Re: ADMIN: Another test from Yahoo...

2003-08-27 Thread David Hobby
Nick Arnett wrote: Not sure if we're there yet or not. Somebody post to the list! If I weren't getting my own messages, this would be easier! I just got this--I'm posting right back. Yes, I read you loud and clear... Oops, it's dated Monday.

Re: Creative spam

2003-08-27 Thread Jan Coffey
Just in case you missed this. I am working on an even better solution than spam blocking. Well, I say working on but at this point it is just an idea I through out last night to a friend or two. Here is the gist: You create a mailpass key. It's a public key which you pass to anyone

Re: Why extra virgin olive oil is so healthy

2003-08-27 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Ticia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also a test. Have I been unsubbed or something? Why is extra virgin olive oil so healthy? Olive oil is rich in monounsaturated fats, but so is lard - so something else may be the secret of olive oil's remarkable benefits. Unlike vegetable oils derived

Re: ADMIN: Another test from Yahoo...

2003-08-27 Thread Jan Coffey
I just posted to the list and it seemed to work. I was using yahoo as well. --- David Hobby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick Arnett wrote: Not sure if we're there yet or not. Somebody post to the list! If I weren't getting my own messages, this would be easier! I just got

ECTS

2003-08-27 Thread Andrew Crystall
I'm going as press. Anyone else? Want to meet up? Andy Dawn Falcon ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: ADMIN: More blasted testing

2003-08-27 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 8/25/2003 9:38:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've upgraded Mailman from 2.1 to 2.1.2 and hope that now it'll behave. But there's also a patch I think I need to apply... Let's just see if this message gets out. Got it -- Nick Arnett

Re: Test message - now with CONTENT! :)

2003-08-27 Thread Julia Thompson
Julia Thompson wrote: The redistricting fight in Texas has inspired a humor columnist in Austin to come up with a new word - Perrymandering. If this message gets back to me, I'll reply and include a URL. Otherwise, well, if you go to statesman.com and look for today's John Kelso column,

Re: [KillerBzzz] Virus count

2003-08-27 Thread Steve Sloan II
Robert Seeberger wrote: In the last 10 or so hours I have gotten about 300 copies of SobigF in my inbox. Am I alone or is the entire net being crushed under this assault? I've been getting about the same number. Fortunately, my ISP's spam filter finally got smart enough to catch it a couple

Exorcism Ruled a Homicide

2003-08-27 Thread Robert Seeberger
Boy's death ruled homicide Church elder sat on child's chest, police say; charges uncertain http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/aug03/164862.asp xponent Limited Freedom Of Religion Maru rob ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: [KillerBzzz] Virus count

2003-08-27 Thread Steve Sloan II
Robert Seeberger wrote: In the last 10 or so hours I have gotten about 300 copies of SobigF in my inbox. Julia Thompson wrote: Me too. (But more like 500.) And a couple were supposedly from a listmember. I suspect that at least one list member or former list member had a computer

Re: [KillerBzzz] Virus count

2003-08-27 Thread Julia Thompson
Steve Sloan II wrote: Robert Seeberger wrote: In the last 10 or so hours I have gotten about 300 copies of SobigF in my inbox. Am I alone or is the entire net being crushed under this assault? I've been getting about the same number. Fortunately, my ISP's spam filter finally

Re: [KillerBzzz] Virus count

2003-08-27 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 08:49 PM 8/26/2003 -0500, you wrote: Robert Seeberger wrote: In the last 10 or so hours I have gotten about 300 copies of SobigF in my inbox. Am I alone or is the entire net being crushed under this assault? I've been getting about the same number. Fortunately, my ISP's spam filter finally

Re: faux news endorsing Schwarzenegger in partisan race

2003-08-27 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 08:02 PM 8/24/03 -0500, The Fool wrote: http://www.drudgereport.com/flash.htm FOXNEWS ORDERS AN END TO WORD-PLAYS ON SCHWARZENEGGER MOVIES; SERIOUS CANDIDATE, SERIOUS COVERAGE Sun Aug 24 2003 16:10:31 ET Fox News Channel senior vice president John Moody has ordered an end to Schwarzenegger

Re: Politics, was [L3] Re: fight the evil of price discrimination

2003-08-27 Thread Doug Pensinger
Gautam Mukunda wrote: They do. One says that Pol Pot was a pretty good guy. The other was wrong about poverty rates in the 1950s. Do you really think that they're the same? No, I think the guy that has an audience of millions that take him very seriously and lies about a hell of a lot more

Re: Testing...

2003-08-27 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 08:21 PM 8/25/03 +0100, William T Goodall wrote: I've sent email to the list on Sunday (about not getting any email) but haven't seen anything in my inbox from the list since Saturday. I can see that a few messages have been added to the archive since then, but I haven't seen any of them in

Re: Interesting little tidbit

2003-08-27 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 03:24 PM 8/26/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: Sometime earlier this year, I'd stumbled across a webpage that listed all the mascots used by Texas high schools, giving the number of schools having each mascot. At the very bottom of the page was the list of unique mascots. Hippo was on that

Re: [KillerBzzz] Virus count

2003-08-27 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 10:19 PM 8/26/03 -0400, Kevin Tarr wrote: I got my deer head mount back today, the cat is not impressed. How did (s)he react? -- Ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: testing

2003-08-27 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 10:09 PM 8/26/03 +1000, Ray Ludenia wrote: At least I have made good use of the extra time available not reading listmail by reading more books. I made use of the downtime by (1) working on some still-unfinished graphics which should have been finished already and (2) school started

Re: Brin: Religion is Funny and Must Be Enjoyed

2003-08-27 Thread d.brin
It has been suggested to me that some here might derive some enjoyment from a piece I wrote some months ago, particularly since it's clear in retrospect that there was at least some subconscious Brin influence: http://www.thesugarbeet.com/archive/12-1/topstories/cetacean.html Ronn Har!!!

Re: testing

2003-08-27 Thread Doug Pensinger
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 10:09 PM 8/26/03 +1000, Ray Ludenia wrote: At least I have made good use of the extra time available not reading listmail by reading more books. I made use of the downtime by (1) working on some still-unfinished graphics which should have been finished already and

Re: testing

2003-08-27 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 09:09 PM 8/26/03 -0700, Doug Pensinger wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 10:09 PM 8/26/03 +1000, Ray Ludenia wrote: At least I have made good use of the extra time available not reading listmail by reading more books. I made use of the downtime by (1) working on some still-unfinished graphics

RE: Brin-L problems

2003-08-27 Thread A . Freiberg
I was already wondering that there are no new items in my Brin folder. Maybe it's the Worm Week? At least my computers are still healthy (a friend of mine had SOBIG and I had to find out and remove it manually because Internet connection was no longer working). Regards Armin -- From:

Re: faux news endorsing Schwarzenegger in partisan race

2003-08-27 Thread Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo
From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: faux news endorsing Schwarzenegger in partisan race Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 22:19:53 -0500 At 08:02 PM 8/24/03 -0500, The Fool wrote:

Re: Interesting little tidbit

2003-08-27 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 03:24 PM 8/26/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: Sometime earlier this year, I'd stumbled across a webpage that listed all the mascots used by Texas high schools, giving the number of schools having each mascot. At the very bottom of the page was the list of unique

Re: faux news endorsing Schwarzenegger in partisan race

2003-08-27 Thread Julia Thompson
Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo wrote: From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: faux news endorsing Schwarzenegger in partisan race Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 22:19:53 -0500 At 08:02 PM 8/24/03

Re: faux news endorsing Schwarzenegger in partisan race

2003-08-27 Thread The Fool
From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 08:02 PM 8/24/03 -0500, The Fool wrote: http://www.drudgereport.com/flash.htm FOXNEWS ORDERS AN END TO WORD-PLAYS ON SCHWARZENEGGER MOVIES; SERIOUS CANDIDATE, SERIOUS COVERAGE Sun Aug 24 2003 16:10:31 ET Fox News Channel senior vice president

BBC to put television show archive online

2003-08-27 Thread Matt Grimaldi
It looks like we'll be able to download all our favorite old BBC shows! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3177479.stm or: http://tinyurl.com/l12m -- Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software

RFID's now with 500% more evil

2003-08-27 Thread The Fool
RFID Gussied Up With Biosensors By Mark Baard Still stinging from failed attempts to introduce radio tags to consumers, retailers and their suppliers are now adding features to the technology to make it appear essential to the safety of the nation's food supply. As recently as last week,

Re: BBC to put television show archive online

2003-08-27 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 8/27/2003 11:22:36 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It looks like we'll be able to download all our favorite old BBC shows! Ying tong iddle i po Vilyehm Teighlore ___

Re: BBC to put television show archive online

2003-08-27 Thread Jean-Louis Couturier
At 11:13 2003-08-27 -0700, Matt wrote: It looks like we'll be able to download all our favorite old BBC shows! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3177479.stm or: http://tinyurl.com/l12m -- Matt I sense an imminent _Dr Who_ binge. And _Neverwhere_ and _Red Dwarf_ and _Hitch

shrub-lite Sends Lawyers to Represent a Fetus

2003-08-27 Thread The Fool
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/colb/20030827.html Governor Jeb Bush Sends Lawyers to Represent a Fetus: Targeting A Mentally Retarded Pregnant Woman for Pro-Life Intervention By SHERRY F. COLB Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2003 Several months ago, Florida Governor Jeb Bush intervened in a case

Weekly Chat Reminder

2003-08-27 Thread Steve Sloan II
This is just a quick reminder that the Wednesday Brin-L chat is scheduled for 3 PM Eastern/2 PM Central time in the US, or 7 PM Greenwich time, so it's starting now. There will probably be somebody there to talk to for at least eight hours after the start time. See my instruction page for help

unconstitutional House vote sanctifies religion

2003-08-27 Thread The Fool
http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/0803/27moore.html House vote sanctifies religion Judge Roy Moore, the chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, has drawn national attention with his refusal to remove a monument to the Ten Commandments from the Alabama Supreme Court, even though

Re: Why extra virgin olive oil is so healthy

2003-08-27 Thread Ticia
Jan Coffey wrote: --- Ticia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... From newsletter Zone Diet Weekly Tip from Dr. Barry Sears Zone bars are adictive. I had one for breakfast every morning for a week. The next day I ran out and had eggs and a bit of tuna. By the second day of being zone free I was having

mongomery protestor demographics

2003-08-27 Thread The Fool
http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2003_08_24_dneiwert_archive.html#106179567260 601299 Behind the tablets Here's an interesting and amusing report from Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is located in Montgomery, Alabama, site of this week's excitement over the Ten Commandments:

Re: Interesting little tidbit

2003-08-27 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 06:52 AM 8/27/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 03:24 PM 8/26/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: Sometime earlier this year, I'd stumbled across a webpage that listed all the mascots used by Texas high schools, giving the number of schools having each mascot. At the

Re: unconstitutional House vote sanctifies religion

2003-08-27 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 02:58 PM 8/27/03 -0500, The Fool wrote: http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/0803/27moore.html House vote sanctifies religion Judge Roy Moore, the chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, has drawn national attention with his refusal to remove a monument to the Ten Commandments from

Re: unconstitutional House vote sanctifies religion

2003-08-27 Thread Erik Reuter
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:01:57PM -0500, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 02:58 PM 8/27/03 -0500, The Fool wrote: http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/0803/27moore.html Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded project. -

Re: Global Warming

2003-08-27 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns4072 Europe may be breathing a sigh of relief as its record-breaking heatwave eases, but there is still plenty to worry about. Temperature changes caused by global warming are likely to

Re: Cool Stuff

2003-08-27 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Monkey Picked Tea - £13.95 Why not paws for a cuppa? This deliciously delicate brew has been hand - or rather paw - picked by specially trained monkeys. No, really! The industrious little fur balls are famous in China, and the leaves that

Re: Creative spam

2003-08-27 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- Gary Nunn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Spammers can certainly be as creative as they can be annoying. With MailWasher, I am bouncing and deleting an average of 30 messages a day, probably twice that on weekends. I am assuming that those weekend spammers have real jobs during the week.