There are 18 messages totalling 679 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. downloadslave.com (2) 2. How to make [EMAIL PROTECTED] split the files. (2) 3. Off topic Gerald E. Boyd stories (2) 4. freeware that that joins files? 5. FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics 6. Do any web-to-mail servers allow exceptions to banned words? 7. Y2K Re: Off topic Gerald E. Boyd stories 8. Web site http://www.uscourts.gov 9. freeware that joins files? (2) 10. help on [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2) 11. Majordomo Postings in Digest Form? 12. Join files? (2) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ACCMAIL Info (automatically generated) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To UNSUBscribe: Send UNSUBSCRIBE ACCMAIL to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To get the ACCMAIL FAQ: Send e-mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and enter only this line in the BODY of the note: send usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 03:25:00 +0100 From: David Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: downloadslave.com Hi Gerry, > > Well I received this and another posting with an attachment: [..] > Dieses Passwort ist nur fuer folgende Adresse gueltig: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [..] I've so far translated about a third of it into English (it's late and I'm too tired to write any more). Should I send the finished translation to you personally or should I post it to the list? David (who is English, lives in Germany and is a state approved translator) ## CrossPoint v3.11 ## ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 04:17:58 +0000 From: "McDade, Christopher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: How to make [EMAIL PROTECTED] split the files. This was discussed on this list on the 12 feb 99 the following was stated. Before you can order the first file, you have to order a Password. To do this, send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] once you have your password you send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following in the BODY of the message PASS:'yourpassword' where 'yourpassword' is the password you were given, you then place the full address of the file you want on the next line, youy can grab upto 3 files at once, and a max of 10meg as far as i can tell. > -----Original Message----- > From: Aleid [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, April 26, 1999 11:05 AM > Subject: How to make [EMAIL PROTECTED] split the files. > > Hi every body. > > Any one know how to make [EMAIL PROTECTED] > split the requested file into smaller parts (for sure by email > only) > > Thanks for help > > > Aleid ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:53:36 PDT From: "Jerel D. Arbaugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Off topic Gerald E. Boyd stories }Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 13:54:38 -0400 }From: Sorin Calinescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> }Subject: Re: Off topic Gerald E. Boyd stories } } }Almost forgotten those times were not quite so long ago }The most exciting moments one could ever experience } - after dropping a full large box on the floor :) }Please do have patience with the new point&click kids on the block, }it is not entirely their fault, afterall. } That is what I liked about the trick loaders... Unless it was an "overlay" deck, just get the first 4-6 (depending on loader) and the last card of the executable deck in the right place, and it would still load correctly! -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jerel. --- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:47:34 PDT From: "Jerel D. Arbaugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Off topic Gerald E. Boyd stories }Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 10:10:05 EDT }From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> }Subject: Re: Off topic Gerald E. Boyd stories } } }All I can say is from my viewpoint what I saw and participated in. When }I first learned computing (1964) I learned how to write code in 32-bit }strings of 0s and 1s -- machine language. Next I graduated to assembler, }Gotran (forerunner of Fortran), then Fortran, Cobol, CPS, Basic, PL/I, }IMS, CICS, DB/2, OS everything, Focus, C, and now C++. I see today that they often start new programmers in C++ !!! I recall the intro class consisting of some thing similar to the above, up to and including gotran (an interpretive fortran) all on an IBM 1620 (already "obsolete" at the time) } }I swear that it appeared to me that everyone with whom I worked and }corresponded knew just about everything and kept up with changes. One of Most COBOL programmers that I worked with in the past knew nothing but basic COBOL. Ask them to read a hex dump, or decode a packed binary (like the internal date/time as used in DOS file timestamps) and they are lost. They can't even convert between decimal and another base! }the most memorable moments is June 1980 when I punched my last punched }card and got my own 3270 terminal -- heaven. I thought I had punched my last card when I was using paper tape and a CRT on a mini in my first job. Some place between 5 and 10 years later, I was using cards again. That mostly ended when I transferred from hardware to software. } }I know the one thing that still surprises me today is that when PCs }first started to arrive only 7 of us at work bought one. This was from a }staff of 258 system programmers, programmer-analysts, system analysts, }and other information specialists and managers. They all thought the 7 }of US were crazy to be playing around with "toy" computers. I started }with an Altair kit, then an Imsai, then a TRS-80, then an IBM PC. I remember that time! -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jerel. --- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 00:40:35 EDT From: William C Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: freeware that that joins files? Ian Trider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wrote: <<<Snip>>> at the dos prompt: COPY GAME.PA1 + GAME.PA2 + GAME.PA3 + GAME.PA4 GAME.ZIP meaning copy game.pa1 and game.pa2 and game.pa3 and game.pa4 together into GAME.ZIP <<Snip>> Actually you should use the /b switch to force binary mode. And -IF- all the files were created in order, you may issue the command as follows: COPY/B GAME.PA* GAME.ZIP [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 06:01:20 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics for Mon 26 Apr 1999, posted Tue, 27 Apr 1999 05:00:17 GMT Less than 1 hour [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-4 hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4-10 hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] More than 10 hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Response within 4 hours in at least 5 out of 7 recent tests [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: [EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't reply to .net or .com addresses. This data is generated automatically around 0600 GMT/BST most days. The performance reported is dependant on many factors and your experience may vary. You can also access this list: On the Web at http://www.netservs.com/mrcool/stats.htm By FTP at ftp://ftp.cix.co.uk/pub/net-services/stats.txt Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and say "get file stats.txt" (no quotes) Want this list every day? Send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and in the body of your message put "join statistics" (no quotes) No liability is accepted for inaccuracies. Mirroring, links to and copying of this entire file (not extracts) is permitted until further notice. Slow downloads? Try Mr. Cool! See http://www.netservs.com/mrcool/ Copyright Net Services 1999. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 21:49:22 +0200 From: Kai Schindelka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Do any web-to-mail servers allow exceptions to banned words? [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William C Andrews) on 26.04.1999: [Filerequest bounces because of the file being named "Nakedbaby.jpg"] > >Yes; naming a file and especially a JPEG picture that way is not > >extraordinary clever. It would be wise to pick another file name. > > This a case where the name is need for most browsers to > handle the file right, it could be named whatever.ZYX > but the browser might choke. I'm sorry. Only the main part of the name was meant, not including the file extension. I know this cannot be changed without running into more problems sooner or later. But "whatever.jpg" might me a name that shouldn't cause any bounces, or should it? I would name the picture "son.jpg" or "daughter.jpg" or something like that, for instance. Or it could be just given a number... > >>> Hypothetical: If I wanted to access info > >>>about West Essex a server might bounce it because it > >>>contains the word SEX. > > > >This could indeed cause problems. Contact the server admin in this > >case, like Gerry said. > > My original question was regarding whether the admins > would take 'special' requests for sites with 'banned' > words. I was wondering if anyone had experience with > this. If they all said 'NO WAY' that would be enough. Ah, now I see. Pardon me for being somewhat slow in some cases; as you see, English is not my native language, therefore I'm not getting everything at the first approach. I didn't want to sound harsh also. This is kind of a problem that arises when translating German thoughts into English writing (or the thoughts of any other foreign language, I think). <g> > If they do handle 'special' requests by examining the > target document for smut and then sending it on if it > is ok. I haven't tried, so I cannot tell you something about it. But it would be worth a try from case to case, I'd say. [...] > >Simply avoid the most obvious porn related terms, like "naked", > >"sex" etc. In case of your astronomy search looking for "eye" and > >"astronomy" might give you the wanted results. > > File names on astronomy sites do have names like > nakedobs.txt. There is littile a user can do to > change that except to e-mail the admins of those sites. It seems I got you wrong on this one, too. I'm sorry. > Most "professional" astronomy site are working on both > file names and content so that the files will pass > through 'Net-Nanny' and the like. Then again there are > porn sites that will pass through any 'filter', short > of a live censor. I fully agree. > I have no problems with filters and limits. They > protect this valuable resource. Seeing as how most of > the services are run by kind hearted individuals that > do this for no extra money, I am quite willing to live > with-out 1 pic. It is the same with me. What would we do without someone like Gerry? I'm happy to see there are still people out there willing to give without asking what's in it for them first. But I'm not too surprised to learn he's a teacher: It's always the same type doing such things. Well, all of this is rather offtopic, but for this time I could not resist. -- Bye; Kai - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Schindelka) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 09:32:31 +0200 From: "Vacquier, Marco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Y2K Re: Off topic Gerald E. Boyd stories > So, you will be the first hit with the 2038/2039 bug? I don't work for insurance companies, but I hope that the which software I develop keeps on running from 1999 to 2000. >I have never seen them used as dust collectors, except when they have >been replaced with newer, faster, models. We do have some people around Here in The Netherlands an employer may give away or sell a new computer to an employee every three years up to the amount of about $2500,00 with very nice income tax deductions for the employees. So it can cost the employee half or less of the regular retail price. So an awful lot of people buy computers at these low prices, and a lot of these people do not use them because they think it's too hard to use them, so their computers turn into dustcollectors. In my spare free time I try to show these kind of people how to use computers, and for what purposes they can use them in their personal situation. >here that do a lot of work with these older machines. I still work on a Sinclair QL, and still support that computer. My ZX Spectrums, spare QLs, TRS CoCo, and home built Pentium 75 system are collecting dust. Then there is my wive's Cyrix PR233+ system running MS Windows98, and my own Cyrix PR300+ running Linux, BEOS 4.0, and OS/2. A Pentium III 450 from my employer is coming next month. >I find that the biggest problem with the 32 bit systems is the >excessively complex GUI. What should be a simple call becomes a page of I don't develop for GUI environments. Imagine an environment with 200 to 700 Intel 80x86 based processor boards running "sofware in runtime" with lots of assembly code, with variables containing pointer to pointer to variable containing a pointer to element of an array, containing all kind of pointers etc... , and may not be rebooted or break down once in a few years. It's Billy G's nightmare but my daily playground. >code. What ever happened to the KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) method? Where do you think I still use my Sinclair QL for? |> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jerel. --- Marco Vacquier. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 09:02:55 +0300 From: AdiM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Web site http://www.uscourts.gov David Ames wrote: "I have tried at various times, using the Netscape browser in the office, to search for advantageous employment opportunities in the court system. Two successive versions of Netscape gave me three drop-down boxes without captions, and no opportunity to initiate a selection. Can this site be cracked with E-mail methods?" ------ Hi David, the above site might be Microsoft Internet Explorer "enabled", which means that you should use Microsoft Internet Explorer to visit it. Similar things happen when you visit Microsoft's sites with Netscape. The webpages might contain HTML tags which can't be used by Netscape, but they are recognised by MSIE. Good Luck!. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 09:31:27 +0300 From: AdiM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: freeware that joins files? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Does anyone know of a freeware that joins files that come in parts? > My version of dos says "bad command or file name" when I try 'join'. Since you're a DOS user, have you tried the Split command (Ctrl-F10) in Norton Commander? If you use it with more than one file selected, the command will concatenate the selected files, probably in their listed order. If you use it with no selection, the active file will split in parts of custom size. Good luck! AdiM ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 20:28:52 +0400 From: Timenko Eugene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: help on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all accmailers! I didn't find help on [EMAIL PROTECTED] on English. Any ideas? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 08:40:34 +0100 From: Gerald England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Majordomo Postings in Digest Form? -----Original Message----- From: Babak Aghaei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 27 April 1999 02:19 Subject: Majordomo Postings in Digest Form? >Hi Everybody >I have 2 questions: >1. don't know! >2.Is there any way to get the postings from a "Majordomo" >mailing list in digested format? I've requested the "help" >file from some of this type of the lists and found nothing. >Thanks in advance, > Bobby > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > With Majordomo the digest version of a list is a separate list You are usually given the option of subscribing to listname or listname-digest As they are separate lists you could subscribe to both (not possible with lists run via listserv) Not all majordomo lists have a digest version The list-owner should be able to tell you if there is a digest version of their list Sending the message lists to a majordomo host should get you info on all the lists at that particular host. HTH Gerald 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 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 10:31:59 -0700 From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: downloadslave.com At 03:25 AM 4/27/99 +0100, David Kramer wrote: >I've so far translated about a third of it into English (it's late and I'm >too tired to write any more). Should I send the finished translation to >you personally or should I post it to the list? I think it would be a great idea if you posted it to the list. I just hope not everyone uses the same password that was sent in the message to me (:>) I sent for my own password... -- Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 09:56:39 +0200 From: Kai Schindelka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: How to make [EMAIL PROTECTED] split the files. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerald E. Boyd) on 27.04.1999: > >Any one know how to make [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >split the requested file into smaller parts (for sure by email > >only) > > Never used this site because it's all in German. I can't understand the > help file for the same reason. Maybe somebody fluent in German and English > could translate the document and tell this list how it works. I won't make any promises, but I've ordered the help file and will have a look at it. -- Bye; Kai - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Schindelka) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 10:42:42 -0700 From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: help on [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 08:28 PM 4/27/99 +0400, Timenko Eugene wrote: >Hi all accmailers! I didn't find help on [EMAIL PROTECTED] on English. >Any ideas? There is a help file that is sent to you when you send an empty E-mail message. I posted the file I received and also the attached info.txt file. However, it's all in German. I have had several postings to me saying that I should try Babelfish translation. The Babelfish translation service makes a mockery of the the translation to English. That is, it really is not very good and reads as non-understandable English. I guess I should have mentioned that I tried this first and gave up. I was looking for a good translation... -- Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 00:31:14 +0600 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Join files? At 10:22 PM 4/26/99 EDT, you wrote: > >This is off topic: > >>Something went wrong when I upgraded to windowz98, >>now I dont have the dos join when I go to the >>dos prompt. >>Does anyone know a freeware that does this? for >>win98 or dos. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I hope I didn't offend you or anyone else. I thought that, as files by mail2web severs are retrieved in parts that this would be on topic. Sen PS - BTW Ian Trider gave me the answer. I'm sure you guys would have seen it. Thanks Ian. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 02:21:51 +0600 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: freeware that joins files? Thanks. Sen Constantine At 09:31 AM 4/27/99 +0300, you wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> Does anyone know of a freeware that joins files that come in parts? >> My version of dos says "bad command or file name" when I try 'join'. > >Since you're a DOS user, have you tried the Split command (Ctrl-F10) in Norton Commander? > . . . ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:49:38 -0700 From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Join files? At 12:31 AM 4/28/99 +0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I hope I didn't offend you or anyone else. I thought that, >as files by mail2web severs are retrieved in parts that >this would be on topic. It wasn't off topic, that is why I let it through because I understood what you meant. I have been looking for the actual program that was mentioned on this list a couple of years ago, but for the life of me I can't find it. The posting is not in the archives because it was to long ago. I actually thought that I had saved the original message but I guess not. All I remember is that it was a DOS program that allowed files to be split and joined again. I think the original purpose was to split files so that they could be copied across multiple 5-1/4 inch floppy disks, i.e., before the "span" option in PKZIP. -- Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ End of ACCMAIL Digest - 26 Apr 1999 to 27 Apr 1999 (#1999-118) **************************************************************
