On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 L.D. Best wrote
>Whether or not the story were true, I would feel far better if
recognized "legit" sources provided the information on the purported
crime or hoax, whichever it might be.<
Are these legit enough?
Here's the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., Salon.com, the Asian Ti
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, L.D. Best wrote
>Whether or not the story were true, I would feel far better if
recognized "legit" sources provided the information on the purported
crime or hoax, whichever it might be.<
Such as? The sites I listed were some of the first that came up when I
looked on Goog
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Roger Turk, wrote in part
>If it is true that a "New York advertising firm" was hired to produce the
film, then the name of that firm should be produced. <
The firm was Hill & Knowlton. That the story was fraudulent is well-known
now. Check out the topic on Google. You can
Using Doze 95 4.00.950a. Arachne doesn't lock up for me with Your
Computer.
Terri FitzSimons
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Cheers
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On Tue, 05 Nov 2002 00:46:52 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
>> For those who have already D/Led and installed.
>> Here's how to fix the copy you have with reinstalling.
>Oops, that should read "without renstalling".
You were right the first time.
Terri
OAGS
t download it any more. I access CompuServe regularly by DOSCIM.
Regards
Terri FitzSimons
On June 12, Sam Heywood wrote:
>Unlike the self-proclaimed authorities and vigillantes who
patrol the newsgroups and other mailing lists, The Grammar
Sheriff of the Arachne List, Terri Fitzsimmons, is a
democratically elected official and she has always discharged her
duties in a most respons
On June 11, Samuel W. Heywood wrote, in part:
>Please let me off with just a stern warning this time... It was
not a flagrant and deliberate violation designed to challenge
authority. It was only a stupid mistake. I wasn't paying
attention. I am sorry and I promise to dedicate more attent
ning from IBM; AOL states that
this is a very dangerous virus, much worse than "Melissa," and that
there is NO Remedy for it at this time...<
This a hoax. Check out www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html for details.
best,
Terri FitzSimons
ered at times!...<
You seem to be forgetting I'm on the list, too. I just don't
post as often as you do.
Terri FitzSimons
Samuel Heywood wrote:
>Yes, you have been known to take it upon yourself to issue citations
for spelling violations also, but only in cases where the transgressions
appear to be directly attributable to some failure to obey the rules of
grammar... <
Ah. I knew I hadn't issued citations stri
Sam Heywood wrote, in part:
>...I hope our Spelling and Grammar Sheriff is watching. In order for her
to secure a conviction for a violation citation against a federal agency
she would need only to subpoena witnesses into a US federal district court
and request to conduct an official hearing on
Dear List:
Thanks for your comments. A curious development in regard to
my original comment: When the Arachne files are copied to a RAM
disk, Alt+E and MiniTerm function properly. Yet, the same files
run from the Arachne directory on hard disk do not.
Clarence wrote:
>It's possible t
Dear List:
Arachne (1.7 r3) has begun to act strangely on me. While she
has no problem surfing the web, she won't drop into DOS (+E)
-- or perform any other functions which require doing so, such as
running MiniTerm, erasing the cache, or listing files in a
directory.
Every time I
>Where is the Grammar Sheriff? I miss the dread shadow of her
judgements.<
It's nice to be missed; but I haven't gone anywhere. The Grammar Sheriff
is yet among you. I just haven't been using list bandwidth to deliver my
citations. Just ask Clarence.
Terri
Official Arachne Grammar Sheriff
Steve wrote:
>The 2400 - 14.4k numbers I was looking at are actually TYMNET
numbers which also allow access to CS Classic. I guess if you
were on the road, even 2400 would be better than nothing.<
I suppose. Like crawling is better than not moving at all.
>> To the best of my kno
Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Does anyone know if you can access a Compuserve 2000 number
using Arachne? I know it's possible with the Classic, but those
numbers are often connected to 14.4, 9600, or even 2400 baud
modems.<
I connect to the web through a CompuServe Classic account. I
Tom Mueller wrote:
>> I see you (Roger Turk) are using Compuserve. I read in Heise News
>> something about Compuserve being phased out. Is it correct that
>> Compuserve's days are numbered?
To which, Roger responded:
>I have received no messages from Compuserve about this. However, all I
Someone recently posted that Juno now required subscribers to
download a file which would perform functions not initiated by
the user and leave their computers on all the time. I just saw
an article confirming that. Here's the blurb:
LISA BOWMAN, CNET: Juno Online Service's jump into the
s
Thomas Mueller wrote:
>(in reference to the ultimate Arachne uninstall program)
del . ...DEL command only works on files, not directories. I
don't think this would work (haven't tried). One safe way to try
is
MD \JUNK
ECHO abc > \JUNK\JUNK1.TXT
ECHO wxyz > \JUNK\JUNK2.TXT
CD \JUNK
del .
Glenn wrote, in response to my initial comments of the A1.69 release:
>Which section at http://www.ebsco.com/ were you unable to access?
I have just returned from there and had no trouble at-all with any of
these pages.<
Sorry. I misidentified the pages. Although the site is part
of EBSCO
Downloaded and installed A1.69. As with every release after A1.66, she
will not sign on to the database at EBSCO.COM. Arachne also reported,
under DOZE 3.1, that she lacked some 6K of conventional memory and declined
to run; but she will run under straight DOS. First time that issue has
come up
>Oh, I didn't know our Sheriff was a female woman. I had
previously seen her referred to as "he". I suppose that is OK.
I was taught that when the gender of a person is unknown, it is
correct to refer to the person by using the masculine pronouns
"he", "him", and "his". Nowadays the female
Sam Heywood wrote:
>The above category includes myself. I have two CPM machines, an
Osborne I and a KayPro II. I hope our Official Grammar Sheriff
doesn't attempt to correct me on my preceding sentence. I'm somewhat
afraid he might criticize me by saying I should have written "I have
two CPM m
Just got a duplicate release announcement. That because of the virus
attack mentioned previously?
Terri
I've downloaded and installed 1.68. I really don't see much functional
difference between it and the previous release. I am not able to sign on
to HTTP://search.epnet.com (through my library) with it; but I can with
Arachne 1.66. In fact, 1.68 generated a non-fatal error when I first
attempted
L.D. wrote:
>Ah, but accessibility is not the point.
The definitions differ between the bravo & delta versions -- GREATLY!<
Ah.
Terri
Official Grammar Sheriff
Ron wrote:
>> TF>Terri
>> TF>Official Grammar Sheriff
>> Hehehe... sorry... I can't resist it...
>> It's really bad form to begin a sentence with "And" Terri. ;)
> Not if you are an avid fan of the Authorised Version, Mike!
> AND if it's good enough for the AV, it's good enough for me!!!
Clarence responded:
>All *I* can say is, "If it hurts when you do that then don't do that."<
Ah. That's too easy. There's gotta be another, more complicated, tweak of
1.67 to correct the problem.
As it happens, I did devise a work-around. I just thought I'd mention my
experience hereon for
Mike Millen called me to task:
TF>I have no such difficulty with 1.66 -- changing nothing else but CORE
TF>.EXE. And 1.67 also tends to crash when I try to export the database
TF>selection page of the above to a file when online ("P" hotkey).
TF>Terri
TF>Official Grammar Sheriff
Heheh
L.D. wrote:
>My daughter has an account there [snatched there by the RocketMail
takeover awhile back] and I tried to get things done with every trick
I've learned on Arachne ... and no such luck. <
For what it's worth, I can access Yahoo mail with Arachne 1.67.
However, I can not sign onto th
Steve wrote:
>...I just compared Lynx 2.5 with 2.8.3, and I guess it's
feature of the latter to show the name of the inline graphic
rather than [IMAGE] or [INLINE]. Same thing with [LINK].
That no longer appears in the latest version.<
That's a function of whether VERBOSE_IMAGES is set to
Just for the heck of it, I wanted to see what the problematical PNG images,
from the website L.D. Best spoke of, looked like.
My installation of Arachne 1.67 couldn't do it. I have these
lines in MIME.CFG concerning PNG images:
image/png PNG>BMP|$epng2bmp.exe -s -o $2 $1
image/x-png
Sam Heywood wrote, in part:
>...Let us all take their arguments into careful consideration
whenever any of us should criticize a fellow list member along
these lines.
Let all our corrections be considerate and well intended and given in
proper measure.<
Well said, Sam.
Terri
Official Gr
L.D. Best wrote:
>If someone had a question s/he were hesitant about asking,
because it might be "a dumb question," chances of participation
would be greatly lowered by hypercritical commentary and
messaging. <
I really don't think so. I think any individuals who are
afraid of asking "
I've had another problem surface. Using 1.66, I was able to
log onto both Yahoo and CollegeClub.Com with no difficulties.
Even though I'm using the same ACF, I cannot log onto my account
with College Club using 1.67. I am still able to access Yahoo.
Does anybody have a solution?
Bernie:
>Anyway, did anyone else get the arachne-announce mail several
times? (Ive gotten it four times now).<
I got it twice in one go.
Gregy:
> I haven't heard anyone on this list, in the past 11 months I've
been on here, mention that this was possible...<
Then you did
Bernie:
Your suggestion re: my termination problems appears to have been
on target. I did a fresh install in a different directory. I
had no further problems. Thx
>Im kind of getting tired of this. As a protest Ill drop my "'"-
marks for a while. I think we all know that we shouldnt write
li
Further to one of the problems I mentioned earlier: On dial-
up, Arachne 1.67 terminates abnormally. It does this just after
I press , at the point where the screen blanks and
MINITERM takes over. I replaced 1.67 core.exe with 1.66 core.exe
and tried again. (CORE.EXE was the only file I
Got a couple things to deal with this time. First, in my
capacity as sheriff, I have to give another notice of violation.
This time, to Or Botton:
>Shockwave and PDF should be open.. unfortunatly, they're not,
and yet they've become a dominating 'standard' on the internet.
So its a problem.
P.S.
I'm running Arachne under WIn 3.1, with 8 megs memory, DOS 6.22 on a 486
TF
From: Ron Clarke
>Subject: Re: notice of violation - its getting sillier
Hi Folks,
Nah, Arachne needs its spelling and grammar checked
properly.<
Speaking of spell- and grammar-checking... Although you
have used "ITS" properly in the body of your posting, you
didn't do so in the subjec
Mel:
>I would respectfully (I know my place) suggest that both
Mr. Strunk and Mr. White would be lynched if they attended a
"Burns's" Society meeting here in Burns country and tried to
pull that one.
The great Rabbie is Burns and his poetry is ALWAYS
referred to as the "Works of Robert
mel wrote:
>* Hi Terri, could you allow for the odd mistake?<
Hi Mel. How odd do you think your mistakes will be? I
would enjoy the challenge.
>I will start to post in dialect, a mixture of broad lowland
Scots and Glasgow slang if you like, and that will really
confuse everyo
L.D. Best wrote:
>** Any government which would install Windows on it's
naval warships doesn't know snit about computers.<
One more time: The possessive of "IT" does NOT use
an apostrophe.
Clarence Verge wrote:
>ee. Knowing that apparantly isn't sufficient
in my case.
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Clarence Verge wrote in part:
>I made this reply while the list was down and thought the thread in it's
original form might be of interest to some. I hope the messages that have
been lost in space do not come back to jam the list with
duplicates. <
I tell you yet again:
>..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
Pete:
>Ah Ha! I know at last; and with that mnemonic, I don't think
that I'll forget. My vote is restored. THX <
Johnny Mnemonic, meet Pete's mnemonic. Any relation?
Thanks for your vote of confidence.
Thomas Mueller:
>According to my copy of the Random H
Pete:
>(Ummm... Just what *is* a "split infinative"??) <
Remember Shatner's voice-over at the beginning of Star Trek (Original
Series): "...to boldy go where no man has gone before."? This is probably
the most famous split infinitive ever. Proper useage would have been
"...to go boldly"
Gloria:
>I've been called the same or similar thing! I hve a degree in
English and am an amateur writer and editor. As soon as co-
workers see the red pencil in my hand (one of my many tasks is to
proofread), they become terrified.<
Oh, yes. Been there, done that. I even itch for a re
Ron:
>You're absolutely right, but I fear that you may be wasting your
breath!! Anyway, well done for speaking up. Oh, yes - you omitted to
mention the split infinitive: 'to fully preserve'.<
Argh! You are quite right. How did I miss that??
Yes, I know this might well be wasted effort, but
ven
come up on AQC...<
And nobody thought to look it up in a grammar handbook?
>Nah... Sherrif!<
Hm. That's three votes for sheriff... Where do I pick up my
badge?
Terri FitzSimons
ane. What HTML tag can be used
to 'fully-preserve' everything within its boundaries (including ""
symbols)?"
Jane replied: "To my knowledge, no such HTML tag exists."
So now, I suppose this makes me the grammar deputy?
Terri FitzSimons
believe
>>INSIGHT of itself can access the Yahoo mail server.
Joerg:
>It can access it. If not You never would have read any of my
postings <
I stand corrected. How are you set up in your .cfg file to
access Yahoo's mail server?
Best wishes
Terri FitzSimons
use it.
WHile these sites are accessible by ARACHNE, I'm not sure if
their mail servers can be accessed independently.
On a different subject, how does one find the DNS numbers for
any given provider?
all the best
Terri FitzSimons
Pete:
>Does anyone notice an accented capitol "O" or "U" at the start
of some lines or sentences while using A166? For example, on
Altavista ("F7"). <
Erm... No, but I have noticed that apostrophes (or single
quotes) are usually rendered as a capital
FREEDOS.SNAP.COM; but now ARACHNE reports it can not access
that site at all.
Terri FitzSimons
Thank you all for your response. I'm up and running on FREEWWWEB now.
Terri
I have recently established an account on FREEWWWEB, but ARACHNE
doesn't
seem to be able to connect with the web using that ISP. I can log on to
FREEWEB and load the packetdriver, but the home page -- indeed, any page --
does not display. ARACHNE just hangs until I cancel manually. Can a
TM:
>If a wolf could read English, what would he/she say about the
spelling on the subject line?<
JJ:
>It comes from Terri FitzSimons referencing my comment:
"Can I come and howl at the moon with you?"<
Yes. I confess. I perpetrated that with mischief
aforet
ch the pretty pictures.<
I'm with you. That is also a major reason why I'm not using
AOL.
Terri FitzSimons
I seem to have neglected to erase something in that last message before I
sent it. Just ignore everything prior to my quote of Glenn's comment.
Sorry about that.
Terri FitzSimons
le of old hens.
Have neither of tried "Images No" in Arachne.cfg???<
Routinely, as I've mentioned before. You gonna howl with the
rest of us?
Terri FitzSimons
llation
instructions" from the text version of the home page takes you to
the graphics version of the LINUX installation instructions;
clicking on the "text version" link thereon goes to the text
version of the home page. I didn't try switching to text when I
donwload
Hi Clarence
>I've been seriously bitching to the management about this for quite some
time now, but they won't take me seriously. <
The more fools they.
>Michael thinks I'm the only one twisted enough to prefer a text page.<
Aha! Well, you're not a lone voice any longer; I'm just as twisted
ical
version of the download page.
Terri FitzSimons
Executing the ARCHN164 file brings up this question:
"Do you want to install Arachne WWW browser (version 1.62) now?"
What's up? This obviously should be version 1.64. Somebody didn't change
something that should have been.
Terri FitzSimons
You might be interested to know I got this result when attempting to get
Arachne 1.64 by FTP:
550 /pub/arachne/archn164.exe: No such file or directory
550 /pub/arachne/archn164.exe/: No such file or directory
But I did get it by HTTP: download.
Terri FitzSimons
e cache. I had
images turned off, so it's hard to see how the counter image that
was cited in a later message could have caused the crash.
Terri FitzSimons
operation line 139 of file
ONMOUSE.C!" Saw those guys again.
I had chosen "COMPOSE MAIL" and when the screen finished loading, I clicked
on the "TO:" field; then she crashed, as above.
Has this happened to anyone else, or am I just lucky?
Terri FitzSimons
help files.
Just thought I'd throw that in for your general edification.
Server still detecting Arachne 1.6 b2 as being an older
version, though.
Terri FitzSimons
An addendum to my previous post. Not only does the Arachne website
identify the 1.6 b2 browser as being an older version, but the image on my
monitor appears less sharp and crisp than with 1.6 b1.
Terri
On 16 Mar, J J Young wrote, in part:
>...For anyone who saves webpages, add to that ViewHTML, a freeware
offline text browser (I wish it would work online). It's great
for speedily going through the cache or any other heap-o'-
HTML<
VIEW itself will read HTM documents -- or at least, stri
e is that it automatically deletes
files from the cache. Of course, I have no idea how
difficult that would be to implement with Arachne. But it would be
really nifty to have the cache monitored automatically.
Terri FitzSimons
-hamburg.de/webdoc/viewer/acroread/
Best wishes
Terri FitzSimons
e 1.5 SRC. I have been unable to get the dialer
included with 1.6 to connect/load the packet driver.
Does anybody have any advice on this state of affairs?
Terri FitzSimons
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