Re: [cam.pm] BodyWorlds

2002-09-24 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
.stopwar.org.uk/ MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Straw Poll

2001-06-19 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
OK. So how many london.pm'ers read the popbitch messageboard? http://www.popbitch.com/flat/bored.html I just ask because it is the single biggest reason I hate MySQL at the moment. That, and badly written Perl. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Straw Poll

2001-06-19 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 11:09:42AM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: > Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > OK. So how many london.pm'ers read the popbitch messageboard? > > http://www.popbitch.com/flat/bored.html > > I just ask because it is the single biggest reason I hate My

Re: Straw Poll

2001-06-19 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 12:08:02PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: > Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > OK. So how many london.pm'ers read the popbitch messageboard? > Never heard of it. Popbitch has been mentioned before at london.pm meets. Plus, as simon says, a URL of his has

Re: Using perl for a high performance mailer daemon ?

2001-06-19 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
| RCPT TO | RCPT TO : | DATA and instead opens up as many connections as it can to the remote mailserver wasting bandwidth and hammering both ends. Its delivery strategy after a backlog is also crap, because it's just FIFO. MBM (really really anti-qm**l) -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: Using perl for a high performance mailer daemon ?

2001-06-19 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 12:00:55PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 11:49:40AM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 11:41:45AM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > > > The trouble is that practically all mailers will write the queue

Re: Straw Poll

2001-06-19 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 12:01:59PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm trying to keep the thing stable (I knew I couldn't run away from > > sysadmin for long...), and the board hits MySQL to the extent that all

Re: Using perl for a high performance mailer daemon ?

2001-06-19 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 11:22:23AM +, Greg Cope wrote: > Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 12:00:55PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > > All the messages are individual. Right, well that changes things... > > > This is also the standard a

Re: Straw Poll

2001-06-19 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 12:37:20PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 12:01:59PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > > Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I&#

Re: FAO: Matthew Byng-Maddick

2001-06-19 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
> 194.202.72.80: > > Error during DNS PTR lookup for 80.72.202.194.in-addr.arpa: > > No such domain [Irritated] > > 550 Your system has had many errors while trying to send us mail. > > > > -- This is a copy of the message, including all t

Re: Using perl for a high performance mailer daemon ?

2001-06-19 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 01:04:04PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 11:22:23AM +, Greg Cope wrote: > > Please gents I did not want to restart the holy warn of MTA's - just how > > to write a mailer in perl that manages mulitple [children|threads

Re: Using perl for a high performance mailer daemon ?

2001-06-19 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 12:49:53PM +, Greg Cope wrote: > Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > What's your plan if you get a 4xx error at any stage? > If its based on a perl client I'll probably queue everything via an MTA > that is not a 221 OK. I know this is repetiti

Re: Straw Poll

2001-06-19 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 01:47:03PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Now, we've got one running under linux-emulation in FreeBSD, as we couldn't > > persuade it to compile without threads, and for some extremely cra

Re: Templating Solutions

2001-06-19 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
rs to understand the transfer of responsibility concept for delivery of the message or a bounce. And, if that weren't enough, the configuration of whsmithonline, who not only have an invalid EHLO line, but have a non-backed-off retry set to 2 mins, I don't know what ma

Re: Templating Solutions

2001-06-19 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 04:21:32PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 03:44:10PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 03:22:07PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > > > Server-side Javascript is actually rather nice as a language, but it&

Re: Templating Solutions

2001-06-19 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
the first part again, I think that the part that the companies have a right to is *the implementation of the idea that you write for them*. If you have an idea for something, and code it in your own time, then I don't see that they could possibly (even under the contract) lay claim to it, as i

Re: headers

2001-06-21 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
y and lathos > probably also qualify as far as I can tell. Marcel used to work in London Lucy is definitely in the UK. lathos has now unsub'ed, and he'll probably be staying in Oxford, if he decides to take his job with OUCS. > (don't know whether he still does). Anyone else? MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-06-18

2001-06-21 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 01:45:58PM +0200, Marcel Grunauer wrote: > amazonDaq DalaD 'ach yIje'Qo' I tried running this through rot13, it didn't produce anything more sane, what was it supposed to be? MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: More Microsoft Fuckwittage

2001-06-21 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
s it. >I wonder if this license is legally enforcable, considering it's >1) a click-thru >2) more than a little vague in its definition of 'Potentially Viral Software' 5 letters: 'u','c','i','t','a'. >What next from the M$ legal FUDmongers? >'Intellectual Property Carcinogens'? *snicker* MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: Test

2001-06-24 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] (you have got that set up correctly, right?) MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: Where?

2001-06-24 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 04:06:14PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: > Mark Blackman wrote: > > ok, if you insist, RG1 7NY, that's Reading for the metropolitan > > utopianists > SE16 2DZ Home E2 Work W4 MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: Cliqueiness

2001-06-24 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 09:59:11AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 02:33:06PM +0100, Lee Goddard wrote: > > perl -e "while (1){rand>0.5 ? print'\\' : print'/'}" > perl -e "print chr 47+45*int rand 2 while 1" &g

Re: Test

2001-06-24 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 10:28:55AM +0100, Lee Goddard wrote: > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Matthew Byng-Maddick > > On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 03:40:06PM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote: > > > On or about Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 03:34:49

Re: JOB: Linux admin + team leader, Kingston...

2001-06-25 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
efore I get flamed to oblivion. :-) MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: forwarded from (void), very nice screensaver

2001-06-24 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
way I am going to make a screensaver setuid. Do you count xlock as a screensaver? If so, there has to be some setuid- alike thing, which allows the system password to be verified... Of course PAM comes with its own little binary to do this, which is the only setuid bit. MBM -- Matthew Byng-M

Re: realaudio, streaming, recording, linux (whoops i went keywords instead of subject)

2001-06-27 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
prefer a decent hi-fi radio anyday (fx: looks towards his Cambridge Audio and NAD amp...) MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: realaudio, streaming, recording, linux (whoops i went keywords instead of subject)

2001-06-28 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 06:17:07AM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote: > Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 05:35:09PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote: > > > /me *so* wants a wavefinder + linux drivers for same. > > I didn't get what

Re: London.pm firing on more cylinders

2001-06-28 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 11:53:48AM +0200, Robin Szemeti wrote: [MTA wars] Use exim, you can have embedded perl, which means you can customise the 550 sod off spammer reply :-) (and also the various "relay denied" type of replies too. :-) MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EM

Re: London.pm firing on more cylinders

2001-06-28 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
ebserver (eg, take off a SessionID string from the beginning of a URL, so that all relative urls just work). That's where the power comes from. The reason that you link in code into your exim is to prevent the fork()ing and exec()ing of perl or procmail or whatever, you have the loaded interpr

Re: Recipe

2001-06-28 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
o do is sign the certificate to allow it to relay, rather than having to add it into the config. Alternatives are POP before SMTP, ssh tunnelling of the SMTP traffic, SMTP AUTH (preferably with a CRAM-MD5 auth). MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: TT & new website

2001-06-29 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 09:52:18PM +0100, Barbie [home] wrote: > > > Greg (Age 26.95) > > robin aged 37.99178 > (36.75 and a bit) Lee, how about adding birthdays to the world map? MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: Web client application survey

2001-06-29 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 12:41:03PM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: > 15%. Suspiciously C/C++ is at 21%. WhoTF uses C/C++ to develop > web apps?? At least one of the places I interviewed at does. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: Web client application survey

2001-06-30 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 08:59:27AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > * Matthew Byng-Maddick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 12:41:03PM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: > > > 15%. Suspiciously C/C++ is at 21%. WhoTF uses C/C++ to develop > > > web app

Re: Mailing list hack perpetrated

2001-06-30 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
> $ host -l -a -v pm.org | grep NS eek, those are horribly short timeouts for NS records... oh well. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: Job

2001-07-03 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
even if that's not true in Tcl8 with the internal list implementations. I like Perl too. And C. Not so fond of Java. Am trying to learn Haskell. Does that make me weird? MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: Job

2001-07-03 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 04:06:38PM +0100, Robin Houston wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 03:36:35PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > I like Perl too. And C. Not so fond of Java. Am trying to learn Haskell. > > Does that make me weird? > No, i don't think so. But prog

Re: Job

2001-07-03 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 05:12:45PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 04:54:01PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > My big beef with Java is that having *forced* you into an OO model > > (something recognised both by Perl and C++ as being bad), its o

Re: Divorcing data storage from business logic

2001-07-03 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
acle, and MySQL can be made to fly too) Perl is the > limiting factor, not the database. YMMV, IMO, etc :-) This can be the case. It depends on your disks. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: Divorcing data storage from business logic

2001-07-04 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 10:24:52AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This is more than can be said for MySQL with the horror that is MyISAM. > So don't do it - use one of the three other schemes that pretend to > have lo

Re: In Defence of Mysql was Re: Divorcing data storage from businesslogic

2001-07-06 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
he equivalent of a 'select * from systables'. > in the mysql database in mysql > you have such things as the tables table, etc. This is purely for access control, and hence irrelevant to the point in question. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: Technical Meetings

2001-07-07 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
t; 5p to charity for each grammar mistake pointed out in my posts? I'm sure the charities would be happy. :-) MBM (25p (+ another two) straight away... :-) -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: technical book piracy

2001-07-08 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
beard). No, definitely not. :-) MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: Friday Morning Fun

2001-09-22 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
may be surprised. :-) > % perl try.pl > 2 This seems more sensible behaviour to me. It smells generally like one of those things that isn't defined. I think you are perfectly reasonable in stating either 1 or 2 with appropriate reasons. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: History of number systems [Was: Re: Happy Birthday]

2001-09-10 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
you run out of glyphs, as has been said elsewhere. File modes are usefully specified in octal, because they are represented by 3 bit values: rwx and then the u+s,g+s,o+t bits. I'm not convinced that representing ascii in octal is that good, but some people seem to like doing it. MBM -- M

Re: History of number systems [Was: Re: Happy Birthday]

2001-09-10 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 05:02:12PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 04:58:59PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > Octal doesn't fit conveniently into a bytewise arithmetic, you end up using > > only 2 of the 3 bits the top three allows you to s

Re: History of number systems [Was: Re: Happy Birthday]

2001-09-10 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 05:12:23PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 05:06:44PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > > There was a period when it looked quite likely that a 36-bit word would > > > be the norm, too... > > 9 hex digits. Ugh. &

Re: bork

2001-09-13 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
and a good hard fsck > Waving dead chickens not work? I wouldn't imagine so, the SCSI deities like goat sacrifices better. :-) MBM (dead chickens are something else) -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: Fwd: FW: Call for Peace Petition following US attack...

2001-09-14 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
h the wording of that petition. Please post US-Centric crap elsewhere. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: Fwd: FW: Call for Peace Petition following US attack...

2001-09-14 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 02:26:52AM -0700, Dave Cross wrote: > From: Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 9/14/01 10:09:26 AM > >On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 09:48:11AM +0100, Denny John wrote: > >> >> - Forward this Portion to Friends - >

Re: Fwd: FW: Call for Peace Petition following US attack...

2001-09-14 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
it to. And I can't sign the ing petition! So please try and understand what I posted, and read it. I quoted the bit of the wording I didn't like. Maybe now you'll understand. However I think we've got to stop being so ridiculous about this and get on with our lives. Look forward rather than back. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: Fwd: FW: Call for Peace Petition following US attack...

2001-09-14 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 12:45:21PM +0100, Sue Spence wrote: > Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > Sure, I'm just getting rather fed up of having "Attacks on the good ole' > > democratic US state" shoved up my nose. I do feel sorry for the friends > > and fami

Re: irc people

2001-09-16 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
nipped of html of the > + could you mail me off list with a snippet of html of the *** Hunk #1 of 1 failed :-) MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: GPG fun.

2001-09-16 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
e with GPG, you should really be trying to get the 64bit IDs rather than the 32bit ones. What about where people have multiple email addresses ? eg, there is no key for [EMAIL PROTECTED], but there is for [EMAIL PROTECTED] MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: GPG fun.

2001-09-16 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 05:13:44PM +0100, Chris Ball wrote: > On 16 Sep 2001 17:01:08 +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > What happens if they are two valid keys? > The module would have to break on any ambiguity. I suspect the reason > this isn't implemented in any OpenPGP

Re: GPG fun.

2001-09-16 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
when you send messages encrypted with that key it will be evil dave who decrypts them. However, that "Mickey Mouse" means nothing to me. I therefore shouldn't be trusting your signature to verify anybody else's identity. The email bit is a red herring and is rather like a name. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: GPG fun.

2001-09-17 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
k is rather more subtle. Why is a name better than an email address, surely an email address is better at uniquely identifying the name. Suppose I put an identity: Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> as well as the standard Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Now suppose

Re: News gateway?

2001-09-17 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
who doesn't get the mail... MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: GPG fun.

2001-09-17 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
m people who > I do not know personally because I am starting to wonder if the whole > premise of keysigning parties is flawed. Depends. It really comes down to what you trust other people's signatures to mean. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: GPG fun.

2001-09-17 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
sure that the the key distributed with the browsers is, in fact, theirs. That, and the actual management of the *real* root key. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: Evil Dave does Reginald Perrin

2001-09-17 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
Yes, i know this should be scribotted > Yes, i know this is chatty like IRC > So now that we agree on those, ho hum. Please, evil dave, think before you turn into {R}[1] MBM [1] Richard Ashton - http://www.fuckwit.tm/ -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PR

Re: GPG fun.

2001-09-17 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
, more valuable. It's probably also secret-shared in some form. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: GPG fun.

2001-09-17 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 02:20:52PM +0100, robin szemeti wrote: > On Monday 17 September 2001 13:27, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > You obviously don't actually understand CAs. > incorrectamundo .. I do .. very well. (my points were more about CA's signing > personal I

Re: GPG fun.

2001-09-17 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
ends the card stripe > data and the pin number to $villain who makes a fake card and sends minion to > cash machine to empty the account. Yeah, well, not much you can do to protect against this type of attack. This is where smart cards can come in useful, as the bank can send different challenges that only the smartcard can answer. However, again, this is why the CCA exists, as a social solution to this problem. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: Instant Messaging and all that Jazz

2001-09-17 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
without the X million > users M$ can supply .Net and dot.Gnu are programming language frameworks AIUI, were you thinking of M$ Passport, the single-sign-on-alike ? MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: NMS [formmail]

2001-09-17 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
ns. This will be dependent on the -q in the invocation of /usr/{lib,sbin}/sendmail. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: NMS [formmail]

2001-09-18 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 01:14:46PM +0200, Newton, Philip wrote: > Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 11:06:02PM +0100, Dave Cross wrote: > > > Incidently, perlfaq9 says that when using sendmail from a > > > Perl script, you should use the f

Re: Heh.

2001-09-18 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
erver. > > Dang. I'll see if I can dig it up elsewhere... > I have from a reliable source that there might be a T-shirt and the image > has been shunted elsewhere until decisions have been made. I can second this. The "reliable source" in question is the girlfriend of th

Re: Mail bounce, grumble grumble...

2001-09-18 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
one for 114.74.195.in-addr.arpa. (I'm sorry I'm doing this, I want some ammo that the argument presented in the email I have just doesn't work, mainly to satisfy myself, as I don't intend to carry on that flamewar... :-) MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: Mail bounce, grumble grumble...

2001-09-19 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
get back from SAUCE (or rather the 550 lines) give you quite detailed information about what it didn't like about your configuration. In this case, I think you can safely blame mailstart, not SAUCE. I could quite easily have had eg a quota problem or something similar, which gives a 450 line. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: Pipermail email address parse bug?

2001-09-19 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
fwtw) depends whether you call it a bug that it can only correctly parse RFC822 addressing. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: Pipermail email address parse bug?

2001-09-19 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 02:12:26AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 10:01:31AM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 01:51:40AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: > > > I've just been tracking down a horrid little what seems to me

Re: Pipermail email address parse bug?

2001-09-19 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
qw/valid/; Is that Abigail's one that uses Parse::RecDescent, because if it is, I think it should get a prize for the most horrid use of Parse::RecDescent ever. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: Pub examination - Three Cups - tonight (Weds 19 Sept)

2001-09-19 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
e of adventure for me. After all, they've barely heard of public transport... :-) MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: Pipermail email address parse bug?

2001-09-19 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 02:23:53PM +0100, Marty Pauley wrote: > On Wed Sep 19 10:34:47 2001, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > Email addresses are divided into a local part and a domain part, separated > > by an @ sign. The local-part and domain-part are themselves divided into

Re: Pub examination - Three Cups - tonight (Weds 19 Sept)

2001-09-19 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 06:25:56AM -0700, celia romaniuk wrote: > On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > camden NW*1* > > kentish town NW*3* > > note the low numbers they are lower the closer into the centre you get. > That's not strictly > true:

Re: Pipermail email address parse bug?

2001-09-19 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
art. > One day I'm going to install a host called 'com' or 'org' and watch the > fallout. You'll have to make sure that your mail server qualifies names automatically (against RFC2821, except in the explicit case of RCPT TO:). and install subdomains of that host... MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: Pub examination - Three Cups - tonight (Weds 19 Sept)

2001-09-19 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 02:40:28PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 02:20:50PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > I disagree, oop north is way beyond kentish town > > camden NW*1* > > kentish town NW*3* > > note the low numbers they are lower

Re: "Invisible ink e-mails"

2001-09-19 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
s this posting less of a "bad mood" for people ;-) -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: "Invisible ink e-mails"

2001-09-19 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
hat's enough to put me back to being grumpy... :-) -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: "Invisible ink e-mails"

2001-09-19 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
looking at it, people still have the choice to do a local > download; but if the servers didn't allow that for some messages you > could expire them at the remote server. Job's a good 'un, as Bez would > undoubtedly say. How are you planning to read it if you don

Re: Re: Friday Morning Fun

2001-09-21 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
wasn't the case, because that would require parentheses. Oh well, how well would I have done in the interview? :-) MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: Heh.

2001-09-18 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
indows? MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: PING

2001-09-16 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 11:35:46AM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote: > My mail got screwed up yesterday - just checking that I have put > everything back as it should be :) As london.pm list admin, do you think then, that it might be useful to have a london.pm.test list ? MBM -- Matthe

Re: HTTP::Request & cookies

2001-09-30 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
hat same piece of code and see if you get a: Cookie: header in the request. MBM (lo-tech solutions to hi-tech problems) -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: Chocolate/beer (was Film Recommendation)

2001-10-01 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
(doom & gloom merchant since 1977) -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: Chocolate/beer (was Film Recommendation)

2001-10-01 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
someone with a large interest in security, what all of your points miss is the idea of giving everyone the minimum information possible. Why give them an identity card with everything, when you can give them only your name or your name and address? MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[

Re: POLITICS: Re: Chocolate/beer (was Film Recommendation)

2001-10-01 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 05:10:52PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > * Matthew Byng-Maddick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > As someone with a large interest in security, what all of your points miss > > is the idea of giving everyone the minimum information possible. Why give >

Re: Firewall info, was Re: outage, explanation

2001-10-04 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
n++ Debian-- # all the bloody politics MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: Firewall info, was Re: outage, explanation

2001-10-04 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 11:03:03AM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 10:34:48AM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 06:29:05PM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: > > > Debian++ > > Debian-- # all the bloody politics > So ass

Re: Photos

2001-10-05 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 07:50:11PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > Some of my photos from last night are at the usual place, > http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/london.pm/ ScriptAlias? Heard of it? MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: Netiquette was Re: [Perl Jobs] CGI / MySQL developer (onsite), UK, London]

2001-10-18 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
No - no filtering, just a few seconds thought when composing the article. > Complaining about quoting really is petty and a total waste of time. So WTF are you doing it? > If you hate "broken quoting" so much why don't you write a Perl script > to "fix" it to the way you like and put all your mail through it? Because then you need to understand language. Well volunteered, since you think it would be so easy. > Problem Over. Not at all. MBM (angry=630476ms). -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: Procmail / Filters

2001-10-18 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
-audit.html and CPAN Mail::Audit. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: Classic Computer Books (Non-Perl)

2001-10-18 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
erate attempt to start a thread that is not > about quoting. piers described it as atonement ;-) :-) MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: Classic Computer Books (Non-Perl)

2001-10-18 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
h) this looks a lot better, though it's more detailed. I should have had Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment (W. Richard Stevens) on my list too. That really is a fantastic book. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: Netiquette was Re: [Perl Jobs] CGI / MySQL developer (onsite), UK, London]

2001-10-18 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
liant. Most people who can't are spammers. (Note that I said most). MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: on topic

2001-10-25 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
s the answer. :-( When I looked earlier teletext said it was on on bbc2 tonight. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: New Neighbours

2001-10-25 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
[various people slagged it off, I'm just going to, for your horror, post this] http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwypug.pm.org%2F Nul Points! MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: New Neighbours

2001-10-25 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 04:19:56PM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 12:10:32AM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwypug.pm.org%2F > Heh, it's grimmer up Norf You can't complain, you're west, and s

Re: sunday / saff london

2001-10-31 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
hdays, and found that it didn't match, and there were definite peaks in September and March. I suspect, though, that this is not true as a global thing. MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

Re: contracts

2001-11-09 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
or, but I would say that. :-) MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/

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