Move to Google Groups, closing list on Maclaunch

confirmation system and some other features, such as online subscription management. Dan Knight, listmom -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook

Moving to Google Groups

the subscription confirmation system and some other features, such as online subscription management. Dan Knight, listmom -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299

New Low End Mac email lists

We've created some new email lists, but they're different from the old ones. We're using Google Groups, which means you can sign up, change your status, and read postings using your browser. I hope to eventually move other lists to Google Groups as well. The Macintel list, which covers all

Fraudulent request from List Mom

appreciate the notes of encouragement, but the posting was fraudulent. Someone spoofed my return address, and we are investigating. Dan Knight, List Mom, LEM Lists -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win

New email address for listmom

in the headers and footers. Reminder: Be sure to mention which list(s) you're on when corresponding. With 30 lists, there's just no way I can dig through them all looking for yor subscription. Dan the List Mom -- Dan Knight, president /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Cobweb Publishing, Inc

Challenge and Response Clarification

blocked from posting to the list. If the situation is not resolved quickly, the subscriber will be banned. The burden should be on the spammers, not innocent list members. Note that this applies specifically to list messages, not to individual correspondence with list members. Dan Knight

Anti-spam services and Low End Mac lists

to the list who receives a challenge and response email forward it to me with anti-spam in the subject line. Thanks! Dan the listmom -- Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. http://cobwebpublishing.com http://lowendmac.com http://digital-views.com http://digigraphica.com http

Missing digests received

I have received copies of the missing digests. Thanks to all who sent copies. -- Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. http://cobwebpublishing.com http://lowendmac.com http://digital-views.com http://digigraphica.com http://lowendpc.com http://reformed.net You can't brew

Notes from the list mom

the listmom -- Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. http://cobwebpublishing.com http://lowendmac.com http://digital-views.com http://digigraphica.com http://lowendpc.com http://reformed.net Unix for stability. Macs for productivity. Windows for solitaire. In other words, Mac OS X

Missing Digests

Due to corruption of my mail database, I've lost several digests from August 28 through September 2. If anyone on the list can redirect or forward copies to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED], I'd really appreciate it. Missing Digests: 1459 through 1463 Thanks! Dan the listmom -- Dan Knight

Update on LEM finances

The Mac community has been more than generous in its support of Low End Mac. In ten days, we have lined up a buyer for our TiBook, have some promising leads for selling our two 333 MHz Rev. D iMacs, and have received donations covering over $5,000 of our roughly $6,000 debt load. For the first

Low End Mac's Financial Crisis

for the above, go to http://lowendmac.com/musings/03/0814.html Thank you for your ongoing support of Low End Mac. -- Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. http://cobwebpublishing.com http://lowendmac.com http://digital-views.com http://digigraphica.com http://lowendpc.com http

Notes from the List Mom

have very big plans for the list software, but the only way it's going to happen is if I can cut out at least one day a week from my part time job. Signing up for LEMlist or lowendmac.net services is one way you can help that become a reality. Thanks for your support! Dan the listmom -- Dan

Re: Forthcoming list software

. At this point, it looks like we'll mostly be using PHP and MySQL. -- Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. http://cobwebpublishing.com http://lowendmac.com http://digital-views.com http://digigraphica.com http://lowendpc.com http://reformed.net Please have your pet peeves

Re: Forthcoming list software

On 5/30/03 3:59 AM, victoria brandon posted: Dan Knight proposed a feature that would: We've had problems on some lists with one person becoming very dominant. The number of postings per day wouldn't be fixed. Probably no less than three, but it could go as high as maybe 20-25% of all

Forthcoming list software

On 5/26/03 3:32 PM, Eric L. Strobel posted: somewhere near the temporal coordinates of 5/26/03 8:28 AM, the entity known as Dan Knight transmitted the following from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Our software will. 2. Number all messages in each list. As long as the numbering doesn't appear

Re: Missing PowerBooks digests

Dan Knight writes: Due to some unforseen circumstances and the need to move the LEMlists server to a new location, I've missed some digests over the past weeks. If anyone on the list can redirect or forward copies to [EMAIL PROTECTED], I'd be most grateful: Thanks to a couple members

Notes from Mom

, the list mom and nannies will act in accordance with our Rules of List Management. This page also defines terms (ban, block, flame, troll, etc.) and lists the responsibilities of subscribers. The rules are posted at http://lowendmac.com/lists/rules.html -- Dan Knight, president, Cobweb

Re: 5300 OS's

biggest drawbacks to upgrading to OS X (and making my TiBook feel so much slower). Then I got an email from the author of File Synchronization, and now I can live in OS X about 98% of the time. -- Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. http://cobwebpublishing.com http://lowendmac.com http

Missing PowerBooks digests

of these problems. Dan the listmom -- Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. http://cobwebpublishing.com http://lowendmac.com http://digital-views.com http://digigraphica.com http://lowendpc.com http://reformed.net Atheism is a non-prophet organization. -- PowerBooks is sponsored

Bugbear virus and LEM lists

lists. -- Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. http://cobwebpublishing.com http://lowendmac.com http://digital-views.com http://digigraphica.com http://lowendpc.com http://reformed.net In a world without walls or fences, who needs windows or gates? -- PowerBooks

Random Notes from the List Mom

the listmom -- Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. http://cobwebpublishing.com http://lowendmac.com http://digital-views.com http://digigraphica.com http://lowendpc.com http://reformed.net I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient

Great uses for old Macs

should include minimum and recommended hardware requirements and OS requirements. Discuss this on the lists -- and if you'd like to write an article on one of these topics or something else of this type, email me at my listmom address. Thanks! -- Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc

Re: PBG3,Charging Problem

, but there pre-G3 'Books are off topic. Dan the listmom -- Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. http://cobwebpublishing.com http://lowendmac.com http://digital-views.com http://digigraphica.com http://lowendpc.com http://reformed.net Microsoft Windows? How 20th century

Missing PowerBooks digests

really appreciate it. PowerBooks Digest #1137-1140 PowerBooks Digest #1142-1144 Thanks! Dan the listmom -- Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. http://cobwebpublishing.com http://lowendmac.com http://digital-views.com http://digigraphica.com http://lowendpc.com http

PowerBooks digest update

Thanks to someone on the list (you know who you are), I have recevied copies of all the missing digests. Dan the listmom -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras

Re: Making choices

real differences. I feel sorry for people and businesses that feel threatened by real dialogue. I am asking visitors to my site and members of these lists to support that, not a specific article or writer. That is something I refuse to do. -- Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc

Re: Making choices( for Mr. Dan Knight)

to see just the side someone wants us to see? I don't work that way. The majority of letters were supportive of our position; a minority were not. Exactly as seen in that monstrously long column. -- Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. http://cobwebpublishing.com http://lowendmac.com

End of spurious subscription messages

to make sure these addresses are removed. This should be the end of the matter, but if you do get any confirmation emails after this, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dan the listmom -- Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. http://cobwebpublishing.com http://lowendmac.com http

Re: PB1400cs

make 64 MB and 128 MB memory upgrade cards so I can share it on Low End Mac? Thanks! -- Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. http://cobwebpublishing.com http://lowendmac.com http://digital-views.com http://digigraphica.com http://lowendpc.com http://reformed.net

Making choices

of these businesses, you might want to tell them why. What goes around comes around. -- Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. http://cobwebpublishing.com http://lowendmac.com http://digital-views.com http://digigraphica.com http://lowendpc.com http://reformed.net Life is too short to use

Mom on confirmation messages, SpamCop, servers

suggest a good hosting service that will let us sell email addresses at reasonable annual rates, sell online space to users, etc., I'd be happy to hear more -- please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (If that doesn't work due to SpamCop, try [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Dan Knight, president, Cobweb

missing digests

Due to some changes to our mail server last week, I have not received the following digests: PowerBooks Digest #1077 through #1078 If anyone on the list can redirect copies to [EMAIL PROTECTED], I'd be most grateful. Thanks! Dan the listmom -- Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc

Top vs. Bottom Posting

One of my pet peeves -- and something a lot of you have probably received a note about -- is people who quote the entire original message right down through the footer. The header. The ads. Everything. I go through each digest, scrolling past screen after screen of quoted material. It's too

November notes from Mom

the nannies handle the lists. Maybe even find some time to do some programming, photography, reading, etc. -- Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. http://cobwebpublishing.com http://lowendmac.com http://digital-views.com http://digigraphica.com http://lowendpc.com http

Re: Travelstar 40GXN

, very happy with it. Now what the heck am I going to do with 20x more disk space than i had previously?!! ;-) Got 128 MB or more RAM? If so, pick up a copy of OS X to play with. -- Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. http://cobwebpublishing.com http://lowendmac.com http://digital

Notes from the list mom

retailing cameras. On the minus, it will take me away from LEM more hours during the week. With site income where it is, this is a necessary tradeoff. Another plus: I won't have to work Saturdays. I can have my weekends back. :-) -- Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. http

Re: mail being boiunced

Donna Hood Pointer writes: When I try to send messages to the list by hitting Reply to the digest message , I am getting the following, so I don't know whether they are getting through. this is the 2nd time this has happened recently. - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors

Warning messages from list server

, and we will release it as open source once it's up and running. But until we can manage things like reading incoming email and sending it out again, managing subscription requests, etc., we're stuck with the current setup. -- Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. http

Notes from the listmom

In response to some recent issues, I've added the following paragraphs to the list FAQs: What about anti-spam services? We already take the steps necessary to keep spam off our lists. Whatever filtering you do with your email software and your email service is up to you. That said, we take

New at the Low End Mac Online Store

to see the vast selection of t-shirts, sweatshirts, mugs, totes, etc. -- Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. http://cobwebpublishing.com http://lowendmac.com http://digital-views.com http://digigraphica.com http://lowendpc.com http://reformed.net Sometimes I think

Notes from the List Mom

to find the time this weekend. I will update the published FAQ for all the lists with the morning site update. Email sent to the old listmom address should automatically forward to the new one. -- Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. http://cobwebpublishing.com http://lowendmac.com

lemlists.com progress

function to open our test mailbox. But we're working on it -- Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. http://cobwebpublishing.com http://lowendmac.com http://digital-views.com http://digigraphica.com http://lowendpc.com http://reformed.net Computers are like air

Addressing digest problems

Maclaunch is aware of the problems we've been having with digests -- but hasn't heard back from Communigate yet. Until then, I've adjusted digest size downward on the less busy lists, from 20 messages max. per digest to 10 or even 5. Hope this gets things moving again. -- Dan Knight

Update on lemlists.com

, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do not reply to me or to the list. We hope to have things up and running in a few days. Dan Knight, listmom, publisher of Low End Mac -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win

lemlists.com

. Whether we go through with mailboxes or not, we will be working with Coleman Web to set up the Low End Mac List Server in coming days. I'm guessing this project may take several months of programming and debugging to get things just right. I'll keep you posted. -- Dan Knight, president, Cobweb

Notes from Low End Mac

funds via PayPal, please reference [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. http://cobwebpublishing.com http://lowendmac.com http://digital-views.com http://digigraphica.com http://lowendpc.com http://reformed.net I was to learn later in life that we tend

Call to action re: MacSlash.com

to Dotster http://www.dotster.com/home/ if you can find an email link on their site. You can email Vicente Peiro Crespo at [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I urge you to read up on the issue and put some pressure on people to get this resolved. Thank you. Dan Knight, publisher, Low End Mac -- PowerBooks

Re: FAX software?

the fax you're sending has to go over a phone line to reach the recipient's fax machine. And that said, at least you don't lose your Internet connection while faxing when you're on broadband Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. http://cobwebpublishing.com http://lowendmac.com http

Mom says Please vote

Heaven, the pickle's Low-end Mac FAQ, etc. I urge all of you to take a few minutes and share your opinion of the site's your familiar with -- and maybe discover some new ones. http://lowendmac.com/botmw/020326.html Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. http://cobwebpublishing.com http

Small list change

up one list to try it, and the person who asked for it reports that it works just fine. If your email client supports it, this may help you follow some of the threads, especially on the busier lists. Dan the listmom Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. http://cobwebpublishing.com http

List administrivia

to each other. Dan the listmom Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. publisher, Low End Machttp://lowendmac.com/ publisher, Low End PC http://lowendpc.com/ publisher, Digital-Views.com http://digital-views.com/ publisher, Digigraphica

Shameless site promotion

Mac users have had for the past four years. Dan the listmom Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. publisher, Low End Machttp://lowendmac.com/ publisher, Low End PC http://lowendpc.com/ publisher, Digital-Views.com http://digital-views.com

Mom says - Back to Macs

In light of the unparalleled situation on Tuesday, I chose to allow some discussion of the terrorist attacks on these lists. We all needed an opportunity to process our feelings, and for some people, these lists are their only forum. Many of those threads have run their course and some have

Re: More on @home.com situation

or so to keep the count low. Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. publisher, Low End Machttp://lowendmac.com/ publisher, Digital-Views.com http://digital-views.com/ publisher, Digigraphicahttp://digigraphica.com/ The more acceptance

Two new LEM email lists

The Old Mac MP list is specifically for those using multiprocessor Macs and clones (DayStar, Umax, Power Computing, etc.) older than the multiprocessor G4 machines. The focus of the list will be MP applications and MP support for alternative operating systems (Linux, BSD Unix, etc.)

New lists coming soon

when everything is ready to go. Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. publisher, Low End Machttp://lowendmac.com/ publisher, Digital-Views.com http://digital-views.com/ publisher, Digigraphicahttp://digigraphica.com/ Windows 95 (win-DOH-z), n

Spammer headed off at the pass (mostly)

be the last. Thanks to the two-step subscription process and Kyle's quick action only one list was subjected to the spam. Should anything like this happen in the future, please send a note to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so I can deal with it as expeditiously as possible. Thanks! Dan Knight, president

Note to Yahoo users

.) /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Dan Knight, president\ / No HTML/RTF in email Cobweb Publishing, Inc. X No Word docs in email / \ Respect Open Standards! publisher of Low End Machttp://lowendmac.com/ Digital-Views.com

Terms of Use

Over the weekend we updated out Terms of Use for the site. The following specifically applies to our email lists and forums: Those using our email lists and forums may not post any material which violates or infringes in any way upon the rights of others; which is unlawful, threatening,

Re: dead PRAM battery

be conducted privately, not on the list. Neither the publisher nor the list mom makes any claim regarding services or products offered by members of the list. Dan the listmom Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. publisher, Low End Machttp://lowendmac.com/ publisher, Digital

Mom says, Avoid all caps

, including our Best of Show award to a couple new upgrades from Sonnet. I'm looking forward to getting home Sunday afternoon. Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. publisher, Low End Machttp://lowendmac.com/ publisher, Digital-Views.com http://digital-views.com

List Netiquette

I updated the Netiquette page this morning to address some recent issues involving signatures, name calling, vulgarity, perceived threats, and when it's appropriate to mention an auction on the list. Some of these are good general netiquette guidelines; others are specific to the Low End Mac

New list archives

I've just updated the footers for each list with the correct URL for the new archive. From last Thursday onward, everything will be archived. Dan the listmom Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. publisher, Low End Machttp://lowendmac.com/ publisher, Digital