arachne-digest Tuesday, June 5 2001 Volume 01 : Number 1544 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 02:00:07 -0700 From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: ..oh to be....!!! Yesterday, Glenn wrote.... >oh to be 14 instead of 41... now: <gregy>..oh to be 41 instead of going on 60 ........<g g g g> .......gregy - -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 10:28:43 +0200 From: "Guenter Bietzig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Hello List On Sun, 03 Jun 2001 11:06:51 +0100, Laurie L Proud wrote: > Hi Gunter, > I checked it out and everything was as gruesome as expected .. > except L.D and your computer that were red boxes. > Regards, Laurie Hi Laurie, may be you have d/l the page same time as I had made some changes on the server yesterday. I've just checked and it looks ok. Regards G�nter Guenter Bietzig, Essen, Germany. Arachne BUG-,CRASH-,WISH-& LOVElist at: ArachneHelpPage http://home.nexgo.de/guebie/arachne.htm ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 04:34:41 -0500 From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: file:c:\arachne\mail\91569361.cnm On Sun, 03 Jun 2001 10:09:37 +0100, Laurie L Proud wrote: > -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ > [Attached file: 91569361.] (File "91569361.cnm" (type message/rfc822, size 2 KB)) References: http://www.etching.com/14_sky_falling.html Sam Heywood ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 10:00:58 -0400 From: Roger Turk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: The idiocy that surpasseth all understan Sam, The idiot that sent that message probably had received a message that was sent to 275 people and had LOOKOUT! set to "Respond to All" and "Show all recipients." The SULFNBK.EXE hoax had some very knowledgable people deleting it. It probably did no harm to the computer as the file is the Start-Up Long File Name BacK-up in the event that LFNs get deleted and only the 8.3 aliases are shown. I would imagine that every time the computer is started, the SULFNBK.EXE file is executed and if it is missing, it is created. Roger Turk Tucson, Arizona Sam Heywood wrote: . > Hello Arachnids: . > Someone I know who runs Arachne 1.70, rev. 3 called me today and . > said that all of the messages in her inbox except for one had . > "disappeared". . > I went to her home and took a look at her inbox while within InSight. . > There were about 25 messages listed having no headers and all having . > zero bytes except for one. The subject line of the only message . > showing headers was "RESTORING THE SULFNBK.EXE FILE". When I clicked . > on this message I got the Arachne Load Error Page. . > Next I shut down Arachne and started examining the files in the inbox . > by using a file viewer. All of the CNM files were there and they seemed . > complete. I found that the idiot who had sent the message about . > restoring the SULFNBLK.EXE file had addressed the message to approx. 275 . > multiple recipients, each having his email address individually listed! . > The mailer used was MicroSoft Outlook Express. Doesn't Microsoft Outlook . > Express have an "@list" type of feature similar to what we find in . > Arachne and Nettamer and other good email clients? Why would this idiot . > want to send out so many private email addresses in her message headers? . > I suppose some idiots just like to chum for trolls. . > The contents of the offending message I will briefly describe as follows: . > There was a text body saying something to the effect that in case you . > deleted the SULFNBK.EXE as a result of responding to a virus hoax, then . > you should restore it because it is a useful Windows file. The message . > also had a dupe HTML attachment, a gif image attachment, and if that . > wasn't bad enough, the idiot even included a MicroSoft Word attachment . > being a document having instructions on how to restore the SULFNBK.EXE . > file. Of course these simple instructions could have been just as well . > presented with ascii text. . > What would you guys think of some idiot who would be so brash as to . > insinuate that about 275 people on her mailing list might be so stupid . > as to have fallen for this virus hoax? What would you think of some idiot . > that would suppose that all these people would have no idea as to how to . > go about restoring a standard Windows file that ships with the . > installation CD-ROM? . > If all of the above were not bad enough, then here is the idiocy which . > passeth all understanding: The government is so stupid that it even . > hired this idiot for a responsible high-salaried supervisory position !!!! . > Back in the days when I worked for the government, job applicants used to . > have to present evidence of their knowledge, skills, education, . > experience, and abilities prior to being accepted even for an interview . > for an entry level position. Look what is happening now! . > BTW, after having edited the offending message file by deleting almost . > all of the muliple recipients' email addresses I was able to view the . > message within InSight and all of the other message files as well. . > As a result of the experience described above I have discovered that there . > is some limit as to the number of multiple recipients that InSight can . > handle in a CNM file. I haven't yet conducted any experiments to . > determine what the limit is. . > Has anyone else yet experienced a problem with a CNM file having too many . > multiple recipients listed? If not, then look for such a CNM file if ever . > you should have a problem with viewing whatever is in your inbox. In the . > Windows world idiots abound. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 11:58:29 -0400 From: Jim Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: The idiocy that surpasseth all understan To Roger Turk and Everyone, Hello Roger, 5 AM EDT, 4 June 2001 Thanks for your prompt and comprehensive reply to my first posting on this "psuedo Arachne Forum". I simply replaced that entire section of ARACHNE.CFG with your text and then changed the appropriate few lines as you indicated, and it worked the first time. As far as I can see with "preliminary testing", nothing else in ARACHNE.CFG needs changing. Preliminarily, I believe I can say that all bugs have cleared up except that the screen still has several blacked-out rectangles that total perhaps 10 percent of the screen area. I'm guessing that's not caused by anything in ARACHNE.CFG. My apologies for being slow with this reply; partly I was slow because I had a long weekend out of town for the holiday and partly I waited until I had installed your suggested "fix" and played with Arachne a few days. Now some possibly "hot" news for you: I rcvd a ZIPped file from Brian Murphy yesterday (3 June) that provides some interesting capabilities. Actually I don't remember the exact detail of why this came to me although I think I probably requested it a week or so ago. It came by email but not from the same source (email address) that all the other "stuff" from the "Arachne Forum" comes from. I suspect you already know all about this and have received it already but if you haven't, I think you'll definitely want it. It talks about Compuserve subscribers operating Arachne (1.70 and other recent versions) from a RAM disk. It includes a sample ARACHNE.CFX file and a sample PPPDRC.CFX file. The ZIP file that contains all this has 297762 bytes; it's named ARACCFG2.ZIP. Like I said, I suspect you already have this but since I'm new to Arachne and specially new to the "Arachne Forum", I can't be confident that I understand how the "forum" works yet. Anyway, if you already have this ZIP file, simply ignore this. If you don't and would like me to send a copy, simply let me know. Since I've already moved your note to me out of the "In Basket", I'm not sure I know how to easily directly reply to it. Thus I'll try to reply (with this) thru the "forum" but will also send this to your Compuserve email address. Thanks again for your quick and comprehensive reply. It got me "operating"! Jim Carroll Retired EEngr in VA, USA 105417,2506 (Compuserve member ID number) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 19:10:51 +0000 From: "Mel Evans, Registered Arachne User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Monday meanderings Hi gangue, Been away caravanning, so that's why you all "missed" the Sunday Salsa! By popular demand, I'm back. We were down in Lancashire (north west of England) on a caravan rally organised by the Club for Lunar Caravan Owners. This was held at a fishery there which has a caravan site attached as part of the complex. The fishery is around 50 acres of water stocked with differnet sporting fish for all types of anglers. Whilst we were there, one guy caught (and put back) a fish that weighed in at 34lbs (around 16 kilos) and that's a pretty big fish let me tell you. Foot and Mouth still giving odd outbreaks here and there, even some in areas thought to be pretty well cleaned out. Foot and Mouth has been busy in the election hustings also here, we vote on Thursday this week here in the UK. Of course, that's politicians opening their mouths and putting their foot in it (grin 8*> ). My arachne website is still pulling down hits at around 100 each week, that's a lot of potential users in a year! I still can't make up my mind as to whether to carry on with it or not? Sorry Michael? Should I upload a photo or not? I don't want to disillusion all my fans out there (ROTFL) and put the rest to shame. Take care guys. SS should be back OK this weekend, we are not away camping for another couple of weeks or so. Did you back-up to-day? Or did you just let things grind away as usual. Regards Mel - -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 18:04:40 -0500 From: "L.D. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Can you say "reboot?" Went to URL site on search; "next page" code apparently too long for Arachne to handle by itself ... and long lines prevent editor from working. So that left the option of F-6 and F-7 to find the URL and append the end by hand... I've done it before, it's a royal rectalgia, but it usually works. Not today. Today with code displayed via F-6, use F-7 to search for "results" and hit ENTER once "results" is in the field. And screen goes blank, then computer does a warm reboot. GRRRRRRRRR!!!! I'm writing this now, will save to outbox, and then try the F-6/F-7 combo again to see if I get a reboot again. I'm back ... this time it didn't reboot. It simply locked up tight once I hit ENTER and *I* had to do the reboot myself. http://www.zdnet.com/supercenter/filters/searchresults/1,12129,,00.html?cat_id=16&fid1=101%7C788%7CPentium%26nbsp%3BIII&fid2=10 %7CNULL%2DNULL%7CAll%26nbsp%3BProcessor%26nbsp%3BSpeeds&cid=NULL - -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 19:49:32 -0400 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Hello List On Sun, 3 Jun 2001 13:02:11 +0200, Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Glenn wrote: >> On the subject of names.... I thought that Hilary Stagg was a woman. >> Then I puchased a CD and found *his* photo inside. > There are two people named "Nelly" in the music industry (that I know of > anyway). One is a guy and one is a woman (Nelly Furtardo). I think both are > from the US, but "Nelly" to me is a female name since I knew a girl with > that name. > //Bernie Agreed. A variation in spelling.... Nellie was my grandmother. :) - -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 20:07:28 -0400 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Hello List On Sun, 03 Jun 2001 12:52:51 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote: > On Sun, 3 Jun 2001 08:16:04 -0700, Curtis Matthiesen wrote: >> Nelly Furtado, is from Canada, Bernie, as I'd know as I'm a proud Canadian >> here. > Lots of Canadian's have made significant contributions to contemporary > popular music. Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, all the members of The Band > except Levon Helm, Gordon Lightfoot, Leonard Cohen and more recently > Alanis Morrisette, and the Bare-Naked Ladies. > The fact that these people are all Canadians doesn't seem very important > to anyone except other Canadians. But you do have a right to feel > proud. I'll have to disagree with you on that point. <g> I feel it of some importance that all of those you mentioned (plus Celine Dion and Loreena McKennitt), are good friends to our north. BTW, For a look at couple of very nicely designed web sites. http://www.celinedion.com/ http://www.quinlanroad.com/ - -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 20:35:17 -0400 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: The idiocy that surpasseth all understanding On Mon, 04 Jun 2001 03:20:35 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: <snip> > What would you guys think of some idiot who would be so brash as to > insinuate that about 275 people on her mailing list might be so stupid > as to have fallen for this virus hoax? What would you think of some idiot > that would suppose that all these people would have no idea as to how to > go about restoring a standard Windows file that ships with the > installation CD-ROM? I would think that this idiot was simply a typical "windows user". :( <snip> > Has anyone else yet experienced a problem with a CNM file having too many > multiple recipients listed? If not, then look for such a CNM file if ever > you should have a problem with viewing whatever is in your inbox. In the > Windows world idiots abound. Yes. My solution... 1) delete the offending message 2) reload my "inbox" 3) continue along to the more important eMails - -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 21:59:42 -0500 From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Hello List Glenn McCorkle wrote: > > On Sun, 03 Jun 2001 12:52:51 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote: > > > On Sun, 3 Jun 2001 08:16:04 -0700, Curtis Matthiesen wrote: > > >> Nelly Furtado, is from Canada, Bernie, as I'd know as I'm a proud Canadian > >> here. > > > Lots of Canadian's have made significant contributions to contemporary > > popular music. Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, all the members of The Band > > except Levon Helm, Gordon Lightfoot, Leonard Cohen and more recently > > Alanis Morrisette, and the Bare-Naked Ladies. > > > The fact that these people are all Canadians doesn't seem very important > > to anyone except other Canadians. But you do have a right to feel > > proud. > > I'll have to disagree with you on that point. <g> > I feel it of some importance that all of those you mentioned > (plus Celine Dion and Loreena McKennitt), are good friends to our north. Thanks Glenn; I was going to comment the first time around but there were just too many alligators flippin around my office at the time. <g> Generally speaking, we are well know for maintaining a low profile, but that doesn't necessarily mean we are all shy and/or retiring. You are quite right, Sam, when you say the above seems to be only important to Canadians. In NORMAL trans-border communications the fact that those mentioned were Canadians would probably not have been mentioned. Modesty usually demands we not flaunt this talent stuff in our neighbor's face but doesn't prevent us from feeling free to acknowledge it among ourselves. ;-) Due to the international nature of this forum, we have each come to accept the others as one of our own - so you were granted honarary Canadian status and thus included in the sharing of: Hey! She is one of OURS ! <GG> I saw that you agree it's reasonable for us to acclaim those who hit the "big" time, I'm just trying to explain why: a) It seems to matter to us when one of our 22 million gets noticed among the 240 million in English speaking North America (oops. I better reduce our count by 6 million <g>) - just kidding Celine, and Captain Kirk ! <g> b) We might feel compelled to shout it out here.:) - - Clarence Verge - -- - - Help stamp out FATWARE. As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/ - - The internet is infected - Windows is a VIRUS !! - -- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 01:38:58 -0400 (EDT) From: "Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Linux Question? (begin quote, and not wanting to further extend the right margin) I like the Mandrake distribution. I have version 7, which has just been upgraded to version 8 (with the new kernel). Anyhow, its cheap and has a great install program. I'm using it on a two processor server which dual boots Linux and OS/2 Warp Server for e Business, so yes, it will dual boot no problem. I know it will also dual boot with Win98, not sure if Win2000 or ME does anything nasty :-) Hope this helps, Tony Butka (end of quote) How does Linux compare as a server to OS/2 Warp Server for e-business? I am surprised to see Warp Server for e-business mentioned on this list! Which boot manager do you use? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 01:38:56 -0400 (EDT) From: "Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: You can use DOS as an Internet Gateway (begin quote) Internet conectivity can be assured by loading the odipkt.com shim, together with the network card's ODI driver. This eliminates the need of hunting for DOS packet drivers. Also, the generic ODI NE2000 driver works almost for any NE2000 compatible card (some OEM drivers may be buggy; this is the case with my Surecom NE12 card). Odipkt comes together with Arachne. Cristian Burneci DHP Technology SRL Bucharest, Romania (end of quote) Is this entirely within DOS? What OS is the network card's ODI driver for? "Shim" suggests linking to a connection from non-DOS, as a DOS box within OS/2 or Windows. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 08:04:51 +0200 From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: You can use DOS as an Internet Gateway Thomas wrote: >Is this entirely within DOS? What OS is the network card's ODI driver for? >"Shim" suggests linking to a connection from non-DOS, as a DOS box within OS/2 >or Windows. ODI is AFAIK for Novells IPX net. The OS would therefor be DOS (but there's a chance that the other OS have the same ODI driver). //Bernie ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 01:47:20 +0100 From: "Laurie L Proud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: VIRUS Alert Hi Team! The NASTIES are at it again. PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE FOR WHOM YOU HAVE AN E-MAIL ADDRESS. Thanks for taking time to read this and share it. Please excuse me, if you get more than one copy of this, as you may be on more than one of my lists. Best wishes for abundant Success! Jan Slama (509) 922-3412 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ VIRUS WARNING: If you receive an email titled: "It Takes Guts to Say Jesus" DO NOT OPEN IT. It will erase everything on your hard drive. This information was announced yesterday morning from IBM; AOL states that this is a very dangerous virus, much worse than "Melissa," and that there is NO Remedy for it at this time. Some very sick individual has succeeded in using the reformat function from Norton Utilities causing it to completely erase all documents on the hard drive. It has been designed to work with Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. It destroys Macintosh and IBM compatible computers. This is a new, very malicious virus and not many people know about it. Pass this warning along to EVERYONE in your address book and please share it with all your online friends ASAP so that this threat maybe stopped. Please practice cautionary measures and tell anyone that may have access to your computer. Forward this warning to everyone that you know that might access the Internet. Joyce L. Bober IBM Information Systems Pittsburgh Mailing Systems 412-922-8744 ----------------------END----------------------------------------------- Sorry it diden't work at my first attempt to send this Yet another reason to avoid M$ etc etc.... Regards Laurie -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ - -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 11:01:16 +0200 (CEST) From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: VIRUS Alert > Hi Team! > The NASTIES are at it again. (snip) Please.... > If you receive an email titled: > "It Takes Guts to Say Jesus" > > DO NOT OPEN IT. It will erase everything on your hard drive. How? > This > information was announced yesterday morning from IBM; Note the absense of a link to this information from IBM. > AOL states that > this is a very dangerous virus, much worse than "Melissa," and that > there is NO Remedy for it at this time. There are no virus that can't be stopped. > Some very sick individual has succeeded in using the reformat function > from Norton Utilities causing it to completely erase all documents on > the hard drive. It has been designed to work with Netscape Navigator > and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Norton utilities isn't included in Explorer or Navigator. > It destroys Macintosh and IBM compatible computers. AFAIK there's no NU version for Mac (I might be wrong about that however). > This is a new, very malicious virus and not many people know about it. No, the only virus was the mail that you sent. Obviously you don't know about these things yet so I'll let you off with just a warning. Next time I'll get rude but I doubt we'll get there :) > Pass this warning along to EVERYONE in your address book and please > share it with all your online friends ASAP so that this threat maybe > stopped. This is an easy way to see that it isn't true, but there were some others as well. There are pages about these hoaxes on the anti-virus softwares homepages. I suggest you read them. I also strongely suggest that you send an appology stating that it wasn't true to everyone that you sent it to, including a suggestion that they do the same. Of course you should send it "up the chain" as well to the person you got it from (and any e-mail address you see that he/she sent to as well. //Bernie http://bernie.arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ End of arachne-digest V1 #1544 ******************************
