Linux-Misc Digest #122, Volume #25 Thu, 13 Jul 00 10:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: Kernel too big (John Hasler)
Truly bizarre file corruption after system crash (Stephen Cornell)
Re: npasswd for linux (Christoph Krempe)
Re: HOW DO I... (John McKown)
Soundcard problem RH 6.2 (Creative soundblaster 16 PnP (WDM)) (Sverre Torjussen)
Re: Kernel too big (Villy Kruse)
Re: suid (on binary file) problem (Villy Kruse)
Re: What's lost+found (Juergen Leeb)
Re: Questions here dont appear in another newsserver? ("Andrew E. Schulman")
X Color autoselect -> PseudoColor ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: XUSERFILESEARCHPATH ("Andrew E. Schulman")
Re: What's lost+found (Dirk Reckmann)
Re: Easy Install? Hmmmmmmm and Hmmmm (Donovan Rebbechi)
Re: Hot Webcams FREE - GRATIS (Rasputin)
NEWBIE: Stupid kernel compile quest: (Quad)
StarOffice 5.2 Info Required (Darren Christie)
Re: emacs seg fault (Dan Austin)
Re: Still getting used to permissions...!!!<sigh> (Corne Beerse)
Re: Installed Linux OS on CD-R to boot? (Corne Beerse)
Re: What is foobar, or foo bar, or whatever...?? (Corne Beerse)
Re: Changing header info in tin (Chad Lemmen)
modem won't pick up call with uugetty ("Anurodh")
Is it possible to resume UPLOAD using FTP? (Paul Wickham)
Re: PGP signed messages!!! ("Nikola Pizurica")
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel too big
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 04:02:43 GMT
Victor writes:
> Is i386 ready for update or what? Oo, how I wish they would move on to
> something better.
What do you mean, "they"? You want an Alpha or a SPARC or a PPC, just get
one.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: Stephen Cornell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Truly bizarre file corruption after system crash
Date: 13 Jul 2000 11:27:36 +0100
I have Red Hat 6.2 running on a notebook, and last night, for some
reason, the machine locked up tight while I was attempting to do a
suspend-to-RAM (which usually proceeds without any mishap). There was
nothing for it, except to hit the power button. When I restored
power, the machine went through fsck as usual, finally announced that
all was well, and presented me with the gdm login screen.
However, I changed the default runlevel to 3 just after installation a
couple of months ago. On Red Hat, gdm is set to start on runlevel 5.
I checked my /etc/inittab file, and sure enough found the line
id:5:initdefault:
where before the crash it said
id:3:initdefault:
How on earth is it possible that a file can be corrupted in such a
spooky way?
I know that the simplest explanation is that I edited the /etc/inittab
file myself and forgot about it, but I really don't believe that this
is the case. Stupidly, I edited the file to restore the old setting
before thinking to check the timestamp on it.
Has anyone ever had a similar experience?
--
Stephen Cornell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel/fax +44-1223-336644
University of Cambridge, Zoology Department, Downing Street, CAMBRIDGE CB2 3EJ
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christoph Krempe)
Subject: Re: npasswd for linux
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 10:31:08 GMT
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000 15:19:18 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christoph
Krempe) wrote:
>
>Where can I configure the shadow password system for linux when I
>compile "npasswd"? The man-page tells me npasswd works with shadow,
>but how?
>
>Thanks,
>
I simple have to download the latest version of npasswd :;)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John McKown)
Subject: Re: HOW DO I...
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 05:18:38 -0500
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000 14:45:42 +0100, Darren Christie wrote:
[snip]
>I have a website I maintain for my local church, for which I want to put
>a copy of the church magazine on. I wish to put the magazine up as a
>pdf, however the original documents are in Word97 format. How do I
>convert (using a script if possible to automate the task) into a pdf
>under Linux? The magazine is normally held as several Word docs by the
>people that produce the church magazine. They are non-techie users, so
>getting them to change is not really an option as it may confuse them.
I don't know how to automate the Windows portion, it's been too long since
I've done any Windows programming, but I know it can be done. What you need
to do is install a generic Postscript print driver on Windows. Have the
Word document "printed" via the Postscript driver to a disk file. On
Linux, run the "ps2pdf" program to convert the Postscript file to a PDF
file. You can get the Postscript file to the Linux system via SAMBA or
just plain ftp.
Sorry I can't give exact instructions, but I hope the above is of at least
some help to you.
John
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From: Sverre Torjussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Soundcard problem RH 6.2 (Creative soundblaster 16 PnP (WDM))
Date: 13 Jul 2000 13:07:00 +0200
Hello,
I have a Linux RH6.2 dual boot PC with two speakers and a Creative
soundblaster 16 PnP (WDM) soundcard. Although this soundcard is not
"supported", I wonder if there is a way to make it work. On NT W2K,
no problems (although it did not work before I connected the speakers).
I have used sndconfig to set up the PC to use SB 16. And this seems to
be successful (plays a sound). The sound services (three kinds) starts
up with status OK at boot time.
However, I am neither able to play mp3 files or other audio formats,
(like .au). Hissing or scratch sounds (basically noise) is all I am
able to hear. I do not use a separate MP3 player.
I have tried several MP3 supported products (front ends), e.g.
mpg123, xmms, splay etc without any luck. For example, xmms seem to
play the MP3 songs (can see the time elapsed etc) but I am not able
to recognise any songs (only low noise).
Any suggestions?
%wmosl1wi0305:~ {127} $ more /etc/conf.modules
alias eth0 3c59x
alias sound-slot-0 sb
options sound dmabuf=1
alias midi opl3
options opl3 io=0x388
options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=0 mpu_io=0x330
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Sverre Torjussen
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Internet: www.wmdata.no
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: Kernel too big
Date: 13 Jul 2000 11:10:34 GMT
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000 04:02:43 GMT, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Victor writes:
>> Is i386 ready for update or what? Oo, how I wish they would move on to
>> something better.
>
>What do you mean, "they"? You want an Alpha or a SPARC or a PPC, just get
>one.
Or Motorola 68k. Which was around when i386 came out.
Villy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: suid (on binary file) problem
Date: 13 Jul 2000 11:12:31 GMT
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000 14:34:57 -0400, Martin Pilka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>hello all!
>
>i'm running redhat 6.2. i have file like this:
>
>$ ls -l xmms
>-rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 930064 Feb 22 18:05 xmms
>$
>
>it's a binary file (not script). i expected that it will run under root
>permissions, no matter who will run that process. but it isn't. it takes
>the permissions of user who executed it ... where did i mistake?
>
Some programs may be programmed to do so.
Villy
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From: Juergen Leeb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What's lost+found
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 13:43:19 +0200
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It' s generated automatically when you make a filesystem (ext2).
It is needed when you make a fsck.
Because is there an error with a file or dir that lost the connection to
the root dir. fsck put then put it in lost+found.
Chew GH schrieb:
>
> Though the lost+found directory does not appear to do anything to my RH 6.1
> system, what's the function of this ubiquitous directory? Everytime I make a
> file system on the floppy, this directory is automatically created. Why? How
> could I disable the creation of this directory everytime I mkfs?
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From: "Andrew E. Schulman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Questions here dont appear in another newsserver?
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 07:47:32 -0400
> I have been trying different newsservers to get to comp.os.linux.misc but
> one newserver even had some free sex stuff on it in this newsgroup. Was
> that stuff moderated out or something (heh, not that I'm after THAT) but
> I was really looking for my latest question
> I only saw some old queries I asked long before, why is that?
It's a problem with your news server. I read this group regularly and
rarely see any spam. If all you see is old messages, maybe your server
isn't keeping up with this newsgroup any more, or has it confused with
another one that gets porno spam.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: X Color autoselect -> PseudoColor
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 11:38:17 GMT
I gotta application running on a Solaris box. Client is RH6.2 on a
laptop. Get an error when I invoke app:
/opt/hnm/bin/menu
X Error of failed request: BadAccess (attempt to access private
resource denied)
Major opcode of failed request: 89 (X_StoreColors)
Serial number of failed request: 922
Current serial number in output stream: 931
I'm told an exceed client doesn't have this problem because their
Xserver uses PseudoColor rather than auto select (which is the cause of
this error).
No doubt Xfree's finest X server can be configed to use PseudoColor.
But how?
TIA
Tony
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Andrew E. Schulman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: XUSERFILESEARCHPATH
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 07:57:20 -0400
> Obviously I did something wrong when I recently
> loaded Linux Mandrake. I didn't get a lilo
> prompt. Using my boot disk I reran lilo only to
> get an error message reading: "warning: device
> 0x030c exceeds 1024 cylinder limit.
> "geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big
> (2203>1023)"
> I know lilo has to go before the 1024 limit and
> for the life of me I don't know how I messed up
> the install. Can lilo be installed? Or do I
> have to do a full re-install?
You haven't showed us your partition table. Is the partition that holds
your kernel, the one you're booting from, contained within the first
1024 cylinders of your disk? If not, you have to either repartition or
get a newer version of lilo. The newer versions of lilo get around the
1024-cylinder limit, if your BIOS supports it, or so I've read on this
newsgroup.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dirk Reckmann)
Subject: Re: What's lost+found
Date: 13 Jul 2000 11:56:52 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:14:39 +0800, Chew GH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Though the lost+found directory does not appear to do anything to my RH 6.1
>system, what's the function of this ubiquitous directory?
It's the directory, in which e2fsck stores used sectors on your disk, which
are not used by any file anymore. I. e. if your filesystem gets corrupt,
you may find parts of your files in this directory.
>How could I disable the creation of this directory everytime I mkfs?
I don't know if you can, at least you shouldn't.
If you're sure you won't need it, you can remove it after creation of
your filesystem.
Ciao,
Dirk
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Rebbechi)
Subject: Re: Easy Install? Hmmmmmmm and Hmmmm
Date: 13 Jul 2000 12:21:22 GMT
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000 04:30:06 GMT, N/A wrote:
>i have set my monitor specifications and everything correct for corel
>linux but when i go into linux the display is just too big and it extends
>beyond my monitor barriers and i cant see it all? what would be the
>problem and how do i fix it? thanks so much.
Try commenting out any line that says "Virtual" in your XF86Config file.
Either that or set Virtual so that it's the same as your actual resolution.
--
Donovan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rasputin)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.m68k,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.powerpc,comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Hot Webcams FREE - GRATIS
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 12:55:29 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <Robbie Pickering> wrote:
>ghgh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Sexo Gratis - Free Sex
>
>Come on. These are Linux groups. No one here is interested in sex.
There speaks a dedicated sysadmin :)
--
Rasputin.
Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns.
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From: Quad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NEWBIE: Stupid kernel compile quest:
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 12:47:59 GMT
Hi, just a newbie looking to get a few questions cleared up:
1) If I do a make modules and make modules install and all seems to go
fine without any errors, why would it be that when I go to load a
module, or at startup it says that it cant find the modules after a
compile?
2) When you recompile, all the settings that you currently have are
set by default when answering the questions? (Am I totally wrong on
this, my guess is that I am). I ask because last night I recompiled,
all seemed to go great but both my NICs didnt start up. All that I
changed was I took out etherexpress as I dotn have the intel NIC. My
guess is I have to explicitly add the ones I have? I thought the
kernel might load them up off conf.modules or something by itself.
3) I installed ipmasqadm, and portfw is compiled into the kernel, I
followed a "howto" for the syntax in my firewall script. The script
runs without ANY errors, but the port forwarding does not work. This
is on an older kernel RH6.1. I will try at home on the latest kernel
to see if that makes a diff, but I just wanted to know if any of you
had any thoughts. Like does it make a difference where it is placed in
the script? Or can I only have that enabled in the script if I want it
to work and no other security measures?
Guys thanks SOOOO much for your time here. I really appreciate it. I
am a newbie to the penguin, but am hitting it with FULL FORCE and
loving it. Who knows maybe someday Ill be able to help out a newbie in
need.
Thanks again guys
--
Quad
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Darren Christie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: StarOffice 5.2 Info Required
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 08:51:07 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At my company we have a NT Server (fools) running MS Exchange (bigger
fools). We then can connect to the network with our laptops. The laptops
are dual boot (Win98 or Linux). I prefer to boot into Linux, which gives
me a problem of connecting to the exchange server, and to use it's
scheduling and task facilities. E-mail I can use Netscape mesenger for.
Does anyone know if StarOffice 5.2 intergrates with exchange server to
allow the use of scheduling etc? And if so just how well it works doing
this? Pointers to any reviews or other programs that allow this would be
great.
Thanks
Darren
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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 05:12:47 -0400
From: Dan Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: emacs seg fault
emacs 20.6.1, and libc 6, it only sig11's when someone uses su then opens
& closes emacs or when someone ssh's in
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From: Corne Beerse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Still getting used to permissions...!!!<sigh>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 14:58:06 +0200
Hendrix wrote:
>
> Another couple of questions...*s*
>
> 1. How can I set permissions so that other users, besides root, can
> execute a certain given program...??? I thought about making a group,
> probably called pppusers (or something equivalent)... And making that
> group own the pppd file, but I don't see how that would be any different
> from setting rwx access for everyone on the pppd program itself...???
> If I set the "other" permission on the pppd program, and all scripts
> used to access this daemon, to read,write, and execute, then shouldn't
> they be able to execute the pppd script...????
>
This is part of basic sysadmin knowledge:
- Create a group for the users (pppusers wil do)
- Put all users in the group (/etc/group)
- install the tools with the group (pppusers)
or chgrp the files after installing.
- make the tool executable by the group (and exclude the world)
chmod -R ug+X,o-x pppfiles
- If the tool needs to run as a dedicated user or group,
put the Sbit on the user or group (chmod ug+s)
So you are half-way. For these tools best to remove the world rights.
CB
--
RAM = Rarely Adequate Memory
Corne' Beerse | Alcatel Telecom Nederland
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Postbus 3292
talkto:+31(70)3079108 faxto:+31(70)3079191 | NL-2280 GG Rijswijk
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From: Corne Beerse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,alt.os.linux.corel,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Installed Linux OS on CD-R to boot?
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 15:01:47 +0200
Darren Welson wrote:
>
> Is it possible to install a Linux distribution to a CD-R and boot to the
> CD-ROM? How about copy and existing install to a CD-R and boot from this?
> I know that the OS needs to access certain files that would be now rendered
> unchangeable, but is it feasable to get around this?
> I want to burn these to CDs so I can use this like a removable HD.
>
This is called a 'live' system (strange, I cannot see it live in rom..)
Suse (the 6.1 I have at least) offers some support for this. I bet the
latest does too.
CB
--
RAM = Rarely Adequate Memory
Corne' Beerse | Alcatel Telecom Nederland
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Postbus 3292
talkto:+31(70)3079108 faxto:+31(70)3079191 | NL-2280 GG Rijswijk
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From: Corne Beerse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: What is foobar, or foo bar, or whatever...??
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 15:11:32 +0200
Mary P wrote:
>
> On Thu, 29 Jun 2000 14:25:47 -0500, Kurt Weber
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gave us this gift:
> >"Thorsten Claus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >> I am living in Germany and I also saw saving private Rayan.
> >> In the Film they used foobar because
> we have a word "furchtbar" ! And I
> >> thing Englishmen aren't able to say this
> >
> >If "furchtbar" is a German word, then it sounds a little bit like
> >"furktbar", which is close to that word, but not quite.
>
> This is way off topic but hey.
>
> Interesting to hear the proposal foobar is derived from
> furchtbar. It's not impossible.
>
Keep in mind, in German, most English films are re-spoken in German. This
has to match the lip movement somehow and thsi "Furchtbar" is verry close. I
bet, before the movie, no German ever used the word and the translation
peoples invented the translation. If not, it has been done before in a
previous movie.
BTW, In Holland there exists a dictionary which explains al lot of foregin
(english, frensh, german) words by it's Dutch translation and telling that
the dutch word was there before.
With this foobar, I bet the american variant came first but the german shout
the laudest.
CB
--
RAM = Rarely Adequate Memory
Corne' Beerse | Alcatel Telecom Nederland
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Postbus 3292
talkto:+31(70)3079108 faxto:+31(70)3079191 | NL-2280 GG Rijswijk
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From: Chad Lemmen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Changing header info in tin
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 09:07:55 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] did eloquently scribble:
> > Chad Lemmen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> >> I'm using tin for my newsreader and I want to be able to change my name
> >> and email address. I don't want the username and email address on the
> >> user on the Linux machine to show up in the header. Is there a way to
> >> specify what I want them to be? I know I can set the variable REPLYTO,
> >> but I also want to change the user email address thats in the header.
>
> > I think you can change that by editing the tinrc file or going through the
> > menu of config options...
>
> > (Press m and scroll down 'till you see the one asking for your e-mail
> > address)
>
> Just correcting myself... Press 'M', not 'm'...
>
> --
There is nothing in there that lets me change username or email.
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From: "Anurodh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: modem won't pick up call with uugetty
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 19:12:12 +0530
I finally got uugetty running with out errors on Red hat 6.2 but it won't
pick up any calls. I know that uugetty is running becaus it is shown when i
type ps aux. When i try to dial in i get a click an a pause but nothing
happens and it continues ringing. My modem is an external Hayes 33.6kbps
modem which i know is working and the connection of the modem has been
throughly checked. Cold some one help me.
my entry in inittab is
S3:2345:respawn:/sbin/uugetty -d /etc/conf.uugetty.ttyS1 ttyS1 F38400
my /etc/conf.uugetty.ttyS1 looks like this:
# sample uugetty configuration file for a Hayes compatible modem to allow
# incoming modem connections
#
# alternate lock file to check... if this lock file exists, then uugetty is
# restarted so that the modem is re-initialized
ALTLOCK=ttyS1
ALTLINE=ttyS1
# line to initialize
INITLINE=ttyS1
# timeout to disconnect if idle...
TIMEOUT=60
# modem initialization string...
# format: <expect> <send> ... (chat sequence)
INIT="" AT\r OK\r\n
WAITFOR=RING
CONNECT="" ATA\r CONNECT\s\A
# this line sets the time to delay before sending the login banner
DELAY=1
#DEBUG=010
Thanks
-Anurodh
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Wickham)
Subject: Is it possible to resume UPLOAD using FTP?
Date: 13 Jul 2000 14:01:01 GMT
Hi
I know it is possible to resume downloading using reget, but is there
something similar for uploading (ie PUTing?)
Regards
Paul
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From: "Nikola Pizurica" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PGP signed messages!!!
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 14:38:03 +0100
> Why does everyone on this newsgroup send
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>
> Don't you know that there are places in this world where every byte of
> data in a message is costing the reader money? Newsgroup members, please
> excuse me for sending this (more trash), which may also cost some
> readers a little money! I am just tired of having my resources and
> Internet bandwith used to store and move useless TRASH!!!
>
>
For your information, PGP signing is NOT useless trash. There are people that
care about authencity (sp?) of their posts.
Nikola
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