Junk emails
Fred
addresses.
Jezza
<astoh2$jtk$1...@news6.svr.pol.co.uk>, "Fred" <te...@traithby.fsnet.co.uk>
uttered the following:
>Does anyone know how I put a stop to receiving emails from hotmail
>addresses.
>
Check out the UFAQ at:
<URL: http://www.jpatmore.freeserve.co.uk/ufaq.htm>
--
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Freeserve Anytime & Offpeak unofficial FAQs at:
<URL: http://www.hotwells.freeserve.co.uk/faqs/> and
<http://www.jpatmore.freeserve.co.uk/ufaq.htm>
Andrew Taylor
news:astoh2$jtk$1...@news6.svr.pol.co.uk...
> Does anyone know how I put a stop to receiving emails from hotmail
> addresses.
>
Hotmail addresses, even if you know them. Why not download Mailwasher as it
automatically marks the spam e-mails as spam, by marking any domains already
known for spamming. Most of the 'From' fields in the spams are forged
anyway, so it may say it is from a Hotmail address but isn't.
http://www.mailwasher.net/download.php Mailwasher is so good, I sent the
creator a substantial 'donation' for it, even though it is freeware.
Alan
<te...@traithby.fsnet.co.uk> wrote
>Does anyone know how I put a stop to receiving emails from hotmail
>addresses.
>
All people that use Hotmail are supporting junk email. Just use the
filters in your own software to block everything from Hotmail.
--
Alan
mailto:new...@amacleod.freeserve.co.uk
Dave D
"Alan" <news...@amacleod.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
news:KYJ60lAY...@amacleod.freeserve.co.uk...
> In a 4 line message <astoh2$jtk$1...@news6.svr.pol.co.uk>, Fred
> <te...@traithby.fsnet.co.uk> wrote
>
> >Does anyone know how I put a stop to receiving emails from hotmail
> >addresses.
> >
>
> All people that use Hotmail are supporting junk email. Just use the
> filters in your own software to block everything from Hotmail.
Totally agree with that, Alan.
D.
gkw
Fred
gkw <g...@fsmail.net> wrote in message
news:at1ors$k3l$1...@news7.svr.pol.co.uk...
Jezza
<at33a1$n7s$1...@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk>, "Fred" <te...@traithby.fsnet.co.uk>
uttered the following:
>How do I do that?
Check out the UFAQ, link from my faqs site as per signature.
Fred
> addresses.
You should hide your read E-Mail add'y for a start, go to Tools / Accounts /
News / Properties and change your E-Mail address. Try something like :
te...@traithby.fsnot.co.uk which is easy for someone to work out but will
stop Some auto junk mail. Or use something like mine which has no relation
to my real add'y.
Jim
Alan
<add...@hidden.co.uk> wrote
>Fred
>I'm trying to follow your advice to Terry. Hope it works. Thanks
>Jim
>
You are likely to get into serious trouble if you use someone else's
address to redirect your junk email.
Unless you have permission from Katherine King to use hidden.co.uk then
you may soon lose your Internet account.
Domain Name:
hidden.co.uk
Registrant:
Katherine King AL5 4PG UK
Registrant's Agent:
Fasthosts Internet Limited [Tag = FASTHOSTS]
URL: http://www.fasthosts.co.uk
Relevant Dates:
Registered on: 22-Dec-1998
Last updated: 16-Dec-2000
Name servers listed in order:
ns1.livedns.co.uk 213.171.192.250
ns2.livedns.co.uk 213.171.193.250
WHOIS database last updated at 19:30:01 13-Dec-2002
--
Alan
mailto:new...@amacleod.freeserve.co.uk
Mike
> In a 9 line message <atdb2o$8va$1...@news5.svr.pol.co.uk>, Jim
> <add...@hidden.co.uk> wrote
>> Fred
>> I'm trying to follow your advice to Terry. Hope it works. Thanks
>> Jim
>>
>
> You are likely to get into serious trouble if you use someone else's
> address to redirect your junk email.
>
> Unless you have permission from Katherine King to use hidden.co.uk
Agreed.
Try J...@example.com
Jims-n...@example.com
Or even J...@127.0.0.1
But you really should use a Valid Reply-to address, so not to breech your
ISP's, AUP terms and cond,
Mr Spam almost never harvests the Reply-to address.
--
Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.
But then it was Free so It might not Be!
Checked by MY auntie-virus system (http://www.isok.co.uk).
Version: 36.0.410 / next update needed: 31/10/3402
Alan
<OuuK9.2598$X56.1...@newsfep1-gui.server.ntli.net>, Mike
<replya...@isok.co.uk> wrote
> Alan news...@amacleod.freeserve.co.uk typed:
>
>> In a 9 line message <atdb2o$8va$1...@news5.svr.pol.co.uk>, Jim
>> <add...@hidden.co.uk> wrote
>>> Fred
>>> I'm trying to follow your advice to Terry. Hope it works. Thanks
>>> Jim
>>>
>>
>> You are likely to get into serious trouble if you use someone else's
>> address to redirect your junk email.
>>
>> Unless you have permission from Katherine King to use hidden.co.uk
>
>Agreed.
> Try J...@example.com
Or perhaps not if you don't have permission from NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC.
Domain Name: EXAMPLE.COM
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com
Name Server: A.IANA-SERVERS.NET
Name Server: B.IANA-SERVERS.NET
Updated Date: 19-aug-2002
--
Alan
mailto:new...@amacleod.freeserve.co.uk
Grimly Fiendish
Nobodyl...@traithby.fsnet.co.uk
After all nobody would have a name like traithby would they ?
Fred
"Jim" <add...@hidden.co.uk> wrote in message
news:atdb2o$8va$1...@news5.svr.pol.co.uk...
Bad move! Use .co.us = j...@hidden.co.us
or j...@hidden.cr.ap
but don't use the dot uk bit. I had my original account locked five years
ago for using ( what I thought was) a Mickey mouse e-mail.
Graham W
> Personally i advise people to use this one :
>
> Nobodyl...@traithby.fsnet.co.uk
>
> After all nobody would have a name like traithby would they ?
<Quote>
question on hypoglycemia. From: Thomas Raithby (traithby@<...snipped...>
</Quote>
You just can't be too sure!
Following the guidelines, why not put INVALID on the end of any From address
that you choose to use so that it doesn't clog up the internet with messages
trying to look up users on other ISP's mail servers?
Your own address above *could* belong to someone and that would be very
embarrassing in light of your recent record!
HTH
--
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WIMBORNE http://www.wessex-astro-society.freeserve.co.uk/ Wessex
Dorset UK Astro Society's Web pages, Info, Meeting Dates, Sites & Maps
Alan
<Dont...@hidden.co.us> wrote
Isn't .us a domain of the United States and therefore the name you have
made up could exist tomorrow/ next week/ next year and be the legitimate
email address of someone else?
Why not use an address from the unlimited supply you already have with
every Freeserve account and then just set up a kill rule (filter) in
your own software so that you never see the email sent to that address?
--
Alan
mailto:new...@amacleod.freeserve.co.uk
Grimly Fiendish
"Graham W" <gra...@his.com.puterINVALID> wrote in message
news:rQyK9.1082$4k6.129875@wards...
address
> that you choose to use so that it doesn't clog up the internet with
messages
> trying to look up users on other ISP's mail servers?
>
> Your own address above *could* belong to someone and that would be very
> embarrassing in light of your recent record!
>
possible that someone could have an address with "invalid" in it (esp. as
invalid has more than one meaning) , really anyone who uses a false addresss
is brreaking their AUP aren't they.
Those frosties are grreat btw.
Mugwump
> I suppose it's possible but it isn't (as least i check), but isn't it also
> possible that someone could have an address with "invalid" in it (esp. as
> invalid has more than one meaning) , really anyone who uses a false addresss
> is brreaking their AUP aren't they.
> Those frosties are grreat btw.
>
valid, hence my addy with an explanation in the sig.
--
Mugwump
Change zero to 'o' to reply
mike
but i may have
slipped in the snipping ;)
> In a 33 line message
> <OuuK9.2598$X56.1...@newsfep1-gui.server.ntli.net>, >> Alan
news...@amacleod.freeserve.co.uk typed:
>>
You are likely to get into serious trouble if you use someone else's
>>> address to redirect your junk email.
>>>
>>> Unless you have permission from Katherine King to use hidden.co.uk
>>
>> Agreed.
>> Try J...@example.com
>
> Or perhaps not if you don't have permission from NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC.
But did you try a Finger lookup to j...@example.com or look at
www.example.com ?
but i agree with GWs point re, clogging up network.
So perhaps @127.0.0.1 is the safest one to use ;)
--
Mike
Reply-to address is valid but not a primary mailbox.
Peter Boulding
<Al...@Sexfiend.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>I suppose it's possible but it isn't (as least i check), but isn't it also
>possible that someone could have an address with "invalid" in it (esp. as
>invalid has more than one meaning) , really anyone who uses a false addresss
>is brreaking their AUP aren't they.
Not so. Most ISPs don't insist that you give spammers a free
ticket to your mailbox and the suffix .invalid was invented for
the purpose: servers instantly reject them without bothering to
look them up.
--
Regards Peter Boulding
p...@UNSPAMpboulding.co.uk (to e-mail, remove "UNSPAM")
Fractal gallery: http://www.pboulding.co.uk/
Fractal music: http://www.pjbmusic2.freeserve.co.uk/
Alan
mike <replya...@isok.co.uk> wrote
><"news...@amacleod.freeserve.co.uk">i think Wrote !
> but i may have
>slipped in the snipping ;)
I wrote it :)
>>
>> Or perhaps not if you don't have permission from NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC.
>
>But did you try a Finger lookup to j...@example.com or look at
>www.example.com ?
example.com is registered by someone else and even if it is not
currently used for email/web or anything else it may be tomorrow. A
company called, say, Example may buy it and start using for their
business. You cannot just use an address without asking permission from
the owner.
So far in this thread three 'made-up' addresses have been used or
suggested that are, or could be, registered to someone else. The people
who have registered the addresses have every right to complain or seek
financial recompense if you choose to use them without permission,
especially if your re-directed spam affects their business.
--
Alan
mailto:new...@amacleod.freeserve.co.uk
Graham W
> "Graham W" <gra...@his.com.puterINVALID> wrote in message
> news:rQyK9.1082$4k6.129875@wards...
>> Grimly Fiendish <Al...@Sexfiend.fsnet.co.uk> muttered something about:
>>
>> Following the guidelines, why not put INVALID on the end of any From
>> address that you choose to use so that it doesn't clog up the internet
>> with messages trying to look up users on other ISP's mail servers?
>>
>> Your own address above *could* belong to someone and that would be very
>> embarrassing in light of your recent record!
>>
> I suppose it's possible but it isn't (as least i check), but isn't it also
> possible that someone could have an address with "invalid" in it (esp. as
> invalid has more than one meaning) , really anyone who uses a false
> addresss is brreaking their AUP aren't they.
> Those frosties are grreat btw.
Frosties??
Have a look at this, GF: http://members.aol.com/emailfaq/mungfaq.html
which gives a lot of good advice.
The word '.INVALID' at the end of the address is not interpretable as any
possible user address and if the DNS server guy has set it up nicely it
will reject the spam email because it doesn't look up and the SMTP
server will not send it.
Anything that is appended to the end will not look up on the local DNS
and thus not enter the email network only to be rejected by the far end
host and thereby generate a rejection/undeliverable note to come all
the way back to the sender. You may not care that the spammer gets
all the reject notices but it slows down your surfing by unneccessarily
increasing traffic.
Chris Game
> Or perhaps not if you don't have permission from NETWORK SOLUTIONS,
> INC.
>
> Domain Name: EXAMPLE.COM
> Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC.
> Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
> Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com
> Name Server: A.IANA-SERVERS.NET
> Name Server: B.IANA-SERVERS.NET
> Updated Date: 19-aug-2002
According to reputable sources;
any...@example.com
(Where you can replace the word "anyword" with any word at all)
-have been assigned by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)
for experimentation and testing.
--
===========================================
Chris Game <chrisgame@!yahoo!dotcodotuk>
===========================================
MikeG
gra...@his.com.puterINVALID>
>>
>Following the guidelines, why not put INVALID on the end of any From address
>that you choose to use so that it doesn't clog up the internet with messages
>trying to look up users on other ISP's mail servers?
>
>Your own address above *could* belong to someone and that would be very
>embarrassing in light of your recent record!
>
Very little if anything is gained by doing this.
Current software can easily strip words such as "nospam" "invalid" from
harvested addresses, turning me_n...@privacy.invalid
Into a working addy.
It can also filter unwanted Domains such as "Example.com/net" which are
listed for documentation
And blocked.
Best to use hotmail or if you have a network conscious, 127.0.0.1 as
another poster advised.
Also Invalid.com is up sale if anyone should feel the need.!
--
Me a spammer? No im more a meat and two veg type:)
MikeG
gra...@his.com.puterINVALID>
>
>
>> "Graham W" <gra...@his.com.puterINVALID> wrote in message
Incidentally your From address filters out to @his-com-puter.com/co uk
Which are currently available.
@His-computer.com/co.uk/org are already taken.
So it won't be to long before someone is catching your news Spam.
--
MikeG
Graham W
> In article..<freeserve.help.misc , Graham W ,
> gra...@his.com.puterINVALID>
>
>>>
>> Following the guidelines, why not put INVALID on the end of any From
>> address that you choose to use so that it doesn't clog up the internet
>> with messages trying to look up users on other ISP's mail servers?
>
>
> Very little if anything is gained by doing this.
Of course there is! The spam harvester won't be able to find a valid email
address for me by poking around with my 'From' address.
> Current software can easily strip words such as "nospam" "invalid" from
> harvested addresses, turning me_n...@privacy.invalid
> Into a working addy.
How would it do it with mine as above?
> Best to use hotmail
Don't use Hotmail if you want to avoid spam!!
> or if you have a network conscious, 127.0.0.1 as
> another poster advised.
Agreed.
Graham W
> In article..<freeserve.help.misc , Graham W ,
Sounds less like a de-munging 'bot and more like a random address generator!
Nothing to do with me, guv', honest!
8o)
Bro...@nonalienmerth.link
>
> Isn't .us a domain of the United States and therefore the name you have
> made up could exist tomorrow/ next week/ next year and be the legitimate
> email address of someone else?
>
> Why not use an address from the unlimited supply you already have with
> every Freeserve account and then just set up a kill rule (filter) in
> your own software so that you never see the email sent to that address?
>
zadda (level 010578080509)
MikeG
>>>
>>>> "Graham W" <graham@INVALID> wrote in message
>>
>>
>> Incidentally your From address filters out to @his-com-puter.com/co uk
>> Which are currently available.
>> @His-computer.com/co.uk/org are already taken.
>> So it won't be to long before someone is catching your news Spam.
>
>Sounds less like a de-munging 'bot and more like a random address generator!
>Nothing to do with me, guv', honest!
>
>8o)
>
The reasoning behind a "de-munging bot"is to collect the highest
percentage of valid usable addresses, these are tested with a .com/co
/net ending if necessary, and any 502s get added to the dbase.
By now it could well be classified as a random address generator!
But with a much-improved success rate.
>> or if you have a network conscious, 127.0.0.1 as
>> another poster advised.
>Agreed.
Oh don't practice what you preach then ;(
8o)
--
MikeG
Jim
for inadvertently trespassing on someone else's domain. In my ignorance I
thought the computer itself would stop me from posting a message using an
address that belonged to someone else. It appears from the replies that
names like 'hidden, 'example', 'invalid' and others could cause problems
either now or in the future. But it also seems possible, looking at some of
the addresses already in use, that for Newsgroup use the 'co.uk' part of the
address can be varied, thus allowing more and perhaps safer permutations.
I'll try the following in the hope that it doesn't give offence to any one.
Jim
j...@gobbleD.go.uk
Jim
Jim
j...@gobbleD.go.ok
John Patmore
> PS I meant to type it as follows. Any better?
> Jim
> j...@gobbleD.go.ok
But add a comment in your sig explaining to a reader how to convert it
into a valid address.
--
Regards,
John Patmore - <mailto:jo...@jpatmore.freeserve.co.uk>
UFAQ: Unofficial Frequently Asked Questions -
<http://www.jpatmore.freeserve.co.uk/ufaq.htm>
Fred
news:6RImm1DV...@amacleod.freeserve.co.uk...
I use no form of mail filtering and I receive no junk mail, the same could
not be said if I did as you suggest. If I wish too I will occasionally post
a hotmail add'y to enable someone to mail me, but in general I prefer to be
anonymous. Some of the threads I have posted in (Like the Fred and Mike H
tiff) would generate loads of crap from other posters in my personal in-box,
all I get as a result of an argument that went on for months is the odd
Christmas card from Mike ;-p.
P.S. Where is it you line dancing git!
Jim
your suggestions below. I'd be grateful if you could let me know if it is
OK.
Is there any way I can do this without typing the signature block and
amending the address each time I post a message? You will have realised by
now that I am rather computer-illiterate.
Jim
j...@gobbleD.go.ok
email: jimATstaug-glos.fsnet.co.uk
John Patmore
> Thanks, John for your further advice in reply to my email. I'll try one of
> your suggestions below. I'd be grateful if you could let me know if it is
> OK.
> Jim
> j...@gobbleD.go.ok
> email: jimATstaug-glos.fsnet.co.uk
That's fine, but get rid of the "j...@gobbleD.go.ok" after the "Jim",
it's just misleading. Don't forget, none of this is compulsory - it's
just suggestions.
The first line of the sig should be "-- " (hyphen hyphen space). This is
known as the signature separator or sig sep. Decent news clients use this
to strip signatures out of quoted text.
On the subject of which, it is a good idea to quote *relevant* text in
newsgroups (as above). Sometimes replies can be propagated to other
servers before the original post, or you may be replying to an old post.
If you don't quote text, no-one will know what your referring to without
going to the trouble of looking through the archived posts. It is also
conventional to "bottom post" e.g. place your comments below relevant
text so that it reads top to bottom in a logical order, and snip out
irrelevant stuff from the quoted text to keep the post to a minimal size.
Search for "netiquette" on the web for further hints.
Use Tools, Options, Signatures tab to type your sig, so that it's entered
automatically when you start a new message. The Advanced button allows
you to select the accounts you want to use that sig for - you can use
different sigs for different news or email accounts (see Tools,
Accounts).
Alan
<te...@traithby.fsnet.co.uk> wrote
>Does anyone know how I put a stop to receiving emails from hotmail
>addresses.
>
As everyone who uses a Hotmail address is a spammer you can safely use
your own software to filter out (kill) everything that originates from
that address.
--
Alan
mailto:new...@amacleod.freeserve.co.uk
Jim
at the UFAQ website, which was also helpful. I can see the reason for
quoting relevant text, especially in a correspondence that is as old as
this, but is there an easier way of doing this than having to type out the
posting to which you are replying (or the relevant parts of it)?
Best wishes
Jim
Chris Game
If you set OE to quote the message you're replying to, it's a lot easier
to edit it in place to retain the bits that are relevant and delete the
rest. The option to do that is in Tools->Options ->Send Tab (at least in
OE6 and I assume the same place in your OE5).
Digression: I always found that the killer feature in Gravity was the
ability to highlight a phrase in the preview, hit a key and get a
formatted reply with just that phrase quoted. Although the heavy
snipping involved (effectively) sometimes caused mild annoyance!
Ron Clark
<au1ui6$8rb$4...@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk>, Chris Game wrote this, or at
least some of this :-
>In an earlier post, Jim wrote:
>
>> Thanks again, John, I think I am getting there - slowly. I have had
>> a look at the UFAQ website, which was also helpful. I can see the
>> reason for quoting relevant text, especially in a correspondence that
>> is as old as this, but is there an easier way of doing this than
>> having to type out the posting to which you are replying (or the
>> relevant parts of it)? Best wishes
>
>If you set OE to quote the message you're replying to, it's a lot easier
>to edit it in place to retain the bits that are relevant and delete the
>rest. The option to do that is in Tools->Options ->Send Tab (at least in
>OE6 and I assume the same place in your OE5).
>
>Digression: I always found that the killer feature in Gravity was the
>ability to highlight a phrase in the preview, hit a key and get a
>formatted reply with just that phrase quoted. Although the heavy
>snipping involved (effectively) sometimes caused mild annoyance!
In Agent, if you left-click, drag and block part of a message in a
newsgroup then hit "Follow-up Usenet Message" you will only quote the
block as part of your reply.
--
®óñ© © ²°°²
Jim
--
j...@staug-glos.fsnet.co.uk
"Chris Game" <chri...@example.net> wrote in message
news:au1ui6$8rb$4...@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk...
> In an earlier post, Jim wrote:
>
> > ... is there an easier way than
> > having to type out the posting to which you are replying (or the
> > relevant parts of it)?
>
> If you set OE to quote the message you're replying to, it's a lot easier
> to edit it in place to retain the bits that are relevant and delete the
> rest. The option to do that is in Tools->Options ->Send Tab (at least in
> OE6 and I assume the same place in your OE5).
>
>
> --
> ===========================================
>
> Chris Game <chrisgame@!yahoo!dotcodotuk>
> ===========================================
>
> Thanks, Chris and Ron. Under the 'send' tab I clicked 'Include message in
reply' and ticked it, then did some editing and this is the result.
Going back to the earlier correspondence, if I change @ to AT in my
signature,as I am now doing at John Patmore's suggestion, do I need to
bother with the 'gobbledegook' email address at all, to avoid receiving junk
mail? Perhaps this is one question too many, but you chaps always seem to
be very helpful to genuine beginners like myself.
Jim
Chris Game
>> In an earlier post, Jim wrote:
>>
>>> ... is there an easier way than
>>> having to type out the posting to which you are replying (or the
>>> relevant parts of it)?
>>
>> If you set OE to quote the message you're replying to, it's a lot
>> easier to edit it in place to retain the bits that are relevant and
>> delete the rest. The option to do that is in Tools->Options ->Send
>> Tab (at least in OE6 and I assume the same place in your OE5).
>>
>>
>> --
>> ===========================================
>>
>> Chris Game <chrisgame@!yahoo!dotcodotuk>
>> ===========================================
>>
>> Thanks, Chris and Ron. Under the 'send' tab I clicked 'Include
>> message in
> reply' and ticked it, then did some editing and this is the result.
> Going back to the earlier correspondence, if I change @ to AT in my
> signature,as I am now doing at John Patmore's suggestion, do I need to
> bother with the 'gobbledegook' email address at all, to avoid
> receiving junk mail? Perhaps this is one question too many, but you
> chaps always seem to be very helpful to genuine beginners like myself.
> Jim
I think if you change the @ symbol to AT and maybe the periods to DOT
that should be fine,
BTW something's still wrong with your signature settings; it came out on
top of your post and the line just under it has been scrubbed from this
reply by OE. Also the first line of your text begins with a '>' symbol
which confuses the quoting display settings in OE as well. Try posting
to a .test group (freeserve.test for instance) and posting a lot of test
messages onto there, replying and so on till it all seems right.
Den
--
All replies spell checked by;
Varsity Publications
ISBN 0-86288-131-5
>
> BTW something's still wrong with your signature settings; it came out on
> top of your post and the line just under it has been scrubbed from this
> reply by OE. Also the first line of your text begins with a '>' symbol
> which confuses the quoting display settings in OE as well. Try posting
> to a .test group (freeserve.test for instance) and posting a lot of test
> messages onto there, replying and so on till it all seems right.
>
Seems he is after selecting reply, he is inserting sig which defaults to top
(groan) then replies at the bottom.
Den (who inserts sig here as well)
--
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ISBN 0-86288-131-5
Alan Gabriel
"John Patmore" <fsn...@nojunk.jpatmore.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
news:MPG.186b025ba...@news.freeserve.net...><snip> Use Tools, Options, Signatures tab to type your sig, so that it's
entered
> automatically when you start a new message. The Advanced button allows
> you to select the accounts you want to use that sig for - you can use
> different sigs for different news or email accounts (see Tools,
> Accounts).
>
>
If you check `Add signature to all outgoing messages`, OE has an annoying
habit of putting it above the post you are replying to.
A better way to do it is to customize the Toolbars. That way your signature
always appears underneath your reply.
1. Go to Tools/Options/Signature tab and uncheck `Add signature to all
outgoing messages`. (`Advanced`, next to Edit Signature, allows you to have
different signatures for Mail and Newgroups).
2. Back in Inbox, Click on `Create Mail`.
3. Right click on an empty part of the Toolbar and select `Customize` from
the dropdown menu. This will bring up the Customize Window.
4. Select `Insert Signature` in the left pane and click `Add`.
5. Click on `Insert Signature`, which is now in the right pane, and `Move
Up` until it`s next to your `Send` button (you might have to drag the
Customize Window out of the way so you can see what you`re doing).
6. Close `Customize Window` and the page.
Click on news groups `New Post` and follow steps 3 onward.
When you have finished writing an email or ng post, click `Insert`, on the
Toolbar, and the correct signature will be added.
--
Regards,
Alan.
Preserve wildlife - Pickle a SQUIRREL to reply.
John Patmore
> I can see the reason for
> quoting relevant text, especially in a correspondence that is as old as
> this, but is there an easier way of doing this than having to type out the
> posting to which you are replying (or the relevant parts of it)?
Tools, Options, Send tab. Tick "Include message in reply".
Get familiar with Tools, Options and Tools, Accounts. Most people's
problems are solved by one setting or other in these dialogs. Use F1 or
the "?" in the top right to get help.
Jim
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>
> --
> Try posting
> > to a .test group (freeserve.test for instance) and posting a lot of test
> > messages onto there, replying and so on till it all seems right.
> >
Thanks, folks, especially for the suggestion of using a .test group. It
will save bothering you guys until I become more proficient.
jimATstaug-glosDOTfsnetDOTcoDOTuk
Graham W
Jim
Take the tick mark out of the box which says something about 'Add
signature to replies automatically' and instead, do it by hand with
the key combination: <Ctrl>+<Left Shift>+<S> press and keep the
first two down until you tap the <S> like shift keys. To send the
email/post, use <Alt>+<S> to put it in your outbox ready for sending.
HTH