Re: arachne-digest V1 #2140

2003-06-30 Thread Thomas Mueller
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

Re: NEW MONEY

2003-06-22 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Glenn McCorkle: No messages will get through to me and none can be sent by me if they contain a dollar sign ($) in the subject. Those several messages with suject: M$lookout did not get through to my inbox. There is *no* user configurability. I am STUCK. Untill I change ISPs ;-)

Re: rach now on tap!

2003-06-13 Thread Thomas Mueller
v1.71;UE01 is the 'latest release' http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/ And v1.73;GPL will be available to the public just as soon as Michael releases it. (or gives the 'OK' for me to release it) Glenn I am a week behind om my email, so hopefully v1.73;GPL will have been released by now.

Re: NEW MONEY

2003-06-06 Thread Thomas Mueller
Steve, You say you use Spamassassin. One emailing list I'm on uses Spamassassin, and one of the messages came through marked as ***SPAM*** in the subject line, but the offending message was included in a text attachment. I couldn't see anything indicative of spam in that message, it looks like

Re: At last...read newsgroups with Arachne .. NOT !

2003-06-06 Thread Thomas Mueller
To Alejandro Lieber: Where do you now find UKA_PPP on the Internet for download? I already have it, but the download site no longer seems to have it. To Christof Lange: On your inability to access some news servers, I find that the mail and news functions in UKA_PPP sometimes don't find a host

Re: Why are they trying to kill off only the little people?

2003-04-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Sam Heywood: I am still getting some spams about the illegal cable TV descambler. According to my understanding of the law, it is legal for someone to sell you some technical plans on how to make an illegal cable TV descrambler but it is illegal for you to make one and/or to possess one.

Re: Why are they trying to kill off only the little people?

2003-03-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
And I think your assumptions about pornography are also mistaken. I hardly ever get spam promoting porn sites. Mostly it's just Nigerian generals and drug offers. I used to get the free cable tv device offer all the time, but that seems to have disappeared. Once you get on a certain kind of

Re: RESENT: Shopping...

2003-03-20 Thread Thomas Mueller
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

Re: An Alternative Email Service for DOS, Arachne, Lynx

2003-03-20 Thread Thomas Mueller
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

Re: Suggestion

2003-03-10 Thread Thomas Mueller
To Binky [EMAIL PROTECTED] regarding ISP mail server ASCII 255 bug: I think that y-umlaut is ASCII 255, assuming charset ISO-8859-1. This is really a bug in your ISP's mail server, truncating a file after the occurrence of an ASCII 255 on a line by itself. You should complain and tell them

Re: RESENT: Shopping...

2003-03-10 Thread Thomas Mueller
I once bought a PCI modem that was advertised to be capable of working under DOS. I could not get it to work under DOS, but it worked fine for me under Caldera OpenLinux and also under Window$ 98. Sam Heywood I finally get to your message after falling behind in email and news. I assume

Re: Iraq vs. N Korea

2003-02-12 Thread Thomas Mueller
Excerpt from Bastiaan Edelman: A Japanese and a Chinese can write to each other and understand most of it... but talking to each other is useless. I didn't realize Japanese and Chinese written languages were so close. You mean a Chinese could read a Japanese newspaper, and vice versa? But

What happened to arachne_ue list @yahoogroups.com?

2003-02-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
What happened to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list? Does it still exist? One message (the most recent) that I sent to that list bounced, and my latest mail download included nothing from that list.

Re: Iraq vs. N Korea

2003-02-04 Thread Thomas Mueller
In Australia we were a little peeved when the new state of East Timor adopted Portugese as its national language instead of English. Indonesian would have been a better choice as like Esperanto it is an excellent language and spoken by neighbouring countries, but we could sort of understand

Re: Quoting SPAM ...

2003-02-04 Thread Thomas Mueller
I never got to use procmail but will no doubt study the man page when I get set up with Linux (Slackware 8.1). Can procmail search on only the headers, or only the Return-Path: line? I would like to put all the NetBSD mails in one file or folder, coming from [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: Thank John Zappe for FDSMTPOP 0.35

2003-02-04 Thread Thomas Mueller
Excerpt from Alejandro Lieber [EMAIL PROTECTED]: With this small letter I want to say thanks to John Zappe for his ver 0.35 of Yury Semenov's FDSMTPOP. Where do you get FDSMTPOP, message showed no URL? What kind of message headers does FDSMTPOP use on SMTP? Regular headers or glue headers?

Re: Fw: arachne list cancelled

2003-01-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
I subscribed to the Yahoogroups Arachne list, so I think. To: line on the confirmation message was 77 characters long. I didn't stay online long enough to get the welcome message, that was the end of my session. I didn't use the web interface at all, so I didn't have to answer all those

Re: Fw: arachne list cancelled

2003-01-22 Thread Thomas Mueller
I tried to subscribe to the Arachne list on Yahoo groups, but the confirmation reply got bounced. It seems that the To: line is too long. Why can't the owner of the Majordomo list just be transferred to a new owner? Roger Turk Actually the To: line was not long enough, though it may have

Re: Fw: arachne list cancelled

2003-01-18 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Binky [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My vote is to keep this as a Majordomo list. I don't understand why the unsubscribe problem can't be fixed. I have been on other Majordomo lists for years that were maintained by people a lot less knowlegeable than Michael, and there have never been any

Re: Fw: Majordomo results

2003-01-17 Thread Thomas Mueller
from skywalker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If the unsubscribe function cannot be fixed in a reasonable amount of time, which is something that has now long past then it should be completely scrapped as a list, if it cannot be run in a reasonable manner it should not be run at all. Remember when the

Re: actiontec modems

2003-01-17 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Vasily Zatsepin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: somehow :) I've lost traces of Ralf Brown's PCI program. Can you help me with the link, please? Latest link I find is in the PCICFG.TXT file, and maybe some other Arachne users might also be interested: UPDATES The newest version of the PCICFG.DAT file

Re: Headers: From Ronald Bleckendorf

2003-01-15 Thread Thomas Mueller
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 18:59:54 -0500, Roger Turk wrote: Has anyone else noticed that virtually all of the headers indicate that they are from Ronald Bleckendorf [EMAIL PROTECTED], even when the message is signed by Glenn, Bastiaan, and others? : Somehow... Ronald resent every message right back

Re: Stll no unsubscribe[Fwd: Majordomo results]

2003-01-15 Thread Thomas Mueller
I haven't seen anything where you were not able to delete mail which contained a string in the headers ... so simply search for arachne.cz in the mail headers. CU, Ricsi Actually, it is not necessary to look all through the headers, just the Return-Path or equivalent line is sufficient,

Re: Keeping track of the news [was Re: UT (extreme:): the US and

2003-01-15 Thread Thomas Mueller
Excerpt from Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Several years ago one of the suburbs of Atlanta was having problems with crime, so they passed a very controversial law that everyone must own a gun. Crime dropped 83% within a month of passage. Was this city by any chance Kennesaw GA? They had

Re: actiontec modems

2003-01-13 Thread Thomas Mueller
I have a USRobotics internal PCI hardware modem that works with DOS but not with EPPPD, only with LSPPP. IRQ is 11, base address is 0xd400, which I determined by running a PCI program by Ralf Brown. This same information also shows in Linux in /proc/pci . Sometimes an ISP or more distant server

Re: Stll no unsubscribe[Fwd: Majordomo results]

2003-01-09 Thread Thomas Mueller
I wonder why Michael can't manually unsubscribe list members who want to leave. While the Arachne list is helpful for information on Arachne and some other subjects, I don't think we want to hold people hostage who want out.

Re: Comments on the DMCA and te TPCA

2003-01-04 Thread Thomas Mueller
To Sam Heywood, Roger Turk and possibly others, I'm surprised you didn't hear of DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) until recently. It's not all that new, was passed and signed under Bill Clinton's presidency. FBI arrested a Russian, Dmitri Sklaryov, and the government pressed charges

Re: arachne-digest V1 #2002

2003-01-04 Thread Thomas Mueller
All you need is a mean to parse the query string, then pass it to the DBMS. If only there was a Perl or TCL for DOS... Regards Cristian Burneci There is! Perl for DOS, but no TCL as far as I know. Perl DOS port is compiled with DJGPP. More information on Perl and DJGPP at

Re: arachne-digest V1 #2002

2003-01-02 Thread Thomas Mueller
Excerpt from Glenn Gilbreath Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: OK, the final topic is MTA, mail transport agent...while it is true there are quite a number for DOS, I still vote for NetMail DOS 2.12 by Marc Ressl...it is faster and easier to setup than any other I've tried, which includes FDSMTPOP. I

Re: arachne-digest V1 #1997

2003-01-01 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Ray Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Speaking of the future of Arachne, and the growing difficulty we are having ignoring Java, this monstrous thought entered my head a while ago, and I can't make it go away, so I may as well tell ya: What about Arachne for Windows ? BURN! Yes, I know

Re: arachne-digest V1 #1993

2002-12-29 Thread Thomas Mueller
GEOWORKS supported long filenames in DOS several years before Microsoft managed to get 95 launched. So Microsoft has no claim to the idea whatsoever. Sam Ewalt Croswell, Michigan, USA Microsoft's own Windows NT came before 95, and featured support for long file names with NTFS. Before

Re: Why can't you simply do FTP instead of doing browser upload?

2002-12-29 Thread Thomas Mueller
Excerpt from Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Until a year ago they made FTP possible and FTP is much faster, no bload at all... and files are smaller. HTTP is a 7 bit system so files, eg images, must be encoded by the sender and decoded by the provider. Is MIME the en/decoder; 8

Re: What's important for Arachne's future?

2002-12-29 Thread Thomas Mueller
So here's a question for everyone: What new features are most important for Arachne's future development? Sam Ewalt Croswell, Michigan, USA My first thoughts on this subject are Javascript and https. Lynx now supports https, and this includes the DOS port. With Arachne being released to

Re: %k

2002-12-29 Thread Thomas Mueller
Excerpt from Glenn McCorkle [EMAIL PROTECTED]: BTW, I had to change the '$' to '%' in the subject because the cisnet.com SMTP program refuses '$' signs in the subject line. :( 554 Filtered out by Filter 0 because Subject = Re: $k Glenn, That is a bug on the cisnet.com end. Did you tell

Re: What SPAM is THIS ?????

2002-12-22 Thread Thomas Mueller
What SPAM is THIS ? Did anybody else here get one? Did anybody else get one requesting a reliable supplier of a similar product? I wonder in which dimension my most beloved enemies were travelling when they signed me up for this kind of spam. Sam Heywood I received this same spam,

Re: An HTML Viewer and Database Interface

2002-12-22 Thread Thomas Mueller
I've been racking my brain trying to remember the name of a graphical DOS HTML viewer that I used just before discovering Arachne, lo these many(?) years ago. Knots. If you find whatever the last version of that was, you have a graphical HTML viewer with no communication

Re: Arachne list and Spam

2002-12-18 Thread Thomas Mueller
I got that same spam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] , and presume everybody on the Arachne list got it too. Now this arachne-list@... is a spam target. OK, now let the spammers bombard [EMAIL PROTECTED] , or if that doesn't work, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note my intentional typos). Is there any reason why

Re: Unsubscribing from Arachne

2002-12-18 Thread Thomas Mueller
OK, Matt or whomever, Look, I know it is frustrating, but hey...take a wild guess as to how many people YOU are inconveniencing with your pre-buscent actions...you've been told that Michael is out of his country at the moment and not able to manually fix majordomo, so why post all the

RE: DOSEMUs

2002-12-18 Thread Thomas Mueller
Dear list: All this discussion of Running Arachne in various environments prompts us to comment once again that OS/2 DOSEMU runs Arachne perfectly. DOSEMu for Monkeylinux was impressive, but as it rus on a DOS filesystem it is all a bit superfluous. What we were wondering is whether

Re: base 64 encoded message from unknown source on East coast selling computers

2002-12-11 Thread Thomas Mueller
in response to Thomas Tabler: That message looks like spam, I'd delete it without decoding the base64. I too receive spams, HTML or non-HTML, that are base64-encoded. If it looks like spam judging from the headers, I delete without decoding the base64. Headers in the message you received show

Re: Majordomo results

2002-12-07 Thread Thomas Mueller
Excerpt from Glenn McCorkle [EMAIL PROTECTED]: lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] serves the following lists: all alzirska arabska arachne arachne-announce arachne-development arachne-digest

Re: Majordomo results

2002-12-07 Thread Thomas Mueller
Recently, a server for another listservice that I subscribe to went berserk. Bounced messages were resent to the list and the messages that were bounced were bounced once again and resent again and again. The owner of the list was in Berkeley, California, and the server was in Texas.

Re: unsubscribe error

2002-12-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
I see from your headers that you were using Microsoft Outlook Express. Maybe you sent the unsubscribe request with HTML attachment? Outlook Express does sneaky things like that, plus quoted-printable, without letting the user know. You have to be sure to send the unsubscribe request as one-part

Re: NEANDERTECH.COM:

2002-12-02 Thread Thomas Mueller
Also another word of warning: If you sign up for a shell account with them, the default configuration on their remote server for doing your email with PINE with neandertech.com is not right. I had to change some things to make it work for me. Also you will have to pay extra for newsgroup

Re: OT Spam and Blocking Entire Domains/ISPs

2002-11-27 Thread Thomas Mueller
I am not sure just what Bluegrass Net does to stop spam, but the last I was told is that they blocked mail coming from any server on a list of open relays. I've had legitimate correspondents, both direct and through lists, with Hotmail or Yahoo addresses, and I wouldn't want to bar those. It is

DR-DOS is apparently not lame duck

2002-11-22 Thread Thomas Mueller
According to an article in heise online News [] DR-DOS lebt http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/ps-20.11.02-000 DeviceLogics, aktueller Eigentümer von DR-DOS, will im Frühjahr 2003 eine neue Version des Betriebssystems herausbringen. there may be a new release of DR-DOS in early 2003. There was

Re: ÄÖÜäöü

2002-11-19 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Glenn McCorkle using Arachne V1.71;UE01 : Subject: Re: ÄÖÜäöü from Richard Menedetter using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 : To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=C4=D6=DC=E4=F6=FC?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=C4=D6=DC=E4=F6=FC?= from Richard Menedetter using

Re: Arachne and DJGPP (was Re: Networking)

2002-11-17 Thread Thomas Mueller
Excerpt from Alejandro Lieber [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I really like to use minumun equipment when posible. With the 80286 I have Pegasus Mail, Minuet, POPMail, FTP, Bobcat, UseNet and Telnet to a shell account with Conex where I run Lynx, at a speed more than three times faster than IE in a

Re: mouse not functioning in DOS .

2002-11-11 Thread Thomas Mueller
Hi Victor there so far in MY (former legendary Burma) Your are the third person from Myanmar I talk with :) I have used ctmouse sometimes replacing the mouse.com with better results (try and error) in the ctmouse directory you should have installed it look for rtm.exe Regards Elliot

Re: added RAM yet DOS app still out of low mem (:

2002-11-07 Thread Thomas Mueller
I now have no trouble fitting Arachne in low memory with DR-DOS 7.03, but I think I have less drivers loaded in CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT. With DR-DOS, as opposed to MS-DOS, EMM386.EXE is used for CPU = 386, without HIMEM.SYS. to Andy: Where did you buy RAM to boost the old computer from 8 MB

Re: It has nothing to do with TEXTAREA.TMP [was Re: your troubles

2002-09-27 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Michael Polak: It doesn't really make money, but it is steady income without need to pretend that I am programming genius ;) (which I never was...) I guess then that webhosting, even if it can't make you rich, will keep you financially solvent better than Arachne could. Arachne and

Re: It has nothing to do with TEXTAREA.TMP [was Re: your troubles

2002-09-20 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Micheal Polak: Also note, that what I do for living now, is webhosting - http://webspace.arachne.cz/. Arachne is not abandoned, but I am also not really supporting it. It is currently undergoing transformation into open source project, which is the best way to prevent it from being

Re: Testing A1.71

2002-09-17 Thread Thomas Mueller
F2 save. Have you tried saving a file to any, repeat ANY, directory except the set path of arachne\download\ ? All of my attempts have ended in the download directory and none in the targetted directory. Regards, Ron Ron Clarke I have no problem saving to another

Re: Arachne and Linux

2002-09-01 Thread Thomas Mueller
Excerpt from Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Links is like lynx but with support for https, tables, and frames. If you like text browsing, you might prefer it. Actually the newer versions of Lynx also support https. I believe Lynx386 (http://www.rahul.net/dkaufman/) is the only DOS browser with

RE: more about floods

2002-08-20 Thread Thomas Mueller
Cristian; I live here in what they call tornado alley. I and others have seen as many as 7 funnel clouds at onetime together. I have seen barns, houses, and machine sheds moved or strewn for miles. Last year we followed a large path of the remnants of several buildings for 13 miles before

Re: Base64 decoding problem

2002-07-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
In my last POP3 download, I received two apparently Klez-bearing messages totaling 289 KB, both had Return-Path ending in .il, just like the one you (Sam Heywood) received. I notice something special in the pattern of these messages, a line iframe src=cid:... in the HTML part and a matching

Re: version numbers (was Re: Dillo)

2002-07-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
The new plan of action The Linux versions to be 2.x The Dos versions will stay in the 1.x range. Most likely stepping-up in increments of .01 per release. At 1 release sometime during each calendar year... We can continue on this path until 2030. ;-) -- Glenn While this is

Re: Dillo

2002-06-30 Thread Thomas Mueller
Excerpt from Cristian Burneci [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This may be off topic, but it seems that we experience an invasion of fast and small browsers these days. Less than two years ago the choices were very limited. There were only IE and Netscape. Opera was only at the begining. Arachne was there

Re: OT: BeOS info

2002-06-27 Thread Thomas Mueller
Excerpt from Day Brown: So, a modular system, that did the text in text mode, and the surfing in gui would make more sense. Arachne came pretty close, but my local isp did something, and dos wont logon any more. Even so, it wouldnt do usenet. Which is kinda curious for a tool for lower

Re: Is MSN.COM just a pseudo-ISP like AOL?

2002-06-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
I never tried to access MSN, and have never seen MSN in action, but I remember an ad that said MSN required Windows 95 or 98. That was before ME, and I think it was also before Win2000. But Windows NT was conspicuous by its absence and seemed to indicate MS was not good for compatibility even

Re: Old dos archive

2002-06-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 21:55:20 -0700, Destiny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Previous discussions inquired of locating old dos install files. http://386page.gooddays.org has dos/windows/os2/deskview of various flavors including dos 3.30. Sam Heyood responded: I downloaded MSDOS, version 3.30 from

Re: BEOS.INS File

2002-06-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
to Dean Coffey: Now you have me curious about BeOS, its future and where and how to get it, and will it boot with LILO. I heard about Be Inc going out of business, being sold to Palm who were not going to contiune developing BeOS. What kind of web browsers are there for BeOS, and how do they

Re: Arachne versions

2002-06-21 Thread Thomas Mueller
Only Arachne version I retain is 1.70r3. I didn't see any advantage in retaining any earlier version. As I best remember, there were short intervals in some cases between successive 1.6x releases, so I could possibly have missed something along the way. I don't think being a registered user

Re: bootable dos's? and Arachne-Digest #1860

2002-06-13 Thread Thomas Mueller
As for the two sends, I believe one would be to a Netscape e-mail client like Mozilla, and the other just for dos apps. Yeah, it's really the same mail, just two identities for two different e-mail clients. Of course I could be wrong, but does it make a whole lot of difference, since the

Re: problem with obtaining earlier DOSes

2002-06-07 Thread Thomas Mueller
Excerpt from Sam Heywood: If you have a hard drive having a partition larger than 32 MB and you try to SYS it with a DOS version 3.30 or less you will have problems. I don't know how serious the problems would be because I have never dared to try it. I'm inclined to think you'd avoid

Re: Migration away from Arachne?

2002-06-07 Thread Thomas Mueller
On Tue, 04 Jun 2002 16:55:41 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: I won't be migrating anywhere soon. The only way I feel SAFE in using an untrustworthy dangerous OS from M$ -- 98SE, w2k -- is the sure knowledge that using Arachne to get my mail protects me better than even the best virus protectors out

Re: problem with obtaining earlier DOSes

2002-06-04 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am I wrong in my understanding of DOS that the files needed to create a boot disk (MSDOS\PCDOS, IO.SYS/IBMIO.SYS, COMMAND.COM) are *always* files on the DOS disk, but, except for COMMAND.COM, are hidden/system files? Could you not create a boot disk by copying these files (removing the

Re: Laptop won't connect

2002-06-04 Thread Thomas Mueller
Thanks to both of you for the suggestions. I went off and located LSPPP 0.8 and even read the instructions that came with it! Running it on its own, I could get it to put all the essential information into IP-UP.BAT, including DNS numbers. However, I simply could not get Arachne to play

Re: Laptop won't connect

2002-05-31 Thread Thomas Mueller
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 09:00:15AM +, Edenyard wrote: I've just been given a Viglen Dossier 486 Laptop with PCMCIA modem and one of the first jobs (after removing doze) was to install Arachne 1.7r3. I managed to get the modem driver to work and the modem is well and truly functional.

Re: Access-4-Free (fwd)

2002-05-31 Thread Thomas Mueller
On Tue, 28 May 2002 08:47:35 -0400 (EDT) Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, and Sam Heywood responded: Sam, Maybe you didn't comprehend the implications of this the first time I sent it? ... Apple PC's don't have dynamic DNS capability. They therefore MUST use static DNS servers. The

Re: Is Arachne list alive?

2002-05-27 Thread Thomas Mueller
I began getting Arachne list messages again May 24, just before that message illustrating the Korean spam. Arachne list activity seems rather light. I guess I need to ask my ISP about what spam filters they now use, whether that might have blocked [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Modem compatibility with LSppp and EPPPD

2002-05-27 Thread Thomas Mueller
I have experience in using many different modems to get on line with various DOS internet applications. So far I have found that any functional real modem, even very old 2400 bps. modems, will work with EPPPD. I have encountered several real modems that will work fine with EPPPD, but they

Re: Arachne no longer works with Spamcop

2002-05-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
Steve, Have you been seeing messages from Arachne list? I haven't. Your message headers first line was Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] meaning the copy you sent directly to me, off list. When I asked if fetchmail had trouble with messages having one or more lines of 1024 characters, I was

Is Arachne list alive?

2002-05-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
Is the Arachne list still alive? Has the list been down? Last message I see shows (excerpt from the headers) From: Sam Ewalt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 17:29:57 -0500 X-Mailer: Arachne V1.70;rev.3 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now is 24 May 2002, about 15:00 GMT as I type

Re: Arachne no longer works with Spamcop

2002-05-22 Thread Thomas Mueller
This is, in part, a test message to the Arachne list. Has the list been down, or have I been dropped due to some bug? I can't see the rationale behind the Korean spammers bombarding me and others. What can they be trying to sell me if I can't read their language? One type of spam is probably

Re: Arachne no longer works with Spamcop

2002-05-18 Thread Thomas Mueller
Steve, I received your message sent directly to me, but not through the Arachne list. I didn't receive anything through the Arachne list in close proximity to your message, figure Arachne list must be or have been down. So I send CC to you so you get the message even if the Arachne list is

Re: Arachne no longer works with Spamcop

2002-05-16 Thread Thomas Mueller
So far I don't think that reporting it has helped at all. Maybe there is a way of reporting it that will do some good. I sure would like to see some spammers get prosecuted and go to jail. If they would only make an example of a few of them, then that should almost put a complete stop to

http://www.kaai.salu.net/ crashes Arachne

2002-05-14 Thread Thomas Mueller
I followed a link to http://www.kaai.salu.net/, got a shaking Verifying images as if it were in an infinite loop of verifying images, and it just stayed that way. Mouse couldn't move mouse pointer, Ctrl-Break did nothing, no key did anything except Ctrl-Alt-Del, which rebooted. I originally

Re: About Today links don't work right in Arachne

2002-05-04 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Sam Ewalt: Javascript rears its ugly head again. That's the problem. Of course, Glenn can probably fix it so he can view these pages with Arachne-- but a mortal like myself can only cough and sputter and fire up a Javascript enabled browser. I figured Javascript was the culprit. But I

Re: [2] Need volunteers with slow computers

2002-05-01 Thread Thomas Mueller
Thanks for the feedback, and I wish there were more brave souls out there - but I certainly understand the reluctance to try a possibly dagerous experiment on a working box. g Clarence Verge. I'd be reluctant to risk trashing hard disk data for an experiment involving a version of DOS that

About Today links don't work right in Arachne

2002-05-01 Thread Thomas Mueller
I notice recently that links in the About Today newsletter, from about.com, seem not to work right in Arachne. Article does not show at all, though a few images show. Last time I tried, the links worked in DOS Lynx386. I got the same result typing in the link URLs, so it's not the fault of the

Virus Protect Master Boot Record?

2002-04-28 Thread Thomas Mueller
For many years I happily used Pagett Peterson's Disksecure II to protect the Master Boot Record (MBR) of my disk from boot/stealth viruses. I am now considering updating my partition table to FAT-32 to save space, and eliminate the work of managing several different (logical) drive letters.

Re: Why M$? [was Re: Against M$ {Re: Some of you might be interested

2002-04-12 Thread Thomas Mueller
Begin quote, and I don't want to modify anything as by line prefix. There are some strange characters at the start that arouse my curiosity: Ô( system for DOS stuff. This MMX-233 system will remain pristine, and Arachne will be used for all e-mail applications. I've been assured by some

Re: Who is at the very top?

2002-04-06 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Samuel W. Heywood [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I know that your reply was directed mainly to the other and mostly original Sam; however, I have a question about the upcoming IPv6 (alias IPng), whatever that is. This is the first mention I have ever seen of such a beast. My question is this:

Re: Who is at the very top?

2002-04-04 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Samuel W. Heywood [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I know that your reply was directed mainly to the other and mostly original Sam; however, I have a question about the upcoming IPv6 (alias IPng), whatever that is. This is the first mention I have ever seen of such a beast. My question is this:

Re: Who is at the very top?

2002-04-04 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Samuel W. Heywood [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I know that your reply was directed mainly to the other and mostly original Sam; however, I have a question about the upcoming IPv6 (alias IPng), whatever that is. This is the first mention I have ever seen of such a beast. My question is this:

Re: Myrealbox works with Basiclinux, but only for POP3/SMTP

2002-03-31 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Sam Ewalt: You're not getting my point, are you? I don't want to login first and then send. I don't want to make mail runs. I don't like doing email offline. I want to just write and send. That's all. It's simple. I don't like the protocol. I prefer to do things my own way. The

Re: Free web based email and POP3 service that still works with Arachne

2002-03-31 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Sam Ewalt: I gave up on the newsgroups several years ago. There seems to be a relevant mailing list for most subjects. Besides, posting to newsgroups is a sure fire way to increase your spam load. How would that explain all the Korean spams I've been receiving? I received 18 in 47

Re: An unbelievable thing happened

2002-03-30 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Clarence Verge: I'm getting too attached to Arachne. I hardly use any other software these days, certainly not for web access or email. The next most important package I have is Sidekick, which I use as my text editor. Pretty primitive eh ? How big a file can you access with Sidekick?

Re: http://www.shanjemail.com/networkstatus.html

2002-03-30 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Thomas Tabler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This page shows the current status for mailandnews.com. I am not sure if it is completely Arachne compatible. Nevertheless, a List member posted on it's status. Thanks to Michael Polak and Arachne I am still on the Net! even with no floppy drive!

Re: Free web based email and POP3 service that still works with Arachne

2002-03-28 Thread Thomas Mueller
I don't think I can cross-post to the Nettamer list, since I'm not on that list; can't even set up Nettamer on the new computer. Input forms only allow three hex digits for nonstandard COM port base address, so I couldn't enter d400 but had to enter d40 in hope of correcting it afterward by

Re: Free web based email and POP3 service V1 #1801

2002-03-27 Thread Thomas Mueller
When mailandnews.com discontinued last Feb 28, I thought that was the end, and that free email services with POP3 access were fading away. I'll have to browse their web site just to see if they're back in action, maybe I can also see if my account survived [EMAIL PROTECTED]. heise online

Re: Free web based email and POP3 service that still works with Arachne

2002-03-26 Thread Thomas Mueller
On the subject of free web-based email with POP3 service, I saw in an article on heise online (http://www.heise.de/newsticker/) that Yahoo was discontinuing free POP3 access as of April 20, 2002, if I remember correctly. Article is only a few days old, so you still might find it on heise online,

Re: Kali's DOSnet

2002-03-21 Thread Thomas Mueller
I think QEMM is on the wonderful FDISK page. I must have another look. Kali I think I need to CC this back to the Arachne list since somebody there might have more ideas on QEMM. Is that wonderful FDISK page http://www.fdisk.com/ or maybe http://www.fdisk.com/doslynx/ ? I really can't

Re: Problems with Operamail

2002-03-19 Thread Thomas Mueller
I am not an Operamail user, never was, but will be curious to browse http://www.opera.com/support/operamail Presumably Operamail works with Opera web browser? If anybody wants to fill their own Operamail inbox and just let it sit for 149 days, they can browse about.com and subscribe to a few

Re: Kali's DOSnet

2002-03-19 Thread Thomas Mueller
18 Mar 2002, Kali McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: KM I just wasted a day in a foul mood trying to do just this but it all KM stopped working! KM It turned out to be an argument between EMM386.sys and cwsdpmi.exe KM who obviously had different ideas about memory management. Ricsi

Re: Linuxii ? and SuSE (fwd)

2002-02-26 Thread Thomas Mueller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: NOS-BOX 2.05 Thomas Mueller wrote: What does BasicLinux use for POP3, SMTP and NNTP? ) Fetchmail, emailSMTP and google. ) Cheers, ) Steven

Re: Linuxii ? and SuSE (fwd)

2002-02-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Steven of NZ: What do you mean by typical Linux? RedHat? SuSE? Mandrake? The base Slackware and Debian installs are less than 40mb. How does that compare to BSD? BSD base system, at least NetBSD and OpenBSD, and I think FreeBSD too, download is about 90 MB in several .tgz files,

Re: Linuxii ? and SuSE (fwd)

2002-02-20 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Neo Sze Wee [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How does BSD compare to linux? Are they better for small memory system? Thank you. Typical BSD install is much smaller than typical Linux install. You stil need to install some packages to make it usable for the Internet and other things. OpenBSD can

Re: New problem sending messages in V1.70r3

2002-02-19 Thread Thomas Mueller
One RFC-related problem I have discovered with Arachne is the problem of having a line in an email message beginning with the word begin. Arachne will interpret the word begin as a keyword signalling the beginning of an inserted UUENCODED file. This problem we have discussed on the list a

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