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On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 09:41:37 GMT, Ross Herbert <rherber1@bigpond.net.au> wrote:

>On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:15:19 +0000, Peter A Forbes
><diesel@easynet.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:16:48 GMT, Ross Herbert
><rherber1@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>>
>>>To those usenet people using Forte Agent as their news reader, or
>for
>>>email, I wonder if you are aware of a really BAD feature....
>>
>>Interesting up to a point, but why do anything relating deleting of
>files in the
>>newsreader? surely it would have been better to do the mod's or
>deletions
>>outside of the programme anyway?
>
>Well since you asked... there was an option in the menu which allowed
>deleting attachments on the email which had been terminated due to
>size restrictions. To save typing the message again I kept that part
>and deleted the attachments so that I could re-arrange the attachment
>package. My thought logic was that I was simply deleting the path to
>the source files, not the files themselves.
>
>And why would any sane person imagine that such an option meant that
>any attachments would be completely purged from the computer? All
>"GOOD" programs would simply delete the path to the attachments for
>that email, not the source files themselves, or at least shift them to
>the Windows Recycle bin. As I said, Eudora doesn't do what Agent does,
>and I'm sure that most other email clients don't either.
>
>>
>>I use Agent, have done since the very early V1.1 or so, but have
>>never had that  problem.
>
>I use Agent ONLY for newsgroups since I discovered the "feature".
>
>>
>>Thanks for pointing it out.
>>
>>Peter

Yes, I can see what you did, and understand that you may have been 'misled' by
the general feel of the programme, but, as in most things computer, I try not to
drop myself in the claggy stuff by thinking what the messages mean first.

I've been caught as well, but not by that one.

Peter
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