----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig Dickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 12:56 PM Subject: Re: [debian-user] I'm coming on board
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > (a) It seems that much of www.debian.org is not responding, so I have > > been using one of the [nation].debian.org sites. > > But these do not seem to have access to the bugs. > > I'm not sure what you mean here. If you mean security updates for the > stable branch of Debian, those are at security.debian.org. There was > a brief outage of non-us.debian.org and security.debian.org a few days > ago when they were moved to a new machine, but they're fine now. > Frank Zimmermann gets what I am talking about in his suggestion to try my local mirror -- though he meant http://www.uk.debian.org/. I live in Toronto, Canada though... but uk seems very responsive. > > (d) I am looking for the install tree as it would be on CD(s), as I think > > something in the install documentation is incorrect and I want to verify > > that it is not just at the release/minor that I have from last year. Any > > help? > > I don't know of any place online that has unpacked CDs. You can get the > CD image files and burn them to CDs. > > If you're not sure about something in the documentation, feel free to > ask here about it. alrite, I have Potato 2.2rev2. Please confirm where in install boot.bat is on rev3 and in dev stream Woody. I find it in \install directory. > > (e) Anyway to automatically have the subject line identify the mailing > > list. A few of my other mailing lists have that, example > > Subject: [debian-user]: a big problem !!! > > Subject: Re: [debian-user]: a big problem !!! > > Subject: Re:[debian-user]: a big problem !!! > > ** ick, I dislike when mail clients don't include the space after Re: > > If you're planning to use a Linux-based email client, you'll be able to > filter your mail into folders based on any header, not just Subject. > For Debian mailing lists, the X-Mailing-List header gives you both the > name of the list and also the archive index of the message. Your message, > for example, had this header when I received it: > > > X-Mailing-List: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> archive/latest/178258 > > I use a popular mail filtering program called procmail. There are others > as well. > > I suppose procmail could modify the headers of your incoming mail, if > you really want to identify the list in the Subject header. I've never > used it that way, though. Awesome info Craig, probably more sophisticated user solution than I currently can do... so I may be coming back to yall for help on that ;-) Does anyone else see the benefit for server-side subject line identification particularly for the newbie, possibly only for 'debian-user'. I know that my local LUG, TLUG, which I recently started getting involved in, does just this. I could find out what it takes. I know, I know, you guys hate it when the new guy tries to change the world :-D Best regards, Lloyd D Budd __________________________________________________________ Get your FREE personalized e-mail at http://www.canada.com