On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 18:06:37 +0000, Jerry Boyle wrote:

And speaking of Bill Gates, I wish he'd fix OE so it didn't butcher the lines
to which you respond.

You don't need to wait for him:

http://flash.to/oe-quotefix/

--
Lenroc

* Jerry Boyle Wrote in alt.video.ptv.tivo, on Mon, 24 Nov 2003 21:24:17 GMT:

"SINNER" wrote in message
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* Jerry Boyle Wrote in alt.video.ptv.tivo, on Mon, 24 Nov 2003 18:06:37 GMT:

"Lenroc" wrote in message
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On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 15:30:28 +0000, Jerry Boyle wrote:

[...]

And speaking of Bill Gates, I wish he'd fix OE so it didn't butcher the
lines
to which you respond.

Why continue to use software the dosent work properly?

OE works great for my purposes except for how it butchers replies.

I am guessing that you dont do much Binary downloading either as it does
not handle yEnc encoding without third party software.

[...]
--
David | AGM Favorite Games - http://tinyurl.com/loec
Women in love consist of a little sighing, a little crying, a little dying
-- and a good deal of lying.
-- Ansey

"SINNER" wrote
Why continue to use software the dosent work properly?
OE works great for my purposes except for how it butchers replies.
I am guessing that you dont do much Binary downloading either as it does
not handle yEnc encoding without third party software.
[...]

I download binaries a lot and find OE just fine. Yes, I installed
yProxy. That was perhaps the easiest program to install that I
have ever used. It has never interfered with any other software
I use, either.

I do not download binaries of the type that are split up first into
500 .RAR files, each of which split up again into numerous posts.
I have no interest in downloading MP3s, warez, or movie files,
the only things I can think of that require such cumbersome
splitting to post successfully. When I do get binaries, they are
typically split into no more than 3 pieces each and OE handles
them just fine.

SINNER wrote:
* Jerry Boyle Wrote in alt.video.ptv.tivo, on Mon, 24 Nov 2003
21:24:17 GMT:

OE works great for my purposes except for how it butchers replies.

I am guessing that you dont do much Binary downloading either as it
does not handle yEnc encoding without third party software.


Good guess. They lost me when they went beyond uuencode.

* Jerry Boyle Wrote in alt.video.ptv.tivo, on Tue, 25 Nov 2003 00:08:29 GMT:
SINNER wrote:
* Jerry Boyle Wrote in alt.video.ptv.tivo, on Mon, 24 Nov 2003
21:24:17 GMT:

OE works great for my purposes except for how it butchers replies.

I am guessing that you dont do much Binary downloading either as it
does not handle yEnc encoding without third party software.

Good guess. They lost me when they went beyond uuencode.

Well, if you should find the need and want to stick with OE, here is
something to look at:

http://www.brawnylads.com/modules.ph...howpage&pid=16

If for some reasaon the link dosent work go to
http://www.brawnylads.com/ and click on the software folder on the left
side and look for yproxy, it adds transparent yEnc encoding to OE.
--
David | AGM Favorite Games - http://tinyurl.com/loec
Two brothers, Mort and Bill, like to sail. While Bill has a great
deal of experience, he certainly isn't the rigger Mort is.

* Bao H. Lammy Wrote in alt.video.ptv.tivo, on Mon, 24 Nov 2003 17:20:25 -0600:
"SINNER" wrote
Why continue to use software the dosent work properly?
OE works great for my purposes except for how it butchers replies.
I am guessing that you dont do much Binary downloading either as it does
not handle yEnc encoding without third party software.
[...]

I download binaries a lot and find OE just fine. Yes, I installed
yProxy. That was perhaps the easiest program to install that I
have ever used. It has never interfered with any other software
I use, either.

I do not download binaries of the type that are split up first into
500 .RAR files, each of which split up again into numerous posts.
I have no interest in downloading MP3s, warez, or movie files,
the only things I can think of that require such cumbersome
splitting to post successfully. When I do get binaries, they are
typically split into no more than 3 pieces each and OE handles
them just fine.

My point is, why do I have to be running other processes on the box when
other tools do the job better. For OE to really be usable AND welcome
you need yproxy and quotefix. There are other less bloated clients that
do the job. I also suggested yproxy and quotefix as well as fidolook to
help make OE more usable.

Yes you can use it, the question is why would you when other better (free)
software is available. Even with small binaries you have to highlight
them all and choose combine and decode, most other readers already have
the parts combined, a simple click and you are downloading.

People stick with OE because it comes with windows and its what they
know, both bad reasons, not because windows is bad it just inhibits
choice.
--
David | AGM Favorite Games - http://tinyurl.com/loec
Terminate input by end-of-file or marker, not by count.
- The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan & Plaugher)

Bao H. Lammy previously wrote:
[snip]
Yep, I do. It's not even a nuisance to me. Those who deal with
lots of binaries may have a reason to use something than OE that
handles binaries better. For me and others who don't download
them that often from newsgroups, that "strike" against OE does
not hold much weight at all.
[snip]

Should have read: [emphasis added to changes]

Yep, I do. It's not even a nuisance to me. Those who deal with
lots of *extremely large* binaries may have a reason to use something
than OE that handles binaries better. For me and others who don't
download *extremely large binaries* that often from newsgroups,
that "strike" against OE does not hold much weight at all.