Re: GIS, Cartography Online Guides, Re: [SLUG] GoogleEarth alternative in OpenSource

2006-06-04 Thread SLUG feeding spam to the world
Michael Lake wrote: So, the current problem is finding FOSS or affordable software to do this good gis work. I have recently been through FOSS offerings, many and scattered functionality and it looks like a write your own situation. Look at GRASS. It's a FOSS GIS.

Re: [SLUG] GoogleEarth alternative in OpenSource

2006-06-02 Thread SLUG feeding spam to the world
O Plameras wrote: Okay. But if you want to know additional info about GoogleEarth, check this page: I've been playing with it on the other boxen with the idea of doing away with some guide books that need republishing. Unfortunately it is rather lacking in what you can do. OTOH, neither is

GIS, Cartography Online Guides, Re: [SLUG] GoogleEarth alternative in OpenSource

2006-06-02 Thread SLUG feeding spam to the world
O Plameras wrote: Warning, this gets long, but I think it is a good idea to throw it out there as someone may have some ideas. Borderling OT, but it is comparing FOSS with so okay.. I've been playing with it on the other boxen with the idea of doing away with some guide books that need

Re: [SLUG] GoogleEarth alternative in OpenSource

2006-06-01 Thread SLUG feeding spam to the world
O Plameras wrote: A number of Linux users I know are switching to Windows because they want to run GoogleEarth. I can understand why they do. My son works for a Company that use GoogleEarth for work and had to switch to Windows. Can you tell us what they were actually doing? I assume this

Re: [SLUG] Re: SLUG on gmane.org

2006-05-31 Thread SLUG feeding spam to the world
Jamie Wilkinson wrote: http://search.gmane.org/?query=email=group=gmane.org.user-groups.slug.generalsort=revdateDEFAULTOP=andxFILTERS=Gorg.user-groups.slug.general---A Which definition of munged are you using? yes it's human readable, but it's not immediately obvious to a robot that it's

Re: [SLUG] Re: SLUG on gmane.org

2006-05-31 Thread SLUG feeding spam to the world
James Purser wrote: Much as I have enjoyed this thread I think it should die now. Then do not reply to it. However before I go I would just like to point out one thing. For all your protestations about reducing spam why do you have your email address (without munging of any kind) available

Re: [SLUG] Re: SLUG on gmane.org

2006-05-30 Thread SLUG feeding spam to the world
Mary Gardiner wrote: On 2006-05-30, Terry Collins wrote: Who was responsible for this bright idea? If you are goingto start passing out the slug list in bulk to spammers, I would like all address at woa-com-au pulled, please. I'm not sure who's reponsible, the gmane.org mirror dates back

Re: [SLUG] `new' effort at spam fighting?

2006-05-30 Thread SLUG feeding spam to the world
Peter Chubb wrote: It looks as thought the ACMA has finally got some teeth and is doing something about spam ... but it also looks as if their website is Yer, website! That was when I decided that they were not serious about doing anything about spam. Now, if they had setup a Spamcop type

Re: [SLUG] Re: SLUG on gmane.org

2006-05-30 Thread SLUG feeding spam to the world
Malcolm V wrote: Letting the negative elements of any society dictate ones actions is never a good idea. Yer, right, keep waffling and ignore the essential word here. Umm TRUST. It might be kinda old fashion as the ethics of gordon gecko make a re-run, but at no stage did I give SLUG

Re: [SLUG] SLUG on gmane.org

2006-05-30 Thread SLUG feeding spam to the world
Howard Lowndes wrote: I am strongly in favour of all mailing lists such as SLUG being subscriber only, and definitely not being made available to (wo)man+dog. Yep, after this, I've changed my belief. The SYDNEY in SLUG is what matters to me. If I want to support the rest of the world, there

Re: [SLUG] Re: SLUG on gmane.org

2006-05-30 Thread SLUG feeding spam to the world
Andrew Cowie wrote: On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 12:09 +1000, Terry Collins wrote: As Jamie and Mary pointed out, SLUG has been a publicly archived community since the mid 90s. Get over it. Except that this information was hidden away and not publically stated. I for one am glad that the

Re: [SLUG] Re: SLUG on gmane.org

2006-05-30 Thread SLUG feeding spam to the world
Jamie Wilkinson wrote: 1995 in fact. On gmane.org? I'll assume that this is a brain fart. The email addresses that are published on gmane.org are munged. You might like to look again. I can clearly see everyone's emails. The email addresses published on google groups are munged.

Re: [SLUG] SLUG on gmane.org

2006-05-30 Thread SLUG feeding spam to the world
Andrew Bennetts wrote: As http://gmane.org/expiry.php points out, you can set headers if you wish to declare that your messages should not be archived. The issue is not whether to archive or not archive. I agree that we want to retain the collective wisdom/brain-farts that these posts