Re: netscape messenger question

[Dan Brosemer <odin@cleannorth.org>]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 05:12:57PM -0400, deanna wrote:
> Does anybody out in techie land know anything about netscape messenger?

No, I don't think so, but we all have a google window open and ready to
answer questions. :)

> Every time I open netscape messenger and go to my trash folder there are
> seven messages from "Marc Anderson" welcoming me to netscape, and it
> takes a couple of minutes for the trash folder to open because these
> messages are so big.

The annoying welcome message... I spent 30sec once trying to figure out why
it kept recurring, but since I don't use the thing myself I didn't care too
much... now to do a google search:

http://www.sympaticousers.org/faq/opsys_software.htm is offline, but it's
cached:
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:8ZLbcGT-mos:www.sympaticousers.org/faq/opsys_software.htm&hl=en

I've already fixed it for new users.  I'll correct it for existing users
sometime this evening when it's late enough I can be sure you've all logged
off.

> Is there something I can change in settings to get rid of these Marc
> Anderson messages?  Once I delete them they are gone, until the next
> time I open up netscape messenger, then they reappear.

user_pref("mailnews.start_page.enabled", false);

in prefs.js and liprefs.js
both in U:\netscape\defaultuser

But don't worry about it, I'll get it.

find . -name 'prefs.js' -o -name 'liprefs.js' -exec echo \
  'user_pref("mailnews.start_page.enabled", false);' >> {} \;

But you need to be logged out for that, so don't expect to see the results
until tomorrow... and don't expect them to be tested.  I don't have the
thing set up. :)

-Dan

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