On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:38:50 -0500, nemesis wrote:

> I'll try that as a last resort... ;)

If you work in IT, you might point out that many vendors provide support 
for their products through private news servers.

Jim

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On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:59:43 -0500, nemesis wrote:

> BTW, I think
> I succeeded in turning messages to text only.  is that right?

Yep. :-)

Jim

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On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:07:32 -0500, nemesis wrote:

> and now?

Now it's better. :-)

Jim

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On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:20:49 +0000, St. wrote:

> Eh? How did you know that Jim?

Because my newsreader doesn't render HTML, so the HTML code shows up as 
HTML code.

:-)

Jim

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"Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote in message 
news:479a213c$1@news.povray.org...
> On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:20:49 +0000, St. wrote:
>
>> Eh? How did you know that Jim?
>
> Because my newsreader doesn't render HTML, so the HTML code shows up as
> HTML code.

     Ah, I see. Obviously, OE hasn't got this feature. <Must try XNews again 
sometime, that was quite good iirc>

       ~Steve~


>
> :-)
>
> Jim

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On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:24:23 +0000, St. wrote:

>      Ah, I see. Obviously, OE hasn't got this feature. <Must try XNews
>      again
> sometime, that was quite good iirc>

Yes, XNews is quite popular.  OE, as I recall, doesn't follow a lot of 
the standards by default, with regards to default message types and 
things like that.

Jim

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Ric### [at] stjgovbr wrote:
> yes, I have a thumbdrive.

This might help: http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/thunderbird_portable

Best part about using something like that is that you don't have to 
install anything. :)

-- 
-Ian

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nemesis nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2008/01/25 11:59:
> executables are blocked in the proxy server.  You don't get a chance to 
> save as anything, all you get is a standard blocked screen or 
> time out in the case of ftp.  I actually downloaded the Windows version of 
> Thunderbird yesterday and zipped with the same name plus zip sufix.
> Well, it turns out that Gmail identified it as Mime type application/zip 
> and the proxy either got that or simply scanned the whole name for exe and
> found it.
> 
> How dumb am I getting or are the admins getting too smart? :P
> 
> I'm quite sure this Lotus newsgroups thing won't last much..  BTW, I think 
> I succeeded in turning messages to text only.  is that right?
> 
Have you tried some other, less known, compression formats: BH, SIT, RAR, 7Z, A, 
ACE, ARC, TZ, GZ, GZA, LHA, TAR,...

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Alain <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> Have you tried some other, less known, compression formats: BH, SIT, RAR, 7Z, A,
> ACE, ARC, TZ, GZ, GZA, LHA, TAR,...

You know, the sad part is that I'm on a Linux box.  Could've just typed tar czf
foo.tgz and be done with it.  But I wanted to do it the dumb graphical way.  So
I just relied on the defaults.  That means "File-Roller" took the executable
name and just added zip.  The exe continued.

Another option would be to rename the file to be uploaded, eliminating the exe
sufix.  Not possible on Windows, but I've done it several times in the past on
Linux.  Like when sending tgzed mp3 to gmail. :)

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> executables are blocked in the proxy server.  You don't get a chance to 
> save as anything, all you get is a standard blocked screen or 
> time out in the case of ftp.  I actually downloaded the Windows version of 
> Thunderbird yesterday and zipped with the same name plus zip sufix.
> Well, it turns out that Gmail identified it as Mime type application/zip 
> and the proxy either got that or simply scanned the whole name for exe and
> found it.

FYI, GMail doesn't let you send exes, and checks the *contents* of zip 
files for exes.

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