test

we're having problems here, so 'scuse me folks..

> Absolutely Barking Stars wrote:

Problems? I've not noticed any here in Australia. Maybe we get mail so slowly
anyway that I didn't notice, but the FT list seems fine to me.

Is there anybody out there?

> Is there anybody out there?

We have always been here....

(I couldn't resist!!! <grin>)

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> On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Jeremy Sadler wrote:

> > Is there anybody out there?
Sounds like a Vorlon to me.

Maybe all those undeliverable mail messages come from the Shadows. 8)

> > > Is there anybody out there?

<Kosh> Yes. </Kosh>

JS

> At 21:55 01/05/97 +1000, you wrote:

Is everyone getting undeliverable mail errors? If so can someone post me one
so I can sort it out? The ones I might be getting as a list member tend to get
disguised by those I get as the list admin..

                        TTFN
                                Jon

Test

no message, test only

> no message, test only

We are sorry. This did not work. Please check the address and try again.

:-)

Mk

This is just a test.

Switching over to new email and just checking out if my subscription is
working right.

hopefully the HTML plague is gone....

On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 09:31:58 -0400, "David Reeves"
> <davidar@nortelnetworks.com> wrote:

> hopefully the HTML plague is gone....

Nope... You're still sending HTML...

Item ob du ainen pauren wild schaczen so vass im dy haut zu samen an seinen
hals und stich im dar durch, als hie gemalt stet so maint er man hab im denn
hals ab geschnitten und schat nit

                               -- a great party trick from the Codex
Wallerstein

I failed...

[quoted original message omitted]

That's strange... This message never got through to me.

Item ob du ainen pauren wild schaczen so vass im dy haut zu samen an seinen
hals und stich im dar durch, als hie gemalt stet so maint er man hab im denn
hals ab geschnitten und schat nit

                               -- a great party trick from the Codex
Wallerstein

[quoted original message omitted]

I failed...

Thought it was just me.......)

That's strange... This message never got through to me.

Those rascally cyber demons........I can recommend several very competent
technomages.......)

Just started using a new email program (Mozilla Thunderbird) and I'm testing
out my filters.

Thanks,

> On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Kevin Balentine wrote:

> Just started using a new email program (Mozilla Thunderbird) and I'm

Recieved; but this is the only list msg I've gotten since about noon Friday
(~24hrs ago!)... is everyone busy, or has there been a list glitch?

What do you think of Thunderbird? I've got Firefox, but I'm not too
impressed - Opera is still the best browser out there. Even if I
installed every Firefox plugin going, Opera still has more features right out
of the box, for a download half the size.

> Brian Burger wrote:

> Recieved; but this is the only list msg I've gotten since about noon

So far I really like it. I used Pegasus before but I had some issues with the
program crashing and my inbox locking up that took too much effort to fix.
This looks much more streamlined. I use Firefox, too, so it made sense to try
this out. I haven't tried Opera, but I may look into it.

I also downloaded OpenOffice (openoffice.org) a free substitute for Microsoft
Office that so far I'm very happy with.

This list has been very slow over the last few days. Maybe it's a hangover
following the gate glut and initial VectorVerse excitement.

It's good to see we are still alive. I often think that some disaster has hit
the other side of the world and I just haven't heard yet;)

Saturdays are usually quite, I think a number are gearing up for
GZG-ECC.

Mike

[quoted original message omitted]

> is everyone busy, or has there been a list glitch?

Recuperating from getting to actually do those
feeding/diapering/cleaning
the new grandchildren. ;->=

Course, the 6-8 hour drive each way, along with sitting up with the
daughter for her one rough night, didn't help.

I'm assuming all others are trying out some of the new ideas that have been
flying 'round. Prolly writing up new deep fluff for VV.

The_Beast

> The GZG Digest wrote:

> Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 12:02:28 -0800 (PST)

I'm very happy with Thunderbird. Like Kevin, I used to use Pegasus. I didn't
have the crash issues, but I didn't like the fact that Pegasus is

slow if there are a lot of messages in the inbox, and sometimes it's just
darned unintuitive. I liked Pegasus ability to do random sigs, though, but I
now use Thunderbird exclusively.

I downloaded Opera, but I haven't done much with it. Opera displays ads,

and since I have low bandwidth at home it's a non-starter for me. I'm
quite happy with Firefox (though I wish some of the extensions available

in 0.8 and before were available for 1.0). Firefox seems to have more real
estate available to the main part of the browser, but that's just a

first impression from someone who only used Opera to verify the integrity of
his web site. The reason I downloaded Opera was because it was pointed out to
me that my new web site format broke in Opera. It worked fine in IE, Netscape
and Firefox. I don't know if Opera is doing
something non-standard, or if Opera adheres more closely to standards.
At any rate, I was able to fix it so that all of the browsers view my site the
same way.

Like Kevin (hey, Kevin, have you been following me around the Net?) I am

using OpenOffice a lot these days. It can create native Word and Excel files.
I have noticed some quirks. I'm doing a conversion of HarnMaster for Call of
Cthulhu, and the formatting I'm using (the same as used in HarnMaster) doesn't
look the same when I load it into Word. There's some

weirdness involving tables, I suspect. Most documents look identical in the
two systems. There's a bit of a learning curve, because OpenOffice has a
slightly different metaphor from Word. I also noticed a couple of minor bugs
in OpenOffice. It doesn't seem quite as polished as Word. On the other hand, I
dislike the new version of MS Office, OpenOffice has built in PDF creation
ability, the files in native OpenOffice format are

much, much smaller, and OpenOffice is entirely free. (For the techies
out there, I _think_ OpenOffice files are saved in XML, making them
truly cross-platform.) I'm getting pretty good with OpenOffice, and now
only use Word at work.

To drag this on topic, anyone creating Excel utilities for FT, etc. should
probably test them in OpenOffice, too, for cross system functionality.

(How's that for a lame attempt at on-topicness?)

> On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 09:24:20AM -0600, Allan Goodall wrote:

> (For the techies

Yup. Technically it's a zip file (which is why they're of a sensible size in
spite of being in XML, one of the most bloated formats around), but it
contains XML files with standard names.

R

> Allan Goodall wrote:

> I'm very happy with Thunderbird. Like Kevin, I used to use Pegasus. I

Thunderbird works fast, and with the size of some of the emails I get, that's
a real bonus.

> I downloaded Opera, but I haven't done much with it. Opera displays

I downloaded Opera, but like you said, I think the viewing area does look
really small, and I can't see spending money on it to get rid of the ad when
Firefox works for me.

> Like Kevin (hey, Kevin, have you been following me around the Net?) I

> files.

Maybe I have been following you :-) My last computer went belly up last
weekend (the hard drive decided it couldn't go on any longer). I bought that
machine from a flea market (First Saturday in Dallas if that means anything to
anyone) and it had a ton of software on it, including Microsoft Office. I
needed to be able to make Powerpoints for projects, but I couldn't afford to
buy Office, so I did a search for a substitute and came up with OpenOffice.
It's working great for me and my wife.

> I have noticed some quirks. I'm doing a conversion of HarnMaster

That sounds very interesting.

> To drag this on topic, anyone creating Excel utilities for FT, etc.

So far all of the Excel files I had before (finances and an FMA tracker for a
local campaign) have transferred in with no problems at all.