arachne-digest Friday, March 21 2003 Volume 01 : Number 2078
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 03:01:12 -0500 (EST) From: "Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: RESENT: Shopping... from "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Nope, no drivers needed. The problem with the modem was that it > did not come with jumpers and I could not get it to take a standard > com port and irq. This one would take only irq 5! Most DOS > communications programs insist on having modems taking standard com > ports and irqs. Anybody ever hear of a PCI modem with jumpers? I think a PCI modem gets its IRQ and base address from the BIOS, PCI bus is different from ISA. I jumpered the Diamond SupraExpress 56i ISA modem for COM4 (base 0x2e8), IRQ 5 because that was what the previous no-longer-working-well modem used. I think most DOS communications programs could be made to work with the nonstandard COM4 IRQ 5, but some didn't. Apparently many programmers of DOS communications programs make assumptions about the hardware that are now antiquated. (on Net-Tamer) > You could edit the setup file with a hex editor. I don't know if you > could get the file to work for you, but you can in fact edit it. If I were serious about wanting to run Net-Tamer, I could possibly email David Colston. But it looks like Net-Tamer is falling into desuetude. Has there been any recent update? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 03:01:09 -0500 (EST) From: "Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: An Alternative Email Service for DOS, Arachne, Lynx from [EMAIL PROTECTED], quoting without '>' Wizard57MdaGlenn Gilbreath Jr.dahttp://members.surfbest.net/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/index.htmda--DOS Interent, Close Windows, Keep the Internet Open!--dadaHi List!daJust wanted to share with Sam Heywood and others that mightdabe interested, I have found a couple of alternative emaildaservices, FREE ONES!!, that work well with Arachne, Lynx 386daor even NetMail DOS (for POP3...can't get NetMail DOS to senddamy SMTP authorization)daThe two I'm currently useing most are:daSoftHome.net and XMS.MS!daI really like the XMS service...they also have a "forum" typedabulletin board chat thingamajig...hehe, for lack of betterdadescription! Anyway, these fine services don't have opendarelays, and you do need some way to authenticate your SMTP,dafor sending from Insight, POPMail PC, etc. Please, if youdaappreciate good service, for free, and especially those thatdacontinue to support alternatives to MS Win9X only, check onedaor both of these services out.daHave a good one, anddaC U L8R!daWiz <{;-) (end of quote) What happened? This was near the end of my last email download, so I didn't see any of the responses yet. How did all those "da" get there? Remove those "da", and the message becomes readable. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 12:38:39 -0500 From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: An Alternative Email Service for DOS, Arachne, Lynx On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 03:01:09 -0500 (EST), Thomas Mueller wrote: > from [EMAIL PROTECTED], quoting without '>' > Wizard57MdaGlenn Gilbreath > Jr.dahttp://members.surfbest.net/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/index.htmda--DOS > Interent, Close Windows, Keep the Internet Open!--dadaHi List!daJust wanted > to share with Sam Heywood and others that mightdabe interested, I have found > a couple of alternative emaildaservices, FREE ONES!!, that work well with > Arachne, Lynx 386daor even NetMail DOS (for POP3...can't get NetMail DOS to > senddamy SMTP authorization)daThe two I'm currently useing most > are:daSoftHome.net and XMS.MS!daI really like the XMS service...they also > have a "forum" typedabulletin board chat thingamajig...hehe, for lack of > betterdadescription! Anyway, these fine services don't have opendarelays, > and you do need some way to authenticate your SMTP,dafor sending from > Insight, POPMail PC, etc. Please, if youdaappreciate good service, for > free, and especially those thatdacontinue to support alternatives to MS > Win9X only, check onedaor both of these services out.daHave a good one, > anddaC U L8R!daWiz <{;-) > (end of quote) > What happened? This was near the end of my last email download, so I didn't > see any of the responses yet. How did all those "da" get there? Remove those > "da", and the message becomes readable. It seems to me that the "da's" are inserted intentionally. Some of the "da's" are used as substitutes for the indefinite article "the". If the message were read aloud, and with all of the "da's" being prounounced, the reading would sound like the way English is often typically and naturally spoken by some folks belonging to certain ethnic groups whose native language is not English. English being incorrectly spoken in this manner is usually quite intelligible and understandable to most people whose native language is English. It is impolite and inconsiderate to attempt to correct people for speaking English in this way. This habit of speaking should not be criticized or disrespectfully mimicked or made fun of because it is perfectly normal and natural for some people belonging to some ethic groups to speak English this way. English should never be *written* this way except in three special cases: 1. The writer is trying to quote some spoken remarks *verbatim*. 2. The writer is depicting a character who speaks this way in a novel or a short story or a poem or a play. 3. The writer is appropriating unto himself a literary license for some understandable reason for his wanting to express himself in a manner typical of people who speak English this way. None of the above seems to apply in the message posted by Wizard57. I don't know why he wrote his message that way. Sam Heywood - -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser: http://browser.arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 14:31:16 -0500 From: "Sam Ewalt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Why are they trying to kill off only the little people? On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 03:01:10 -0500 (EST), Thomas Mueller wrote: > On spammers not wanting to send spam to poor sales prospects, why do I get all > those Korean spams? Do they expect to sell to somebody who can't read the > message? Or are spammers indiscriminate on who they target? My contention is that spammers are indiscriminate. They don't target. They just send to the "whole list" of names they have available to them and that they can manage to send. A very minimal response is all they hope for. Two or three, maybe, out of a list of thousands. The thought given is proportinate to the cost involved. Sam Ewalt Croswell, Michigan, USA - -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 17:40:57 -0700 From: "G J Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: I cannot stop war On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, "L.D. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I cannot stop war, even though I am not alone in my efforts. > The song tells me to think back about how we fought oppression, how we > l.d. > Active Duty WACR 1961-1962 > Washington State NG > Active Duty US Army 1974-1978 I appreciate you, and I have respect for your opinion....but....I MUST disagree with you. I NEVER have been, and NEVER will be, "pro-war"....but...sometimes, it is necessary. I have never pulled the trigger "joyfully" on any other human being, nor called down large munitions on other people ..knowing that some non-combatants would surely be injured/killed. In this case....all the "wait, just wait....give yakkin' more chance" etc, etc, ad nauseum....has proven only that this guy/regime hasta go...so....we get in an do the job..... Period...!!! ....gregy USAF 1960-1963 US DOD Contract Civilian - Southeast Asia...1963-1975 163rd Armored Cavalry, MTARNG 1978-2001 SFC, retired, USAR, 2001-present - -- This mail was sent by a user of Arachne - The Ultimate Internet Client ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 10:49:14 -0500 From: "Dave Ratti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Re: An Alternative Email Service for DOS, Arachne, Lynx It is much more likely that the software in use is rendering CR-LF as printable characters, since they are Ctrl-D and Ctrl-A ... Dave - -----Original Message----- From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 12:38:39 -0500 Subject: Re: An Alternative Email Service for DOS, Arachne, Lynx On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 03:01:09 -0500 (EST), Thomas Mueller wrote: > from [EMAIL PROTECTED], quoting without '>' > Wizard57MdaGlenn Gilbreath > Jr.dahttp://members.surfbest.net/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/index.htmda--DOS > Interent, Close Windows, Keep the Internet Open!--dadaHi List!daJust wanted > to share with Sam Heywood and others that mightdabe interested, I have found > a couple of alternative emaildaservices, FREE ONES!!, that work well with > Arachne, Lynx 386daor even NetMail DOS (for POP3...can't get NetMail DOS to > senddamy SMTP authorization)daThe two I'm currently useing most > are:daSoftHome.net and XMS.MS!daI really like the XMS service...they also > have a "forum" typedabulletin board chat thingamajig...hehe, for lack of > betterdadescription! Anyway, these fine services don't have opendarelays, > and you do need some way to authenticate your SMTP,dafor sending from > Insight, POPMail PC, etc. Please, if youdaappreciate good service, for > free, and especially those thatdacontinue to support alternatives to MS > Win9X only, check onedaor both of these services out.daHave a good one, > anddaC U L8R!daWiz <{;-) > (end of quote) > What happened? This was near the end of my last email download, so I didn't > see any of the responses yet. How did all those "da" get there? Remove those > "da", and the message becomes readable. It seems to me that the "da's" are inserted intentionally. Some of the "da's" are used as substitutes for the indefinite article "the". If the message were read aloud, and with all of the "da's" being prounounced, the reading would sound like the way English is often typically and naturally spoken by some folks belonging to certain ethnic groups whose native language is not English. English being incorrectly spoken in this manner is usually quite intelligible and understandable to most people whose native language is English. It is impolite and inconsiderate to attempt to correct people for speaking English in this way. This habit of speaking should not be criticized or disrespectfully mimicked or made fun of because it is perfectly normal and natural for some people belonging to some ethic groups to speak English this way. English should never be *written* this way except in three special cases: 1. The writer is trying to quote some spoken remarks *verbatim*. 2. The writer is depicting a character who speaks this way in a novel or a short story or a poem or a play. 3. The writer is appropriating unto himself a literary license for some understandable reason for his wanting to express himself in a manner typical of people who speak English this way. None of the above seems to apply in the message posted by Wizard57. I don't know why he wrote his message that way. Sam Heywood - -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser: http://browser.arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ End of arachne-digest V1 #2078 ******************************
