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Topics of the day:
1. FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics
2. Get file BY MAsk ... (2)
3. Decoding problem and pictures on the net. (2)
4. is there a way an ISP could lose just SOME mail?
5. is [EMAIL PROTECTED] down? (2)
6. Looking for 29 supporters of the Web-pages-by-email-tutorial project
7. newsgroups and membership decline
8. No accmail digest in the past days
9. Browsable dictionaries (was: <No subject given>)
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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 06:01:01 +0100
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Subject: FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics
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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 10:35:26 +0400
From: coffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Get file BY MAsk ...
HI ACCMAILers !
At some site here a pictures that are different every day.
I know what it is a *.GIF file but *(filename ) every day is
different.
Can i get this GIFs by getting file from www by mask.
Like
GET http://..../*.GIF ?????
Bye, bye. Mail to me !!!
fax to me: 530-240-4385 at California
(with signature "for [EMAIL PROTECTED]")
12.07.1999
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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 13:07:53 +0200
From: "Lena [Kiev.Ukraine]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Decoding problem and pictures on the net.
> From: William C Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Ron Burnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >uudeview does process these files, but my graphics
> >programs don't recognize them as .jpg format.
> there is a variant of .jpg that browsers IE3+/NN3+
> have no problem with, but many old graphics programs
> like QPV v1.7 and PSP 3.1 won't read.
A free program jpegtran.exe for conversion of such ("progressive") .jpg
into regular .jpg with loss of neither image quality nor disk space
unlike all other methods: simtelnet/msdos/graphics/jpeg6b.zip 196506 bytes.
Accmail retrieval:
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
open
size 100K
cd pub/simtelnet/msdos/graphics
get jpeg6b.zip
It's not so off-topic as it seemed for me at first: only accmailers
have this problem, people who have online access use browsers which
handle progressive JPEGs.
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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 09:10:05 -0700
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Decoding problem and pictures on the net.
At 01:07 PM 7/12/99 +0200, Lena [Kiev.Ukraine] wrote the following:
>It's not so off-topic as it seemed for me at first: only accmailers
>have this problem, people who have online access use browsers which
>handle progressive JPEGs.
Lena, thanks for pointing this out to the list.
This is my biggest problem in off-topic postings. Some questions are
just obviously off-topic others involve a gray area for me because I
can and do access the web via a browser.
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Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 09:12:02 -0700
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Get file BY MAsk ...
At 10:35 AM 7/12/99 +0400, coffin wrote the following:
> At some site here a pictures that are different every day.
> I know what it is a *.GIF file but *(filename ) every day is
> different.
>
> Can i get this GIFs by getting file from www by mask.
> Like
>
> GET http://..../*.GIF ?????
Nope, URLs have to be explicitly stated... This is not the same as
wildcards on your PC or Linux (Unix) machine.
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Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 09:24:58 -0700
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: is there a way an ISP could lose just SOME mail?
At 11:58 AM 7/11/99 +0200, Massimo Mezzini wrote the following:
>sorry if this is (partially) off-topic, but I've been banging my head
for a
>few days already, trying to understand this problem.
[...]
>Some mail is coming through - and this means that there is nothing wrong
>with my address
[...]
>The following recipients did not receive your message:
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>if you feel this message to be in error.
[...]
>Now, since I've checked with some lists and they are working as usual,
can
>GEB and the other mail-gurus help me to understand how this thing could
>happen? I've tried reporting it to my ISP's support, but they deny any
>malfunctioning. I need some stronger ground to fight them, please.
Many others are having the same or similar problems. Either their ISP
is installing a proxy server and banning mail to certain addresses or
they install a firewall to do the same them. Notice that many of the
Cuban, Saudi, and Iranian domains have been doing this to the accmail
members. It's bad enough that you have email only access but when the
ISP bans using www4mail, agora, or getweb or the other email only
servers the results are disastrous.
After the latest results at infomed.sld.cu I'd bet it was your ISP. The
dead giveaway is the message from bellanet. Sure looks like your ISP
didn't send mail.
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Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 09:46:22 -0700
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: is [EMAIL PROTECTED] down?
At 07:28 AM 7/5/99 -0400, azuaje wrote the following:
>I sent myself a test message through [EMAIL PROTECTED] but I got nothing.
>I could retrieved the help file but the server seems to not remail any
>message. I sent myself the same message with [EMAIL PROTECTED], so the
>message was quite right. Has any body had the same problems with
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]?
Looks like it. I tried 3 separate days and no results...
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Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 01:20:14 -0400
From: azuaje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Looking for 29 supporters of the Web-pages-by-email-tutorial project
Hello Sun Zoom Spark,
You wrote:
>I am still getting regular requests for an updated
>version of my guide to setting up a web site by email at
>Angelfire. The Angelfire tutorial is now out of date and...
>Last year, I investigated InternetTrash.com -- a free
>web site provider with an idiotic name that provides and
>encourages an email gateway for registration, page
>uploading and maintenance. It really is easy to use, but
>InternetTrash has one huge disadvantage -- their own
>self-portrait ...
>So -- Sun Zoom Spark make the following proposal: I will
>replace the Angelfire tutorial with an InternetTrash
>tutorial IF there is a demand. If there are enough...
>I suggest a collaboration between people of different
>backgrounds and requirements would result in a far
>more valuable and enduring resource than any that a
>single person could produce.
>Interested? Send a one-line email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>If I get at least thirty, it will happen ...
Well, you can count on me.
Bye.
Azuaje.
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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 10:35:13 -0700
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newsgroups and membership decline
At 12:28 AM 7/12/99 +0300, Dan Platon wrote the following:
>The statistics it's tricky, fouls you.
>Not the actual number is important, but the magnitude of the flux,
>new-comers and leavers.
I counted this for the month of Jan and Feb of this year. It was
amazing how many come and go per day. Rough estimate was an average of
7 per day. I deleted the file but I keep a list of who joined and who
left.
>Why are the limited quota?
>How many WWW-pages per day could manage a WWWmail so the owner is
>forced to quota?
>How those heavy users have learned to retrive WWW-pages by e-mail?
The services all cost money to the person that sets them up. If a heath
organization sets up a server for "free" use by health professionals
any all kinds of other people start using it, then they must limit the
number of messages or users or both.
Others setup a service and just try to pay for it. Hence, nothing much
for free. This is the case of the emailfetch site, The person retired
from their main job and was trying to pay for the servers and fees by
charging a modest $5 per month for unlimited service. Unfortunately, I
don;t think the service was paying for itself. In addition, some
"crackers" attacked the site and uterrly destoyed it. Because the
person was not a Unix guru they depended upon others to set up the
server. Hence the very long delay before it was up again. It still is
not fully functional.
Using myself for example. I do all this work for "free". I'm lucky in
that I'm retired and get a great montly retirement income. Also
fortunate to have some good investments so I can pay for all my
computing. I have 6 PCs but rely on 3 main ones. These are networked
together and run Win 98/NT and Linux. OS/2 is now history <sigh> My
Netcom account is $21 per month. Earthlink is $15 per month for my DSL
-- after one year it will be $40 per month. Phone is $12 per month for
the data line plus $6 for DSL plus taxes. All my calls are local so no
additional fees for telephone. If a get my own domain name, this will
be $70 to register and $35 a year thereafter. Traffic allowance is 500
Mb per month. After that it is $0.10 per Mb. So the more traffic the
more the cost. Who pays? Me. So I will have to monitor everything. If
the traffic increases too much then I'm paying it all with no
renumeration. It could get quite expensive.
>Every month in Net-Happenings is a message What news in Russophilia,
>why not What is new in how to access WWW by mail.
Hmmm, not a bad idea. I'll have to look into it.
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Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 15:18:21 +0200
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: No accmail digest in the past days
Since the 7th of July I'm not receiving the accmail digest anymore.
Is there a problem?
Thanks a lot
Elek
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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 20:38:37 +0200
From: Frits Westra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Browsable dictionaries (was: <No subject given>)
You may also try one of the browsable dictionaries and glossaries
listed at:
http://www.onelook.com/browse.shtml
No need to enter a search string.
Regards,
Frits Westra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 13:21:42 +0300
> From: Ibrahim E Abdul-Hafiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: <No subject given>
>
[...]
>
> Kindly is any other site which can be interrogated to get such definitions ?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Ibrahim E. Abdul-Hafiz
Net-Tamer V 1.11.2 - Registered
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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 13:46:00 +1200
From: Craig Rodgers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: is [EMAIL PROTECTED] down?
In a message dated 7/13/99, Gerald E. Boyd wrote
>At 07:28 AM 7/5/99 -0400, azuaje wrote the following:
>
>>I sent myself a test message through [EMAIL PROTECTED] but I got nothing.
>>I could retrieved the help file but the server seems to not remail any
>>message. I sent myself the same message with [EMAIL PROTECTED], so the
>>message was quite right. Has any body had the same problems with
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]?
>
>Looks like it. I tried 3 separate days and no results...
It's up according to the latest mixmaster stats from EFGA, I beleive it may
have gone mixmaster only, that could be the problem?
Craig
Last update: Mon 12 Jul 99 21:54:16 EDT
mixmaster history latency uptime
--------------------------------------------
lcs ----------+ 1:40:19 99.98%
privacy ----------- 7:32:59 99.97%
cracker - -+----+- + 1:11:40 99.77%
cripto +++++ +++++* 21:36 99.74%
bpm - --++--+--+ 1:50:04 99.57%
replay ********+ ** 14:30 99.32%
squirrel --- ------ 1:56:56 99.22%
passthru . -+------ 2:33:36 98.81%
nowhere -+++---++-+* 1:59:40 97.64%
hr13 - ------- 4:57:01 96.76%
mccain -.------.- 11:29:33 95.61%
teatwo - -.----- 10:51:53 94.48%
reject ___..##### 10:25:48 94.27%
mix -*..-.+-+ 9:33:53 94.05%
widow .-------- 5:14:47 90.19%
doom + -- * 2:39:56 83.59%
swiss +++++++++ 31:08 72.64%
nitemare -- 2:05:26 72.43%
mid 5:38:50 18.75%
athena 3:59:55 0.00%
olymp 1:06:08 0.00%
fitugmix 2:32:45 0.00%
jam 18:39 0.00%
tristar 1:03:16 0.00%
mrhyde 34:23 0.00%
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