Re: Anti-spam options on london.pm

2002-04-15 Thread Newton, Philip
Paul Makepeace wrote: ``Must posts have list named in destination (to, cc) field (or be among the acceptable alias names, specified below)? YES'' AFAIK, the only practical upshot to legit posters is that you can't bcc london.pm(a)london.pm.org. If anyone can see a downside to this, speak

Ask london.pm: Unmetered ISPs

2002-04-15 Thread Dave Cross
My mother was asking me the other day about the best way for them to get connected to the Internet. I assume it'll be via one of the unmetered deals - Freeserve, BT, maybe even AOL or Compuserve. Does anyone have any information that would help me choose the best service (as opposed to just the

Re: Ask london.pm: Unmetered ISPs

2002-04-15 Thread Mark Blackman
Have you already ruled out wires-only ADSL? My mother was asking me the other day about the best way for them to get connected to the Internet. I assume it'll be via one of the unmetered deals - Freeserve, BT, maybe even AOL or Compuserve. Does anyone have any information that would help

Re: Ask london.pm: Unmetered ISPs

2002-04-15 Thread the hatter
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Dave Cross wrote: My mother was asking me the other day about the best way for them to get connected to the Internet. I assume it'll be via one of the unmetered deals - Freeserve, BT, maybe even AOL or Compuserve. Does anyone have any information that would help me

Re: Ask london.pm: Unmetered ISPs

2002-04-15 Thread alex
My mother was asking me the other day about the best way for them to get connected to the Internet. I assume it'll be via one of the unmetered deals - Freeserve, BT, maybe even AOL or Compuserve. Does anyone have any information that would help me choose the best service (as opposed

RE: Ask london.pm: Unmetered ISPs

2002-04-15 Thread Harper, Gareth
-Original Message- From: Dave Cross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 15 April 2002 08:40 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Ask london.pm: Unmetered ISPs My mother was asking me the other day about the best way for them to get connected to the Internet. I assume it'll be via one

Re: Ask london.pm: Unmetered ISPs

2002-04-15 Thread Mark Fowler
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the hatter hatter wrote, with reguards to demon: From 12ukp/month and normal bt minutes prices, with static IP and no kick-offs, then you can F+F/FF it or surftime it through BT for cheap/free calls, or pay extra to demon for cheaper/free

Re: Ask london.pm: Unmetered ISPs

2002-04-15 Thread Chris Heathcote
on 15/4/02 10:19 am, Dave Cross wrote: Not completely. But cost is pretty important here. How cheap can a wires-only ADSL deal go? 20 quid a month Ex VAT (23 quid inc), no installation (just need to buy a router and microfilter) - Pipex.

Re: Ask london.pm: Unmetered ISPs

2002-04-15 Thread Mark Blackman
http://www.xtreme.pipex.net/adsl/sales/solutions/solo.shtml claims 19.95/month ex VAT and no setup fee. I don't know how long it takes to set up or whether or not the the exchange in question is ready. I suspect with those prices there may be a bit of queue. - Mark Not completely. But cost

Re: Ask london.pm: Unmetered ISPs

2002-04-15 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 08:40:23AM +0100, Dave Cross wrote: My mother was asking me the other day about the best way for them to get connected to the Internet. I assume it'll be via one of the unmetered deals - Freeserve, BT, maybe even AOL or Compuserve. Does anyone have any information

Re: Ask london.pm: Unmetered ISPs

2002-04-15 Thread Rob Partington
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mark Blackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know how long it takes to set up or whether or not the the exchange in question is ready. I suspect with those prices there may be a bit of queue. On the three occasions I've got Pipex wires-only set up, the

Re: Anti-spam options on london.pm

2002-04-15 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 08:54:08AM +0200, Newton, Philip wrote: Paul Makepeace wrote: ``Must posts have list named in destination (to, cc) field (or be among the acceptable alias names, specified below)? YES'' AFAIK, the only practical upshot to legit posters is that you can't bcc

RE: Ask london.pm: Unmetered ISPs

2002-04-15 Thread Oliver Smith
- Freeserve, BT, maybe even AOL or Compuserve. Does anyone have any information that would help me choose the best service (as opposed to just the cheapest) for them? Well, best service is very hard to determine. I still find Demon to be the best IP service around because I always find it

Re: Your message to london.pm awaits moderator approval

2002-04-15 Thread Newton, Philip
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your mail to 'london.pm' with the subject [ANNOUNCE] Test Test... Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval. The reason it is being held: Message has implicit destination Either the message will get posted to the list, or

Fwd: Request to mailing list london.pm rejected

2002-04-15 Thread Newton, Philip
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your request to the london.pm mailing list Posting of your message titled [ANNOUNCE] Test Test... has been rejected by the list moderator. The moderator gave the following reason for rejecting your request: Blind carbon copies or other implicit

Re: Anti-spam options on london.pm

2002-04-15 Thread Paul Mison
On 15/04/2002 at 13:50 +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote: On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 08:54:08AM +0200, Newton, Philip wrote: Will this cause a problems for posts to london.pm-announce? It is subscribed to london.pm so posts to announce get to the main list... but doesn't -announce just pass on the

Re: Anti-spam options on london.pm

2002-04-15 Thread Newton, Philip
Paul Mison wrote: Announce is a seperate list, but to save people having to subscribe to it seperately, or to remember to unsub, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a member of the list too. And this is a Good Thing, IMO. Announce was created for low-volume people, but the high-volume sadists should also

RE: [ANNOUNCE] Test Test...

2002-04-15 Thread Harper, Gareth
-Original Message- From: Newton, Philip [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 15 April 2002 14:49 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Test Test... Newton, Philip wrote: Hello, this is just a test of the announce list. Let's see whether it's still allowed to post

RE: Ask london.pm: Unmetered ISPs

2002-04-15 Thread Shevek
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Oliver Smith wrote: - Freeserve, BT, maybe even AOL or Compuserve. Does anyone have any information that would help me choose the best service (as opposed to just the cheapest) for them? Well, best service is very hard to determine. I still find Demon to be the

Re: Anti-spam options on london.pm

2002-04-15 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 09:10:19AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: Owing to an increase in spam that your trusty(?) custodians london.pm-admin have to deal with[1] I have switched on mailman's ``Must posts have list named in destination (to, cc) field (or be among the acceptable alias names,

Free to a good home

2002-04-15 Thread Natalie Ford
Please be aware of the cross post! Best to reply only to me... I have a 17 monitor in the boot of the car that is too heavy for me to carry up to my flat and my mum does not want any more. It was as ex-asset at an ex-employer of Neil's. If anyone can make use of it, plese let me know becaue