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Topics of the day:
1. what�s is the better format : UUE or Mime Base64
2. How can I receive a large file through Juno?
3. Looking for a computer fax program
4. Infested ACCMAIL Digest
5. malicious person -- now what ?????
6. Did I miss happy99.exe in my digest?
7. FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics
8. ACCMAIL Digest Posting time (was : ACCMAIL Digest - 12 Mar 1999 to 13 Mar
1999 (#1999-73))
9. ACCMAIL Digest - 12 Mar 1999 to 13 Mar 1999 (#1999-73)
10. chinese programmer
11. Usenet Hosts
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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 07:17:03 +0200
From: Uzi Paz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: what�s is the better format : UUE or Mime Base64
> Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 16:13:59 -0400
> From: chiriko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Sometimes I use any of the www4mail servers . This kind of servers have
> the property of retrieving binary , text and html files . The server
> converts any file larger than 300k into a Mime Base 64 atachment . But
> the user can get any web document uuencoded with the command XUUENCODE
> . As far as I know any uuencoded file is 33% larger the original . I
> suppose that any Mime Base 64 file is larger than the source , but how
> large is it really ? The answer to this question would let me decide
> which format is more efficient and , therefore , more economic in terms
> of memory size . If any could give a clue about this question ( a url
> could be useful too ) I would appreciate it .
The principle of encoding is the same on both methods, talking each 6 bits
of original data and making a byte (=8 bits) out of them, and here you
have the 33% increase which both of the methods share.
You may find that base64 (MIME) encodings are a bit smaller, but the
difference is rather negligible (has to do with the extra "M" that
uuencode adds to each 61 characters (I include here <CR>, there is no
need to include <EOL>), and due to some other negligible. If your e-mail
program gives support for MIME then I guess, it would be easier to use
Base64. If not, then there is no practical difference.
Uzi
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Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 22:27:22 -0500
From: "S. F." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How can I receive a large file through Juno?
Hello,
Recently I've been trying to get a digest
from one of the email lists I'm on.
I have Juno, and each time I try to get
this particular file, Juno says it's too big.
How do I split the file into parts so I can
receive it??
Thanks,
Susan
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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 10:25:44 PST
From: "Jerel D. Arbaugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Looking for a computer fax program
}Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 13:35:43 -0500
}From: Bruce W Bing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
}
}I am looking for a Fax program that will allow my computer to receive
and
}send Fax's.
}I cannot find a low cost Fax program in the Computer stores for my
}Windows 98. I do not want to pay $100 for the " Win Fax" program. Does
}anyone know of a Fax program I can buy in Florida ?
} Bruce in Florida USA
}
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Have you browsed what is on the simtelnet/win95/ site? There may be some
thing of use there.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Body:
open
cd /pub/simtelnet
dir
cd win95
dir
cd fax
dir
get 00_index.txt
quit
I am not sure of the directory structure in the win95 section, but the
above may work, and contains enough DIR commands to help fix errors. In
the win95 there should be a file name ending in -l.zip. Get it, as it
has a combination of all of the 00_index.txt files. If there is a fax
directory, then the above should get you the index of that.
Good Luck!
--
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jerel.
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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 08:45:18 -0000
From: Gerald England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Infested ACCMAIL Digest
>From the discussions of one of the mailling lists
that support listserv list-owners
it would appear that the mail containing the happy99 virus
which was sent to the list will now be in the archives.
Although it will be in all encoded
if someone accesses the archives
some mailers will reconstruct the happy99.exe file.
So long as they don't execute it they will be fine,
but the consensus among listowners
is that would be prudent for one of the listowners
of the infected lists
to edit the archives and remove the code.
I get the mime version of the digest and the happy99.exe
showed up.
I just deleted it
and I would hope most people would do the same.
In the nomime digest it would just have shown up
as incomprehensible code and be harmless unless de-coded.
Hope this helps
Gerald England (not Boyd)
Gerald, Christine and Craig England,
New Hope International Publications, Haiku Talk,
NHI Review, Aabye's Baby, Zimmerzine, Netmiser.
http://www.nhi.clara.net/index.htm
-----Original Message-----
From: Gerald E. Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 14 March 1999 20:24
Subject: Re: ACCMAIL Digest - 12 Mar 1999 to 13 Mar 1999 (#1999-73)
>At 07:14 PM 3/13/1999 +0200, Avi Ben Zev wrote the following:
>
>>You have also just sent to the ENTIRE list the happy99.exe virus.
>>I checked and erased it just now.
>
>Gads, did I do this stupid moronic thing?
>
>Please accept my humble apologies as I never saw it...
>--
>Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 15:38:00 +0000
From: Steve Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: malicious person -- now what ?????
> I don't think it was done on purpose
A computer infected with Happy99 sends a copy of itself out attached to
mail and usenet posts!
That is why it has spread so much.
Steve Harris - Net Services
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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 05:49:18 EST
From: David Ames <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Did I miss happy99.exe in my digest?
I don't see it in my root directory, nor in my juno\user0003 directory
where I receive my digest. Juno does not support attachments, so was it
likely stripped?
David Ames
--
"Train an eagle in the way he should go and he will never amount to
anything."
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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 11:13:27 GMT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics
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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 00:23:33 +0600
From: K Sethu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ACCMAIL Digest Posting time (was : ACCMAIL Digest - 12 Mar 1999 to 13
Mar 1999 (#1999-73))
In ACCMAIL Digest #1999-74, a message posted by Avi Ben Zev was :
>Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 19:14:23 +0200
>From: Avi Ben Zev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: ACCMAIL Digest - 12 Mar 1999 to 13 Mar 1999 (#1999-73)
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
>You have also just sent to the ENTIRE list the happy99.exe virus.
>I checked and erased it just now.
>Avi
>
>>Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 12:21:09 -0500
>>From: Patricia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Subject: malicious person -- now what ?????
>
...SnipxSnip.....
The digest referred to in above correspondence , (ie, #1999-73) , posted to
me,
was with a date-stamp : Sun, 14 Mar 1999 00:04:47 -0500 which was nearly 12
hours AFTER the date stamp on the above message of Avi Ben Zev - In terms
of EST, his posting was at 12:14 PM on 13 Mar 1999 even some 7 minutes earlier
than the message of Patricia which started the above correspondences in the
first place.
So, very likely is that the date stamping on Avi Ben Zev's posting was based on
a clock running late by more than 12 hours;
But another reason is not ruled out :
If it is only that the clock for date stamp on Patricia's mesage was
running faster,
then the above scenario could have happened also if Avi Ben Zev was responding
to the same day's digest but released to him at least 12 hours earlier.
Is it so that the same day's digest gets posted to different groups of
subscribers at different times, that I didn't know of ?
I did not get happy99.exe attachment with my #1999-73 digest. I also did not
find in my HD, the ska.exe and ska.dll files which are supposedly caused by the
happy99 virus as informed in the ACCMAIL Digest - 28 Feb 1999 to 1 Mar 1999
(#1999-61) . Is it really true that this virus came out to all of us with the
#1999-73 digest?
K. Sethu
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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 08:51:10 +0100
From: Dietmar Schindler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ACCMAIL Digest - 12 Mar 1999 to 13 Mar 1999 (#1999-73)
>Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 12:24:57 -0800
>From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <gboyd>
>
>At 07:14 PM 3/13/1999 +0200, Avi Ben Zev wrote the following:
>
>>You have also just sent to the ENTIRE list the happy99.exe virus.
>>I checked and erased it just now.
>
>Gads, did I do this stupid moronic thing?
No, Gerald, you didn't. There are just some dumb mail readers which take
the line "begin 644 Happy99.exe" from the middle of an e-mail, disregard
that no code at all is following, and pretend there were a program file.
Saluton! [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 16:02:14 +0800
From: Eric Ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: chinese programmer
hi guys
is there any Chinese vc or delphi programmer here ?
if you are please kindly give me a reply.
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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 12:55:19 +0100
From: Nicolas LE THUAUT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Usenet Hosts
Nicolas LE THUAUT@CANALPLUS
15/03/99 12:55
Hi!,
From the "accessing the internet by e-mail" document:
...
[Reading Usenet Newsgroups
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Once you've handled the preliminaries, you'll need to know how to read
and contribute to Usenet newsgroups by e-mail. To read a newsgroup, you
can use the gophermail service discussed earlier in this guide.
To obtain a list of recent postings to a particular newsgroup, send the
following lines to one of the gophermail servers mentioned previously.
Specify "Subject: get all" and include only these lines in the message
body.
(You must replace "<newsgroup>" below with the name of the Usenet
newsgroup you wish to access. eg: alt.answers, biz.comp.services,
news.newusers.questions, etc.)
Type=1
Port=4320
Path=nntp ls <newsgroup>
Host=services.canberra.edu.au
If this doesn't work, you can try another Host by substituting one of
the lines below.
Host=gopher.ic.ac.uk
Host=risc.upol.cz
Host=gopher.tc.umn.edu (maybe, very busy)]...
Does anyone know of other hosts? Is there a list available somewhere?
Many thanks for your help!
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