On Tue, 08 Mar 2016 18:46:13 +0000, Charles Lindbergh
wrote:
On Tue, 08 Mar 2016 11:06:46 -0500, 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.