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Re: Comment List # 31 - Just this once.

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From: Daron Brewood
Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 00:00
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 In article <832281992_OASIS_NEWS@tequila.demon.co.uk>
  gary@tequila.demon.co.uk (Gary Cleghorn) wrote:-

>  This is an excellent idea Daron, maybe a cut down version for 
>  non-beta testers would show people that progress is being made to 
>  eradicate bugs that show up and it would also allow users to see
>  if a bug is known about before posting a "i've found this bug".

Yep, my thoughts exactly.

>>- Fix packet CRC problems.
>>- Fix PPP packet bug where carrier drops.
>
>     Ah ha , nice to see these two squashed (or at least known about)

Yep, they've ben known about for some time.

>      ^^^^^^^^^ROTFL how long did it take to think this lot up :-)

A whole evening!

>     My suggestions are : when the Daily Net window is opened allow 
>     the Esc key to close it again just like you can do when you are 
>     reading a particular newsgroup.

God idea.

>     Specifiy more than one pop number so if one pop is busy the next one
>      on the list is used.

Noted.

>     When collecting e-mail can we see who its from instead of who its 
>     for ( cos i already know its for me).

Like it.

>     Why can't we move the windows about in ICE , why are they fixed 
>     in one area?

Erm you can move them, position them before you connect and then save 
the settings this saves the window positions.

>     Bugs: when expire mail in post box (marked items) is used gives 
>     two bombs and back to desktop but mail has been correctly deleted
>     when oasis is started again.

I don't get this I'm afraid.

>     Automatic unbatch gives two bombs sometimes ( dodgy header 
>     maybe?).

And again I don't get it.

>     Why does the redialer issue two ATZ's before dialing ( giving redial 2,4,6,8 etc)

I've kept asking about that one myself.


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Date: 1996/05/17
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