Re: Fwd: Please confirm your message

2002-12-04 Thread Andreas Fuchs
MAX_AUTORESPONSES_PER_DAY, which only seems to consider messages per sender. I'm not quite convinced that such a setup can not be abused as a spam reflector, useless as it may be (it bounces the full headers), other than annoying a lot of people. (-: -- Andreas Fuchs, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], antifuchs

Re: Fwd: Please confirm your message

2002-12-03 Thread Andreas Fuchs
, it actually acts as a pseudo-anonymysing relay. Thus, my conclusion: These things are evil. Don't use them or somebody might use them against you, eventually. -- Andreas Fuchs, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], antifuchs Hail RMS! Hail Cthulhu! Hail Eris! All hail Discordia

Re: Fwd: Please confirm your message

2002-12-03 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, Adam McKenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 11:49:09PM +0100, Andreas Fuchs wrote: Right. I just thought up a scheme to exploit this, based on the fake source-IP address approach you find in descriptions of ping-floods. Wow, you're pretty smart. Nobody has thought

Re: gpg-agent?

2002-11-28 Thread Andreas Fuchs
descriptor from this open(2) calland not the path name. Root, of course, could still replace the /usr/bin/gpg program and get away with it, but this seems to me to guarantee that the binary can not be stolen away under the unsuspecting user's noses. Have fun, -- Andreas Fuchs, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: rfc1149

2001-05-07 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, Hilko Bengen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, no. Pigeons are ugly horrid things that infest cities and leave droppings on my car. You mean packet loss? ITYM log entries as defined in RFC2549. -- Andreas Fuchs, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], antifuchs Hail RMS! Hail Cthulhu! Hail

Re: Developer Behavior

2001-01-09 Thread Andreas Fuchs
unstable on a production server (or a calculatron of similar designation), and You Shouldn't Do That, remember? (-; Next post is on topic. I promise. -- Andreas Fuchs, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], antifuchs Hail RMS! Hail Cthulhu! Hail Eris! All hail Discordia!

Re: jabber field on db.debian.org?

2001-01-08 Thread Andreas Fuchs
... (-: -- Andreas Fuchs, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], antifuchs Hail RMS! Hail Cthulhu! Hail Eris! All hail Discordia!

Re: Linux Gazette [Was: Re: big Packages.gz file]

2001-01-08 Thread Andreas Fuchs
readers happy. Or am I missing something? -- Andreas Fuchs, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], antifuchs Hail RMS! Hail Cthulhu! Hail Eris! All hail Discordia!

Re: big Packages.gz file

2001-01-06 Thread Andreas Fuchs
On 2001-01-05, Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do large packages have to do with the size of the index file, Packages? They waste one byte per multiple of 10 bytes of package size. (-; Bad joke? So sue me. -- Andreas Fuchs, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], antifuchs Hail RMS

Re: looking for replacement for run (because of critical bug in

2000-12-26 Thread Andreas Fuchs
-- Andreas Fuchs, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], antifuchs Hail RMS! Hail Cthulhu! Hail Eris! All hail Discordia!

Re: Grub question/problem

2000-12-26 Thread Andreas Fuchs
--recheck and then reinstalling grub? Alternatively, you could just edit /boot/grub/device.map. I don't know if this helps, but it has worked for me. Any help sppreciated. HTH. -- Andreas Fuchs, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], antifuchs Hail RMS! Hail Cthulhu! Hail Eris! All hail

wit goes here (was: Re: dueling banjos)

2000-12-26 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, Kim Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: could you please mail me sheet music for dueling banjos And before you post a witty comment, please search through the list archives to make sure you don't duplicate effort. Let the jokes begin! -- Andreas Fuchs, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: looking for replacement for run (because of critical bug in

2000-12-24 Thread Andreas Fuchs
a better solution than run. Trying this now. -- Andreas Fuchs, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], antifuchs Hail RMS! Hail Cthulhu! Hail Eris! All hail Discordia!

Re: What do you wish for in an package manager?

2000-12-24 Thread Andreas Fuchs
transactions on every fs then (and rollback each of them afterwards) or have a trans-filesystem transaction monitor, AFAIK. I'm afraid some serious non-trivial magicks are at work here. Wichert. -- Andreas Fuchs, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], antifuchs Hail RMS! Hail Cthulhu! Hail Eris

Re: looking for replacement for run (because of critical bug in

2000-12-23 Thread Andreas Fuchs
-stop-daemon won't work, because console-log (contrary to Marc's explanation needs a (nay, two) less process in the foreground to allow the user to watch log messages. I wonder if a sh script could do what Marc described... erik -- Andreas Fuchs, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: finishing up the /usr/share/doc transition

2000-12-23 Thread Andreas Fuchs
On 2000-12-22, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: web/weblint net/zenirc Fixes for these two are in the BTS, in bug numbers #79747 and #79750, respectively. HTH, -- Andreas Fuchs, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], antifuchs Hail RMS! Hail Cthulhu! Hail Eris! All hail Discordia!

Re: dualing banjos

2000-09-13 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, Miros/law `Jubal' Baran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 13.09.2000 pisze Rick Younie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Probably doesn't make any sense to many non-native English speakers or those from different cultures but it really is hilarious. It did make sense. ;- Yea, but only if you spell kernel

Re: new experimental ISDNUTILS packages available

2000-09-07 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, Paul Slootman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been promising this for a while, but now it's happened: The latest version of isdn4k-utils has been packaged. Yippie! [...] deb http://www.murphy.nl/~paul/debian isdnutils/ After this, apt-get update; apt-get install ipppd isdnlog-data

Re: new experimental ISDNUTILS packages available

2000-09-07 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, Paul Slootman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu 07 Sep 2000, Andreas Fuchs wrote: Today, Paul Slootman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: deb http://www.murphy.nl/~paul/debian isdnutils/ After this, apt-get update; apt-get install ipppd isdnlog-data should install isdnutils, ipppd, isdnlog

Re: new experimental ISDNUTILS packages available

2000-09-07 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, I [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Calling isdnrep is not working well: it's looking for the zone files in /usr/lib/isdn/zone, but they are in /usr/lib/isdn/: Oh, silly me. I had configured isdnrep to look specifically there, in /etc/isdn/isdn.conf. Fixed this now, let's see if it works...

Re: new experimental ISDNUTILS packages available

2000-09-07 Thread Andreas Fuchs
(I already replied to this, but I figured that would be better style than replying to my own mails three times in a row.) Today, Paul Slootman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please let me know if you use this version, and keep me informed of ANYTHING, good or bad. I *do* mean anything, like spelling

Re: new experimental ISDNUTILS packages available

2000-09-07 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, Paul Slootman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu 07 Sep 2000, Andreas Fuchs wrote: Today, I [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Calling isdnrep is not working well: it's looking for the zone files in /usr/lib/isdn/zone, but they are in /usr/lib/isdn/: In /usr/share/isdn/ actually. Jep. Local

Re: alternatives for MUA and NUA?

2000-09-05 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do most mail readers have the same command line interface? Perhaps, but I really doubt that news readers do. Not even mail readers do, AFAIK. Console readers have the mail(1) interface to stick to, but if it comes to an x MUA... It would really

Re: Help on Debian Project - Need Me?

2000-09-04 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, Marcelo E Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andreas Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: None of them look DFSG-Free to me. Nonetheless, SMIL _is_ a nice tool to produce something multimedia-ish. Hopefully, somebody writes a DFSG-Free player in the near future -- but it won't be me, I don't

Re: Help on Debian Project - Need Me?

2000-09-03 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, Jacob Kuntz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does mozilla support SMILE? that's syncronized multimedia event language, a W3 consortium stanard that tries to do much of what flash is capable of. IIRC, only these programs officially support SMIL at the moment (http://www.w3c.org/AudioVideo/):

Re: Project Gutenberg

2000-09-02 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, Ralf Treinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote I was wondering that the work done by Project Gutenberg (http://sailor.gutenberg.org) should be made available through debian. This came already to discussion some months ago when someone proposed to package the

Re: Potato now stable

2000-08-15 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The user should see a list of groups (I will call them this because I think groupings can be more general than just tasks). The UI tool will allow sorting and searching of the groups and when browsing individual packages it will be possible to