Re: [OT] Flecktones in London next month

2001-05-02 Thread Nathan Torkington
Neil Ford writes: I can now confirm this is at The Pizzaexpress Jazz Club, 10 Dean Street, Soho, London W1 - Reservations: 020 7439 8722 (the new listings arrived this morning!). Of course, this being the evening the tube strike starts, getting there and back could be fun. I saw them play

RE: Not Matt's Scripts

2001-05-02 Thread Cross David - dcross
From: Dave Hodgkinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 9:28 AM Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Current version is at http://www.dave.org.uk/scripts/notmatt/formmail.pl.txt but it needs some tightening up and peer review. Remind me, what was the mission

Re: Stuffed camel

2001-05-02 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 12:00:11AM +0100, Dave Cross wrote: At 19:25 29/04/2001, Leon Brocard wrote: Can *someone* please pick a date to go visit the camel? Can't be done until a) the foot and mouth stuff has died down and b) I've worked out exactly who has paid for slices. homerMmmm...

Re: Not Matt's Scripts

2001-05-02 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 19:53 30/04/2001, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: I've got someone needing a form to mail script. Where's ours[0]? Ta, Dave [0] Oh, all right, yours since I bottled out. Current version is at http://www.dave.org.uk/scripts/notmatt/formmail.pl.txt

RE: Not Matt's Scripts

2001-05-02 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Cross David - dcross wrote: Yep. But Net::SMTP is not a stadard module and therefore sendmail wins. That wasn't the reason. The reason was the same as one of the reasons for rewriting matt's scripts in the first place - that the error handling sucks. You can't sensibly error

RE: Not Matt's Scripts

2001-05-02 Thread Cross David - dcross
From: Matthew Byng-Maddick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 10:07 AM On Wed, 2 May 2001, Cross David - dcross wrote: Yep. But Net::SMTP is not a stadard module and therefore sendmail wins. That wasn't the reason. The reason was the same as one of the reasons for

Re: Not Matt's Scripts

2001-05-02 Thread will
- Original Message - From: Cross David - dcross [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 4:12 AM Subject: RE: Not Matt's Scripts Feel free to believe what you want, but as far as I'm concerned, not expecting people to install extra CPAN modules is of

Re: Not Matt's Scripts

2001-05-02 Thread Robert Shiels
Just had a look, and apparently the Formmail scripts have been ported to Win32 and use something called Blat instead of sendmail. Is there any reason why we couldn't use Blat too? I'm looking into it to see if I can get it working. -- Robert - Original Message - From: Matthew

Re: US$ bank account

2001-05-02 Thread Philip Newton
Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Barclays charge between £5 and £10 to bank a check. Which for a month's work is fine, but for an Amazon affiliates payment is in the realm of ouchie. AllAdvantage, while it was still alive, sent me DEM cheques drawn on a German bank (which had been prepared by a service

Re: Not Matt's Scripts

2001-05-02 Thread Robert Shiels
From: Robin Szemeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 May 2001 11:02 Subject: Re: Not Matt's Scripts On Wed, 02 May 2001, you wrote: Just had a look, and apparently the Formmail scripts have been ported to Win32 and use something called Blat instead of sendmail. Is there any

Re: US$ bank account

2001-05-02 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 12:24:13PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: do it, why can't a global e-commerce leading-edge pioneer-type place like Amazon? The mind boggles. Because there aren't any other currencies besides the US $. amazon.co.uk actually uses dollars and so do you. Hey, do they have

Re: Stuffed camel

2001-05-02 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 10:00:44AM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: As a side note, when we do get it together, would it be alright to come along as an ordinary paying zoo entrant? Or does being a camelite confer extraordinary priviliges within the confines of the zoo? Yes, we get to ride

RE: Not Matt's Scripts

2001-05-02 Thread Simon Batistoni
On Wed, 02 May 2001, you wrote: Just had a look, and apparently the Formmail scripts have been ported to Win32 and use something called Blat instead of sendmail. Is there any reason why we couldn't use Blat too? I'm looking into it to see if I can get it working. ahh yes ... trouble

RE: Not Matt's Scripts

2001-05-02 Thread Simon Batistoni
more on blat/win32 mailers Arse, apologies for the two messages - I remembered the following and pressed send simultaneously... IMHO (and I've looked into this in some depth for various projects over the past 2 years), there aren't that many command-line mailers for win32. The only other

Re: Not Matt's Scripts

2001-05-02 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 12:22:39PM +0100, Simon Batistoni wrote: Of course, this comes back to the fact that the user will need to have control of/know where the NT mailer exists, but I believe most NT hosting services do install blat, and tell people where it is. If the purpose of this is

Re: Not Matt's Scripts

2001-05-02 Thread Robin Szemeti
so .. who is the FormMail csar? ... I lost track of who was dealing with what. I spotted a few things in there and have comments .. or should i just post em on the list .. ??? -- Robin Szemeti The box said requires windows 95 or better So I installed Linux!

Re: Not Matt's Scripts

2001-05-02 Thread Simon Wilcox
At 13:27 02/05/2001 +0100, David Cantrell wrote: If the purpose of this is to make it utterly drool-proof, then why not re-write File::Find (can't make them install it of course, that would be expecting too much) Is there a reason why we can't distribute our own versions of modules with the

Re: Not Matt's Scripts

2001-05-02 Thread Robert Shiels
Yes - it's a bit crap. And I'm having trouble with it (read: can't get it working). I think we should be able to put all the Win32 specific bits in one place, and have separate places for each external mailer program such as blat; but blat is as good a place to start as any I suppose.

RE: Not Matt's Scripts

2001-05-02 Thread Cross David - dcross
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 12:57 PM so .. who is the FormMail csar? ... I lost track of who was dealing with what. Er... me. I think. I spotted a few things in there and have comments .. or should i just post em on the list .. ??? Just post 'em to the list.

Re: Stuffed camel

2001-05-02 Thread Martin Ling
As a side note, when we do get it together, would it be alright to come along as an ordinary paying zoo entrant? Or does being a camelite confer extraordinary priviliges within the confines of the zoo? Yes, we get to ride the camel and take it to conferences! ... m/conventions/ ?

TPC Travel

2001-05-02 Thread Cross David - dcross
It's that time of year again boys and girls. I know it all fell apart last year, but I'm an optimist and am going to try again. Who's going to TPC? Shall we see if we can get a group together and perhaps get a discount on the flight? Dave... -- The information contained in this

Re: TPC Travel

2001-05-02 Thread Leon Brocard
Cross David - dcross sent the following bits through the ether: It's that time of year again boys and girls. I know it all fell apart last year, but I'm an optimist and am going to try again. It's passed that time, actually ;-) Trailfinders found me, and I've confirmed, the following

Re: TPC Travel

2001-05-02 Thread Barbie
From: Cross David - dcross [EMAIL PROTECTED] Who's going to TPC? Shall we see if we can get a group together and perhaps get a discount on the flight? I'm not sure at the moment due to the cost involved. However, I have done some prelimary checking and there is a British Airways flight direct

RE: TPC Travel

2001-05-02 Thread Chris Devers
At 03:34 PM 2001.05.02 +0100, you wrote: From: Leon Brocard [EMAIL PROTECTED]? It's passed that time, actually ;-) Trailfinders found me, and I've confirmed, the following Northwest Airlines flights: 21st July 12:10 Gatwick - Minneapolis - San Diego 18:55 28th July 12:10 San Diego -

RE: TPC Travel

2001-05-02 Thread Cross David - dcross
From: Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 3:49 PM So are any of you still thinking of going to NYC, while we're at it? Er... yeah. We got back yesterday! Dave... -- The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of

Re: US$ bank account

2001-05-02 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AllAdvantage, while it was still alive, sent me DEM cheques drawn on a German bank (which had been prepared by a service in England). If they can do it, why can't a global e-commerce leading-edge pioneer-type place like Amazon? The mind boggles. Hah!

RE: TPC Travel

2001-05-02 Thread Chris Devers
At 03:50 PM 2001.05.02 +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote: Er... yeah. We got back yesterday! Doh! I thought you were all rioting for Mayday yesterday. I can only assume your return date was not a coincidence -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tube strike / may meeting postponed til 10th

2001-05-02 Thread Leon Brocard
jo walsh sent the following bits through the ether: well, it looks like the tube strike (8pm Weds 2nd May - 8pm Thurs 3rd May) is still on, and this will scupper our May social meeting plans rather. It's not anymore, but we shouldn't shift the date again:

Re: tube strike / may meeting postponed til 10th

2001-05-02 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Leon Brocard wrote: jo walsh sent the following bits through the ether: well, it looks like the tube strike (8pm Weds 2nd May - 8pm Thurs 3rd May) is still on, and this will scupper our May social meeting plans rather. It's not anymore, but we shouldn't shift the date

RE: tube strike / may meeting postponed til 10th

2001-05-02 Thread Cross David - dcross
From: Leon Brocard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 4:51 PM jo walsh sent the following bits through the ether: well, it looks like the tube strike (8pm Weds 2nd May - 8pm Thurs 3rd May) is still on, and this will scupper our May social meeting plans rather. It's not

Re: tube strike / may meeting postponed til 10th

2001-05-02 Thread Struan Donald
* at 02/05 16:51 +0100 Leon Brocard said: jo walsh sent the following bits through the ether: well, it looks like the tube strike (8pm Weds 2nd May - 8pm Thurs 3rd May) is still on, and this will scupper our May social meeting plans rather. It's not anymore, but we shouldn't shift the

Re: tube strike / may meeting postponed til 10th

2001-05-02 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 04:57:08PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: PO? dipsy ask po to do webby things like googling. He won't core dump. Promise. +or not dadadodo or not here while hitherto is on holiday po Dom2? dipsy hmmm... Dom2 is still annoyed by how bad emacs is at doing xml,

Re: Review of Data munging with Perl on Slashdot

2001-05-02 Thread David H. Adler
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:19:25AM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote: Now, has anyone seen the June Web Techniques yet? There's supposed to be another good review in that. Yep. As soon as I read that sentence my brain said hey, didn't I just pull that out of my mailbox? Yes, the review is

YAPC::E abstract

2001-05-02 Thread Robin Houston
Any comments before I send this off? .robin. Type: talk Duration: 40 mins Title: Mutagenic Modules Slides (draft version): http://London.pm.org/~robin/semantic-talk/0.title.html Abstract: It's possible to write a Perl module which will change the meaning of subsequent code in some way.

Fwd: perl jobs page and list

2001-05-02 Thread Dave Cross
Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 18:15:40 -0400 From: Uri Guttman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: perl jobs page and list Reply-to: Uri Guttman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] pm group leaders: please forward this to your local pm groups. as

Re: Not Matt's Scripts

2001-05-02 Thread Richard Clamp
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 01:45:19AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: Hey! You think this 5K script is enough? Wrong, you've gotta configure CPAN, get these suite of modules that is a prerequisite for these suites of modules which include something like Data::Dumper which makes you pull down the