Re: irritating ads

[Guest guest]

Mara wrote:

>Does anyone know how I can view the messages from the site, without

>those irritating flashing ads?

One way is to change your " profile " so you get the messages

as e-mail instead of reading them on the web site.

Others here may know how to turn off the ads while reading

the web site, but I find it easier just to get e-mail and

never go to the web site unless I want to look at photos

people in the group have put up.

Jane

[Guest guest]

Mara wrote:

> Does anyone know how I can view the messages from

> the site, without those irritating flashing ads?

Yes !!! and Jane meant well, but here is the

best solution: Hit " Messages " on the menu on the left,

and then hit " Expand Messages " , and you'll see about 30

posts. There will be 1 post, then *1* non-flashing

message, and then the rest of the posts. If you hit

the " Thread " button on the right side, it will arrange

all posts according to thread. When you want to respond

to any post, hit the subject line (in blue) above it,

and then that post will appear by itself.

Mozilla might be good, but I don't know anything about it.

Is it free? Can I use it with AOL? Just how do I go

about getting it, ?

Jane's suggestion of getting individual emails leaves

you with all those emails. I just get the digest, and

only use the address from it to get to the Yahoo site.

Let Yahoo keep all those copies in the archive, and not

in my computer. And getting a Yahoo account is free.

Clay

[Guest guest]

Clay wrote:

> Mozilla might be good, but I don't know anything about it. Is it

> free? Can I use it with AOL? Just how do I go about getting it,

> ?

Yes, you can use it with AOL. When I visit my mom, I use AOL to do my

browsing, since my ISP does not have a local number in her area. It

works just fine.

To get it, go to http://www.mozilla.org. Since you would only need the

browser, you might also consider Mozilla Firebird. Mozilla initially

started out as a suite, and the generic term 'Mozilla' still refers to

that product. The suite has a browser, an email client, a web page

editor, and a IRC chat client, all in one well-integrated package. I

don't know if you can get the email client to work with AOL... AOL does

offer an email client based on Mozilla, and it does do POP3 email, so

maybe you can do POP3 with AOL.

Some people got to complaining that Mozilla was succumbing to " feature

bloat, " as its developers packed more and more features into the

product. Thus was born the Phoenix derivative, later renamed Firebird.

Firebird is just the browser, streamlined and simplified for the needs

of the typical computer user (Mozilla was designed by, and for, nerds,

for the most part). Firebird is faster than Mozilla's browser, but as a

nerd, I like the nerdy features. In addition, Firebird still has a few

minor bugs (it is very stable, but it is still a pre-1.0 release) that

most people never notice, but they bug me (no pun intended).

The email client of Mozilla was similarly split off into Mozilla

Thunderbird. I use Thunderbird, because it is beneficial to have a

separate configuration for the email client and the browser, for reasons

that are too complex to explain easily. The " mainstream user " treatment

has also been done to Thunderbird, but it is not a problem for me as it

is with Firebird.

All of the neat features of Mozilla are also in Firebird. I strongly

suggest the Adblock extension and the Tab-browser extensions... after

having gotten used to them, I would be frustrated browsing without

them. I especially like the " undo close tab " feature of the tabbrowser

extensions... I am always closing tabs that I meant to keep open.

Whether you choose Mozilla (it will give you an option to select

'browser only' on install) or Firebird, the way to install extensions is

to first install the browser, then go to the extension page and select

the extensions. I do not have the URL of that page handy, so I will

have to look it up and post it later.

> Jane's suggestion of getting individual emails leaves you with all

> those emails.

If you had a regular email client, you could create folders for all of

your groups, and then have a filter put the messages into the

appropriate folders. It would be a mess to have the messages from all

of my groups, not to mention the non-group email, all mashed together.

AOL may offer this through its regular email facility (which is really a

web-based email, although it is well integrated into the AOL shell). It

makes groups MUCH easier to handle.

> I just get the digest, and only use the address from

> it to get to the Yahoo site. Let Yahoo keep all those copies in the

> archive, and not in my computer. And getting a Yahoo account is

> free.

I like to be able to look up all of the back messages I have offline.