7;d rather continue using an 'impure' arachne with JS
built in, than lament the passing of a 'pure' arachne ... as I'm forced
to fire up windows before I can access the web. Not that we shouldn't
all kick and scream about this stuff at the same time, mind. The probl
s utility is so powerful that it's scary ...
or you can just use it as a simple 'find' style program like Glenn
recommended.
Ray Andrews,
Vancouver, Canada (Please note new email address is "[EMAIL PROTECTED]")
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> Michael,
> May I send the complete SRC for v1.73;GPL to Michal Tyc ?
> __
> ( CCed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
> - --
> Glenn
And me and me and me and me.
Ray Andrews,
Vancouver, Canada (Please note new email address is "[EMAIL PROTECTED]&quo
f course
it *would* be nice if Michael was more involved too, but ...
Ray Andrews,
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, for the last month
I've been using a new provider and so far I haven't had a single solitary
spam, even tho I'm still subscribed to Yahoo ... for what it's worth.
Ray Andrews,
Vancouver, Canada (Please note new email address is "[EMAIL PROTECTED]")
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e are many folks who *do* want to unsub, and they
should be able to! It is irrisponsible of Michael not to fix this problem,
and I'm sore at him for not doing it. As for me, hell, I'm sticking with
Arachne till the bitter end (thanks mostly to you, Glenn).
Ray Andrews,
Vancouver, Ca
ince Michael isn't taking any interest in Arachne these days, it's
quite possible that there is no longer any mechanism for paying him.
OTOH, if there *is* still a way of paying him, I'd do it on one condition:
that he fix the [EMAIL PROTECTED]& unsubscribe function of majordomo.
ince Michael isn't taking any interest in Arachne these days, it's
quite possible that there is no longer any mechanism for paying him.
OTOH, if there *is* still a way of paying him, I'd do it on one condition:
that he fix the [EMAIL PROTECTED]& unsubscribe function of majordomo.
L version won't be using registration anyway. Please enlighten.
Ray Andrews,
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elongs to
Michael, and it wouldn't be right to release it until he says so, tempting
though it might be to jump the gun.
Ray Andrews,
Vancouver, Canada (Please note new email address is "[EMAIL PROTECTED]")
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ng. It does such a good
job of restoring a system to its original state that it can even be used
to evaporate windows 9x and return the computer to its pre 'win'
strait DOS state, which I *love* being able to do.
with none of the usual shutdown balloney.
Ray Andrews,
Vancouver, Canada
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a good idea if you get lots of spam, like me :-(
Ray Andrews,
Vancouver, Canada
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exchange for all the rest of us doing the same--I like it.
But it does look like there aint no such thing as a pro bono Latin
translation on the Arachne list, oh well.
Ray Andrews,
Vancouver, Canada
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Hi all you Latin scholars,
Since it turns out that so many arachnids are also Latin freaks, how does one
say "There's no such thing as a free lunch" in Latin ... or does one
of you know where I might find this out?
Ray Andrews,
Vancouver, Canada
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e chat, how long has
that been going on? I wonder what else there is out there that is
Arachne related that I don't even know exists?
Ray Andrews,
Vancouver, Canada
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Hi Sam,
> On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 16:13:04 -0800, Ray Andrews wrote:
>> Gee, did I forget to mention the panspermia hypothesis in my earlier post?
>> Thanks for mentioning it.
> That just removes the problem from this world to a remote "other
> world" from the kn
ships. This IS a serious theory called
> Directed Pan-Spermia..
Gee, did I forget to mention the panspermia hypothesis in my earlier post?
Thanks for mentioning it.
Ray Andrews,
Vancouver, Canada
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le have the very mistaken
> belief that Darwin's theory is about mutations.
Gotta disagree here, but only slightly; the current 'orthodox' position
among evolutionists is called 'neo-darwinism' *precisely* because it
adds the mutation mechanism to Darwin's theory.
Ray Andrews,
Vancouver, Canada
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er complex organic molecules, to arise spontaneously.
In other words, we not only cannot demonstrate the spontaneous development
of complex organics in the lab, we *can* explain why it does not, and
cannot, ever happen. To believe in the spontaneous development of life
on earth is not just *non* science, it is *anti* science.
Ray Andrews,
Vancouver, Canada
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e can kill the majordomo list so that the 'prisoners'
can go free. Even if we can't kill majordomo, at least it's traffic should
shrink. Any better ideas will be gladly accepted.
Ray Andrews,
Vancouver, Canada
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,
one of my very best friends is a fanatical anti-religious evolutionist. He's
as far left as you can go, almost a Stalinist, I'm moderate right in my
politics. He sees the world in black and white, for me, everything is shades
of grey. But we're friends just the same.
Ray Andr
ave inspired freedom loving people for 250 years; but it
has never been able to figure out that it can't preach international law
unless it practices international law. If W attacks Iraq, he will have
made himself a criminal, plain and simple.
Ray Andrews,
Vancouver, Canada
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im even says, out
loud, that if he is embargoed, he will consider it an act of war! Sadam is
Mother Theresa by comparison.
Just my 2 cents worth :-)
Ray Andrews,
Vancouver, Canada
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Hi All,
I was reading the last digest, when about 3/4 of the way thru,
The font changed to a bigger one! What gives?
Ray Andrews,
Vancouver, Canada
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l
in the past few days what Java is, but what exactly is Java Script, anyway?
Why do we need it? How does it work?
Ray Andrews,
Vancouver, Canada
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started to tinker with the wwwman source code from your site, but
my old DOS compiler (Borland 1.1) won't touch the ASM, so I can't link.
Can you recomend a compiler that will handle ASM and a (hopefully free)
download site for same?
Ray Andrews,
Vancouver, Canada
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ess things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal appears this guff:
`My name is William Henry Gates III, king of kings:
Use my software, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and alone,
The wet and gl
elies on being
able to convince any of two or three partitions that they are "C:" when
they are active, so being able to play around with activation order could
be really useful).
> gdisk 1 /-hide /p:1
> gdisk 1 /act /p:1
Why do you hide and then activate the same partition?
Ray
Then what about that ever-so-useful suite of LFN compatible DOS utilities
(LCOPY.EXE, LDIR.EXE, ... etc.)? Would Bill make the earth shake in his
wrath if he knew about them?
Ray Andrews,
Vancouver, Canada
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oatware?? ...
Old wwwman.exe = 27,754 bytes
New wwwman.exe = 27,664 bytes
Sorry for rubbing it in, but now Arachne can live in peace on FAT32 systems
and might just become the browser of *choice* for many a Windows user!
(Take *that* B.G.)
Ray Andrews,
Vancouver, Canada
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t actualy loading the monster! This could be very useful.
Oh, and what is "RBIL"? ... sounds interesting.
Ray Andrews,
Vancouver, Canada
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nately, the code is mainly
> assembler, so it should be easy to understand ;-) My C is
> rather poor.
(Sniff) Why does Michal get to look at the source code and I'm not
allowed? My C ain't too bad.
Ray Andrews,
Vancouver, Canada
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a DOS diehard too? I'm more "strange"
> than any of ya! :-b
Hmmm ...
Matt, I think that you should reconsider trying to
get off this list. Now that you've stopped being rude, and started to
say a few interesting things, I'm begining to like you ... stick around,
ut there who is running a version
of Winders above 4.00.950, who DOES NOT experience the 'your computer'
crash? Just one counter example will demolish the theory ... but I think
we've bagged it.
Ray Andrews,
Vancouver, Canada
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he root of
all evil, just most of it. But the darkest forms of evil are motivated--
just like L.D. says--by the love of power, and by the fears that lurk
just below the surface of that love. Name the most evil people of this
century (Stalin, Hitler, PolPot, etc.) and in every case, they couldn&
All,
We have some pretty good brains working on this problem, and we're
going to lick it ... Looks like FAT32 is the culprit. Just to
put the idea that it's something to do with CDROM's, I diconected mine
and rebooted; ran Arachne and she hung as usuall at 'your comp
y can.
You are quite wrong when you say that fixing the 'your computer' bug
will "bloat up danm near as big ... as Windozes does" ... my guess is
that the bug will be fixed with no change in Arachne's size at all ...
want to bet?
Ray Andrews,
Vancouver, Canada
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e quote
should be. I say it should be *above* the reply because one logically
wants to see the the antecedent to the comment one is making before the
comment itself. Put another way, the reply only makes sense once one
knows what is being replied to; ergo, the quote should come first
(just like I&#
the drives on my machine
can be accessed one at a time--FAT32, CDROM, ... all of them. They just
can't be *listed* all at the same time. Can you guys/dolls confirm or
refute this?
Ray Andrews,
Vancouver, Canada
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nder FAT32
say 'nay'; all those who do have the problem under FAT16 say 'nuts'; all
those who don't have the problem under FAT16 say 'huh?'.
Ray Andrews,
Vancouver, Canada
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p file from Alejandro Lieber's site. This loads a
Sans-serif replacement DOS font that I'm already much prefering over the
built in one. It only takes 5376 Bytes of upper memory and is
trouble free so far; highly recomended. Thank's Alejandro.
Ray Andrews,
Vancouver, Canada
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artitions no problem using the URL line. Still, I think that
FAT32 might be part of the problem since, as I said earlier, after I have
run W98 and quit back to DOS, everything works just fine. It's as though
W98 does something magical to the CDROMs that remains in effect even after
Windows
under drive_letter:\directory\*.*)
> Like this.
> http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/images.htm
> (noicons1.jpg and noicons2.jpg)
> (root dir of E: | after hitting \\)
That's right. Furthermore, if I use the URL line method of accessing
the CD's (one at a time), I can use &#x
\\" that the system hangs ... except for that one time.
Ray Andrews,
Vancouver, Canada
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d with these
lines:
devload c:\boot\sscdrom.sys /d:CDROM1
lh nwcdex /d:CDROM1 /l:y
> That's why CDROM.IKN is then an 'invalid' filename.
The problem dosen't seem to be related to ikon names since I renamed
the above file to CDROMDRV.IKN just as you sugested, and I have ikons
o make it work again it was back to the same old hang.
NUTS!
Ray Andrews,
Vancouver, Canada
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> On Tue, 05 Nov 2002 17:33:51 -0800, Ray Andrews wrote:
>> Hi Glenn,
>> I tried that rename of cdrom.ikn fix for the 'your computer' hang problem
>> with no luck. (I get exactly the same hang when I hit the "\\" button in
>> 'all files
Hi Glenn,
I tried that rename of cdrom.ikn fix for the 'your computer' hang problem
with no luck. (I get exactly the same hang when I hit the "\\" button in
'all files'). But riddle me this: I can access every drive on my computer
by typing the drive letter by hand up in the what-ever-you- call
638,144 (623K)
Largest free upper memory block 70,160(69K)
MS-DOS is resident in the high memory area.
As you can see, I have room for a 623K program vs. your 499K.
Check your own 'mem/c' and you'll see what's going on in your memory.
Then you'll
d work under 4dos.com.
It's high time I paid someone for all the work that's being done on our
behalf by guys like you. Send me your address, Glenn, and I'll send you
a cheque.
Ray Andrews,
Vancouver, Canada
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Hi,
> GM> Arachne v1.71;ue01 is done.
> Just tried it on an ancient 486(dx2 66MHz with 16 MB of ram) which I got for
> free.
> works with command.com
> but has big problems with 4dos.com (but earlier versions IMHO hsd also some)
I'm still using 1.66, and I had problems running it under 4dos, too
Hi All,
> from Micheal Polak:
>> Also note, that what I do for living now, is webhosting -
>> http://webspace.arachne.cz/. Arachne is not abandoned, but I am also not
>> really supporting it. It is currently undergoing transformation into
>> open source project, which is the best way to prevent
Hi All,
> from Micheal Polak:
>> Also note, that what I do for living now, is webhosting -
>> http://webspace.arachne.cz/. Arachne is not abandoned, but I am also not
>> really supporting it. It is currently undergoing transformation into
>> open source project, which is the best way to prevent
am you guys are talking about, and is about 800 bytes long.
I'd be happy to send anyone a copy.
Ray Andrews
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, dosen't that mean ...
Ray Andrews
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> Concerning those who want to use win9x for web browsing, since arachne
> is java and javascript unfriendly and lots of websites are jave crazy:
> I read of one fellow who created a minimal win9x distribution, including
> a browser and stores a clean copy on a spare small hard drive. He duplicat
> Trying to install win$ to upgrade your DOS though is unwise as the DOS
> included is far less powerful than the older DOS and you can always just
> yank utilities off the floppy disk that it makes ("rescue disk") and get
> more utils off the net. the DOS with w98 was never made with the intent
Hi Clarence, Sam H, Sam E, and Joerg:
Thanks for the feedback on my questions.
Clarences suggestions vis. changing arachne.cfg to access the mail on one
provider while connected via the other worked like a charm both ways; I now
have 4 copies of arachne.cfg--two for normal connections to my tw
Hi All,
> Anyway, get free email at www.SoftHome.net, then use whatever client you wish.
> One note, they do use "authenticated SMTP", so for some email programs you
> might need to fetch your POP mail first, then send, or, you can use your ISPs
> SMTP server instead (that's what I do most of th
Hi Clarence and Sam E,
> Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 04:50:37 -0500
> From: "Sam Ewalt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: An unbelievable thing happened
> On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 01:24:14 -0400, Clarence Verge wrote:
>> So, I'm using cast iron bullet proof A1.62 and going thru my mail see ?
>> I've dow
Hi Clarence and Sam H,
Thanks for your input re. my comments about getting the 'my editor' button
back. I guess I wasn't very clear, but I DID manage to do this all by myself.
I just mentioned it to the list because if was so proud of myself , and
because I thought someone would be able to solve
Hi l.d. and all,
I've been trying out your 'newpages' improvements to 'reply.htp' and
'resend.htp' for the last few days (got 'em from Clarence) ... very
nice, and thanks. The one downer was that I lost the 'MY editor'
button feature that I got from someone else on the list (can't remember
who
> From: Michael Polak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Well it sure is good to hear from Michael!!
How are you doing Captain? Why not let us poor fools know how you are and
what you are up to! Sheesh, just yesterday, for the first time, I thought
I might fire up 'outlook' and see how it handled my mail ...
Hi Clarence,
> The normal ASM to C speed factor is 3x (300%). Unless it's a contest.
> The normal ASM to C size factor is 1/10 (10%). Average, all uses.
> Why is FIXMEM.exe 8k ? Why is it an EXE ? > Blame it on lazy
> programmers using stdio if you wish. That's all of them.
I'm always intrigu
Hi All:
>> Before starting Arachne
>> attrib +r arachne.cfg
>> Now it can't be changed until you remove the "read only" attribute.
>> The only draw-back to this "fix" is that when you DO want to
>> make changes, you will need to
>> 1) Alt+E
>> 2) attrib -r arachne.cfg
>> 3) exit
>> 4)
Hi Roger/All,
>
> computers, a certain Italian ship captain was told that he could not sail
> west to India because everyone knew the earth was flat and that he would fall
> off the edge. Although he didn't quite reach India, he did show that the
> world extended much further than anyone im
All,
Thanks for the many helpful hints about how to make the jump from DOS to
Linux. This list is useful for so many things!
Ray,
Vancouver, Canada
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Hi all,
Lattely, when I hit to empty my cache, I find that arachne will
also loose it's phone connection, what gives?
Ray, Vancouver Canada
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> Question
> does linux have a set of files that are comparable directly to
> autoexec.bat and config.sys
> the author of the linux version "loopham" did not help me in any way!
> I remember a few years back I tried "redhat" linux and was the same with
> all the linux groups then. they would ra
> No one can be more dedicated than a religious zealot convinced of the
> rightness of his cause. This group was ready and willing to sacrifice
> their lives for their cause.
> Sam Ewalt
Be careful here, Sam. Atheist zealots can be just as dangerous, or more so,
than the religious kind. Indee
>Bush's slips of the tongue are a result of his Texas heritage
I may be mistaken about this, but isn't the Bush family from
New England?
Ray
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unsubscribe
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I love this little utility and use it all the time for keeping a handle
on my overly complecated drive structure. It only works under 4DOS.COM,
of course, but who would even think of using COMMAND.COM
is kind of thing in other emails as well, but not as often as
in the Arachne digest.
Regards, Ray Andrews, Vancouver Canada.
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Thank's for the external editor APM, Sam, it works perfectly.
Ray
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Hi Sam H.
I'd love to get a copy of your external editor APM so that I can use a text
based editor from within Arachne. Not only do I find text based writing
faster and better in almost every way, but my dual monitor TSR only works
in text mode, and dual monitors is *very* addictive once your us
> Since industry standard is rough cut dimensions, all planed lumber
> and timber is "smaller" than the designated size ... you can't take the
> surface off of anything without making that thing smaller. Since
> builders want planed lumber -- easier on hands, easier to handle in all
> ways, easi
Sam,
Thanks for the "tutordo" recomendation, I love it.
Clarence,
You say you like "DC" and "VC" better. Where can I get these to try
them out?
Ray, Vancouver Canada
BTW, my last three posts never got thru; I wonder If I'm doing
something wrong.
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> Hi Ray -
> Well, that's true in general, but if you have a Matrox Dual Head AGP card it's
> not
> necessarily. Drivers for dos, on the other hand ...
> Luck,
> Tony Butka
Hi Tony,
Yeah, DOS drivers for the Matrox would be a problem, and it's sooo
much cheaper my way. Also, my dual monit
Hello, world;
This is Ray making contact with the outside world from my 'new' 700 MHz
machine (cobbled together from flea market parts, mostly). After I sold
my old 233 MHz machine to a friend, I had no end of trouble getting the
new one to work *my* way. The worst thing was that I couldn't get
Thanks Glenn and Clarence for showing me how to turn of the automatic
redial feature. 'Don't know where we would be without you guys.
Here is another problem:
A couple of months ago I set up '1.66 on a friend's 486 with no
problems. However, recently, and for no reason that I can f
> Michael Polak wrote:
>> "Quick deleting"
>> of files was anyway designed only for Inbox, to remove spam, and whenn
>> I noticed I can add links also to WWWMAN output,
>> I got scared,
Just my 2 cents worth: I'm with everybody else here; the quick delete
function is very usefull and I'd like
> Have you tried Gencad?
> Could you tell us where to find that please, Ray?
> Thanks,
> Ron.
Sorry Ron, AFAIK, Gencad was bought out by Autocad after release 6.0,
and discontinued (M$-like behaviour, if you ask me). I have no idea
where one would find a copy these days, but I'd bet that it
> I have stayed with DOS because I *can't tolerate* icons. I am too impatient
> to point and click when a simple keyboard command will do the same thing and
> quicker. It has been more than 60 years since I pointed and said, "Doggie!"
> I (and I imagine that most other computer users also) know
> So in the meantime you will have to learn another way to work with
> Arachne. My suggestion: stop using the mouse at all. In Arachne every
> function is accessible by keyboard. If you know which key to use it
> is much faster than moving the mouse.
> Michael,
Michael,
This is probably a dumb
Greetings enlightened ones,
Does anybody know if it's possible to program mouse chords under
arachne? I use my old "logimenu" mouse programing utility to make mouse
menus for most of my DOS programs, and I'd love it if the same could be
done with arachne. Thots?
Ray
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Greetings one and all,
I know it's been covered many times before, but I can't recall where to
look: can someone tell me exactly where I can get all the info that I
need to set up an external text editor under Arachne?
BTW, this won't come as news to all you Arachne wizards out there, but I
jus
Greetings one and all,
I know it's been covered many times before, but I can't recall where to
look: can someone tell me exactly where I can get all the info that I
need to set up an external text editor under Arachne?
BTW, this won't come as news to all you Arachne wizards out there, but I
jus
Glenn,
Thanks for the solution to the "clear cache" page not going away
problem. IMHO your fix should be standard issue.
Ray
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Hi All,
Does anyone know of a decent PCI modem that works under DOS? All of the
ones I've seen so far seem to require Bill's aproval to work.
Ray
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Hi all,
A small question: If my system crashes when I'm in Arachne (usually my
own fault), and I reboot, I get the "clean cache ... etc." page, as I
should. But after I click on "clean cache", or one of the other
options, you'd think the message page would disapear, youldn't you? But
it dosen'
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
unsubscribe
too many mesages per day to keep up with, and so many of them are
repeats. It would be nice if the list could be edited a little before
posting, and also condenced into just one email per day.
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