Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet (was: domain names, was: hostname)

2018-03-21 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2018-03-21 hackte terryc in die Tasten: > On Wed, 21 Mar 2018 09:00:16 +0100 > wrote: >> To put that on stronger terms -- we'd end up with two and a half >> gatekeepers for mail: Google, Hotmail (aka Microsoft) and... who >> did I forget? > > yahoo for a starter, then there is that French mob O

Re: how to view config file changes without running an upgrade?

2018-03-21 Thread Jason
On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 09:53:13PM +0100, deloptes wrote: > Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > > I fully empathize. Constantly and getting worse over time. I just > > tried to write a three or four paragraph email to a raptor > > rehabilitation list. One last proofread before sending found at least > > f

Re: domain names, was: hostname

2018-03-21 Thread David Wright
On Wed 21 Mar 2018 at 20:02:55 (+), Brian wrote: > On Tue 20 Mar 2018 at 17:07:47 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > On Fri 23 Feb 2018 at 16:18:29 (+), Brian wrote: > > > > > > With > > > > > > 127.0.1.1 gmail > > > > > > in /etc/hosts the conversation would go like this: > > > >

[Lynx-dev] ANN: lynx2.8.9dev.17

2018-03-21 Thread Karen Lewellen
Rather a few items in this new release. Karen On Thu, 22 Mar 2018, Thomas Dickey wrote: The current version of lynx is 2.8.8 It's available at http://lynx.invisible-island.net/ ftp://invisible-island.net/lynx/ 2.8.9 Development & patches: http://lynx.invisible-island.n

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet (was: domain names, was: hostname)

2018-03-21 Thread Forest
On Wed, 2018-03-21 at 21:59 +0100, deloptes wrote: > Forest Dean Feighner wrote: > > > Right on! I used to have an email server in the 90's and even hand > > wrote > > the sendmail config file, lol. > > > > Shell account, of course, at the local ISP. > > and that's why you first topposted and se

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet

2018-03-21 Thread Dan Purgert
Richard Hector wrote: > This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) > --74MY4YRdzqYrpY64nFoecBsxLWqTbYeLg > Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="W7QULzTEwHyPVYL9CjAwUAkHYtJwwuUvr"; > protected-headers="v1" > From: Richard Hector > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Message-ID:

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet

2018-03-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 3/21/18 7:57 PM, Dan Purgert wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: On 3/21/18 5:25 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] I'm a consumer not a provider, but I understood that "control membership" was part of structure for a "moderated group". Education cheerfully accepted ;} Not really.  Moderated mean

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet

2018-03-21 Thread Dan Purgert
Miles Fidelman wrote: > On 3/21/18 5:25 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: >> [...] >> >> I'm a consumer not a provider, but I understood that "control >> membership" was part of structure for a "moderated group". >> Education cheerfully accepted ;} >> >> > Not really.  Moderated meant that posts were filt

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet (was: domain names, was: hostname)

2018-03-21 Thread David Wright
On Wed 21 Mar 2018 at 16:21:44 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 02:53:47PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > HELO dotlessdomainname > > HELO dotcontaining.home > > > > I want someone to explain to me why having a dot is better then not > > having a dot in deciding w

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet

2018-03-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 3/21/18 5:15 PM, deloptes wrote: But back to DMARC, it indeed works for the big players as smaller one can not easily implement and get the ratings the bigger get, however I have seen also smaller companies use their own mail servers and keep them up to date and score pretty well. the probl

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet

2018-03-21 Thread Brian
On Wed 21 Mar 2018 at 16:41:25 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 03/21/2018 03:47 PM, Brian wrote: > > On Wed 21 Mar 2018 at 12:05:53 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > > > On 3/21/18 11:48 AM, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > > > > > > > On 21/03/18 01:00 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > > > > > > >

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet

2018-03-21 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/21/2018 04:51 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 3/21/18 5:25 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 03/21/2018 03:38 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 3/21/18 12:32 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 03/21/2018 11:05 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 3/21/18 11:48 AM, Charlie Gibbs wrote: On 21/03/18 01:00 AM, t

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet

2018-03-21 Thread Richard Hector
On 22/03/18 09:21, Greg Wooledge wrote: > One heuristic that is commonly used is to reject all messages where > the HELO doesn't even syntactically qualify as a valid FQDN -- in other > words, has no dot in it. I often see this alluded to, but struggle to find evidence - why shouldn't there be a p

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet

2018-03-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 3/21/18 5:25 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 03/21/2018 03:38 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 3/21/18 12:32 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 03/21/2018 11:05 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 3/21/18 11:48 AM, Charlie Gibbs wrote: On 21/03/18 01:00 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: My problem with "socia

Re: how to view config file changes without running an upgrade?

2018-03-21 Thread deloptes
Richard Hector wrote: > Where 'checked' was presumably the debilitate one :-) true, sorry - even double checking fails sometime :D

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet

2018-03-21 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/21/2018 03:47 PM, Brian wrote: On Wed 21 Mar 2018 at 12:05:53 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 3/21/18 11:48 AM, Charlie Gibbs wrote: On 21/03/18 01:00 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: My problem with "social networks" is that they're monopolies. Imagine popping down to the local pub for a

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet (was: domain names, was: hostname)

2018-03-21 Thread deloptes
Joe wrote: > Indeed. Exim4 is fairly easy to configure either way. yes indeed, it took me only one month to write all the rules required (with irony)

Re: how to view config file changes without running an upgrade?

2018-03-21 Thread Richard Hector
On 22/03/18 09:53, deloptes wrote: > The rule "check, double check and then proceed" - always payed off for me. > Luckily most of simple typos are caught by the spell checked, so reading > before sending is mostly meant to catch the semantic mistakes. Where 'checked' was presumably the debilitate

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet (was: domain names, was: hostname)

2018-03-21 Thread deloptes
Greg Wooledge wrote: > My understanding: the SMTP receiver will use whatever heuristics it > finds appropriate to avoid receiving spam. > > One heuristic that is commonly used is to reject all messages where > the HELO doesn't even syntactically qualify as a valid FQDN -- in other > words, has no

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet (was: domain names, was: hostname)

2018-03-21 Thread deloptes
Forest Dean Feighner wrote: > gmail... > > I have little to add. next time try the "..." on the bottom of the reply message before writing anything. it does wonder ;-) regards

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet

2018-03-21 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/21/2018 03:38 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 3/21/18 12:32 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 03/21/2018 11:05 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 3/21/18 11:48 AM, Charlie Gibbs wrote: On 21/03/18 01:00 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: My problem with "social networks" is that they're monopolies. Imag

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet

2018-03-21 Thread deloptes
Charlie Gibbs wrote: > Now that Trump wants to execute drug dealers, why doesn't he go after > the operators of these sites?  They're just as addictive as opioids - or > alcohol, or tobacco... wait, he should be going after them too! there is first amendment - you can't do it and you can't censor

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet (was: domain names, was: hostname)

2018-03-21 Thread deloptes
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > +100 > > To put that on stronger terms -- we'd end up with two and a half > gatekeepers for mail: Google, Hotmail (aka Microsoft) and... who > did I forget? > > The same nightmare we have at the moment with the so-called "social" > networks. > > They are already trying

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet (was: domain names, was: hostname)

2018-03-21 Thread Forest Dean Feighner
gmail... I have little to add. On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 4:59 PM, deloptes wrote: > Forest Dean Feighner wrote: > > > Right on! I used to have an email server in the 90's and even hand wrote > > the sendmail config file, lol. > > > > Shell account, of course, at the local ISP. > > and that's wh

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet (was: domain names, was: hostname)

2018-03-21 Thread deloptes
Forest Dean Feighner wrote: > Right on! I used to have an email server in the 90's and even hand wrote > the sendmail config file, lol. > > Shell account, of course, at the local ISP. and that's why you first topposted and secondly contributed with very meaningful content. :D

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet (was: domain names, was: hostname)

2018-03-21 Thread Joe
On Wed, 21 Mar 2018 16:21:44 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 02:53:47PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > HELO dotlessdomainname > > HELO dotcontaining.home > > > > I want someone to explain to me why having a dot is better then not > > having a dot in deciding whet

Re: how to view config file changes without running an upgrade?

2018-03-21 Thread deloptes
Greg Wooledge wrote: > Then you need a second system, to test the upgrades on.  If you don't > keep one around at all times, then you could create one on the fly > with debootstrap, rsync your current configs into it, and test the > upgrade in there. +1 I would never keep my mails on a system ad

Re: how to view config file changes without running an upgrade?

2018-03-21 Thread deloptes
Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > I fully empathize. Constantly and getting worse over time. I just > tried to write a three or four paragraph email to a raptor > rehabilitation list. One last proofread before sending found at least > four completely missing words. :D The rule "check, double check and th

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet

2018-03-21 Thread Brian
On Wed 21 Mar 2018 at 12:05:53 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > On 3/21/18 11:48 AM, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > > > On 21/03/18 01:00 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > > > My problem with "social networks" is that they're monopolies. Imagine > > popping down to the local pub for a pint and a bit of

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet

2018-03-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 3/21/18 12:32 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 03/21/2018 11:05 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 3/21/18 11:48 AM, Charlie Gibbs wrote: On 21/03/18 01:00 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: My problem with "social networks" is that they're monopolies. Imagine popping down to the local pub for a pint an

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet (was: domain names, was: hostname)

2018-03-21 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 02:53:47PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > HELO dotlessdomainname > HELO dotcontaining.home > > I want someone to explain to me why having a dot is better then not > having a dot in deciding whether a submitter is genuine. And > without the politics. My understand

Re: domain names, was: hostname

2018-03-21 Thread Brian
On Tue 20 Mar 2018 at 17:07:47 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 23 Feb 2018 at 16:18:29 (+), Brian wrote: > > > > With > > > > 127.0.1.1 gmail > > > > in /etc/hosts the conversation would go like this: > > > > brian@desktop:~$ telnet bendel.debian.org 25 > > Trying 82.195.75.

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet (was: domain names, was: hostname)

2018-03-21 Thread David Wright
On Wed 21 Mar 2018 at 09:50:15 (+1100), Ben Finney wrote: > David Wright writes: > > > I don't understand why a home user would not be using a smarthost. > > Perhaps we're talking about a different group of people. Why would a > > home user want to relay mail rather than submit it to a smarthost?

Re: bad upgrade libgstgl-1.0.so.0

2018-03-21 Thread Kushal Kumaran
Pétùr writes: > Hi, > > I had a bad upgrade on my debian sid. > > It seems both libgstreamer-gl1.0-0:amd64 and > libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0:amd64 are trying to write the file > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgstgl-1.0.so.0. > > Any idea to fix it? > > Pétùr > > # apt upgrade > Reading package li

Re: Missing Shared Object File for ffmpeg

2018-03-21 Thread David Wright
On Tue 20 Mar 2018 at 21:29:49 (-0400), Dan Norton wrote: > On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 18:35:48 -0500 > David Wright wrote: > > > On Tue 20 Mar 2018 at 18:41:55 (-0400), Dan Norton wrote: > > > On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 13:42:24 -0500 > > > David Wright wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue 20 Mar 2018 at 13:47:42

Re: domain names, was: hostname

2018-03-21 Thread Brian
On Wed 21 Mar 2018 at 16:34:13 +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > On 21/03/18 12:07, Brian wrote: > > [re inability to connect to remote SMTP servers] > > > You are in an unfortunate position of being deprived of the freedom to > > decide how to deal with your own communications. > > [snip] > > >

Re: i386 game without wine32

2018-03-21 Thread The Wanderer
On 2018-03-21 at 12:04, Josh W. wrote: > I have a x86_64 archetecture on my Debian Stretch system... I am trying to > play a i386 pc game but when i try to install wine32 in the terminal i get > the following message. > > josh@debian:/var/lib/dpkg$ sudo apt-get install wine32 > Reading package li

Re: how to view config file changes without running an upgrade?

2018-03-21 Thread David Wright
On Wed 21 Mar 2018 at 11:16:04 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 09:56:09AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > If you unpack the package somewhere, either using ar etc or, > > more easily, by selecting it in mc and copying CONTENTS into, > > say, /tmp > > Or "dpkg -x". Noted. On

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet

2018-03-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 21 March 2018 12:32:56 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 03/21/2018 11:05 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > On 3/21/18 11:48 AM, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > >> On 21/03/18 01:00 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >> > >> > >> My problem with "social networks" is that they're monopolies. > >> Imagine poppi

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet

2018-03-21 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/21/2018 11:05 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 3/21/18 11:48 AM, Charlie Gibbs wrote: On 21/03/18 01:00 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: My problem with "social networks" is that they're monopolies. Imagine popping down to the local pub for a pint and a bit of conversation, only to find that i

i386 game without wine32

2018-03-21 Thread Josh W.
I have a x86_64 archetecture on my Debian Stretch system... I am trying to play a i386 pc game but when i try to install wine32 in the terminal i get the following message. josh@debian:/var/lib/dpkg$ sudo apt-get install wine32 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state i

Re: domain names, was: hostname

2018-03-21 Thread mick crane
On 2018-02-23 12:54, Dan Purgert wrote: David Wright wrote: On Mon 19 Feb 2018 at 18:39:02 (+), Brian wrote: [...] alum is the canonical_hostname. It is used by exim to HELO with. Many mail servers will not accept mail directly from you because it is not a FQDN. This is why I wrote "bro

Re: how to view config file changes without running an upgrade?

2018-03-21 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 04:46:16PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Its pretty painful to resolve config file conflicts in (lets say) > dovecot at upgrade time, putting EMail access for +200 users at risk. > I have to check in advance. Resolving config file conflicts during > the upgrade is too late.

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet

2018-03-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 3/21/18 11:48 AM, Charlie Gibbs wrote: On 21/03/18 01:00 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: My problem with "social networks" is that they're monopolies. Imagine popping down to the local pub for a pint and a bit of conversation, only to find that it's part of a huge chain run by a transnational

Re: how to view config file changes without running an upgrade?

2018-03-21 Thread Harald Dunkel
PS: Please note that there are 2 "branches" of config file we work with: - the "orig" config files included in the *.deb file - the local config files active on the server Both branches might change over time, so manually backing up a config file to *.orig at first time modification doesn't real

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet

2018-03-21 Thread Charlie Gibbs
On 21/03/18 01:00 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 09:50:15AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: David Wright writes: I don't understand why a home user would not be using a smarthost. [...] First, note that even if you don't know the reason why someone would want to run their

Re: how to view config file changes without running an upgrade?

2018-03-21 Thread Harald Dunkel
On 03/21/18 12:44, The Wanderer wrote: On 2018-03-21 at 04:13, Harald Dunkel wrote: So... are you entirely sure that you even need to check it *before* initiating the upgrade? The mid-upgrade prompt might be enough. Yes, I am sure. Its pretty painful to resolve config file conflicts in (let

Re: how to view config file changes without running an upgrade?

2018-03-21 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 3/21/18, Curt wrote: > On 2018-03-21, Curt wrote: >> >> So with apt you can presumably do something like: >> >> apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confold" -dist-upgrade >> >> (Which would preserve the user-modified conffile with prompting.) >

Re: how to view config file changes without running an upgrade?

2018-03-21 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 09:56:09AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 21 Mar 2018 at 09:13:43 (+0100), Harald Dunkel wrote: > > How can I view the diffs between my local modified config file > > (maybe modified 2 years ago) and the maintainer's config

Re: how to view config file changes without running an upgrade?

2018-03-21 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 09:56:09AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > If you unpack the package somewhere, either using ar etc or, > more easily, by selecting it in mc and copying CONTENTS into, > say, /tmp Or "dpkg -x". > $ for j in $(dpkg -L packagename) ; do [ -f $j ] && diff -u $j > /tmp/CONTENTS/

Re: how to view config file changes without running an upgrade?

2018-03-21 Thread David Wright
On Wed 21 Mar 2018 at 09:13:43 (+0100), Harald Dunkel wrote: > How can I view the diffs between my local modified config file > (maybe modified 2 years ago) and the maintainer's config file > included in the currently installed package or in a pending > package upgrade? I would like to review my di

Targeted Global B2B Companies Emails List

2018-03-21 Thread marion . hamilton
Hi, Hope all is well! We are a database organization. We provide business executives' contact information. Below, I've included a few examples: Industry-Specific Lists: Agriculture, Business Services, Chambers of Commerce, Cities, Towns & Municipalities, Construction, Consumer Services,

Re: how to view config file changes without running an upgrade?

2018-03-21 Thread Curt
On 2018-03-21, Curt wrote: > > So with apt you can presumably do something like: > > apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confold" -dist-upgrade > > (Which would preserve the user-modified conffile with prompting.)

Re: how to view config file changes without running an upgrade?

2018-03-21 Thread Curt
On 2018-03-21, The Wanderer wrote: > >> Hi folks, >>=20 >> How can I view the diffs between my local modified config file (maybe >> modified 2 years ago) and the maintainer's config file included in >> the currently installed package or in a pending package upgrade? I >> would like to review my di

Re: how to view config file changes without running an upgrade?

2018-03-21 Thread Hans
Yes, that is how I do it, too. First of all, all edited config files by me are copied to *.orig . Doing so, I know, that these are the one of the package). After I edited them, I copy the edited file to *.backup Doing so, I know, these are the last edited files. It happens, that I test some co

Re: how to view config file changes without running an upgrade?

2018-03-21 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, March 21, 2018 07:44:35 AM The Wanderer wrote: > In my experience, when (what I think Debian officially calls) a conffile > has been locally modified, the upgrade process (by default) halts and > presents a prompt asking the user what to do; the options include "show > a diff of the c

Re: how to view config file changes without running an upgrade?

2018-03-21 Thread The Wanderer
On 2018-03-21 at 04:13, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Hi folks, > > How can I view the diffs between my local modified config file (maybe > modified 2 years ago) and the maintainer's config file included in > the currently installed package or in a pending package upgrade? I > would like to review my di

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet (was: domain names, was: hostname)

2018-03-21 Thread terryc
On Wed, 21 Mar 2018 09:00:16 +0100 wrote: > To put that on stronger terms -- we'd end up with two and a half > gatekeepers for mail: Google, Hotmail (aka Microsoft) and... who > did I forget? yahoo for a starter, then there is that French mob OVH and the NL mob > > The same nightmare we hav

how to view config file changes without running an upgrade?

2018-03-21 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi folks, How can I view the diffs between my local modified config file (maybe modified 2 years ago) and the maintainer's config file included in the currently installed package or in a pending package upgrade? I would like to review my diffs, before running "apt upgrade". I am a big fan of etc

Re: Federated, decentralised communication on the internet (was: domain names, was: hostname)

2018-03-21 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 09:50:15AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > David Wright writes: > > > I don't understand why a home user would not be using a smarthost. [...] > First, note that even if you don't know the reason why someone would > want to run t

bad upgrade libgstgl-1.0.so.0

2018-03-21 Thread Pétùr
Hi, I had a bad upgrade on my debian sid. It seems both libgstreamer-gl1.0-0:amd64 and libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0:amd64 are trying to write the file /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgstgl-1.0.so.0. Any idea to fix it? Pétùr # apt upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Re

Re: More then 2800 spams from the list...

2018-03-21 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 21 Mar 2018 00:18:55 + Brian wrote: Hello Brian, >On Tue 20 Mar 2018 at 20:54:47 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: >> Who is still offering pop3? >Gmail and gmx and probably lots of others. Most others, I suspect. I won't use IMAP at all. -- Regards _ / ) "The