14 MB of Spam

2002-11-08 Thread Brix Lichtenberg
OK, that does it. I usually don't complain much about spam and simply deal with it. But blocking my dial-up with 20 spam-mails with 700k attachments each only happens on this very list. If whoever in charge isn't able or doesn't want to do something about it, isn't it time to migrate to another

Virus mails

2002-04-26 Thread Brix Lichtenberg
You know, I'm really not one to complain about the usual spam. Of course it's annoying, but I think sorting it out and deleting it is outweight by far by the benefit of the list. But I'm still getting three or more virus mails with attachments 100k+ daily from the wget lists and they're blocking

Re[2]: Feature request

2002-04-24 Thread Brix Lichtenberg
It also seems these options are incompatible: --continue with --recursive This could be useful, imho. JR How should wget decide if it needs to re-get or continue the file? JR You could probably to smart guessing, but the chance of false decisions JR persists. Not wanting to repeat my post

Re: timestamping ( another suggestion)

2002-04-16 Thread Brix Lichtenberg
DCA This isn't a bug, but the offer of a new feature. The timestamping DCA feature doesn't quite work for us, as we don't keep just the latest DCA view of a website and we don't want to copy all those files around for DCA each update. Which brings me to mention two features I've been meaning to

Re[2]: timestamping ( another suggestion)

2002-04-16 Thread Brix Lichtenberg
The other thing more or less is ripped from the Windows DL-Manager FlashGet (but why not). Wouldn't it be useful if wget retrieves a file to a temporary renamed filename, for instance with the extension .wg! or something and renamed back to the original name after finishing? Two TL advantages