On Fri, 30 May 2003 10:46:31 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote:
> Do they even care?
> What is the date of the last version of Arachne to come out of their
> labs? IIRC it is quite old.
> I suspect that Arachne is a dead issue as far as they are concerned, but
> they haven't bothered to close the list or
On Fri, 30 May 2003 10:38:14 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote:
> On Wed, 28 May 2003 16:35:51 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote:
>> My benchmark for email performance is Pine from a Unix shell, which
>> even on low end equipment will run circles around Arachne eight
>> days a week. By comparison Arachne is slow and
On Fri, 30 May 2003 10:55:55 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote:
> On Thu, 29 May 2003 11:30:07 +1000, Ron Clarke wrote:
>>> It may be the system your ISP is using. I had no trouble getting the
>>> newsgroups, so I suspect the problem is not at MicroSnot's end.
>> Possibly.
>> So I tried with my secondar
On Thu, 29 May 2003 11:30:07 +1000, Ron Clarke wrote:
>> It may be the system your ISP is using. I had no trouble getting the
>> newsgroups, so I suspect the problem is not at MicroSnot's end.
> Possibly.
> So I tried with my secondary ISP, totally different servers and
> software, etc..
> Exa
On Thu, 29 May 2003 19:39:04 -0400 (EDT), Gregor Jones wrote:
> Well, I guess I am the "then interested human being", i.e. list manager
> before Michael Polak. I used to be able to unsubscribe people, but there
> is not much I can do now. I sympathize mightily. I even went so far as to
> telephone
On Wed, 28 May 2003 03:26:44 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> How can they find out your email address just by your going
> to their advertised web site and the only thing you do there
> is to just take a looksee?
I don't think they can find out your email address if you just go to
their site. B
On Thu, 29 May 2003 10:33:51 +1000, Ron Clarke wrote:
> There IS a freeware drawing program for DOS, I believe similar to
> AutoCAD, listed on Dev Teelucksingh's website.
>http://www.opus.co.tt/dave
A useful site. I couldn't find the drawing program, but there was a lot
of other stuff that l
On Thu, 29 May 2003 09:48:08 -0400, Roger Turk wrote:
> But it seems that the then interested human being that maintained the list
> does not understand the irreparable harm ignoring the plight of list
> subscribers can do to the reputation of Arachne Labs.
> Is this the support that potential cl
On Wed, 28 May 2003 16:35:51 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote:
> My benchmark for email performance is Pine from a Unix shell, which
> even on low end equipment will run circles around Arachne eight
> days a week. By comparison Arachne is slow and kludgy.
Is PINE available for DOS?
And where can I get it
On Fri, 30 May 2003 09:57:04 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote:
> On Tue, 27 May 2003 03:58:20 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>> I don't send any infected messages to anyone.
> Of course you don't. But if someone was sending infected messages with
> your name in the FROM: field, what are your friends go
Greg Mayman wrote,
. > Yes, I understand what you're saying. Have you tried to talk to the
. > "experts' at Compuserve about it?
Har, Har, Har, Har!
Compuserve forum SysOps, although quite knowledgable, are *volunteers* and do
not work for Compuserve. Even they have a problem getting informati
On Tue, 27 May 2003 03:58:20 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> I don't send any infected messages to anyone.
Of course you don't. But if someone was sending infected messages with
your name in the FROM: field, what are your friends going to think when
they receive these messages?
They are going
On Wed, 28 May 2003 01:05:49 -0400 (EDT), Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I guess he is still in charge of the list server, and it is possible that he
>> MIGHT be interested in what goes through it.
> If things haven't improved by the time we get settled in
> MN, I'll see if he is.
Atsa way!
On Tue, 27 May 2003 03:13:00 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> It is an accusation regardless. If you should ever receive an email
> containing a virus and saying in the "From:" header that it is from me,
> that information alone would not provide you with any justifiable
> reason for saying that
On Wed, 28 May 2003 18:00:05 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
> I know how to add this little 'feature' to Arachne ;-)
> Anyone interested ???
Yep, put me down for one.
I don't have a real urgent need right now, but if my email ever gets
into the hundreds a day, I sure would like that feature!
fr
On Wed, 28 May 2003 08:36:13 -0400, Roger Turk wrote:
> Yes, and the phone number that I dial into is a 56K phone number. (Connect
> speeds are around about 44K.) But after that, things seem to go downhill.
> It is my understanding from a Compuserve forum that Compuserve likes a
> maximum of abo
On Tue, 27 May 2003 04:26:35 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> The way I do it is by connecting to a remote shell account and then
> running PINE. PINE accesses the mail server and downloads all the
> message headers being the "date", "from", and "subject" all being
> displayed on just one line f
On Tue, 27 May 2003 23:07:05 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
> The 'ignoramous' does not have to do the wrong thing.
> Windows does the wrong thing for him. ;-)
See, I told you Windoze makes it easy...
from Greg Mayman, in Adelaide, South Australia
"Queen City of the South" 34:55S 138:36E
http:
On Thu, 29 May 2003, Roger Turk wrote:
[snip]
> But it seems that the then interested human being that maintained the
> list does not understand the irreparable harm ignoring the plight of
> list subscribers can do to the reputation of Arachne Labs.
>
> Is this the support that potential clients
Hi Folks,
On Wed, 28 May 2003 12:54:08 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote:
> On Wed, 28 May 2003 08:40:53 +1000, Ron Clarke wrote:
>> So I put "pause" between just about every line, and guess what !
>> I consistently get: bad host
>> And, of course, when looking for the downloaded news, I get:
>> inputfile
Hi Folks,
On Wed, 28 May 2003 11:36:14 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote:
> Ah yes, I remember AutoCAD. The draftsmen where I worked used it all the
> time. And us techies were allowed to use AutoSketch, which was a
> slightly reduced version of AutoCAD, but with virtually all the features
> we needed at
On Tue, 27 May 2003 19:55:53 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
> Sam,
> Over 2 years ago, as a test.sent 600 messages to my own address.
> I found then that the limit in Arachne is 512.
> What is it that you would like to be able to do in sorting of
> large numbers of messages ?
> So-long-as what
On Tue, 27 May 2003 15:13:30 -0400, L.D. Best wrote:
> On Tue, 27 May 2003 07:53:00 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote:
>> Yep, 34 messages is low volume. If you had a couple of hundred to
>> sort through then Arachne's Insight would drive you crazy.
> I often have multi-hundred messages to plow through, I'v
On Thu, 29 May 2003, Sam Ewalt wrote:
> I don't know how it happens either. But I was curious once and
> clicked and got a message saying "thanks for your interest" and
> almost immediately I started getting spam by the bushel. It is almost
> all in HTML only, is sent via Outlook Express and has a
On Wed, 28 May 2003, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> On Tue, 27 May 2003 17:24:09 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote:
>
> How can they find out your email address just by your going
> to their advertised web site and the only thing you do there
> is to just take a looksee?
I throw almost all of my spams away i
Sam Ewalt wrote:
. > Back in the day when the list was actually maintained by an interested
. > human being it was a trivial matter to unsubscribe. I once did it
. > two or three times in one day as I was testing various things. No
. > biggee.
. > But that was then.
But it seems that the then in
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