On Tue, 08 Mar 2016 18:46:13 +0000, Charles Lindbergh
<spirit@stlouis.com> wrote:
>On Tue, 08 Mar 2016 11:06:46 -0500, frank@thehowards.ca wrote:
>
>>I know this is really off topic but I am wondering what software
>>people use for this newsgroup.
>>
>>I use Forte Agent but really don't like the way it subjects of posts,
>>at least as it appears when it comes back into Agent.
>>
>>1. If a message has an single attachment no text, Agent appends the
>>file name to the subject.
>>
>>2. If there are more than one attachments, again with no text, it does
>>not append file names.
>>
>>3. If there are more than one message with multiple attachments, with
>>no text, the first message comes up and the following messages are
>>threaded to it.
>>
>>4. If there is text as well as one attachment, the file name is
>>appended to the subject and it comes up as two messages. (0/0)
>>contains the text and (*/7) e.g. contains the attachment.
>>
>>5. If there is text plus multiple attachments, it works as per 4 but
>>without appending the file names to the subject,
>>
>>Now I can see why Agent handles the subject name differently for
>>single and multiple attachmens. I guess I just have to be less lazy
>>and type something in. That would get rid of case 3.
>>
>>I do wonder, though, why the separation of text and attachments in
>>cases 4 and 5 happens. Do any of you out there have a Newsgroup Reader
>>that displays the text and attachment as a single message?
>
>Forte Agent is my NNTP reader of choice and it is ok for ad hoc
>posting of one or two posts. However, for posting numerous files, I
>prefer to use the free Camel System powerpost. The current versions
>will only post using yenc encoding, but there is a difficult to find
>older version which will post using uuencode. Many readers of this
>forum insist on using older newsreaders which cannot decode yenc and
>or mult-part yenc binaries.
I agree about Agent being OK for ad hoc work. I find, however, that I
usually use it when I've been away and have a number of files to post.
I looked up Camel Systems but their website seems to have gone belly
up and just redirects to something else of no interest whatsoever. On
getting a download from some other site, Norton Internet Security
immediately quaranteened it as "unsafe". While I know that NIS leaves
a lot to be desired, I usually bow to their superior knowledge. No
smoke without fire!
>
>All that said, Joseph Testagrose uses Forte Agent and he diligently
>writes out the subject line for each binary.
Maybe JT has the right idea and puts full info in the file name. That
way, and as he generally just has a single image per post, he doesn't
even need to type anything in as a subject. The attachment file name
automatically becomes the subject. I just posted this way using the
"B-25 Mitchell 1jpg" file.
So maybe that's the way to go - no multiple attachment posts. Then my
only beef with Agent is splitting up the text and image into two
messages. But as this tends to be onily a small percentage of posts, I
can probably live with that for now.
SD and CL, thanks for getting my thinking a bit better ordered.
Frank.
When all else fails, do nothing.
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