Re: Removal of Email Address

2002-09-07 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Is there any actual evidence that obscuring email addresses in common forms like asd at suespammers dot org actually does any good? Has anyone actually created two random email addresses, and posted them to the same web page, one obscured, one not, and seen if there is a measurable difference

Re: truetype font licensing

2002-09-07 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Tuesday, Sep 3, 2002, at 01:44 US/Eastern, J.B. Nicholson-Owens wrote: This font may not be distributed with commercial applications. Released under the terms of the Gnu Public License, www.gnu.org That notice has many problems, the least of which being said license does not exist.

Re: Removal of Email Address

2002-09-07 Thread Richard Braakman
On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 06:19:26AM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: Seriously, I have posted many, many, places with my suespammers address. I get little spam at it, but a piece or two a day. OTOH, my [EMAIL PROTECTED] address gets nailed with tens of pieces a day. So, what's the difference?

Re: Timidity-patches eek

2002-09-07 Thread Roberto Gordo Saez
David Given [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking into it, timidity-patches turns out to have been put together from patch files taken from the Midia patch set, distributed with the Midia MIDI renderer that ran on SGI workstations. Midia and its patch Yes, i've been suspecting that, because of the

Re: Knuth statement on renaming cm files and Licence violation.

2002-09-07 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Sniffen) wrote on 04.09.02 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bear in mind, Russ, nobody is questioning whether TeX (or LaTeX) are *good* software, or *useful* software, or even *open source* software. The question is whether they are free software. Statements like this really

Re: Knuth statement on renaming cm files and Licence violation.

2002-09-07 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) wrote on 04.09.02 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The arguments that have been presented that say that requiring file renaming is an infringment on the freedoms guaranteed by the DFSG are certainly reasonable ones and

Re: Knuth statement on renaming cm files and Licence violation.

2002-09-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 08:36:00PM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Sniffen) wrote on 04.09.02 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bear in mind, Russ, nobody is questioning whether TeX (or LaTeX) are *good* software, or *useful* software, or even *open source* software. The

Re: Removal of Email Address

2002-09-07 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Richard Braakman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My theory is that the address harvesters are trying to be smart and are deleting the spam substring from your address. Some poor bastard at suemers.org is getting all your spam :) If they were being smart they would just send to both. I mean, these

Re: Knuth statement on renaming cm files and Licence violation.

2002-09-07 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) writes: DFSG says that you have to permit modification. (By patches or directly.) That is violated by a rule like if you modify this, you must chant the kama sutra or if you modify this, you cannot name the output file foo.bar. It is not actually

Re: Timidity-patches eek

2002-09-07 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 07:10:24PM +0200, Roberto Gordo Saez wrote: I wonder how difficult will be to make a new set of patches for timidity... any volunteer? The timidity patches need replacing because they're crap. If they are also non-free crap, they _really_ have got to go. In ages past,

Re: Knuth statement on renaming cm files and Licence violation.

2002-09-07 Thread Dylan Thurston
Martin Schr??der wrote: On 2002-09-06 18:59:45 -0400, Dylan Thurston wrote: On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 03:35:17PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: The names could only be restricted if they are trademarked, which they are not. Computer Modern might be trademarked (I don't know), It is,