't get me rambin, when I actually have some work to do ;-) (at least not, when the work I do have to do is somethin I hate doin, like revising all the stuff I learned the last half of the yaer... Is Buddy still around here in the Spring? Well I guess it's often like that, when money is involved... I also would work for Microsoft, but in my heart I still would prefer to work with a Mac,. Anyway, a really great break for him, I must say. Why is it in big D? I thought they were up in big R? Well I hope to read lot's astuff in the various topics, only at the moment I don't have that much time, but I will broowse a bit. See ya around See ya around Nike"}, {"response": 480, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jan 22, 1998 (11:43)", "body": "Hey, anyone want a free frisbee? http://cgi.pathfinder.com/cgi-bin/gdml2x/game/pathfinder/apc_survey2 will get you one if you answer their plastics survey."}, {"response": 481, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jan 22, 1998 (11:44)", "body": "Big, or Dallas, is a tech support location. That's what he's doing, supporting handicapped users. And getting all the free food he can eat!"}, {"response": 482, "author": "autumn", "date": "Thu, Jan 22, 1998 (13:15)", "body": "Don't forget to clue him in on the frisbee!"}, {"response": 483, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Jan 22, 1998 (17:45)", "body": "Autumn... teas (the faves) Tension Tamer Echinecea Ginseng Bengal \u001b[A\u001b[C\u001b[C\u001b[C\u001b[C\u001b[C\u001b[C\u001b[B\u001b[D\u001b[D\u001b[D\u001b[D\u001b[D\u001b[D\u001b[D\u001b[D\u001b[D\u001b[D\u001b[D\u001b[D SpiceSleepyTime Emporer's Choice"}, {"response": 484, "author": "autumn", "date": "Thu, Jan 22, 1998 (17:54)", "body": "I haven't heard of a couple of those...maybe they're marketed differently in other regions? Like out here we have Edy's ice cream, but on the West Coast it is Dreyer's. And in Europe, Arizona iced tea is called Colorado iced tea (sounds more exotic \"Old West\" or something, I guess!)"}, {"response": 485, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Jan 22, 1998 (18:05)", "body": "My super favorite in the Bengal Spice... clovey cinnamony yummy! Shame you don't have them. What are your favorites?"}, {"response": 486, "author": "russell", "date": "Fri, Jan 23, 1998 (17:53)", "body": "New this month in Culture Wars magazine online: http://www.culturewars.com The Kingpins of Drug Legalization: Investigating Their Role in the Culture War by Michael J. Ard Who are the voices crying out for the de-criminalization of narcotics, and what are their real objectives? The answers may surprise you."}, {"response": 487, "author": "autumn", "date": "Fri, Jan 23, 1998 (21:03)", "body": "My favorite is the mandarin orange spice, but if the Bengal is as good as it sounds, I'll have to look for it. Only I hope it is not too cinnamon-y, because I can't stand their apple cinnamon spice flavor. Or anything with mint."}, {"response": 488, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Jan 23, 1998 (21:18)", "body": "Thanks Russell, that culturewares site was mentioned in our web conference as a cool website not too long ago. On a less frenetic front, and back to teatalk, I picked up some more chai tea tonight and and hibiscus blend. My two current favorites."}, {"response": 489, "author": "autumn", "date": "Fri, Jan 23, 1998 (21:23)", "body": "Ooh, hibiscus is yummy!"}, {"response": 490, "author": "doug", "date": "Fri, Jan 23, 1998 (21:33)", "body": "Hey I just saw that culturewars site, gonna read it now. Oh, Terry, I didnt know you were a Tea Coinsure' You continue to surprise me!"}, {"response": 491, "author": "autumn", "date": "Fri, Jan 23, 1998 (21:36)", "body": "Oh, he's a regular renaissance man....."}, {"response": 492, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Jan 23, 1998 (21:40)", "body": "Gosh, hey honest, I haven't been making under the table payments to Autumn. That hibiscus is great brewed with fresh grated ginger and sweetened with white grape juice."}, {"response": 493, "author": "autumn", "date": "Fri, Jan 23, 1998 (21:42)", "body": "Wow--it would never occur to me to doctor tea with anything but honey or fructose. Old family recipe?"}, {"response": 494, "author": "doug", "date": "Fri, Jan 23, 1998 (21:48)", "body": "I only came into this conference because I saw that was where the current action was. But dagnabbit if I wasn't exposed and affected by the culture oozing from the electrons of Terry's universe. We are headed to Mexico City tomarrow to go an a ancient indian adventure, talk about culture! I will be exposed to a great deal of over the next week or so. We are going to one of the valcanoes and as many pyramids as we can find, hopfully this will become celestinial. Speaking of culture, I hear there is a very cool (Spring Like) site called http://www.boat.org check it out!"}, {"response": 495, "author": "autumn", "date": "Fri, Jan 23, 1998 (21:54)", "body": "Sounds like an incredible outing, Doug!"}, {"response": 496, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Jan 28, 1998 (19:31)", "body": "Hot pepper cheese craving... anyone want to join me?"}, {"response": 498, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Jan 29, 1998 (10:07)", "body": "you can try... but i won't fit. maybe you sould put the cheese and the Ritz on me!"}, {"response": 501, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Jan 30, 1998 (04:06)", "body": "is that a sigh of relief or of dispair? (or were you just breathing heavy and got confused?)"}, {"response": 502, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Jan 30, 1998 (04:06)", "body": "drinking my tea, having finished my bagel. Fairly happy today Well, certainly not sad And I read a post from many moons ago that mentioned boyce I associate the name, obviously with the spring, but also with the summer months in Austin. And, all of a sudden, I became really homesick for Austin. My old apartment off of Riverside, runs around Town Lake, late night skates around town stopping in assorted coffee houses to play cards... The smell of the air with humidity. The hot sticky feel after exercising in humidity and sunshine. Riding through the Greenbelt, reading off Mt. Bonnell... To no one in particular... Do you ever feel happy and sad at the same time? Odd how this came up so suddenly."}, {"response": 503, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Jan 30, 1998 (04:06)", "body": "I guess that's me. Yeah, I feel happy and sad simultaneously. Well I got a contract on a house in Austin today. I now have 10 days to change my mind."}, {"response": 504, "author": "pmnh", "date": "Fri, Jan 30, 1998 (04:06)", "body": "(all the time)"}, {"response": 505, "author": "autumn", "date": "Fri, Jan 30, 1998 (16:22)", "body": "Wow, a house--that's a big commitment, Terry. Sometimes I think ours is a full-time job. Stacey, that happy/sad feeling; sometimes. More commonly I feel a persistent undercurrent of restlessness laying in wait beneath the surface."}, {"response": 507, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Jan 30, 1998 (18:28)", "body": "congrats on the house Paul! and as far as the brief trip into emotional uncertainty... there's nothing like a class full of rowdy boys to bring you back to the here and now! *smile* and nothing like a beer (or four) to make the day a mere memory!"}, {"response": 508, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Jan 30, 1998 (18:39)", "body": "whew! (spamified) found ramble in another conference... that I'd never checked before two plus years of... rambling. (worn out)"}, {"response": 509, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Jan 30, 1998 (20:53)", "body": "ramble rambles all over about 7 or 8 conferences. Ramble really rambles."}, {"response": 511, "author": "stacey", "date": "Wed, Feb  4, 1998 (16:19)", "body": "afternoon..."}, {"response": 513, "author": "stacey", "date": "Thu, Feb  5, 1998 (18:16)", "body": "fine. busy. frustrated with certain things but nothing catastrophic... you know how it is when you begin to vent... a trickle, a stream, a flood..."}, {"response": 515, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Feb  6, 1998 (13:55)", "body": "sure you wanna talk??? *wink*"}, {"response": 517, "author": "stacey", "date": "Fri, Feb  6, 1998 (18:26)", "body": "what should I sit on?!?! *grin*"}, {"response": 519, "author": "stacey", "date": "Sun, Feb  8, 1998 (22:29)", "body": "okay. In an effort to expand our cultural horizons, let's each choose a different language to speak to each other in. (Kind of the way men and women relate anyway) You may speak whatever you like I choose body language!"}, {"response": 522, "author": "rroryr", "date": "Fri, Mar 15, 2002 (21:01)", "body": "Just doing this to see how this thing works."}, {"response": 523, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, Mar 15, 2002 (21:53)", "body": "It works just fine. If I had my druthers, I'd add spellcheck to this because my dyslectic fingers type weird spellings sometimes and I do not catch it until it is on cyber space for all time. Aloha and welcome! apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 322, "subject": "TRY UNLIMITED VERSION OF WinProxy for Win NT/95!", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 323, "subject": "graphics tools", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Dec 15, 1996 (01:39)", "body": "If you haven/t consulted the Gif Wizard be sure to head their asap, and bring all your oversized gifs with. http://www.raspberryhill.com/gifwizard.html It's an online only (no local version yet) gif processer which can drastically reduce gif size, especially good at cleaning up repeated images in 89 animations. I ran several of our larger files (fr: www.dreamwv.com) thru there and knocked 20-30% off a couple gif anims. Doesn't do a whole lot for static gifs that you've already worked to reduce, but does have a secondary level of processing that offers you a page of versions of your gifs, from full-size full-color palette, in steps, down to a smallK 4-color palette with the file size listed next to each step--all on one page so you can do the K vs. colors tradeoff right there. Doesn't process jpegs (yet, they say). And, again, it's online only-- but you can offer up a gif to be processed from eith a url or from your computer's local files. Then just \"Save As...\" the version you want."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, May 10, 2001 (02:30)", "body": "superjpg - a nice shareware picture viewer, set up like windows explorer, lets you thumbnail, drag, drop, size, crop, adjust and save as.... at www.winfiles.com apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 324, "subject": "Singles", "response_count": 5, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Dec 15, 1996 (14:35)", "body": "Wrong conference. This is apps."}, {"response": 2, "author": "goober", "date": "Thu, Dec 19, 1996 (03:02)", "body": "I think this net meeting is just the cats ass.......I mean it's totally useful in todays home offices"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Dec 19, 1996 (07:45)", "body": "It is pretty useful goober, would you mind posting this in the topic on NetMeeting?"}, {"response": 4, "author": "winky", "date": "Sat, Dec 21, 1996 (01:37)", "body": "what are they talking about"}, {"response": 5, "author": "winky", "date": "Sat, Dec 21, 1996 (01:39)", "body": "this is not working apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 325, "subject": "", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 326, "subject": "Mecklermedia acquires CWSApps site!!!", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "mrsjoker222", "date": "Sat, Mar 16, 2002 (16:06)", "body": "dont have a answer for you .... but i have a stupid question i need to find a picture of a transmission for a 1990 dodge spirit and i 'm having to rebuild one and i cant find a pic and not transmission place will help me"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Mar 17, 2002 (08:02)", "body": "Can you post this in the cars conference? apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 327, "subject": "Netscape Communicator and Netscape 4.0", "response_count": 14, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "johnjohn", "date": "Sat, Dec 28, 1996 (12:48)", "body": "Why did you eliminate individual user settings with windows 95? Seems I have to change my settings, ie username, mail directory, etc. everytime I log on after other members of my family use the new Netscape 4.0. I don't think the program is intagrating with the windows registry."}, {"response": 2, "author": "casino", "date": "Fri, Jan  3, 1997 (15:06)", "body": "Who's jj adressing himself to ? ... ;-) NS, ... tried it, quite fast, (probably just an empty cache), but - !!!, GPF on the 4th page load, dumped it, back to IE 3, nice spiffy new graphics though, Even though I'm a registered user of Netscape, each new beta or release, just doesn't do it for me and I soon revert to IE. Go figger, what I don't understand, why still at only 23% ??"}, {"response": 3, "author": "Neptune", "date": "Sat, Mar  8, 1997 (21:51)", "body": "I'm using Communicator and I stand by it. In my household we use IE on a second system and Communicator leaps forward in speed and utility. It is still in Beta and I have had occasional crashes... I have noticed that the crash frequency is related to how much drive space you keep free on the drive you have it setup on. Keep at least 40 Mb free, perferably 60 Mb. The multi-user settings are excellent. Any questions?"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Mar  8, 1997 (23:08)", "body": "The mail system beats Navigator's and definitely beats Outlook. Outlook = bad."}, {"response": 5, "author": "tedchong", "date": "Tue, Mar 11, 1997 (22:27)", "body": "I don't like Communicator, it's a spcae hungry monster... Why can't they make something that is slim and portable?"}, {"response": 6, "author": "Neptune", "date": "Mon, May 19, 1997 (14:44)", "body": "Well, I've been trying out the 4th Pre-Release Version and I am very impress. The big question about the Communicator now is... what doesn't it offer? I'm most impressed by its use of multitasking to deliver what was sorely needed for many. Being able to conference or handle mail simultaneously with more than one data stream taking place at a time. Previously you could do a download and read mail/news at the same time. Now you can have multiple streams of everything except the folder your in, which makes sense. I have had 2 newsgroups and two files being downloaded at the same time while reviewing info in other newsgroups. A big time saver! I rate the Communicator as a MUST have now..."}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, May 20, 1997 (09:16)", "body": "Neptune, how does it stack up with IE 4? Anyone like IE better?"}, {"response": 8, "author": "Exmortis", "date": "Fri, May 23, 1997 (10:18)", "body": "NS4 is slick and fast. I love it. But what I'm most interested in is people's opinion about NetCaster. Netscape's response to PointCast's popularity and attempt at push technology. I downloaded it, tried it, and I'm not that impressed. All and all, NetCaster is a directory of links to web pages. I subscribed to the CNet channel, ABCNEWS.com and CBS SportsLine. Now I have those links in my bookmark instead of using NetCaster to access them. It easier and faster to access. They're just web pages! Nothing really exciting. I must say that those pages are damn good looking, though. It beats PointCast's look and feel, but I won't drop PointCast. What I prefer from PointCast is that I can download my news in one shot and disconnect. When I come home after work, I just click on UPDATE and PointCast does its thing by itself (connect-download-disconnect). With NetCaster, everything has to be done on-line. Now, unless I'm way off here or missing something, Netcaster is just a directory of links to web pages where you can get your news. When you click on a so-called channel, a copy of Netscape Navigator is lauched. If you don't close navigator before selecting a second channel, two copies of Navigator will be loaded sucking ressources from your machine big time. Some links like the Wired channel go on your desktop instead of in the browser and it is the only part that impressed me. It's like the whole Wi ed site becomes your desktop's background although you lose the icons you have on your desktop (if you have some). Using DeskTop View from the Microsoft PowerToys solves the problem. Besides the on-your-desktop thing, all other so-called channels can be kept in your bookmark and accessed directly from navigator instead of going through the pain of loading NetCaster, waiting for it to load the channel directory and then let him lauch Navigator for you. What's your experience with it?"}, {"response": 9, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, May 23, 1997 (13:26)", "body": "That's all there is to all this hoopla? Anyone else find anything more to this than hype?"}, {"response": 10, "author": "Neptune", "date": "Fri, Jul  4, 1997 (06:24)", "body": "Opps... I posted my comments in the \"Netscape 32-bit\" area."}, {"response": 11, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Jul  4, 1997 (09:43)", "body": "That's ok, what would you like to see added to the next release of Communicator? Is there anything that Internet Explorer does that Communicator doesn't do? And vice versa?"}, {"response": 12, "author": "Dan", "date": "Mon, Sep 18, 2000 (20:08)", "body": "Looking for Help! Can't open Excel component inserted in a Web page with Netscape Communicator on Mac OS/9 platform. What can I do? Is there a plug-in, where is it? Thanx Dan Man dan_lapierre@bigfoot.com"}, {"response": 13, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Mon, Sep 18, 2000 (21:22)", "body": "Aloha Dan! Gonna check and see what I can find for Mac. I have only watched others use a Mac, so I will forward your plea to those who might be able to help. Meanwhile I will post again with further information ASAP..."}, {"response": 14, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Mon, Sep 18, 2000 (23:47)", "body": "I did a www.google.com search for you and it came up with lots of stuff to check: http://www.google.com/search?q=Excel+for+Mac apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 328, "subject": "Why are some apps missing?", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Dec 29, 1996 (21:06)", "body": "Which ones are we missing? apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 329, "subject": "Crescendo midi plug-in", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Dec 29, 1996 (21:06)", "body": "We can easily add a topic for it. Stay cool ok? [does a few things] OK. This topic is now the Crescendo topic. And users can no longer add topics. If you want a new topic suggest it and we will create it. There's been a whole string of off the subject topics in the last week or so thus I am changing the topic creation policy. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 33, "subject": "Speak Freely", "response_count": 4, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "sandy", "date": "Sat, Feb 22, 1997 (21:25)", "body": "I`m a Brazilian guy and now I`m in Canada learning english,I want talking to someone around the world,I don`t know how can I use the chatline but I`m trying, if somebody can talk to me . please do it ,after all I`m in this compiuter since 5 O` clock pm."}, {"response": 2, "author": "sandy", "date": "Sat, Feb 22, 1997 (21:26)", "body": ""}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Feb 23, 1997 (00:56)", "body": "Can you tell us about the computer boom in Brazil?"}, {"response": 4, "author": "MacGyver", "date": "Fri, Aug  8, 1997 (03:18)", "body": "Does Speak Freely or any other voice-chat program support a hardware-based ADPCM encoder...My girlfriend has a 14.4k connection and a 486sx25, but her soundcard is capable of ADPCM. What I want to do is set up a voice chat program so we can talk when I'm off at school. I'll have a dedicated connection on my end so all she'll have to do is type in my IP. Any Advice? Michael msw@tamu.edu apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 330, "subject": "The King Has No Clothes!!!", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 331, "subject": "reserved", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 332, "subject": "reserved", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 333, "subject": "ICQ for Windows 95", "response_count": 32, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Jan 19, 1997 (20:36)", "body": "The location is http://www.mirabilis.com/pub/icqsetup.exe I just signed up as 203760 with my email address terry@spring.com This may be useful for our group being able to get in touch with each other. I see Amy is already signed up. She's such an early adopter !"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jan 21, 1997 (13:53)", "body": "This program is proving to have pretty amazing ramifications for our workgroup. The model that Mirabilis is using to propagate this program via email is exceedingly clever. I can see why this is Forrest's app of the week, and I can see incredible potential in the direction these folks are going for distribution of software. Check it out!"}, {"response": 3, "author": "Madeline", "date": "Tue, Jan 21, 1997 (17:21)", "body": "Hmmm I don't understand how this is working"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jan 21, 1997 (21:48)", "body": "What don't you understand?"}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Jan 22, 1997 (06:40)", "body": "Give Forrest a slam dunk for finding this software."}, {"response": 6, "author": "Michel", "date": "Wed, Jan 29, 1997 (05:16)", "body": "I have been using this piece of software for almost a month, I find it amazingly simple and easy to use. I guess this new product will change many of the net's habits in communication. On the other hand, I do not know if you had the same problems I am having for the last couple of weeks : ICQ server seems to be very hectic : online/offline very often, connecting sometimes takes about 30 minutes, etc..."}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Jan 29, 1997 (06:50)", "body": "Sounds like \"growing pains\"."}, {"response": 8, "author": "iceberg", "date": "Wed, Jan 29, 1997 (13:25)", "body": "This is the app I've been waiting for. Now when I'm online my friends and family can get in touch with me when the phone's busy! I think it's great! It works perfectly with IPhone. I set-up IPhone on my moms computer and she never could figure it out (to many details) In ICQ she just goes to external apps and clicks IPhone and my IPhone rings, very simple. The one thing I don't like (which they tell me will be corrected in the final release) is upon disconnecting from the net, ICQ tries to reconnect and brings up the Win95 dialer box. If you close it you then get an error. No big deal, just annoying. I wonder how much the final release will be?"}, {"response": 9, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Jan 29, 1997 (23:07)", "body": "Good point about the external app activation capability. Has anyone else had experience with this?"}, {"response": 10, "author": "JGrubbs", "date": "Thu, Feb  6, 1997 (00:00)", "body": "iv'e not had any probs. with ICQ bringing up the Win95 dialer... I give ICQ my vote for Internet App. of the year!"}, {"response": 11, "author": "jkchez", "date": "Tue, Mar  4, 1997 (18:48)", "body": "i recently got icq and have had the dialer truble mentioned but other than being a bit annoying its a great thing, and i too have had the on again off again truble bit not very often"}, {"response": 12, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Mar  6, 1997 (00:51)", "body": "It's down at times I've noticed, but generally pretty reliable."}, {"response": 13, "author": "kenr", "date": "Sun, Mar  9, 1997 (01:27)", "body": "I am having conflict problems. ICQ was running OK earlier today, but now freezes up my system. Don't know what is wrong. It causes Norton Crash Guard to come up and tell me that it is froze. Sometimes I can't even get out of it, and have to reboot with power button. Does anyone else have this problem? What did you to fix it. kenr@nwinfo.net"}, {"response": 14, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Mar  9, 1997 (02:09)", "body": "I haven't had this problem, although I have noticed more frequent system freeze ups and I haven't been able to trace them down. The biggest problem with ICQ that I can attribute directly to it is the proliferation of messages that ICQ is not connected when I lose my Internet connection. I then either have to reboot the system to clear out dozens of messages that ICQ is not connected or click ok a few dozen times. ICQ may need to do some substantial SQA (software quality testing) at this stage. The Spring provides this service professionally in our test labs."}, {"response": 15, "author": "john32", "date": "Thu, Apr 24, 1997 (18:39)", "body": "Just signed on today. Registration went OK. UIN is 910969 Can't connect to the ICQ Database, comes back with an error msg to that effect. I'm I doing something wrong or is there a problem with their server? Thanks JP"}, {"response": 16, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Apr 24, 1997 (20:46)", "body": "It very well could be a server problem. Keep trying and let us know if you connect ok. I'm 304652 uin. It's generally pretty reliable."}, {"response": 17, "author": "888184", "date": "Mon, Apr 28, 1997 (10:23)", "body": "How many servers are available with ICQ? Only one???? If not, please give me some adresses. Thanx /martin 888184"}, {"response": 18, "author": "alessing", "date": "Mon, Nov  3, 1997 (22:23)", "body": "ICQ is great except for one thing!!! IT DOES NOT WORK ON MY PC CONNECTED TO MY SCHOOL'S APPLETALK NETWORK If anyone has any ideas on how to fix this problem please send me email at alessing@writeme.com ICQ tech support does not respond to my crys for help."}, {"response": 19, "author": "dCd", "date": "Sun, Jan  4, 1998 (01:56)", "body": "I have been unable to register for ICQ. I get an error message telling me to check the ICQ Firewall settings. I am not behind a firewall. I cannot contact technical support. If anyone knows what I should do please send an Email at Whitetail-Acres@bfm.org"}, {"response": 20, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Jan  4, 1998 (10:49)", "body": "Tell us more about how you're connecting; who is your isp and what type of email connection do you have?"}, {"response": 21, "author": "russt", "date": "Tue, Jan 13, 1998 (13:43)", "body": "Where can I get help with ICQ for Windows 3.1? I can't even complete the registration process? I get; Could not complete registration! Please check status of Internet connection. If behind a firewall, check ICQ firewall settings. Then click \"Retry\". If registration still fails, please view our technical support page by clicking the button below."}, {"response": 22, "author": "russt", "date": "Tue, Jan 13, 1998 (13:45)", "body": "Dial in modem connection thru sisqtel.net pop3 email"}, {"response": 23, "author": "russt", "date": "Tue, Jan 13, 1998 (13:57)", "body": "I believe my problem has something to do with a firewall because when I signed up with this conference It showed my emial address as; firewall.nrtc.net AND that same line appears in many of my e-mail headers. HOWEVER our webmaster at sisqtel.net says she has had ICQ working on her Windows 95 machine for months and can't see how it could be a firewall problem. I have read every self help page I can find on ICQ system and else where. I think I need to find a way to tell my ISP how to let me through/arounfd the firewall. Any suggestions?"}, {"response": 24, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jan 13, 1998 (22:22)", "body": "I'm checking on this with an ICQ expert buddy of mine, can you check back in a day or two? I'll try and find out what's happening."}, {"response": 25, "author": "cogen", "date": "Tue, Mar 24, 1998 (00:51)", "body": "Question: Has anyone had or know of lock-up problems on AOL using ICQ? The problem computer has been running win95/AOL95 and ICQ for about four months, and it seems that every time they try and access a web site, it starts to load, then locks up. the same thing happens when they try and upload a file from MAIL. we have cleaned the hard drive, done the diag. did a clean reload of AOL and everything else we could think of. This problem does not seem to happen when using MSM. I am beginning to think that it may be a shared file conflict. I would appreciate any suggestions. Thank you. Cogen69@aol.com Paul Gallagher"}, {"response": 26, "author": "berkey", "date": "Sun, Jul 26, 1998 (16:10)", "body": "I would like someone to send me a comparison between PowWow and ICQ. Which is better? Aren't they basically the same? I like the drawing board in PowWow, and from what I see, ICQ does not have it. But I want to use the best, so which one? And why? From what I am reading here and in the PowWow forum (Topic 28) Pow Wow is superior. I have not experienced any lockups (and that would REALLY be annoying!!!) and looking up friends is easy with the \"buddy list\". You can chose to direct connect with them, or use PowWow to search for them for you - it looks like... downloading direct, chat direct, sounds, speech, net cruise with your associates, etc.. It's all there."}, {"response": 27, "author": "berkey", "date": "Sun, Jul 26, 1998 (16:11)", "body": "Amen Brother."}, {"response": 28, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Jul 26, 1998 (21:59)", "body": "How is the audio component? Doe it work well. Would you be up for trying it out with me?"}, {"response": 29, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct 29, 1998 (08:07)", "body": "Leading Industry Vendors Join Microsoft In Announcing Support For Creation of Open \"Buddy List\" Protocol Standard Interoperable Protocol Will Make It Easier to Identify Online Presence of Friends, Colleagues On the Internet REDMOND, Wash. - Nov. 24, 1997 - Microsoft Corp. today announced that more than 40 leading industry vendors have announced support to create the first open protocol to standardize how applications such as \"buddy lists\" identify the presence of friends and business associates online. This protocol is intended to make it easier for users to locate, connect to and communicate with each other anywhere on the Internet. To initiate this process, Microsoft has submitted a proposed specification called the \"rendezvous protocol\" (RVP) to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). The RVP specification uses an open, distributed model that enables the creation of interoperable client and server solutions, allowing for compatibility across products, platforms and vendors. Microsoft has submitted the specification to the IETF, which is the principal body engaged in the development of new Internet standard specifications, with the goal of creating an open Internet standard for identifying online presence. \"International and industry standards organizations have established interoperable protocols for mail, chat and many other forms of conferencing on the Internet,\" said John Ludwig, vice president of the Internet client and collaboration division at Microsoft. \"However, ways of finding friends, family and colleagues to communicate with online are still in the dark ages of proprietary networks. It's our goal to evolve the Internet into a real-time multimedia communications network, and this requires unrelenting industry commitment to interoperability standards. The RVP submission, along with broad industry involvement, is a key step toward achieving that goal.\" More Than 40 Vendors Rally Behind Goal of Creating Standards-Based Protocol More than 40 leading industry vendors representing Internet telephony, videoconferencing, networking hardware, Internet service, community service, and content providers have announced their support for the creation of a standards-based distributed \"buddy list\" or \"presence\" protocol. These proponents include 3Com Corp., 8x8 Inc., Activerse Inc., Bandai Digital Entertainment Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Concentric Network Corp., Connectix Corp., DataBeam Corp., Data Connection Ltd., Dialogic Corp., DSP Group Inc., eFusion Inc., elemedia of Lucent Technologies Inc., eShare Technologies Inc., Extranet Solutions, LLC, Flash Communications, GeoCities, GTE Internetworking, Guthy-Renker Internet, Ibis Research Corp., ichat Inc., Infoseek Corp., InfoSpace Inc., ITXC, Juno Online Services LP, Liveworld Productions, Netopia Inc., OnLive! Technologies Inc., OutReach Technologies, The Palace Inc., PeopleLink Inc., PictureTel Corp., PlanetAll, Polycom, Prodigy Internet, RADVision Inc., Ring Zero Systems, Sony Pictures Entertainment, VDOnet Inc., VideoServer Inc., Vocaltec Communications Ltd., Voxware Inc., VTEL Corp., White Pine Software, Winnov Inc., Xirlink Inc. and Zydacron Inc. Through the open-standards process, these vendors and others will have an opportunity to work together to review, discuss and provide feedback and to drive consensus on the formation of the standard. \"Knowing who is present online provides users with even more information than standard communication tools such as the telephone,\" said Steve Glenn, president and CEO of PeopleLink. \"Imagine how powerful it would be if you could find out if someone was there before trying to call them, or learn that a family member across the country just logged on and be able to immediately say 'hi' and strike up a conversation. A standard presence protocol will bring these rich, real-time, people-focused communication capabilities to every user on the Internet.\" \"We've established Prodigy Internet with the philosophy of offering the latest and greatest Internet technology to our subscribers and bringing it together as an easy-to-use solution to fit into their everyday lives,\" said Russ Pillar, CEO, Prodigy Internet. \"A standards-based solution for helping friends and family to find each other on the Internet will greatly enhance the ability for our customers to communicate in real time.\" RVP Solves Problems Posed by Proprietary Buddy List Solutions Applications, such as buddy lists, that identify online presence are an increasingly important tool for real-time Internet communications. These applications are used for initiating a variety of online communications, including sending instant text messages, files and pictures; conducting audio and video conferences; and issuing invitations to chat rooms and game-playing sessions. Currently, the demand for solutions that identify online presence is fractured because existing solutions are proprietary. Interoperability across products, platforms and vendors is not possible, prevent"}, {"response": 30, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Wed, Nov  1, 2000 (15:22)", "body": "My ICQ works well but uses up so much of this computer (and it is 700MHz 128 RAM) that other programs freeze. I get the same quailty conversationalists on Yahoo and AOL IM (for non-AOL users) and much prefer them. Oh yes, Ihave gotten marriage proposals on all three of them and on MSN, too whichI consider the least of the standard IM's available. I have since deleted ICQ and all of its tentacles from my computer. I think I favor Yahoo the most since I can be invisible to all and conduct a private convesation without being broken into by the lusting and curious of the world. Maaybe it is just me. Anyone else have these \"problems\"??"}, {"response": 31, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Wed, Nov  1, 2000 (19:44)", "body": "Nope, I haven't gotten any marriage proposals."}, {"response": 32, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Wed, Nov  1, 2000 (21:07)", "body": "Want a few? Maybe they have sisters...! One came three sentences into my first (and last) conversation with him. Can you say \"Green Card\"?! apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 334, "subject": "FTP Icon Connection for Windows 95", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 335, "subject": "TextPad for Windows", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 336, "subject": "BackWeb", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "clifflk", "date": "Sun, Feb 16, 1997 (00:07)", "body": "The only problem I have with BackWeb is it opens a new browser (Netscape Communicator), and I'm unable to close the previous browser because BackWeb is covering the Win95 Task bar at the bottom of my screen. It would be nice if the user had an option of where the news flashes are to be located. I would locate mine somewhere between the reload button and the Netscape logo. Cliff apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 337, "subject": "Multimedia Xplorer", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "Cypher", "date": "Tue, Feb 18, 1997 (09:52)", "body": "Tried it.. Was impressed by it.. bought it. I really like the \"detective\". Really screams on my 120 and the options with the logo screen are great."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Feb 23, 1997 (10:19)", "body": "This does sound like an exceptional app, next on my download list. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 338, "subject": "Sir Browse-A-Lot for Windows 95", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 339, "subject": "FTP Voyager for Windows 95", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 34, "subject": "Microsoft NetMeeting for Windows 95", "response_count": 87, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "Gordon", "date": "Tue, Aug 13, 1996 (07:32)", "body": "Is this program only going to work for Win 95 or will you be able to call people cross platform ie 3.1?"}, {"response": 2, "author": "jpropst", "date": "Wed, Sep  4, 1996 (23:37)", "body": "The program is also supposed to work with PictureTel's LiveShare program which runs on their videoconferencing systems. This suggests a video capability may be coming soon; particularly since Microsoft bought into PictureTel."}, {"response": 3, "author": "NY2001AD", "date": "Wed, Nov  6, 1996 (20:05)", "body": "I would love to know if there is a method to not only receive a posted response to this message but perhaps an E-mail message sent to my address: ny2001ad@interport.net. I ask because this is my first posted message and I'm just not sure if I'll be able to keep myself up-to-date on all the areas I visit. Nevertheless, what alternative applications do you suggest in lieu of NetMeeting? Thanks much!"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov  6, 1996 (22:46)", "body": "We have some conferences set up to email folks stuff that gets posted, but not this one. However, if you take the time to build your own conference list. You only get to see the new stuff that's posted since the last time you visited the conference. This software kind of grows on you."}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov 30, 1996 (13:16)", "body": "Amy and I are taking our first baby steps at using NetMeeting. In fact, we did a first today. We both posted a response in a conference topic interactively. You can find me at uls1.microsoft.com most of the time and, if you're an html coder or system a dmin type, we may be able to work collaborately on some project on the Spring using Netmeeting. I was blown away this morning to wake up, bleary eyed, walk over to my computer and see someone else working on it (it was Amy). At first I really thought that I had entered the twilight zone! This *is* the current killer app!"}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov 30, 1996 (13:17)", "body": "For more discussion of NetMeeting, from a different perspective: http://www.spring.com/yapp-bin/restricted/respond/austen/53/new"}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov 30, 1996 (16:00)", "body": "First base for NetMeeting: http://www.microsoft.com/netmeeting/"}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec  4, 1996 (17:14)", "body": "How are you using NetMeeting? Our you finding it productive?"}, {"response": 9, "author": "Kris", "date": "Wed, Dec  4, 1996 (18:43)", "body": "I've only really just begun to use netmeeting. As a programmer, being able to work with the others in my team at any time is important. I haven't really done any extensive work with netmeeting, but the sample work I have done with 2 other members of my team prove to be useful. However, the constant \"bickering\" over control is going to be a hassle."}, {"response": 10, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec  4, 1996 (18:49)", "body": "I've found that too. Amy and I were literally having a wrestling match over the cursor in our session the other day. But it's also been extremely useful to be able to talk to colleagues, work interactively on applications, draw on a whitebaord and engage in text chat all at the same time. It's pretty awesome when you think about it."}, {"response": 11, "author": "candie", "date": "Wed, Dec  4, 1996 (22:35)", "body": "I feel that netmeeting can help companies with a small budget cut some of their long distance and traveling expences. As a Internet Publisher I have customers all over and traveling to their offices and long distance costs can take it toll on budget. I use email whenever possible but sometimes you need to interact on a project more closely then that and thats when I like to use neetmeeting. It lets us look at the same thing at the same time and make changes together. It can be cumbersome if your are j st using a 28.8 KB modem but most of our customers have our load balanced servers and are running at 57.6 KB or higher so it tends to run pretty smooth. Overall if you and the people you are conferencing with have the bandwidth it makes a lot of sense t o use netmeeting as much as possible."}, {"response": 12, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec  4, 1996 (22:50)", "body": "Candie, it sounds like you're making good use of NetMeeting in a productive way. A lot of folks are still in the \"hello out there\" phase. What type of publishing do you do? And can you give some specific examples of how you use it?"}, {"response": 13, "author": "Jianlin", "date": "Fri, Dec  6, 1996 (00:41)", "body": "Now I am using NetMeeting V2.0 Beta 1. Many people joined my conference, but I only know his/ her name, don't know he/she come from or other information. So I think if the NetMeeting can let me inquiry others information and automatically/mannul create Sp eedDial when somebody joins, it's very good. Maybe now it can do it, but I don't know. If you know, could you tell me? Thanks!"}, {"response": 14, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Dec  6, 1996 (08:03)", "body": "I don't know the answer right off the bat, but I'll look at this next time I check in to NetMeeting. Important - Look for an annoucement of an *add on product* for NetMeeting here soon. It's an interface that will connection NetMeeting to your home telephone or to a mobile radio in your car or cellular phone."}, {"response": 15, "author": "Profdav", "date": "Fri, Dec  6, 1996 (11:41)", "body": "Terry, tell me more about this! Philip Davenport"}, {"response": 16, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Dec  6, 1996 (12:12)", "body": "To Microsoft NetMeeting and learn more, go to http://www.microsoft.com/netmeeting"}, {"response": 17, "author": "LopezVG", "date": "Sun, Dec  8, 1996 (12:03)", "body": "I am the Marketing responsible at Unisys Spain. I already have dowloaded Beta 2. I find NetMeeting an amazing tool. Beyond the audio facilities (we have a world -wide corporate telephone network), what I find really impressive is the application sharin g/collaborative features. This funtionality allows our sales & marketing departments to deliver remote training, share presentation/proposal building, P&L discussions, Sales activity monitoring, and IT support to our powerful Mobile Office strategy. Thanks and best regards, Gregorio"}, {"response": 18, "author": "dag44", "date": "Mon, Dec  9, 1996 (09:19)", "body": "I have recently discovered netmeeting and in a few days time have worked through all the versions,,,now in Beta2. One re accuring question of mine is how do I get the speed dial to work?? All I ever see in the pull down menu is greyed out choices...In the first version,,,as I was stumbling around I looked at it and the callers were already logged. What do I need to do....Perhaps you, or Microsoft need to have a person hooked in to each uls to guide us novices through!"}, {"response": 19, "author": "candie", "date": "Mon, Dec  9, 1996 (19:45)", "body": "I am a Web Publisher, I create mostly commercial web sites. My clients are from all around Indiana. Email and Netmeeting are my main lanes of communication with these clients. We use two server for our websites, a local one and our actual Web server. I work on the local server and when I am ready I mirror the information to the Web server. I use Netmeeting to let my clients see the work locally on my machine for finalization before major mirrors. If you would like to see some examples of my work th main site is a http://www.imagestream.com and my newest site is http://www.books2buy.com . Candie Yoder"}, {"response": 20, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Dec  9, 1996 (21:09)", "body": "Thanks Candie. I'll take a look at your websites. And feel free to explore the other conferences on the Spring, esp. the web in the internet conferences."}, {"response": 21, "author": "klee", "date": "Fri, Dec 13, 1996 (01:19)", "body": "Hello!"}, {"response": 22, "author": "klee", "date": "Fri, Dec 13, 1996 (01:21)", "body": "Hello! Can Netmeeting conference with mutliple user on voice? I would like to know how to do it..... thank you"}, {"response": 23, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Dec 13, 1996 (01:37)", "body": "I'm almost certain that it can although I haven't actually done this yet. Let's get together and try this sometime soon with a group of folks. Does anyone want to set up a time and date to try this?"}, {"response": 24, "author": "hagman", "date": "Fri, Dec 13, 1996 (01:43)", "body": "Well I have been very interested in using netmeeting for work. I am an applications engineer for solidworks (a CAD pakage) this is just the thing to make life lots easyer. BUT it doesn't seem to work under NT4.0 I like what I see but it is just not there yet Is the full version going to support NT??"}, {"response": 25, "author": "hagman", "date": "Fri, Dec 13, 1996 (01:44)", "body": ""}, {"response": 26, "author": "kjh", "date": "Fri, Dec 13, 1996 (03:22)", "body": "Hi~~~~*.^"}, {"response": 27, "author": "mertalt", "date": "Fri, Dec 13, 1996 (05:55)", "body": "Dear Terry; I am the foreign trade manager of a \"Computer Solution Concepts - Beckdata\". Our headquarters is in Istanbul, Turkey. As you can imagine I am not a computer genie. I use my pc in order to fulfill my responsibilities at work and I like it. My reason to get started with Netmeeting is very unique: I deal with a number of technology producing companies all around the world. I have to make at least 20 intl.' calls a day. Last week I received an e-mail from an imports representative. This japanese lady was asking me, because of curriosity, was may company doing financially so well that we were calling them everyday; rather than using Netmeeting. She was right. Since than I am giving at least 2 hours a day in order to learn it. Unfortunately I am praying to succeed in voice contact. I could not find anybody using netmeeting in Turkey. Even Microsoft Turkey could not assist me. That's way I am looking for some help in the internet arena. In case you want to help me; my e-mail is mertalt@kilim.com.tr Sincerely. Mert S. Altinbasak"}, {"response": 28, "author": "Bloodlust", "date": "Fri, Dec 13, 1996 (18:54)", "body": "Does anyone know if there are any other ways of having the same type of chat you get on NetMeeting (real-time)? And I was also wondering if there are other uls's other than uls1-5.micro... if there are more than the six that come with the programme could someone please tell me how to access them. send me a response at bernard@pssnet.com Thanks, B"}, {"response": 29, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Dec 13, 1996 (22:16)", "body": "I'm not sure. I believe others can run private servers. Anyone know?"}, {"response": 30, "author": "idavies", "date": "Sat, Dec 14, 1996 (13:14)", "body": "I'm working on an idea to use NM to enable relatives round the world to videomeet (I take my machine to their home here in UK and arrange similar for their relatives abroad - e.g. old folks here - grandchildren abroad maybe?) Quality not quite there yet but with 56kbps coming and using a fast pentium I believe it to be viable. I can also and have many times sent video to two other users simultaneously - not sure if more than two (i.e. conference of 4 or more)is possible but still trying. Any useful comments welcome."}, {"response": 31, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Dec 14, 1996 (13:50)", "body": "It's possible to have more than two, but I'm not sure how well the audio holds up, it shouldn't be a problem."}, {"response": 32, "author": "DavidGo", "date": "Sat, Dec 14, 1996 (17:09)", "body": "In reference to the question about multiple voices in conferece, Netmeeting appears to support only the first two people in a conference with voice. The others who join the conference can share and collaborate applications, but not voice. I find that NM 2.0 Beta1 often crashes when I do some things in Internet Explorer. Haven't been able to make it happen under controlled circumstances so I haven't reported it as a Beta problem. I have been using Netmeeting to play Scrabble as a shared application with voice. Works great. I am amazed at the speed of the screen updates and the cursor motion. Scrabble anyone?"}, {"response": 33, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Dec 14, 1996 (17:51)", "body": "Sure, I'll pay ya'. Connect to me at terry@spring.com. Be sure to holler though, cause I may not see you connect."}, {"response": 34, "author": "MEgabiT", "date": "Sun, Dec 15, 1996 (15:01)", "body": "Hello Terry, Just a word of introduction. I run a small business of my own here in Poland, we are CAD/CAM/CAE specialists in the mechanical industry with special interest in plastics. We are the Polish VAR for Computervision (a high-end CAD/CAM package called CADDS 5) and the Polish Distributor for Moldflow (plastic injection analysis software). I have been using NetMeeting for a couple of weeks now, but frankly, not for business purposes. Rather making friends... However, I do see a lot of opportunities for using NM in my business once the Internet is matured in Poland. Before that, I can imagine using its features in my professional contacts with Computervision and Moldflow, but they haven't adopted it yet, or at least I don't know about it... Merry Christmas to everyone Peter"}, {"response": 35, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Dec 15, 1996 (15:20)", "body": "There are a couple of companies in Austin that may interest you that do 3 dimensional modeling. I know about them through my website authoring business. One of these is http://www.acceltechinc.com and my main contact person is Jim Rollins. He's with a new company now that does stuff similar to what Accelerated Technologies does. How do you like life in Poland? And Merry Christmas to you!"}, {"response": 36, "author": "MEgabiT", "date": "Sun, Dec 15, 1996 (15:33)", "body": "Terry, Just to notify you I read your response and am finding this conference great... I will talk to you about life in Poland in greater extent really soon; glad you're interested. But right now I've gotta go - my wife is WAITING!"}, {"response": 37, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Dec 15, 1996 (16:11)", "body": "OK. Meet me over in the travel conference next time you log in. I'll open up a Poland topic over there. OK?"}, {"response": 38, "author": "MEgabiT", "date": "Mon, Dec 16, 1996 (03:30)", "body": "OK! Do you think that many people in the States will be intersted?"}, {"response": 39, "author": "fidel", "date": "Mon, Dec 16, 1996 (15:10)", "body": "Hello! I'v found Net Meeting very interesting. I don't use it as a business tool and, in fact, i didn't realise about this feature. I live in Spain, and i use it to chat with people wo live very far from me, like Tokio, US, Australia. I'm only very impressed by the possibility of talking with them. Merry Christmas for everybody."}, {"response": 40, "author": "tsyknk", "date": "Mon, Dec 16, 1996 (17:08)", "body": "Hello Terry, I've just downloaded NM beta2 yesterday. Some new features are available from beta2, but sadly my PC cannot afford to run some of them. ( My PC is sub-note type and has a little old-fashioned CPU, i486 DX2.) I think it very useful and fun to use NM on the internet. I'm now using it to communicate many people around the world. I plan to buy new PC this coming January. Please give some advices; 1) What is important to run NM or IE quickly? 2) Which is better, desktop-type or laptop-type? May joy and peace be yours throughout the holiday season & coming year! Happy New Year !"}, {"response": 41, "author": "RespondSB", "date": "Mon, Dec 16, 1996 (21:17)", "body": "Hi Terry, I just downloaded MN2.0b2 the other day and was messing about when you saw me. Thanks for the invitation to join up. I didn't get NM for business purposes. I have relatives living in Germany and NM is the third internet phone program that we have used to save money on international calls. We first were using Cyberphone and for some reason it started giving us some problems. We then went to TeleVox which worked better, but they were having problems on their end and suggested we try NM. After loading it the other day, I found out their server was down and so we haven't had the opportu ity to try the voice capabilities yet. I'm thinking of getting a new 16 bit full duplex sound card to replace my old Soundblaster Pro. Any recommendations? I may contact some of my fellow Respond distributors around the US who are on line and see if this may help in getting info around our association. Respond Systems is an OSHA compliance company providing service, training, and products to keep our customers out of harms (OSHA) way. Look forward to talking to you later. Bob"}, {"response": 42, "author": "RespondSB", "date": "Mon, Dec 16, 1996 (21:20)", "body": "Side note that I forgot in the above message. Happy Holidays and Peace to all!"}, {"response": 43, "author": "MEgabiT", "date": "Tue, Dec 17, 1996 (10:36)", "body": "Hi It seems I have triggered the Christmas Holidays wishes - didn't suppose new messages arrive so often here taht it was far too early! Anyway, I have two points: 1. NM 2 Beta 2 is ABSOLUTELY not stable. Have used Beta 1 without freezings, problems with logging or reading the ULS's etc. 2. In the area that NM has advantages over other Internet telephony programs (sharing appps, video etc.) - well, one has to have a really fast machine and connection. Otherwise it's just a pie in the sky"}, {"response": 44, "author": "rtd", "date": "Fri, Dec 20, 1996 (00:25)", "body": "Hi, I'm a recent entrant to this discussion - and to NM. Would it be a good idea for the responses to identify the NM database for contact purposes (or am I so new that it's actually obvious to everyone else). Regards (and Merry Christmas and Happ and safe New year to all from the land of Oz) Russ"}, {"response": 45, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Dec 20, 1996 (00:42)", "body": "Good idea... terry@spring.com"}, {"response": 46, "author": "morarre", "date": "Fri, Dec 20, 1996 (18:51)", "body": "OK, So most of you like NetMeeting. That puts me in the minority. So far I have found it to be rather ineffective with the audio. I tried vers. 1 and quickly updated to beta 2. I am conducing test with some colleagues over a very high speed line (10 MB) and still the sound breaks up. The couple of calls from other places that I have accepted were disassters-- audio un-intelligible. Here is what I have found out so far-- it seems the full-duplex capability causes more problems (echos, unintential drop outs) than half duplex. So don't spend your money on a full-duplex sound card just for netmeeting. On the other hand, the video is OK and the white board is nice. The application sharing is where I think this app is most useful. However, it would be better if the audio didn't suffer when you were sharing an application that took considerable horsepower. And beware anything less han a Pentium processor (I mean at the other end.) It will be rather slow. ----tam PS: Terry, thanks for inviting me in."}, {"response": 47, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Dec 20, 1996 (23:01)", "body": "I have yet to try a video connection. But I hope to make a hookup this weekend sometime."}, {"response": 48, "author": "DJMasterK", "date": "Sat, Dec 21, 1996 (10:25)", "body": "Yeah, I like Netmeeting a lot. Thanks for inviting me. I haven't heard anyone in my speakers, yet, though! But I was able to speak and other people have been able to hear me."}, {"response": 49, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Dec 21, 1996 (10:56)", "body": "What kind of speakers and sound card are you using?"}, {"response": 50, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Dec 21, 1996 (12:20)", "body": "Update on download and website locations. The download area for TransSoft 3.0: ftp://ftp.centrum.is/pub/TransSoft/tmc325.exe And the website is: http://www.centrum.is/~bhg Bjorn, could you please post directions for getting it to load from Explorer's Mail icon?"}, {"response": 51, "author": "Ron", "date": "Sat, Dec 21, 1996 (12:46)", "body": "Terry: Thanks for the invitation to participate. The jury is still out on NetMeeting as far as I am concerned. I do not believe that Beta2 has the same stability as Beta1 offered. One of the more frustrating things is that communicating in North America works well however the success rate in working voice into eastern Europe leaves a little to be desired. Sometimes it comes back with the note that the party at the other end is not running NetMeeting and other times advises that the party does not have audio. This is difficult when you know for a fact they are running the same program and same version of it. Will keep you posted what longer term thoughts are. Season Greetings from Canada"}, {"response": 52, "author": "JEDI", "date": "Sat, Dec 21, 1996 (12:53)", "body": "I like Netmeeting. Is the only program of this kind that I use on my PC. I've known several people there and meet some friends. Me gusta y lo encuentro interesante."}, {"response": 53, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Dec 21, 1996 (13:27)", "body": "I tried to hook up to Amy today but it wouldn't connect perhaps because she is still running 1.0 and I'm running the latest beta. I tend to agree that the reliability and compatibility has gone down and hopefully there will be a more bulletproof release soon."}, {"response": 54, "author": "Huckle2", "date": "Sat, Dec 21, 1996 (15:32)", "body": "Terry, thanks for the invitation to the conference. I enjoy NetMeeting but just downloaded the Beta 2 version a few moments ago. I'll let you know how that goes. Sound quality is very poor, but it's my sound card...not top of the line ya know. When I try the tuning wizard, i get a message telling me my card is not compatible and I may not be able to use the audio feature. Well,I use it anyway, other folks can hear me just fine...need to upgrade that sound card one day!! I can see how the file sharin /colabirate will come in handy...especially when working with a new spreadsheet that others need to learn. I enjoy it for the chatting as well...trying to get my brother and nephew on it but they can't seem to get it to work in AOL. Any thoughts. Merry Christmas to everyone! Randy"}, {"response": 55, "author": "profi", "date": "Sun, Dec 29, 1996 (05:55)", "body": "hi from italy! I have no experience with NetMeeting - unfortunately I have no time to dedicate to this interesting institution. I would like to test it and after present it on our fair from january 20th to january 24th. Can somebody give me some ideas what how we can present netmeeting on the fair?? Happy new year to everybody Robert from Italy"}, {"response": 56, "author": "megabit", "date": "Fri, Jan 10, 1997 (14:34)", "body": "Here are some excerpts from my NetMeeting MS Newsgroup messages. I believe they convey the message.... _______ OK so my system is Pentium 120 48 MB RAM 2GB disk IE 3.01 US 14.4 AT&T modem.... So what? EVERYTHING but Beta 2 works fine on it, including NM 1.0 and NM 2.0 Beta 1 to which I have returned... Guys, we are being treated like laboratory rabbits by Microsoft. Beta 2 is certainly more buggy than any other software I have ever seen released, but since we didn't pay for it, there's noone to help us. Come on, be more proud! If MS (Tim Schreck!!!) doesn't respond to this message, I am coming back to Netscape as the default browser and WebPhone as the conference - telephony tool. For those of you who share my opinion, here is the link to another MS-independent stuff that works absolutely perfect - and is free, too: http://www.mirabilis.com/products.html -- Piotr Wozniacki, President MEgabiT CAD/CAE Ltd. Computervision VAR, Moldflow Distributor e-mail: MEgabiT@intertele.pl John P. Chambers wrote This could be due to any number of things. I think you should post further information on your configuration and your machine, modem brand etc., Pentium, amt. of ram, etc. Note that most people are running it OK so it becomes a matter of finding out why it doesn't mix with your machine. -- Piotr Wozniacki (MEgabiT@intertele.pl) wrote in article Hi I have been posting messages on Beta 2 behaviour for weeks. Apart from freezing and alike (it always comes up again, so forget it), I NEVER am able to read the whole ULS directory. The process of \"connecting to...\" ends with entries beginning with \"a\" or \"b\" and Beta 2 displays it's usual idle state \"not in a call\" message. I reinstalled Windows, IE 3.01 and NetMeeting - still the same problem. Maybe somebody from MS could answer what I should do? -- Piotr Wozniacki, President MEgabiT CAD/CAE Ltd. Computervision VAR, Moldflow Distributor e-mail: MEgabiT@intertele.pl _______________________________________________ PS. The only advantage that NM is offering over other conferencing stuff is aplication sharing. But be frank - with most of our connection and machines speed, it is good maybe for viewing xxx-pics, nothing else... I certainly cannot share the CAE Moldflow software with my customers, even though some of them have 128 ISDN connections and Pentium Pro 200 machines. So, unless MS responds, forget the NM and leave it for the many gays and lesbians oh-so-wet and hard and lusty out there on the ULS servers! Piotr Wozniacki, President MEgabiT CAD/CAE Ltd. Computervision VAR, Moldflow Distributor e-mail: MEgabiT@intertele.pl"}, {"response": 57, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Jan 10, 1997 (20:47)", "body": "What is the name of the product you mention at http://www.mirabilis.com/products.html ? How would you rate it?"}, {"response": 58, "author": "nadja", "date": "Fri, Jan 24, 1997 (15:04)", "body": "Aside from some esoteric computer terminology, devotedly delicious."}, {"response": 59, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Jan 24, 1997 (22:38)", "body": "Welcome to our group, Nadja."}, {"response": 60, "author": "megabit", "date": "Sat, Jan 25, 1997 (15:11)", "body": "The product from Mirabilis I recommended in my last message is called ICQ and is an excellnet toll to monitor who of your pals is online at any given moment. Terry, I have sent you the link to their download page, but you haven't loaded or installed it! Please do - it's realy worth it... What is specially appealing about ICQ is that once you spot one of your friends on line, you can: chat with him send him e message transfer a file or whole URL invoke any of the teleconferencing programs you and he/she has installed (NM, WebPhone, VDOPhone, Cu-Seeme etc) And, it's FREE! Once you have it, please let me know and maybe set up a discussion forum about it Peter"}, {"response": 61, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Jan 25, 1997 (19:32)", "body": "ICQ is enough of a killer app to have it's own topic and, in fact, Forrest has done just that. He has set up a topic for it. I believe it's 333 on the topic list. Would you enter some comments there to kick off a discussion. Our Spring workgroup is now using ICQ after an attempt to use NetMeeting. We'll revisit NetMeeting at the next release and see if it's more stable, more reliable and more intuitive. ICQ is limited in functionality but it's rock solid at connecting folks up."}, {"response": 62, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Mar  1, 1998 (10:49)", "body": "I talked with several people on NetMeeting recently, but I'm still not using it to it's full extent as a collaborative workplace tool, which is my goal. A list of folks: Mohamad Kairi - Malaysia, island of Langkawi Dennis Dorotinsky Wawa Uha - a UT student Joseph Hawley Gustavo Bermudez Christopher Golson Howard Gleichman Mike Bleau Allen Callaghan Jim Looking Rick Howard Eric J. Jerry Robinson Dean Burris Harry n Desiree Laurent Urbon Bob Delano Ryan Martin Jeff Tubo etc..."}, {"response": 63, "author": "nhomero", "date": "Fri, Jun  4, 1999 (17:43)", "body": "I have been using NetMeeting for a short time (1 month or so) and it use to be relatively easy to log on into a server. But nowadays, it is almost impossible to log on into any server. Does anybody else is experiencing the same problem? Has anybody heard anything regarding upgrades of the servers capacity? Thanks."}, {"response": 64, "author": "robert", "date": "Sun, Jun  6, 1999 (01:25)", "body": "i believe poo poo is the best gift to recieve. I LOVE DOOKIE"}, {"response": 65, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sun, May 14, 2000 (09:21)", "body": "Check out this url: http://www.microsoft.com/netmeeting"}, {"response": 66, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, May 14, 2000 (13:26)", "body": "I checked it out. You really don't want to see me on your monitor - at least first thing in the morning - and I do not have the camera involved, but are you sure enough for me to download another program with which to commune with you? How does this differ from the three types of Instant Messaging programs already in place?"}, {"response": 67, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Mon, May 15, 2000 (09:43)", "body": "Video is optional. I just wanted you to compare it to webex, if you're up for this."}, {"response": 68, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Mon, May 15, 2000 (11:58)", "body": "Ok, I am indeed up for it - but do not have webex either. What is its full name so I can hunt for the download? (Webex's, that is...)"}, {"response": 69, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Mon, May 15, 2000 (13:44)", "body": "You don't download webex, it runs in a browser window, you just have to fill out their form at http://www.webex.com and request a demo."}, {"response": 70, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Mon, May 15, 2000 (14:52)", "body": "OK, I am downloading it in another window though it suggests on their computer search that my conection to the Internet is \"poor\" We'll see. Let you know when it is up and ready for action."}, {"response": 71, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Mon, May 15, 2000 (14:53)", "body": "request a demo?? oh...*sigh* The navigation around that site leaves much to be desired!"}, {"response": 72, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Mon, May 15, 2000 (15:30)", "body": "Next demo is in 1/2 hour if I judge the time correctly."}, {"response": 73, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Mon, May 15, 2000 (16:08)", "body": "I am accessing it right now...anyone there I will know???"}, {"response": 74, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Mon, May 15, 2000 (16:46)", "body": "Was that you on the webex with me? And Conrad? Beware, the spread sheets took me by surprise and I was not ready - along with inhouse interference which made me get out of the demo. It works well, but I think IM works much more easily though do not know about haveing other than 2 people at a time. Btw, is the 402 area code a toll call and where is the location. That can be debilitating from Hawaii to the east coast for 45 minutes!"}, {"response": 75, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Mon, May 15, 2000 (17:49)", "body": "We'll never get the rest of the drool world to agree with going through the spread sheet humiliation. I know how to use excel, but with house male in one ear getting more testy by the moment and prompts on screen from Conrad, I finally quit. I HATE looking stupid before God and everybody!!!"}, {"response": 76, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Mon, May 15, 2000 (21:40)", "body": "I don't think you got a good first impression. Spreadsheets aren't required. Maybe we should try NetMeeting first."}, {"response": 77, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Mon, May 15, 2000 (21:45)", "body": "Was that you on when I was? There was a Paul listed and then someone named Jack who was not listed as participant whisked around the spreadsheet like a pro. I was doomed this morning. Tomorrow, I down load netMeeting if I have not yet and see how it goes. Tonight I am being taken to dinner for Mother's Day (if you can believe it!)"}, {"response": 78, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Tue, May 16, 2000 (14:33)", "body": "Wasn't me, you'll have to notify me well in advance of the time. But I'll be happy to join in."}, {"response": 79, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Tue, May 16, 2000 (14:51)", "body": "There really is not much I want to return for. The whiteboard (what they call the message board) is straight-forward and easy to use but, so are others. As soon as I eat some thing so my brain is in gear, I'll try the netmeeting download and let you know when I am ready for a test run (provided I am not needed elsewhere this morning...)"}, {"response": 80, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Thu, May 18, 2000 (14:58)", "body": "Let me know when you're ready for a test."}, {"response": 81, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, May 18, 2000 (15:29)", "body": "Last night I downloaded and installed ICQ and remembered why I deleted it previously - everything was working like it was stuck in glue. May have to uninstall it again, but I need to talk to someone in the dark of night when the rest of the world is gone from Spring... Downloading NetMeeting now - be with you as soon as it all gets here and is up. I'll let you know!"}, {"response": 82, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, May 18, 2000 (15:42)", "body": "I am most disappointed - and concerned. It will not install NetMeeting 4.0 on my computer unless they install IE 4.0 here as well. Is this absolutely necessary? I like netscape. I have generations of excellent bookmarks on my Netscape, programmed hot buttons on the task bar which takes me directly to the conference topics I use the most. Why would I want to install IE 4.0???"}, {"response": 83, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, May 18, 2000 (15:42)", "body": "Suggestions? Is there an earlier version which does not require IE? No one in Drool will use it if it means downloading IE - just to warn you...!"}, {"response": 84, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Thu, May 18, 2000 (22:14)", "body": "It requires IE?"}, {"response": 85, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, May 19, 2000 (20:59)", "body": "When I click on the install file a box pops up saying it cannot be used without IE being installed and it could not find IE on this computer."}, {"response": 86, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (00:42)", "body": "Hmm, I guess then it must be a prereq. Usually IE is on most Windows systems by default. Maybe you have an earlier version of IE?"}, {"response": 87, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (01:46)", "body": "Nope! None at all. I deleted every last bit of the program by hand to get rid of it. Perhaps I should download that again when/if I can ever get Norton Utilities to allow me to get online. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 340, "subject": "ZipFolders for Windows", "response_count": 3, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "holahan", "date": "Wed, Mar  5, 1997 (02:38)", "body": "It should be noted that Central Point Software incorporated this very same idea, that is zip files as directories, in their PCTools for Windows software. This feature alone made the package a must have for those who deal in zip files regularly. The so-called \"third generation\" is actually quite aged at this point, and i'm sure that many Win95 users of PCTools missed this very feature when upgrading. Recently, after moving to Win95 I wondered why \"The Bill\" didn't just buy PKWare in order to be able to use this feature built in to Explorer."}, {"response": 2, "author": "sstryker", "date": "Fri, Mar  7, 1997 (09:07)", "body": "Response to Forest's review: I think that ZipFolders is actually much better than WinZip, since it makes ZIP files seem fairly transparent, since you can get and put files into your ZIP files directly from any application program that uses files. The only way it could be more transparent would be if you couldn't actually see the .zif extension when opening the zif archives. I've saved about 100 meg on my hard drive by compressing applications and directories I rarely use much - archived but not deleted. It was as easy as opening Windows Explorer and renaming the directory to having a .zif extension. ZipFolders automatically converted the directory into an ZIP file. Couldn't be easier. I thought ZipFolders was so good, I dumped WinZip and paid the shareware fee for ZipFolders. I wish I liked their PowerDesk utility half as much! :^) (I have no connection with the makers of ZipFolders, other than as a customer.)"}, {"response": 3, "author": "kwiebe", "date": "Sun, Mar 23, 1997 (23:09)", "body": "Hello, Re: Version 3.0b10 Let me first say that as a total newbie to DynamIP, I really think it has potential and thanks very much for providing it. However, I have run into a situation that limits its usefulness somewhat for me. That is, unless I'm doing something wrong: Is there some way to make DynamIP more useful without having to attend to it? I mean, I can get it working fine, as long as I'm around my computer to press the \"Refresh IP\" button on DynamIP if my IP address changes. Apparently there is no automatic function within DynamIP for re-discovering a new IP address after a disconnection from the ISP? The only way I've seen the new IP address registered is by pressing \"Refresh IP\". I read back through the entire discussion list (I haven't been able to access the Stanford site for days), and I saw references to older versions of DynamIP, mentioning an \"AutoRefresh\" process, but apparently the approach you had been using to periodically check the IP address had some problems, so you changed the detection method. Now, the actual detection works great, but the only time the address is checked is when DynamIP is started. Right? This appears to be the way it works. If I connect to my ISP, then run DynamIP, it grabs my IP address and updates all my files perfectly. However, if my connection breaks, then re-establishes automatically, DynamIP just goes on reporting my old IP address. How (if possible) do I get it to check periodically to make sure my address hasn't changed? This appears to be a serious limitation. I have all the \"Auto\" features turned on, and as I said, I have no problem redialing my ISP in unattended mode if I should become disconnected. But, this does me no good if DynamIP doesn't sense that my IP address has changed. Hoping that this basic feature is being addressed, Ken Wiebe apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 341, "subject": "HeadLiner", "response_count": 5, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "golfnut", "date": "Wed, Apr  2, 1997 (09:05)", "body": "I just deleted Pointcast from my system after one hour of Headliner..Great Product for ver 1.0b"}, {"response": 2, "author": "Enthralled", "date": "Wed, Apr  2, 1997 (20:34)", "body": "Pointcast, Smointcast! You've got to download and try out this new push product as it definately knocks the boxers off of PCN (oh, do you feel a breeze?) Not only does it have a great range of content but it gives you control over how it is viewed and maintained. I can't wait to see what they come up with in their next version!"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Apr  2, 1997 (21:14)", "body": "I gave up on Pointcast the day I got it, too much of a resource hog. But that's been a while, maybe they're streamlined it."}, {"response": 4, "author": "johnb", "date": "Fri, Apr  4, 1997 (13:16)", "body": "I've had a real problem using Headliner -- it erodes memory. It seems to eat away at system resources and user resources. I turn on my Resource Monitor, and I can watch the numbers erode until my computer locks up. I've written to the Headliner folks but haven't heard back. I've remained a fan of Pointcast, though it is slow. My favorite tool is Freeloader, and I've also become a fan of Backweb."}, {"response": 5, "author": "s2kit25", "date": "Thu, Apr 10, 1997 (21:26)", "body": "university apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 342, "subject": "Internet Neighborhood", "response_count": 4, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "webo", "date": "Tue, Apr 22, 1997 (20:06)", "body": "My experience with Network Neighborhood has been one big HASSLE. I support many shareware programs by purchasing them. However, Network Neighborhood, is one I regret purchasing. The program is buggy, and BTW, will not work if you have MS internet explorer 4.0 loaded, they forgot to mention this in their docs. I never did get it to work with our company firewall, and v1.1 locks up when trying to access sub-directorys. This was after MSIE 4.0 was un-installed. I'm glad Forrest liked it but my experince with Knowware software has gotten me NOWHERE, except short 25 bucks. If you want a great FTP program that works consistantly, buy WSFTP or CUTEFTP."}, {"response": 2, "author": "Roly", "date": "Sun, Apr 27, 1997 (21:59)", "body": "I think I might be bugging in here, all I want to know is When will the ICQ software be available for Windows 3.1. So if there are any knowledgeable chaps out there can you let me know on roly@es.co.nz Thanks for your time!!!!!"}, {"response": 3, "author": "Jon4", "date": "Wed, Nov  5, 1997 (20:01)", "body": "I tried the shareware version of Internet Neighborhood. It was crippled to the extent that I couldn't really see if I liked it. I purchased it online, installed the software, and immediately started having problems including total lockups of my machine. I sent a polite e-mail to Kno-Ware asking for my money back. They refused to give me a refund. I would highly recommend AGAINST using software from this company. They give shareware a bad name! Jon Appel"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov  6, 1997 (08:42)", "body": "Let's see if we can get these folks involved in this discussion. You should be able to get a refund, it's rare in this day and age that there would be a \"no refunds\" policy. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 343, "subject": "Linkbot for Windows 95", "response_count": 4, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, May  2, 1997 (08:57)", "body": "I downloaded webanalyzer last night and put it to work on this site. So far it's found 15,888 links, 575 which are \"bad\" and 10,953 \"connections\" and it's still running! . It has been running for 20 hours 41 minutes and 15 seconds so far. I hesitate to shut it down because I would like it to finish and get to the report phase. Can you interrupt it and still get it to output reports without messing things up? My Quantum hard drive is also spinning like crazy. Maybe spring.com is too much of a challenge? What are other folks experiences with humongous sites? What was the result on stroud.com, Forrest?"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, May  2, 1997 (09:11)", "body": "OK, from the Linkbot website faq: Why does performance slow after checking more than 20,000 URLs? It is possible that your PC does not have enough RAM to check your whole site. If your site contains more than 20,000 URLs, we recommend a minimum of 32 MB RAM. For sites with less than 20,000 URLs, 16 MB RAM should suffice. I have 32mb ram in the system that's doing the checking, so I guess I need a couple more 16mb simms!"}, {"response": 3, "author": "ginger", "date": "Wed, May 28, 1997 (01:51)", "body": "What's the latest on Linkbot? Any new releases?"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, May 28, 1997 (08:57)", "body": "Yes, they've broken throught the 20,000 link barrier with an improved algorithm according to an email I got the other day. I'm going to take another run at it. Stay tuned. www.spring.com here comes linkbot again. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 344, "subject": "Microsoft DUN Upgrade", "response_count": 14, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jun  3, 1997 (09:43)", "body": "I have to agree with Forrest that with with all of Microsoft's muscle that they have not, until now, been able to come up with a decent stack. I'm in the process of downloading Point to Point Tunneling Protocol as well as the new winsock and I'll be testing this out on a dial up system today. You have to download the winsock first. Then you have to pick a password and answer quite a few screens full of questions. Then be prepared to tell them which protocol you use in your network: ip, ipx or net eui. You may have to check with your network administrator on this. I put ip. The newsgroup for this is microsoft.public.pptp95.beta.discussion and bug reports are sent to mailto://pptp95@microsoft.com As I write this, I'm downloading the 1.16 mb dial-up networking upgrade beta. The upload screen also has a note: \"The Windows 95 PPTP client is based on an implementation by USR.\" Does this mean that Windows 95 will start actually seeing my US Robotics modems?"}, {"response": 2, "author": "ginger", "date": "Sun, Jun  8, 1997 (11:02)", "body": "Forrest or Terry, is it easier to set up login scripts with this new stack?"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jun  9, 1997 (09:20)", "body": "I haven't tried it yet, but I understand that you can set them up like a recorder. I'll give it a look and see."}, {"response": 4, "author": "ginger", "date": "Sat, Jun 14, 1997 (21:48)", "body": "Let us know ok?"}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Jun 15, 1997 (02:28)", "body": "I will when I figure it out."}, {"response": 6, "author": "abrown", "date": "Sun, Aug 10, 1997 (19:21)", "body": "I've downloaded and installed the new winsock and the new dun and got it working okay. But how do you bypass the infamous 'Connect To' screen?"}, {"response": 7, "author": "pthompso", "date": "Thu, Mar 12, 1998 (11:56)", "body": "Caveat Emptor: This stack caused my Netscape 3.04 browser to no longer work; however, Netscape 4.04 and I.E. seemed to work. As an indication that this update may have problems, Microsoft created a backup directory with all the files it replaced and a restore batch command file. Of course, when I try to use it from within windows, several files failed to restore because of \"Sharing violations.\" I then brought the system up in DOS and the batch file did restore the files but it couldn't run the Registry restore program executed at the end of the batch file. It appears that if you run it first from Windows and skip each \"sharing violation\" file restore but allowing it to complete (i.e., let it execute the Registry restore program) and then go to DOS and run it again, then it does restore the system correctly. IMHO, Microsoft needs to do more work on this before I will trust it. I have been using their last update successfully, though."}, {"response": 8, "author": "kevdavis", "date": "Fri, Mar 13, 1998 (15:46)", "body": "I have had big problems with the Winsock 2.2 update on my system. At first it would not operate at all, so I had to remove all traces of DUN, winsock and other networking protocols and start from scratch. It now works, but the remember password option doesn't-if selected (on my system at least) it causes a fault it mprexe.exe which in turn causes a fault in Explorer and I have to reboot to use DUN again - in fact, I have to hit reboot or turn the computer off just to exit windows since anything calling Ex lorer (including Find) will cause a fault. However, if I type in the password myself each time, it now works normally. Weird. I wouldn't recomend this update for the novice."}, {"response": 9, "author": "Marak703", "date": "Thu, Mar 19, 1998 (10:10)", "body": "I installed the Winsock update on my Pentium 60 (Communicator 4.04) and on my Pentium 300 (IE3.02). On the Pentium 60 (Communicator 4.04) Netscape crashed and I was unable to shut down Windows. Got back in and so far haven't had more problems. On the Pentium 300 (MSIE 3.02) IE crashed and I was unable to load IE. After $35 and two and one half hours on the telephone to MS support I would like to add this information. MS support is saying that this update is primarily for IE 4+. I definitely would suggest eading Pat Thompson and Kevin Davis' posts before installing the Winsock update."}, {"response": 10, "author": "kev", "date": "Thu, Mar 19, 1998 (18:06)", "body": "I fixed my problem (above) by deleting and the password list DUN uses (the *.pwl file in your windows directory). For some reason it either became corrupted during the upgrade or was just incompatible. (??) After logging back into windows as for the first time and re-entering all my passwords, I have had no problems. However this is not something you should probably bother with unless you are the tinkering kind. ;-)"}, {"response": 11, "author": "Deborama", "date": "Mon, Mar 23, 1998 (07:52)", "body": "I had enormous problems after I installed this winsock upgrade, which I never should have done because I don't even use MSIE 4.0, and that seems to be what it's meant for. I can't even connect to my ISP anymore (I'm using a different one now), because I keep getting a dialogue box that demands I enter a password, which I haven't got (there are no *.pwl files on my system). I ended up having to reinstall Windows (complete nightmare as I have the \"a\" version which I had tweaked considerably). If anyone coul advise me as to how I an disable that damn dialogue box that pops up just as dial-up networking is about to make its connection, I would be truly grateful. I really feel this is just another example of Microsoft's arrogance in providing an \"upgrade\" that is full of bugs and actually DAMAGES your computer system, perhaps even rendering it unable to connect to the Internet (as in my case)."}, {"response": 12, "author": "acura", "date": "Sat, Apr 25, 1998 (16:46)", "body": "I have had similar problems to Kevin Davis and Deborah Hornstra with the Winsock 2 upgrade. First symptom was directly upon connection with ISP, RUNDLL32.EXE General Protection Fault (GPF). Looking at details there was a problem with MPR.EXE or MPR.DLL. Ultimately, EXPLORER.EXE crashed and locked windows, so I had to toggle power. I uninstalled winsock2, same problem. Uninstalled dial up networking and modem, reinstalled, same problem. I have not yet tried to uninstall TCP/IP, but I will when I get h me. (Can only connect to the Internet from work now!). Would greatly appreciate to hear about it, if anyone comes up with the comprehensive solution. Also, who do I curse out at Microsoft. I've submitted numerous feedbacks to them in the past and it all seems to go into the ether."}, {"response": 13, "author": "justin", "date": "Sun, Aug  9, 1998 (15:18)", "body": "does anybody know how to make a connection to isp and then a connection to a pptp server a single step instead of two?"}, {"response": 14, "author": "pmcbryan", "date": "Fri, Jun 23, 2000 (22:37)", "body": "I applied MSDUN13.EXE as required for free internet and my lan connections for TCPIP would nolonger support a full screen (> 1461-9) of data when using host OS/390 over TCPIP on local LAN. Both Ping and traceroute timed out at these high settings. I reinstalled windows and MSTCP.DLL got backed off which solved the problem. How do I use these big data packets with MSDUN13.EXE? apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 345, "subject": "Calypso Mail", "response_count": 3, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "kheel", "date": "Sat, Jan 17, 1998 (05:34)", "body": "Well, i've tried using both Pegasus Mail and Calypso. Yes, they have their pros and cons. Although Pmail is more powerful but it is rather difficult to use compare to Calypso and it also lacks some little but useful features. Those features include importing address book or even the whole mailbox from other email client and searching the LDAP directory like Four11. On the other hand, Calypso sometimes behaves strangely. I do not know if other users also encounter the same problem. At times, right click does not work in Calypso( I mean when you right click, all the options are disable), I have to restart the program. Another major problem is the sending of mail. Once I tried to send a mail to 5 friends but I encounter problem(the process just stop and an error code 550 was given) at the third person and the mail was pending. After that I sent individualy and the mail was sent normal. I did not try the bulk mail since it is quite silly to use that feature to send mail to 5 person. Currently, I am using Calypso but I think if I still can't get around with these problems I will have to switch back to Pmail again. By the way, is there any FAQ sites for Calypso?"}, {"response": 2, "author": "zeegraf", "date": "Wed, Mar 10, 1999 (23:38)", "body": "kheel, MCS has fixed several bugs in the program since your posting. In fact, the new 3.0 version has been updated twice since its release. I know there were some problems with qmail refusing to accept mails from Calypso, but this was only in certain situations and has been fixed. There's also a FAQ somewhere on the Calypso site, but I forget the exact URL. Don Zeigler A satisfied (and registered!) Calypso user"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Mar 11, 1999 (08:38)", "body": "What features do you like about qmail? apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 346, "subject": "WebSnake for Windows 95", "response_count": 6, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jun  9, 1997 (19:58)", "body": "I talked to Tennyson Maxell a while back about implementing features like th ability to search for keywords like mailto:// so I could pull email addresses off websites. So websnake sounds like it's worth a try. Cool name."}, {"response": 2, "author": "yapper", "date": "Sat, Jun 14, 1997 (23:07)", "body": "WebSnake is part of the spam machine. The software authors should be boycotted until the spam features are removed. In the meantime, webmasters are encouraged to hundreds of orphaned pages on their websites with thousands of fictious email addresses in various formats, and include the email addresses of known spam domains. Appropriate name."}, {"response": 3, "author": "ginger", "date": "Sun, Jun 15, 1997 (02:03)", "body": "Welcome to the Spring, yapper. Are you into any of the other conferences here?"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Jun 15, 1997 (02:28)", "body": "What spam features are you referring to yapper?"}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Jun 21, 1997 (14:47)", "body": "I think yapper is referring to the fact that you can generate large email lists from all the emails referenced on a website. I would like to see the ability to snake multiple sites. Also, snake has a fit with java applets but the Anawave folks tell me this will be fixed in the next release. I see why this is the cool app of the week. It's a powerful app with an easy to use \"wizardlike\" interface. And they'll be adding more wizards."}, {"response": 6, "author": "cfadm", "date": "Mon, Mar  7, 2005 (10:43)", "body": "from http://websnake.com Anawave WebSnake 1.23 Anawave WebSnake is the world's most powerful off-line browser designed exclusively for Windows Platform. In addition to off-line browsing, WebSnake is unique in that it uses our proprietary \"intelligent pull\" technology to search and retrieve files from the World Wide Web. For example, WebSnake supports website mirroring (including directory structure), retrieval of e-mail addresses, site maps and advanced file search. Unlike most of our competitors, WebSnake also supports the industry-standard File Transfer Protocol (FTP). Best of all, WebSnake is easy-to-use! Our friendly WebSnake Wizard will take you through the process of creating and running a WebSnake project from scratch. Just select one of five project types, provide a URL and WebSnake will do the rest! Off-line Browsing Project -- WebSnake's Off-line Browsing Project can copy a remote website to your hard drive for local viewing through a web browser. Off-line browsing makes web surfing faster since most files are directly accessed from your hard drive instead of the Internet. Mirroring Project -- The Mirroring Project lets webmasters and web designers copy a remote website, including the complete directory structure of the site. Snake E-mail Addresses Project -- With the incredible E-mail Addresses Project, you can copy e-mail addresses referenced in a website's HTML files. These e-mail addresses can later be exported into a comma or tab delimited file. Site Map Project -- The powerful Site Map Project can build a map of the HTML files referenced from a starting address/URL. This is useful if you wish to know the structure of a remote website. Search and Retrieve Project -- The Search and Retrieve Project will search for HTML files that contain defined keywords. Or, you can search and retrieve files by looking for keywords in the filename and/or by file type. WebSnake can also automatically download any files found by the search. Check out our Competitive Matrix to see how WebSnake sizes up to the competition. New Features in 1.23 WebSnake's enhanced features make snaking websites faster and more comprehensive than ever! Bookmark Import Snaking your favorite websites is a breeze with WebSnake's bookmark importing. Whether you use Netscape, Internet Explorer, or another browser, you can convert your bookmarks into projects that can be downloaded with just a few clicks of the mouse. Parsing Java Scripts Given all the cool effects on the Web, you'll come across lots of Java and Visual Basic (VB) scripts. Within these scripts, there may be support files that are required for the script to run properly. WebSnake goes the extra mile to retrieve all the necessary files and link them so that everything will work off-line. Netiquette WebSnake's enhanced netiquette features make sure you interact with other users on the Internet in a polite manner while giving you the powerful controls you need to snake websites effectively. Smart Dispersion -- When snaking a website, WebSnake may span multiple servers to retrieve all the necessary files. This process can be slowed considerably if WebSnake encounters a slow server. The Smart Dispersion feature pursues retrieval threads on other better-responding servers, meaning you get the information you want often twice as fast! Robot Exclusion -- Don't waste time trying to snake areas on a website that are restricted. The Robot Exclusion Standard is used by webmasters to limit your accessibility to certain parts of their site. With this feature, WebSnake will quickly spot the off-limit areas and move on. Multi-thread and Request Control -- You'll never overload a slow server or bring a website to a grinding halt again. With WebSnake's flexible multi-thread and interval-between requests control, your snake projects are fast and thorough. Zip Your Projects Depending on which site you snake and how deep you go, the downloaded files can take up a fair amount of space. If you're running out of room but don't want to lose your data, WebSnake's handy zip tools let you compress the contents of an entire project to save valuable disk space. Other Great Features Help and Tutorial Files Our Help files are extensive with over 50 defined keywords. The mini-tutorial covers all five project types with actual examples. View File Details The view file details feature will give you useful information such as the file name, size and type. In addition, WebSnake may also (but not always) retrieve additional file information such as date created and last date modified. WebSnake will also display the full path in which the file was originally found. Snake Status Bar As you run a WebSnake project, useful information such as server messages, files received and/or searched, and transfer rate will be displayed in real-time. System Requirements 486/33 or higher PC Windows Platform 8MB RAM 5MB available hard disk space apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 347, "subject": "Anawave Postmark", "response_count": 7, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "jwmoore", "date": "Sat, Jun 21, 1997 (01:05)", "body": "I found Postmark to be a good program but some essentials are missing and there is a bug in the Import address book feature. There is no provision to auto add address book. The highlite feature for URL and email address is not working. Even though the URL and addresses are shown as ex jwmoore@mindspring.com they are not highlighted and they are not \"hot\". therefore the feature is useless. You would expect a right click to give options ie add to address book, mail to this address, highlight address or highlight word. A right on anURL should give option like launch url,highli ht url and higlight word. I'm sure these have been considered the present product seems to be short on implementation. In short it's long on promise and short on function."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Jun 21, 1997 (09:27)", "body": "Does this interface with Websnake in any way?"}, {"response": 3, "author": "dgness", "date": "Sat, Jun 21, 1997 (14:32)", "body": "Where can I get the dll's that Postmark needs without having to download Internet Explorer? i.e. error message starting up."}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Jun 21, 1997 (14:39)", "body": "What's the filename of the dll, Dave?"}, {"response": 5, "author": "paulaf", "date": "Sun, Jul 13, 1997 (01:45)", "body": "Postmark looks like it will be a nice program further down the road. I'm a big fan of the 3-pane interface, but I found the beta to be very much a beta. On a mailed page from AnchorDesk it displyed no images and it totally garbled a message from Mercury News. Attachments planted themselves at the beginning of incoming messages in a willy nilly fashion. Clicking on folders made the desktop in the background flash and, in general, there was a lot of flashing when the display changed, giving the program a very unstable feel. It also would not remember changes to options or resizing of columns. Several features are also not implemented yet. The Help is also sketchy. Neither \"themes\" nor \"attachments\" are listed in the Index, for example. I think issuing a public beta (and asking for payment for it) in this condition might do future sales more harm than good."}, {"response": 6, "author": "DaPet", "date": "Thu, Sep 18, 1997 (18:56)", "body": "I was extremely impressed with the look and what I felt was the potential for Postmark. However, I got persistent complaints of garble from people trying to read my Postmark messages using Microsoft Mail 3.0, Netscape 3.02, and Eudora Pro 3.0.1. Needless to say, a mail client isn't much good if no one can read your mail. And it didn't matter whether I sent the messages in Text mode, RTF, or HTML. The result at the other end was always the same. I had no problems with inbound mail. Perhaps even more disturbing was the company's complete lack of response. When I discovered these problems, I sent several messages to tech support, where they supposedly welcome your input, and received no replies. Still, I went ahead and registered the program on-line. It said I would receive my registration within 24 hours. After several days had gone by and I had neither received my registration or any answers to any of the, by now, dozen or so messages I had sent Anawave, I decided to try to cancel my registration. When several messages to their sales department also went unanswered, I phoned their 800 number which, fortunately, seemed to be the only thing working at Anawave. I was assured my money would be refunded. When a week went by and still no refund on my credit card, I called again. There were apologies all-round and another assurance that the credit would be put through that very day. When another four weeks went by and still there was no refund, I phoned a third time and was again assured that the matter would be looked after immediately. This time, thankfully, it was. Anawave may one day have a winner in Postmark, but right now it's got a lot bigger problems than the many \"bugs\" in the program."}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Sep 18, 1997 (21:53)", "body": "Their tech support, in your case, wasn't up the level of quality of their products. I dound their Websnake product to perform extremely well in general. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 348, "subject": "Net.Medic", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 349, "subject": "Audioactive", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "JimmyD", "date": "Wed, Jun 25, 1997 (05:03)", "body": "Well now hang in thar a dang minute, I don't know that y'all aren't just trashen the man cuz he's put hisself outfront..... Why don't ya write yer own dang page? apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 35, "subject": "WinTalk", "response_count": 8, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "Huckle2", "date": "Sat, Dec 21, 1996 (15:36)", "body": "WinTalks addressing is strange. Having to know the person's dynamic address is a bit of a pain. Works great once you are connected but getting connected is the difficult part. If you know something I don't please tell me. Thanks, Randy"}, {"response": 2, "author": "ubusch", "date": "Mon, Dec  8, 1997 (14:30)", "body": "Hi, my name is Ulf"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Dec  9, 1997 (00:31)", "body": "Welcome Ulf, where are you from?"}, {"response": 4, "author": "ubusch", "date": "Thu, Dec 11, 1997 (04:21)", "body": "Hi Terry, I'm from Germany and I'm living in Essen, it's just in the center of Germany and the sixth biggest town here. Do you ever heard about it? Where are you from?"}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Dec 13, 1997 (19:51)", "body": "Austin, Texas, the 20th biggestest town in the US. But known much more for the quality of life than for the size. We shudder at these new population numbers sometimes."}, {"response": 6, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Thu, May 18, 2000 (14:58)", "body": "Ulf Busch, mia?"}, {"response": 7, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Thu, May 18, 2000 (22:14)", "body": "(mnissing in action?>"}, {"response": 8, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Wed, May 24, 2000 (19:23)", "body": "Was it something we said? apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 350, "subject": "SocketWatch", "response_count": 3, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "redman", "date": "Sat, Jun 28, 1997 (10:45)", "body": "SocketWatch is one neat app! I've been using PONGER,approx 1 1/2 yrs, for my time sync app & was pleased with it.However,SocketWatch v2,seems to be more accurate & you don't have to worry if one particular NTP site is down or busy as SocketWatch has many sites to choose from.No doubt about it,it's worth $10. 06/28/97"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Jun 28, 1997 (12:26)", "body": "I've found it effective and nonintrusive."}, {"response": 3, "author": "meat", "date": "Sat, Jun 28, 1997 (16:21)", "body": "I have been very pleased with ICQ and will continue to use it. Thak You for offering it to all of us. ( FREE) apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 351, "subject": "PureVoice for Windows 95/NT", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "jcharlesworth", "date": "Fri, Jul  4, 1997 (03:01)", "body": "I downloaded Eudora Pro 3.0.3 today and, much to my surprise, found that it *does* include PureVoice! So expect to find a steadily-increasing installed base of PureVoice recipients. Works like a charm too. .../John Charlesworth Forrest wrote: :As with Voice E-Mail, the only real downside to PureVoice is that :unless both the sender and receiver have copies installed on their :systems, the technology is wasted. For this reason, look for future :releases of Eudora Pro and Eudora Light to include the PureVoice :plug-in, making the technology available to an installed base of :more than 18 million users."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Jul  4, 1997 (09:44)", "body": "Will this work with Netscapes and Microsofts mail programs? If not, are there any plans to make this compatible with these companies email programs? apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 352, "subject": "NetScanTools", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 353, "subject": "Netscape Netcaster", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 354, "subject": "HyperTerminal Private Edition", "response_count": 4, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Aug 25, 1997 (01:45)", "body": "Will someone explain TAPI please?"}, {"response": 2, "author": "Baldguy", "date": "Sun, Aug 31, 1997 (00:33)", "body": "TAPI: Microsoft Windows Telephony API Description: TAPI allows applications to support telephone communication. TAPI facilitates include: Connecting directly to a telephone network. Automatic phone dialing. Transmission of data (files, faxes, electronic mail). Access to data (news, information services). Conference calling. Voice mail. Caller identification. Control of a remote computer. Collaborative computing over telephone lines. Windows 95 comes with a telephony application, DIALER.EXE, that can dial voice calls, act as a proxy for applications making simple telephony requests, and maintain a call log. More information: The Win32 Software Development Kit (SDK) contains documentation, tools, and sample code for TAPI including the Microsoft Telephony Programmer's Reference and the Microsoft Telephony Service Provider Interface (TSPI) for Telephony."}, {"response": 3, "author": "mhrosen", "date": "Tue, Nov 25, 1997 (08:47)", "body": "No scripting ability cripples HyperTem PE."}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Nov 25, 1997 (10:34)", "body": "CRT has limited scripting ability, but you only do about 8 commands or so. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 355, "subject": "MidPoint Companion", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 356, "subject": "WinGate", "response_count": 5, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "sixx", "date": "Sat, Feb 20, 1999 (14:17)", "body": "Purchasing wingate 3.0 to replace MS Proxy on NT server 4.0 running IIS is a big problem. First off, if you have problems getting any of the clients to connect, you're basically out of luck. Wingate FAQs on the web aren't helpfull. I wanted to be able to get Macintosh clients to be able to surf WWW, telnet, ftp, POP3. All my mac clients can do is surf the web. There is no help at all provided by Wingate in this area, although Wingate boasts that it can be done- they just don't want to tell you how. Next off, I've noticed on the two machines I've installed Wingate on, that they both crash at random. This requires me to physically stop and then restart the Wingate engine. As my reseller couldn't help me, I emailed Wingate. If you have a registered version, Wingate says they'll provide email support. I received back information telling me to contact the reseller. When I replied, asking Wingate to please help me because my reseller couldn't help me, I was informed on how I could apply to get a refund. Some customer service!"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Feb 20, 1999 (18:40)", "body": "They've put you in an endless loop! I believe Symantec has a similar product, have you heard of it?"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Mar 29, 1999 (15:05)", "body": "Bob Braach's comments: we run Wingate as a proxy server. It runs on the machine that's connected to the DSL line. A second NIC in that machine connects to the hub (or you can connect two machines directly using the right kind of cable). The machine with two NICs has two IP addresses, one to the DSL port and the other is an internal address for your house (by convention, you use 192.168.0.x, where x=1 at the machine with 2 NICs and x=2-n for the others). We run about 8 pcs off the dsl line and it works fine. You can license a 2 pc home version of Wingate for not a lot of money and it is pretty easy to set up. The only problem I ran into (which I fixed with advice from somewhere north of here in this topic) was a conflict in windows networking. Don't put any windows client networking on the DSL link or it will cause a conflict). I'll be putting wingate in at home so my kids don't have to fight over the dsl connection as soon as I have time."}, {"response": 4, "author": "sges", "date": "Sat, Aug 21, 1999 (09:35)", "body": "It is not strictly correct to sa Wingate lacks modem aggregation capabilities ( I am ignoring MultiPPP). Wingate Pro can rotate request between any number of connections, for example three modems with ordinary PPP accounts, even from different ISPs. If the connections are identical (two 56K modems) this give you double the throughput. Wingate cannot do Dynamic load balancing or split downloaded files accross connections however. However I found it to be very stable unlike Midpoint where Dynamic load Balan ing can misfire and force you to hang up one modem to get any throughput."}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Aug 25, 1999 (15:18)", "body": "Will it work with ISDN routers? apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 357, "subject": "Trumpet FireSock", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 359, "subject": "DiscPlay", "response_count": 5, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "robinl", "date": "Thu, Feb  4, 1999 (10:27)", "body": "Display is an excellent program, with a fine selection of features. However they have an irritating habit of putting out beta versions, which expire a few months later, without warning, and with no explanation or indication of any activity in the meantime on the Discplay home page. This just happened (Feb. 1 1999) yet again!"}, {"response": 2, "author": "Baldguy", "date": "Sat, Oct 23, 1999 (15:02)", "body": "Did Obvion Systems bite the dust? I check periodically for updates, and they haven't done anything in quite sometime. I've been using ChangeDate to keep the latest beta version alive."}, {"response": 3, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Sat, Oct 23, 1999 (16:05)", "body": "Hmh, if anybody around here knows, that'd be Terry or Ray. Gentlemen? Any know in this?"}, {"response": 4, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Sat, Oct 23, 1999 (16:06)", "body": "Oh, and welcome, Martin!"}, {"response": 5, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, Oct 23, 1999 (17:55)", "body": "I'm clueless...! (Not that rare for me in this particular Conference...) Aloha, Martin! apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 36, "subject": "Internet VoiceChat", "response_count": 3, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "CutieGuy", "date": "Sun, Nov 14, 1999 (09:56)", "body": "Hello!"}, {"response": 2, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, Nov 14, 1999 (17:45)", "body": "You do not mean software like Webphone...?! Hello and Aloha!"}, {"response": 3, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, Nov 14, 1999 (17:49)", "body": "Now I see the intro and *know* you do not mean interent phone software. Those delays are bad enough. The price is right...What is the difference between the Ichat and Iphone? apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 360, "subject": "Go Ahead Got It!", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct 16, 1997 (10:25)", "body": "I wonder if it would use up awesome amounts of disk space if you were a heavy surfer? In the web conference, I recently talked about some software that predicts where you want to go next based on your past choices and the choices of others using this software. I don't recall the name right at this moment, but I'll look it up if anyone's interested. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 361, "subject": "AbsoluteFTP", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Oct 27, 1997 (09:06)", "body": "It's by the Van Dyke folks who have a passion for software excellence: ftp://ftp.vandyke.com/pub/AbsoluteFTP/aftp10b2.exe apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 362, "subject": "Notify CD Player", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 363, "subject": "CDValet", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 364, "subject": "Dreamweaver", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Oct 28, 1997 (17:21)", "body": "I've heard good things about DreamWeaver and want to try it."}, {"response": 2, "author": "suzqr", "date": "Sun, Jan 18, 1998 (13:08)", "body": "Can someone tell me how Dreamweaver can be 5 MB when it is supposed to include HomeSite, which itself is 6 MB? Do they include a stripped-down version? apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 365, "subject": "AtomTime95", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Nov  2, 1997 (08:57)", "body": "I actually discovered this and sent this app to Forrest as a suggestion. I'm glad to see that it's made the list. Wow, 365 topics now. One for every day of the year. Now, we need to let the SocketWatch folks know that this topic exists. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 366, "subject": "", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "Anton", "date": "Sun, Dec  7, 1997 (13:40)", "body": "Hello! My name is Anton."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Dec  7, 1997 (18:43)", "body": "Howdy Anton, welcome! How'd you find us? apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 367, "subject": "PGP", "response_count": 6, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "sges", "date": "Mon, Dec  8, 1997 (19:24)", "body": "Unfortunately 5.5.3 cannot use old RSA Keys, unlike 5.0 freeware. Old RSA keys could be as long as 2048 bits not 1024 as was stated. One disadvantage of DSS/DH is that the DSS key is limited to 1024 Bits, only the DH key is 4096 bits. Both DSS/DH keys and RSA keys take about the same difficulty to break and at the lengths used are probably not breakable with current computing power. When generating DSS/DH keys I advise against using the preselected primes. These these primes are not bad, but a common modulus is to tempting a target for cryptanalysis."}, {"response": 2, "author": "sges", "date": "Mon, Dec  8, 1997 (19:31)", "body": "The legal situation is a bit more complex. I am not a lawyer but as far as I know only the EXPORT in BINARY form is illegal. Once it is out of the US it canbe used by anyone. It can also be exported in BOOK form. PGP is available internationally from The International PGP Home Page, http://www.pgpi.com and several non-US ftp sites have PGP 5.5.3"}, {"response": 3, "author": "sges", "date": "Mon, Dec  8, 1997 (19:49)", "body": "Don't compare apples to oranges. A symmetrical key length of 128 bits used in secure versions of Netscape and Internet Explorer in stronger than 1024 bits of RSA of DSS/DH. PGP internally uses a 128 bit symmetrical key, which is encoded using the DSS/DH or RSA key. A 128 bit symmectrical key takes about the same computing powers to break as a 2304 bit RSA key or DSS/DH modulus. Mathematical advances may make it easier to break a RSA or DSS/DH key in the future thus PGP allows keys up to 4096 bits. But don't worry. All are unbreakable for the forseeable future."}, {"response": 4, "author": "sges", "date": "Tue, Dec  9, 1997 (08:27)", "body": "PGP for International Users PGPi, is NOT less secure than PGP for US users. The security is the SAME. It simply was complied outside the United States from the PGP 5.0 source which was exported in Book Form. Since it was made outside the US, US export laws don't apply. However since 5.0i is as strong as 5.0 or 5.5.3, if 5.0i is imported into the US it cannot be rexported! However US laws do not apply if neither the exporter or importer is in the US."}, {"response": 5, "author": "sges", "date": "Wed, Apr  8, 1998 (06:59)", "body": "PGP 5.5.3i has been released by the International PGP Home Page http://www.pgpi.com It supports RSA and DSS/DH keys unlike the freeware 5.5.5 and 5.5.3 that only support DSS/DH keys. It can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.no.pgpi.com/pub/pgp/5.5/win95nt/pgp553i-win95nt.exe This version was created from the 5.5.3 source code which was legally exported in BOOK from and scanned. The only change from 5.5.3 to 5.5.5 is an updated splash screen to reflect the new owners, Network Associates."}, {"response": 6, "author": "liberti", "date": "Thu, Apr  1, 1999 (02:58)", "body": "For those who use Pegasus Mail, you can use QDPGP, a 32-bit encryptor plug-in for PGP. It is \"freeware\" and may be used and copied without fee or obligation from: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html . Features: Seamless integration of PGP with Pegasus Mail. Version 2.60 supports PGP 6.0.2 and Pegasus Mail 3.02. Version 2.12 supports PGP 5.5.3 and Pegasus Mail 3.01d. Version 1.71a supports PGP (versions 5.5i, 5.0i and 2.6.3i) and Pegasus Mail (versions 2.5x and 3.0x). Supports use of identities for signing. Supports the anti-TEMPEST Secure Viewer. Conventional encryption with IDEA (128 bit), CAST5 (128 bit) and 3DES (168 bit) ciphers. Full install/uninstall. Comprehensive help file with context sensitive support. Multi-language support (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portugese). Version update notification. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 368, "subject": "OrbitIRC", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 369, "subject": "Anawave CoolCat", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jan  6, 1998 (10:08)", "body": "What specific advantages does it have over FrontPage 98? Does it support the FrontPage 98 extensions? apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 37, "subject": "Sticky Notes", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 370, "subject": "", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "renehoss", "date": "Thu, May 13, 1999 (18:00)", "body": "version 2.21 is supposed to have better directsound... well on my computer version 2.21 has little ticks in the background when playing with dsound I believe version 2.20 to be better"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jul  1, 1999 (14:11)", "body": "I haven't tried 2.20. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 371, "subject": "Microsoft Outlook 98", "response_count": 17, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jan 15, 1998 (05:47)", "body": "One caveat about Outlook 98, if you don't want all your email deleted on your mailserver, be sure to check the option box to \"keep messages on server\"; otherwise you'll end up deleting all the emails on your isps server. This is a \"hidden feature\"."}, {"response": 2, "author": "charlies", "date": "Sat, Jan 17, 1998 (08:02)", "body": "I personaly Recomend Outlook 98.. Try the Free Beta.. Sak me again when the Final price of the full version is out.."}, {"response": 3, "author": "Spacy", "date": "Tue, Mar 10, 1998 (12:57)", "body": "I highly recommend Outlook 98. It'll be out in mid-March as a free download or you can buy the CD for something like $5. It's got the cool feature to send HTML messages, where you can utilize everything that can be viewed in IE4 in the message, so you can add DHTML, Active X controls, etc. and send really cool messages to your friends. I've tried Beta 2 and it's awesome."}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Mar 10, 1998 (13:49)", "body": "I'm using that too, just be careful about sending a lot of html and dhtml to folks who are text only using unix mail, elm or pine.. be conscious of the recipients email software if at all possible."}, {"response": 5, "author": "wilkinson", "date": "Tue, Mar 24, 1998 (11:00)", "body": "You say \" Another of Outlook 98's new and improved features is the ability to automatically import your connection settings, e-mail messages, and address books using your existing Outlook 97, Netscape Communicator, Eudora, or Outlook Express clients. This quite effectively eliminates the hassle of setting Outlook up as long as you're a current user of one of the above applications (Pegasus Mail and similar users are out of luck for now). \" Pegasus users aren't out of luck since there are many conversion utilities out to convert between Pegasus and other formats, especially eudora. So, pegasus users can convert to eudora, then import/convert to outlook."}, {"response": 6, "author": "garyh", "date": "Mon, Jun  8, 1998 (16:25)", "body": "You forget one very important part of the Outlook 98 Update. The USER MUST HAVE INTERNET EXPLORER 4.0. IT'S A REQUIREMENT. I have Outlook 97, and don't have, don't want IE4.0. After you read all the nice reviews about Outlook 98, and that it's free, etc... you go through all the hassle of finally getting to the download page, only to find that it's just another way for Microsoft to get Internet Explorer 4.0 on your PC. Outlook 98 is just the \"bait.\" I'm sick of these business practices. I only want Outlook 98, and I'm willing to pay for it, if it's a good product. I don't want IE 4.0. Public, be advised."}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jun 11, 1998 (19:22)", "body": "What he said. It's easy to overlook this fact. IE 4.0 may result in a 40% reduction in throughput on your system."}, {"response": 8, "author": "thekman", "date": "Sun, Jul  5, 1998 (07:27)", "body": "True, IE4 is included in the download, BUT its does not have to be your default browser. It is only used to provide HTML email support. Our corporation uses Outlook 98 as client to Exchange Server and Netscape Communicator as our corporate browser. No problems. Still wondering what is meant by 40% reduction in throughput... Obviously you must be talking about the desktop features which are optional. Personally I use IE4 myself. I think its a great browser. I also have Communicator and think its a reat browser also, just that at this point in time, I CHOOSE to use IE4. At one point I had a subcribtion for Netscape 3.0 thru 4.0, now the same thing is FREE. I wonder why... ;-)"}, {"response": 9, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Jul  5, 1998 (07:29)", "body": "I will try and dig up the source for this 40% throughput reduction stat. I don't know how it varies from NT to Win 95/98. But it's known to slow down your system substantially."}, {"response": 10, "author": "Hulten", "date": "Thu, Aug 13, 1998 (03:37)", "body": "One thing I consider a major drawback of Outlook is the way it handles attachments. When an attachment is saved as a file Outlook changes the time and date of the file to the present one. This makes it difficult to keep track of the files when working across networks, since the sender and recipient has different information on the latest time the file was changed. It gets even worse if you check your e-mail from different places with different machines. According to what the support staff at Microsoft has told me this is by design, and there is no way for the user to change this."}, {"response": 11, "author": "jofje", "date": "Sat, Apr 24, 1999 (11:51)", "body": "I am currently trying Outlook Express 5.0 and Outlook 97. I'm responsible for a school network with win95 clients attached to a NT4.0 server. We are attached to the Internet throug a ISP that offers POP3 mail. The mail is supposed to be downloaded, not stored on the ISP's server. I have managed (much hazzle, though, I'm not too experienced) to make Outlook 97 to store the local mail folders on our local server, to make the folders available no matter which computer the (roaming) users log on to. However, the same is not true for Outlook Express. I can not find out how to make it store the folders in the users profile path on the server, rather than in the c:\\..\\Internet Mail an News\\Default user\\ directory on the local computer. The result is that previosly downloaded mail is unavailable if the user logs on at a different computer. Anyone who knows how to solve this, as I would like to use Outlook Express (fast and easy to use, compared to Outlook 97)? Besides, do anyone know if it is possible to make Outlook 97 and Outlook Express sharing the mail folders? Will these matters be much easier with Outlook 98? And finally, do anyone know if the U.S. downloadable version of Outlook 98 will conflict with my Norwegian versions of Internet Explorer 5.0, Outlook Express 5.0, Office 97 and Windows 95? I would appreciate an answer to jofjell@online.no as well as to this conference, since I am not checking in here very often (sorry...). Best regards, Jo Inge"}, {"response": 12, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Thu, Mar 30, 2000 (13:29)", "body": "I *hate* Outlook. It's slow, takes forever to load, open mails, and close. A rather cumbersome program. These things can all be done better and faster (Lotus Domino, resp. Notes)."}, {"response": 13, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Mar 30, 2000 (14:18)", "body": "Amen...I have heard th same complaint from other Outlook users. Forget about the Cool Look...get one which works!"}, {"response": 14, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Fri, Mar 31, 2000 (16:26)", "body": "What cool look?"}, {"response": 15, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, Mar 31, 2000 (17:54)", "body": "I heard from someone that it had a 'cool' appearance. Never checked to see. But, that is subjective, is it not, and nothing on which to base the worthiness or unworthiness of a software program!"}, {"response": 16, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Tue, Apr  4, 2000 (07:09)", "body": "It's clumsy, and I don't like it. It seems more stable as, say, Eudora Light, but is awful slow and bothersome. Starts like a day lasts forever, and closing it is like the end of time will never come. Displaying a mail takes the time to walk over and shop for groceries, come back, fix dinner, and in time for the third course, viol\ufffd, there's yer new mail on da screen! Disgusting."}, {"response": 17, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Tue, Apr  4, 2000 (14:26)", "body": "I am a devoted user of Eudora in all forms and love each and every one of them Their support staff is efficient and helpful. Forget about Outlook and go for a real dedicated Email program. Eudora rules! apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 372, "subject": "VivoActive", "response_count": 3, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "aaaa", "date": "Mon, Feb  9, 1998 (08:20)", "body": "download vivo PowerPlayer"}, {"response": 2, "author": "aaaa", "date": "Mon, Feb  9, 1998 (08:24)", "body": "vivo powerplayer"}, {"response": 3, "author": "aaaa", "date": "Mon, Feb  9, 1998 (08:29)", "body": "download vivo PowerPlayer apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 373, "subject": "Crescendo", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Wed, Nov  1, 2000 (15:12)", "body": "Crescendo is excellent for what it is - a MIDI file player. Have not checked it since getting this new computer . I downloaded and paid for the program for my old computer and was very pleased with it. However, that said, MIDI files sound much better straight from the internet than they did downloaded to my old computer. I will have to install it here and check the difference. Most of my media listening is restricted to WinAmp which is great. I just wish Real Player would allow for looping. I get tired of kick-starting things each time I want to hear it over again. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 374, "subject": "Wisebot", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 375, "subject": "Inoculan", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 376, "subject": "My Deja News", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 377, "subject": "zoot", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 378, "subject": "TweakDUN", "response_count": 4, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "konarak", "date": "Thu, Oct  8, 1998 (00:34)", "body": "If you don't buy TweakDUN it doesn't uninstall your host file of bookmarks and screws it up so you start losing the ability to connect to your favorite sites. I've lost the ability to connect to my bank's main page, sometimes I lose the ability to connect to any page not on my server. It's been a royal pain in the ****."}, {"response": 2, "author": "pterson", "date": "Sun, May 28, 2000 (16:07)", "body": "I have found that most every program claiming to speed-up your net connection does not really work if you are using a analog modem. The only time that I have noticed any changes when using these programs is when I am using a cable modem or a xDSL connection. Registry tweaking programs work very good with the high speed connections. Programs that contact mirror sites for multiple transfer often do not work either."}, {"response": 3, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sun, May 28, 2000 (16:16)", "body": "Some good observations, I tend to agree."}, {"response": 4, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, May 28, 2000 (16:22)", "body": "Yes! I tried one and my anguished Geek-son asked me to PLEASE ask him about it before I did that again. What a mess getting rid of it, too. Not worth it, for sure. Even worse were the \"memory stackers\" which promised to give you twice as much memory for your little W3.1. One did such damage I had to reinstall the entire W3.1 on the hard drive again to get rid of it. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 379, "subject": "BlackWidow", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 38, "subject": "WS Chat", "response_count": 5, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "Jesus", "date": "Fri, Sep  6, 1996 (20:04)", "body": "Hello"}, {"response": 2, "author": "Mouzaki", "date": "Sun, Nov 24, 1996 (17:01)", "body": "hi"}, {"response": 3, "author": "tosh", "date": "Sun, Jul 19, 1998 (21:40)", "body": "mouzaki hear du you live donde vivis do yo spiking spanish"}, {"response": 4, "author": "tosh", "date": "Sun, Jul 19, 1998 (21:41)", "body": "hi"}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jul 20, 1998 (10:58)", "body": "Not I, but there are some Spanish speaking folks here. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 380, "subject": "Bullet Proof FTP", "response_count": 8, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "marshalls", "date": "Tue, Apr 28, 1998 (06:20)", "body": "I use it for most of my FTP transfers and recomend it to others. However, most people don't need more FTP transfer ability than the FTP downloading of their browser. The price is $29.95 rather than $39.95. The window resizing problem was fixed a few days after the initial release of v1.06. This was announced to all the registered users by email. The author is very responsive to users and makes frequent upgrades."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Apr 28, 1998 (10:26)", "body": "If this program can transfer whole directories then it has an advantage over all the other ftp programs. I'd like to see how easy this is accomplished."}, {"response": 3, "author": "tfabris", "date": "Wed, Jun 24, 1998 (18:48)", "body": "The review of BulletProof FTP describes its ability to monitor the clipboard for FTP-type URLs and automatically begin downloading them. Then it says says \"No other FTP client offers clipboard monitoring.\" That statement is incorrect... The feature has been present in GetRight, and is, in fact, the way that GetRight works around its inability to catch clicks directly in the IE web browser. Do the authors of the reviews ever read these reader comments? If so, this should be corrected in the review, guys..."}, {"response": 4, "author": "tfabris", "date": "Wed, Jun 24, 1998 (18:54)", "body": "And while I'm at it... Why isn't GetRight reviewed with all the other FTP clients at Stroud's? Agreed, it's not a full FTP program (it only downloads), but doesn't it qualify in that category?"}, {"response": 5, "author": "skyblack", "date": "Thu, Oct 11, 2001 (17:57)", "body": "bulletproof users whats up... y'all got some good stuff... like i need some ip and user and pass.... hook me up...."}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct 11, 2001 (19:19)", "body": "I've been having some trouble with bpftp hanging up when I quit a session and try to resume. It's become fairly common on this Windows 2000 System."}, {"response": 7, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Oct 11, 2001 (20:29)", "body": "I'm stil using W98 and I cannot use FTP anymore. I seem to be dumped into a new location where I cannot get back to my files which I can see on the internet. I guess I better email you about this. John Tsatsaragos is going to be doing some msjor work and I need to FTP the graphics to my part of Spring's Hard drive if they are to be seen. Help!! (I use CuteFTP)"}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct 11, 2001 (23:40)", "body": "You have two accounts on spring.net, marci and marcia. Which are you using as your primary? I can call you during the day some time and discuss security, passwords and all that as these don't traavel via conferences or email. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 381, "subject": "Microsoft Media Player", "response_count": 4, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "kevdavis", "date": "Thu, May  7, 1998 (17:27)", "body": "This beta does not even run on my Win95 with DirectX 5.2. In fact, it doesn't even get far enough to CRASH. I would wait until a later beta..."}, {"response": 2, "author": "WhytKnyt", "date": "Thu, Sep 24, 1998 (18:26)", "body": "Version 6.0? The Microsoft download site says it's version 5.2."}, {"response": 3, "author": "cfadm", "date": "Thu, Jun 17, 2004 (20:37)", "body": "test"}, {"response": 4, "author": "austinblog", "date": "Thu, Jun 17, 2004 (23:20)", "body": "It sure has gotten sophisticated. It's one of the great downloads. I was marveling at it today when I searched and listened to \"Air America\" which isn't on my local radio dial. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 382, "subject": "DU Meter", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 383, "subject": "XiRCON", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 384, "subject": "Install from the Web", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 385, "subject": "NetObjects Fusion", "response_count": 3, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "bradford", "date": "Fri, May 29, 1998 (13:16)", "body": "Just from this description, I'd suggest taking a look at SoftQuad's HotMeTaL Pro first - it has these features and more for considerably less money. SoftQuad also has a long track record of commitment to SGML/HTML standards-based applications - they know what they're doing."}, {"response": 2, "author": "kallman", "date": "Tue, Jun  2, 1998 (10:45)", "body": "Is anyone familiar with a review that compares the features and benefits of NetObjects Fusion, HotMetal 4.0 and FrontPage98? I agree that many of the \"power\" features touted in this and other reviews of NetObjects Fusion appear to be available on HotMetal and FrontPage98 at a lower cost. What makes NetObjects better?"}, {"response": 3, "author": "JayLevitt", "date": "Tue, Jun  2, 1998 (10:45)", "body": "As an expert user but novice Web author, NOF at first blush seems to have the feature set I want - navigation bars, SiteStyles, WYSIWYG editor, DHTML. However, just in going through the tutorial tonight, I found 6 bugs in 3.0.1, including the fact that I can't use ALT-TAB to switch to another app without disrupting whatever I'm editing! This would all be bad enough if this were 1.0, but this is supposed to be a *maintenance* release of a mature product. This is not where I expect my $300 software package to be. I don't think I'll be buying this one. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 386, "subject": "Cosmo Player", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 387, "subject": "Adobe ImageReady", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "Chad", "date": "Mon, Jan 25, 1999 (14:37)", "body": "THIS SUCKS apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 389, "subject": "Star Office - Sun Microsystems", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Sat, Sep 25, 1999 (14:33)", "body": "Star Division, the Hamburg, Germany, based company that developed and marketed it until bought by Sun Microsystems, has offered \"free\" licenses in the past. Any private person was allowed to download it for non-commercial purposes for free... Runs on Unix since at least two years - the only office suite next to Applix to do that, and supposedly much better (many Applix user say...). How was that to pay? Their idea - give a good, well-developed app away, and cash in on toll-support-lines."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Sep 25, 1999 (22:24)", "body": "The Spring has registered the name starofficeportal.com as we plan to run a portal here for our community so folks on the Spring can have all the tools of Microsoft Office without having to shell out 600 bucks. And hopefully our click through revenue will increase as a result. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 39, "subject": "Compression Apps - general discussion", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, May 28, 1997 (09:10)", "body": "~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SHAREWARE OF THE WEEK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TurboZIP 97 provides intuitive zipping, unzipping, disk spanning, SFX, encoding and decoding features. It supports most commonly used Internet compressed file formats (zip, exe, gz, z, tar, taz, tgz) including Windows compressed file and e-mail formats, U U Encode (uue), Binhex (hqx), and MIME (mme, b64). Each week WUGNET and Microsoft feature a shareware pick demonstrating the highest standards available today in shareware for Windows NT. Try one, try them all! http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/shareware/default.htm from Microsoft's newsletter apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 390, "subject": "Frontpage 2000", "response_count": 18, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Thu, May 18, 2000 (09:34)", "body": "You can ftp frontpage webs, but some of the features like themes, counters, etc. won't work unless the webserver is Frontpage enabled. You can edit navigation bars and themes in Frontpage with some simple steps. To edit a theme, open the Themes dialog box again and click the Modify button. When you do, the dialog box will change to reveal a new row of buttons. The first three buttons (Colors, Graphics, and Text) let you access the various theme elements. The rest of the detailed instructions on changing themes you'll find at http://www.microsoft.com/INSIDER/frontpage2000/articles/robots.htm You can change graphics, change the text that appears as part of the graphics, and change colors and backgrounds. In other words, you can develop your own custom themes."}, {"response": 2, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, May 18, 2000 (17:35)", "body": "I have a huge problem with FrontPage if it is going to be invisible to Netscape users. That is unconscionable of Mr Gates and his minions. I have already downloaded a program today I cannot use unless I get his browser. Not acceptable to me!"}, {"response": 3, "author": "DeathAngel", "date": "Mon, Nov 20, 2000 (22:01)", "body": "Who cares I'm NEW. GET YOUSED TO IT."}, {"response": 4, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Tue, Nov 21, 2000 (18:14)", "body": "Welcome DeathAngal! Where are you from?"}, {"response": 5, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Mon, Dec  4, 2000 (20:21)", "body": "Apparently not a mushroom farm..."}, {"response": 6, "author": "ann", "date": "Sat, Apr 21, 2001 (03:48)", "body": "test while logged in as the user 'ann'"}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Apr 30, 2001 (02:09)", "body": "I haven't tested front page on our new site yet, that's coming up soon."}, {"response": 8, "author": "efigu001", "date": "Thu, May 10, 2001 (03:18)", "body": ""}, {"response": 9, "author": "marci", "date": "Sat, May 12, 2001 (16:08)", "body": "Aloha Eduardo!"}, {"response": 10, "author": "root", "date": "Thu, Aug  9, 2001 (10:21)", "body": "test"}, {"response": 11, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Aug  9, 2001 (14:49)", "body": "test"}, {"response": 12, "author": "paul", "date": "Thu, Aug 16, 2001 (09:50)", "body": "test."}, {"response": 13, "author": "zx6rider", "date": "Thu, Oct  7, 2004 (12:38)", "body": "Here I am again... old thread, hoping for a response or directions to the correct conference. I've created my first web site using Frontpage 2003 and for the most part, it's working fine. I'm able to accomplish most edits or adds without mishap. My problem is with the 'webbot' that is used within the guestbook form template. It isn't bringing the actual guestlog into the page as it's supposed to. Any hints? Also, is there a guide out there that defines exactly what these webbots do/or supposed to do?"}, {"response": 14, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct  7, 2004 (17:01)", "body": "The main source is http://rtr.com as these are the folks that put out the Front Page extensions. check this perhaps http://www.rtr.com/fpsupport/SERK/a_bots.htm also http://www.seoconsultants.com/tips/frontpage/"}, {"response": 15, "author": "zx6rider", "date": "Thu, Oct  7, 2004 (17:26)", "body": "Thanks Terry. I'll check them all out."}, {"response": 16, "author": "zx6rider", "date": "Sun, Oct 10, 2004 (18:47)", "body": "I fixed my guestbook but not via the above links. I hit the old HTML reference and 'figgured' it out. Still not quite sure why it worked, but it did. Now I want to collect info on who/where the comments are coming from, but without that info being visable to visitors. Not even sure it can be done. (FP2003)"}, {"response": 17, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Oct 12, 2004 (13:16)", "body": "You can add some variables with frontpage which will show you the ip address where the comments come from and also the time and date. Otherwise, you just have to ask as one of the questions on your form."}, {"response": 18, "author": "zx6rider", "date": "Tue, Oct 12, 2004 (19:58)", "body": "I had that on for a bit... it seemed to be passing the dynamic IP of the remote users ISP. Maybe I need to read my HTML reference some more ;-) apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 391, "subject": "trillian", "response_count": 7, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "DracosFury", "date": "Fri, Feb 22, 2002 (01:56)", "body": "Hi there, Im a trillian user myself. And i have to say, with the recent super responce by the trillian team to the AOL issues I highly recamend gettign trillian as it seems its creators are truly dedicated. I cant say enoguh godo abotu trillian, 3 IRC networks, 5 msn, 7 AIM, 3 ICQ and 4 yahoo chats in one window, or multiple windoews, however you want, thats the higest ive been in diversaty, but having the 15+ im windows i get on AIM+MSN is VERY nice. oriondc3 on AIM, oriondc3@hotmail on MSN :D"}, {"response": 2, "author": "DracosFury", "date": "Fri, Feb 22, 2002 (01:58)", "body": "Um, sorry abotu the rampant typos, and miss-spelling.... /me goes to hide in shame... ;)"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Feb 24, 2002 (12:22)", "body": "No shame, we get it! I haven't had much luck with this program? Is it a relative security hole in your system?"}, {"response": 4, "author": "Pemberley", "date": "Mon, Sep  9, 2002 (20:38)", "body": ""}, {"response": 5, "author": "Pemberley", "date": "Mon, Sep  9, 2002 (20:39)", "body": "HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO COLIN."}, {"response": 6, "author": "Atoosa", "date": "Mon, Sep 23, 2002 (05:05)", "body": "werwrdfytudfvgasdfff"}, {"response": 7, "author": "Atoosa", "date": "Mon, Sep 23, 2002 (05:06)", "body": "fdgdfg apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 392, "subject": "SecureCRT from VanDyke.com software", "response_count": 3, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Mar  1, 2005 (09:17)", "body": "SecureCRT has just released a new version and it features \"tabs\" which are way cool. --------------------------------------------------------------- New tabbed interface - run multiple sessions in a single window --------------------------------------------------------------- SecureCRT 5.0 adds the feature most requested by customers like you: a tabbed user interface that allows you to run multiple sessions in a single SecureCRT window. This is what one of our alpha testers had to say about the new tabbed interface: \"Tabs help me keep my workspace organized, move around faster, and enhances my productivity.\" ---------------------------------------------------- Set up your sessions once for SecureCRT and SecureFX ---------------------------------------------------- SecureCRT 5.0 offers improved integration with SecureFX 3.0, the latest version of our secure file transfer client. These applications will share global and session options settings, eliminating the drudgery of entering the same information more than once. Define your options once and they're available in both programs. ---------------------------------------------------------- Other great new features and improvements in SecureCRT 5.0 ---------------------------------------------------------- Named firewalls: You can now create any number of firewall configurations that can be used on a session-specific basis. Improved xterm color: SecureCRT 5.0 delivers 256-color xterm support. IPv6: SecureCRT 5.0 supports the IPv6 standard which fixes problems in the current IPv4 standard."}, {"response": 2, "author": "cfadm", "date": "Tue, Jun 27, 2006 (08:58)", "body": "I'm trying to get a review copy of version 5."}, {"response": 3, "author": "paul", "date": "Thu, Jul  6, 2006 (12:02)", "body": "test apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 393, "subject": "plaxo", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Feb 25, 2005 (22:22)", "body": "An extremely useful app for outlook users. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 394, "subject": "bookmark managers", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Mar 27, 2006 (18:07)", "body": "http://del.icio.us or http://delicious.com is the grandaddy and most popular. My bookmarks are at http://delicious.com/springnet http://spurl.net - the \"most searchable\" from the spurl site Spurl.net is a free on-line bookmarking service and search engine. It allows you to store and quickly access again all the interesting pages you find on the web from any Internet connected computer. With Spurl.net you will never have to lose a good link again. You can search your links, notes and in fact the entire text of all the pages you've ever \"spurled\". You can start by uploading the bookmarks from all your computers - after that all your bookmarks will be accessible in one place. And because thousands of other users are using Spurl.net as well, you will discover interesting links through recommendations, hot lists and more. http://furl.net - the \"most organizable\" from the furl site \"Say goodbye to lost bookmarks. Forget about searching your browser history and email folders.\" -- Kim Komando, The Kim Komando Show \"Social online bookmarking for the masses.\" -- Jim Wentzloff, ClassroomHelp.com \"Every page you care about is now saved forever, and is searchable....share your PersonalWeb with others.\" -- John Battelle, BattelleMedia.com http://bookmarks.yahoo.com has bookmarks - the \"most polished\" http://nedwolf.com/Web-Applications.htm has a list of these and other free web apps so you can start using Web 2.0 instead of wondering what the hell it is. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 395, "subject": "instant messengers", "response_count": 4, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Mar 29, 2006 (07:23)", "body": "I just started using imeem and it seems to be the best of the bunch. Of course it doesn't have the voice features but it does have in interesting podcast sharing feature. Shane recommended this to me."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Mar 30, 2006 (23:13)", "body": "http://e-messenger.net/ You can access your instant messenger over their website. msn aol yahoo also a new msn beta ajax based version"}, {"response": 3, "author": "Giaciofano", "date": "Fri, Aug 10, 2007 (18:17)", "body": "A the moment i am not using any of the above but in the future i plan to use MSN messenger"}, {"response": 4, "author": "cfadm", "date": "Thu, Aug 30, 2007 (16:53)", "body": "I'm using http://meebo.com and http://twitter.com/springnet to blast IMs around. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 4, "subject": "Windows 95", "response_count": 8, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "MDK187", "date": "Sun, Aug 11, 1996 (06:44)", "body": "Are you still in the dark? Windows 95 is old get the Windows 96 patch. It fixes 23 errors. Mdk"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Aug 11, 1996 (07:53)", "body": "What's the url for getting this patch?"}, {"response": 3, "author": "Neptune", "date": "Mon, Aug 12, 1996 (09:17)", "body": "Yeah. Where do we find it. I checked out MS and the last Service Update is still 01..."}, {"response": 4, "author": "VADENT", "date": "Mon, Nov 18, 1996 (22:28)", "body": "This is a strange place."}, {"response": 5, "author": "gilcarvr", "date": "Fri, Jan 24, 1997 (17:36)", "body": "we despised the microsoft exchange in Win95 and Its as gone as I could make it...now if I could only get Netscape to remember my password...."}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Jan 24, 1997 (22:37)", "body": "Something to avoid in Windows installs."}, {"response": 7, "author": "kc5ngi", "date": "Thu, May 22, 1997 (15:31)", "body": "I think this place is great.... Great Job Paul!!!!"}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, May 22, 1997 (18:21)", "body": "Thanks Jim. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 40, "subject": "WinZip", "response_count": 8, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "sges", "date": "Sun, Aug 11, 1996 (19:48)", "body": "I notice that PKZIP for windows is not reviewed. I have fond it to have both advantages and disadvantages versus WinZIP. However It is a good progran and should be reviewed http://www.pkware.com"}, {"response": 2, "author": "sges", "date": "Sun, Aug 11, 1996 (19:59)", "body": "I notice that PKZIP for windows is not reviewed. I have fond it to have both advantages and disadvantages versus WinZIP. However It is a good progran and should be reviewed http://www.pkware.com"}, {"response": 3, "author": "janmann", "date": "Tue, Nov 12, 1996 (10:13)", "body": "Strongly suggest you also try a competitive shareware product called Drag-And-Zip by Canyon Software. No pull-down menu, just drag the file and drop it on the Icon. It's fast, easy to use, very stable, and appears to do all that WinZip does..."}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Nov 12, 1996 (10:17)", "body": "WinZip does a lot. It has a 'Wizard' that guides you through the process and it cleans up your install file (deletes) it after you're done. It would be tough to compete with WinZip but I'll check out this other app."}, {"response": 5, "author": "pkolbus", "date": "Tue, Nov 19, 1996 (04:44)", "body": "JanMann: Winzip will drag-drop in conjunction with Win95 Explorer, File Manager or Norton Desktop. I use 6.1a and wouldn't consider anything else... I rate it VERY highly..."}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Nov 19, 1996 (09:31)", "body": "Peter is this a feature in the freeware version or the registered version?"}, {"response": 7, "author": "sand", "date": "Tue, Feb 10, 1998 (08:55)", "body": "I have a general questions for the group: I would like to compress an entire directory structure and do it in such a way that I can send that compressed package as a single object. In the mac world this is easily done with stuffit (just \"stuff\" the entire folder and handle it as one object). In the PC world, things appear different: you can only \"zip\" individual files, not the full folder/folder structure. Any ideas? - Peter."}, {"response": 8, "author": "Baldguy", "date": "Sat, Feb 21, 1998 (09:59)", "body": "Not true, Peter. You can zip your entire drive, if you want, preserving the directory structure. You can even turn the zip file into a self-extracting executable. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 41, "subject": "WinZip Install/Try/Uninstall Add-On", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 42, "subject": "WinZip Self-Extractor", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "stanley01", "date": "Sat, Dec  7, 1996 (21:53)", "body": "I have WinZip95 and have really learned to appreciate it. One of the things that I've read a lot about concerning purchasing computer programs is that some of them have lousy customer support... I have experienced the same problem getting customer support... but WinZip is a cut above all the rest when it comes to getting customer support. I've never asked for help and not gotten the help in usually 24 hours or so, the gentleman that works with customer support is very polite, very thorough and doesn't talk down to someone that's not as computer literate as some people are. Please understand that I don't work for WinZip (Nikomat) in any way; but I very much support their software and their company. Stanley apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 43, "subject": "WinPack Deluxe", "response_count": 4, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "daveman", "date": "Sat, Sep 14, 1996 (21:36)", "body": "If you like self-extracting .EXE files, I think that you should go for WinPack. Actually, I have both. I had WinZip first, but, I wanted to create self-extracting .EXE files. I could either download WinPack and buy it for $20, or spend an additional $49 upgrading a program that I have already spent $29 on. Although the WinZip self-extractor is a bit nicer, WinPack suits me just fine."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Sep 15, 1996 (10:46)", "body": "Does WinPack store zip files across multiple 3.5\" disks? How is this done?"}, {"response": 3, "author": "snow", "date": "Thu, Nov  7, 1996 (14:31)", "body": "Hi Terry, You can create zip spans in the save dialog of the new v1.10 b1. Currently, winpack can erase files from a floppy, but it cannot format a floppy. If you need specific instructions, let me know. -- Randy Snow RetroSpect - Distributors of WinPack Deluxe"}, {"response": 4, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Thu, May 18, 2000 (14:58)", "body": "Thanks for the tips Randy. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 44, "subject": "Zip Explorer Pro for Windows 95", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "Neptune", "date": "Fri, Aug  9, 1996 (12:21)", "body": "I love this program! I have used WinZip but it's lack of a QuickView option turned me off to it. ZipPro does not offer many of the extensive options that WinZip has been how often do you need them anyway? Now... if WinZip were to have QuickView as an option, I am afraid I might jump ship!"}, {"response": 2, "author": "aeco", "date": "Thu, Sep  5, 1996 (15:20)", "body": "Hi John, We will be releasing v2.03 soon. We found in most cases the 'extensive' options provided by WinZip are hardly ever touched and left as defaults. If there is a list of options that you must have, please e-mail us and we will add it in as soon as possible. Aeco Systems apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 45, "subject": "Critical Winsock Apps - the must haves!", "response_count": 6, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "lanprojekt", "date": "Wed, Dec 11, 1996 (08:14)", "body": "TRY WINPROXY 20 DAYS IN UNLIMITED VERSION! New software WinProxy is great to use. It works as proxy/mail server and firewall for Win 95/NT. It uses cache for guicker access to the internet, supports every protocols, RealAudio, and others. See http://www.lanprojekt.cz/winproxy"}, {"response": 2, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Thu, May 18, 2000 (22:14)", "body": "must have?"}, {"response": 3, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, May 25, 2000 (14:22)", "body": "You mean we've been running unaided by these new(?) apps and didn't even know we were handicapped?! Apparently they are so good or so insignificant that we didn't even notice!"}, {"response": 4, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, May 25, 2000 (14:26)", "body": "Guess W95 made these redundant. But, I can still remember having to reconfigure my separate Trumpet Winsock application before I could log into Hawaii-on-line. It got to be a real pain. However, it was not an option..."}, {"response": 5, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Thu, May 25, 2000 (18:19)", "body": "It was a pain to have to juggle winsocks around."}, {"response": 6, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, May 25, 2000 (18:49)", "body": "Got That right! apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 46, "subject": "RAS + 95", "response_count": 7, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jul 29, 1996 (12:18)", "body": "The problem with the native Windows 95 interface is that there is no easy way to automate logons except for the obscure scripting facility that Microsoft provides with the Windows 95 Plus package. With all of Microsoft's 1,600 person Internet assault force, you'd think they could automate folks logons. Clearly Microsoft didn't pay much attention to the Internet when they designed Windows 95. I expect this change in Microsoft's anticipated upgrade of Windows 95 to make Internet connectivity an integrated part of their operating system. So, for now, RAS may be the way to fly."}, {"response": 2, "author": "pthompso", "date": "Tue, Sep 24, 1996 (14:39)", "body": "While RAS+ appears to be well-rounded, it doesn't appear to offer that much more than the Dail-Up Networking (DUN) application called Dial-Up Networking Connection Enhancement (DUNCH) from Vector @ http://www.vecdev.com/ for free? As such, the $30 price tag seems to be an overkill for this small added functionality. They should lower their price to, say, $10, and they would be much more successful, IMHO."}, {"response": 3, "author": "danmeek", "date": "Fri, Nov  8, 1996 (21:01)", "body": "I have found the release verion of RAS+95 to have strange and crippling bugs. For example, one day I suddenly found all of my passwords to have disappeared, and RAS+ declared that all passwords were \"disabled,\" so I could not even re-enter them. I sent email to Lamb Software about this, and other problems, and (now a week later) have not heard back."}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Nov  9, 1996 (15:02)", "body": "What email did you use?"}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Apr 26, 1997 (01:44)", "body": "I have a killer feature for RAS+95 if it doesn't already have it, the new 56k modems seem to connect at a wide variety of baud rates. How about getting RAS+95 to keep retrying until a specified baud rate is reached?"}, {"response": 6, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Thu, May 18, 2000 (14:59)", "body": "I wonder if there's a RAS 98?"}, {"response": 7, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, May 18, 2000 (15:49)", "body": "My MS dialup insists I close and disable all rundll and rundll32's before it will not shut down my computer. Very strange. It works fine and acts as a deterrent to lurkers in house who might wish to hack into my personal stuff. Oddly ( or not, perhaps!) AOL can blast through all of that nonsense and connect in a split second. It is so irritating since I hate AOL and would rather go back to trumpet and winsock and all that on W 3.1 before I'd resort of AOL full time! apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 47, "subject": "Trumpet Winsock", "response_count": 5, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "Neptune", "date": "Fri, Aug  9, 1996 (12:23)", "body": "How much of a performance boost could I expect to see over the standard Winsock package that comes with Win 95?"}, {"response": 2, "author": "Charli", "date": "Wed, Oct  2, 1996 (20:31)", "body": "I think that if the latest version, so foar, is a beta version It should NOT be a shareware, but a freeware.. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"}, {"response": 3, "author": "PeterW", "date": "Tue, Jan  6, 1998 (22:35)", "body": "I am using Trumper 2.0b (16-bit) and my ISP has changed from SLIP to PPP. Since then, \"BYE.CMD\" ceases to work properly. The script is: output +++ input 3 OK\\n output ath0\\r input 2 OK\\n My ISP recommended I change the script to either: \"OLDBYE.CMD\" display \\13\"Hanging up modem - please wait...\"\\13 sleep 1 output +++ sleep 1 output ath0\\r if ! [input 5 OK] display \"Modem is not responding - try again or reset computer.\"\\n abort else display \" - The modem is now disconnected.\"\\n end or \"NEWBYE.CMD\" display \"Disconnecting modem...\" set dtr off sleep 1 set dtr on sleep 1 display \"Modem has been disconnected.\" sleep 1 Unfortunately, neither of these scripts work ... in fact Trumpet reports \"unknown command\" ... I assume that these scripts are only for more recent versions of Trumpet Winsock than v2.0b. Is there a script for this version, or do I need to upgrade Trumpet??? Peter"}, {"response": 4, "author": "pauloman", "date": "Tue, Sep 14, 1999 (18:25)", "body": "Trumpet--schrumpet! Fergittaboutit! Where ya all been? You don't need to pay money to install a dialer-tcp/ip stack to win 3x. (I agree with Charli--it SHOULD be free, it's so dated and cryptic). Go to ZDNET's software library and do a search on \"internet explorer\". Download the Version 3.03 for 3x full version (ie16full.exe). After launching, follow directions in readme to create the four installation disks. Do full installation, and it installs the necessary dialer and tcp/ip stack for you...FREE. Don't like IE? Select custom option during install and just select the \"dialer-tcp/ip\" option. Then download the lean and mean Netscape Navigator 3.04 16 bit and have a ball! (Note--on my 3x machine, I had to manually extract the inetcfg.dll file from the cab file on disk 2 and copy it to the \"iexplore\" folder in order for the resulting \"connect to the internet\" wizard to work right [thanks, Bill!]. The result is a fully internet-capable win 3x with the browser of your choice for no moola!"}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Sep 14, 1999 (19:41)", "body": "Great advice for lean and mean machines! Cool. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 48, "subject": "RoboDUN", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jul 29, 1996 (12:20)", "body": "This may be my next app to test out, I need a scripting function in Windows 95 to automate logins because Microsoft overlooked this feature. Surprising, given Microsoft's all out assault on the Internet. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 49, "subject": "Virtual TCP Lite", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 5, "subject": "Windows NT 4.0 Beta", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 50, "subject": "Twinsock", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 51, "subject": "Net Dial", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "janmann", "date": "Tue, Nov 12, 1996 (11:59)", "body": "Was interested in trying this product, but could not access in spite of many attempts. Is the link still valid?"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Nov 17, 1996 (20:21)", "body": "ftp://ftp.enterprise.net/pub/netdial/nd275.zip Try this! This should work, it's up to date. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 52, "subject": "Web Servers", "response_count": 5, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jul 29, 1996 (12:27)", "body": "The new NT 4.0 beta incorporates a Web Servier (IIS), ftp and gopher thus eliminating the need for third party apps in these areas. We've had pretty good luck with NT Server so far."}, {"response": 2, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Thu, May 18, 2000 (15:00)", "body": "FTP is no longer a default with IIS and the days of gopher are gone?"}, {"response": 3, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, May 18, 2000 (15:34)", "body": "Not on Hawaii-on-Line You have the option of using windows and their programs or telnet and archie, lynx, pine, mirc, and gopher! Along with the other things that went with the internet's infancy. It is fun to mess aroung in there with that - and their telnet ftp program which I have never tried."}, {"response": 4, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Thu, May 18, 2000 (22:16)", "body": "Good for Hqwaii online to keep with these semainal traditions."}, {"response": 5, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (20:46)", "body": "I go in every so often just to keep my skills/memory sharp. Hawaii-on-Line is so great because it was started by a group of Hams after Hurricane Iniki devastated Kauai. It has since been purchased by GST but run locally and is in the process of installing fiber optic technology. I would not consider abandoning them for anything! And, they protect my email like a mother tiger. While I was on the mainland for 4 months I asked my son to access it from his computer (he subscribed me the first time that way) to check for unforwarded mail. He though he knew my password but did not get it exactly right. Not only did they not let him in, they notified netcom.com - his ISP - that he was a hacker and netcom kicked him out of their service too! With the problems I have had with a certain hacker and the resulting grief which is still ongoing, I feel safe with HoL. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 53, "subject": "Website", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jul 29, 1996 (12:29)", "body": "If you're looking for an easy to use, reliable web server for Windows 95 this is it. About 5 minutes will get you up and running as a web server without any hassle. And O'Reilly's support is the best there is; these are the folks that wrote the great series of books in unix and the internet. And they've made it much more availble to folks by lowering the price. I highly recommend this web server. And the Pro edition has the really great Cold Fusion application included from what I understand. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 54, "subject": "Ali Baba for Windows 95", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Thu, May 18, 2000 (22:16)", "body": "Ali Baba, whoa!"}, {"response": 2, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, May 25, 2000 (15:51)", "body": "Oh my! Talk about ancient history... apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 55, "subject": "Windows HTTPD", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Thu, May 18, 2000 (22:16)", "body": "Ancient."}, {"response": 2, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, May 25, 2000 (15:50)", "body": "Kill it and make the apps/all list a little more readable. There are 390 topics in this conference. It is almost impossible to catch up with the ones that matter! apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 56, "subject": "ZBServer", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Thu, May 18, 2000 (22:16)", "body": "Defunct? PWS kinda makes this obsolete."}, {"response": 2, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, May 25, 2000 (14:48)", "body": "In the four years since you posted most of these apps, PCs have made quantum leaps making many of these apps obsolete. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 57, "subject": "WinSmtp", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 58, "subject": "FTP Serv-U", "response_count": 5, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Aug  9, 1996 (07:13)", "body": "I have found this extremely useful on our production html authoring Windows 95 machines. It is nice to be able to be at home and grab something off of our machine at the office whenever I need it. With Website and this program you can nearly turn a Windows 95 into a full fledged service provider, all you would need is an email server and a way to accept dial up access and you could turn a Windows 95 system into a mini-isp."}, {"response": 2, "author": "rob", "date": "Fri, Aug  9, 1996 (11:16)", "body": "Just a few notes: * The current price of Serv-U is $25 (Don't blame me, all due to success! :-) * Today of tomorrow I'll be bringing out v2.0c. This is mainly a maintenance release version, fixing all known bugs and adding multi-homed IP support. * The latest version can be found at http://www.cat-soft.com . If your bookmark points to catsoft.dorm.duke.edu then please update it since the latter will cease to work in a little while. * There is also a mailing list for Serv-U related discussion and questions. To subscribe, send an E-mail to list@corridor.com with only a single line of text in the message body reading: subscribe Serv-U If all went well you'll get a reply from the list server in a minute or so with detailed instructions. Finally, Thanks Terry! For setting this conference list up... Rob (RB5@acpub.duke.edu)"}, {"response": 3, "author": "janmann", "date": "Tue, Nov 12, 1996 (10:58)", "body": "We are using this product, in conjunction with Windows HTTPD v1.4c on an Intel 486dx/66, operating as a background operation under WFWG 3.11, to provide a dirt cheap, browser accessible, dial-in (via dedicated POTS line) intrAnet server to 32 worldwide sites. All products are registered. The total software cost of this machine (not including some nice-but-not-necessary software), including DOS & WFWG 3.11, is currently around $300. The machine dresses out at about $600 (B&W monitor, 28.8 modem, 16mb me ory, ethernet card, 540MB HD). The machine is also networked into our local 20-computer network, so we have access to it over the network directly. Furthermore, it is usable as a stand-alone computer with access to the rest of the network. We are now working on figuring out how to add a cheap mail server package (recommendations anybody?). This package works most excellently, but it is not an amateur operation to set up... But then, for the ultimate cheap, there's our Linux experiment..."}, {"response": 4, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Thu, May 18, 2000 (22:17)", "body": "Wonder how this program is faring?"}, {"response": 5, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, May 19, 2000 (21:11)", "body": "Never heard of it, but I have not heard (excepting for here) of WS-FTP either. My favorite by miles is CuteFTP which I have stated on the topic concerning this little gem of a program. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 59, "subject": "WFTPD", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "cfadm", "date": "Wed, Apr 19, 2006 (08:44)", "body": "Filezilla! apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 6, "subject": "World Wide Web Browsers", "response_count": 3, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "clownboy", "date": "Sun, Nov 24, 1996 (02:27)", "body": "While I avidly read (and agree with) most of your reviews Forrest, I disagree with your assessment of browsers here. Netscape has always been a wildcard, we never quite knew what to expect from the next release and it's current release is no different. Old bugs are reinvented (cirrus logic incompatability, screen flash) and useless proprietary tags are foisted upon us (multicol, spacer) instead of addressing the controls that developers are screaming for. However, they now have competition and not from the equally buggy Mosaic. MSIE will handle all the HTML that Netscape can execute (except for the aforementioned multicol tag) and so much more. With MSIE I can place any element, anywhere on the page. I can overlap elements, create HTML drop-shadow, control leading, margining, point size and generally do what can be done with outside pagemaking utilities (Quark, Pagemaker, etc.) - and this is just using the CSS standard set by the W3C. Can Netscape do this nope. With MSIE I can open a link in full kiosk mode or control which toolbar elements are available. Further, in kiosk mode I don't have the logobar forced upon me as I do with Netscape - just a nice clean edge to edge screen. Microsoft who has had the reputation of doing what they want has chosen to actually listen to what developers want, where Netscape seems to believe we will have to make do with what they give us."}, {"response": 2, "author": "laclark", "date": "Sun, Mar  1, 1998 (23:47)", "body": "I have Microsoft Internet Explorer 4, however I'm having difficulty with it. This site sounds like maybe someone can help me. I have loaded it properly onto my Compaq Pentium 150/1gig still free.....and twice it knocked out windows 95. After my computer was turned off, I could not get back into windows at all. The techs at microsoft, with much dificulty, managed to delete the browser through safe mode, (it dies hard) and windows works OK now. However they told me to re-load it, and when I did the sam problem happened again. I really like this browser. Any suggestions about what is wrong?? ( I have the browser on CD ) Could you e_Mail me with help? I'm not sure I can find my way back here again. LaClark881@AOL.com. Anybody else have trouble?? The microsoft people seem to think the browser is not compatable with anti-virus programs (I have Inocculan and DR.Soloman) I suspended both before loading the second time. Appreciate any help. Laurie"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Mar  2, 1998 (01:09)", "body": "Try loading 3.0 off Microsoft's site first, then upgrading it to 4.0. This has worked in problem installations for me. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 60, "subject": "FTP - file transfer protocol/finger / archie", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "cfadm", "date": "Wed, Apr 19, 2006 (08:44)", "body": "filezilla rocks. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 61, "subject": "CuteFTP", "response_count": 23, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "tganger", "date": "Wed, Nov 13, 1996 (16:13)", "body": "I've tried version 1.7 and really like the interface and ease of use. However, I do as much uploading of files as I do downloading. Cuteftp can download directory structures but cannot upload directory structures. Think I will stick with ws_ftp (free) for a while."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Nov 13, 1996 (23:18)", "body": "I'm -at least for the moment sticking with ws_ftp. Forrest doesn't agree with me on this and he rates CuteFTP at the top of the heap. I also upload a lot of directory structures."}, {"response": 3, "author": "tfabris", "date": "Thu, Apr 17, 1997 (18:33)", "body": "I'm interested in knowing about FTP clients that also allow me to apply the CHMOD command to files after I've uploaded them. I often need to upload files and do CHMOD 744 FILENAME or CHMOD 755 FILENAME, so I have to switch to a telnet prompt to do it. I'm currently using WS_FTP for the same reasons (directory structure uploads), but wondering if I should switch to another if I can find one with CHMOD capability. Any ideas? My mail is tfabris@oro.net..."}, {"response": 4, "author": "tfabris", "date": "Tue, May 13, 1997 (17:23)", "body": "Following up on my previous message: Just got an email from the WS_FTP folks saying that the latest versions of WS_FTP do have CHMOD capability. This is something that IMHO should be included in Stroud's reviews of FTP clients- it's what I was looking for as I scanned the reviews."}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, May 13, 1997 (20:58)", "body": "This is a pretty important feature. Good move by WS FTP."}, {"response": 6, "author": "lam323", "date": "Thu, Aug 14, 1997 (11:07)", "body": "Presently we are using the XCOPY /D command in NT to copy new or updated files from a users chosen folder to a shared common folder on a server. This runs very slow. I've noted that transferring the same files using CuteFTP runs on average 20 times faster for us. Naturally we would like to use this method. The problem/question is twofold. 1. The XCOPY /D command only copies those files that have been changed since the last update to the server or new files. Is there a way in CuteFTP to do this w/o intensive interfacing of the user? 2. When uploading a file using CuteFTP I noticed that the servers file/date stamp was not set as the original's, rather it was the current at time of upload. Can this be changed so that the original time/date stamp remain intact? I'd prefer an email response if possible, as I am not 100% sure I can get back here! Larry Mattingly Crane Army Ammunition Activity lam323@crane-smtp.army.mil"}, {"response": 7, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, Feb 13, 2000 (02:07)", "body": "I use CuteFTP and it is excellent. Keeps logs, does all the stuff a good ftp program is supposed to do. Quick and efficient. The only thing I do not like about is if you close the program entirely, it kicks off your phone link to the entire computer. Inconvenient, so say the least. Any suggestions?"}, {"response": 8, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, Feb 13, 2000 (02:53)", "body": "I fixed the problem. I went into the options and unchecked the box which said disconnect from the internet on closure of program. It comes like that by default. Anyone setting it up for the first time may wish to uncheck this box. I am very happy to have discovered this little item!"}, {"response": 9, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sun, Feb 13, 2000 (09:04)", "body": "Nice little tip, Marcia."}, {"response": 10, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, Feb 13, 2000 (12:47)", "body": "Wish I had bothered to go into the vaults of the program earlier. One of the above posts made me think of it and it worked. No matter how old the postings are, they can still prove valuable!"}, {"response": 11, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, May 13, 2000 (01:42)", "body": "I took their offer of the free upgrade to CuteFTP 4.0. It is a nice little compact program, though I fail to see the advantage over the old one. If anyone else is considering the upgrade, be aware you will have to readdress your ftp sites and some of mine took some doing considering I had to hunt up the username and the password. You might want to do it some time when you have the information at hand or when you have lots of time to spend on it. At least the upgrade does not hang up your modem when you close it!"}, {"response": 12, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sat, May 13, 2000 (09:19)", "body": "I think Forrest has unlinked us from http://cws.internet.com after about 7 years or so. Surprisingly, we never got a huge amount of activity from his conferences. So I guess we'll have to start updating this ourselves. CutFTP is a good program, fairly relentless in it's ability to transfer files. The only thing I've seen to match in this respect is Bulletproof FTP. Marcia, let's talk about Netmeeting because I've found out a few things about the 3.0 version. Meet you in the Netmeeting topic?"}, {"response": 13, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, May 13, 2000 (13:16)", "body": "Ok, I'll be right over!"}, {"response": 14, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, May 13, 2000 (13:21)", "body": "...if I can find where NetMeeting is, that is...Post something so I can find you!"}, {"response": 15, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sun, May 14, 2000 (09:16)", "body": "OK I'll post something in the Apps conference."}, {"response": 16, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, May 14, 2000 (13:21)", "body": "I'll look for it"}, {"response": 17, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Apr 30, 2001 (02:06)", "body": "I've been using this program a lot in moving our sites, recently."}, {"response": 18, "author": "marci", "date": "Sat, May 12, 2001 (16:00)", "body": "will continue to try to get to my stuff on Spring.net. I have goodies waiting to be posted."}, {"response": 19, "author": "skyblack", "date": "Thu, Oct 11, 2001 (18:05)", "body": "any one gpt some ip add..to give and pass and user......for bulletproof ftp"}, {"response": 20, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Oct 11, 2001 (20:31)", "body": "Post this request on http://www.spring.net/yapp-bin/restricted/read/apps/380 Terry talks there of bulletproof ftp. I use this one (CuteFtp) quite successfully until lately..."}, {"response": 21, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Oct 11, 2001 (23:39)", "body": "Till lately? What's needs fixin'?"}, {"response": 22, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, Oct 12, 2001 (00:55)", "body": "for about a month..... let me email you about it more specifically."}, {"response": 23, "author": "admin", "date": "Sat, Oct 13, 2001 (08:59)", "body": "OK, I'll reply via email. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 62, "subject": "WS-FTP", "response_count": 7, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Aug 18, 1996 (01:31)", "body": "Hands down, this is one of the most useful programs that I have. I haven't given CuteFTP a chance really, I've been so satisfied with WS FTP for so long."}, {"response": 2, "author": "tank", "date": "Wed, Jan 21, 1998 (19:41)", "body": "I have no WS FTP"}, {"response": 3, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, Aug 28, 1999 (15:43)", "body": "I am using CuteFTP as recommended by my son, and it is super easy to use. I needed a lot of expert and kindly help getting it configured properly the first time,(thank you Dear!)...very efficient and most excellent."}, {"response": 4, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Thu, May 18, 2000 (22:17)", "body": "Cute FTP is great, but WS FTP is the classic standard."}, {"response": 5, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, May 20, 2000 (21:07)", "body": "Now, I feel like I shoulda gotten the WS-FTP. It is the program Geo's creator used ('cause he got it free somewhere)... oh well, Cute works really well and I am used to it. And I paid for it. It is the one David uses (who, btw, asked me two days ago what the url was to get a login and password for Spring. I sent him the newuser url...*waiting hopefully*)"}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Apr 30, 2001 (02:06)", "body": "karenr uses ws ftp."}, {"response": 7, "author": "marci", "date": "Sat, May 12, 2001 (16:03)", "body": "Cute FTP is good and I am used to it now - or was. William also uses ws ftp. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 63, "subject": "fpArchie", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 64, "subject": "WS Archie", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 65, "subject": "WinTelnet and FTP Pro", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 66, "subject": "WSN-FTPC", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 67, "subject": "WS-Finger", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 68, "subject": "WinWhois", "response_count": 5, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Thu, May 18, 2000 (22:18)", "body": "Ever use whois?"}, {"response": 2, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, May 25, 2000 (14:42)", "body": "I kept thinking this said WinWhosis... No, Never even heard of it before."}, {"response": 3, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, May 25, 2000 (14:46)", "body": "Sounds like a primitive search engine... Google is THE search engine currently. Northernlight.com is not bad either and finds obscure articles, gives you a bit to read then the option of purchasing the entirety for a small sum. Guess I should be posting this in another topic..."}, {"response": 4, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Thu, May 25, 2000 (18:20)", "body": "No whois is a basic unix utility and this is still userful. whois shows you if a domain name is registered."}, {"response": 5, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, May 25, 2000 (18:55)", "body": "ah... See! I did not know! I started learning all of that and still am willing to if Hiatus ever turns loose the Windows programmer... apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 69, "subject": "Graphics Viewers", "response_count": 3, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Thu, May 18, 2000 (22:18)", "body": "Lview is my favorite, except I keep losing my licensing key."}, {"response": 2, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, May 19, 2000 (21:03)", "body": "See, you made the same mistake I would have made but my son did before me. Download the - oh, it is not available anymore...shall I send you the .exe file? for the original free one you do not need the licencing key for?! Email me..."}, {"response": 3, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, May 19, 2000 (21:07)", "body": "I find not all images are openable by Lview so I first open them in Picture Viewer which came with my QuickTime download. Then I size it as I want. You cannot save it using Picture viewer, so I copy and past it to Lview and save it in the form I wish to keep it. It has worked in many situation in which none of my 4 or 5 graphics viewers could open. In fact, there have been no cases it could not open! It was the one I finally used to size John's best image. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 7, "subject": "Netscape Navigator Gold", "response_count": 19, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "suellen", "date": "Fri, Aug  9, 1996 (09:52)", "body": "Today's \"What's New\" list says there is a Navigator Gold 3.0 beta 7 available, but the link takes you to beta 6. Is there a beta 7?"}, {"response": 2, "author": "netman", "date": "Sat, Aug 10, 1996 (00:23)", "body": "In response to Suellen's question, I have only seen Navigator 3.0 beta 7 in the whats new list not Navigator Gold."}, {"response": 3, "author": "buzz", "date": "Sat, Aug 10, 1996 (01:45)", "body": "Also in response to Suellen's question, the 3.0 Beta 7 has been released for the standard version of Netscape Navigator (Win 3.x, Win 95, and Mac) but not yet for the Gold release...hopefully it will be released within the next several days..."}, {"response": 4, "author": "Justme", "date": "Sat, Aug 10, 1996 (08:24)", "body": "I had been pleased with the speed increases of the Beta 5 version I had downloaded for my daughter's Win 3.1 computer so I jumped right from Ver2.02 to Ver 3 Beta 6 but somehow ended up with all kinds of problems including not configuing correctly to load the homepage I requested and I have had all kinds of messages about incorrect URLs even after having just used the same URL on previous searches. I noticed that the update to version 3.0 Beta 7 only took a few days so maybe there were more bugs created than fixed! I hope it is worth the download time to update to Beta 7 - Why can't programs like Netscape just allow the upgrade patches from one Beta ersion to the next to be downloaded instead of the entire program having to be downloaded each time. - What a waste of online time and it must create enormous problems on bandwidth for all the ISP's every time a revision of Netscape is issued - which is very often!"}, {"response": 5, "author": "flyboy", "date": "Sat, Aug 10, 1996 (22:47)", "body": "Netscape is a great program and one of the best browsers I have seen. There are some bugs that even Netscape can`t seem to solve such as downloads not completing and error messages for url`s which are known to be good url`s. If anyone is having download problems please email me (flyboy@telplus.net) and let me know if you have found a cure. I will pass this information along to various users groups and help as many people out as possible. Please make sure to report any bugs no matter how insignificant you may think they are to Netscape so they can work them out and make life easier for all of us."}, {"response": 6, "author": "Neptune", "date": "Sun, Aug 11, 1996 (06:52)", "body": "I have very few problems with it. The only persistant problem I have seen is that over a few months time, under Win95, the startup of the program would create a \"ghost\" of the program in the Start Menu. This \"ghost\" is just that, a blank menu icon would be on the start bar but nothing would actually be there. As for peformance. Super! As for their many updates... Why NOT? I would rather have a company sriving to to give you their latest and greatest, instead of one that would sit on its laurels and bill you. As for patches... They originally started off doing that. But the way I see it... the BETA versions are \"free\". WHY complain?"}, {"response": 7, "author": "mars", "date": "Sun, Aug 11, 1996 (13:03)", "body": "I've given up trying nongold netscape because everytime I installed one, it trashed my mail client. Answer: Netscape Gold. Ever since Netscape started playing around with MAPI, there's been hell to pay for us lowly users. Maybe someday they'll wake up...... Jacques P."}, {"response": 8, "author": "mars", "date": "Sun, Aug 11, 1996 (13:04)", "body": "I've given up trying nongold netscape because everytime I installed one, it trashed my mail client. Answer: Netscape Gold. Ever since Netscape started playing around with MAPI, there's been hell to pay for us lowly users. Maybe someday they'll wake up...... Jacques P."}, {"response": 9, "author": "theKAT", "date": "Mon, Aug 12, 1996 (19:54)", "body": "I've found NetScape's limited newsreader to be adequate for the limited news browsing that I do, and it decodes single file UUE files just fine. Is there a way to make it combine and decode multiple part files? If so, I haven't been able to find it."}, {"response": 10, "author": "MrAC3", "date": "Sun, Aug 25, 1996 (16:24)", "body": "I'm a very happy user of Netscape Navigator Gold Edition and I'm very careful about its new releases so you can download the latest version (currently BETA 8) in my Home Page http://dante.enter.it/maranghi/mauita.html"}, {"response": 11, "author": "tessera", "date": "Thu, Sep  5, 1996 (02:30)", "body": "I was looking to comment about the \"commercial\" release of the 16-bit version for Win 3.1 in its own topic but since I saw this I'll comment here. from Gordon Wick: \"I had been pleased with the speed increases of the Beta 5 version I had downloaded for my daughter's Win 3.1 computer so I jumped right from Ver2.02 to Ver 3 Beta 6 but somehow ended up with all kinds of problems including not configuing correctly to load the homepage I requested and I have had all kinds of messages about incorrect URLs even after having just used the same URL on previous searches. I noticed that the update to version 3.0 Beta 7 only took a few days so maybe there were more bugs created than fixed! I hope it is worth the download time to update to Beta 7\" My software appears to work completely but the decrease in speed from NN2.0 to NN3.0 is incredible! (This may be irrelevant for 32 bit version users, since the above comment was clearly by a fellow Win 3.1 user) Using 33.6 bps modem on a 486DX-33 with 12 MB RAM, it went from 5 seconds to download my home page to over six minutes - I don't bother loading the home page any more (if I can jump past it) My notebook [14.4 bps modem on a 486DX-66 with 8 MB RAM] is the same as always, so mostly I'm just using it now. By the way, that means normal transfer rates of 1.1-2.0 kbps for the 14.4 using NN3.0 versus 0-1.2 kbps for the 33.6 using NN3.0, whereas I used to get 1.2-3.6 kbps for the 33.6 using NN2.0 After two weeks I'm considering whether I should keep looking for the source of the problem, reload my old NN2.0 or now if maybe the Gold version will work better. I downloaded a PPP Diagnostic program this evening to see if I can find the problem. So far, the suggestions have been \"get at least 16MB RAM (spend more money)\" or \"change the TCP/IP PPP settings\" that last sounded interesting but I can't find them in the TCP/IP PPP bundled with Netscape personal edition dialer."}, {"response": 12, "author": "theKAT", "date": "Fri, Sep  6, 1996 (17:10)", "body": "I just got the full version of NSG3.0 and discovered that it won't play .au format sound files for me. I get some kind of \"format not supported\" message. Others claim it works for them, so it must be something in my setup. Anyone have any ideas where I should look? The plugins page under HELP reports that .AU support is active. A real head scratcher."}, {"response": 13, "author": "gilcarvr", "date": "Fri, Jan 24, 1997 (17:43)", "body": "sorry we can't help anyone here...but anyone else been fighting the remember my password option?... We apparently have o streaming video support and can't view JPE files...no not JGEG, but JPE...who can help?"}, {"response": 14, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Jan 24, 1997 (22:37)", "body": "Did you know that Netcape 4.0 is out?"}, {"response": 15, "author": "gilcarvr", "date": "Sat, Jan 25, 1997 (09:47)", "body": "yes Terry, but I'm loathe to have to start at the beginning until I figure out how to get the old one to work first...we aren't interested in html or vrml as of yet and I can't see why I need the new version yet...does it make mail retrieval easier?...ftp easier?...news?...and whats with all the names...collabra... messenger...et all?....does this mean I just takes parts of the release?...can you tell I'm frustrated? Jonathan"}, {"response": 16, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Jan 25, 1997 (19:28)", "body": "Mial is much improved, especially the sorting mechanism. I haven't played with the newsgroups much. Overall, it's an improvement over the previous version. I did see an article in the Austin paper yesterday where Netscape has endorsed ichat and is getting out of the chat game."}, {"response": 17, "author": "Neptune", "date": "Wed, Jan 29, 1997 (21:46)", "body": "1) Tom, what was that about password option? If your referring to your Email setup, it is a block that gets checked under Email Options or Network Options. 2) In 4.0 Beta, the news and mail software is greatly improved. I have had occasional problems with the beta version crashing about once a week but the new features make it well worth it. There is still many more features that will be further added to the program making it even better. I miss the 3.0 version for it reliability, but 4.0 kicks butt now and will be many times more powerful when completed."}, {"response": 18, "author": "bernie", "date": "Fri, Jan 31, 1997 (09:09)", "body": "bbs j austentest -\u007f\u007f\u007f\u007f\u007f \"-\" _\u007f"}, {"response": 19, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Jan 31, 1997 (09:15)", "body": "Good morning Bernie. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 70, "subject": "Paint Shop Pro", "response_count": 10, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "beaugrandc", "date": "Tue, Aug 27, 1996 (09:22)", "body": "Having used Photoshop for a while now, I have to refute the notion that Paint Shop Pro is even comparable to Photoshop. Just the Layers functionality alone makes photoshop head and shoulders above anything else. Add in all of the various filters that come with it, like the lighting effects and the various blur and sharpen, and the difference becomes even clearer."}, {"response": 2, "author": "lbores", "date": "Wed, Sep 18, 1996 (01:44)", "body": "I've used both PhotoShop and PSP since practically day 1. For the average user who requires an occasional level of sophistication (such as transparent backgrounds) PSP is the nuts and you can't beat the price. I find myself using it exclusively for preparing figures for the Web (along with PhotoImpact SmartSaver). For publishing - PhotoShop is better. My only beef with the recent version is that I can't seem to be able to adjust the selection rectangle like I used to. As for gradiants, that's done with the paint can and the option dialog."}, {"response": 3, "author": "Joco", "date": "Sat, Sep 28, 1996 (19:14)", "body": "The new PaintShop Pro (v4.1) is arrived!!! That's GREAT! (Joco)"}, {"response": 4, "author": "RogueWizard", "date": "Mon, Feb 17, 1997 (21:12)", "body": "The new PaintShop Pro (v4.12) has arrived!!! It is indeed the best short of PhotoShop. PSP v4.0 had problems with PRINTING The PRINT PREVIEW was correct. The magic wand is very different in the 4.x vers. It use to surround the area using the selected color as the border and when copied it captured everything WITHIN the selection...now it just seems captures the border and leaves everything else behind. (Anyone know how to get it to include ...short of using the laso to freehand select an area?) It could use a vector type select tool... freehand with the laso can be taxing. Handling selections is very different...maybe I haven't spent enough time with them but when I'm in a hurry I still perfer V3.12 for that reason only."}, {"response": 5, "author": "perg", "date": "Thu, Jun 19, 1997 (16:06)", "body": "I have just started using Paint Shop Pro and I have been trying to use the transparency option, but it doesn't seem to be working. This is what I have been doing: pull up the graphic, make the background colore the active color, select all, modify, transparent color, select background and set tolerance, then ok. So, up to that point I think I am on the right track, but once I try to save the selected part of the graphic, which is the part I want to keep, the background always ends up a yellowish color. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks so much."}, {"response": 6, "author": "kota", "date": "Sun, Aug  3, 1997 (08:45)", "body": "PSP 4.12's main failing is its single undo. This makes the program practically useless for any image editing. PSP 4.12 feels more like a plastic toy compared the industrial strength tool of PS 4. You get what you pay for; an tired adage, but true nonetheless."}, {"response": 7, "author": "jdmorris", "date": "Tue, Mar  3, 1998 (11:35)", "body": "I just tried PSP 5.0 beta2.1. It's obvious that there are lots of wonderful new features. But the performance stinks. Use simple brush actions, like smudge for example, and you can wait forever to see IF it works at all, and whether it works as expected -- which it often does not. It's good PSP5 has an improved undo feature -- I needed it after about 80% of the things I tried to do. I'm using a P150 with 64mb ram, so I really don't think I should have this problem. I'd like to play around with the ne features but's back to 4.14 for me, for now. I'll kee trying the updates. I hope they get it right."}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Mar  4, 1998 (06:40)", "body": "What's the procedure to do a transparent gif?"}, {"response": 9, "author": "Nimue", "date": "Tue, Apr 28, 1998 (22:38)", "body": "To make a transparent gif you need to first of all... set the background color to the color you'd like to be transparent. Save it as a gif, but before you do... when you do the \"save as\" .. scroll to gif and click on options. Set the transparency value to the background color. If that same color appears anywhere else in the gif be aware that it will also be transparent. I use PSP and PhotoShop both. They each have their fine points, but for transparent gifs with complex backgrounds, Photo is the only choi e."}, {"response": 10, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Apr 28, 1998 (23:09)", "body": "Wait a minute, *nimue*, weren't you on the tv show \"Merlin\" last night? Thanks for the transparent gif instructions! apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 71, "subject": "Thumbs Plus", "response_count": 15, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "Neptune", "date": "Fri, Aug  9, 1996 (12:27)", "body": "Well since the Olympics is still in my mind... I give this program... a 9.875 out of 10! A MUST have for anyone serious about their graphics. I have tried many but I have never seen any better. These people from Cerious are serious about their customer support as well."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Aug  9, 1996 (22:37)", "body": "What are some of the features folks like about this program? Glad you got that in, this is the last day before the moratorium on Olympics discussion (just joking)."}, {"response": 3, "author": "Neptune", "date": "Sat, Aug 10, 1996 (04:54)", "body": "Features that I like? Too NUMEROUS to list... but I'll list the first few that come to mind; The thumbnail database even keeps tracks of off-line files (disks, CDs, etc). The thumbnail viewing is very configurable to the users taste. The program offers numerous shortcuts keys. It is FAST in viewing, thumnail creation, catalog creation, and printing. The Toolbar and many other options are user-configurable. It can easily handle multiple databases. It has its own built-in Screen Capture utility. I only recently found out about the screen capture option from the manual (I've only read 25% of it yet. That option alone is timely... I was about to register my HyperSnap)."}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Aug 10, 1996 (09:49)", "body": "Is their screen capture on a level with HyperSnap's?"}, {"response": 5, "author": "uNiBrOw", "date": "Sat, Aug 10, 1996 (13:04)", "body": "I personally dislike this program. It does have some great features, but.. the look and feel just do not sit well with me. So..I am picky :) What I wish someone would do is create a graphics app that can span subdirectories while doing a slide show. I put all my graphics on Zip Disks(Iomega) and sort them into directories based on name. It would be nice if I could get to them all easily without having to traverse the directory tree. I thought Thumbs could do this, but so far (just got it last night) I have not found the way if there is one. Maybe Thumbs will grow on me as I continue to use it.."}, {"response": 6, "author": "Neptune", "date": "Sun, Aug 11, 1996 (07:17)", "body": "First, Paul. The Screen Capture gives you the option of capturing the Screen or the Window. Not a region. They do have a AutoClip Save feature that AUTOMATICALLY saves and enumerates ANY change to the Clipboard contents. Of course the program has its own editor and imaging tools. Second, Don, I know of a program that does what you want. Multi-Directory Screen shows. It is a DOS Program, been around awhile, but it still is great. I still have it and use it on occasion. GIF-REED. If you can't find it let me know. They make a share version which is in the public domain still. The version I have is Pro Gif-Reed ver 5.01. Your right, it would be neat for more programs to support that feature. It makes it easy to check out duplicate files too. Thumbs WILL let you view from multiple directories, just not a slide show."}, {"response": 7, "author": "Milo", "date": "Thu, Aug 29, 1996 (05:14)", "body": "I'm tired of getting TWO windows whenever I just want to view a graphics file. I downloaded the TPREGUT.EXE file, but the three files of that collection haven't solved the problem yet. Am I using them improperly? How do I simply view a file without getting the unnecessary ThumbsPlus main window as well?"}, {"response": 8, "author": "Cerious", "date": "Thu, Aug 29, 1996 (10:38)", "body": "The ThumbsPlus main window always starts up, regardless of whether or not you use the registry utilities. What the registration utilities do is avoid *multiple* main windows. However, the main window should not be showing -- it should be minimized. It doesn't become \"active\" until you restore it from the icon (or taskbar). The main window continues running when you close a viewing window -- this makes subsequent view windows come up faster. IF the main window is displaying when you double-click a file from Explorer, make sure you run TPREG and specify the extensions of all the files you want ThumbsPlus to display. This associates the files with TPVIEW rather than THUMBS. TPVIEW then sends the appropriate DDE commands to THUMBS to display the picture. This avoids a Windows 95 \"feature\" that always restores an application's main window when it is passed files from Explorer."}, {"response": 9, "author": "Neptune", "date": "Fri, Aug 30, 1996 (01:23)", "body": "I'd also add, that if you do decide to use Thumbs as your main \"viewer\" and still want only one window displayed, you have the option under \"Preferences|View\" to have the main program minimized when viewing graphics. Personally though, I don't use Thumbs primarily as a single file viewer. I use ACDSee for that, and it does a fine job at it too."}, {"response": 10, "author": "sducey", "date": "Tue, Jan 14, 1997 (21:30)", "body": "Has anyone used Pixfolio32? If so do you know how it comopares to Thumbs Plus 32. I have been using it for awhile, but it is a little buggie. I think I may go ahead and try Thumbs Plus, but I would like to have some conparison imput."}, {"response": 11, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Jan 15, 1997 (07:38)", "body": "Do you have a url or ftp address for this?"}, {"response": 12, "author": "sducey", "date": "Wed, Jan 15, 1997 (19:59)", "body": "Sure do...try: http://www.iglou.com/acksoft/"}, {"response": 13, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sun, Jan 28, 2001 (21:11)", "body": "A great piece that tells you what the Thumbs Plus won't. This site tells you how to actually use the program. I found it while downloading the Thumbs Plus program today. Stay tuned for some web pages that I plan to crate using Thumbs Plus."}, {"response": 14, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Tue, Jan 30, 2001 (08:50)", "body": "The Thumbs Plus web page wizard really rocks, why don't they at least brag about this on the Thumbs Plus page, when it comes to promoting their own product, the Thumbs Plus folks have their thumb up ... I better not say. Here's a page I put together with Thumbs plus: http://www.wholetech.com (the bottom of the page has links to pictures of our house remodeling and building)."}, {"response": 15, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Apr 30, 2001 (02:07)", "body": "The web wizard has become an indispensible tool Got a whole bunch of pix and want a web page with thumbnails, takes about 2 minutes max. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 72, "subject": "WebImage", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 73, "subject": "VuePrint", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 74, "subject": "HyperSnap", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "gregko", "date": "Wed, Aug 28, 1996 (12:26)", "body": "Just wanted to add that HyperSnap current version is now 2.70. New features include auto-scroll, which lets you capture window contents beyond the lower window edge, if it has a vertical scroll bar. That way you may capture e.g. entire WEB pages from your browser, and other documents. Greg Kochaniak (HyperSnap author) apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 75, "subject": "ACDSee", "response_count": 5, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "wizzle", "date": "Sat, Oct 26, 1996 (19:04)", "body": "I found this a handy extra app, even though I own Paintshop Pro, with its browser capability. ACDSee lets me manage my graphics (about 80megs worth) much more quickly and I usually keep it open when I am running my HTML editor (HotdogPro) to find the image I want to move into my homepage folder. Saves mu much more than the $18 it cost in time and aggrevation. And a snap to use and install!! Nice product."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Aug  9, 1997 (10:59)", "body": "From the ACDSee folks: I'm a representative for ACD Systems, we are the developers of ACDSee. I'd like to thank you for having a link to our software on you web page. I'd also like to take this time to notify you that our software has been updated. Latest versions of ACDSee. -ACDSee16 v1.5 (acdc1615.exe) -ACDSee32 v2.1 (acdc3221.exe) Latest versions of PicaView. -PicaView16 v1.3 (pvu1613.exe) -PicaViewNT v1.3 (pvunt13.exe) -PicaView32 V1.0 (pvu3210.exe) Please check to make sure your links to our software are current, Http://www.acdsystems.com ftp://ftp.acdsystems.com http://www.acdvictoria.com ftp://ftp.islandnet.com http://www.acdsys.com ftp://ftp.servtech.com Thank you in advance, Ian MacDonald - CyberMarketer - ACD Systems, Ltd. mailto://imac@acdsystems.com - 250-382-5828"}, {"response": 3, "author": "pollox", "date": "Fri, Dec 17, 1999 (18:33)", "body": "My expiriences woth acdsee may have been with an older version, but I am amazed that folks find it 'fast'. I always got frustrated with it and reset my image viewer filetypes to Irfanview. if you think ACDsee is fast you really should take a look at Irfan. and best of all, it's postcardware; if you like it send the programmer a postcard. :) it is at http://stud1.tuwien.ac.at/~e9227474/ or it's US mirror at http://members.home.com/rsimmons/irfanview/"}, {"response": 4, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, Dec 17, 1999 (18:40)", "body": "How does it compare with Lview Pro or is it entirely different. All I can get from those URLs is to other mirror sites and nothing else."}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Dec 20, 1999 (09:12)", "body": "That's the question that came to my mind, the comparision with Lview Pro. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 76, "subject": "GraphX Viewer", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "vormax", "date": "Tue, Nov  9, 1999 (23:37)", "body": "Well, seeing how you wrote this more than 3 years ago, let me just add that that version of GraphX view holds up well today. In fact, I still use it to edit photos, cut and past collages and correct and add effects. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 77, "subject": "PolyView for Windows 95", "response_count": 3, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "Rogero", "date": "Sat, Mar  1, 1997 (10:55)", "body": "PolyView is certainly not the only viewer with random slide show. As your own review states, Thumbs has this feature. And I can confirm it."}, {"response": 2, "author": "Marak703", "date": "Mon, May 19, 1997 (16:20)", "body": "Is anyone else having problems with the TWAIN Acquire in Polyview? It crashed the program for me."}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, May 20, 1997 (09:15)", "body": "No, but I'll try it this weekend and let you know. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 78, "subject": "JasCapture", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 79, "subject": "Fractal Viewer", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 8, "subject": "Netscape Navigator 32-bit", "response_count": 27, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "zidox", "date": "Mon, Aug 12, 1996 (02:04)", "body": "Question: Is Netscape going to charge when the full version of 3.0 comes out? Even for students and personal use? If Netscape is seriously considering this, they have no reason to be complaining about Microsoft's competition. I like Netscape, but I will go with the free MS Explorer 3.0 if Netscape starts charging..."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Aug 12, 1996 (07:31)", "body": "But if Netscape starts charging, wouldn't Microsoft start charging? Free software has never been Microsofts forte."}, {"response": 3, "author": "Neptune", "date": "Mon, Aug 12, 1996 (09:21)", "body": "Ahem... They DO NOT charge for students, academics, and recognized charities, and I beleive most government agencies were included in the no-fee group."}, {"response": 4, "author": "theKAT", "date": "Thu, Aug 15, 1996 (18:58)", "body": "Is there a way to make the newsreader in Netscape combine and decode multi-part UUE files? If so, I haven't been able to figure it out. Thx."}, {"response": 5, "author": "sysop", "date": "Sun, Aug 18, 1996 (11:19)", "body": "I just downloaded the full release version of Netscape 3.0 from ftp://ftp8.netscape.com/navigator/3.0/windows/n32e30p.exe"}, {"response": 6, "author": "golgo", "date": "Tue, Aug 20, 1996 (01:15)", "body": "I have been using the 16 bit version of the full release of 3.0 but I can't seem to get the Java applets activated... the Java scripting is activated. Is thiis a feature of the 32 bit version only or is there something I am missing?"}, {"response": 7, "author": "tessera", "date": "Thu, Sep  5, 1996 (02:39)", "body": "In response to the last item from Stephen Chen, check the release notes (actually the readme file from the download) I think that's what they said. Matter of interpretation though, java is limited in 16-bit version in some way but check the source, I know that this is all I read from the readme: \"* Java is enabled in 32-bit version only.\" Since you have been using the 16 bit version of the full release of 3.0, can you comment on my difficulties with this? (see NN Gold topic, I won't waste space with duplicate posting.)"}, {"response": 8, "author": "kenric", "date": "Thu, Sep  5, 1996 (06:17)", "body": "In response to the last item from Pat, Microsoft never ported JAVA to Windows 3.1. Currently IBM is writing a port. You can visit the IBM home page to find more information on the Windows 3.1 Java port status. Once this is complete, Netscape will be able to support Java on the Windows 3.1 platform."}, {"response": 9, "author": "clownboy", "date": "Fri, Nov  1, 1996 (01:03)", "body": "I've written for and followed HTML since it's inception - watching browsers be born and die. Netscape (since its inception as mozilla - remember the \"M\"?) has been this terrible and wonderful wildcard (think \"blink\" tag here) - creating propritary tags and doing it's damndest to throw it's weight around. Finally someone has listened to the W3C's standards - and it isn't Netscape. It's most frustrating to look to MS to supply what developers need, while Netscape seems to have forgotten us. Where the hell s Netscape when it come to the 3.2 specs? Why can't I control leading, why am I doomed to inheirit a default margins, Why can't I layer images/text with Netscape? MS, with all their corporate hubris, allows me to do this - and more, right now. All following the 3.2 standard. Wake up Netscape! 3.01 is nothing more than bug fixes for 3.0 (sloppy cde released early in reaction to the MS3.0 release). I don't need your revisiting of old bugs now called features (shades of cirrus logic incompatibilty - or how about the frame bug that refreshes to index everytime the the browser is refreshed or resized?). Please allow us to write for a common standard (why not W3C?) we can count on?????"}, {"response": 10, "author": "harker", "date": "Sun, Dec 22, 1996 (09:56)", "body": "Does anyone know what happened to Netscape Communicator? There was a lot of buzz about it being on the Netscape site and Stroud advertised it as being on the WWW Page but alas, it never appeared?? Any clues?"}, {"response": 11, "author": "harker", "date": "Sun, Dec 22, 1996 (09:56)", "body": "Does anyone know what happened to Netscape Communicator? There was a lot of buzz about it being on the Netscape site and Stroud advertised it as being on the WWW Page but alas, it never appeared?? Any clues?"}, {"response": 12, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Dec 22, 1996 (12:31)", "body": "No. I didn't know this. I did do a net search and found these resources: http://198.95.249.81/comprod/products/communicator/ which gives the official specs on the product. This is about the best place to find information on Communicator. To quote from the website: [Communicator] components are sold separately by Netscape as separate applications; rather, together they provide a rich set of services optimized for today's business and Web users. They include: Netscape Navigator Netscape Messenger Netscape Collabra Netscape Composer Netscape Conference Netscape Calendar (Professional Edition only) Netscape AutoAdmin (Professional Edition only) Netscape IBM Host On-Demand (Professional Edition only) Netscape Constellation functionality How does the integration work across these components? Click on a hyperlink and Netscape Navigator's browsing engine takes you there - whether to a Web document or to a discussion group posting. Compose an email message, discussion group posting, or an HTML document, and Netscape Composer provides the authoring engine. Select a name in the Personal Address Book, and you can send email, post a discussion group message, or initiate an Internet phone call - all from within the same interface. Any way a user wants to structure their everyday work and communication, Communicator provides the right combination of components and functionality to get it done quickly and easily."}, {"response": 13, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Dec 22, 1996 (12:53)", "body": "Also check http://home.netscape.com/comprod/products/communicator/index.html"}, {"response": 14, "author": "slymister", "date": "Sun, May 25, 1997 (22:19)", "body": "Netscape has some bugs. Be aware that you can't use Nortons Anti Virus program while downloading."}, {"response": 15, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, May 26, 1997 (14:41)", "body": "What happens if you use Nortons Anti Virus? Does it crash or something. I'm pretty sure I had it running the other day when I downloaded Communicator 4.0."}, {"response": 16, "author": "paradox", "date": "Fri, Jun 13, 1997 (00:58)", "body": "The new version of Communicator 4.0 doesn't sound all that interesting. After all, it will have to replace a lot of solid software which already work well with one another. It is nice that Netscape wants to provide an integrated suite of stuff, but it also means that they will have to really offer something better than what people already have: in my case it means that they will have to outdo Agent 1.0 as a newsreader, Eudora Pro 3.0 as a mail reader and mail filer, and importantly, Smart Bookmarks 3.0 as a dynamic book mark drop and drag utility that can, for example, automatically keep tabs on updates at remote web pages. And all these programs work well in consort so that, for example, if I tap a mailto: in my web browser, it is automatically sent to Eudora Pro. Does Netscape think I will get rid of all this software (including WebWhacker and other such programs) that works primarily in terms of Netscape 3.01? I might make a special note of Smart Bookmarks 3.0. Forest Stroud's people seems to want to hide this one, but I might note that this product is much better than the earlier, unstable memory hog Smartmarks 2.0. Don't confuse them. You can use this agent, for example, to automatically look for words or phrases on the Internet once a day, or whenever you specify, and then send you or bookmark the changes! Full drop and drag functionality with Netscape Gold 3.01 (well, that's what I use), and full bookmark r placement. Stroud's folks for some reason don't want to include this as a 'web agent.' Tough, since it is. I in turn will use something like WebWhacker (1.0 since I need to access the downloaded sites on my hard drive) to archive the site I find. So Communicator should not to be rated simply as an 'improvement' of a stripped down Navigator 3.01, but as adding to an NN 3.01 as enhanced and integrated in a larger functional environment."}, {"response": 17, "author": "tedchong", "date": "Fri, Jun 13, 1997 (08:57)", "body": "Heard some serious bugs were found on all Netscape browser products, see below url for more info: http://cnnfn.com/digitaljam/9706/12/netscape_pkg/"}, {"response": 18, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Jun 13, 1997 (09:21)", "body": "I been using Communicator 4.0, they just released the final version yesterday but they actually had it in a tucked away, unpublicised area of their site about a week ago. It's alright, the mail is workable and I like the way it remembers your last accessed url. It remembers where you left off. I've been bouncing back and forth between the new IE Explorer and Communicator so much that the distinctiosn between them are starting to blur. For the life of me, I can't find this highly touted \"push\" stuff in the product. And I'd like to see better integration of telnet into browsers."}, {"response": 19, "author": "tedchong", "date": "Fri, Jun 13, 1997 (20:39)", "body": "I used the professional version and found it to be faster than previous versions in term of loading text and graphics. But can't set the option to display full url path when you browse the bookmark. The 'PUSH thing sounds great for real-time news and financial info."}, {"response": 20, "author": "ginger", "date": "Sat, Jun 14, 1997 (21:32)", "body": "If you can find it!"}, {"response": 21, "author": "Neptune", "date": "Fri, Jul  4, 1997 (06:05)", "body": "Howdy Partners, I have the latest Explorer on one system and the Communicator on another and I can definetly say, the Communicator wins hands down. A few of the features that impress me; * Very user configurable. Paul mentioned a \"last url memory\", well in your preferences that can be selected or it starts at a web page of your choice. I have it set for one page and if I want to go back to a visted site just click under the \"Communicator\" menu and select \"History\" to find a list of sites last visited... that list can also be configured to your liking from hundreds to none at all. * System friendly, in that YOU can modify where you want it to reside and also configure where many of its files will reside. Caches, user files, etc. Helping make the most of your system. * The Email & Collabra (Newsreader) alone are worth many praises. I have put away two other programs now that the Communicator does what they were doing for me. * MultiUser friendly too boot! I have had up to four different accounts be handled by the Communicator. It would have been nice if the program let more than one account be used simultaneously from the same system. Oh well, too many pluses to list... Drawbacks? Takes about 20 to 35 Mb to install (I'm using the Professional version with everything in it). How about feedback from other Communicator users out there?"}, {"response": 22, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Jul  4, 1997 (09:38)", "body": "I'm amazed at how well Netscape has deployed this across disparate platforms like Sun, Windows 3.1, Dec Alpha, Mac, etc. They've tried to include everyone. I use Communicator and Navigator interchangeable on the same systems and they seem to be good befellows so far. I wish they would decide on a common menu structure, they seem to move the functions around with every new release. I don't think there's a clearcut winner here, unless you're on a Mac, a Sun or and AIX box, the it's obviously Communicator. Actually, I prefer Communicator on some systems and IE on others, it depends on the environment that I have set up."}, {"response": 23, "author": "kota", "date": "Sun, Aug  3, 1997 (09:04)", "body": "The good: For sheer usability, Netscape wins hands down. IE 4 just seems like the wannabe program that it is. Netscape remember all the little things I want it to. For instance, let's say I type in a URL using Ctrl-O and I make a mistake. I can go back and CTRL-O and fix the mistake. IE 4, you have to type the whole damn URL again. Also when you are entering any .COM domain name, you can leave out the \"www.\" and \".com\". So if i wanted to go to www.tucows.com, I can just type in tucows. I don't even use the messagin and discussion features anymore (Agent 1.5 kick a*s), but one thing I noticed is that you can have more than one news server. Every newsreader should have this feature. The bad: There should be a way to have multiple pop accounts from one user entry. Search under discussion group doesn't always work. Line numbers aren't listed, etc. etc. I use Agent now exclusively for newsgroups, so why am I complaining? The greatest news I've heard in recent times is that Netscape will be going to back to its roots; it will stop bundling the mail and newsreader functions in. Now that is something I would pay money for!"}, {"response": 24, "author": "ernst", "date": "Sun, Aug  3, 1997 (16:49)", "body": ""}, {"response": 25, "author": "idecard", "date": "Mon, Aug 17, 1998 (06:57)", "body": "for comunicator 4.06 release notes : bad link from your site on http://cws.internet.com/32www.html#netscom instead of : http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/4.0/relnotes/windows-4.0.html for the review, it should be http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/4.0/relnotes/windows-4_06.html#Whats New Shame on u people . i had to go to the newsgroups to find this out."}, {"response": 26, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Aug 17, 1998 (08:03)", "body": "Thanks for the update! Are you and avid Communicator user?"}, {"response": 27, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Aug 24, 2000 (20:17)", "body": "PC Browser Alert A newsletter from CNET Help.com http://www.help.com/ August 24, 2000 *************************************************** This week's Browser tip: Find Long-Lost Friends (Netscape 6) Find lost-long folks with People Finder in Netscape 6. Just click Search/People Finder. The Netscape People Finder page will open, prompting you to type in the first and last names, city, and state/country of the person for whom you're searching. Then select \"Find Phone Number/Street Address\" or \"Email Address\" and click Search. If you know the person's street address, phone number, or email address and nothing else, you can do a Reverse Search using that information. With any luck, People Finder will make your lost person found. Get more Netscape 6 how-tos and tips: http://2.digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin2/flo?y=e2P0BBFIE0QX0B8BP apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 80, "subject": "HTML Editors", "response_count": 32, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Jul 24, 1996 (20:44)", "body": "Above Review by Forrest Stroud"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jul 29, 1996 (12:39)", "body": "My favorite, and the favorite around the Spring and NetRabbit, is HotDog Professional. I'll talk in more detail in the HotDog item. I haven't seen a wysiwyg app that I like yet, although FrontPage is a step in this direction. Amazingly, I watched someone create some web pages with Netscape Gold the other day and it worked pretty well."}, {"response": 3, "author": "KK", "date": "Thu, Aug 15, 1996 (16:14)", "body": "I take your word for it."}, {"response": 4, "author": "ian", "date": "Fri, Aug 16, 1996 (00:27)", "body": "My favourite HTML editor is vi, with collection of shell scripts, but the one I usually recommend is HotMetal. I recommend HotMetal because it is a good editor, and I do not know many HTML editors (there could easily be better one output there). At any point, you can easily find out what elments are allowed -- for example, whether you can put a list at any given point. You do not have know about DTDs and such stuff. The reason I prefer vi is that I know the parts of the HTML DTD that I need, and usually do not do anything fancy. vi lets me pipe a range of lines through a shell script, replacing the range with the output of the shell script. For example, if I want a list of anchors, I can type a two-column tab-separated list of URLs and descriptions, mark the line range (say a and b), and issue the :'a,'b!h a|h ul This pipes the range of line one through my shell script to get a list of anchors (element A), pipes that output through the script again to get an unordered list (element UL), and replaces the original lines with the final output. You can see why a part time programmer (guess who?) would like this, but it will also be obvious why I recommend an alternative solution to many people."}, {"response": 5, "author": "Neptune", "date": "Fri, Aug 16, 1996 (23:00)", "body": "I tried Hotdog Pro and Netscape Gold, and although HotDog is much more powerful it does not really have a WYSIWYG interface that runs simultaneously with its editor. Netscape Gold does. Being a person who still believes that you should have your Webpage acessable to at least the majority of the masses, I don't believe in putting a lot of the latest bells and whistles into webpages. THEREFORE, I find myself using Netscape Gold instead of Hotdog Pro."}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Aug 17, 1996 (00:52)", "body": "As mentioned in the Hotdog Pro item, HotDog is moving toward wysiwyg."}, {"response": 7, "author": "LightningJack", "date": "Thu, Nov  7, 1996 (19:56)", "body": "I'm in search of an HTML color chooser. Does anyone know of a good one, or a place where I might look to find one? (I tried www.cwsapps.com already and couldn't find one there.) TIA Dan"}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov  7, 1996 (20:10)", "body": "Send an email to bhg@www.spring.com. He may know of one."}, {"response": 9, "author": "kendall", "date": "Wed, Nov 27, 1996 (10:44)", "body": "I am looking for an updated HTML checker. The ones I know about are out of date - do not recognize new commands, think paragraphs and line breaks need to be closed, etc. thanks katy kendall kpk@ornl.gov"}, {"response": 10, "author": "oz", "date": "Thu, Jan  9, 1997 (00:35)", "body": "Just a quick note to say that Version 2.0 of NACHOS (Not A Childs Html Organising System) has been released. Windows 95 only, but well worth a look. http://www.ozemail.com.au/~krisp/nachos Oh yeah, and it has a decent HTML color picker"}, {"response": 11, "author": "Ben", "date": "Wed, Jan 15, 1997 (10:22)", "body": "Has anyone experience in converting hundreds of MS-Word files into HTML. Which tool is the best to perform automatically sets of MS-Word files with few user interaction during the process (it should include graphics conversion). Any suggestion?"}, {"response": 12, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jan 16, 1997 (18:03)", "body": "Internet Assistant for MS Word! The perfect app for this."}, {"response": 13, "author": "Ben", "date": "Mon, Jan 20, 1997 (11:13)", "body": "In addition to Internet Assistant for MS Word, I've also found a new tool for performing the conversion of many MS-Word files. Here's the URL http://www.solutionsoft.com/w2w.htm Sincerely"}, {"response": 14, "author": "ian", "date": "Tue, Mar 18, 1997 (23:35)", "body": "If you want to check HTML files, you can do it with \"SP\", a free SGML from http://www.jclark.com/ or with OmniMark, a commercial package from OmniMark Technologies Corporation -- http://www.omnimark.com/ Both SP and OmniMark use a DTD that describes the document structure. you can get the HTML 3.2 DTD ( http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/Wilbur/ ) from the World Wide Web Consortium ( http://www.w3.org/ ). SP is an excellent SGML parser but does not have all of abilities that OmniMark have. Omnimark is an very powerful programming language for document processing -- I have used it to convert WinHelp RTF files to SGML."}, {"response": 15, "author": "Ann", "date": "Mon, Feb 22, 1999 (00:07)", "body": "I have a Word 97-HTML question. I'm trying to save a file from the internet, then open it up on Word and look at the tags, but Word keeps pretending it is a browser and interpretting the tags as formatting. Is there a way to look at the source file of a web document using Word 97??? Or will it always turn bold tags into bold formatting? How do you see the tags?"}, {"response": 16, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, May 28, 1999 (13:51)", "body": "click on view then click on HTML Source"}, {"response": 17, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Fri, May 28, 1999 (13:52)", "body": "anyone else played with HomeSite 4.0?"}, {"response": 18, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Jul  1, 1999 (14:09)", "body": "A little bit, I got it with the Allaire stuff. It's ok, it may be better now."}, {"response": 19, "author": "KitchenManager", "date": "Sun, Jul  4, 1999 (02:46)", "body": "it's got some nice features that are easy to use if you are used to the world o' gui's instead of the real world..."}, {"response": 20, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, Feb 13, 2000 (02:16)", "body": "...what's a gui?"}, {"response": 21, "author": "sprin5", "date": "Sun, Feb 13, 2000 (09:05)", "body": "graphical user interface. pronoucned \"gooey\""}, {"response": 22, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, Feb 13, 2000 (13:22)", "body": "I figured it was \"gooey\"...but not that it was a graphical user interface. Thanks! I would ask you how and why it is used, but I guess I can hunt up that information for myself lest I look too stupid to chew gum and walk at the same time."}, {"response": 23, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Wed, Feb 16, 2000 (17:17)", "body": "Oh. THAT'S why these folks stop to blow a bubble!"}, {"response": 24, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Wed, Feb 16, 2000 (17:19)", "body": "You did not know? Now you do!!!"}, {"response": 25, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Thu, Feb 17, 2000 (16:48)", "body": "Lemme stop for a moment and think about this one..."}, {"response": 26, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Thu, Feb 17, 2000 (16:55)", "body": "Just don't step on the discarded bubblegum..."}, {"response": 27, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Fri, Feb 18, 2000 (16:40)", "body": "Eh wot?"}, {"response": 28, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, Feb 18, 2000 (16:52)", "body": "(Have you not been reading this intelligent conversation we have been having about those too stupid to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time?!) You don't want to be the victim of one who chose to walk rather than chew..."}, {"response": 29, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Fri, Feb 18, 2000 (17:47)", "body": "Wait, gotta stop and think about this again.... hmh...."}, {"response": 30, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Fri, Feb 18, 2000 (18:10)", "body": "*laugh*"}, {"response": 31, "author": "aschuth", "date": "Sat, Feb 19, 2000 (17:23)", "body": "...no no, don't disturb me, eh, wait, I'm, uh, hold on a minute..."}, {"response": 32, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sat, Feb 19, 2000 (17:45)", "body": "(holding on...) apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 81, "subject": "HotDog Professional", "response_count": 39, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jul 29, 1996 (12:40)", "body": "If these guys do wysiwyg right, look out, we'll have a killer html authoring package on our hands that will be hard to beat. Knowing these guys, they'll probably do it right. It will be interesting to watch."}, {"response": 2, "author": "KK", "date": "Tue, Jul 30, 1996 (11:19)", "body": "I came here looking for info on the new 32-bit version of Hot Dog. I was wondering if the Pro version was substantially better than the Standard. Found all my answers here in Forest Stroud's review. If anyone has anything to add, I'd be interested in reading about your experiences with it. I have been using Standards ver. 1. and I was very happy with it. It's time to upgrade and I was just wondering if I should stick with Hotdog. Seems so.--KK"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jul 30, 1996 (11:37)", "body": "I would upgrade because the 32-bit version offers a lot and with wysiwyg just around the corner, there's something to look forward to. I would be interested in finding out what Sausage's upgrade policy is for current Hot Dog Pro 32-bit users and, if there's an upgrade fee, what it would be. This might enter into your decision, Karen."}, {"response": 4, "author": "KK", "date": "Tue, Jul 30, 1996 (11:46)", "body": "Their upgrade pricing is a bit confusing. On http://www.sausage.com/howorder.htm they say an upgrade from Standard to Pro is $70 (grrowl). And from ver 1 to 32-bit is either $10 or $40, depending on if you want the standard or the pro. I thought I downloaded the Standard 32-bit, but it seems to have defaulted to the Pro. I've sent email to sales@sausage.com.au for clarification and will share it here when it comes."}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jul 30, 1996 (17:43)", "body": "Did you try the link on Forrest's site for downloading? There are also some support files that you need. Here's the url that Forrest lists: ftp://ftp.sausage.com/pub/hd32inst.exe And here are the support files: ftp://ftp.sausage.com/pub/Hd32bsupp.exe This should get you into 32-bit nirvana."}, {"response": 6, "author": "KK", "date": "Sat, Aug  3, 1996 (16:07)", "body": "I upgraded with the new files and support files from Stroud's site. But now that I've got it, I can't figure out how to configure it the way I want. I want to minimize that huge main toolbar and I want to customize it so as to add a number of command buttons. Yes, I know it is customizable, but the help sections tutuorials are lousy and I am having a heck of a time learning how to work with the upgrad e."}, {"response": 7, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Aug  3, 1996 (22:18)", "body": "I haven't tried to customize the toolbar yet, what functions do you add to the toolbar? I'll have to take a look Monday, since I don't have HotDog 32 bit on this machine I'm on now."}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Aug  7, 1996 (21:00)", "body": "More folks may be on the way. I talked to Forrest and he's adding links to here from his site. So get ready for prime time!"}, {"response": 9, "author": "KK", "date": "Thu, Aug  8, 1996 (18:03)", "body": "I'm one week into using HotDog Pro after having mastered HotStandard 1.0. It's frustrating. I find I can only paste info into a Table having each line item appear in separate rows, when I want them to go in separate columns. Anyone try this? KK"}, {"response": 10, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Aug  9, 1996 (22:38)", "body": "You mean 1.0 is better than Pro at tables?"}, {"response": 11, "author": "KK", "date": "Mon, Aug 12, 1996 (11:48)", "body": "No, I'm saying that whatever new Table functions it has are not intuitive and I'm having trouble using it."}, {"response": 12, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Sep 16, 1996 (18:45)", "body": "Have you figured out the multiple file search and replace function? That is one of HotDog's coolest features."}, {"response": 13, "author": "Martinator", "date": "Thu, Sep 19, 1996 (12:19)", "body": "When the 32-bit version of Hot Dog came out everybody at my company was excited. That was until we started using it. The UI was total crap. All those buttons that were in the 16 bit version vanished. Sure you can add them yourself but #1 it is a pain, #2 your screen gets real cluttered real fast. It was also the buggiest piece of software ever to hit my machine (and I've had some real winners). Photoshop wouldn't launch correctly because HD32 loaded a WinNT dll where it shouldn't have. To top it off you only had 14 days to review it. You couldn't install a newer version to see f they fixed their bugs because they put something in the windows registry that won't allow you to run HD32 after a certain amount of time. The result: companywide migration AWAY from hotdog to other (more stable/better) web editors. Hot dog was the best. Keyword: was. But I think they really screwed up with their horrible 32-bit version. It's a shame because they could've done so much better. A 32-bit version of their 16 bit version would've even been better. The best editor fo tables (aside fron Internet assistant for Word) is HoT MetaL 3.0 Pro. Martinator"}, {"response": 14, "author": "Critter", "date": "Tue, Oct  1, 1996 (09:45)", "body": "I see a mixed response to the new 32bit version of HD. I have been using it for quite some time and feel, after testing many other programs, that it is the best program for me to use. But, then that is the real point - what I like to use. The newest version has so many new features combined with some changes in format that it takes some getting used to. I still like it and am learning it's new style as I go. The first couple of betas in 32bit were quite bad! But, they have realized most of their mis akes and have produce the newest version that is very nice. As when I first started out, I suggest anyone who has not tried other programs in some time or that is brand new at this stuff to try several of the latest programs and find the one that fits your style and tastes."}, {"response": 15, "author": "dwight", "date": "Wed, Oct  2, 1996 (20:51)", "body": "I think you're seeing reviews of the OLD 32-bit version of HotDog Pro (v 1.1) ... The latest version, 3.07, is AWESOME. Fixes the interface problems of 1.1 and adds a bunch of new features."}, {"response": 16, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Oct  2, 1996 (21:31)", "body": "That's real good news!"}, {"response": 17, "author": "Steven", "date": "Fri, Oct  4, 1996 (19:02)", "body": "Hot Dog is better than before but it is much more troublesome with other Windows products. It crashes a lot and is very slow. Does anyone else have these problems or is it just me. Does anyone have the 3.07 version? How is it and is it worth upgrading?"}, {"response": 18, "author": "Laurie", "date": "Sun, Oct 20, 1996 (20:10)", "body": "A budding HTML Author, I was attracted to HotDog by its ease-of-use reputation. I got so frustrated in the two weeks of using it I almost kicked MY dog. That baby went out with the next load of cyber-trash. I'm pleased as punch, tho, with my new partner in web site design, Homesite. I love Homesite's quick and easy internal browser, as well as the speed and ease with which it sets up the external browser. The ability to browse files in the same window is a bonus, helping to make work a snap. The toolbar is complete and straight forward (Sausage should consider canning the cutesy dog bit and reconsider the ground it is loosing with some great contenders tapping at its heels). Insertion of images with drag and drop ease, and anchors with a click on the tool bar add to my admiration of Homesite. I have yet to experience slow startup of the program, as mentioned in one review I read. And I don't have to remember to mute the sound for fear that annoying howl on opening (HotDog) will send me through the \"ruff\" once and for all. Laurie"}, {"response": 19, "author": "wizzle", "date": "Sat, Oct 26, 1996 (18:45)", "body": "After 40 some odd years on this planet I have finally figured out that guys get places \"intuitively\" while a woman would say she is lost. These same guys think programs are \"intuitive\" which means you click every icon 50 times to figure out what it really does. I got the upgrade for $30 cause I had purchased HotDogPro 16 bit and I agree that the pricing info is VERY confusing at the Hot Dog site. This Dog (version 3.07) is a good one....gone is the god awful toolbone and the toolbarsfromhell i.e. customize customize customize......a \"guy\" feature if I ever saw one. Why make a homepage when you can play with your editor??"}, {"response": 20, "author": "wizzle", "date": "Sat, Oct 26, 1996 (18:51)", "body": "After 40 some odd years on this planet I have finally figured out that guys get places \"intuitively\" while a woman would say she is lost. These same guys think programs are \"intuitive\" which means you click every icon 50 times to figure out what it really does. I got the upgrade for $30 cause I had purchased HotDogPro 16 bit and I agree that the pricing info is VERY confusing at the Hot Dog site. This Dog (version 3.07) is a good one....gone is the god awful toolbone and the toolbarsfromhell i.e. customize customize customize......a \"guy\" feature if I ever saw one. Why make a homepage when you can play with your editor??"}, {"response": 21, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Oct 27, 1996 (13:19)", "body": "It's just a \"guy\" thing."}, {"response": 22, "author": "MAndre", "date": "Sun, Oct 27, 1996 (23:27)", "body": "I have to agree about toolbars from hell. Hotdog fer 95 last version I got made me wanna rip out my sound card. This is one of the first apps that clearly had a theme. I didnt like all the guess work that went into using it, and all the little dog sounds drove me nuts till i found the disable switch."}, {"response": 23, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Oct 28, 1996 (05:37)", "body": "I went through the same thing with the doggie sounds. It was funny for the first couple of minutes."}, {"response": 24, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Oct 29, 1996 (05:16)", "body": "The following text was copied and pasted from the now frozen, soon to be recycled, topic 303. It's ok. It's just that we already had this topic and 303 was a duplicate. Topic 303 of 303: HOTDOG PRO Mon, Oct 28, 1996 (10:57) | onpumpmd (onpumpmd) Having used the new HotDog Pro to edit my multiple sites, I find many frustrations: Loads slowly-to show us self-serving graphics, while we wait! The Help is shallow and incomplete. There is only enough information for the developer not to be accused of misrepresenting its presence. The main toolbar buttons: you can't just add a new button to the basic toolbar-unless I missed the specific instruction for that-you add a new toolbar of buttons without the original labels. Why only H1-H3?? The spell checker: It is untrainable-you can't add to it so it remains illiterate-and really-ultimately useless-to worthless; highly misrepresented. It should, like Word's Spellchecker, allow you to add words in an expanding dictionary to allow you to dev elop your own list of acceptable words and spellings. This has a teenager's list of words-everything else is highlighted for correction!! Get a life!! Tools: are scattered all over the place- not very intuitive for me. The Rover: Does NOT, that's right, does NOT reflect the HTML accurately. It drove me nuts tryong to get a list left-centered; Rover showed it as centered. When I looked at it in Netscape-it was fine. In general-this is a program filled with features-to COMPETE!! The features are often sloppy in organization, incomplete, shallow, and disorganized. It is clearly a program in evolution-I use it for certain features. In general I write HTML without any p rogram-often in HTML Writer. I reload the document in other HTML programs when I am lazy about contructing certain effects such as curved or zooming words. It is hard for me to give someone a hundred bucks for a half-baked program like this. Let's tighten up our criteria for judging the \"Most Needed,\" and \"Best of the Net\" descriptions!!! 3 new of 3 responses total. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topic 303 of 303 [apps]: HOTDOG PRO Response 1 of 3: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Oct 28, 1996 (13:49) * 2 lines Can you add these comments to the Hotdog Pro item that we already have? We need to turn this item into something else to avoid duplication of topics. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topic 303 of 303 [apps]: HOTDOG PRO Response 2 of 3: steve hanson (steve) * Mon, Oct 28, 1996 (17:42) * 1 lines this is one of the best sites i have been in for a longwhile steve"}, {"response": 25, "author": "Mark", "date": "Fri, Nov 29, 1996 (03:57)", "body": "Before you plunk down $99 bucks on HDPro, consider my experience: Sausage debited my credit card TWICE and it has been impossible to get satisfaction. E-mails and faxes have created no responses. I guess I could try flying to Australia and punching some noses but I guess I'll just write it off to a bad on-line transaction and warn others to watch these flakes."}, {"response": 26, "author": "Mark", "date": "Fri, Nov 29, 1996 (13:03)", "body": "Before you plunk down $99 bucks on HDPro, consider my experience: Sausage debited my credit card TWICE and it has been impossible to get satisfaction. E-mails and faxes have created no responses. I guess I could try flying to Australia and punching some noses but I guess I'll just write it off to a bad on-line transaction and warn others to watch these flakes."}, {"response": 27, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Nov 29, 1996 (13:17)", "body": "Better yet, I've invited Hotdog to join this conference and sent them a couple of emails (to the PR dept) regarding your situation."}, {"response": 28, "author": "drd", "date": "Sun, Jan  5, 1997 (11:44)", "body": "Have upgraded to 32 bit version 3.09 and find when I try to use the internal upload feature, I get a file handling error. Have done re-installs and tried contacting Sausage - no results. Anyone else have this problem or find solutions to it? Thanks"}, {"response": 29, "author": "FloB", "date": "Sat, Jan 18, 1997 (11:26)", "body": "I wonder if any of the reviewers of HotDog 3 have actually tried to load/use it? I started using HotDog Pro 16 bit and loved the product. However it has been a total bust ever since they have \"tried\" to make a working 32 bit editor. I am a registered owner of the first 32 bit version. The released version is full of bugs still and forget trying to get support from Sausage. Their support is to upgrade to the new version. I made my second attempt to use the beta 3 offering (version 18) this week. I could not load the simplest html document into the editor without getting \"out of memory\" error messages. And I did this at work where I am running 32MB RAM. AND my 30 day free trial according to the message I get when I load the program is only 14 days. PLUS after already spending $140 to purchase two previous HotDog version, now they want me to pay another $30 to be able to \"beta test\" the late t version. I won't even go into the part about my first purchase with Sausage when I was double charged and it took me 5 months to resolve the situation. WHY does this company get five cow, five star reviews from Tucows and Strouds?"}, {"response": 30, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Jan 18, 1997 (17:31)", "body": "Probably, because for a while they were the best game in town. Now, I'm beginning to see a lot of good things about Homesite. And BBEdit on the Mac side."}, {"response": 31, "author": "PsycoSlag", "date": "Sat, Jan 18, 1997 (23:05)", "body": "I d/l'ed HotDog Pro 3.09 and can't seem to get any sense out of the \"link sniffer\". I can't see some of the things that should be visible, like clicking on the files tab, I can see the dir structure, but can't see the files. It looks like all the stuff I can't see is covered up by that stupid logo at the lower left corner of the screen. I can't make the logo disappear, and removing toolbars and changing other elements on the screen doesn't make it go away either. If that's not bad enough, www.sausage. om has been down for the past day. I really want to use this app, but not if it's so screwed up that the \"features\" are unusable."}, {"response": 32, "author": "FloB", "date": "Sun, Jan 19, 1997 (14:43)", "body": "Jim, Don't waste your time trying to get help from www.sausage.com. I downloaded Homesite yesterday, and it actually DOES everything HotDog promises to do. I tested links on all my pages today with NO problems. It also has a feature which allows you to validate your HTML code. This is a great program..and the price is right. I am deleting HotDog from my computer today. Lesson learned...don't trust reviews and promises. I am going to give Homesite the full 50 use free test, but from what I have seen so far, it delivers what it says it will."}, {"response": 33, "author": "DavidCNelson", "date": "Sat, Jan 25, 1997 (16:10)", "body": "Wow! What an eye-opener. Never again will I download and use (i.e. try to use) software without seeing what rank-and-file users have to say about it, at least when possible to find chat sites. I came to this site asking \"Where can I download Hotdog 16-bit?\" Maybe I still will (since it sounds like the 16-bit version was good, if no longer supported), since I'm still using Windows 3.1, but I'm going to check out the competition for 16-bit programs first!"}, {"response": 34, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Jan 25, 1997 (19:32)", "body": "Take a look at Homesite."}, {"response": 35, "author": "stephen", "date": "Sun, Apr  6, 1997 (16:17)", "body": "the last date I see for a message here is in January? Anyways, I'm using Hot Dog Pro 3.0.21, and can't seem to get the \"download a website\" or the \"upload files to a server\" options to work. I have tried every combination I can think of for the server name, file names, etc, all without success. Any suggestions (besides converting to Homesite? :) Does anyone know of any other places on the net for discussing Hot Dog Pro? Thanks."}, {"response": 36, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Apr  6, 1997 (17:14)", "body": "This is the hottest hot dog pro spot on the net. Tell others!"}, {"response": 37, "author": "FloB", "date": "Sun, Apr 26, 1998 (10:53)", "body": "If this is the hottest hot dog pro spot on the net, that confirms my opinion of the product! If you want to visit a \"real hot spot\" and learn about the BEST HTML editor on the net, visit http://forums.allaire.com/hsconf/index.cfm . Real users answering questions from real users, plus real time answers from Allaire technical support. Homesite is TWICE the product for HALF the price."}, {"response": 38, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Apr 26, 1998 (12:34)", "body": "I have to agree with you that Homesite is a solid product and that Hot Dog is slipping in the rankings. This has been confirmed by discussions with several Webgrrls and others who tend to favor plain text editors over fancy, schmancy html authoring software. Allaire of course, is the company that has acquired or is somehow affiliated with Homesite and Homesite supports the database tags that are used by Allaires Cold Fusion product. It doesn't surprise me that this product is pumped up on their forums."}, {"response": 39, "author": "novell", "date": "Sun, Jun 14, 1998 (11:19)", "body": "I am a long time WAN engineer transitioning to web publishing. I did not find HotDog Professional to be at all easy to use or user friendly. The tutorial was very basic displaying only pages of text which is nothing more than a help screen. I was very disappointed with the software. Guess it is not for a beginner. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 82, "subject": "HotDog Standard", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 83, "subject": "Ken Nesbitt's WebEdit", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 84, "subject": "Web Media Publisher Pro", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 85, "subject": "HTML Writer", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 86, "subject": "HTMLed Pro", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 87, "subject": "GNNPress/GNNServer", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "sstryker", "date": "Fri, Mar  7, 1997 (09:25)", "body": "Gee, I think AOLpress is the best HTML editor out there! I've been using the 2.0 beta heavily for the past few weeks, and the new frame support is incredibly easy and powerful. I think they've also made some code improvements so it works faster too. I've seen a number of crashes in the betas, but when you restart AOLpress, it automatically recovers your work for you (up to the last autosave point, about 30 seconds). Also, Forrest complained there's no global search/replace function, but there has been for quite a while now. What's new in V2.0 is that you can search through the HTML commands, as well as the text. So you can set your pages' background color to be consistent across all pages with one step. Forrest also mentioned that the help files are online, but you can easily save the locally too. It also supports bulletins for graphics and links, which pop up when the user's cursor rests over the item, which is great for adding comments. I also like the file management support a lot, which lets you upload your entire site to the net with one command - which I find easier than the lame Microsoft Web Publishing Wizard. As freeware goes, this is the tops!"}, {"response": 2, "author": "sstryker", "date": "Tue, Apr 15, 1997 (08:47)", "body": "I wish Mr. Stroud had listed more of the new V2.0 features. I think this is now a very solid editor, which deserves a better rating. It doesn't have all the power of MS FrontPage, but then they probably don't have an army of developers working on it, either. It does cover a LOT more features of high-powered stuff like FrontPage, but at a great price. The frame editing is truly WYSIWYG, rather than using FrontPage's non-WYSIWYG wizard, and it supports some new image and link meta-tags (bulletins) that FP doesn't. I'm hoping that if enough people use AOLpress, AOL won't kill it. But I imagine that they're wondering what return they're getting for developing this freeware. But this is still a great editor. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 88, "subject": "HTML Assistant Pro", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 89, "subject": "WEB Wizard", "response_count": 3, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "Profdav", "date": "Fri, Dec  6, 1996 (11:30)", "body": "Terry, this is my first time on.could you tell me what i should do? Philip Davenport"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Dec  6, 1996 (12:12)", "body": "You should build a conference list. TAke a look around."}, {"response": 3, "author": "cfadm", "date": "Wed, Apr 19, 2006 (09:19)", "body": "ten years later. apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 9, "subject": "Internet Explorer for Windows 95", "response_count": 53, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "Neptune", "date": "Fri, Aug  9, 1996 (12:17)", "body": "I have been tempted to try out the latest Explorer (beta 2) but my worry is that it will overwrite some of my links in the Win95 registery for my Netscape browser. Anyone know if such is the case? Or can I run both from the same system without making extensive modifications?"}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Aug  9, 1996 (19:43)", "body": "I'm running two copies of Netscape on my system without any problems so far."}, {"response": 3, "author": "prplehaze", "date": "Fri, Aug  9, 1996 (20:53)", "body": "I'm ashamed to be a netizen tonight. Tonight, while making my rounds, I stopped at stroud's for the Usual \"What's new\" look at what's going on. Tonight, however, I was stunned to see who was resting atop the WWW list. None other then Bill Gates's Baby, MS Internet Explorer. No self respecting netizen could post IE as the top browser without thinking to themself, Why? Why am I supporting Microsoft, who seeks to controll all aspects of software, from operating systems to the internet? Why am I doing something that deep down, in the very bowels of my existence, I know is wrong. If I truly support open standards, good software, good companies, and freedom, then I would not use IE. Because, my fellow netizens, Bill wants us to use IE. And that is a compelling enough reason for me not to use it. Thank you. Sean Melody malelist@prolog.net"}, {"response": 4, "author": "terry", "date": "Fri, Aug  9, 1996 (22:34)", "body": "I think these guys (Netscape and Microsoft) leapfrog each other; whenever one of them comes out with a major new release they leap ahead of the other one. The competition is probably healthy and Microsoft becoming totally dominant to the exclusion or demise of Netscape, I agree, would not be good at all. When did IE take over as number one? Was this just today or a while back? How do you feel about Microsoft's plan to integrate every aspect of their Internet strategy into all their applications. With a work force of 1,600 compared to Netscape's 1,000 plus its dominance in the industry, Microsoft is clearly out to dominate this market."}, {"response": 5, "author": "Neptune", "date": "Sat, Aug 10, 1996 (04:43)", "body": "Terry, In response to your msg that your running two versions of Netscape... Watch out!!!! Guess what will happen when you Uninstall either one of those versions... I a Gold version and Standard version running together. When one started getting a little buggy I uninstalled and reinstalled... forgettting that both versions may be sharing files in the Win95 registery. That is suicide unless you manually take control of the uninstall. That is one of the main reasons I'm not running IE 3.0b2 yet. Fear. The Registery is a neat concept but in some ways limits the full potential of a multitasking system. Even a half-baked multi-tasking OS as Win95 ;)"}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Sat, Aug 10, 1996 (09:43)", "body": "How do you \"take manual control\" of the uninstall? Do you have any suggestions on how to do this safely?"}, {"response": 7, "author": "salgado", "date": "Sat, Aug 10, 1996 (10:26)", "body": "Being an Internet Service Provider and software developer, we have found Microsoft IE far easier to distribute, support and int regrate with our customers. Netscapes beta of the day is often so buggy, that an uninstall and reinstall of a previous stable version is necessary. To sum it up, as an ISP and software developer, Microsoft wants to support us, whereby Netscape wants us to support them. Regardless if you love/hate Microsoft, they are and will be the dominate force in the future of the Internet."}, {"response": 8, "author": "ebruce", "date": "Sat, Aug 10, 1996 (11:29)", "body": "In response to Sean Melody: Excuse me? Just because you like a software package does not necessary mean that you have to support that company. IE 3.0 Beta 2 is currently a better browser than Netscape. In my tech support job, I have to support both. A large number of the calls a re problems with the Netscape beta that result in reinstalling the older (2.x) pre-installed version. We have had very few calls from people who have upgraded to IE 3.0. I think Dave Salgado had it right when he said that \"Microsoft wants to support us, whereby Netscape wants us to support them.\" Also, put yourself in Bill Gates' shoes. The best defense is a good offense. Would you give up? I wouldn't. I also like the competition. It keeps both manufacturers busy and constantly improving their products."}, {"response": 9, "author": "john747", "date": "Sat, Aug 10, 1996 (14:52)", "body": "IE will take over as the best browser on the net. IE costs $0.00 and Netscape costs $50.00. IE has all the features Netscape has and much more. How can you lose with Internet Explorer."}, {"response": 10, "author": "Mynock", "date": "Sat, Aug 10, 1996 (15:03)", "body": "Wow! The Battle is on! :-) Personally I use both.......There are some things i like about netscape and some that I like about IE.....Both are good programs and IE has dramatically improved! This is close to becoming an out and out war of the browsers. ...should be very interesting to watch."}, {"response": 11, "author": "Marak703", "date": "Sat, Aug 10, 1996 (20:40)", "body": "I agree with Dana Cain. I use both Netscape and IE and would like to continue to do so however: I tryed IE 3.0 beta 1 and finally took it off and went back to 2.0. For the present I want Netscape as my default browser and I found that trying to open IE 3.0 \"Favorites\" opened Netscape. Has anyone found a way around this? Did beta 2 change this? I also found that IE imported my Netscape \"Bookmarks,\" another no-no."}, {"response": 12, "author": "petebot", "date": "Sun, Aug 11, 1996 (00:37)", "body": "I a bit miffed at IE 3.0 because it apparently won't recognize the anchors or bookmarks I've put in pages created with FrontPage (another Microsoft product.) I think the guys at Redmond need to make sure their software works with their own products. I realize it's a beta but Netscape 3.0 doesn't appear to have this problem. Of course I haven't tried it with Netscape's server package, so who knows?"}, {"response": 13, "author": "XTreme", "date": "Mon, Aug 12, 1996 (08:02)", "body": "Not a long time ago, IE was just another browser trying to grab it's share of what Netscape was dominating. Well, Netscape is still dominant in the area, but look at how IE improved and how fast it did... If IE keeps its current speed, it will jump in f ront of Navigator. Netscape has reasons to worry. Mind you, I'm not saying here which one is better. Just looking at how far back IE started and where it is now is about 1 year or so after. Can you imagine how passionate the versions 4.0 war will be?!"}, {"response": 14, "author": "XTreme", "date": "Mon, Aug 12, 1996 (08:04)", "body": "One more thing about IE, it has to have a better cross-platform compatibility. The features they have are great (OCX, ActiveX, etc), but they're Intel only!"}, {"response": 15, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Aug 12, 1996 (08:18)", "body": "Does the new IE have built in mail?"}, {"response": 16, "author": "Neptune", "date": "Mon, Aug 12, 1996 (09:26)", "body": "How fast? It is always harder on the \"pioneers\" (Netscape in this case) than on the \"settlers\" (others) that follow. Netscape without question deserves great credit for bringing us this far. Mind you, competition is still good. It keeps you sharp. As long as neither company has overwhelming control, we will all benefit in the long run."}, {"response": 17, "author": "theKAT", "date": "Mon, Aug 12, 1996 (10:53)", "body": "I have noticed that Microsoft excells in one particular area....HYPE. I believe there is an ulterior motive as well. The final, full-featured version of IE won't be free. I understand it will be released with the upcoming Windows 95 re-upgrade. Cha Ching ! After reading all the glowing praise for MSIE 3, I thought I would give it a try, switching from Atlas Gold. To say I was underimpressed would be an understatement. Although I liked the look and feel of the program, I was dismayed with the lack of feature s that I had become so used to in NetScape. I particularly disliked the way IE handles downloads. Always trying to open the files, and giving you no idea how big the file is your'e downloading. Once downloaded, I found that it can keep several copies of an 8mb file in it's maze of cryptical caches on my hard disk. I really don't have the free space to be doing that. Needless to say, I could only stand it for a few days, and now I'm back to using NetScape,(3.0b7 now) Contrary to what some other users have experienced, I have had no bug problems except with the very early beta versions of NetScape browsers. Maybe Microsoft's finished product will be better. I'm not giving up on it, but I'm not holding my breath either."}, {"response": 18, "author": "XTreme", "date": "Mon, Aug 12, 1996 (15:23)", "body": "In response to Karl Laun {{I have noticed that Microsoft excells in one particular area....HYPE.}} Yeah, but you know what? It works. Look at all the people going crazy. :-) {{To say I was underimpressed}} ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ So you were impressed. :-) But I agree with you. MSIE's way to handle cached data is horrible. But I also hate the way it treats bookmarks. Although dealing with links might not be that bad, FAT ( or VFAT if you prefer ) is already a dog with multiple small files (especiall y if you have large clusters on your HD). If microsoft wants to make everything as file on your HD, they should first come up with a good file system."}, {"response": 19, "author": "Spanky", "date": "Tue, Aug 13, 1996 (13:19)", "body": "I liked MSIE when 2.0 was released because of how much quicker it had become then Netscape. By then NS, with it's monolithic size and lousy newsreader had me looking around for a smaller, tighter, and faster browser. Even today, with the release of 3.0 FInal, you get to choose whether or not you want to include the news and mail apps...NS never gave you that option. They both have Java, but MSIE's is 30% faster at least...and tosses in ActiveX and style sheets. It may or may not be a fair trading practice, but since MS wrote the OS, then they are better able to hook into it with their software, which is very evid ent in the differences between the two browsers. MSIE is much easier to personally customize, has a much slicker interface, and doesn't open a mailto box if you miss the scrolldown arrow by a millimeter...(I HATE when that happens :)) I had NS Gold on my machine for a week and tossed it in disgust, pure crap. Sure MS has ulterior motives -- they wanna run NS outta business. They tried it with Quicken (Intuit) (remember the free Money?) and will keep the pressure on NS."}, {"response": 20, "author": "goon", "date": "Tue, Aug 13, 1996 (20:08)", "body": "i tried 2 different betas of IE (yes, i'm a glutton for punishment), and after each dumped a ton of stuff in my windows/system directory and created a half dozen directories off of my windows directory, i deleted my windows directory and started over fr esh again. i don't intend to do that again. since mr. stroud proclaimed this last beta to be the holy grail of the internet, i figured i'd give it another go (my second time). i don't load images on netscape (mucho faster that way) and the betas of IE that i tried have an all-or-nothing approach to images. so obviously the cute little icons on IE weren't enough for me. last night i figured i'd get in on the moonlight madness and grab a copy if IE, and hopefully, some other goodies along the way, install it on the wife's computer (i know, i know. low blow.) and register. well, once again, microsoft showed, with this particular debacle, that they don't have the slightest idea of what the internet is about or how to handle it. one of the links said that the object didn't even exist, and a couple of the links that i managed to slip in through had the whopping xfer rate of .7kbps. oh well. it's just as well. she'da killed me."}, {"response": 21, "author": "xenu", "date": "Wed, Aug 14, 1996 (00:24)", "body": "Forrest, I generally agree with your reviews, but honestly, if the new Interent Explorer 3 is faster for you then any version of Netscape Navigator, something must be wrong with the version of Internet Explorer I downloaded last night. After working with the Netscape Navigator 3 series, when I run MSIE 3 I feel like something is wrong with my modem. Netscape is just flat out faster then internet explorer at damn near everything, and Netscape doesn't have the propensity to shoot files all the hell over the place without telling you about it. MSIE 3 is not a bad browser, probably 2nd best, but there just ain't no way that it's even AS fast as Navigator. I hope we don't see a repeat of an inferior technology (like VHS), eliminate a superior technology (like BETA) simply due to hype and marketing."}, {"response": 22, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Aug 14, 1996 (01:47)", "body": "xenu, are you talking about the tendency of IE to save downloads in unknown file dictories instead of pausing to ask you where you want them stored?"}, {"response": 23, "author": "BlackLight", "date": "Wed, Aug 14, 1996 (10:22)", "body": "I'm not a big fan of Microsoft, but I wanted to give them a fair shake. I had read the hype about IE from the Stroud list and from the Micro$oft site itself. To be quite honest, I was very interested in seeing it do the things they said it would do. I downloaded the Win 95 FULL version, and the Korean language pack since my girlf riend is korean. We tried it out last night. It crashed on part of it's install, it crashed again a few minutes later after runnning it and the foreign language stuff DID NOT WORK! It's definitely a very \"PRETTY\" program, and M$ has some good ideas built in to it (the new 3d video format, the ActiveX technology, etc), but they were poorly implemented, and it really makes me unconfortable the way IE messes with my Internet configurat ion on install. I don't use M$N, yet it insists on changing all my settings as if I do. Netscape is unobtrusive, and will hopefully be implementing the new features found in IE soon. I think it's probably worth the wait for Netscape to \"catch up\". I have to say that IE spent a very short life on my hard drive."}, {"response": 24, "author": "briangm", "date": "Thu, Aug 15, 1996 (20:06)", "body": "I have been using Netscape 2.02 for quite a while, and have Explorer 2.01 \"on the side\". If I rated Netscape an 8 (out of 10), Explorer would get a 4 or 5. I just downloaded Netscape 3.0 last week, and it looks good, so far. Now here is Explorer 3.0, but only for folks who have bought windows 95. Is this the END of Explorer for those who don't want, or need, to buy windows 95???"}, {"response": 25, "author": "ArenA", "date": "Sun, Aug 18, 1996 (15:42)", "body": "I use MSIE3 with much pleasure but it has a terrible problem: the plugins... I downloaded the Shockwave plugin from MS but it's faulty :-( They put a version of Shockwave on the Net which doesn't do it's work. I'm used to playing ABNAMRO goalkeeper, a nice game in which you shoot penalties at the goalkeeper. The new shockwave plugin messes-up the colors. While the old shockwave plugin won't work at all :-( Strange and terrible! Why oh why do we have to use MS-uploaded plugins that doesn't work???? Why don't they test their stuff first????"}, {"response": 26, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Aug 18, 1996 (18:09)", "body": "What's the ftp location of the goalkeeper game?"}, {"response": 27, "author": "Randy", "date": "Mon, Aug 19, 1996 (11:06)", "body": "If anyone is using IE3.0 with the STB Lightspeed 128 card - don't. IE will crash Win95 hard. The problem is in pages with the marquee tags. When the last character of the marquee goes off the left side of the field, IE will come to a screeching halt and take Win95 with it. STB says it is Microsoft's problem. Microsoft won't reply to email. Both know about the problem. (IMHO, the problem is on STB's end, as I have found other things that crash or do funky things also. Will have to wait for new video drivers, I guess)"}, {"response": 28, "author": "Andyman", "date": "Tue, Aug 20, 1996 (18:57)", "body": "There is a possible security issue with IE3.0 with their ActiveX controls. I have information about how these controls can actually pass viruses, that's right, it is now possible to get a virus just by loading a web page with an evil ActiveX control. Thi s is a problem that I have been told Microsoft is aware of, but I'm not sure what steps are being taken to correct it. I can forward the message I recieved to you, just send me a note at andym@nando.net, and I'd be happy to forward the information to you In the meantime, I would either disable the ActiveX controls, or simply just use Netscape, as I do now."}, {"response": 29, "author": "emiller", "date": "Sat, Aug 24, 1996 (19:58)", "body": "In response to Karl Laun: - The final, full-featured version of IE won't be free. I understand it will be - released with the upcoming Windows 95 re-upgrade. Cha Ching! Indeed, the next version of IE will be integrated with the Windows 95 Service Pack 2, to be released later this year. It will completely integrate IE with the Windows 95 Explorer. However, Service Pack 2, just like Service Pack 1, will be available for free download from the MS web site. So, the excellent (MUCH better than Netcape, IMHO) IE will continue to be free forever, as per the MS press releases."}, {"response": 30, "author": "Mynock", "date": "Sun, Aug 25, 1996 (19:50)", "body": "A big THANK YOU! to randy (MSG #27 ) for putting the entire rest of the page in a marquee!! :-P Im sure you didn't mean to do it randy......but ya did :-)"}, {"response": 31, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Aug 25, 1996 (22:52)", "body": "I thought we had sanity checking in effect. What tag caused this? Our sanity checking feature will prevent whatever html tags we deem too distracting (eg. h1 blink, etc)."}, {"response": 32, "author": "don", "date": "Sun, Sep  1, 1996 (13:23)", "body": "I love watching the NS/MS battle :) I've been using the latest of both 3.0 versions, and haven't really had any problems with either. I like things about both of them, but I'm starting to lean more towards MSIE, which is a big lean for me, as I've been a big MS hater for quite some time. Now someone explain to me why I don't get all of these crashes and such that everyone else has complained about. Have I just been extrordinarily lucky or something?"}, {"response": 33, "author": "daveman", "date": "Sat, Sep 14, 1996 (21:33)", "body": "I must say that it is about time that people began to acknowledge that IE3.0 is a better program than Netscape. It has been at least since 2.0. At the time, I would much rather have seen a fast page-loading browser with music, marquees, and colored tabl e cells than frames. Now IE supports better HTML than Netscape. I know because I use both. My home page looks a lot better on IE3 than Netscape 3.0. Take a look for youself. It is located at: http://www.olemiss.edu/~cancell/ What I don't understand is why Netscape's mail and news is better than Microsofts. That's bullhockey. MS Mail allows the use of Office's spellchecker and even has some filters. Netscape's is way too simplistic. Netscape's news is the worst I have ever used. I can't even get it to work. Microsoft's works quite well."}, {"response": 34, "author": "terry", "date": "Sun, Sep 15, 1996 (10:45)", "body": "I just saw the cover of Time, Bill Gates with a caption about the Internet becoming Microsoft territory. The next release of Windows 97 should make things real interesting, I wonder if it will even be downloadable or if it will be an interwoven part of Windows."}, {"response": 35, "author": "pkolbus", "date": "Tue, Nov 19, 1996 (04:40)", "body": "Personally, I hate MS IE 3.0... I've used it at work and don't like it... It's just the little things I guess... IE puts download progress in a gauge at the bottom of the browser window, NS is nice enough to open a 'viewing document' or 'saving document' so I can continue browsing more easily... IE plugin support is spotty at best, reload times are poor, IE3 isn't cross-platform yet (I have win3.1 at home). I take that back... now thet IE3b1/Mac is out, you might say it is... But still no final version, or *ix or Win3.1 support... Oh... and they don't call it Internet ExploDer for nothing... it has crashed so many times (on the PCs at work)... I use NS 3.01Gold and like it very much... it hasn't crashed since I replaced a bad SIMM in my computer..."}, {"response": 36, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Nov 19, 1996 (09:30)", "body": "I use both and like both. I don't see much difference in how they handle downloads except that IE offers you the option of \"opening\" an incoming file. I run it 24 hours a day and it crashes once in a while. I definitely think Microsoft has the edge in authoring tools with FrontPage linked to Explorer. Netscape Gold doesn't really do much in the way of authoring."}, {"response": 37, "author": "clownboy", "date": "Sun, Nov 24, 1996 (03:09)", "body": "Try doing 100pt text with Netscape (HTML) or control leading or getting rid of the default top and left margin. Open Netscape in Kiosk mode and you will find you are stuck with their logo - MSIE you can specify which elements of the toolbar show or nuke everything if you wish, including the MS logo. Netscape IS faster to load images, but the image response sucks and the default is set to 'automatic' which kills decent graphix work. Heaven forbid you should have an older Cirrus Logic card, the kind folks at Netscape have brought back their little incompatability problem just for you. As a developer I'm constantly having to tell clients, \"Well, we can do that right now in MSIE, but we have to wait awhile and hope Netscape catches up in their next release.\". I'm currently running Netscape 1.22, 2.02, 3.01, MSIE 2.0, 3.01 and Arena - MSIE3.01 rocks!"}, {"response": 38, "author": "magic13", "date": "Sun, Apr 13, 1997 (22:14)", "body": "I NEED HELP I HAVE EXPLORER 2.0 I CAN\"T GET SOUND IN REALAUDIO YET I\"M SET UP FOR THIS ALSO I\"M FINDING IT HARD TO TALK IN OTHER CHAT ROOM. PLEASE HELP ME IF YOU CAN ANY ONE. THANK YOU CHRIS"}, {"response": 39, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Apr 15, 1997 (00:07)", "body": "What kind of sound card do you have? Is it working with other apps?"}, {"response": 40, "author": "gravity", "date": "Thu, Dec 11, 1997 (18:59)", "body": "I just recently purchased Windows 95 OSR2, MSIE 3.0 bundled. It was a difficult decision for me to finally go to Windows 95, and I feel I did it under duress. Well, when installing, I figured, silly me, that with a custom install, it would give me the option not to install MSIE. Well, it didn't. So, I have MSIE 3.0 on my computer, and I don't want it. I prefer Netscape Navigator; my perogative. I also have a small hard drive (I've been putting my computer together piecemeal), so I can't afford to run two eb browsers, especially one I won't use. So, I follow the instructions found on Microsoft's web site, go to Add/Remove, am about click on Remove Internet Explorer, when lo and behold, there's no option to. I'm about to kill something at this point. I eventually get the idea of downloading another copy of MSIE 3.0, to see if I can install that over my current install of MSIE 3.0, and see if it will allow me to remove THAT. It did. I click on Remove, it removes... well, sorta. It removed part of it. So, I'v got pieces of MSIE 3.0 sitting around in my SYSTEM directory. In my registry, etc. I don't want it. I want the space on my hard drive that those files that are not being used take up. MSIE 3.0 is a fine browser. I've no real problems with it, except that it doesn't seem to be able to tell how big files being downloaded are. My problem is with the marketing practises of Microsoft. They have a stranglehold, not because they have a better browser than Netscape, but because they have the most popular OS. They bundle MSIE with that operating system then make it difficult to remove. This creates, basically, an unfair marketing practice which excludes Netscape and other browsers from competin effectively except to those die hards out there that like control over their computers. Which is another problem with MSIE. I want control of where it goes, and Microsoft doesn't think I deserve that control. So, I applaud the efforts of the U.S. Justice Department against the Microsoft Corporation. As an employee of Netscape put it in an interview: \"How can you compete fairly when the other guy is cheating?\" Which, if you think about it, has always been Microsoft's greatest skill."}, {"response": 41, "author": "dsmeyer", "date": "Wed, Dec 24, 1997 (15:17)", "body": "As a tech support employee of a small ISP, I haven't had a very good time with customers with IE 4.0. I have heard nothing but problems from the majority of our users who have gone to this bloated, bug-ridden program. I installed it on my very own LAN-T1 PC and this browser seemed to slow down my 486-133 system by 90%. I am never going to use anything newer than IE 3.02 ever again. A 14 megabyte download will not produce satisfying results in the long run."}, {"response": 42, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Dec 24, 1997 (22:42)", "body": "What isp Doug?"}, {"response": 43, "author": "antimatr", "date": "Mon, Jan 19, 1998 (09:23)", "body": "I run a PB 100mhz 1Gig 48RAM with a basic Win95 OS that has performed excellently with most all software apps. I installed IE4.0 exactly to directions, and my system all but shut down. It became very slugglish..AND..the IE4.0 web browser wouldn't even work!! It always gave me messages of \"Navigation Cancelled\" and \"Internal error\". So, we reformatted the entire HD and tried it again. Same thing. It took forever to find a place to write Micro$oft for technical help or advice.(and before I could write the email, I had to fill out a lengthy needless questionaire/survey. Three weeks have passed....and I have heard nothing from Micro$oft. Not even an acknowledgement of my email. 3 computer experts have examined my system, and can find nothing to cause this error. Has anyone else experienced this \"error\" and \"Navigation Cancelled\"? I'm interested in finding the problem, even if Micro$oft isn't. Thank Goodness for Netscape!!!!!!!!!"}, {"response": 44, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jan 19, 1998 (09:28)", "body": "Has anyone notice about a 40% slowdown in system performance with IE 4.0?"}, {"response": 46, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jan 19, 1998 (11:09)", "body": "I don't think a telnet session should slow things down that much. hmmm."}, {"response": 47, "author": "Dwaine", "date": "Tue, Jan 20, 1998 (09:13)", "body": "Hello all, I just recently did the reformat thing with my computer to clear things up and start a-fresh. After installing Win95b (OEM) and IE4, I am having problems I never had before: 1. launching IE4 causes a rnapp.dll error as it attempts to launch my dial-up 2. After which my dial-up will nolonger work due to a rndll error. 3. Outlook express displays 2 Msminn errors everytime I launch it, yet works thereafter. 4. I am now getting several explorer errors now, as well. What a bum deal! I reformat to start a-fresh and now have more problems than ever. I do believe it is an IE4 problem, but who knows right? Dwaine dwaines@flash.net (or) des7@juno.com"}, {"response": 48, "author": "miles", "date": "Wed, Oct 14, 1998 (10:02)", "body": "Yes IE5 has a few bugs. One bug is in the logic behind putting out a browser for web developers that trashes networked machines. I suppose most developers don't work on a network, after all who needs to see there work in progress on more than one system(ha ha). I don't know what the effects are on a non networked machine and had I read the read me before installation I would not have done it. The major ramifications of this installation are; some links no longer work when clicked, my graphics viewer now displays all thumbs from sub folders in the parent folder as well as the sub folder, My display settings interface lost some functionality. So do be wary of installing this version on a networked machine."}, {"response": 49, "author": "terry", "date": "Wed, Oct 14, 1998 (10:38)", "body": "Now, you tell me. I just installed it on my heavily networked machine along with MS Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack. Do we have a topic on this?"}, {"response": 50, "author": "carlcalo", "date": "Mon, Nov  2, 1998 (13:40)", "body": "Go ahead. \"make my day\" [and install it]. Dont call your ISP for help when something IE gets corrupted and \"it\" needs to be reinstalled. Configuring one's OS or system shall remain a \"your\" problem."}, {"response": 51, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Nov  2, 1998 (13:50)", "body": "I am my isp."}, {"response": 52, "author": "zx6rider", "date": "Wed, May 10, 2000 (21:46)", "body": "Hi everybody. I have a Gateway 5150 laptop, running WIN98 and IE5. I have removed all but my firewall, my virus checker and my power register from my startup tray at the advise of Gateway tech support BUT I'm still having the problem... THE PROBLEM: While in my browser, usually during the load of a new page, if I move my mousie the whole thing locks up. I find nothing at Billy's tech support place to assist me. so my lovelies... what cha got for me?"}, {"response": 53, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Wed, May 10, 2000 (22:27)", "body": "Get rid of IE and load Netscape! Netscape and Spring love each other. I am using 4.7 Love it!!!"}, {"response": 54, "author": "cfadm", "date": "Fri, Mar 31, 2006 (20:32)", "body": "What browser are you using now, Marci? apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 90, "subject": "HoTMetaL", "response_count": 5, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jul 30, 1996 (05:33)", "body": "Above review by Forrest Stroud."}, {"response": 2, "author": "kelvinc", "date": "Thu, Aug 22, 1996 (14:59)", "body": "I'd like to give a response to this paragraph: For example, HotDog Pro packages many of the same features and costs under a hundred dollars, and HTML Writer is an excellent freeware client with more features than the freeware version of HoTMetaL and is faster and easier to use than both the freeware and professional versions. In terms of speed, HoTMetaL is one of the least appealing HTML Editors, and it remains one of the hardest editors to use; for these reasons, you might want to consider looking at other editors as well. 1. I have tried to get along with HTML Writer for the approximately 10th time now, and every time I am defeated by the interface and is forced to delete it. I also do not find HoTMetaL slow. It is relatively the same speed as my typing. 2. I never do register my shareware and just allow it to go over the evaluation period and go unusable. This is because I live north of the border in Canada, and I do not enjoy converting to US dollars every time I buy something. Anyway who can trust credit card transaction on the 'net anyway. Conclusion: I am utterly disappointed be Mr. Stroud's comments."}, {"response": 3, "author": "WYSIWYG", "date": "Thu, Nov 14, 1996 (13:19)", "body": "I would like to give my quick review of HotMetal Pro 3.0. First, the box featured it as being a wysiwig editor portraying a page being created in the editor as it would be seen with a browser. Unfortunately it is false advertising. It is a psuedo wysiwig/code editor that does show graphics, but shows all the tags that go along with it, and no bakground. On the positive side, it comes shipped with html ver 3.0 and can be updated free to 3.2. Also, it has a fairly easy to use frames and forms wizards. It al o does bkground sound and marqee tags (which dont work with Netscape). Was it worth the $120? I think not. I will probably go on with the much easier to use Netscape Gold and just use HotMetal for the things netscape can't do."}, {"response": 4, "author": "Sayer", "date": "Sun, Jul  5, 1998 (12:33)", "body": "I purchased Hot Metal Pro 4.0 for right at $100.00, not $200.00 as stated. I got it at a local Austin software outlet. I can give no comment on how it works, as I have not loaded it yet. My primary concern is that it is user friendly. I hope I havn't made a mistake. I know nothing about HTML editing, and based on the reviews, it was not my first choice; I wanted HotDog, but the software stores (all 3 of them!) did not have it, so I settled for what I got. Why is it so hard to find a decent selection on th store shelves (or evn software stores)? Tips, hints? schooley@texas.net"}, {"response": 5, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Jul  6, 1998 (08:55)", "body": "Have you read Forrests reviews? Have you tried downloading some of the html editors like Homesite that are on http://cws.internet.com ? apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 91, "subject": "HTML Notepad", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "dgriggs", "date": "Wed, Nov 20, 1996 (20:35)", "body": "I have used HTML notpad on both Win3.1 and win95. With both versions I have a frustrating problem with the FIND command not working, or working only once, or refusing to find anything below the displayed screen. Am I alone? Otherwise seems like a nice adjunct editor. A bit pricey for a simple editor, though."}, {"response": 2, "author": "terry", "date": "Thu, Nov 21, 1996 (04:37)", "body": "I don't have this program loaded up, but I'll test this when I get a chance. The last time I had it loaded, it seemed like a pretty decent program. What version are you using? apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 92, "subject": "Live Markup Pro", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 93, "subject": "InContext Spider", "response_count": 1, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "kermit", "date": "Thu, Sep  5, 1996 (12:41)", "body": "Another area or design flaw; It is designed to work within the 16bit Arena; No long file names, no way to adjust the html code generated; This package is ok for small projects, that _one_ person can manage in their head. If you are using either NT, Win95 or a Unix server, the limits of this environment are overwhelmings Compared to the WebAnalyse software that they have, it's depressing apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 94, "subject": "SuperPad", "response_count": 4, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "carlos19", "date": "Sun, Dec 19, 1999 (16:02)", "body": ""}, {"response": 2, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Sun, Dec 19, 1999 (16:27)", "body": "It sounds very much like WordPad which is what I use to compose most of what I do and to save things such as topics and conferences on Spring. Is it very similar - rather, how does it differ?"}, {"response": 3, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Dec 20, 1999 (09:13)", "body": "It's wordpad on steroids with help on html tags."}, {"response": 4, "author": "MarciaH", "date": "Mon, Dec 20, 1999 (14:08)", "body": "Ah...a cross between wordPad and Word97 (which I find quite adequate for HTML) though I am currently using the client Netscape 4.7 composer for the UHHilo newsletter. Not sure I need another program unless the price is right... apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 95, "subject": "Internet Assistant", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 96, "subject": "Internet Publisher", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 97, "subject": "Web Author", "response_count": 0, "posts": []}, {"num": 98, "subject": "FrontPage for Windows 95", "response_count": 2, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "Gordon", "date": "Tue, Aug 13, 1996 (08:03)", "body": "I downloaded the 4 separate files and combined them into a temp directory but when I try to install I get the following message: Error: In function FPSd Setup type Unable to create dialog Make sure _is res.dll is in _setup.lib - When you click on the required OK button to get out you get another message: Severe - Not a possible choice - Setup type Can anyone explain what I am missing and where I need to obtain the correct _ _setup.lib file - I thought that each program came with it's own setup files? but I doesn't sound like it from that message?"}, {"response": 2, "author": "Tom", "date": "Fri, Oct 25, 1996 (14:27)", "body": "Gordon, I downloaded the whole enchalada as one file and had no problems installing it. However, I think there is a problem with the install program anyway since it won't install the Search engine. When I've tried doing it manually, it says it can't find it. Anyway, while the pages FP creates are cool, it's about the most user-unfriendly program I've seen for quite some time. I'm getting rid of it and going back to GNNPress. Call me Dis-Gruntled ! apps conference Main Menu"}]}, {"num": 99, "subject": "IRC Apps", "response_count": 8, "posts": [{"response": 1, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Jul 30, 1996 (05:39)", "body": "above introduction by Forrest Stroud."}, {"response": 2, "author": "tam", "date": "Sat, Nov 16, 1996 (11:33)", "body": "hello"}, {"response": 3, "author": "AFTERSHOC", "date": "Tue, Nov 26, 1996 (11:59)", "body": ""}, {"response": 4, "author": "AFTERSHOC", "date": "Tue, Nov 26, 1996 (11:59)", "body": ""}, {"response": 5, "author": "AFTERSHOC", "date": "Tue, Nov 26, 1996 (11:59)", "body": ""}, {"response": 6, "author": "terry", "date": "Tue, Nov 26, 1996 (12:23)", "body": "You tripled, Fred."}, {"response": 7, "author": "Masterpiece", "date": "Mon, Dec 23, 1996 (18:51)", "body": "Hello Terry, Tam, and Fred. How are you tonight?"}, {"response": 8, "author": "terry", "date": "Mon, Dec 23, 1996 (23:06)", "body": "Just fine! apps conference Main Menu"}]}]}