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Grex > Agora56 > #4: Grex System Problems - Winter 2005/06 | |
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rcurl
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response 160 of 260:
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Feb 2 03:50 UTC 2006 |
We are still blocked by AOL. I just got a message there returned. AOL
is ubiquitous: e-mail service from Grex is much degraded by a block to AOL.
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mziemba
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response 161 of 260:
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Feb 2 05:50 UTC 2006 |
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naftee
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response 162 of 260:
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Feb 2 05:50 UTC 2006 |
whoa !
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mziemba
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response 163 of 260:
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Feb 2 05:54 UTC 2006 |
OK. Now I'm using a PC with Microsoft Windows XP and HyperTerminal. Same
problem. Despite using the menu system to change the terminal type to VT100,
which is what I'm emulating on my end, Grex registers this and then later
tells me that my terminal type "dialup" is unknown, and therefore won't allow
me to access mail via pine. What's going on?
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gull
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response 164 of 260:
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Feb 2 06:42 UTC 2006 |
Re resp:160: AOL's block list is notoriously overzealous and hard to
stay off of. AOL's email service shouldn't be considered reliable by
anyone.
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keesan
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response 165 of 260:
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Feb 2 15:28 UTC 2006 |
But unfortunately there are still dummies who use AOL, and I work for one of
them and Jim's brother is another.
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twenex
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response 166 of 260:
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Feb 2 15:36 UTC 2006 |
Wow. How unpolitically-correct of you. You're right though.
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keesan
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response 167 of 260:
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Feb 2 15:48 UTC 2006 |
Haven't you see any of the AOL for DUMMIES books? Yellow and black cover.
I have also see Weddings for Dummies, or maybe it was for Idiots.
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jadecat
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response 168 of 260:
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Feb 2 15:51 UTC 2006 |
There are many, MANY "... For Dummies!" books out there.
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twenex
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response 169 of 260:
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Feb 2 15:54 UTC 2006 |
Ah, maybe I took your comment out of context. I assumed you were really
disparaging dummies.
I prefer the "Idiot's Guides" myself. Funnily enough I thought the "for
Dummies" books were more patronizing.
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keesan
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response 170 of 260:
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Feb 2 15:56 UTC 2006 |
Idiot implies you are incapable of learning, dummy that you are uninformed
but not unintelligent.
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cross
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response 171 of 260:
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Feb 2 16:45 UTC 2006 |
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marcvh
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response 172 of 260:
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Feb 2 16:58 UTC 2006 |
Both dummy and idiot imply someone who is unintelligent, although idiot
is a bit more extreme and used to imply a profound mental disability.
The word for someone who is uninformed is "ignoramus."
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rcurl
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response 173 of 260:
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Feb 2 17:38 UTC 2006 |
People will admit to being a, say, Unix Dummy, more readily than being a Unix
Ignoramus. The latter, though, is better for identifying someone else.
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twenex
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response 174 of 260:
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Feb 3 15:47 UTC 2006 |
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twenex
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response 175 of 260:
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Feb 3 15:48 UTC 2006 |
Grex is fixed. Hail Ming! er, STeve!
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tod
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response 176 of 260:
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Feb 3 17:36 UTC 2006 |
Thanks for the update on the system downtime!
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crimson
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response 177 of 260:
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Feb 4 02:16 UTC 2006 |
From WordNet:
Dummy: 1. a person who does not talk
2. an ignorant or foolish person
Idiot: 1. a person of subnormal intelligence
Ignoramus: 1. an ignorant person
Still, I'd rather be called a "dummy" -- and "wilfully ignorant" is as sharp an
insult as you can give (if you want to do so) in my book.
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scholar
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response 178 of 260:
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Feb 4 03:05 UTC 2006 |
/me humps Katrisa's leg
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rcurl
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response 179 of 260:
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Feb 5 19:14 UTC 2006 |
I have abandoned my own spam filters in PINE on CAEN and am now using
their server-side Brightmail filter. I don't know the details of its
operation, but I gather CAEN subscribes to a spam list - IP addresses I
think - and applies them to filter. It works very well. There is less than
1% "good" e-mail sent to the Junk folder, and similarly the junk in the
good mail is very small. I think I still need to scan the junk folder for
anything good, but may decide that it isn't worth the effort, and just
accept the loss of a few good items.
Can Grex use Brightmail?
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gull
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response 180 of 260:
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Feb 5 21:43 UTC 2006 |
I think Brightmail is a subscription service.
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marcvh
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response 181 of 260:
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Feb 6 23:10 UTC 2006 |
Apropos of Denise's earlier comments, the "everything is new" happened
to me, and it appears that the reason is because my participation file
is 0 bytes long. Apparently something went wrong when I exited from
the conference the previous time. It doesn't look like the disc was full
or any other obvious problem like that.
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keesan
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response 182 of 260:
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Feb 8 02:00 UTC 2006 |
AOL is still blocking grex mail, apparently using some att blacklist.
Jim read that ATT is going to sell advertising space to advertisers, in that
it will agree not to block spam from them to its members, for a fee.
I guess real mails from grex would distract users from the paid messages.
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tsty
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response 183 of 260:
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Feb 8 16:15 UTC 2006 |
any progress on getting back email from that 8mm tape, please?i think
many of us (many who have said so) have irretrievable addreses from
a-way-far-back that are on that last (eons ago ???) backup.
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cross
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response 184 of 260:
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Feb 8 17:08 UTC 2006 |
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