[wdvltalk] Re: Netscrape 4.7

2004-06-16 Thread Abigail Marshall
On Wednesday, June 16, 2004, 7:22:26 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] commented: dcgac Your SSI would be most appreciated. Please post. OK, this script determines categorizes new, CSS compliant browsers as isDOM, otherwise as isHTM3, and serves up a different navigation bar depending on the content.

[wdvltalk] Re: Netscrape 4.7

2004-06-15 Thread Abigail Marshall
On Tuesday, June 15, 2004, 6:53:53 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] commented: dcgac This occurs only on the home page and one of the dcgac other pages, so quick work-around was to do a check dcgac for browser type and if not IE then to redirect to a dcgac Netscape-friendly version of the page. However, it

[wdvltalk] Re: Keeping Web Sites Current

2004-06-08 Thread Abigail Marshall
On Tuesday, June 8, 2004, 8:47:44 AM, Janet Wentworth commented: JW My clients expect me to remember that the training class JW is over and the trade show has been cancelled, etc. and JW update the sites accordingly. Why don't you just make a list of sites with time critical content and make a

[wdvltalk] Re: Free Mailing List Software?

2004-04-26 Thread Abigail Marshall
On Sunday, April 25, 2004, 10:41:27 PM, wwwpages commented: w Hey guys, w Can anyone recommend any good, free, reliable Mailing List software or w scripts that can be easily implemented on a website? w Thanks For discussion lists, Mailman: http://www.list.org/ (Note, requires Python) For a

[wdvltalk] RE: Google rankings

2004-01-27 Thread Abigail Marshall
On Tuesday, January 27, 2004, 10:56:56 AM, rudy commented: Every month or so, Google makes changes to try to stop the cheating. This is called the Google Dance. r oh please r that is not what the google dance is r of course, we don't really expect the beeb to know search r engines, do we...

[wdvltalk] Re: cron question

2003-12-12 Thread Abigail Marshall
On Friday, December 12, 2003, 4:46:04 PM, Bj commented: B Anyone who's used cron - is there a problem with scheduling more than one B job to run at the same time? (more than one entry with 0 0 * * *). Should B I be staggering the start times? I don't think that it should be for a job that is

[wdvltalk] Re: Storyboarding Tool?

2003-12-12 Thread Abigail Marshall
On Friday, December 12, 2003, 10:14:07 AM, jmwcruiser commented: j Hello- j I am starting development of a new site and decided to look around for j better tools to storyboard the site. I have tried a variety of methods -- j spreadsheets, boxes drawn in Word, etc. in the past.I was wondering if

[wdvltalk] Re: Spam help needed!!

2003-11-25 Thread Abigail Marshall
On Tuesday, November 25, 2003, 9:08:02 AM, Cyberspace Publishing commented: CP The scum of the earth spammer doing this is also obviously CP spoofing the IP#'s somehow, as every one of the spams have different CP originating IP#'s in the headers included with the bounced email. CP They appear to

[wdvltalk] Re: OT : cleaning out WDVL posts circa Oct 2001 - I've got over 1000!

2003-11-19 Thread Abigail Marshall
On Monday, November 17, 2003, 12:40:44 PM, Elisa Butler commented: EB Joseph is still doing fine with his poetry page, I wonder where EB Abigail is? I'm still here, posting from time to time... but not nearly as frequently as I used to. I got busy ;) -Abigail • The WDVL Discussion

[wdvltalk] Re: Is it true update program?

2003-11-11 Thread Abigail Marshall
On Monday, November 10, 2003, 8:09:01 PM, Yumin commented: Y Hello all: Y I received many many emails of the latest version of security update Y program. The program Y is in the attachment. Is it really from Microsoft? No, it is a virus. It is ALWAYS a virus. Microsoft does NOT send

[wdvltalk] Re: now what about backward compatibility?

2003-11-06 Thread Abigail Marshall
On Thursday, November 6, 2003, 12:27:07 PM, Rita Crisafi commented: RC AND...in a nutshell :-), what would I have to do if I was required to RC accomodate these old-browser users? Rita, your page degrades well in lynx and Netscape 3. It isn't pretty, but it's readable. You've coded it well to

[wdvltalk] Re: [OT] Article: Did You Get My Email

2003-10-21 Thread Abigail Marshall
On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 8:16:48 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] commented: cwc Let me know if you have any positive/negative effects to the cwc auto-responses, 'k? I'm sorry, I wasn't clear - I WON'T be using auto-responders, because I hate them. I WILL be using short, form responses when I can't

[wdvltalk] Re: Domain manager

2003-10-03 Thread Abigail Marshall
On Thursday, October 2, 2003, 1:24:20 PM, jac - WDVL commented: jW Can someone reccommend a programme/utility that they've used to keep track jW of all the renewal dates for domains hosting. Something that will load on jW startup and alert me if there's one to be renewed. Getting out of hand

[wdvltalk] Re: Was Flash Intro Display Problem??, Now what the **** is sitefinder?

2003-09-24 Thread Abigail Marshall
On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, 10:25:33 AM, Diane Schips commented: DS What is this sitefinder.com crap? I've been getting it DS more and more frequently of late, even when trying to DS get to my own sites? Anyone have any ideas? Lots of discussion and a petition circulating last week. Link:

[wdvltalk] RE: Was Flash Intro Display Problem??, Now what the ** ** is sitefinder?

2003-09-24 Thread Abigail Marshall
On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, 12:38:01 PM, Diane Schips commented: DS This appears to be creating some havoc on the web, causing instability DS issues. I personally resent it - strongly. But get this: Not only do you DS get redirected if you enter a mistyped URL (getting a string that

[wdvltalk] Re: domain pointing

2003-09-10 Thread Abigail Marshall
On Tuesday, September 9, 2003, 9:24:48 AM, Steve Miller commented: SM I have a new client who wants us to build a single website with several SM sections: one for each book she is writing/publishing and one for her parent SM company. Each section will have a different look relating to its book,

[wdvltalk] Re: That's not me!

2003-09-02 Thread Abigail Marshall
On Monday, September 1, 2003, 10:17:14 PM, Paul Larue commented: PL Hi list, PL I received an email from myself but the name being displayed was not PL mine, nor was the content ansd the subject - I won't be 'selling' PL mortgage ratees to myself? Typical spammer trick, Paul. Not much you can do

[wdvltalk] RE: SSI browser sniffing

2003-08-25 Thread Abigail Marshall
On Saturday, August 23, 2003, 6:03:23 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] commented: cwc It works well enough on IE 6. The question is why would you want cwc something like that on your site; especially before your menu? Will, I want to clarify my other answer to you. The page with the browser-sniffer is

[wdvltalk] Re: SSI browser sniffing

2003-08-24 Thread Abigail Marshall
On Saturday, August 23, 2003, 4:11:42 PM, rudy commented: ... maybe you could check it in IE6.: http://www.dyslexia.com/build/ r yeah, it works r btw, Roman titles / Arial fonts makes the dropdown quite wide, enough to r force the button which is normally to the right of the dropdown to fall

[wdvltalk] Re: MailWasher

2003-08-24 Thread Abigail Marshall
On Saturday, August 23, 2003, 4:44:56 PM, Cyberspace Publishing commented: CP I, too, CP receive spam using my domain name in the From: field, but I CP seldom receive any bounces from other domains with any of my CP domains in the From: field - except the occasional virus as CP I decribed in

[wdvltalk] RE: SSI browser sniffing

2003-08-24 Thread Abigail Marshall
. -Abigail cwc -Original Message- cwc From: Abigail Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] cwc Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 4:04 PM cwc To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cwc Subject: [wdvltalk] SSI browser sniffing cwc On Saturday, August 23, 2003, 5:42:44 AM, rudy commented: What browser are you

[wdvltalk] SSI browser sniffing

2003-08-23 Thread Abigail Marshall
On Saturday, August 23, 2003, 5:42:44 AM, rudy commented: What browser are you using? That's caused by an SSI browser sniffer that doesn't work so well -- (sorry - I forgot that I had it in there) r windows internet explorer 6 (specifically 6.0.2800.1106 with all patches) r you're right

[wdvltalk] RE:SoBig

2003-08-21 Thread Abigail Marshall
On Thursday, August 21, 2003, 7:52:46 AM, Peter MacGregor commented: PM Those of us on stand-alones and who are self-employed in our wind-swept PM garrets have to deal with it ourselves and try and meet deadlines for that PM world-beating project that will make us rich enough to employ an IT

[wdvltalk] Re: MailWasher (was: RE: SoBig)

2003-08-21 Thread Abigail Marshall
On Thursday, August 21, 2003, 12:21:06 PM, Cyberspace Publishing commented: CP Before you shoot yourself in the foot with it, though, you might CP want to read my article Am I Dumb Or Dumber? posted at CP http://www.internet-marketing-forum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2344 CP where I explain how to

[wdvltalk] RE:SoBig

2003-08-21 Thread Abigail Marshall
On Thursday, August 21, 2003, 12:20:56 PM, Cheryl D. Wise commented: CDW What I can't quite figure out is why the spam filters CDW caught approx. half of the SoBig emails but left the CDW other half to go into my inbox. Because the exact text of the subject and message varies somewhat. Whatever

[wdvltalk] RE:SoBig

2003-08-21 Thread Abigail Marshall
On Thursday, August 21, 2003, 2:30:23 PM, Jan commented: J Who names these viruses? The viruses get named by whoever discovers them first. The first incarnation of Sobig (Sobig.A) always came from the email address [EMAIL PROTECTED], so that may be the origin of the word big. The viruses retain

[wdvltalk] Re: MailWasher

2003-08-21 Thread Abigail Marshall
On Thursday, August 21, 2003, 2:59:15 PM, Cyberspace Publishing commented: CP Abigail, I would tend to agree with you except for one fact that CP I cannot ignore - since I changed the From: address for the CP bouncing, my spam has *noticeably* decreased! I do REAL bouncing at the server level,

[wdvltalk] Re: Is SoBig worm being helped by email harvester ebot???

2003-08-19 Thread Abigail Marshall
On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, 5:18:59 PM, Cyberspace Publishing commented: CP I've been getting bounces containing this WORM_SOBIG.F (that's CP what Trend Micro's newest SIG named it) since early this morning. CP Nearly 70 so far! Every single one of them come to me with one CP of five unique

[wdvltalk] Re: Is SoBig worm being helped by email harvester ebot???

2003-08-19 Thread Abigail Marshall
On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, 8:07:43 PM, Cheryl D. Wise commented: CDW Not just Texas RR customers, most of the ones I received today came from CDW AOL. CDW Received: from unknown (HELO rly-ip03.mx.aol.com) CDW Ironically they were sent using Abigail's favorite email program CDW X-Mailer: The

[wdvltalk] Re: messages?

2003-07-16 Thread Abigail Marshall
On Wednesday, July 16, 2003, 9:24:46 PM, Gerrie Warner commented: GW Would anyone have any idea as to why suddenly today I am getting a HUGE GW amount of Undeliverable message from people I havwe never sent any mail GW to? Either a spammer or a Klez-type worm has sent out a bunch of email using

[wdvltalk] RE: Domain name Transfer

2003-07-12 Thread Abigail Marshall
On Saturday, July 12, 2003, 12:13:47 PM, K. F. Wu commented: KFW Currently (after transferring the registrar), I keep my hosting company's KFW DNS registered with my domain name (following what my hosting company told KFW me before transfer). What would happen if I go to Namecheap control

[wdvltalk] RE: Domain name Transfer

2003-07-12 Thread Abigail Marshall
On Saturday, July 12, 2003, 4:48:27 PM, Cheryl D. Wise commented: CDW Okay, there used to be only 7 for .com, .org and .net. Each country had its CDW own registrar for country specific tlds. There was only one registrar for CDW the .edus. Not since 1999, there were dozens of ICANN registrants

[wdvltalk] Re: web design article

2003-06-20 Thread Abigail Marshall
On Friday, June 20, 2003, 4:48:29 AM, rudy commented: http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/03/21/index3a.html picked this up from evolt list r ;o) r want to know where i got it from? Rudy, the best thing about that article (I think) was this link: CSS-discuss Wiki:

[wdvltalk] Re: web design article

2003-06-20 Thread Abigail Marshall
On Friday, June 20, 2003, 8:55:20 PM, rudy commented: r hey, you should see the css-discuss list itself r more css than anyone could possibly ever want r i mainly lurk on there, but, truth be told, do not always succeed in reading r everything I'm all listed out, frankly, so I'll stick with

[wdvltalk] Re: html email

2003-06-05 Thread Abigail Marshall
HTML mail and certain types of attachments are also red flags for content-filtering, spam blocking software such as Spamassassin. This is being used more and more, and basically if the email is heavily weighted toward HTML + images or other embedded attachments, it will be given a higher weighted

[wdvltalk] RE: Domain name + email forwarding

2003-02-02 Thread Abigail Marshall
On Sunday, February 2, 2003, 1:25:47 AM, Don Kinney commented: DK Since the fella I'm working for runs a targeted e-mail marketing DK company (offers opt-in, no spam newsletter and other e-mail campaigns for DK companies that don't want to manage their lists and web marketing in-house). Sounds

[wdvltalk] Re: ||Web Content Developer / Web Designer||

2003-01-04 Thread Abigail Marshall
On Saturday, January 4, 2003, 7:15:04 AM, sherry young commented: sy So few people have both sets of skills. sy Sherry I think it really depends on the type of sites being developed. I've got no particular artistic talent, but if I have a specialty it is designing content-rich sites with an

[wdvltalk] Re: ||Web Content Developer / Web Designer||

2003-01-02 Thread Abigail Marshall
On Thursday, January 2, 2003, 3:55:43 AM, astralgirl ... commented: a A web content developer sounds more like a programmer to me. No, a web content developer is the person who decides what TEXT and resources are going on the web site. The designer is doing graphics, layout, navigation, etc. -

[wdvltalk] MS Security patch

2002-11-21 Thread Abigail Marshall
Just a link about a security patch: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns3095 Microsoft is warning millions of customers to download a fix for a critical security hole in numerous software products. According to MS this shouldn't be of major concern, as it only

[wdvltalk] Re: any cgi gurus up and avail to help me out

2002-11-09 Thread Abigail Marshall
On Friday, November 8, 2002, 10:45:21 PM, puterbug.com commented: pc HI, pc I'm trying to get a cgi script to work and having problems, any cgi pc gurus up and available to help out at this hour? pc Thanks, pc Deb I'm not really a guru, but I can give it a try. What seems to be the problem?

[wdvltalk] What's with this I had hosting problems email - spam? worm?

2002-11-07 Thread Abigail Marshall
I keep getting emails with a subject that starts,Hello abigail and then contains this text: Sorry about that. My hosting went down I had hosting problems: [LINK] Do you have tons of debts and want to refinance_your home I guaruntee that I can do it fast and easy and your credit score doesn't

[wdvltalk] Re: Test

2002-11-07 Thread Abigail Marshall
On Thursday, November 7, 2002, 5:02:42 AM, Ross Clutterbuck commented: RC I think my mail server has died...can you se me? RC MOU yes. -Abigail • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:wdvltalk-join;lists.wdvl.com Send Your Posts

[wdvltalk] Re: text only web site

2002-10-15 Thread Abigail Marshall
On Monday, October 14, 2002, 8:24:36 AM, Siobhan Thomas commented: ST What is the best way to implement a text only website without using databases i.e. ST taking an existing graphics-heavy website and stripping out all of the graphics? Is it just ST a matter of manually creating html pages

[wdvltalk] Re: opinions on value/or not of HTML Writers Guild?

2002-10-12 Thread Abigail Marshall
On Thursday, October 10, 2002, 2:25:47 PM, Amanda Birmingham commented: AB I have over time encountered several references to the HTML Writers Guild, AB but I remain unclear on its mission and whether it conveys any value to its AB members. Is anyone on the list a member? If so, what's in it

[wdvltalk] RE: Amen! I am just the messenger so ease up all you d iehard fans of NN :)

2002-09-26 Thread Abigail Marshall
On Wednesday, September 25, 2002, 5:56:41 PM, Malachy Duffin commented: MD You are getting quite a lot of hits a day for a relatively small site! MD Nice one! Oh that's not the webfavor site grin - that's the big site I manage. Webfavor is just a domain I own, I haven't touched the webfavor

[wdvltalk] Re: IP Address=Country?

2002-09-25 Thread Abigail Marshall
On Tuesday, September 24, 2002, 2:35:04 PM, Amrit Hallan commented: AH Are IP addresses specific to countries? I have a link. If somebody AH clicks on it from India, I want a different page to load, else, a AH different page. No, IP addresses are not specific to country. You can use reverse IP

[wdvltalk] Re: [OT] Unusual port probe activity!

2002-08-31 Thread Abigail Marshall
On Saturday, August 31, 2002, 8:56:05 PM, Cyberspace Publishing commented: CP Normally, I get only 10 to 20 alerts from Zone Alarm during the day. CP Over the past 4 hours, from 7:30 pm EDT, I've had 171 attempts at CP ports 6777 (90%) and 1433! These attacks appear to be coming from CP all

[wdvltalk] Re: AOL and Web Site Access

2002-08-02 Thread Abigail Marshall
On Friday, August 2, 2002, 8:38:37 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] commented: kec I noticed that all AOL domain customers stay 0:00 seconds per visit on my kec sites and assumed AOL has something going on I need to be aware of that kec may make my sites unviewable. I've never gotten a complaint, and am