There are 16 messages totalling 617 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. Accmail: Connect Two PCs with Two Modems?
2. site for y2k (3)
3. Where is the sound file in a web page?
4. no answer from www4 (2)
5. FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics
6. Does anyone know how to lock a folder in Win 98?
7. HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLP !!! (2)
8. Anonymous mail without encrypting tool.
9. NEWS: ftpmail servers (2)
10. Functional getweb-interface servers.
11. Computer Experts to Disclose Discovery of Potentially Serious Web-Security
Gap (Wall Street Journal) (fwd)
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Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 18:13:28 PST
From: "Jerel D. Arbaugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Accmail: Connect Two PCs with Two Modems?
>Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 15:49:10 +0800
>From: yoyoacc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Connect Two PCs with Two Modems?
>
>hi,
>
>I want to connect my two PCs with two modem.
>One runs Win98, the other runs Win3.1. How
>can i do that?
>
>thx.
>
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A bit off topic on list, so I will summarize and point to more
information:
If the computers are close enough together, then I recommend using the
interlink cable (connections found in the MS-DOS 6 online help) and
software (likely the version on the W9x machine).
If they are too far for that, then the modems can be used without a
active phone line by connecting them together. There are some settings
that make this easier, but with one person at each machine, one types to
the modem ATA and the other types ATD. Most GOOD comm programs have a
"host mode" that may help here.
If a true phone connection is needed, then the answering modem is told
ATS1=1 or ATS1=2 and the calling computer uses the standard dialing
routine. Again, host mode in a good comm program running on the
answering machine will simplify this procedure.
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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 08:14:00 -0500
From: Roberto Safora Romay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: site for y2k
Any document in any site where philosophically and/or historically explained
when the 21th century begins?
Roberto Safora Romay
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Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 15:29:41 -0500
From: Angel Delis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Where is the sound file in a web page?
Hi all:
I've seen some web pages with nice music .mid files in them.
That's good. But when I try to extract a sound file to save it and
play it whenever I want, I don't know where it is.
Can anybody tell me where is the sound file? I've looked for it in my
whole HD and I don't find it. I first look at the source code and there
is a <BGSOUND SRC="anyname.mid"> tag inserted in the code,
but I don't find this anyname.mid file in the hard disk !!!
Where is it suppose to be and how could I save it?
Thanks in advance.
Happy New Year
Angel Delis
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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 08:19:45 -0500
From: Roberto Safora Romay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: no answer from www4
In the past days I have no answer from WWW by MAIL Gateway.
I became so dependent on it that I am almost getting crazzy.
What happens?
Roberto Safora Romay
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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 03:51:09 GMT
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Subject: FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics
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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 14:00:59 +0500
From: Rajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Does anyone know how to lock a folder in Win 98?
Hi!
While I can zip directories/folders with WinZip etc and even hide them does
anyone know how to password-protect a whole folder in Win 98 ? The files
inside it need not be encrypted. Only the folder should be visible and
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Thanks! And a happy new year to all readers!
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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 18:28:40 EDT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLP !!!
Dear Accmailers, Dear Gerry
First of all Happy New Year to everybody.
I've tried to download my favorite websites and files from them, but
unfortunatelly there is no way to have a hole website or some pages
for me. I've got a lot of webmail addresses but none of them could
make me satisfied up to now. If it is possible I want a powerfull
webmail server for the first and the last time to trust. Is it possible
to show me the best one which you're using everytime?
Your kind attention will be appreciated and sorry if you've heard this
question more than 100 times.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 21:07:10 -0500
From: Stephen Benjamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Anonymous mail without encrypting tool.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello AccMailers
>
>I have some simple questions that I hope you can answer:
>
>1 Is it possible to send an anonymous mail to a common
> mail address (e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED]) without using
> any kind of encrypting tool?
Yes...it is typically done without encryption, however,
that option is available. PGP is available at http://www.pgpi.com/, its
not required though.
>2 Is it possible through email-only methods?
It is mostly done through e-mail, not the web. However, there
are a couple of remailer gateways on the web.
>3 Did anybody do it recently?
Yes, and it works just fine.
Get the latest remailer list and stats from:
http://anon.efga.org/~rlist/rlist.html
Stephen Benjamin
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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 10:51:01 -0800
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: site for y2k
At 08:14 AM 1/5/99 -0500, Roberto Safora Romay wrote the following:
>Any document in any site where philosophically and/or historically
>explained
>>when the 21th century begins?
Cross-posted to HELP-NET and ACCMAIL.
First off, a simple explanation of why the 21st century begins in
the year 2001 not 2000. Humans always begin counting starting at 1
rather than 0 (like computers). Hence, when we want to determine
when a decade has passed (10 years) when do we say the new one
begins? In the 11th year, not the 10th. Why? Because we had to
count from 1 to 10 to get there. So the second decade is 11 through
20, the third is 21 through 30, etc. If we then contemplate
centuries (100 year periods) we would do the same as with decades.
That is the first century is years 1 to 100, the second century is
years 101 to 200. Likewise, we can due the same will millenniums
(1000 year periods). The first millennium was from years 1 to 1000,
the second is from 1001 to 2000, and the 3rd will be from 2001 to
3000.
No matter how you look at it, the 21st century begins in the year
2001 and the 20th century ends in the year 2000.
Excerpt from my Britannica CD-ROM
Time units and calendar divisions.
The familiar subdivision of the day into 24 hours, the hour into 60
minutes, and the minute into 60 seconds is of ancient origins but
has come into general use since about AD 1600. When the increasing
accuracy of clocks led to the adoption of the mean solar day, which
contained 86,400 seconds, this mean solar second became the basic
unit of time. The adoption of the SI second, defined on the basis
of atomic phenomena, as the fundamental time unit has necessitated
some changes in the definitions of other terms.
In this article, unless otherwise indicated, second (symbolized s)
means the SI second; a minute (m or min) is 60 s; an hour (h) is 60
m or 3,600 s. An astronomical day (d) equals 86,400 s. An ordinary
calendar day equals 86,400 s, and a leap-second calendar day equals
86,401 s. A common year contains 365 calendar days and a leap year,
366.
The system of consecutively numbering the years of the Christian
Era was devised by Dionysius Exiguus in about 525; it included the
reckoning of dates as either AD or BC (the year before AD 1 was 1
BC). The Julian calendar, introduced by Julius Caesar in the 1st
century BC, was then in use, and any year whose number was exactly
divisible by four was designated a leap year. In the Gregorian
calendar, introduced in 1582 and now in general use, the centurial
years are common years unless their numbers are exactly divisible
by 400; thus, 1600 was a leap year, but 1700 was not.
Lengths of years and months.
The tropical year, whose period is that of the seasons, is the
interval between successive passages of the Sun through the vernal
equinox. Because the Earth's motion is perturbed by the
gravitational attraction of the other planets and because of an
acceleration in precession, the tropical year decreases slowly, as
shown by comparing its length at the end of the 19th century
(365.242196 d) with that at the end of the 20th (365.242190 d). The
accuracy of the Gregorian calendar results from the close agreement
between the length of its average year, 365.2425 calendar days, and
that of the tropical year.
A calendar month may contain 28 to 31 calendar days; the average is
30.437. The synodic month, the interval from New Moon to New Moon,
averages 29.531 d.
Astronomical years and dates.
In the Julian calendar, a year contains either 365 or 366 days, and
the average is 365.25 calendar days. Astronomers have adopted the
term Julian year to denote an interval of 365.25 d, or 31,557,600
s. The corresponding Julian century equals 36,525 d. For
convenience in specifying events separated by long intervals,
astronomers use Julian dates (JD) in accordance with a system
proposed in 1583 by the French classical scholar Joseph Scaliger
and named in honour of his father, Julius Caesar Scaliger. In this
system days are numbered consecutively from 0.0, which is
identified as Greenwich mean noon of the day assigned the date Jan.
1, 4713 BC, by reckoning back according to the Julian calendar. The
modified Julian date (MJD), defined by the equation MJD = JD -
2,400,000.5, begins at midnight rather than noon and, for the 20th
and 21st centuries, is expressed by a number with fewer digits. For
example, Greenwich mean noon of Nov. 14, 1981 (Gregorian calendar
date), corresponds to JD 2,444,923.0; the preceding midnight
occurred at JD 2,444,922.5 and MJD 44,922.0.
Copyright 1994-1998 Encyclopaedia Britannica
If you notice the statement in the above "the year before AD 1 was
1 BC" you will notice there was no year zero. Hence, the human
method of numbering began with year 1 and my brief introduction
shows why the year 2000 is the end of the 19th century and *NOT*
the beginning of the 21st century.
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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 11:47:59 -0800
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLP !!!
At 06:28 PM 1/5/99 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following:
>I've tried to download my favorite websites and files from them, but
>unfortunatelly there is no way to have a hole website or some pages
>for me. I've got a lot of webmail addresses but none of them could
>make me satisfied up to now. If it is possible I want a powerfull
>webmail server for the first and the last time to trust. Is it
possible
>to show me the best one which you're using everytime?
Well I'm the last one to ask because my interests vary too much. I
use all the servers but for different reasons -- mainly to see how
they work. I have a full 'net connection as well as a Unix account
so have no need to do everything by E-mail except as a learning
exercise.
I don't care for images, sound files, movie files, video clips,
frames, or any of that other nonsense because it gets in my way of
looking for answers to questions.
So, no, I don't use any server all the time and I wouldn't use one
to download images. I only care about the text matter.
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Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 11:41:33 -0800
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NEWS: ftpmail servers
Accmailers,
Good news, [EMAIL PROTECTED] appears to be alive. It finally
answered me today. I have tried every day since the 1st of Jan and
received errors, so I thought it was down. Also thanks to others
who pointed this out.
New ftphelp.html and new servers.html listings are available.
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1236/
Comments are welcome.
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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 11:02:10 -0800
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: no answer from www4
At 08:19 AM 1/5/99 -0500, Roberto Safora Romay wrote the following:
>In the past days I have no answer from WWW by MAIL Gateway.
>I became so dependent on it that I am almost getting crazzy.
>What happens?
Cross-posted to HELP-NET and ACCMAIL.
It appears as though [EMAIL PROTECTED] took a vacttion
for the holiday season.
This is typical of sites located at Universities. Everybody takes
Christmas and New Year's vacations and if something "breaks" nobody
is there to fix it.
----- Transcript of session follows -----
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Deferred: Name server:
wm.ictp.trieste.it.: host name lookup failure
This message has appeared since Christmas. Maybe some time this
week they will get it up and running again.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] appears to be up again. It was down
during Christmas week.
--
Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 14:46:55 EST
From: Chetan Bakhru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Functional getweb-interface servers.
Hi. The getweb server I use is [EMAIL PROTECTED] It works perfectly for
me.
Chetan Bakhru
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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 11:59:49 -0500
From: Francisco Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Computer Experts to Disclose Discovery of Potentially Serious
Web-Security Gap (Wall Street Journal) (fwd)
From: Gleason Sackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Via: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Issue: Privacy
Dubbed the Russian New Year exploit, a potential security "hole" which
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hole
exploits the CALL function of Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet that divides
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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 15:46:35 -0500
From: Mike Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NEWS: ftpmail servers
> From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Good news, [EMAIL PROTECTED] appears to be alive. It finally
> answered me today. I have tried every day since the 1st of Jan and
> received errors, so I thought it was down. Also thanks to others
> who pointed this out.
FYI: I noticed a post on a newsgroup (I think it was alt.comp.freeware or
comp.archives.msdos.announce) that the garbo FTP server had had a crash (hard
drive died) so possibly it affected the ftpmail service as well.
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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 14:59:52 -0500
From: Stephen Benjamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: site for y2k
Roberto Safora Romay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Any document in any site where philosophically and/or historically
>explained
>when the 21th century begins?
The 21st century has *technically* already begun. The person who created
the B.C (Before Christ)/A.D. (Anno Domini -- "In the Year of Our Lord")
time system, was off by 4-7 years on the birth of Christ. That would
make this year anywhere from A.D. 2003 - 2006. But don't start dating
your papers "January 05, 2003" or anything, people would think that
you're crazy :-)
Anyway, The 21st century officially begins in 2001, not 2000 as most
people think. 2000 is the last year in the 20th century. However, some
people will be in the millenium before others, because of the time
differences.
Stephen Benjamin
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