arachne-digest Tuesday, July 1 2003 Volume 01 : Number 2166
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 06:05:37 -0500 From: "Sam Ewalt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: arachne-digest V1 #2160 On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 12:41:32 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote: > And if they "accidently" subscribed to the digest when they were already > on the list, as I did, they might need to unsubscribe to avoid > duplication of messages. > Does anyone know whether any humans are reading the mail at arachne.cz? There are periodic signs of life at arachne.cz, occasionally something new gets posted to the website--almost always now it is written by Michael in Czech and seems to be refering to his webhosting business. The latest posting to Arachne News was June 2, 2003--so it's not completely dead. There are a number of email addresses on the website. Try them all. Maybe you'll get a response. Or you could try telephoning directly as there are home, office and cell phone numbers listed at the website. Sam Ewalt Croswell, Michigan, USA - -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 22:18:00 +0300 From: Cristian Burneci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: What a virus! (was: Re: Application) This is really nice. This virus really put the windows dummies to work in order to get themselves infected. Some of them may really have a chance to learn what a zip archive is after all (don't laugh! I often have the chance to run into such desperate cases). Nice job Sobig.E! Spreading as fast as lighting although one has to do a little extra work to launch you into action :P In data de Mon, 30 Jun 2003 14:41:47 +0900 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a scris: > Please see the attached zip file for details. - -- Cristian Burneci ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 22:21:00 +0200 From: webmaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: INVITATION to list ns.arachne.cz with the b2bmine.com directory FREE. You are invited to list your company or entity with the B2Bmine.com business directory for free. Visit the site at http://www.B2Bmine.com and click on the Submit Site link at the top of the page. You are also invited to use the Trade Wire and to sign up for the other services for free. Sincerely Yours; Hani ZEID. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 18:46:46 -0400 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: arachne-digest V1 #2160 On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 06:05:37 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 12:41:32 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote: >> And if they "accidently" subscribed to the digest when they were already >> on the list, as I did, they might need to unsubscribe to avoid >> duplication of messages. >> Does anyone know whether any humans are reading the mail at arachne.cz? > There are periodic signs of life at arachne.cz, occasionally something > new gets posted to the website--almost always now it is written by > Michael in Czech and seems to be refering to his webhosting business. > The latest posting to Arachne News was June 2, 2003--so it's not > completely dead. That post was made by Wolfgang Hesseler to announce the release of QV v2.52 This is last post made by Michael Polak concerning Arachne. http://arachne.cz/index.shtml?clanekid=56 (made on Jan 22, 2001 to announce the release of Arachne v1.70;r.3) > There are a number of email addresses on the website. Try them all. > Maybe you'll get a response. Here's hoping that your luck is better than mine. > Or you could try telephoning directly as there are home, office and > cell phone numbers listed at the website. IMO, You will most likely receive the same type of response via telephone as we do via email. :(( - -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/aqc/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 21:56:52 -0400 (EDT) From: "Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: arachne-digest V1 #2140 I filled in the gaps in the Arachne list resulting from misdoings at Bluegrass Net. One message in arachne-digest V1 #2140 contained a virus that caused the message, sent from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to go to the quarantine area at Bluegrass Net rather than to me directly. I was then able to have the message delivered as is, knowing that the virus wasn't going to do anything to me in non-Win32. It looks like the virus might have faked [EMAIL PROTECTED] From-address, message was sent to an AOL address but bounced by the AOL server after detecting the virus, back to [EMAIL PROTECTED], meaning it was then sent to everybody on that list. Michael or whoever is in charge, you need to disable [EMAIL PROTECTED] so people on that list won't all get the viruses, Chinese spams, Nigeria spams and other junk that might be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I copy an excerpt of that message including enough to indicate what the AOL server did, and the headers of the offending message; I truncate the virus: ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to air-za01.mail.aol.com.: >>> DATA <<< 554 TRANSACTION FAILED - Unrepairable Virus Detected. Your mail has not been sent. 554 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Service unavailable - - --LAC03956.1054828765/rly-za04.mx.aol.com Content-Type: message/delivery-status Reporting-MTA: dns; rly-za04.mx.aol.com Arrival-Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 11:59:06 -0400 (EDT) Final-Recipient: RFC822; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 Remote-MTA: DNS; air-za01.mail.aol.com Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 554 TRANSACTION FAILED - Unrepairable Virus Detected. Your mail has not been sent. Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 11:59:25 -0400 (EDT) - - --LAC03956.1054828765/rly-za04.mx.aol.com Content-Type: message/rfc822 Received: from JOHNNY (fll-dsl193-cust003.mpowercom.net [208.57.193.3]) by rly-za04.mx.aol.com (v94.27) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINZA47-2ff3edf68c629; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 11:59:03 2000 From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Your application Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 11:59:09 --0400 Importance: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="CSmtpMsgPart123X456_000_004CD650" X-AOL-IP: 208.57.193.3 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is a multipart message in MIME format - - --CSmtpMsgPart123X456_000_004CD650 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Please see the attached file. - - --CSmtpMsgPart123X456_000_004CD650 Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="application.pif" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="application.pi" TVqQAAMAAAAEAAAA//8AALgAAAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA (snip 1049 lines of base64 code) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 14:44:06 +0930 From: "Greg Mayman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: arachne-digest V1 #2160 On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 09:56:47 +1000, Ron Clarke wrote: > Or this registered user who changes his email addresses from time to > time, to duck the spam and worms, would need to be able to unsubscribe > one address and subscribe another. Why bother to unsubscribe the old address. Let the stuff go the same way as the unsolicited mail and spams. > Michael, we really need you to fix it. :) Yes! Are you reading this Michael???? Hmmm... I thought not... from Greg Mayman, in Adelaide, South Australia Home of the Bay to Birwood Vintage and Classic motor runs http://www.baytobirdwood.com.au Visit me at http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/greg_mayman/default.htm - -- Arachne V1.71;UE01, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 12:52:38 +0930 From: "Greg Mayman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Rejecting zero address again On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 14:20:21 +0200, Michal H. Tyc wrote: > Strange, really. My CORE.EXE (1.71;UE01, 10 Oct 2002) has this > message at offset 0x32AC2, among other DHCP-related ones. > But DOS FIND doesn't work well with binary files. Yes, Vern Buorg's LIST finds it in CORE.EXE, although I didn't verify the offset. from Greg Mayman, in Adelaide, South Australia Home of the Bay to Birwood Vintage and Classic motor runs http://www.baytobirdwood.com.au Visit me at http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/greg_mayman/default.htm - -- Arachne V1.71;UE01, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 12:59:42 +0930 From: "Greg Mayman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: format and fdisk :-((( On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 14:47:39 -0400, Roger Turk wrote: > IIRC, the necessity of low level formating was because of the positioning > motor on the HD's reading arm. With MFM and RLL drives, after a while the > arm would not align with the cylinders and a low level format had to be done > to realign the cylinders with the read head. I was led to believe it was due to the track and sector markers "fading" in time, as these are not ever re-written during the normal life of the disk. > With the advent of stepper(?) motors, the alignment problems went away and > low level formating wasn't necessary, and as Bastaain demonstrated, even > dangerous. No I think the alignment problems were worse with the stepper motors, as they could only move in discrete steps from one track to the next. Any wear in the drive between the motor and the head arm would tend to cause mis-alignment of the head. Later drives all use "voice coil" positioning of the heads which is a continuous positioning system and AFAIK it uses a dynamic feedback system to keep the head aligned with the position that gives optimum readability of the track. from Greg Mayman, in Adelaide, South Australia Home of the Bay to Birwood Vintage and Classic motor runs http://www.baytobirdwood.com.au Visit me at http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/greg_mayman/default.htm - -- Arachne V1.71;UE01, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 13:30:56 +0930 From: "Greg Mayman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: A-list: Re: message sorting order On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 22:15:58 -0500, =?windows-1252?Q?Jos=E9=20Antonio=20Pineda=20Figueroa?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As far as I remember, PKZIP (and perhaps also Winzip, haven't checked yet) > is capable of changing the time stamp of any file it compresses/uncompresses > so that you are given the option of given the original creation date to the > file you are uncompressing (let's suppose it's the unzip case), or the date > when it was archived, or the date of uncompression... > Arachne could and perhaps SHOULD give me the very same options, as we've > seen it's possible... I remember seeing a DOS utility that could rewrite the date stamp of a file. OTOH the problem I was describing would be better solved by Arachne sorting by the _name_ of the file, and the name should be preserved when the outgoing message is modified. Not such a complicated thing I would have thought, since most programs seem to work that way by default. Arachne is the only one I've seen that always rewrites the file under a new name after it is edited/modified. from Greg Mayman, in Adelaide, South Australia Home of the Bay to Birwood Vintage and Classic motor runs http://www.baytobirdwood.com.au Visit me at http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/greg_mayman/default.htm - -- Arachne V1.71;UE01, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 14:18:24 +0930 From: "Greg Mayman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: arachne-digest V1 #2160 On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 20:04:06 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > CC all messages to his personal address ???? <g> I have sent messages to every arachne.cz email address I can find asking that if any humans are reading them they should reply PUHLEASE!!!! So far no replies except automatic ones from Majordomo. Next suggestion, please.... from Greg Mayman, in Adelaide, South Australia Home of the Bay to Birwood Vintage and Classic motor runs http://www.baytobirdwood.com.au Visit me at http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/greg_mayman/default.htm - -- Arachne V1.71;UE01, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 14:24:10 +0930 From: "Greg Mayman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: arachne-digest V1 #2161 On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 20:46:42 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > I wonder what would happen if arachne-list were subbed to both lists. Oooh! That's naughty... but soooo tempting! If the list and/or digest were made recursive, they'd get bigger and bigger with every loop, until something had to give. Loops on the digest would be daily, but the list is virtually instantaneous, so it should explode in very short time. Then he'd have to do something... or would he? from Greg Mayman, in Adelaide, South Australia Home of the Bay to Birwood Vintage and Classic motor runs http://www.baytobirdwood.com.au Visit me at http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/greg_mayman/default.htm - -- Arachne V1.71;UE01, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 08:04:46 -0500 From: "Sam Ewalt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: arachne-digest V1 #2160 On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 14:18:24 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote: > I have sent messages to every arachne.cz email address I can find asking > that if any humans are reading them they should reply PUHLEASE!!!! > So far no replies except automatic ones from Majordomo. > Next suggestion, please.... Try the telephone. Call the Arachne Labs office, Michael at home, Michael's cell phone. All are listed on the website. or try the regular mail. Sam Ewalt Croswell, Michigan, USA - -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ End of arachne-digest V1 #2166 ******************************
