I went to http://sourceforge.net/projects/nms-cgi/ and was running OSX
but attempted to use only OS9 applications while working with the two
doanload packages. No problems encountered.
Yes, an alias is *effectively* a symbolic link (I believe that there are
some differences under the hood
him later:
Shirely http://nms-cgi.sf.net/scripts.shtml :)
I've just downloaded them both on my Mac (9.1) and Formail is present in
both of them.
There's no resource fork (oh ex-gruppenfuhrer - am I using the right
words) which is fine because nothing apart from macs can read them
anyway (resource
of the world. I got
a bit more information from him later:
Shirely http://nms-cgi.sf.net/scripts.shtml :)
Yes, that got me just now, because I'm only 25% into my bottle of Irn Bru.
I've just downloaded them both on my Mac (9.1) and Formail is present in
both of them.
Yes, Stuffit Expander
On 13/12/2002 at 11:32 +, Glyn Hughes wrote:
If there's anyone out there who's still using MacOS 9 I'd appreciate a
little help on an nms problem. I got and email the other day from a Mac
user who said:
The formmail.pl in your zipped archive is an alias on my Mac system
On 13/12/2002 at 08:29 +, Jon Reades wrote:
On 13/12/2002 at 07:06 +, Dave Cross wrote:
I assume that by alias he means some kind of symbolic link. I've
Yes, an alias is *effectively* a symbolic link (I believe that there
are some differences under the hood, but that's probably
If there's anyone out there who's still using MacOS 9 I'd appreciate a
little help on an nms problem. I got and email the other day from a Mac
user who said:
The formmail.pl in your zipped archive is an alias on my Mac system,
and is missing altogether in the tar.gz version!
I assume
Newton, Philip wrote:
I took the opportunity and suggested the look into replacing
their formmail script not with Matt's 1.92 but with the nms
offering. Let's see whether anything will happen
Update: I got this short reply from the Form Mail Abuse Team:
Thank you for the information
My web hoster recently sent me email saying that they were upgrading their
formmail script on 13 May and urged all customers who had installed their
own copy to do the same.
I took the opportunity and suggested the look into replacing their formmail
script not with Matt's 1.92 but with the nms
I'm trying to build up a list of companies using nms to put on the web site.
Currently, I've got a number of ISPd who are recommending them to their
clients, but it would be nice to be able to lsit some real companies to.
Have you instelled nms scripts on any sites? And would they be happy
and suggested the look into replacing their formmail
script not with Matt's 1.92 but with the nms offering. Let's see whether
anything will happen
That's excellent news. If you need any backup from the proejct tema then
please let me know.
Dave...
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Ivor Williams wrote:
Still, I've not come across the programming language called
Pen before :-)
It's probably related to the language PerI (Per-capital-eye) which was also
mentioned in the article several times.
Cheers,
Philip
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All opinions are my own, not
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Andy Wardley wrote:
Well, something like that It'll be great, honest
Yeah, we believe you Andy, we believe you :)
/J\
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The new issue ot Linux Format (#25 - March 2002) has a small article about
nms on page 16. It mentions london.pm a few times and is illustrated with
the photo by Jeff Moore that we discussed here a couple of weeks ago.
Enjoy,
Dave...
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On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 08:45:22AM +, Dave Cross wrote:
The new issue ot Linux Format (#25 - March 2002) has a small article about
nms on page 16. It mentions london.pm a few times and is illustrated with
the photo by Jeff Moore that we discussed here a couple of weeks ago.
You going
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, David Cantrell wrote:
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 08:45:22AM +, Dave Cross wrote:
The new issue ot Linux Format (#25 - March 2002) has a small article about
nms on page 16. It mentions london.pm a few times and is illustrated with
the photo by Jeff Moore that we
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 02:33:23PM +, Dave Cross wrote:
It's weird. Their website bears no relation at all to the magazine - other
than a brief list of the contents of last month's issue.
Linux Format seem to have their server cracked almost monthly[0] so they've
probably got bored of
[x-posted. careful with those replies]
See http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/art.html.
Dave...
--
Drugs are just bad m'kay
;-)
But I realised that I was looking at a gif and you have OCR'ed the text
below (Dohh! again)
Still, I've not come across the programming language called Pen before :-)
Nice write up though. How much take-up is there so far on NMS? Are there any
webcounters on the site?
It would be interesting
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 12:18:31PM +, Piers Cawley wrote:
Chris Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
31.5, and the winner is:
SPAM: Content analysis details: (49.5 hits, 5 required)
Yow!
Looking at it, I have to think it is an example of spammer wit.
The From: scores 5.8 by itself,
Chris Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Following comments here, I installed Mail::SpamAssassin in early
January. It is a huge improvement on my previous Mail::Audit blacklist.
Some spam still gets through, but way less than before ...
What's your high score? Mine currently stands at 31.5
--
From: Mike Jarvis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 06:11, Simon Wilcox wrote:
I shall, I'm interested to make sure that NMS has closed whatever hole
is
being probed for.
Perhaps some of us (and I'm happy to help here) should poke around on
more newsfroups, find places where people
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 08:26:52AM +, Piers Cawley wrote:
Chris Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Following comments here, I installed Mail::SpamAssassin in early
January. It is a huge improvement on my previous Mail::Audit blacklist.
Some spam still gets through, but way less than
--- Robert Shiels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From:
Mike Jarvis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I was very interested to find this site:
http://www.allthingsperl.com/
particularly this quote:
There are more than 500, if not a 1000 web sites
out there that have
something to do with Perl.
The
Chris Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 08:26:52AM +, Piers Cawley wrote:
Chris Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Following comments here, I installed Mail::SpamAssassin in early
January. It is a huge improvement on my previous Mail::Audit blacklist.
Some spam
Anybody know somebody actually using the formmail.pl from NMS? I read
on news.admin.net-abuse.email this morning that people are noticing a
surge in probes for formmail.pl, for use by spammers.
Might be nice to get a success story or two up on the page. Hell,
success stories from users for any
: NMS
Anybody know somebody actually using the formmail.pl from NMS? I read
on news.admin.net-abuse.email this morning that people are noticing a
surge in probes for formmail.pl, for use by spammers.
Might be nice to get a success story or two up on the page. Hell,
success stories from
On 11 Feb 2002, Mike Jarvis wrote:
Anybody know somebody actually using the formmail.pl from NMS? I read
on news.admin.net-abuse.email this morning that people are noticing a
surge in probes for formmail.pl, for use by spammers.
I use it one one small site that we migrated from another ISP
I know ybw.com were getting spam sent across there old formail.pl, I
told the admin there about NMS and he dropped in the replacement and
was impressed.
-- mallum
on Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 05:29:27AM -0500, Mike Jarvis wrote:
Anybody know somebody actually using the formmail.pl from NMS? I
Mike Jarvis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 06:11, Simon Wilcox wrote:
I shall, I'm interested to make sure that NMS has closed whatever hole is
being probed for.
Perhaps some of us (and I'm happy to help here) should poke around on
more newsfroups, find places where
I'm just about to try formmail.pl:
-rwxr-xr-x dave/dave 2 2001-11-11 17:55:27 formmail/FormMail.pl
-rwxrwxr-x dave/dave 20974 2001-11-11 16:48:50 formmail/README
The README is nearly twice as big as the code!
NMS++
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Dave Cross wrote:
http://www.dave.org.uk/scripts/nms/ is more up to date.
formmail has been deployed live too, by me for a customer on one of our
servers.
Somehow there's a little thrill every time I see that (c) London Perl
Mongers strapline :-)
Simon.
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I
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I thought that the NMS page at http://london.pm.org/cgi-bin/nms.pl
was automatically rebuilt from the CVS repository every (mumble)
hours. Am I misremembering?
there has been some changes to CVS and there is no NMS on there now,
if you want to check
From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 10/24/01 1:40:46 PM
there has been some changes to CVS and there is no NMS on
there now,
Was this a result of the recent r00ting?
Call me old fashioned, but if I put code under source code control
then I like it to stay there until I remove
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 08:19:39AM -0700, Dave Cross wrote:
My latest work was checked into CVS on Penderel. I'll check and
see what I've got in my local copy.
I would guess that what you checked into CVS is still in
/home/cvsroot.old/nms
Presumably that could easily be copied into the new
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 10/24/01 1:40:46 PM
there has been some changes to CVS and there is no NMS on
there now,
Was this a result of the recent r00ting?
indirectly yes, one of the volunteer admins asked if they could
From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 10/24/01 5:05:22 PM
If the CVS repository on Penderel is going to be
transitory, then maybe I'll have to store it elsewhere.
there seems to be some new projects now stored under CVS,
however as the guys who admin the box do so on a
voluntary
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 05:05:22PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
however as the guys who admin the box do so on a voluntary basis, i
would take a personal backup of anything important you put on the
box
Where's the logic in that? Are volunteers more likely to make
mistakes resulting in
however as the guys who admin the box do so on a voluntary basis, i
Where's the logic in that? Are volunteers more likely to make
mistakes resulting in data loss than paid admins? Personally
I expect Greg is reffering to accountability and sueability.
* Robin Houston ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
It seems a little insulting to the voluntary admins (whoever they
may be) to suggest that they're more likely to make mistakes than
highly paid professionals...
i was more implying that you had the right to bitch at paid
professionals, with the
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Now I remember why I stopped drinking at lunchtimes.
I have considered stopping my mail server from sending after pub
closing time and then presenting me a list of what i like to term,
Crap you wanted to send last night when pissed the next morning.
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 05:45:39PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
i was more implying that you had the right to bitch at paid
professionals, with the people who currently admin the box the only
right you have is to buy them beer ;-)
I agree :-)
sorry I misunderstood you
.robin.
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I hear that one problem with that script is the security problem that if
it is not altered, then it is possible to send mail from any address,
effectively allowing you to spam with it.
What I suggest for NMS scripts is that they have an internal configuration
function, whereby the script
I suggest for NMS scripts is that they have an
internal configuration function, whereby the script will
refuse to run unless it is configured. In fact, if it is
unconfigured, then present a configuration interface,
unless they can't find an appropriate place writable to
store configuration
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 09:49:42AM +0100, Sam Vilain wrote:
What I suggest for NMS scripts is that they have an internal configuration
function, whereby the script will refuse to run unless it is configured.
In fact, if it is unconfigured, then present a configuration interface
Sound good
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 flags -oi -t -odq. I found
that when I used -odq, the
Well, I would have said you can use the flags rather
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 11:06:02PM +0100, Dave Cross wrote:
I've just released a first draft of FormMail. It's at
http://www.dave.org.uk/nms/
This appears to be 404ing :-(
Neil.
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 11:06:02PM +0100, Dave Cross wrote:
I've just released a first draft of FormMail. It's at
http://www.dave.org.uk/nms/
I would have put it in CVS on penderel, but it seems to be configured so
that only Greg can use it :)
Incidently, perlfaq9 says that when using
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 06:09:21PM -0400, Chris Devers ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Dave Cross wrote:
I've just released a first draft of FormMail. It's at
http://www.dave.org.uk/nms/
Trying trying again yep: 404 not found.
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