OT: Ping Agent Users

Dec 21, 2024 Last reply: 1 year ago 8 Replies

My Agent newsreader has developed an annoying trait which I cannot seem to find a setting to correct. The screenshot below shows how it's displaying messages. They *should* all be nested under the original subject title, but they're all expanded which is making it really difficult to follow who's posted when:



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Anyone know where the setting for this is, please?



Thanks,



CD.


On Sat, 21 Dec 2024 14:09:54 +0000, Cursitor Doom snipped-for-privacy@notformail.com wrote as underneath :

If noone answers here then query on alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent Probably you pressed a kb shortcut by mistake.. C+

You are more than likely right, since it wasn't like this a week or so ago and it's very easy to accidentally enter a shortcut and Agent makes *much* use of them. Too much, it seems!

click the subject header to sort by subject. clicking again reverses order.

You seem to be sorting by date.

. . . . or that's the way headers usually work.

You probably don't want this view to take up the entire agent window - select multipage on top rt hand corner (next to date header.

RL

I cropped that image to the relevant pane for clarity. Anyway, your suggestion has worked, so many thanks indeed.

You reminded me I have AGENT V 4.1 ! - been 2012 since last used it. Clicking on "Lines" seems to bring up a nesting option

Brian

Sorry that should be "Subject"

Brian

Yes, indeed. That does work and I did actually thank legg for suggesting it but for some reason the post doesn't seem to have appeared. Not the only recent post I've made that simply disappeared into the ether. Probably something to do with Bill Sloman. ;->

Cursitor Doom's grasp of reality does seem to be fading away.

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makes it clear that posts to one instance of a user-group get passed on to all the others. It's one more application of the original Arpanet idea

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If Cursitor Doom's posts "disappear into the ether", he didn't put them in properly in the first place. Once the data packet has been launched into the internet you don't know how it will get to it's intended destination which makes it pretty much impossible to block it.

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