Re: Gadget?

dwacon wrote:
> I used to have a tool that plugged into Microsoft Outlook... you
> select a spam and click a button and it would go to wherever you
> wanted to report (i.e., Spamcop, UCE, etc.)

There are several OL plugins to help overcome some of the fundamental
flaws in OL as a spam reporting tool.

http://www.spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/122.html  Microsoft Outlook

> That tool no longer works with the latest incarnation of Outlook...
> and IIRC it took a lot of tweaking to send full headers so that
> Spamcop could process.

... where your definition of the latest incarnation of OL is... the one
that belongs to the fundamentally flawed Office 2007?

> It would be nice if there were a Spamcop gadget that could work in
> the same way.

There was a discussion of spamcop/OL2007 in the forum
http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t7742.html

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I used to have a tool that plugged into Microsoft Outlook... you select a 
spam and click a button and it would go to wherever you wanted to report 
(i.e., Spamcop, UCE, etc.)

That tool no longer works with the latest incarnation of Outlook... and IIRC 
it took a lot of tweaking to send full headers so that Spamcop could 
process.

It would be nice if there were a Spamcop gadget that could work in the same 
way.

Hint, hint...  :-)



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Mike Easter wrote:
> dwacon wrote:

>> It would be nice if there were a Spamcop gadget that could work in
>> the same way.
>
> There was a discussion of spamcop/OL2007 in the forum
> http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t7742.html

Personally, I don't think that 'people' whatever that term might mean,
should -1- be forced to -2- choose to -3- or some other formulation of
1&2 -- use MS Office 2007.

It is seriously flawed and noncompatible with the rest of the world in
its default mode.

I think that people who need an office suite should use one of the
following:  MS Office 2003, the last great MS Office;  OpenOffice 2.3.1
or somewhere thereabouts;  and then there are some other options which
are superior to Office 2007.  If an employer tries to force the office
to use MS Office 2007, then the office personnel have no gonads if they
don't resist that idea, man or woman.

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"Mike Easter" <MikeE@ster.invalid> wrote in message 
news:fs6cg6$ms8$1@news.spamcop.net...

> There are several OL plugins to help overcome some of the fundamental
> flaws in OL as a spam reporting tool.
>
> http://www.spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/122.html  Microsoft Outlook


Ya... I used that when I was running Outlook 2K.  Version 2003 sorta kinda 
worked... but 2007, fuggedaboutit.

I can manually report spam using the web tool... but a single-click is 
preferable to a lazy dude like myself.



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Indigo wrote:

> While at my Dad's house on Easter I was perusing thru his April copy
> of PC World and it had some article about the "50 best software
> add-ons". I copied all the pages because there were a heckuva lot of
> great tips and tricks in there. One of them deals with the Office
> 2007 problem -- there is an app called "Office Compatibility
Pack"
> that allows you forward compatibility with the new formats. It's
> available for free at:
>
>
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=941b3470-3ae9-4aee-8f43
-c6bb74cd1466&displaylang=en

I mentioned the compatibility pack late Feb in .social Message-ID:
<fpvuh5$lli$1@news.spamcop.net>

Mike Easter wrote:
> 2007 doesn't mind opening 2003 (and older) docs.  Default 2003 doesn't
> open default 2007 docs.  But MS has come to the rescue with a
> compatibility pack.
>
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=941B
3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466
> Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
> 2007 File Formats -- By installing the Compatibility Pack in addition
> to Microsoft Office 2000, Office XP, or Office 2003, you will be able
> to open, edit, and save files using the file formats new to Word,
> Excel, and PowerPoint 2007. The Compatibility Pack can also be used in
> conjunction with the Microsoft Office Word Viewer 2003, Excel Viewer
> 2003, and PowerPoint Viewer 2003 to view files saved in these new
> formats.

... and you remarked:
news://news.spamcop.net/fq1v70$i1t$1@news.spamcop.net

> I don't know if PC World is available online, but if it is or you know
> someone who gets the magazine it is definitely worth checking out that
> article, there's about 10 apps that I'm going to download for various
> things -- it also has some cool Firefox add-ons I wasn't aware of but
> definitely want, like the FireFTP add-on that can replace my ancient
> WS_FTP95 client.

Maybe it was this article:

50 Ways to Make Your Software Do More -- Give your browser, office apps,
and multimedia programs new life with these 50-plus add-ons, tips, and
tweaks.
Christopher Null
Monday, February 25, 2008 10:00 PM PS
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,142706/article.html


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