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Topics of the day:
1. Problems with servers (2)
2. Not received postings for several days now
3. FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics
4. <No subject given>
5. How to uncompress .TGZ files?
6. multiple selection
7. Decoding Help Needed
8. Source Codes (2)
9. How to subscribe (2)
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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 22:45:55 -0300
From: GB&A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems with servers
Hi, Gerald E. Boyd, and Accmailers,
Gerry wrote:
>... If all of you would like to make your voice heard about liszter,
>then email you comments to .....
>Maybe if they get 2500 pieces of mail they will re-institute the service (:>)
Very Good Idea.
We should do it with all the servers that would shutt down.
Gerry, could you ever (like in this case) make public (on the list) the addresses of
the owners of any server
that will shutt down from now ?
I think that if only 50% or 30% of the accmailers send a mail to the owners they will
revert if they can.
And better yet for any lasi accmailer, if you just put two or three lines with the
request for the server's owner, so
the lassi accmailer only will need to forward the mail to the server's owners address.
For example, I proposse the following:
=========================================
To: owner one
cc: owner two, owner three
Subject: XXX mail server
Body:
Dear XXX server's owners
Please could you reinstitute the XXX mail server because
me and a lot of people who hast not direct on line access
to Internet need very much of it.... (....)
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I am sure that it would better if the mail of each accmailer would be diferent , but
in any case, the quantity of
mails will be the most important parameter.
If we, the accmaillers, do not take an active position about the problem of the
servers that shutt down, and all
of we wait that any other make the requests and solve the problems, one of these days
the Net Services
Statistics'message will be empty. And this black day is coming !!
If we could save only one mail server we must do it.
Anybody that, in any time, had only email access must do it.
Accmailers, Please SEND A MESSAGE to the server owners !
And again, Good Idea, Gerry.
garcibal
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Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 07:53:28 +0530
From: Ashok Bhiman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Not received postings for several days now
Hi,
What's up? I have not received ACCMail postings for several days now.
Ashok Bhiman
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Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 06:01:04 +0100
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics
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Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 15:28:58 +0200
From: "Lena [Kiev.Ukraine]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: <No subject given>
> From: Thuan Hua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> First, I sent a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the content in the
> body:
> send news:comp.unix.questions
>
> I then received a list of questions and answers of members in that
> group.
>
> This is the content of the mail:
> NEWSGROUP: COMP.UNIX.QUESTIONS
>
> how can i check i-nodes[1] by "John"
>
> Re: how can i check i-nodes[2] by Sudsy
>
> Re: what is "ping" for?[3] by Sudsy
>
> .............................
> But when I reply the mail by putting the number 3 to read the
> answer "Re: what is "ping" for?[3] by Sudsy"
Numbers in reply are suitable only if you are sure that the page
didn't change between requests. Newsserver continually gets
new postings and deletes oldest ones in order to free disk space.
So you should request postings by the "SEND <Message-Id>" commands.
Take Message-Ids (strings with "@" inside) from list of links at
bottom of Agora's reply. I never did it, so don't know must you enclose
each Message-Id into angle brackets or not (help-file is not clear).
Well, try both with and without angle brackets.
If it doesn't work then next time cite list of links and your
SEND commands.
Be ready that some postings disappear before you request them,
you'll get (possibly unclear) error messages.
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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 18:09:16 PDT
From: J�rel DD Arbaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to uncompress .TGZ files?
}Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 19:22:59 +0700
}From: Thuan Hua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
}Subject: How to uncompress .TGZ files?
}
} I have some .TGZ files but don't know how to uncompress
}them. I have tried to unzip them by gzip program in UNIX but can't
} I am grateful to who guide me. Thank!!!
}
Perhaps there is some thing wrong with them?
GZIP should have gotten you from .TGZ to .TAR, than you should have been
able to UNTAR that to the individual files. SOME versions of gzip will
also untar, but this is not standard.
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| [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jerel.
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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 17:40:01 PDT
From: J�rel DD Arbaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: multiple selection
}Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 14:01:07 -0400
}From: Roberto Safora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
}Subject: multiple selection
}
...
}UUdeview to get the whole file. Is there any way to save all the parts
with
}a few steps?
}I use W98 and outlook express.
Will OE allow you to select multiple messages (try both shift+click and
ctrl+click, they work slightly different) then select save? UUDEVIEW (or
UUDEWIN?) should be able to decode that file.
If you know the name of the file that OE uses to store mail in your
inbox, you may be able to directly run UUDEVIEW on that. Worth a try.
I like uudeview's flexibility, but it is S-L-O-W.
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| [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jerel.
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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 17:22:57 PDT
From: J�rel DD Arbaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Decoding Help Needed
}Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 18:19:31 -0400
}From: Mark F McClaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
}Subject: Decoding Help Needed
}
}I need the instructions for the uudecode.exe program which
}I have installed, for decoding files received through email
}Lost the separate help file for this program. What is needed
}to know; can this be used to decode other files, such as:
}bitmaps, doc. gif, jpeg etc. besides creating exe. programs
}
}Mark
The top of the uuencoded file contains the name of the encoded file. The
decoder creates the original file, with the same name. No mater what was
in the file.
There are many uudecode.exe programs around. They are not all the same.
The better ones can decode a multi-part file that may be in one, or
split in many input files. Some can recognize and decode XX as well as
UU encodings. The instructions for use will be different for different
versions.
TRY: running the program with -? or /? as the only parameter, or with no
parameters. (If it appears to lock up with no parameters, then try
typing a [ctrl+z] character and enter (return) key.) If there is any
built in help, that should activate it.
I hope this helps some.
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| [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jerel.
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Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 23:36:56 +0530
From: YOUR LOVER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Source Codes
Hi Gerald,
where can i find the source codes of the following unix
commands.
1.login
2.su
Thanks.
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Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 23:38:37 +0530
From: YOUR LOVER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to subscribe
Hi Gerald,
could you please tell me how can i subscribe to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s a word a day server.
Thanks.
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Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:06:51 -0700
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to subscribe
At 11:38 PM 9/11/99 +0530, YOUR LOVER wrote the following:
> could you please tell me how can i subscribe to
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s a word a day server.
>From the Accmail FAQ (you did read it didn't you?)
* MORE WORD FUN!
The wordserver at [EMAIL PROTECTED] will serve up A.Word.A.Day,
Dictionary by Mail, Thesaurus by Mail, Acronym by Mail and Anagram by
Mail. Send blank email for the help file.
To subscribe to A.Word.A.Day using email, please send a message
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: subscribe [YourFirstName LastName]
Leave the body of the message blank-it is ignored.
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Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 14:22:21 -0700
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems with servers
At 10:45 PM 9/10/99 -0300, GB&A wrote the following:
>Gerry, could you ever (like in this case) make public (on the list)
the addresses of the owners of any server
>that will shutt down from now ?
I'll try to do this from now on...
I would change your proposed form to something more like this:
=========================================
To: owner one
cc: owner two, owner three
Subject: XXX (agora, webmail, ftpmail, archie, etc.) server
Body:
Dear XXX (server's) owners
I'm a member of the Accmail (Accessing the Internet via Email) mailing
list. Most members of this list like myself only have access to the
Internet via email methods. Your server provides a valuable service
to me as well as others and is really needed. Please try to
(from here on say what you would like done. For instance,
make it accessible by email or fix or repair it or start the service
again or something along similar lines).
=============================================
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Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 14:33:11 -0700
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Source Codes
At 11:36 PM 9/11/99 +0530, YOUR LOVER wrote the following:
> where can i find the source codes of the following unix
>commands.
> 1.login
> 2.su
Good question. I don't think I've ever seen source code for these. They
usually are part of the kernel so I would guss you would have to get the
kernel code to see how they where implemented. Linux and FreeBSD would
be good bets to try.
A good place to start is the Linux Cross-Reference Project (LXR)
http://lxr.linux.no/
Hypertext links to Linux and FreeBSD source code. Don't really know what
to tell you email only users but the on-line web pages are truly
astounding.
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