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Good grief ...
Authored by: Anonymous on Oct 10, '02 10:33:17AM
At the risk of sounding slightly abusive, this is a hint?

If this trend continues, I can see this hint down the road: "For the longest time, I thought my brand-new Apple was broken; every time I tried to use my iMac, I just saw a dark black screen. Finally, after trying everything in the book, I figured out what was wrong. A few of you may not know this, but there's a button you press on your Apple that actually starts feeding electricity into the hardware. You press it, and the computer starts booting up. It's not really well-documented in the manual, but I finally saw it labeled on a diagram. They call it the 'power button.'"

Come on, this is something obvious that's been repeatedly demonstrated by Apple. There's even a flippin' screenshot right on their page for the Mail application.

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Authored by: robg on Oct 10, '02 10:52:48AM

Can't win 'em all. Sorry you found it so obvious, as did 99% of the folks out there (myself included) ... but I chose to publish it after having been asked not once but twice yesterday how the junk mail filter works. It seemed ironically timely that this was sitting in the submission queue.

So I offended you with the simplicity of the hint, but who knows if others found it helpful ... that's the question I have to answer with every hint submitted to the site. Sometimes I screw up and make a bad decision, but I hope that when I do, it's in the direction of publishing the "stupid hints" as opposed to skipping over something that somebody may find useful.

The long-range plans for the site call for some form of reader moderation, so in the future, you guys can make these decisions for yourselves :-).

-rob.



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Authored by: fbc on Oct 10, '02 12:10:40PM

its awfully nice of you to be so moderate robg, but the simple fact of the matter is that this person is a tart, pure and simple.

as far as i can tell this place is not about outwitting each other on mac knowledge, its about sharing cool things you discover in OSX.

save your sarcasm for /. and find another place to boast; i think most are happy with all levels of hints, and if you already know the answer, jump to the next.

its not that hard to except other people, try it.



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Authored by: Glanz on Oct 10, '02 08:47:37PM

The fact is that now, anyone who found that rather obvious hint useful will beafraid to admit it for fear of not seeming to be a member of the site's Illuminati..... There's nothing wrong with a seemingly obvious hint from a relatively new user! It is a step towards further communication..., that's all!



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Authored by: Glanz on Oct 10, '02 07:07:21PM

It IS a good hint in my opinion because there are many who have never used a Mac mail app before OS X. I myself have been in FreeBSD for two decades, and have never used a mac before in my life before they decided to go with X. If I may, I would like to add something to your hint. The default Junk Mail setting on my system was set to send all mail to junk if the sender is not in the address book. I didn't check that! duH! Rather than keep the junk mail around, I also set the prefs to delete junk mail. So imagine my surprise when I watched the dialogue indicating the reception of 10 messages that didn't show up in the inbox, or anywhere else for that matter. There was not one single address in my address book either, so all was deleted. OS X is easy to use.... perhaps TOO easy for an old BSD geek like me. :)



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Authored by: CaptDeuce on Oct 13, '02 08:19:07AM
As for this being an easy hint, I say never underestimate the power of stating the obvious. For instance, I was having problems with my email client of choice, PowerMail, so I fired up Mail.app to keep tabs on my email while I tracked down the problem. I did set up Mail.app to put it through its paces but I hadn't used for a month or so. I was welcomed by an alert asking me if I wanted take the Junk filter out of training mode and into automatic. It may be a tad early for Miracle on 34th Street, I must declare that if Apple engineers deem it useful tastefully remind me to set my Junk filter to automatic, who am I to dispute it?

:-)

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Authored by: CaptDeuce on Oct 13, '02 12:38:41PM
As for this being an easy hint, I say never underestimate the power of stating the obvious. For instance, I was having problems with my email client of choice, PowerMail, so I fired up Mail.app to keep tabs on my email while I tracked down the problem. I did set up Mail.app to put it through its paces but I hadn't used for a month or so. I was welcomed by an alert asking me if I wanted take the Junk filter out of training mode and into automatic. It may be a tad early for Miracle on 34th Street, I must declare that if Apple engineers deem it useful tastefully remind me to set my Junk filter to automatic, who am I to dispute it?

:-)

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Authored by: joe40 on Aug 27, '03 01:43:00AM

I found it helpful.
And I'll be darned it is right there on Apple's website !
Been in training mode on about 5 Macs for about oh 8 months now.
Time to take of the diapers and training wheels !



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Good grief ...
Authored by: Glanz on Oct 10, '02 06:57:55PM

Thanks for the hint!!!! Now I can stop using my iBook for a frisbee!!!!



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Good Grief=Thanks for the tip
Authored by: hagheid on Aug 25, '03 08:24:06PM

I've finally found the little button which turns off the mac & allows me to read no more of your pompous drivel.



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