Re: Statistics for comp.databases.oracle.server - WE 26/1/2003

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au wrote:
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>> Lots of newsreaders warn you of more than one newsgroup, either on
>> crafting the post or when you send.  I'm surprised OE doesn't allow
>> you to ask for this feature.  It is a default in mine.

In OE, right-click the message and then choose properties. Choose the details tab. If you did this, you'd find the header, X-Newsreader, or something else like it and for my posts, this header would contain Gnus. You need to know Emacs, so I won't recommend it for you.

Pablo recommended XNews. Many people love that one, its free and it runs on windows.

But, if you were to decide to learn Emacs maybe for using Gnus, then you would have it for your sqlplus work as well (which has the same keystrokes/history/interface as for shell command prompts in Emacs which would be the same for srvmgrl command prompts within Emacs ...). It starts to become an extremely useful environment once you learn how use it for multiple tasks. Learning it for the first task isn't all that easy though. I find it quite easy to use it for many things now that I got passed the initial frustration.

> I've just been dabbling with *cough! splutter*!?%$# Linux's Mozilla
> Newsreader. Seems OK, but even that doesn't warn you (and I thought
> all Linux users had these sorts of things worked out already!!).

Well, if you are going to work on Linux, Emacs is great thing to get familiar with. Then, when on windows, use the ntemacs port and the same environment is available on both platforms. (See, no matter where you turn, the religion envelopes you :-))

> IMHO, a crossposter alert is an excellent idea.

Gnus lets me score crosspostings, or "> X" crossposted which would make it so I never am attempted to respond to them, if I so desire. I could tell it to warn me of crosspostings when I hit reply and, by default, it warns me about them before I send.

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