Re: How do I format a handler in the use-List?

2020-04-27 Thread dunbarx--- via use-livecode
Jacque. Came over just fine. I will try to reset the use-list to my business eMail. Thanks, Craig -Original Message- From: J. Landman Gay via use-livecode To: How to use LiveCode Cc: J. Landman Gay Sent: Mon, Apr 27, 2020 2:34 am Subject: Re: How do I format a handler in the use-List

Re: How do I format a handler in the use-List?

2020-04-26 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 4/26/20 2:20 PM, dunbarx--- via use-livecode wrote: Try as I might, I cannot format a handler example copied from the SE. The result is always run-on, even though I add spaces and returns where appropriate. The text seems readable when I send, but reverts to a run-on string when I read in t

How do I format a handler in the use-List?

2020-04-26 Thread dunbarx--- via use-livecode
Try as I might, I cannot format a handler example copied from the SE. The result is always run-on, even though I add spaces and returns where appropriate. The text seems readable when I send, but reverts to a run-on string when I read in the list. Why is this so much more difficult than the foru

use-list formatting (was Re: Help with an algorithm...)

2019-08-05 Thread Dar Scott Consulting via use-livecode
On Aug 5, 2019, at 11:49 AM, dunbarxx via use-livecode > wrote: > > I really do not like the use-list. It is difficult to format one's answers. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: Can we move the use-list to a Google Chat

2016-09-30 Thread Richmond
ok as the B-all-and-end-all (although I use it extensively for communicating with the children I teach). The use-list may be "retro", but that is not necessarily a bad thing: it also is really useful when I need to read it on my Macintoshes that run systems 8.1 and 9.2 using Netscap

Re: Can we move the use-list to a Google Chat

2016-09-30 Thread Mark Wieder
On 09/30/2016 03:12 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: but I'm not sure if they're active - anyone have a URL for those? Ah - there's the rub. For anything not maintained by the mothership, you have to know where it is in order to find it. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com

Re: Can we move the use-list to a Google Chat

2016-09-30 Thread Mark Wieder
On 09/30/2016 06:43 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Nabble has been mentioned if you need to search. There's a duplicate archive at Gmane as well, with a slightly different interface: Sorry, Gmane's been gone for a while now. Had a better UI tha

Re: Can we move the use-list to a Google Chat

2016-09-30 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/30/16 2:53 PM, William Jamieson wrote: I don't really understand the use-list's format It isn't hard. Filter the emails into a folder in your email client, or subscribe to the digest instead if you only want a single (large-ish) email per day. The digest is a compilation of all posts in

Re: Can we move the use-list to a Google Chat

2016-09-30 Thread Mark Schonewille
words that spans thousands of emails in my inbox, I would like to make a plea to use any alternative that works. I understand that the use-list is for the OG's but let me ask you, at what cost is it acceptable? Even for the OG's, let me ask you, how many solutions pointers to the problems

Re: Can we move the use-list to a Google Chat

2016-09-30 Thread Peter M . Brigham
s are great but still remind me of my childhood and are generally >>> used >>>> for specific issues. I would really like a Slack thread that can be >>>> indexed, but to ask people to move away from email might be a little >> too >>>> technological for

Re: Can we move the use-list to a Google Chat

2016-09-30 Thread Mike Kerner
With this gmail account, I also have a filter and a "label" set up, so all the livecode stuff ends up in one place, separated from the rest of the traffic. On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 6:45 PM, William Prothero wrote: > > Folks: > I’m on my email several times a day. The first category I check are th

Re: Can we move the use-list to a Google Chat

2016-09-30 Thread William Prothero
Folks: I’m on my email several times a day. The first category I check are the postings from this listserve. It’s within my flow. When I go to the forum, I see a bunch of topics. I only go to any that I’m interested in and it’s pretty rare that I go there except for a topic I’m following. The

Re: Can we move the use-list to a Google Chat

2016-09-30 Thread stephen barncard
Us old timers have been having this discussion for years.Some of us have been on the same kind of listserv since Apple ][ days. It seems to work. This list's success is directly related to it's serial nature. We're all in the same room, and we get exposed to a lot of things that would be missed

Re: Can we move the use-list to a Google Chat

2016-09-30 Thread me
Ask a group on listserv if they want listserv, and what do you get? Listserv. Best, Jerry On Sep 30, 2016, 5:13 PM -0500, Richard Gaskin , wrote: > FWIW I don't see this as an XOR operation, but an AND. > > Some like the categorized, searchable forums. > > Others like the continuum flow of this

Re: Can we move the use-list to a Google Chat

2016-09-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
FWIW I don't see this as an XOR operation, but an AND. Some like the categorized, searchable forums. Others like the continuum flow of this list, searchable in Nabble: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/ Others like FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/livecodeusers/ ...or G+: https

Re: Can we move the use-list to a Google Chat

2016-09-30 Thread Peter M. Brigham
> On Sep 30, 2016, at 5:24 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: > > I get the inability to search the archive for n00bs. That's a problem. > For those of us who receive these messages in one of our google accounts, > it isn't a problem. In my case I have a hair under 13,000 threads that I > have received si

Re: Can we move the use-list to a Google Chat

2016-09-30 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Skip Kimpel wrote: > Same here. -1 for Google Chat. I much prefer a listserv for the same > reason Matthias referred to as it is quick and easy to respond to using a > tool (email) that is in my face 24/7. > That. Listserves are in the mail that is part of

Re: Can we move the use-list to a Google Chat

2016-09-30 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Skip Kimpel wrote: > Same here. -1 for Google Chat. I much prefer a listserv for the same > reason Matthias referred to as it is quick and easy to respond to using a > tool (email) that is in my face 24/7. > -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462

Re: Can we move the use-list to a Google Chat

2016-09-30 Thread Mike Kerner
with the community, and seeing > that > > > the answers to a lot of problems and issues are contained in this > > massive, > > > unindexed, scattered, blob, of words that spans thousands of emails in > my > > > inbox, I would like to make a plea to use any

Re: Can we move the use-list to a Google Chat

2016-09-30 Thread Skip Kimpel
a lot of problems and issues are contained in this > massive, > > unindexed, scattered, blob, of words that spans thousands of emails in my > > inbox, I would like to make a plea to use any alternative that works. > > > > I understand that the use-list is for the OG'

Re: Can we move the use-list to a Google Chat

2016-09-30 Thread Matthias Rebbe
any alternative that works. > > I understand that the use-list is for the OG's but let me ask you, at what > cost is it acceptable? Even for the OG's, let me ask you, how many > solutions pointers to the problems you have had do you think are contained > within the

Re: Can we move the use-list to a Google Chat

2016-09-30 Thread Dr. Hawkins
I should certainly hope not. listserves and boards are fundamentally different in how people interact. Moving lists to web generally causes *massive* loss of membership and participation. In a professional organization I belong to, it resulted in an independent mailing list, and would likely have

Can we move the use-list to a Google Chat

2016-09-30 Thread William Jamieson
ntained in this massive, unindexed, scattered, blob, of words that spans thousands of emails in my inbox, I would like to make a plea to use any alternative that works. I understand that the use-list is for the OG's but let me ask you, at what cost is it acceptable? Even for the OG's, let

Re: The Use-List on a new server

2013-06-12 Thread Mark Wieder
Richmond writes: > Does anyone jalouse the URL fae the server as I'm aye forjeskit > that I cannae tak a glisk at the postings in contex ? "context", eh? Had to look that up: "to weave together"... nice one. The old stand-by: http://news.gmane.org

The Use-List on a new server

2013-06-12 Thread Richmond
Does anyone jalouse the URL fae the server as I'm aye forjeskit that I cannae tak a glisk at the postings in contex ? Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: Use-List

2011-11-24 Thread Mark Wieder
Roger- Thursday, November 24, 2011, 6:42:57 AM, you wrote: > links work: Also http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ide.revolution.user -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit thi

Re: Use-List

2011-11-24 Thread Richmond
On 11/24/2011 04:55 PM, Roger Eller wrote: On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Roger Eller wrote: On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 4:37 AM, Richmond wrote: as there seems no quick way to access archives from, say, several years ago. Richmond Mathewson. It is strange that pipermail has suddenly vanishe

Re: Use-List

2011-11-24 Thread Roger Eller
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Roger Eller wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 4:37 AM, Richmond wrote: > > as there seems no quick way to access archives from, say, several years >> ago. >> >> Richmond Mathewson. > > > It is strange that pipermail has suddenly vanished. I never used it, so I > am

Re: Use-List

2011-11-24 Thread Roger Eller
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 4:37 AM, Richmond wrote: > and, as those lists seem to still be functioning, how we can access them > if those 2 links > above are now dead. > > http://www.mail-archive.com/use-livecode@lists.runrev.com/maillist.html > is not as useful as > http://lists.runrev.com/pipermai

Re: Use-List

2011-11-24 Thread Richmond
On 11/24/2011 12:33 PM, Matthias Rebbe wrote: Hi, asking that directly the support team at supp...@runrev.com may give you a faster answer. ;) I have followed your advice exactly . . . :) Thanks. Regards, Matthias Am 24.11.2011 um 10:37 schrieb Richmond: I, for one, would be extremel

Re: Use-List

2011-11-24 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Hi, asking that directly the support team at supp...@runrev.com may give you a faster answer. ;) Regards, Matthias Am 24.11.2011 um 10:37 schrieb Richmond: > I, for one, would be extremely grateful if the good folk at RunRev could > give us some sort of information about: > > http://lists.r

Use-List

2011-11-24 Thread Richmond
I, for one, would be extremely grateful if the good folk at RunRev could give us some sort of information about: http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/ and http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/metacard/ and, as those lists seem to still be functioning, how we can access them if those 2