Thread: Ignore again

On Aug 30, 11:45*am, Nancy Young <rjynlynos...@vverizon.net> wrote:
> thanks

for nothing....

Nancy Young <[email protected]> wrote:
> thanks

No problem.

I'll send you an invoice. ;-)

On 8/30/2012 2:45 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
> thanks

I see you're using Tbird and their latest update put a "reply" button to
the right of the "followup" button that's been messing me up. Is that
what you're experiencing?

On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 21:16:31 -0400, Cheryl wrote:

> On 8/30/2012 2:45 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
>> thanks
>
> I see you're using Tbird and their latest update put a "reply" button to
> the right of the "followup" button that's been messing me up. Is that
> what you're experiencing?

Best thing to do is just remove the "Reply" button. It was added in
the last release but was hidden by default. Now they have moved it up
to the toolbar.

Right-click the toolbar and select 'customize'. Drag it off of there
into the toolkit. It's unlikely that anybody would need this as it's
mostly useless anyway. If one really feels compelled to try and use
there's still a menu selection for it.

-sw

On 8/30/2012 10:47 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 21:16:31 -0400, Cheryl wrote:
>
>> On 8/30/2012 2:45 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
>>> thanks
>>
>> I see you're using Tbird and their latest update put a "reply" button to
>> the right of the "followup" button that's been messing me up. Is that
>> what you're experiencing?
>
> Best thing to do is just remove the "Reply" button. It was added in
> the last release but was hidden by default. Now they have moved it up
> to the toolbar.
>
> Right-click the toolbar and select 'customize'. Drag it off of there
> into the toolkit. It's unlikely that anybody would need this as it's
> mostly useless anyway. If one really feels compelled to try and use
> there's still a menu selection for it.
>
> -sw
>
I was trying to do that earlier but your instructions were perfect and
the reply button is gone now.

On 8/30/2012 9:16 PM, Cheryl wrote:
> On 8/30/2012 2:45 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
>> thanks
>
> I see you're using Tbird and their latest update put a "reply" button to
> the right of the "followup" button that's been messing me up. Is that
> what you're experiencing?

Somehow my smtp settings were changed overnight, and I couldn't
post. OMG, imagine?? Heh. I've been getting error messages
trying to post, but I also wonder if I've been emailing people
somehow.

Anyway, I had just noticed this reply thing, too, and wondered
what the heck, how did I miss that?

Thanks, Cheryl. Wonder if I'm still talking to myself.

nancy

On 8/31/2012 8:23 AM, Nancy Young wrote:
> On 8/30/2012 9:16 PM, Cheryl wrote:
>> On 8/30/2012 2:45 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
>>> thanks
>>
>> I see you're using Tbird and their latest update put a "reply" button to
>> the right of the "followup" button that's been messing me up. Is that
>> what you're experiencing?
>
> Somehow my smtp settings were changed overnight, and I couldn't
> post. OMG, imagine?? Heh. I've been getting error messages
> trying to post, but I also wonder if I've been emailing people
> somehow.
>
> Anyway, I had just noticed this reply thing, too, and wondered
> what the heck, how did I miss that?
>
> Thanks, Cheryl. Wonder if I'm still talking to myself.
>
> nancy

Thunderbird was updated yesterday and they changed the menu buttons. You
were replying to the posters instead of the newsgroup. You got the error
messages because most people post using fake email address - thank god.
My guess is that a lot of folks have been having that problem -
including me.

My suggestion is that you right click on the "reply" button and then hit
the "customize" option that pops up. Drag the reply button into the icon
window to get rid of this nasty button. Thunderbird is in a death spiral
on the way to certain bloatware. That's the breaks.

On 8/30/2012 5:55 PM, Nunya Bidnits wrote:
> Nancy Young <[email protected]> wrote:
>> thanks
>
> No problem.
>
> I'll send you an invoice. ;-)

I'll pay it the minute it arrives. heh

nancy

On 8/30/2012 10:47 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 21:16:31 -0400, Cheryl wrote:
>
>> On 8/30/2012 2:45 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
>>> thanks
>>
>> I see you're using Tbird and their latest update put a "reply" button to
>> the right of the "followup" button that's been messing me up. Is that
>> what you're experiencing?
>
> Best thing to do is just remove the "Reply" button. It was added in
> the last release but was hidden by default. Now they have moved it up
> to the toolbar.
>
> Right-click the toolbar and select 'customize'. Drag it off of there
> into the toolkit. It's unlikely that anybody would need this as it's
> mostly useless anyway. If one really feels compelled to try and use
> there's still a menu selection for it.

Thanks, Cheryl, for the heads up, and Steve for the info.

It wasn't very nice of them to sneak in a change like that.

nancy

On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 14:23:07 -0400, Nancy Young wrote:

> On 8/30/2012 9:16 PM, Cheryl wrote:
>> On 8/30/2012 2:45 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
>>> thanks
>>
>> I see you're using Tbird and their latest update put a "reply" button to
>> the right of the "followup" button that's been messing me up. Is that
>> what you're experiencing?
>
> Somehow my smtp settings were changed overnight, and I couldn't
> post. OMG, imagine?? Heh. I've been getting error messages
> trying to post, but I also wonder if I've been emailing people
> somehow.

You were probably getting returned messages VIA SMTP, which means you
were trying to email responses to mostly bogus addresses (since people
munge their addresses).

All your setting were probably fine, you were just using the wrong
button to compose your replies/followups.

-sw

-sw

On 8/31/2012 3:55 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>
> Thunderbird was updated yesterday and they changed the menu buttons. You
> were replying to the posters instead of the newsgroup. You got the error
> messages because most people post using fake email address - thank god.
> My guess is that a lot of folks have been having that problem -
> including me.

I was doing that, too. Only I don't configure an SMTP server for tbird
because I use it only for nntp. I did put in smtp server just because
it was hollaring at me before I figured out I'd accidentally clicked
"reply" instead of "followup" and I think an email went to Jill. But
when I figured out what was going on I took the smtp server back out.
Steve helped with removing the "reply" button and it's back to normal
now. Why in the world did tbird do that??

On 8/31/2012 4:53 PM, Cheryl wrote:
> On 8/31/2012 3:55 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>>
>> Thunderbird was updated yesterday and they changed the menu buttons. You
>> were replying to the posters instead of the newsgroup. You got the error
>> messages because most people post using fake email address - thank god.
>> My guess is that a lot of folks have been having that problem -
>> including me.
>
> I was doing that, too. Only I don't configure an SMTP server for tbird
> because I use it only for nntp. I did put in smtp server just because
> it was hollaring at me before I figured out I'd accidentally clicked
> "reply" instead of "followup" and I think an email went to Jill. But
> when I figured out what was going on I took the smtp server back out.
> Steve helped with removing the "reply" button and it's back to normal
> now. Why in the world did tbird do that??

The developers must think that people want features, features, features!
My last version of T-bird would open up links in it's own tabbed
browser. That goofy feature seems to have disappeared with the latest
update. It's a good thing.

Updates used to be rare and dealt mostly with security issues. These
days, it seems like there's an update every month with new features
added that nobody asked for. The relentless updates and software bloat
pretty much killed Mozilla Firefox for me.

What T-bird users need is a T-bird app for tablets and mobile devices.
The developers are ignoring what seems to be inevitable evolution of the
computer. A lot of tablet users would immediately download a T-bird
branded email/NNTP newsreader app. As it goes, the new Google Groups
interface is killing tablet users - and not in a good way. :-)

On 9/1/2012 12:35 AM, dsi1 wrote:

> What T-bird users need is a T-bird app for tablets and mobile devices.
> The developers are ignoring what seems to be inevitable evolution of the
> computer. A lot of tablet users would immediately download a T-bird
> branded email/NNTP newsreader app. As it goes, the new Google Groups
> interface is killing tablet users - and not in a good way. :-)

I found a usenet app on my new cell phone - Android Usenet I think it's
called. I got it to load posts one time, now it won't load anything new
and doesn't give me any errors to figure out why.

On 8/31/2012 7:50 PM, Cheryl wrote:
> On 9/1/2012 12:35 AM, dsi1 wrote:
>
>> What T-bird users need is a T-bird app for tablets and mobile devices.
>> The developers are ignoring what seems to be inevitable evolution of the
>> computer. A lot of tablet users would immediately download a T-bird
>> branded email/NNTP newsreader app. As it goes, the new Google Groups
>> interface is killing tablet users - and not in a good way. :-)
>
> I found a usenet app on my new cell phone - Android Usenet I think it's
> called. I got it to load posts one time, now it won't load anything new
> and doesn't give me any errors to figure out why.
>

I had the same experience recently. First it worked like crap then it
was all downhill from there. I think it was called News Buddy. Some pal...

On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 18:35:44 -1000, dsi1
<[email protected]> wrote:

>
> What T-bird users need is a T-bird app for tablets and mobile devices.
> The developers are ignoring what seems to be inevitable evolution of the
> computer. A lot of tablet users would immediately download a T-bird
> branded email/NNTP newsreader app. As it goes, the new Google Groups
> interface is killing tablet users - and not in a good way. :-)

Agreed with all of the above. I'd get a tablet if it had better apps
and could do more. As it is, the smallest I have gone is a netbook.

--
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

Since I am in the presence of experts is there anyway to get rid of that
damned flag waving in my face when I open a Word document? It is
seriously destroying my timing. First they mess up Word, then they give
me an Outlook redesigned for kindergartners with bad vision. KISS! (MY
ASS) ;-)

On Sat, 1 Sep 2012 09:58:44 -0500, [email protected] (z z) wrote:

> Since I am in the presence of experts is there anyway to get rid of that
> damned flag waving in my face when I open a Word document? It is
> seriously destroying my timing.

What flag?

--
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

sf <[email protected]> wrote:

>On Sat, 1 Sep 2012 09:58:44 -0500, [email protected] (z z) wrote:

>> Since I am in the presence of experts is there anyway to get rid of that
>> damned flag waving in my face when I open a Word document? It is
>> seriously destroying my timing.

>What flag?

And which version of Word?

Steve

Steve Pope wrote:

> >> Since I am in the presence of experts is there anyway to get rid of that
> >> damned flag waving in my face when I open a Word document?

> >What flag?
>
> And which version of Word?

My PC (HP) came with Office 2010. I found it impossible to use, mostly
because I've been using the previous version for 20 years or so.
Formatting a document the way I'm used to took literally ten times as
long, and I still couldn't get everything done right. I didn't notice
a flag waving on startup, but who cares. What a disaster!