There are 10 messages totalling 411 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. Unsubscribe messages
2. FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics
3. Does ftpmail understand odd characters
4. Unsubscribing from list was <No subject given>
5. UUdecoding of binary file AGORA.BIN
6. ftpmail mystery (2)
7. forwarding services
8. Unsubscribe from any list (was: Re: Unsubscribing from list...)
9. Combining ZIP files
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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 00:49:02 EDT
From: Matt Bahls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Unsubscribe messages
It looks like you are on a onelist.com list called asialist and these are
posts to the list or somebody is asking you to unsubscribe them. Tell
them to send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and then
reply to the responding message.
Matt
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999 21:12:48 +0700 Yew Kong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
>Hello can somebody help me I got lots of mail
>asking me to removed them.I don't know them at all??
>I think it from
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>Subject: Re: [asialist] UNSUBSCRIBE
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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 06:01:56 +0100
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Subject: FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics
FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics for Thu 10 Jun 1999, posted Fri, 11 Jun 1999 05:00:49
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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 20:43:06 -0700
From: BRUCE DAVIS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Does ftpmail understand odd characters
If I cut and paste a directory name would ftpmail understand or does it
need to be translated to something it knows ? What I do is copy the site
and directory then paste it in the request using the characters like %20
and such or do these need to be translated to plain english, example:
CD /d%3a/mp3/Unsorted/g/
GET Real%20Long%20File%20Name.mp3
Also does ftpmail or any of the other servers try a busy FTP site more
than once ?
Thanks
Bruce
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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 06:51:45 -0500
From: Lloyd Colston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Unsubscribing from list was <No subject given>
> Hello can somebody help me I got lots of mail
> asking me to removed them.I don't know them at all??
> I think it from
> : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [asialist] UNSUBSCRIBE
>
In this case, I would first try sending email to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe
and see what happens.
If that fails, go to
http://www.onelist.com/viewarchive.cgi?listname=asialist and
unsubscribe from the web.
As for Spam, Yahoo has one of the better descriptions of what not
to do at http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/spam/spam-03.html
and what to do at
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/spam/spam-04.html
Please place meaningful subjects in your subject line. I have
changed the subject to more accurately reflect the topic.
Let me know how more I can help.
Lloyd Colston Excellence is not an accident
Pryor, OK USA social worker, writer, editor
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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 23:33:45 PDT
From: "Jerel D. Arbaugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: UUdecoding of binary file AGORA.BIN
}Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 10:19:03 +0300
}From: Alauddin Tariq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
}
}[Alauddin Tariq]
}Ref my earlier message
}I just changed the extension on Agora.Bin to Agora.PDF and the file
opened
}in Acrobat reader. Apparently the file was not UUencoded by Agora
}Regards
}Tariq alauddin
More likely it was, but your reader decoded it. If it looked like a file
attached to the message, with no "begin ### filename" header followed by
lots of lines looking like gibberish, then your reader decoded it for
you. That indicates that you can get files from FTP-mail servers too.
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| [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jerel.
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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 23:52:24 PDT
From: "Jerel D. Arbaugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ftpmail mystery
}Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 18:23:53 +0530
}From: "Sriram N. A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
}
}I'm foxed by the results of a ftpmail retrieval using
}[EMAIL PROTECTED]; details as follows:
}
}<FTP EMAIL> response
}
}Your job was (lines beginning DONE show completed transfers):
} reply-to <email@ddress>
} open
} MIME
} mode BINARY
} size 102400
} cd /pub/marketing/ipe/
}DONE get IPESetup95.exe
}DONE dir
}
}The ftp log contains:
...
}---> CWD /pub/marketing/ipe/
}250 "/pub/marketing/ipe" is new cwd.
}---> PWD
}257 "/pub/marketing/ipe" is cwd.
}---> PORT 129,69,1,17,10,89
}200 PORT command successful.
}---> RETR IPESetup95.exe
}150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for IPESetup95.exe (2289912
bytes).
Note the correct size at the end of the above line.
Try moving the "mode binary" to just before the get command.
}Got 2298514 bytes (991 bytes/sec)
}226 Transfer completed.
...
}
}The dir listing:
}-rwxr-xr-x 1 ftpuser ftpusers 2289912 May 6 21:28 IPESetup95.exe
}-rwxr-xr-x 1 ftpuser ftpusers 2456352 May 6 21:28 IPESetupNT.exe
}
}My questions:
}
}- Why was ASCII mode used when I had specified binary mode?
}
The "mode binary" was ignored. It should not have been.
}- The file size as per dir listing is 2289912 bytes, but 2298514 bytes
were
} retrieved! Why the discrepancy?
}
Likely curruption.
}- I received the file uuencoded in 32 parts. After combining and
decoding
And you told it to use MIME!
} using uudeview, I get an executable (IPESETUP EXE 2,298,514 bytes),
which
} when run, terminates with:
} "This program cannot be run in DOS mode." (after launching a DOS box).
}
}What gives? I guess I could try other means/servers for retrieving the
}file, but I'd like to know if there's a bug in the ftpmail server.
}
The message says that it is not a DOS program, so it will not run in a
DOS-BOX. For some reason, windows thought it was a DOS program.
I thought all of these servers used JUST the word "binary" as the command
for binary mode, not "mode binary". A clue is that it did not use binary
mode.
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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 06:21:10 -0700
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ftpmail mystery
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999 18:23:53 +0530 Sriram N. A wrote:
}I'm foxed by the results of a ftpmail retrieval using
}[EMAIL PROTECTED]; details as follows:
You didn't appear to like my previous answer so I did a test.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OPEN ftp.cai.com
SIZE 102400
CD /pub/marketing/ipe/
GET IPESetup95.exe
QUIT
I received 32 uuencoded parts just nicely. The first of which is
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 02:31:51 +0200
From: ftpmail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ftpmail job completed
X-Sorted: Default
<FTP EMAIL> response
Your job was (lines beginning DONE show completed transfers):
reply-to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
open ftp.cai.com anonymous [EMAIL PROTECTED]
size 102400
cd /pub/marketing/ipe/
DONE get IPESetup95.exe
The ftp log contains:
Connecting to ftp.cai.com
220 ftp.cheyenne.com FTP server (NcFTPd 2.1.1, registered copy) ready.
---> USER anonymous
331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
---> PASS <somestring>
230-You are user #201 of 750 simultaneous users allowed.
230-
230-********************************************************************
*******B
230- Welcome to the CA FTP server
230-********************************************************************
********
[snip]
230 Logged in anonymously.
---> PWD
257 "/" is cwd.
---> TYPE I
200 Type okay.
---> CWD /pub/marketing/ipe/
250 "/pub/marketing/ipe" is new cwd.
---> PWD
257 "/pub/marketing/ipe" is cwd.
---> PORT 129,69,1,17,6,117
200 PORT command successful.
---> RETR IPESetup95.exe
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for IPESetup95.exe (2289912
bytes).
Got 2289912 bytes (5544 bytes/sec)
[snip]
226 Transfer completed.
---> QUIT
221 C-ya!
Notice, without the word MIME I get a binary transfer. Now, do you
believe me?
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Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:46:11 -0400
From: Roberto Safora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: forwarding services
Since December 1998 I had a forwarding account at wireworm.com
Now a tried to change my address and the answer was this:
Dear user,
thanks for your interest in our forwarding service.
Due to a spam attack we encountered and a move
to a new server, we are currently not able to accept new
users. If we will accept new users will be decided later on, let's hope that
the spam attacks stop and it works all well out.
Sorry for the inconvenience caused.
Kind regards,
Wireworm Internet Solutions
------------------------
I am not a new user.
Any other reliable and easy-to use forwarding services?
TIA
Roberto Safora
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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 21:01:40 +0300
From: Uzi Paz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Unsubscribe from any list (was: Re: Unsubscribing from list...)
Followup to the discussion about removal from Asialist, I have recently
prepared a document: "How to Signoff from Any List", which can be
retreived by sending a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following
line as the BODY of your message:
GET SIGNOFF ANYLIST
Uzi
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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 22:51:12 +0530
From: G K GOPAL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Combining ZIP files
Hi! accmailers,
i am new to u'r list. i tried to get bubble.zip from
oak.oakland.edu .i got the file in 2 parts. would u please help me to
combine them. can i unzip the zip file in UNIX environment.
Thank u.
email address:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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