(look for memory reporter & read tutorial).

2. new rtf/web pane extension at
eccomv.com

Amazing things going on with Ecco… massive Revitalization…

amazing new tools, add-ons, extensions.

Super power auto-assign rules,

RTF paste and copy,

folder math,

RegeX, LUA rules,

folder controlled item colors,

the list goes on…

FREE at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ecco_pro/

I think Doug Essinger-Hileman should have worried about his self inflicted “character assassination”
Poor position to cry fool.

R. Hilton – be careful re: the “character assassination” comments about Doug Essinger-Hileman. I don’t know the man at all, but have been a long time member of the “eccopro” list, which basically suffered the fate of the original moderator abandoning it, with the supposed spam list harvesting being the result (personally, I’ve noticed no more than usual). It took some time, but eventually a few folks were able to get Yahoo to re-assign the moderator roles, and that forum seems to be quite active and spam-safe ever since. DURING that interim period, however, I seem to recall someone signing up somewhere as a “Doug Essinger-Hileman” imposter (which would have been quite possible during the heated debates that happened during the no-moderator season), and I vaguely remember seeing posts about that from a few different folks. Likewise, I remember a few people from the “new” group (eeco_pro) trolling like crazy in the original group.

So, unfortunately, the net effect was to split the group into a few “watering holes.” The three that I’m aware of that are active are:

the original group:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/eccopro/

the group that spawned out of that group during the “unmoderated” season:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ecco_pro

the ECCO forum:
http://eccoforum.com/
(Note, if you’re a programmer, there are some nice Delphi utilities with source code here)

Find it freaky. Before signing up to the forum listed by “Doug Essinger-Hileman”, did a search of the archive there and at the ‘new’ forum. Turns out Doug Essinger-Hileman has an troubled ethical past a mile long. He is a ‘defrocket’, if that is the right word, minister, and one of the moderators of the site he lists. The files he lists are on a site by another of the moderators, and link back to a third site by another of the moderators, where finally you are hit up for a $10 annual membership fee. BEWARE apparently Doug Essinger-Hileman and the others are allowing email harvesting in the forum he is pushing. The real users group seems to have moved to the “ecco_pro”, with underline between ecco and pro. Looking over the archive of the forum is interesting, as it appears that one or more moderator at the spam harvesting forum tried to steal files created by members of the ‘new’ list, and offer it on his own forum. It’s all in the archives of the new forum. Apparently Doug Essinger-Hileman and/or others with him are also deleting selected archives at the “eccopro” list to coverup the email harvesting scheme they have going.

Just to let you know guys,

I’m in the process of building a tool application named “ListAndChecklist”. The purpose of this application will be “easy management of all kind of list or checklist”.

That is, p.e., like in ecco pro, you will be able to create column “on the fly”. Instead of a “tabbed” interface, an outliner will be used (many “differents lists” in ONE file), which allow user to sort/manage their lists an easy way.

The application is still in early development. I’m a µISVer and feedback from guys like the ones using Ecco Pro is precious to me.

The plan is to release a first public version around october 2007. Beta will be available in a couple of months.

I must be clear that, if the “spirit” of ListAndChecklist will be close to the EccoPro’s one, it is not a “clone” of EccoPro, but maybe its (very) little brother.

A couple of months ago, some folk were concerned about several issues, including spam and email harvesting bots. Some spam had begun creeping into the group because the owner of the group had become distracted by “real life.” I didn’t think that the spam had become unwieldy, amounting to perhaps 3-6 a couple of days per week; but some folk did. Some folk also became concerned about supposed email harvesting bots, though no documentation was ever provided that bots were actually subscribed to the group.

A group of those concerned about these two issues created another group, which still exists. But the owner of the original group was finally contacted, and has designated a co-owner, who has designated several moderators. With this change, the original discussion group is now as free of spam as any internet discussion group/list can be, and the issue of email harvesting bots is being addressed.

Anyone interested in joining the group is invited to do so. The group’s homepage on Yahoo is at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/eccopro/.

If you are having problems installing EccoPro, you might try downloading the manual install packet and copying the files manually into their proper directories. You can get this packet at http://www.eccoforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=8&sid=428c25421976afd2d6c105979e21d18e.

Doug

The owner of compusol has gained control of the old eccopro forum. Likely if you post in the forum and be sure to use hidden email because the forum is email harvesting bot infested he would help you.

There is also a free file that I don’t know if it works on the user added files board at forums.eccomagic.com

If you are stuck, there seems to be helpful info on the new forum Stan posted http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ecco_pro

Peter could you please post the instructions for how to do a manual installation on Windows XP and Vista ?? It failed to install properly for me on Windows XP. I paid CompuSol their $10 and never received access to “their kit”. I emailed them about this 3 times already and have heard nothing. What a ripoff!!! I am fed up with CompuSol. I still want to run ECCO Pro.

Yes Ecco works with Vista, I have it right here on my new Vista PC and its as solid as ever.

It might be a struggle to install through its setup.exe though – for some people, setup failed to run under XP, so Vista is probably even more problematic.

The alternative is a manual installation, using files and instructions from – unpack files to their correct folders, run a .reg patch and it’s done.

Peter

Does anyone know for a fact if EccoPro works with Windows Vista?

Glad I found this webpage! Ecco is G-R-E-A-T! Thanks.

When I went to the forum was informed it had moved. New address: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ecco_pro

Also found there that add-ons are being developed still for Ecco. Try: http://eccomagic.com

(including a lot of fee software to upgrade Ecco for windows XP. GO TO THEIR FORUMS where for some reason they have hidden the bulk of their software, especially the FREE SOFTWARE. Was surprised to find there software for allowing color highlighting for schedules, using the mouse wheel, fixing year 2000 bugs with Ecco, creating networks, etc.