RE: Plant Identification, what to do?

Hi Irene and thanks to everyone else who wrote, specially Diane as
usual.
I admit that I haven't made your advice work yet, but I have discovered
all sorts of other interesting things in my search, such as where does
"Outlook" hide all the old messages, which is good to know if you have a
computer prone to crashing and a "techie" who isn't all that technical.

Obviously the elimination of big messages is essential knowledge for all
us peasants without broadband. If we can do this, the whizz kids can
send each other pictures to their hearts content without bothering the
rest of us.

Anyway as I mentioned previously, the problem occurs  somewhere in
between Orange and outlook. The orange display does indeed show the
attachment icon, but doesn't let me delete it because it is almost
permanently "too busy". In my cynical way, I suspect this is a
deliberate ploy to persuade us all to switch to broad band which by all
accounts introduces its victims to a whole new range of problems.

 The mini-voyage of discovery has been quite constructive, so again
thanks to those who launched me upon it

Anthony 
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
[o*@ucdavis.edu] On Behalf Of Irene Kuffel
(ikuffel)
Sent: 18 July 2006 22:12
To: Lyman@lyman-dixon.freeserve.co.uk; medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
Subject: RE: Plant Identification, what to do?

Hello Anthony,

   It sounds like your Outlook is configured to download all mail,
   and you might want to try to set it to just download headers
   on logging in to inbox, and download each pieve of mail in full
   only on demand, and see if you like that behaviour any better. 

   People sometimes use the term "Outlook" to refer to both 
   Outlook as well as Outlook Express. If you are indeed 
   using Outlook, here's how:
      Click on "Connected" on the bottom right corner, and select
      "Download Headers" (as opposed to "Download Full Items"). 
      This will only download headers instead
      of the full body of each mail item, so you still get to
      see the summary pane of mail. To read a piece of mail, you 
      click on that mail item and it shows up in your preview pane
      with a button to click if you want to download the rest of it
      (if it is longer than a few lines).
      With this setup, you can check on the summary pane for the
      paperclip symbol that tells you if a mail has attachments,
      and delete that mail without ever downloading it. The downside
      is it may take more mouseclicks to read long mail. 
  
  I don't use Outlook Express, but am pretty sure it has similar
  settings you can change, if you poke around in the Tools->Options
  menu.

-- Irene.  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-medit-plants@ucdavis.edu 
> [o*@ucdavis.edu] On Behalf Of Anthony 
> Lyman-Dixon
> Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 1:39 AM
> To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> Subject: RE: Plant Identification, what to do?
> 
> Well, as to sounding "peevish", that's an understatement as 
> my previous
> somewhat illiterate posting may have suggested. However I admit that
> getting ratty is scarcely constructive in the long run so if 
> excessively
> large messages can't be blocked, what can we do about them?
> 
> I am far from computer literate so could Maria's techie 
> perhaps give us
> a clue?
> 
> The following may  be of partial assistance to those with an ISP with
> sufficient power to handle all its messages promptly. My 
> messages arrive
> in the microsoft outlook "in box" and this is where the 
> blockages first
> become apparent. However they arrive there through "Orange" a mobile
> phone company which is also (I think) an ISP. So when a 
> blockage occurs,
> I switch from "Outlook" to "Explorer" which has orange as its default
> screen, log in to the inbox on there and press "Delete" on 
> the relevant
> message. That in theory, should clear the thing. However after what
> seems like an interminable wait, a message eventually appears saying
> "server busy, please try later" which defeats everything. In fact by
> this time, the offending message has probably managed to 
> download itself
> into the Outlook "in box". I am sure that before Wannado 
> became orange,
> it was possible to tick the "mark as read" box on the ISP in 
> box, which
> stopped it coming through to "outlook" but this no longer 
> seems to work.
> 
> I have never had a problem yet that Diane has failed to solve, but any
> answers to this one?   Beyond getting broadband, that is,  which I am
> assured by many users, is a pain in its own right. 
> 
> Anthony
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> [o*@ucdavis.edu] On Behalf Of maria guzman
> Sent: 11 July 2006 20:21
> To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> Subject: Re: Plant Identification
> 
> My thoughts (& more) exactly.  I had to call our ISP techie to remove
> the
> )(*&^#!!  clog.
> 
> Maria Guzman
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >HOW ON EARTH did a 7394KB attachment get through on this 
> list and block
> >my internet connection???!!!!  Whoever sent it should know 
> better than
> >to send such a large group of huge attachments to anyone!
> >
> >___________________________________________
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Mario Brincat" <marbrin@nextgen.net.mt>
> >To: <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
> >Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 12:18 PM
> >Subject: Plant Identification
> >
> >
> >> Hi.
> >>
> >> Can anyone identify these plants for me?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Mario Brincat
> >>
> 
> 
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