There are 17 messages totalling 649 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. Free E-mail using Internet Explorer? X-no-archive:yes
2. How can someone find out by email if a i-net connected computer is a Wind.
or Unix machine ?
3. FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics
4. How to get IP address ?
5. Non-meaningful subjects
6. Weather by email?
7. sending mail to the list
8. what's wrong? (2)
9. New virus??? (2)
10. ELR maillist (2)
11. amd update (2)
12. Server Down
13. Free E-mail using Internet Explorer?
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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 15:15:29 PST
From: Lucian Skyeclathde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Free E-mail using Internet Explorer? X-no-archive:yes
>From: David Ames <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>An E-mail friend of my wife's is looking for a free E-mail account that
>can be accessed through Internet Explorer. I
assume it should be
>US-based.
>
>Her list has already told her yahoo.com and hotmail.com -- are these
>correct, and are there others?
>
>
Dear David:
The free services that you have mentioned fall into that class of e-mail
providers that provide *Web-based* service; Some offer POP3 access and
others do not.
To obtain a rather lengthy list of such providers, go to the site:
http://www.yahoo.com/
Use the keywords: "free e-mail".
The great majority of such services are US-based.
Good luck to your wife's friend.
Sincerely,
Lucian Skyeclathde
Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 11:32:56 -0500
From: "M.T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How can someone find out by email if a i-net connected computer is a
Wind. or Unix machine ?
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- How can someone find out by email about an internet connected
computer in which operating system it works? ( if it's a Windows
or an Unix machine ) ?
- Suppose we now that computer DNS = 193.230.189.1 ?
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- Is it possibile to do boolean searches using Iliad ?
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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 06:02:22 GMT
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Subject: FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics
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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 21:19:37 PST
From: "Jerel D. Arbaugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to get IP address ?
}Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 18:17:59 +0700
}From: Khoa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
}
}Could anybody tell me how to get the IP address of a specified URL
address ?
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}Thanks in advance.
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Use a getweb, or get some one to break the form:
<URL:http://volcano.icyb.kiev.ua/px/eng/nettools.html> Unix network
utilities
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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 21:46:07 PST
From: "Jerel D. Arbaugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Non-meaningful subjects
}Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 00:36:32 +0600
}From: K Sethu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
}
}In *ADMIN: Monthly Reminder* (last posting was on 1st March 1999)
}Moderator say :
}
}>Non-meaningful subjects are:
}>4. Subject: Re: ACCMAIL Digest ....
}>
}
}I wonder why the bronze medalist (item 4 above) merits a place.
}Are the *space,dot,dot,dot,dot* after *Re: ACCMAIL Digest* meant to
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}"any subject line starting with Re: ACCMAIL Digest" or
}are they just plain 4 meaningless suffixed dots ?
}
The reason is that the heading from the digest that the question was in,
or the heading from a digest when a new question is being asked, is
useless. On RARE occasions, it may be a valid subject, but only if the
digest itself is the subject, not a question in the digest.
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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 21:20:03 PST
From: "Jerel D. Arbaugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Weather by email?
}Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 22:54:48 -0800
}From: Mark Panitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
}Subject: Weather by email?
}
}is there a way to get the weather by email?
}thanks
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Yes, There are two methods that I know of:
There are some services around that will send you text versions of the
current &/or forecast information for some areas via mail on a daily
basis.
There are the various services available from www.noaa.gov web pages.
I find the "zone forecasts" from the NOAA web pages to be the most
concise and useful to me:
http://www.noaa.gov/
For a sample of the zone data, see:
http://www.nwsla.noaa.gov/zones/LAXZFPLOX
YOU can access these from your juno account via
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: send help
and:
Subject: url http://www.noaa.gov/
Some place I have the index by state, can't find it right now.
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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 16:29:08 +0300
From: "Alexei N. Petrov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sending mail to the list
Hi, ACCMAILERS
I have a problem with FTP:
The ftp log contains:
Connecting to ftp.handsup.ru
220 Vpk-NAP-Tsr.Gamma.RU FTP server (Version 6.00) ready.
---> USER anonymous
530 User anonymous unknown.
Failed to login
---> QUIT
221 Goodbye.
It must be anonymos site because on the www.handsup.ru there no info about login and
password.
Can I get login and password by another way.
If yes. Can you tell me about it.
Thanks.
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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 13:58:07 +0800
From: Lee Gang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: what's wrong?
I use gophermail to get a big zipped file,it returns several files
(a zip file and several uue file) after I combined these files to a
XXX.zip (uuencode the first zip file...like G.E.Boyd's howto.html says)
and want to unzip it,winzip told me that it is a bad file.and I open
the last file gopher returned. it seemed strange,the last lines are:
M=I#<7E?2HXEB1UGH)4&4*.*>M+$]9/*ZENUFD2WXXRGH6Y)(]CA3O22I['N)
M%OKTLA^H,OX'4$L! A0 % " @ =H'H)-IAJ>"@ !\ ,J51 L
M ! "2! '=G5&5I;#,N8WAT4$L! A0 % " @ F%OX)&W/-6!)"1(
M'E Q @ ! "2!R0 ? &UA:6XN9'AR4$L! A0 % " @ <H'H
M)&N8'.KP[!< %&0\ L ! "2!. HQ '=G5&5I;#(N8WAT4$L!
M A0 % " @ YX3N)#RD/AF^?1< , H P ! &V!4?=( $U!
M,3!!7SDU+F5X95!+ 0(4 !0 @ ( 'F!Z"078FNCRK4@ $;<50 +
M 0 D@3EU8 !W9U1E:6PT+F-X=%!+ 0(4 !0 @ ( 'R!Z"1/P;/W@H8-
M 4G'@ + 0 D@2PK@0!W9U1E:6PU+F-X=%!+!08 !@ &
+ %0! #7L8X
end
could it be normal? I request twice with different chunk size and the
result
zip files are exactly same,could you tell me why and how? thanks!
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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 18:44:35 +0500
From: Rajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: New virus???
Hi!
I received this bit of info recently from a friend:
>If you get an email titled "It takes guts to say Jesus", don't open it.
>AOL has said that the virus cannot be located, and is deadly.
>Thanx
I don't know how correct this info is. Just thought I'd warn my friends -
never harms to be extra careful in these matters!
If anybody has any more information on this (including evidence that this
is a hoax) please feel free to let me know as I could then communicate it
to the friend from whom I'd received the initial information.
Thank you.
Rajan
22-3-99
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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 14:14:25 +0800
From: xiong3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ELR maillist
I havenot found any.Why?
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
----- Transcript of session follows -----
550 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Host unknown (Name server: bluemarble.net:
host not found)
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
----- Transcript of session follows -----
550 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Host unknown (Name server: iname.com:
host not found)
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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 10:13:47 -0500
From: Roberto Safora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: amd update
Any way tha I can be permanently e-mail updated of the AMD CPUs ?
As we are using them I want to be informed of any change, bug, etc.
Roberto Safora
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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 09:07:13 -0800
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Server Down
Accmailers,
Emailfetch.com is down due to some lamers using it for unscrupulous
means. I received this message from the owner.
>I have some bad news. My server has been "hacked" into. It appears that
>it was being used to scan other locations and used in general to cause
>mayhem. I will be rebuilding the system from the ground up with a
>completely new operating system. This will take some time! Please
forward
>this information to everyone.
Probably the same "bozos" that have been attacking my autoresponder.
I'm still ahead but I don't know for how long...
Currently, I'm receiving about 300 good requests a week for files at my
autoresponder.
This is last week totals:
81744 285 (cat; cat $FILE) | $SENDMAIL -oi -t
4405 16 (cat; cat help ) | $SENDMAIL -oi -t
9667 26 (cat; cat help) | $SENDMAIL -oi -t
Previous week
100398 350 (cat; cat $FILE) | $SENDMAIL -oi -t
7059 26 (cat; cat help ) | $SENDMAIL -oi -t
22595 52 (cat; cat help) | $SENDMAIL -oi -t
Previous 2 weeks
152615 533 (cat; cat $FILE) | $SENDMAIL -oi -t
8213 31 (cat; cat help ) | $SENDMAIL -oi -t
21701 57 (cat; cat help) | $SENDMAIL -oi -t
The number to the left is the size in bytes of sendmail requests. The
next is the number of messages that were answered. The two different
help files were answered by bad requests.
I keep "barebones" statistics for my autoresponder using procmail and
mailstat.
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Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 09:14:25 -0800
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: what's wrong?
At 01:58 PM 3/23/1999 +0800, Lee Gang wrote the following:
>I use gophermail to get a big zipped file,it returns several files
>(a zip file and several uue file) after I combined these files to a
>XXX.zip (uuencode the first zip file...like G.E.Boyd's howto.html says)
>and want to unzip it,winzip told me that it is a bad file.and I open
>the last file gopher returned. it seemed strange,the last lines are:
>
>M=I#<7E?2HXEB1UGH)4&4*.*>M+$]9/*ZENUFD2WXXRGH6Y)(]CA3O22I['N)
>M%OKTLA^H,OX'4$L! A0 % " @ =H'H)-IAJ>"@ !\ ,J51 L
>M ! "2! '=G5&5I;#,N8WAT4$L! A0 % " @ F%OX)&W/-6!)"1(
>M'E Q @ ! "2!R0 ? &UA:6XN9'AR4$L! A0 % " @ <H'H
>M)&N8'.KP[!< %&0\ L ! "2!. HQ '=G5&5I;#(N8WAT4$L!
>M A0 % " @ YX3N)#RD/AF^?1< , H P ! &V!4?=( $U!
>M,3!!7SDU+F5X95!+ 0(4 !0 @ ( 'F!Z"078FNCRK4@ $;<50 +
>M 0 D@3EU8 !W9U1E:6PT+F-X=%!+ 0(4 !0 @ ( 'R!Z"1/P;/W@H8-
>M 4G'@ + 0 D@2PK@0!W9U1E:6PU+F-X=%!+!08 !@ &
>+ %0! #7L8X
>
>end
Some of the uudecoders won't handle uuencoded files containing a blank
(ASCII 32). I have had good luck by changing all the blanks to a
backquote "`" (ASCII 96) then uudecoding.
You might also try another uudecoder. Sometimes nothing seems to work
except another uudecoder. I currenly have about 5 of them and one or
the other always will eventually uudecode the file.
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Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 09:20:16 -0800
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New virus???
At 06:44 PM 3/22/1999 +0500, Rajan wrote the following:
>I received this bit of info recently from a friend:
>
>>If you get an email titled "It takes guts to say Jesus", don't open it.
>>AOL has said that the virus cannot be located, and is deadly.
>>Thanx
Another virus hoax or myth. This one is a variant on the old "good
times" virus hoax.
Excerpt from http://www.stiller.com/guts.htm
The "Guts to say 'Jesus'" hoax first appeared late in 1998. It died out
for a while and has
now made a huge resurgence. It is currently one of our most common
virus hoaxes.
There is very new in this hoax; it is mostly rehash of prior hoaxes
(see Old Hoaxes
Combined.) and this one falls into that category. I initially hesitated
to post a specific
warning about this hoax because I believed that readers of our hoax
page would
immediately recognize this is a hoax because it contains so much text
stolen from prior
hoaxes but sadly this isn't the case.
Note that only the beginning of this hoax contains some new text. But
even this "new text"
fits into the old hoax pattern started by The "Good Times" Email virus
hoax. Where you
are warned to avoid a virus by shunning email with some particular
title. It also
contains the sure-fire hoax indicator of asking you to forward this
message to
others. (If you see a virus warning like this, you should disregard it.)
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Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 10:05:34 -0800
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: amd update
At 10:13 AM 3/23/1999 -0500, Roberto Safora wrote the following:
>Any way tha I can be permanently e-mail updated of the AMD CPUs ?
>As we are using them I want to be informed of any change, bug, etc.
AMD E-news and custom channel specific subscription service.
Form at: http://amd.c-3.com/cpg/cpgsubscribe.cfm
You should use a Getweb type of command because of the form...
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Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 10:01:17 -0800
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ELR maillist
At 02:14 PM 3/23/1999 +0800, xiong3 wrote the following:
>I havenot found any.Why?
>
>
> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>550 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Host unknown (Name server:
bluemarble.net:
>host not found)
[snip]
Probably a temporary error. I just sent and received an "esl" search
almost instantly.
I sent this:
>Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 09:55:44 -0800
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>search esl
and received this:
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 12:59:44 -0500 (EST)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Liszt-by-Mail)
Subject: Results of Your Liszt-by-Mail Query
Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
X-Sorted: Default
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Liszt-by-mail search on: esl
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Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 23:20:07 +0100
From: Bruno Bougie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Free E-mail using Internet Explorer?
>Date sent: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 20:03:06 EST
>From: David Ames <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Free E-mail using Internet Explorer?
> An E-mail friend of my wife's is looking for a free E-mail account that
> can be accessed through Internet Explorer. She believes this means it
> must be downloadable through a POP3 server. I assume it should be
> US-based.
Hi david and other accmailers
I don't know what you mean by US-based, anyway, Gerry already gave an
addy.
I would like to add the following:
Some web-based free email accounts are also accesable using POP3. This
has at least two advantages:
1) no endless waiting till the web-page is downloaded
2) no advertisments.
Especially number one is a big advantage!
You could try www.amexmail.com when your wife's friend wants to POP.
regards,
Bruno
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+31(0)345-641691 or +31(0)6-21256290, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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