When I first read this subject line, I swear the question mark didn't
register at all, changing the meaning JUST a wee bit. :)
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On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 09:20 +1100, Sam Couter wrote:
So something which causes actual harm... that's okay. Something that
wowsers use as a bogeyman to scare children and impose their moral
judgements on others (through violence if necessary), that's bad. Got it.
You puritans are nuts.
On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 08:46 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
So some mailing lists hitting reply will go to the list (often what you
want), while others (like this one) hitting reply will go only to the
original sender (almost never what you want), while in both cases
hitting group reply will
years.
Like the man said about Democracy, the free market is the worst system
imaginable, except for all the other systems.
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On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 19:24 +1000, Sam Couter wrote:
Those of us who live in countries with publicly funded health care pay
less both per capita and as a percentage of GDP and yet we still get
higher quality care.
If it's higher-quality, how do the Canadian companies who broker access
to
On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 19:56 -0400, Joe Smith wrote:
Just think about it: by investing $1G in suitable ways we should be able
Wait, wait... is that $1G, or $1Gi? Just asking ...
1 Gibibuck? Hmm... That sounds very odd. I thing we should go with 1
gigabuck.
So, $1,073,741,824? The
On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 09:12:05AM -0500, Chris Glavin said:
Greetings!
Visit my page with detailed information for Asperger's Syndrome. The page
You know, I think for once this spam is actually well-targetted.
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On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 12:45:23PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG said:
A loan word is a fairly new word in a language, which was borrowed
from a different language. Loan words are created when the borrowed
basoboru!
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horrid.
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have fallen out.
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reasons to associate, and since a lot of it will
be subconscious it'll almost certainly select for things like race and
skin color. If anything, nations broaden the perspective, not narrow
it.
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On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 03:04:15PM +0100, 'Mash said:
Um, Emacs is not a console app; it's an OS running inside a
console/terminal emulator. Thanks anyway.
It's a nice OS, but it needs a better text editor if it's ever going to
be competitive.
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On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 11:32:35AM +0100, 'Mash said:
Sorry I prefer a women who isn't so keen on placing random letters
in her words. Apparently they are rubbish in bed.
I prefer women who aren't named Mitch.
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be that any member
of the race could apply, but they'd be applying for a group account for
the entire race. You'd only have to give the password to one of them.
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http
When I saw the subject line, my first thought was oh for Pete's sake,
now who's getting kicked out of the announce list?
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On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 07:35:57AM -0500, Stephanie da Silva said:
To send mail to me, you need to add [laundry] to the end of the
subject line (eg: Subject: Random message [laundry]).
Well, you heard her; get started on changing the list config to add that
to all messages!
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is
under control. :)
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On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 03:34:05PM -0400, Shawn McMahon said:
I say it again - there is no Operating System with a G or a K in the name.
Prove me wrong.
10 seconds on Google.
http://tunes.org/Review/OSes.html
Oh, and forgot:
http://geekos.sourceforge.net/
...which has both
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:03:36PM -0300, Fabricio segfault Cannini said:
KDE:
'cause there's no G in DESKTOP.
And no K in GNU.
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UNIX and Linux
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 01:01:44PM +0700, Alec said:
ePills
http://[snip]
eDrugs? Whatever happened to the good old fashioned meatspace drugs?
I feel so old.
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was I'm not aware of what they're doing,
could you elaborate, but I think I may have been interpreted instead as
they aren't doing anything wrong, you pinko zealot GNU commie.
The perils of email.
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, self-righteous
God's-gift-to-mankind attitude the CEO has in his writings on the
company website...
Other than not sharing code they have no legal right to share, what else
are they doing?
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EIV Consulting | who say
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 03:45:00PM +0200, Michelle Konzack said:
Hello *,
I have ICQed with a friend in Offenburg/Germany this morning and
I think he has a wired problem:
Since it's GPS, it sounds more like a wireless problem than a wired one.
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On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 05:51:41PM +0200, Alexander Schmehl said:
Everytime a RC-bug is submitted, you can see black smoke rising from the
machine hosting bugs.debian.org :)
Also, God kills a kitten.
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, the other 15% tend to vote for
the other guy.
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EIV Consulting | over the choice between peace and war, but there is
UNIX and Linux | only one guaranteed way you can have peace - and you
http://www.eiv.com | can have
and larger number of people decide not to work.
Your strategy works for a generation or two, at most, then it collapses.
There's usually rather a lot of bloodshed at that point, and
historically it's generally followed by some kind of autocracy.
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people could really use their ingenuity and
determination turned toward building a society.
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Shawn McMahon | Let's set the record straight. There is no argument
EIV Consulting | over the choice between peace and war, but there is
UNIX and Linux | only one guaranteed way you can have
, read Resolution 1441, and then build a bridge and get
over it.
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EIV Consulting | over the choice between peace and war, but there is
UNIX and Linux | only one guaranteed way you can have peace - and you
http
have used those troops to invade Pakistan
instead? Because that's what it would have taken to have Usama by now.
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EIV Consulting | over the choice between peace and war, but there is
UNIX and Linux | only one
.
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EIV Consulting | over the choice between peace and war, but there is
UNIX and Linux | only one guaranteed way you can have peace - and you
http://www.eiv.com | can have it in the next second - surrender. - Reagan
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 01:33:46PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst said:
http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux/doom/
Does that mean their translation is crap?
No, it means all your BFG are belong to us.
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On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 07:36:08AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
i could not get on to your web site so could you send me some pics of cum
hungry babes?
Try this url instead. I'm sure it's got lots of hard-core porn:
http://127.0.0.1
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off by two
years? Perish the thought.
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On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 09:12:19PM +0200, Alexander Duscheleit said:
Well, there is at least one *really* hard question:
Please choose a network name for your host.
A friend of mine wrote an entire RFC about this difficulty.
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2100.html
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installing it can read simple English directions, and if he
can't, proceed without his input. That way lies madness.
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UNIX and Linux | happened
the crowd Debian is aiming for?
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UNIX and Linux | happened here will never happen there. - A female
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Rough translation:
I am an idiot who doesn't white-list my mailing lists when I install a
new anti-spam system I don't fully understand. You are invited to
please remove me from the list.
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, or
else nobody would have dreamed it.
The effort to explain this in the man page would be better spent
patching the code to make it not so.
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UNIX
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 03:21:53AM -0500, Joe Wreschnig said:
I wonder if anyone's studied this kind of automatic misinformation
propogation.
Don Marti has written about it, and harnessed it for Good, but I don't
know that anybody has studied it per se.
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some poor guy, try a list that's
got a lower percentage of technical folks on it. Usenet porn groups or
something.
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EIV Consulting| that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any
UNIX and Linux
users choose to still get the mail, just flag the
subject line or even the headers. Spamassassin doesn't reject mail.
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UNIX and Linux
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 03:05:53PM +0100, Pigeon said:
is the reason why he took over mmmship of a penguin in a British
^^^
Sorry, totally baffled here. Could you elucidate please?
It's probably Welsh. No, wait, there's a vowel.
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the temptation of a good
egg hunt.
Mines are passe'. All the really cool countries have sufficient aerial
surveillance that we can see enemies coming, instead of needing to
narrow their approach choices with mines. Get into the 21rst Century,
man!
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Well that's a twist.
Can't even really make fun of the guy, because he's not subscribed to
see it.
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UNIX and Linux| hardship, support
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 01:19:48PM -, Sequeira, Tony said:
on a more serious note M$ word sucks, OOo sucks lyx sucks any more
suggestions for what to use to produce coursework?
Try Open Office.
OOo sucks kind of implies he's tried it...
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On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 11:13:45AM -0500, Hubert Chan said:
You'll probably have to set it up to authenticate via a passwordless
RSA or DSA key too, because I don't think it is able to prompt you for a
password.
Don't do that, use the agent. Passwordless keys are bad juju.
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On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 10:34:36PM -0500, Hubert Chan said:
Strange. I didn't know spammers were so sophisticated. Even if those
headers are being faked, I wonder why they would have chosen gnus.
Maybe because they figure people won't procmail out all Gnus headers.
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-Microsoft
MUA whose headers I see in enough spam to remember it. :-)
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On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 11:10:43AM -0800, Alexander Hvostov said:
Stripping out HTML markup would be a good idea for doing this.
That's what we've been telling you all along.
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it or not, HTML is already widely implemented.
Like it or not, text is already standard. Like it or not, HTML is
widely ignored.
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the
trolls they've gotten into other media. This one isn't bad, but it
would have been so much better if they'd gotten into one of the trade
rags.
Or the old standby, Australian newspapers.
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strip out
undesired markup from HTML, and not create the burden of having _yet_
_another_ format to render?
Why not use text, and not create the burden of having _yet_ _another_
format to render?
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On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 12:23:23AM -0600, Paul Baker said:
Possibly a script that checks the 'cc' line and auto-unsubscribes you
if it matches the author of the Followup-to message or somesuch.
Isn't that censorship?
No.
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not.
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On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 07:05:29PM -0800, Alexander Hvostov said:
And what if you want the private replies to go somewhere other
than your From address?
Then, in addition to sending the mail to the list, it sends the mail to
the address specified in your Reply-To.
I'm sorry, you appear
are background noise, ignored by
many and probably most readers. In any event, I see no reason to
use my sig to exhort people to follow the list's rules. I don't
expect anyone who deliberately disobeys those rules would be
swayed by a request in the sig, anyway.
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On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 02:16:23AM -0800, Alexander Hvostov said:
But there are people who like to receive private /and/ public responses
to list mailings
Fine. Then use your mailer's 'reply to all' command.
And what if you want the private replies to go somewhere other
than your From
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 02:00:03AM -0800, Alexander Hvostov said:
utterly useless to everything else. If you want to 'indicate exactly'
what you 'want to be done with followups' to your message, use Reply-To.
That's exactly what it's for, it's defined in an RFC, _and_ you can
expect every
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 01:33:08AM -0800, Alexander Hvostov said:
RFC 1855 says not to let text run off the end of the line in _talk_, not
mail.
And it also specifies to wrap text at 65 characters in mail.
Read it again. Section 2.1, User Guidelines. Subsection 2.1.1,
For mail:. Paragraph
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 01:30:28AM -0800, Alexander Hvostov said:
I don't see Mail-Followup-To in RFC 2822. Where is it specified?
Doesn't need to be. It's text in my message explicitly asking
you NOT to carbon-copy me. Policy for this list requires you to
not carbon me unless I specifically
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 01:55:55AM -0800, Alexander Hvostov said:
Actually, I've done the best research possible on some of the issues
I've discussed, such as the aforementioned 'highschool philosophy' -- by
experiencing the subject matter firsthand.
Wow, you were there when Yeshua
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:03:36AM -0800, Alexander Hvostov said:
If your mail reader can't word wrap, you need one that can. If it can,
then I don't see what the problem is.
Primarily, difficulty of quoting. Not to mention RFC 1855.
But, agreed on the premise mail reader can't wrap =
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:51:31PM +0100, Johan Zaxmy said:
So why doesn't debian-curiosa set the Reply-To header then ? It would make
life a lot easier =) (politics I assume...)
It would break useful functionality in mailers that are written
correctly, and increase the likelihood of private
And while I'm complaining, I have the goddamn Mail-Followup-To: header
set, please stop sending me carbon-copies of list posts!
If your mailer is too broken to do list-replies or observe headers, get
a real mailer or please put me in your procmail filter so you don't see
me at all and get tempted
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:05:11PM -0800, John Shepherd said:
Unfortunately, this pledge is very old and it
seems a losing battle...
So is and does thou shalt not kill, but I still follow it wherever
practical.
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the
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 09:18:28PM +0100, Miernik said:
I'am Jan Macek, Miernik is my nick, I come from Poland. I currently am
Fortunately for you, the don't respond to violence with more violence
crowd isn't in the majority, or there wouldn't be a Poland for you to
come from.
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ROI if I don't have a Serial-ATA to IPv6 adapter?
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On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 08:40:57AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt said:
So it serial-ATA backwards compatible?
Yes, I think.
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AIM home: smcmahoneiv| editor
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:10:36AM +, jeremy c-h said:
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, which strongly
implied that we should expect the software to suck on four-year-old
hardware. That is likely to be taken to further imply that we should
therefore not worry about optimizing it to not suck on such hardware.
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AIM
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 08:47:14AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt said:
Well in all fairness it would be at least four years old.
We use works better on old hardware as a selling point for Linux.
We can't have it both ways.
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happen every time, or has been fixed. This one came through
fine.
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AIM work: spmcmahonfedex | Linux or Windows it needs a better text
AIM home: smcmahoneiv| editor. - Alexander Duscheleit
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On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 06:39:45AM +0100, Alexander Duscheleit said:
it's a nice OS, but to compete with Linux or Windows it needs a better
text editor ;-)
Stolen. :-)
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AIM work: spmcmahonfedex | Linux or Windows
, audience member: not so much), only to be informed that he was
arguing with David Korn...
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AIM work: spmcmahonfedex | Linux or Windows it needs a better text
AIM home: smcmahoneiv| editor. - Alexander Duscheleit
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 06:52:12AM -0500, Robert L. Harris said:
I thought part of the cleaning would be to remove some of the bloat.
So much for emacs.
Removing the bloat is easy:
apt-get --purge remove emacs
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AIM work: spmcmahonfedex | If you outlaw ebola
you should be passing it through Bogofilter first, and
then through SpamAssassin. 63% of your spam would then no longer be
going through the slower process.
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AIM work: spmcmahonfedex | the Constitution and the rule of law
, therefore if laws with attention
do not trust you the instructions in order to estimate it, and when you
comprise them I assure you that sar. for you IRRESISTIBILE it wants to
participate.
I love Babelfish. :-)
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AIM work
Thomas Nolte said:
unsubscribe
No thank you, I'd like to remain subscribed.
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a href=http://xenu.net/;Scientology
-volume day like today, it'll get maybe six messages.
I don't believe lists.debian.org digests every list.
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a href=http
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Content-Type: application/octet-stream;
name=password.txt
Content-ID: W8dqwq8q918213
Your password is W8dqwq8q918213
Damnit! Now I'll have to change!
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