Re: dumpster diving

2000-08-18 Thread Dale Mentzer
On 18 Aug 00 at 5:41, Gloria Burd wrote: >>To this day, I make every effort never to take anything or anyone for >>granted! :-) You go girl! ;) Regards, Dale Mentzer I work 40 hours a week to be this poor. This mail written by a user of Arachne, the DOS Internet Client W

Re: mail bomb / spam

2000-08-18 Thread Dale Mentzer
On 15 Aug 00 at 15:55, Pete wrote: >>In three months online at this location, I have recieved only *one* >>letter that I considered to be spam. IIRC it was posted to the list by >>someone who thought other listers might find it useful ;-) While using >>the Aptiva all last year I found the "spam f

Re: Arachne for mail transport II

2000-08-18 Thread Dale Mentzer
On 18 Aug 00 at 7:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>Dale, I hope it is just the same as in other DOS applications >>that use a DOS routine to create unique file names, so that Pegasus >>takes care that no name occurs twice. I think that Pegasus checks for that when you use the extract function

Re: mail bomb / spam

2000-08-18 Thread Dale Mentzer
On 18 Aug 00 at 18:08, Neil Smith wrote: >>Anybody got any thoughts on 'retaliation' ? Perhaps there's too much mail as >>it is, so filling their reply address mailbox with c*ap would be a tad >>irresponsible? Answers on a postcard Well, if it were junk snail mail, I would suggest putting th

Re: mail bomb / spam

2000-08-18 Thread Dale Mentzer
On 19 Aug 00 at 0:43, J. J. Young wrote: >> Sam Heywood and I conducted an amusing correspondence a few months >> ago, with convoluted attempts to avoid direct use of the term >> "mailbomb" (Oops, I did it again). We'll have to come to an agreement >> over disguising troublesome terms. Re

Re: mail bomb / spam

2000-08-18 Thread Clarence Verge
J. J. Young wrote: > >Sam Heywood and I conducted an amusing correspondence a few months >ago, with convoluted attempts to avoid direct use of the term >"mailbomb" (Oops, I did it again). We'll have to come to an agreement >over disguising troublesome terms. Reverse the letter ord

Re: mail bomb / spam

2000-08-18 Thread Pete
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 18:08:45 +0100, Neil Smith wrote: >> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 16:55:45 >> From: "Dale Mentzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Spammer service ad > I can confirm receipt of that spam from that bulk email lot. > The fact that it came to Dale as well suggests that either we have

Re: Line length

2000-08-18 Thread Pete
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 16:58:38 EST, Neil Parks wrote: > On 18 Aug 00 at 11:44, arachne-digest wrote: >> From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> I don't know what Eric uses but I use Netscape and it displays only what >> it gets. So, without CRLFs, Richard's post went off into right fi

Re: $ or £ ?

2000-08-18 Thread Pete
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 13:40:08 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote: > Pete wrote: >> On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 02:12:02 +, Bastiaan Edelman wrote: >> > unsubscribe * >> Hmmm Does this mean unsubscribe any? > Unsubscribe all? > Neat trick if it worked. > - Clarence Verge Bastiaan, don't go!

Re: mail bomb / spam

2000-08-18 Thread J. J. Young
Neil Smith wrote: >> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 16:55:45 >> From: "Dale Mentzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Spammer service ad > I can confirm receipt of that spam from that bulk email lot. > The fact that it came to Dale as well suggests that either we have both > subscribed to some site on t

RE: PCMCIA-modem and Arachne (Insight too slow)

2000-08-18 Thread Ioannis A. Panteleon
> Jake J. Young wrote: >>> Clarence Verge wrote: >>> On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 00:17:29 +0200, Ioannis A. Panteleon wrote: >>> > >>> > BTW I can live with Arachne working slow on my Laptop, but why is >>> > Insight equally slow? It just has to get some text files. Minuet does >>> > the same job as qu

bcc

2000-08-18 Thread Roger Turk
Neil Parks wrote: >>Re the recent discussion of Bcc: Ideally, the recipient of a msg should not see the content of the Bcc: line. Its purpose is to spare the recipient of the msg from having to wade through a mile-long list of other recipients. However, I find that whenever a receive a msg a

Re: Not so blind carbon copy

2000-08-18 Thread Eric S. Emerson
Hi Glenn, Thanks. I'll try it out sometime. However, I don't think that will work with Detroit Freenet mailer. Eric Glenn McCorkle wrote: > >On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 04:50:00 -0400 (EDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric S. >Emerson) wrote: > >> Hi Glenn, >> Since you have been explaining

mail bomb / spam

2000-08-18 Thread Neil Smith
>Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 16:55:45 >From: "Dale Mentzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Spammer service ad I can confirm receipt of that spam from that bulk email lot. The fact that it came to Dale as well suggests that either we have both subscribed to some site on the web & they've passed on deta

http://clevelandrjc.homestead.com/page1.html

2000-08-18 Thread Neil Parks
Another web page that looks very bad in Arachne 1.66/DOS. Funny thing is I could not even edit the page with F4. All I get is a mostly blank screen, with the usual two buttons at the bottom. One button says F2 Save and View, and the other button says Cancel. When I pressed the F2 key on my k

Re: Line length

2000-08-18 Thread Neil Parks
On 18 Aug 00 at 11:44, arachne-digest wrote: > From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I don't know what Eric uses but I use Netscape and it displays only what > it gets. So, without CRLFs, Richard's post went off into right field for > me also. In addition, if I try to quote a messa

bcc

2000-08-18 Thread Neil Parks
Re the recent discussion of Bcc: Ideally, the recipient of a msg should not see the content of the Bcc: line. Its purpose is to spare the recipient of the msg from having to wade through a mile-long list of other recipients. However, I find that whenever a receive a msg at my Slip Net mailbox

Re: Spammer service ad

2000-08-18 Thread Neil Parks
On 18 Aug 00 at 11:44, arachne-digest wrote: > From: "Dale Mentzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I got this in the mail today and though it might be of interest to > this mail bomb/spam discussion. I included the header so maybe > someone can figure our where this came from. It is pretty braz

Re: $ or £ ?

2000-08-18 Thread Bernie
Clarence wrote: >Unsubscribe all? >Neat trick if it worked. The only one who can do that is Michael - but it's by shutting the list down instead ;-) (Well more people can actually do that - personally I didn't want to try messing *to* much with majordomo in case I was able to change things ). Wh

Re: Deleting Mail from Inbox

2000-08-18 Thread Bernie
Ross wrote: >-- Arachne V1.47;beta, NON-COMMERCIAL version, http://home.arachne.cz/ Ok, Clarence have already answered, but I think you should get a newer version of Arachne as well. //Bernie http://bernie.arachne.cz/ DOS programs, Star Wars ...

RE: freewwweb mail system seems to have 'died'....

2000-08-18 Thread Bernie
Richard Burckhardt wrote: >I've always suggested that an ISP's e-mail not be used as your permanent account. You >lose it when you move on to something better (And there's ALWAYS something better). ;-) I suggest you use the one that's fastest for you - epsecially if you recieve/send many mails. T

Re: can't list "all files"

2000-08-18 Thread Bernie
I wrote: >Yeah, it's a problem in wwwman.exe, we have known about it for quite some >time. IIRC there also exists a fixed wwwman.exe, I'll check that out today >(in thirty minutes) so expect an answer by tonight (GMT that is). If we uncomment the part with Stacker in the detection routine it will

Re: Deleting Mail from Inbox

2000-08-18 Thread Clarence Verge
Ross Virgin wrote: > > . > . > Anyone got advice on "deleting a message from the > Inbox of Insight" ? > > The Arachne mail instructions say, press Shift-Enter > (to mark the message). Then at the bottom of the > screen it says "to delete press DEL" > > Doing this

Re: $ or £ ?

2000-08-18 Thread Clarence Verge
Pete wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 02:12:02 +, Bastiaan Edelman wrote: > > > unsubscribe * > > Hmmm Does this mean unsubscribe any? Unsubscribe all? Neat trick if it worked. - Clarence Verge -- - Help stamp out FATWARE. As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/ --

Re: Not so blind carbon copy

2000-08-18 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 04:50:00 -0400 (EDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric S. Emerson) wrote: > Hi Glenn, > Since you have been explaining how Cc:, Bcc:, > etc. works I have been experimenting with the Detroit > Freenet mailer. Bcc seems to work just the way you > described it should. I can find none

Re: Spammer service ad

2000-08-18 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000 16:55:45, Dale Mentzer wrote: > Hi listers, > I got this in the mail today and though it might be of interest to > this mail bomb/spam discussion. I included the header so maybe > someone can figure our where this came from. It is pretty brazen in > their disregard of any sen

Re: stoolie

2000-08-18 Thread Terri FitzSimons
>..I wouldn't confess to your other inference. I'll try to be more careful choosing words, but then again I can't always guess all the interpretations others might confer on my words. < Of course you wouldn't. Being a practicing punster, I couldn't help noticing the other interpretation. And th

Re: dumpster diving

2000-08-18 Thread Roger Turk
Thomas Mueller wrote: >>I believe some panhandlers do it as an alternative way of earning a living, and aren't really needy.<< Years ago, a dirty, grimy, disheveled, articulate "homeless" person appeared repeatedly before governing bodies advocating services, food, shelter, etc., for the home

Re: Not so blind carbon copy

2000-08-18 Thread Roger Turk
Why would you not want the BCC recipient to see everyone, except possibly other BCC recipients, who gets a copy of a message/letter? In the days of the typewriter and carbon copies, you took a copy of the original letter, put it back in the typewriter, and added the "BCC:" to the end of the le

Deleting Mail from Inbox

2000-08-18 Thread Ross Virgin
. . Anyone got advice on "deleting a message from the Inbox of Insight" ? The Arachne mail instructions say, press Shift-Enter (to mark the message). Then at the bottom of the screen it says "to delete press DEL" Doing this, on numerous messages, does not delete

Re: dumpster diving

2000-08-18 Thread Pete
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 04:54:27 -0400 (EDT), Thomas Mueller wrote: >> Can someone explain to me why people asking for a hand-out get uptight & > sometimes pissy when I give them a can of tuna or a piece of fruit or > offer them an item of utile clothing? > Somebody once told me panhandlers use thei

Re: $ or £ ?

2000-08-18 Thread Pete
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 02:12:02 +, Bastiaan Edelman wrote: > unsubscribe * Hmmm Does this mean unsubscribe any? - Pete Randolph - - Morristown Corners, Vermont -

Re: can't list "all files"

2000-08-18 Thread Pete
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000 17:11:09 +, Ray Andrews wrote: > From: "Ray Andrews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi All, > Here's my question: When I click on "my computer", the system > hangs. It's the same if I go to "all files" and click on "\\", so the > problem seems to be that arachne won't give me a

Re: Language police

2000-08-18 Thread Edenyard
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:18:40 -0400 (EDT) Eric Emerson wrote: > This is what makes this Arachne list so exceptional. > They respond to the messages instead of reacting to the > messages. The responses are made in good faith without > any attempt to inflame. The responses answer the question > at

Re: dumpster diving

2000-08-18 Thread Gloria Burd
True -- which is why I never give money to panhandlers. I prefer to donate money, food, clothing, etc., to non-profit organisations that help homeless people who really want to help themselves -- and many do. Here in California, the prevailing mentality is the "entitlement" mentality (believe it

Re: arachne-digest V1 #1244/multipart email messages

2000-08-18 Thread Thomas Mueller
>A friend of my using Arachne and recived a email with 16 pics attached, but he could only view the first 10 pics. Others were just file://...jpg in red and when he clicked on the nema, Arachne said: file not found. How many attached files can Arachne/Insight handle? Rebel > I am on a one-way

Re: dumpster diving

2000-08-18 Thread Thomas Mueller
>Can someone explain to me why people asking for a hand-out get uptight & sometimes pissy when I give them a can of tuna or a piece of fruit or offer them an item of utile clothing? > Somebody once told me panhandlers use their earnings to buy cheap liquor. Maybe cigarettes too. I believe some

Re: Not so blind carbon copy

2000-08-18 Thread Eric S. Emerson
Hi Glenn, Since you have been explaining how Cc:, Bcc:, etc. works I have been experimenting with the Detroit Freenet mailer. Bcc seems to work just the way you described it should. I can find none of the addresses in the headers of mail sent by Bcc. However, I notice all headers con

Re: stoolie

2000-08-18 Thread Eric S. Emerson
Hi Terri, Ah, yes, the old double-entendre. I wrote "chair" first, but then changed to "stool" since that is what was supporting me at the time. When I used the word "stool" I meant a piece of furniture used to support one who is seated. In other words, a place to rest one's derriere.