Re: Bug#95975: mutt: doesn't use charset anymore

2001-05-06 Thread Alexander Koch
On Sat, 5 May 2001 10:57:43 -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
 Just use LC_CTYPE=de_DE. It'll work fine in mutt. (The problem is, if
 I remember correctly, that X uses ISO8859-1, without the first dash.)

Ok, but now I am confused...

LC_CTYPE=de_DE
LANG=de_DE
LC_MESSAGES=C

Should give me german umlauts and the prompts/messages
should still be like before, right? Do I really not have
to set ISO-8859-1 somewhere?

Alexander

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Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

2001-05-02 Thread Alexander Koch
On Wed, 2 May 2001 13:39:17 +0200, Gerrit Pape wrote:
 See http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/faq/tinydns.html#nslookup f.e.

djbdns? you really mean it?
*brrzzzap*
Suprise, you're dead. [1]

EOT anyone? [2]

Regards,
Alexander

[1] I happen to like that song...
[2] Mutt has scoring abilities, right? djb sux, so... thanks
for the idea

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Re: ITH (Intent To Hijack) pilot-manager

2001-05-02 Thread Alexander Koch
On Wed, 2 May 2001 06:57:50 -0500, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
 ... and that's exactly why I've created mia-history
 (pandora:/org/qa.debian.org/mia)

79 summary files... Hmh.

Regards,
Alexander

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Re: apt maintainers dead?

2001-01-08 Thread Alexander Koch
On Mon, 8 January 2001 04:15:10 +0100, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
   method will result in the immediate termination of public rsync
   access to our servers.
 
 I think that is something to be discussed. As I said before, I expect
 the rsync + some features to produce less load than ftp or http.

Goswin, please ask someone who is granting anon rsync access
and why they fear it. You can wreck the server so easily...

Alexander




Re: RBL report..

2000-03-30 Thread Alexander Koch
On Wed, 29 March 2000 14:31:50 -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
 This is deliberately removed, we had some problems a year or so ago with
 the received lines getting too long for some mailers. We are looking at
 putting them back.

There are some sites out there that have a limit of 15 and
you are able to reach above 15. Heh, the daily listmaster
box is fun when someone subscribes with a yahoo.com address
that gets forwarded to iname (argh!) which is brought to
some ISP in .fr and then there comes a completely fscked
fetchmail config that is bouncing every single mail without
the self-made admin knowing it, complaining why he got
unsub'ed by me after 50 bounces.

scnr.

I say we go for it and it worth a try. Stay tuned.

Alexander,
believing in random sigs instead

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Re: RBL report..

2000-03-30 Thread Alexander Koch
On Thu, 30 March 2000 05:53:20 -0500, Eric Weigel wrote:
 If you're stuck with a service provider who has a crappy mail
 service, and/or who has your IP listed on the DUL, I'll offer a
 solution.

Also uucp over tcp/ip is offered for quite a small monthly
charge at cid.net, have whatever hostname you want to have.

That service is in Germany, but see after uucp.cid.net for
a traceroute, it should be rather well- connected (although
nacamar sux big rocks from time to time).

Please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you have any questions.

Alexander

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Re: RBL report..

2000-03-29 Thread Alexander Koch
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 02:02:23PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
 On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Alexander Koch wrote:
  DUL is interesting. I changed my mind on that. I rather say
  we use it since the amount of spam is certainly increasing
  the last weeks and DUL is understandable.
 
 Yes there is more spam, but I've been looking and I haven't seen that much
 (if any at all) would be blocked by DUL.

I personally think the DUL is most harmless RBL and the most
legitimate (bad wording probably) for use. And if it only catches
on spam a week it is worth it, methinks.

I do not have the exact figures, unfortunately.

Alexander



Re: RBL report..

2000-03-29 Thread Alexander Koch
On Wed, 29 March 2000 01:57:45 -0800, Joseph Carter wrote:
 I'm not the only person here who thinks so.  Make Debian use all the
 blacklists you want.  You'll find users and developers dropping like
 flies.

If everything else fails, this is the best argument to bring
up, really. Tell me why I should listen to you. It's the way
of argueing and (probably) not shouting and what not.

You are making a fool of yourself for bringing up this
argument, but that is just me.

btw - if you really need to find a smarthost that is working
well I doubt you have to search for a long time. Mail is not
just mail and I can imagine many specials for those like you
that need a decent smarthost. It is just the right configuration 
on a random MTA, all can do it. There are possibilities, after
all.

But I will not argue with you like before. pmyp.

Alexander

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Re: RBL report..

2000-03-29 Thread Alexander Koch
On Wed, 29 March 2000 12:42:14 -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
 Joseph's arguments, while occasionally strident, are not foolish. I
 find it interesting that his opponents devolve into name calling and
 obscenity.

You can read? Sure, you can.

I tried to explain some point to him on irc but I failed, no
talk seemed possible. Every word is one word too much, there
is no point in ppl saying do this and I will leave as will
many others and that was what was making me angry.

Have your way, I do not care anymore, let us keep it as it
is, no sweat. Damn, I am so lucky not living in the States,
we do not have such problems over here in stoneage Europe. ;-
Really, I have underestimated your strong-mindedness, I can
think and you have more than one point. But it has to do
with the continents, methinks.

EOT, now.

Thanks,
Alexander

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Re: RBL report..

2000-03-28 Thread Alexander Koch
On Tue, 28 March 2000 17:03:56 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
 That roughly matches my experience - ORBS blocks far too much to use in

Did anyone say above.net? ORBS swamped Germany half a year
ago with mails, some big ISPs are still in the ORBS database
for 1000+ business customers are not really easy to control.

They gave one week to fix it all and that was a bad joke. It
was found out afterwards there was a port scan for some
thousands of host by some .dk ppl. Bad luck, sure, but the
XXX with them, imnsho.

DUL is interesting. I changed my mind on that. I rather say
we use it since the amount of spam is certainly increasing
the last weeks and DUL is understandable.

Craig?

Alexander

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Re: spamblocking the lists

2000-03-08 Thread Alexander Koch
On Wed, 8 March 2000 15:28:37 -0500, Joe Block wrote:
 So sign on with multiple addresses and set all but one nomail.  It's
 ludicrous to subject everyone to spam just to make things convenient for
 a minority of users, especially if a fix exists that only those people
 affected by the spamblock will have to implement.

nomail is not possible with smartlist, is it?

Alexander

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Re: Debian recommended software

1999-10-03 Thread Alexander Koch
On Sat, 2 October 1999 15:13:12 +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
 exim has its own filter facility, that is easier to understand and use 
 by new users.

Yep.
And what is needed by procmail is the following:

Transport-wise:

|local_delivery:
|  driver = pipe
|  command=/usr/bin/procmail
|  umask=0022

(This can be enhanced with a required_files = ~/:~/.procmailrc or
 any such things (needing the procmail binary itself, the other
 transport (the old local_delivery) can still be in there)

And the localuser director should be enhanced (take two of
them, one running for procmail, the other after that running
for normal delivery).

-- Mark, do you think it is possible to add procmail support
to exim? Should not be much of a problem.

 Edward list server: smartlist
 Edward Needs modifications to exim.conf found on the www.exim.org homepage to
 Edward function well.
 
 I use smartlist myself, but I heard others (like mailman) are
 better. The Exim list uses mailman IIRC.

Yep. There is a nice mail from Nigel on setting up mailman,
should be available in the exim-users lists archive.

Alexander

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Re: A few changes

1999-09-25 Thread Alexander Koch
On Fri, 24 September 1999 09:12:31 +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote:
 This is all very well, except for those of us who email from work, and 
 have their PGP key at home...

Best point of all.
At work even on a private box my co-workers also have root
on it. I don't dare having my private key there...

Alexander

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Re: aterm packages ?

1999-09-17 Thread Alexander Koch
On Wed, 15 September 1999 22:30:03 -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
   Didn't somebody ITP aterm?  What's the status on that?
  
  Samuel Hocevar [EMAIL PROTECTED] did package aterm (after sending an 
  ITP). He
  asked me to upload his package since he is not a maintainer yet.
  
  However, there were a couple of problems so I did not upload the first
  version. A new version should be soon available.

What about these packages in Incoming?

--
master ~/incoming $ ls -l aterm*
-rw-r--r--   1 plundis  Debian   3272 Aug 23 09:03 aterm_0.3.6-3.diff.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 plundis  Debian611 Aug 23 09:03 aterm_0.3.6-3.dsc
-rw-r--r--   1 plundis  Debian990 Aug 23 09:03 
aterm_0.3.6-3_i386.changes
-rw-r--r--   1 plundis  Debian 149092 Aug 23 09:03 aterm_0.3.6-3_i386.deb
-rw-r--r--   1 plundis  Debian 288682 Aug 24 13:54 aterm_0.3.6.orig.tar.gz
--

If it's out-dated or broken, it should be deleted?

Alexander

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glibc 2.1 and apache

1999-05-26 Thread Alexander Koch
Hello.

Short question: Does anyone of you have experienced apache
forking children that do not get killed again after a period
of time? We have 70+ processes on _ (/server-status) and
this is unusual, to say the least.

It happened after an update to the latest glibc in potato
where it was glibc 2.0 before. It's a hand-made apache
built with the debian diff.

Is there a difference? Should I recompile apache?

Alexander

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Intent to package sniffit

1999-02-01 Thread Alexander Koch
Hello.

I am about to package sniffit since it has been
orphaned and wnpp also says it is free. Now if
nobody is working on it already I will take it.

Alexander

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Re: Hardcore baby!!! Yeah!!!!

1999-01-28 Thread Alexander Koch
On Thu, 28 January 1999 11:33:46 -0800, Oscar Levi wrote:
  [ pathetic attempt at sex spam snipped ]
  Can we PLEASE enforce our spam policy and make these people pay for their
  crimes against humanity?
[..]
 There is something missing from the header.  I'd guess that qmail is
 supressing it.  Usually, we can see the name (IP) of the sending host
 in the headers.

It is being cut from the mails before being sent out.
It is on murphy somewhere and I simply lack the time
to even read the debian lists at all right now (I am
down to ~ 3k mails unread from about 9k yesterday).

This will change in the near future (moving is no fun).

Alexander,
1/3 of [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Re: moving mutt-i from non-us to main

1998-10-17 Thread Alexander Koch
On Fri, 16 October 1998 20:38:57 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I didn't realize that the author of mutt-i was a US resident (I don't use
 mutt at all, myself).

Some time ago (can't remember any version numbers) the PGP
version was hacked by Thomas Roessler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
right after the normal version came out.

Right now Michael Elkins has a job enslaving (sp?) him to
use a Mickeysoft OS any he doesn't have the time for much
of the former codings any more.

Thomas Roessler is the keeper of the source at the moment.
Perhaps Roland Rosenfeld can ask him what he thinks of it?

Alexander

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Re: moving mutt-i from non-us to main

1998-10-17 Thread Alexander Koch
Hi Roland.

On Sat, 17 October 1998 10:36:48 +, Roland Rosenfeld wrote:
 I don't understand, what the Author (Michael Elkins) or the current
 Maintainer of the upstream version (Thomas Roessler) have to do with
 us (Debian) offering their program on our US ftp servers.

I meant it'd be nice to ask them... nothing more. ,-))
And if they would (have) object(ed), that should have a certain ..
influence on the decision besides *any* export and crypto stuff.

 When we mean, that this is illegal, we should move dpkg-buildpackage
 to non-US, because this calls pgp, too...

*grin*
Your point.

Alexander

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Re: What Bruce had to say about non-Pixar names. Re: what's after slink

1998-10-17 Thread Alexander Koch
On Sat, 17 October 1998 11:10:10 -0400, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
   john  I'd still like to use penguins.
 Indeed, that was the best proposal yet.

Hmh.. no. ,-)
I prefer comics and things like that.. argh, so to say. :-)

Alexander

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Re: Contacting authors

1998-10-08 Thread Alexander Koch
On Thu, 8 October 1998 00:07:26 +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
 Re spam: I'd like to make it optional so it does not have to be
 used but only should.  Each pkg. maintainer could negotiate with
 the upstream author about this feature and not use it if the author
 doesn't like that.

That's what I meant yesterday evening.
If we ask and the author gives an ack, this is ok, but some will
think of just spam and the like and deny this. We would have an
incomplete package-base at authors.debian.org, then...

Alexander

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Re: exim really does need to be the standard MTA in slink

1998-10-07 Thread Alexander Koch
On Wed, 7 October 1998 12:12:10 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
 Just curious how you know this since when I telnet to their relay hosts
 they are very non-descript about what they run.

Exim-users.
And a certain news hierachy with some bofhish guys in it.
Did I mention psi.uk.com, btw?

Alexander

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Re: Contacting authors

1998-10-07 Thread Alexander Koch
Hi Joey.

 What do you think about it?

Will it produce more mail to the authors? Will *they* like it?
Besides that, it's at least useful.

Alexander

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Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread Alexander Koch
On Mon, 5 October 1998 19:52:23 +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
 Posh...  After 5 more releases of Debian the Spice girls will be history and
 we can name versions after their replacements!

Please, don't.

Alexander

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Re: Switch to perl-5.005_02 ?

1998-10-05 Thread Alexander Koch
On Mon, 5 October 1998 13:24:56 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
 Yes, if we do nothing for slink then we will have to make perl5.005 (and
 all perl package after 5.005) conflict with a list of 35 package with
 precise version.

Yep. Seems more of a hassle to me.

 Perl 5.005 is stable. 

If we use basic Perl 5 I don't see any reason it should not work
and I'd really like to know what known problems there probably
are. We're not talking about threaded perl here, that may become
an additional package.

Alexander

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Re: Switch to perl-5.005_02 ?

1998-10-05 Thread Alexander Koch
[snip]

Now. Who comes up with a Perl 5.005_02 for experimental?
I'd like to run it against the walls to see if it does
anything not-so-nice or something.

Alexander

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Re: How about using bzip2 as the standard *.deb compression format?

1998-10-03 Thread Alexander Koch
On Fri, 2 October 1998 22:25:35 -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
 It'd STILL be nice to be able to use bzip2 for package source on REALLY BIG
 packages (Mozilla, X)

I agree. It'd be fine for now if it's supported and then you can
still decide to use it for your own packages. You won't install X
or mozilla on boxes with, say, 4 megs of RAM, right? ;-)

Just a thought.

Alexander

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compile probs, glibc, satlink.c (Planetc Feed)

1998-05-08 Thread Alexander Koch
Hiya.

I've a Planetc satfeed and there's a module satlink.c (.o
respectively) which doesn't want to compile w/ glibc.
No prob with that, I added a -I/usr/i486-linuxlibc1/ to
the gcc call and it compiled.

I've installed the libc5-altdev beforehand and the libc5
and hopefully this is enough.

Now... I've a custom 2.0.33 kernel (not the Debian kernel-
source package). I've altered the links from /usr/include/asm/
and /usr/include/linux/, of course. I'm compiling it and
whenever I try to insmod satlink.o it tells me it was
compiled for 2.0.32 and that doesn't match the actual
kernel. I've that module version information thing switched on
in the kernel (which should help, since it says it allows
me to use modules compiled for another kernel version).

Now... what did I do wrong?
Any help is appreciated...

Thanks a lot,
Alexander

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Re: Uploaded perl 5.003.07-11 (source i386) to master

1998-05-07 Thread Alexander Koch
On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 11:27:46AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
   Version: 5.003.07-11
   Distribution: stable
   Urgency: high
[..]
 It is a real upload.  It's a security fix for our stable release.
 Uploads into stable may only fix security problems and should not
 introduce new upstream releases.

Acute dainbramage... stable as in oh, that's bo - right?

Sorry.

Alexander

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