[gui-talk] Attachment symbols everywhere! (was Re: Ad-Aware 2008 is now Available)

Sat May 24 21:46:18 CDT 2008

No , Wayne and Dave,

this isn't what's going on. Thanks anyway.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 7:42 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Attachment symbols everywhere! (was Re: Ad-Aware 
2008 is now Available)

Sometimes a message is made up of multiple parts, usually a text
part, and a html part.  Most mail programs know how to handle this -- 
some do not, and may show a part as an attachment.

Dave

At 09:05 PM 5/24/2008, you wrote:
>For what its worth, I've ben on several NFB related lists that show
>the messages as having attachments, but upon opening the messages,
>there were no files attached. I've got no idea why this happens. Yet,
>files do come through when the list owners or facilitators send them.
>Go figure. I've only seen this occurrance on NFB lists, not on any of
>the other lists I'm subscribed to.
>
>Wayne
>
>On 5/24/08, Joel Deutsch <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com> wrote:
> > Whoops. It's not my outgoing email that's doing this. It's whatever 
> > setting
> > is causing *all* message in my inbox to claim to be bearing attachments.
> > Like every message I'm receiveing from this list and others, now.
> >
> > Maybe that helps to describe more accurately what my issue is, so 
> > someone
> > familiar with AVG 8 can explain how to stop it? I hope?
> >
> > thanks.
> > heattachment
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
> > To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 4:23 PM
> > Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Ad-Aware 2008 is now Available
> >
> >
> > All right. I've downloaded and installed AVG Free Edition Version 8. I 
> > had
> > to play with the Jaws cursor a bit in order to make sure I checked or
> > unchecked the options offered to me in various dialogues of the install
> > wizard, but I got it done okay.
> >
> > and except for a couple of quirky things, like when I launch the 
> > interface
> > some sort of context menu pops up and blocks my access to the interface 
> > so
> > that I have to alt tab once, it seems to navigate okay in most important
> > ways.
> >
> > But as you may be aware already, I have one issue I can't fix without 
> > some
> > advice. My email is showing as if it has an attachment, when of course 
> > it
> > doesn't. Past experience tells me that all I need to do is turn off the
> > certification message for outgoing email. In Version 7.5, that stopped 
> > the
> > attachment symbol from appearing on my emails when they arrived at their
> > destination.
> >
> > So I looked at the help documentation, found out where to go for this,
> > opened tools/advanced options/Appearance  and with a lot of fumbling 
> > around
> > with the Jaws cursor, because you have to do some tricky things
> to get a sub
> > menu to speak, I thought I unchecked the box by certification. In
> fact, when
> > I opened the menu again and checked with the Jaws cursor (it
> won't appear to
> > the PC cursor or the tab key) it did say it was now unchecked. But when 
> > I
> > send out an email, Jaws still sees an attachment symbol, which I'm sure
> > everyone on the list is seeing too.
> >
> > Anybody have this particular issue solved, yet? I've done my best and 
> > can't
> > seem to manage this. Thanks.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
> > To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 12:14 PM
> > Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Ad-Aware 2008 is now Available
> >
> >
> > Well, okay for you. But if I asked around and enough people whose
> opinions I
> > respected said they'd tried it and it really couldn't be managed with 
> > Jaws,
> > I wouldn't likely waste my time downloading and installing it and going
> > through agonies just to realize that I couldn't access the controls. 
> > That
> > doesn't seem stupid or lazy to me. Does everyone have to reinvent the 
> > wheel
> > for themselves? But that's just in my humble opinion, of course.
> >
> > And believe me, AdAware `1.06, without scripts, doesn't allow you to get
> > around the controls and do things without feeling like a drunk coming 
> > home
> > in the dark and fumbling around for the light switch and tripping over 
> > the
> > furniture. Now that is how I feel when I'm down to the Jaws cursor level 
> > of
> > operating an interface. I don't care to mess with that if I don't have 
> > to.
> > It's not a point of pride for me, as it is for some people on the lists,
> > although I'm glad they feel good about their competency and everything.
> >
> > Well, we shall see. Something or other.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Wayne Merritt" <wcmerritt at gmail.com>
> > To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 9:26 AM
> > Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Ad-Aware 2008 is now Available
> >
> >
> > Just a friendly suggestion here, but you could always try it and see.
> > If it doesn't work, just uninstall it. Besides, what you consider
> > "usable/accessible" might differ from another person's definition.
> > Yes, JAWS scripts can make a difference withs some programs, but
> > sometimes, they're not needed.
> >
> > Jmt,
> > Wayne
> >
> > On 5/24/08, Joel Deutsch <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com> wrote:
> >> Steve,
> >>
> >> Okay. But that sounds really weird. They released a new AdAware around
> >> January 2008, or so I seem to remember, and called it AdAware 2007? And
> >> now
> >> they're finally calling this by the current year? Okay. But my question
> >> is,
> >> is this release Jaws friendly, or does it need to be bolstered by the 
> >> help
> >> of some generous script writer in the Jaws community before we Jaws 
> >> users
> >> will be able to use it? And meantime, will it remain possible for us 
> >> users
> >> of AdAware 1.06 or whatever it's called to keep downloading and 
> >> installing
> >> update definition files ourselves?
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Steve Pattison" <srp at internode.on.net>
> >> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> >> Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 6:10 AM
> >> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Ad-Aware 2008 is now Available
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi Joel,
> >>
> >> Ad-Aware 2007 has been out for a few months now, this is the version of
> >> Ad-Aware that is inaccessible.  This version has now been superseded by
> >> Ad-Aware 2008 which was released this week.  I hope this helps.
> >>
> >> Regards Steve.
> >>
> >> From: Joel Deutsch jdeutsch at dslextreme.com
> >> To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List gui-talk at nfbnet.org
> >>
> >> Steve,
> >>
> >> thanks for passing this on. But, as far as I know, it hasn't been that
> >> everyone's been waiting around for the new version of AdAware to be
> >> released. In fact, this notice confuses me because I thought it had
> >> already
> >> been released a couple of months ago but people like me, Jaws users,
> >> were
> >> told that the new version wasn't Jaws friendly, so we've been manually
> >> obtaining and installing our updates, which can't be gotten with the
> >> updater
> >> feature anymore now that the new version is in place.
> >>
> >> So first of all, I don't understand why the release of this version is
> >> news,
> >> when I thought it had been out for a couple of months, and second,
> >> whatever
> >> the truth of that is, can anyone say whether or not it's Jaws friendly
> >> out
> >> of the box, or maybe some script writer has provided scripts to tame it
> >> for
> >> Jaws use?
> >>
> >> Regards Steve
> >> Email:  srp at internode.on.net
> >> Windows Live Messenger:  internetuser383 at hotmail.com
> >> Skype:  steve1963
> >>
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