Subject Re: Tips
Author Andreas Tille
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Helen Borrie wrote:

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This kind of stuff is something I really dislike because in every
reply I have to remove some lines. I'm bothered by such stuff!

> No, sorry. egroups has much greater advantages for setup, file access and
> subscribing than sourceforge.
Hmm, I'm not really sure if we wouldn't have success if we would ask
SourceForge to implement some features you are missing. What exactly
do you miss there?

> To go the list's main page:
> http://www.egroups.com/group/ib-conversions
>
> To go to the files area:
> http://www.egroups.com/files/ib-conversions
>
> To go to the archive:
> http://www.egroups.com/messages/ib-conversions
>
> These URLs conform consistently to this pattern, for any egroups list that
> you are entitled to access.
>
> If you let the program store a cookie, you won't even have to log in. It
> will jump up and say "Hello John Smith" just like community.borland.com.
OK, I found this out but I belong to the people who really dislike cookies
especially from sites full of advertising.
Switching cookies on and off just to obtain a single file is hard.
Even harder is that I can't use my default way to obtain files. Normally
I use wget to get files. It is the fastest and straightforeward way.

> You can also customise your own subscription so that, e.g. you receive a
> URL in an email when someone posts a file.
Hmm and possibly some additional spam?

Kind regards

Andreas.