Re: Broken /usr/local/bin/tequila

2007-04-03 Thread Richard Clamp
Jonathan Stowe wrote: But hey on the bright side it looks like you now know what it thinks your password is :-) Or would've been, because it didn't think it knew the address at all. The bug's been leaned on to produce a more obvious error, but I haven't fixed the cause as I don't know what wa

Re: Broken /usr/local/bin/tequila

2007-04-03 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 11:45 -0700, David King wrote: > I changed my email address subscribed to this list a while ago, and > after the "the verdamnit subscription database got truncated while > doing a server move", I was re-subscribed under both addresses, so I > tried to unsubscribe the old

Re: The most hateful thing is the world is ...

2007-04-03 Thread Sean Conner
It was thus said that the Great David Cantrell once stated: > > The hateful software part of it is, of course, that the software decides > to waste the time of people posting to mailing lists to which its master > has subscribed by ignoring the List-Id header. But tbh, I hate Daniel > more than I

Broken /usr/local/bin/tequila

2007-04-03 Thread David King
I changed my email address subscribed to this list a while ago, and after the "the verdamnit subscription database got truncated while doing a server move", I was re-subscribed under both addresses, so I tried to unsubscribe the old address. Tough luck, looks like /usr/ local/bin/tequila is

Re: The most hateful thing is the world is ...

2007-04-03 Thread David Mackintosh
On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 02:10:45PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > This: > > > Thank you for your email to dan...@kickidle.com... > > The hateful software part of it is, of course, that the software decides > to waste the time of people posting to mailing lists to which its master > has subscribed

Re: [offlist] Re: The most hateful thing is the world is ...

2007-04-03 Thread David Cantrell
> > > a) I DO NOT respond to the challenge when the mail is legit. > > Nor do I, although I will once I get the challenge from Fuckwit > > about my message moaning about him. > well, if you do get one; nowadays most of them seem not to send > challenges to mail addresses they've already sent a chal

Re: [offlist] Re: The most hateful thing is the world is ...

2007-04-03 Thread A. Pagaltzis
Hi David, * David Cantrell [2007-04-03 16:00]: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 03:32:57PM +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote: > > a) I DO NOT respond to the challenge when the mail is legit. > > Nor do I, although I will once I get the challenge from Fuckwit > about my message moaning about him. well, if you

Uninitialized Word

2007-04-03 Thread Yossi Kreinin
MS Word is supposed to support footnotes. By "support", I mean "make it possible to insert footnotes and automatically maintain their numbers when more footnotes are added/deleted". By "supposed", I mean that there's an "Insert footnotes" dialog. So I open that dialog, and talk to it, and say t

[offlist] Re: The most hateful thing is the world is ...

2007-04-03 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 03:32:57PM +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote: > a) I DO NOT respond to the challenge when the mail is legit. Nor do I, although I will once I get the challenge from Fuckwit about my message moaning about him. > b) I ALWAYS respond to the challenge when the mail is spam. Never.

Re: The most hateful thing is the world is ...

2007-04-03 Thread A. Pagaltzis
Hi David, * David Cantrell [2007-04-03 15:15]: > This: > > > Thank you for your email to dan...@kickidle.com... > > ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE AND HIT SEND. > > The long version: > > Thanks for your email! However, I now get over 150 spam > > emails a day. That's just too many to

Re: The most hateful thing is the world is ...

2007-04-03 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 14:10:45 +0100, David Cantrell wrote: Hmm, the subject made me want to post something non-software related, but that would be OffTopic and probably inappropriate to use in a follow-up on this mail ... -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/)

The most hateful thing is the world is ...

2007-04-03 Thread David Cantrell
This: > Thank you for your email to dan...@kickidle.com... > ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE AND HIT SEND. > The long version: > Thanks for your email! However, I now get over 150 spam emails a day. > That's just too many to handle. And unfortunately, my automatic filters like >

pg_dump

2007-04-03 Thread Stig Brautaset
Dear pg_dump, Further to our recent encounter, which I shall summarise thus: % pg_dump --no-owner --clean --create foo > foo.sql pg_dump: [archiver] -C and -c are incompatible options If you're going to bitch at me for passing in incompatible options, you could do worse than t

Re: STUPID_SOMETHING

2007-04-03 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 10:57:04AM +0300, Yossi Kreinin wrote: > Well, the message was ranked 2.6 by a DEAR_SOMETHING heuristic, and ended > up classified as "spam" (5.3) due to the combined efforts of other > incomprehensible mail-header heuristics. Is it really that bad to start a > message w

Re: STUPID_SOMETHING

2007-04-03 Thread Andrew Black - lists
Yossi Kreinin wrote: Is it really that bad to start a message with "Dear Something", and even if it is, is it really more typical of spam messages than other messages? Tangential, but I was reflecting on why I find Email has become a more tiresome medium to use over the years. I have looked

Re: STUPID_SOMETHING

2007-04-03 Thread Martin Ebourne
Yossi Kreinin wrote: Well, the message was ranked 2.6 by a DEAR_SOMETHING heuristic, and ended up classified as "spam" (5.3) due to the combined efforts of other incomprehensible mail-header heuristics. Is it really that bad to start a message with "Dear Something", and even if it is, is it real

STUPID_SOMETHING

2007-04-03 Thread Yossi Kreinin
Yesterday I saw a spam filter insert a "PROBABLY-SPAM" warning into the subject line of an innocent message. It also appended what looked like detailed reasoning to the body of the message: a list of UNDERSCORE_SEPARATED heuristic names accompanied by a score value. It also said that the overall

Re: Whatsinaname

2007-04-03 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
Michael G Schwern wrote: > World of Warcraft, that exquisitely designed casino with elves sucking in > billions of man-hours from all across the globe. And they deserve it. If > you've never played it, I'd suggest getting yourself a 10 day trial just to > see what a really well designed and easy