procmail and duplicate mail

2000-02-24 Thread Derek Martin
Anyone have a simple procmail recipie for eliminating duplicate mail? Thanks -- PGP/GPG Public key at http://cerberus.ne.mediaone.net/~derek/pubkey.txt Derek D. Martin | Senior UNIX Systems/Network Administrator Arris Interactive| A Nortel Company [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: need help, pointers, etc

2000-02-24 Thread Bruce McCulley
"Roger H. Goun" wrote: > [...SNIP...] > I have no idea if anyone's building an open source C&S application based > on iCalendar. It's an awfully big job, and I note with some disappointment > that open source PIMs always seem to lag far behind their commercial > counterparts. (I'm still pining

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2000-02-24 Thread Derek Martin
Derek Martin wrote: > > unsubscribe gnhlug > end Yes, I AM an idiot. :) -- PGP/GPG Public key at http://cerberus.ne.mediaone.net/~derek/pubkey.txt Derek D. Martin | Senior UNIX Systems/Network Administrator Arris Interactive| A Nortel Company [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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2000-02-24 Thread Derek Martin
unsubscribe gnhlug end -- "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?""Who watches the watchmen?" -Juvenal, Satires, VI, 347 Derek D. Martin | Senior UNIX Systems/Network Administrator Arris Interactive| A Nortel Company [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

RE: tcp wrappers and net/mask

2000-02-24 Thread Jerry Eckert
Jeff Macdonald wrote: > > are you referring to my scheme? > > > >I'm still not sure about this, although I haven't tried it > yet... Could you > >please give it a try and tell us about the result? I am > really wondering about > >this because I read somewhere that it is possible. > I believe he w

RE: tcp wrappers and net/mask

2000-02-24 Thread Jerry Eckert
Ferenc Tamas Gyurcsan wrote: > > >206.84.220.64/255.255.255.224. > >It was explained to me that the net mask must be a bitstring > of contiguous > >'1's followed by a bitstring of contiguous '0's (starting at > the MSB). > >Using that rule, there's no way to construct an address/mask > for the ran

Re: tcp wrappers and net/mask

2000-02-24 Thread Derek Martin
Derek Martin wrote: > > Ferenc Tamas Gyurcsan wrote: > > > > >206.84.220.64/255.255.255.224. Oops, I meant to also confirm that this is correct. What is needed is a network with 30 hosts, which is a .224 subnet mask as shown in my stupid little table below. In this case, the network address is

Re: tcp wrappers and net/mask

2000-02-24 Thread Derek Martin
Ferenc Tamas Gyurcsan wrote: > > >206.84.220.64/255.255.255.224. > >It was explained to me that the net mask must be a bitstring of contiguous > >'1's followed by a bitstring of contiguous '0's (starting at the MSB). > >Using that rule, there's no way to construct an address/mask for the range >

Re: tcp wrappers and net/mask

2000-02-24 Thread Jeff Macdonald
are you referring to my scheme? >I'm still not sure about this, although I haven't tried it yet... Could you >please give it a try and tell us about the result? I am really wondering about >this because I read somewhere that it is possible. >Ferenc > >

Re: tcp wrappers and net/mask

2000-02-24 Thread Ferenc Tamas Gyurcsan
>206.84.220.64/255.255.255.224. >It was explained to me that the net mask must be a bitstring of contiguous >'1's followed by a bitstring of contiguous '0's (starting at the MSB). >Using that rule, there's no way to construct an address/mask for the range >.65-.94. I'm still not sure about this,

Re: tcp wrappers and net/mask

2000-02-24 Thread Jerry Eckert
If you can include .64 and .95, the address/netmask would be 206.84.220.64/255.255.255.224. It was explained to me that the net mask must be a bitstring of contiguous '1's followed by a bitstring of contiguous '0's (starting at the MSB). Using that rule, there's no way to construct an address/mas

Re: need help, pointers, etc

2000-02-24 Thread Roger H. Goun
On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Bruce McCulley wrote: > Thanks, Roger! That sounds like it's exactly what I desired. BTW, > that was a very impressive piece of work with those details and > especially the cross-references!!! How I love playing for an appreciative audience. > Interesting note that what y

tcp wrappers and net/mask

2000-02-24 Thread Jeff Macdonald
It's been a while since I've done net/mask stuff. I want tcp wrappers to allow the following hosts: 206.84.220.65 - 206.84.220.94 65 -> 0100 0001 94 -> 0101 1110 95 -> 0101 160 -> 1010 206.84.220.160/255.255.255.95 ? **

Re: nntp, usenet, etc.

2000-02-24 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Adam Wendt wrote: > I've been pondering this for a while and haven't been able to find any > sufficient answers. How exactly does Usenet work? News comes in. News goes out. Magic. ;-) > Like if I was to install an nntp server I'd have to find another nntp > server to s

Re: Reply addresses [was Re: MySQL question]

2000-02-24 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
I'll vote for that!!! (and for the record, I used the reply button ;-) Kenny "Karl J. Runge" wrote: > > Good lord! Let's STOP this thread > > We're just talking about a little extra cutting and pasting > when we check our To/Cc fields before we post in either > scenario! ***

Re: Reply addresses [was Re: MySQL question]

2000-02-24 Thread Karl J. Runge
Good lord! Let's STOP this thread We're just talking about a little extra cutting and pasting when we check our To/Cc fields before we post in either scenario! Karl Runge On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Bill Freeman wrote: > > Benjami

RE: Reply addresses [was Re: MySQL question]

2000-02-24 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Niall Kavanagh wrote: > No offense to whoever implemented it, or anyone who thinks it's a good > idea, but it sucks. If you don't think so then read the "reasons not to > munge" page that someone posted on the list yesterday. There are advantages and disadvantages to it.

Re: Reply addresses [was Re: MySQL question]

2000-02-24 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Bill Freeman wrote: > Benjamin Scott says that those of us who don't want to reply to the > list by default ought to configure our MUA's to ignore Reply-To > headers. For the record, what I *said* was, decent mailers give you the option. :) As far as the "vote" goes, I'

Re:

2000-02-24 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: > > Don't be stupid. I said nothing even remotely resembling that. > I resent you putting such words on my keyboard. My apologies to the list, and to you in particular, Bill. I was provoked, but this was inexcusable. -- #kenP-)} Ken Coar<

Re: SENDMAIL ISSUE

2000-02-24 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
Paul Lussier wrote: > > Ahh, but that's plain as day, the user's quota is exceeded! I > get no such e-mail message. Right. Procmail is giving the message. Apparently procmail (acting as the local delivery agent) handles quotas correctly and recognizes the errors. Other delivery agents may not. A

Re: PERL / Linux question

2000-02-24 Thread Kevin D. Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have a Perl script, using Net::Ping, etc., and it doesn't seem > to be working. I am not a PERL guru, obviously. > my $rtn = $pg->ping(\$sname); > returns zero. You might want to verify that the target is running a TCP echo server. (this is how this module by def

Re: SENDMAIL ISSUE

2000-02-24 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 17:43:21 EST "Kenneth E. Lussier" said: >Speaking of the message, I just got this responce. This one is from >procmail, but it looks like the same thing. >Kenny > - Transcript of session follows - >procmail: Quota exceeded while writing "/var/spool/

Re:

2000-02-24 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
Derek Martin wrote: > For the record, I'm not embarrassed about the squeegee jokes, > or anything else that has been said here. I actually find them > quite funny (though it's getting old)... Just for the record, it has already been decided that the reply-to issue is going to be decided by a maj

Re: Sendmail errors?

2000-02-24 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 17:39:11 EST Niall Kavanagh said: >Hmm... what delivery agent are you using? What are the flags set for >"LOCAL_MAILER_FLAGS" in sendmail.mc? mc? This is raw-Solaris sendmail, there ain't no stinkin' mc file! :( >Does the /var/mail directory exist and have

Re: Sendmail errors?

2000-02-24 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 17:31:49 EST "Kenneth E. Lussier" said: >I have actually seen this error many times. Usually bounced messages >from this list. This is just a shot in the dark, but do you per chance >have disk quota enabled? It is possable that either the person has >exceeded

Re: Sendmail errors?

2000-02-24 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
Derek Martin wrote: > Why does this stuff need to be so damn complicated? :) Because if it weren't, we'd all be unemployed? ;-) ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* t

Re:

2000-02-24 Thread Derek Martin
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: > Turn your argument around: The main problem here seems to be people > getting embarrassed by mail going to the list instead of privately. > How much sympathy do you have for *them*? They seem to be in the > same boat you'd put me. I have symp

RE: Sendmail errors?

2000-02-24 Thread Niall Kavanagh
> -Original Message- > From: Derek Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Why does this stuff need to be so damn complicated? :) > They don't call you a "Senior UNIX Systems/Network Administrator" for nothing. ;) -- Niall Kavanagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) News, resources, and articles for we

RE: Sendmail errors?

2000-02-24 Thread Derek Martin
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Niall Kavanagh wrote: > Ah.. consensus seems to agree that letting your delivery agent play with a > mounted NFS partition is a bad idea. File locking is iffy at best (hence > your "file changed after open" error). I've heard on newsgroups that using > "maildir" format mailbo

PERL / Linux question

2000-02-24 Thread Bobnhlinux
People, I am trying to use an intranet Linux box as an aid to networking folks. OK, I'm also trying to show off Linux. Anyway, I have a Perl script, using Net::Ping, etc., and it doesn't seem to be working. I am not a PERL guru, obviously. my $rtn = $pg->ping(\$sname); returns zero. my $saddr

SENDMAIL ISSUE

2000-02-24 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
Speaking of the message, I just got this responce. This one is from procmail, but it looks like the same thing. Kenny The original message was received at Fri, 25 Feb 2000 03:37:23 +0500 from server.super.net.pk [203.130.2.3] - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - <[E

Re:

2000-02-24 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Bill Freeman wrote: > > On the other hand, it now seems to me that you are saying that > a bunch of us should type lots of extra characters so that you can > avoid a tiny difference between the way you respond publicly versus > the way you respond privately. I have no sympathy. Don't be stupid.

Re: Sendmail errors?

2000-02-24 Thread Derek Martin
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: > I have actually seen this error many times. Usually bounced messages > from this list. This is just a shot in the dark, but do you per chance > have disk quota enabled? It is possable that either the person has > exceeded the quota or that there is

RE: Sendmail errors?

2000-02-24 Thread Niall Kavanagh
> -Original Message- > From: Derek Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Has anyone ever seen bounced mail errors like this before?: > > To elaborate a little more, we're NFS mounting our mail spool > off a Linux > box, which people are also using as their outgoing smtp server, and > r

Re: Sendmail errors?

2000-02-24 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
I have actually seen this error many times. Usually bounced messages from this list. This is just a shot in the dark, but do you per chance have disk quota enabled? It is possable that either the person has exceeded the quota or that there is a lack of disk space. This very well may not be a sendm

RE: Reply addresses [was Re: MySQL question]

2000-02-24 Thread Niall Kavanagh
> -Original Message- > From: Derek Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Yeah but the problem is most people don't use pine, and in > many cases they > *CAN'T* use pine. Pine is one of the few clients that is > good about this. > Most Windows-based clients just don't give you the optio

RE: Sendmail errors?

2000-02-24 Thread Niall Kavanagh
Hmm... what delivery agent are you using? What are the flags set for "LOCAL_MAILER_FLAGS" in sendmail.mc? Does the /var/mail directory exist and have the correct privledges? I hate mail. ;) -- Niall Kavanagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) News, resources, and articles for web professionals and developers:

Re: Sendmail errors?

2000-02-24 Thread Derek Martin
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Paul Lussier wrote: > Has anyone ever seen bounced mail errors like this before?: > > > - Transcript of session follows - > mail.local: /var/mail/ccadm: file changed after open > 550 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Can't create output: Error 0 > > Does

Re: Sendmail errors?

2000-02-24 Thread Ferenc Tamas Gyurcsan
> mail.local: /var/mail/ccadm: file changed after open > 550 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Can't create output: Error 0 Just a guess...df? Ferenc ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text i

Re:

2000-02-24 Thread Randy Edwards
> See > for a rant against Reply-To. When I set up a little list I run the MailMan list server suggested a similar argument and reading it, it made technical sense. Since the list focused on novice to mid-level users,

Re: Reply addresses [was Re: MySQL question]

2000-02-24 Thread Derek Martin
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Adam Wendt wrote: > I agree, pine does a wonderful job of asking me if i want to use the > reply-to or To; field. Keep it! Yeah but the problem is most people don't use pine, and in many cases they *CAN'T* use pine. Pine is one of the few clients that is good about this. M

Sendmail errors?

2000-02-24 Thread Paul Lussier
Has anyone ever seen bounced mail errors like this before?: - Transcript of session follows - mail.local: /var/mail/ccadm: file changed after open 550 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Can't create output: Error 0 Does anyone know what they mean? Thnks -- Seeya, Pau

Re: Reply addresses [was Re: MySQL question]

2000-02-24 Thread Adam Wendt
I agree, pine does a wonderful job of asking me if i want to use the reply-to or To; field. Keep it! -Adam- On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Chuck MacKinnon wrote: > I feel that the reply to field is fine as is...If I want to reply to just > the original poster I will just change the To: field myself. Mu

RE: Reply addresses [was Re: MySQL question]

2000-02-24 Thread Niall Kavanagh
> -Original Message- > From: Derek Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > I actually agree with you, though to be honest I much prefer > the old DOS > edit program (which has W95/W98 counterparts). It handles > CR/CRLF issues > perfectly, for one reason. It's a half-decent editor, though

Re:

2000-02-24 Thread Bill Freeman
Ken Coar wrote: > Bill Freeman wrote: > > > > Ken Coar writes: > > > All it will mean to me is that after about the second reply that > > > I post that goes only to the sender, I won't reply to *any* GNHLUG > > > list messages any more. I get multi-MB of mail every single > > > blessed day, and

Re: Reply addresses [was Re: MySQL question]

2000-02-24 Thread Derek Martin
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Bob Bell wrote: > Derek Martin wrote: > > > No way man, Windows Notepad has them all beat by a wide margin. > > When stuck in Windows, Notepad can actually be a nice tool. A lot of > M$ software insists on maintaining font information when > I cut/copy-and-paste betwee

Re: Reply addresses [was Re: MySQL question]

2000-02-24 Thread Bob Bell
Derek Martin wrote: > No way man, Windows Notepad has them all beat by a wide margin. When stuck in Windows, Notepad can actually be a nice tool. A lot of M$ software insists on maintaining font information when I cut/copy-and-paste between documents. So when I paste in a chunk of text fro

Re: [GNHLUG] ADMINISTRIVIA

2000-02-24 Thread Derek Martin
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Mark Gelinas wrote: > 4) The 'Reply-to:' field munging > >I have read the documents >http://www.metasystema.org/essays/reply-to-useful.mhtml >http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html >as well as the group discussions. > >For the record, the

Re: Who can be a Seniour unix sys admin?

2000-02-24 Thread Jeffry_Smith
Or, in my case, propping up the front of my keyboard to ease the wrist strain. jeff smith Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 02/24/2000 12:10:57 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Reply addresses [was Re: MySQL question]

2000-02-24 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 23:24:55 EST "Kenneth E. Lussier" said: >"Karl J. Runge" wrote: > > May we please change this thread over to vi vs. emacs? >vi Vs. Emacs, Emacs Vs. vi.. why is always these two?? What about >pico? What is so wrong with pico??? It's lacking the kitchen si

Re:

2000-02-24 Thread Suzanne Hillman
On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Derek Martin wrote: > > Suzanne, off to send that message to the *right* address > > O.k. -- for the record, out of those who have decided to be vocal on the > subject, we have exactly ONE vote (from the illustrious Ken Koar) to > KEEP the reply-to header, and roughly 4,672,

Re: Who can be a Seniour unix sys admin?

2000-02-24 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 22:13:59 EST Derek Martin said: >Then again, I have no real use for business cards either. Well, I've noticed that they are ideal for: bookmarks note paper wedging between scsi cables that keep falling off picking your teeth

Re: Promo for 29 Feb

2000-02-24 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 22:38:45 EST Jeffry Smith said: >Actually, it is a Word doc, built on a Windows machine. Next versions >will be done at home, probably with Corel, unless I get KLyx working >on my GNOME machine (should, just haven't tried it). >Tried saving as RTF: went to

Re: Who can be a Seniour unix sys admin?

2000-02-24 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 04:02:06 +0100 Ferenc Tamas Gyurcsan said: >Hi again, >But if we are already talking about this topic...I was wondering who can >address herself/himself a Seniour Unix System Administrator? It sounds such >a nice title to me, especially because of that Seniou

[GNHLUG] ADMINISTRIVIA

2000-02-24 Thread Mark Gelinas
All, Thought I'd take this opportunity to reply to some of the discussions that have been choking the life out of this list lately, and to address some other points as well. Please read the whole message, and send any comments to me directly - no need to clutter the list further. 1) Lost mail.

Re: Heres something funny.

2000-02-24 Thread Ferenc Tamas Gyurcsan
>Assuming that Win2k by default comes with a SNMP agent that is active >at startup, do they at least make it obvious that you have to change >the community string? Is this easy to do, or do you have to go >stumbling through the registry to do this? I don't know how you have to config daemons on

Re: Reply addresses [was Re: MySQL question]

2000-02-24 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 21:15:43 EST Benjamin Scott said: > I maintain that software (mis)configuration is no excuse for not checking >the destination address of outgoing mail before you invoke the "Send" >function. Regardless of how a mailing list operates, you should think befor

Re: Heres something funny.

2000-02-24 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Ferenc Tamas Gyurcsan writes: > >> snmpset NTSERVER public interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifAdminStatus.1 i 2 > > If you don't know what this does, your nt sysadmins don't want you to play with > this. All it does is bring the eth0 down on an NT box, but from outside, with > snmp. And since this is

Re: Command-line mail program

2000-02-24 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 20:45:20 EST Benjamin Scott said: > That's perfect. Bloated sigs from a bloated editor. ;-) > > (To forestall any flames: I use emacs, too.) Me too, just not for e-mail :) exmh rules! ;) -- Seeya, Paul Doing something stupid always costs les

RE: Slash who?

2000-02-24 Thread Thomas Charron
Quoting Niall Kavanagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >In a message dated: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 07:21:08 EST > >Adam Wendt said: > >>Somewhere in the past 24 hours my script that grabs slashdot headlines > and > >>puts them in my root menu > >Can I see this? :) > Check out the perl module XML::Parser, combin

Re: Heres something funny.

2000-02-24 Thread Ferenc Tamas Gyurcsan
>> snmpset NTSERVER public interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifAdminStatus.1 i 2 If you don't know what this does, your nt sysadmins don't want you to play with this. All it does is bring the eth0 down on an NT box, but from outside, with snmp. And since this is the default on an nt install... Ferenc

Re: RAID/Mirroring options

2000-02-24 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 19:40:30 EST Marc Evans said: >Since you are talking more about data replication and inexpensive >mirroring, maybe your should consider using rsync (http://www.rsync.org). >I personally believe that the price of a hardware RAID is worth every >penny in cnotra

Re: Who can be a Seniour unix sys admin?

2000-02-24 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG ZKO3-3/S20
Niall Kavanagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Everybody at my current (but soon to be old) company is a >>> "senior consultant/analyst" Well, so much for a meaningless strata. Here, the old DEC had titles like: {hardware|software|manufacturing|...} Engineer I {hardware|software|manufacturing|.

Re:

2000-02-24 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Bill Freeman wrote: > > Ken Coar writes: > > All it will mean to me is that after about the second reply that > > I post that goes only to the sender, I won't reply to *any* GNHLUG > > list messages any more. I get multi-MB of mail every single > > blessed day, and there's far too much of it to

RE: Who can be a Seniour unix sys admin?

2000-02-24 Thread Jerry Feldman
I used to be a manager and I am glad I got out of that track. The way things work is that the company defines several job positions (or pay grades) and titles. Each job position carries with it a salary range. It is up to the company to decide what the titles are and also what the job requirem

Re: Reply addresses [was Re: MySQL question]

2000-02-24 Thread Bill Freeman
Benjamin Scott says that those of us who don't want to reply to the list by default ought to configure our MUA's to ignore Reply-To headers. I suppose for me that's true. I'm comfortable enough with elisp to arrange for rmail in emacs to only ignore the Reply-To header if it specifies [E

Re:

2000-02-24 Thread Bill Freeman
Ken Coar writes: > All it will mean to me is that after about the second reply that > I post that goes only to the sender, I won't reply to *any* GNHLUG > list messages any more. I get multi-MB of mail every single > blessed day, and there's far too much of it to which I *can't* > 'reply-to-all'

RE: Reply addresses [was Re: MySQL question]

2000-02-24 Thread Niall Kavanagh
> -Original Message- > From: Kenneth E. Lussier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > vi Vs. Emacs, Emacs Vs. vi.. why is always these two?? What about > pico? What is so wrong with pico??? > Nothing, besides the fact that jed would KICK IT'S ASS any day of the week! ;) Seriously, I like p

RE: Who can be a Seniour unix sys admin?

2000-02-24 Thread Niall Kavanagh
> I think the `Senior` thing came about because one PHB > wanted to be > better than another PHB by having better people reporting to him/her. > These titles mean nothing to the techies while we sit in our cubes > trying to figure out what to do with our business cards ;-) Everybody at my

RE: Reply addresses [was Re: MySQL question]

2000-02-24 Thread Niall Kavanagh
> Well, so far, out of the 300 plus list subscribers, we have > ten or so > against Reply-To Munging, one for it, and one who abstains. > That is hardly a > representative sample. :-) > Make that eleven. No offense to whoever implemented it, or anyone who thinks it's a good idea, but it su

Re: Reply addresses

2000-02-24 Thread Jerry Feldman
In my experience in running majordomo lists, the reply-to: has always been controversial. When we moved the Boston Computer Society Internet SIG list from Marty Hannigan, we had the reply-to set to reply back to the list, and the previous owner of the list, (eg. Marty) complained bitterly. At

Re: Reply addresses

2000-02-24 Thread Derek Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I vote for changing the header. I was keeping quiet, but since this > seems to be a "vote", I would also vote to cut down on the "noise". > As much as I enjoy Linux, this list is getting very noisy. > Surely there are squeegee newsgroups to post to? > Bob Sparks That's

Re: Reply addresses [was Re: MySQL question]

2000-02-24 Thread Derek Martin
Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: > Kan the komedy. I don't know this "Ken Koar" person, and neither > do you. :-D My appologies Ken! I knew it looked kinda like "core" but was a little different, but I didn't have any messages to refer to with your name in it... -- PGP/GPG Public key at http://

Re: apache

2000-02-24 Thread Kurth Bemis
At 08:26 PM 2/23/2000 , you wrote: what? what is wrong with that! :-) ~kurth > >someone wanna do me a big favor? > >mail me their init.d scripts for Apache? i can't get mine to work at > all. > >also...how do i make stuff appear in annon FTP dir? you put something in > >there and nothi

Re: Reply addresses [was Re: MySQL question]

2000-02-24 Thread Chuck MacKinnon
> > No way man, Windows Notepad has them all beat by a wide margin. > Now that was funny! ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubs

Re: Reply addresses [was Re: MySQL question]

2000-02-24 Thread Chuck MacKinnon
I feel that the reply to field is fine as is...If I want to reply to just the original poster I will just change the To: field myself. Mutt does that quite nicely. Just my personal opinion. On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 01:54:26PM -0500, Bill Freeman wrote: > As long as we seem to be voting, I'

Re: Reply addresses

2000-02-24 Thread Bobnhlinux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Benjamin Scott wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Derek Martin wrote: > > > Some time in the not-too-distant past, this list's reply-to field got > > > filled in with its own address. > > > > Yes, it was done at the request of list members. The rationale > > >

Re: Heres something funny.

2000-02-24 Thread Rich Payne
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Karl J. Runge wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Ferenc Tamas Gyurcsan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >http://www.dot-truth.com and see all of the "Truths" about Win2k as > > >compared to Solaris I love FUD. It cracks me up ;-) > > > > Hype #1: > > Windows NT has remote ro

nntp, usenet, etc.

2000-02-24 Thread Adam Wendt
I've been pondering this for a while and haven't been able to find any sufficient answers. How exactly does Usenet work? I mean there's all these servers where people can connect and post messages and download messages and somehow all these servers (in theory) syncronise with each other but thats

Re: Reply addresses [was Re: MySQL question]

2000-02-24 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Derek Martin wrote: > > So far, Ken Koar is the only one who has indicated so. There > have been maybe ten people comment that they would like it to go... Kan the komedy. I don't know this "Ken Koar" person, and neither do you. :-D -- #kenP-)} Ken Coar

Re: Heres something funny.

2000-02-24 Thread Karl J. Runge
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Ferenc Tamas Gyurcsan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >http://www.dot-truth.com and see all of the "Truths" about Win2k as > >compared to Solaris I love FUD. It cracks me up ;-) > > Hype #1: > Windows NT has remote root exploits. > > Reality: > Shipped Windows(R) NT(R) ha

Re:

2000-02-24 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Derek Martin wrote: > > O.k. -- for the record, out of those who have decided to be > vocal on the subject, we have exactly ONE vote (from the > illustrious Ken Koar) to KEEP the reply-to header, and roughly > 4,672,653,109 votes to get rid of it (o.k. well, I never really > was very good at addi

Re: Flyers for Feb 29th

2000-02-24 Thread Bobnhlinux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Can anyone set out flyers for the Feb 29th GNHLUG meeting at the libraries, > computer shops, etc in their are this week and weekend? > > Jerry > I can get Milford, Concord, & a few places in between. Of course, I would need some flyers to put out. If you email a

RE: Who can be a Seniour unix sys admin?

2000-02-24 Thread Chester Martel
In some cases "Senior" means the next level of the pay scale that you fit into so they can keep you. You aren't necessarily expected to do more. You just get paid more. > -Original Message- > From: Kenneth E. Lussier [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 10:29 PM