response 175 of 260:

Feb 3 15:48 UTC 2006

Grex is fixed. Hail Ming! er, STeve!

response 177 of 260:

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.

response 179 of 260:

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?

response 181 of 260:

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.

response 183 of 260:

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.
  

response 185 of 260:

Feb 12 01:45 UTC 2006

is this considered a problem these dyas?
  
grex% w
 8:44PM  up 7 days, 18:52, 12 users, load averages: 0.59, 0.55, 0.55
USER    TTY FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
roger2   p0 217.16.69.100     8:13PM     7 lynx
tsty     p1 c-68-41-26-134.h  8:42PM     0 w
grogg    p2 c-24-118-175-175  8:43PM     0 (pine)
denleon  p3 paradigm.cypress  8:34PM     0 lynx
nefkin   p7 62.33.88.166      8:35PM     7 -sh
kingjon  p9 resnet66-220.res  8:37PM     0 -bash
schahr01 pc cpe-24-90-108-22  7:38PM     0 -ksh
triludaa pe 4.36.144.2        7:25PM     0 /usr/local/bin/party_ nohelp nofasts
chaoswwc ft 75-178-175-62.li  8:35PM     0 NOOP
chaoswwc ft 75-178-175-62.li  8:40PM     0 STOR /c/c/h/chaoswwc/Programas Windo
chaoswwc ft 75-178-175-62.li  8:41PM     0 STOR /c/c/h/chaoswwc/Programas Windo
chaoswwc ft 75-178-175-62.li  8:42PM     0 STOR /c/c/h/chaoswwc/Programas Windo
grex% who
roger2   ttyp0    Feb 11 20:13   (217.16.69.100)
tsty     ttyp1    Feb 11 20:42   (c-68-41-26-134.hsd1.mi.comcast.n)
denleon  ttyp3    Feb 11 20:34   (paradigm.cypress.com)
nefkin   ttyp7    Feb 11 20:35   (62.33.88.166)
kingjon  ttyp9    Feb 11 20:37   (resnet66-220.resnet.calvin.edu)
schahr01 ttypc    Feb 11 19:38   (cpe-24-90-108-228.nyc.res.rr.com)
triludaa ttype    Feb 11 19:25   (4.36.144.2)
chaoswwc ftp23920 Feb 11 20:35   (75-178-175-62.libre.auna.net)
chaoswwc ftp18949 Feb 11 20:40   (75-178-175-62.libre.auna.net)
chaoswwc ftp16192 Feb 11 20:41   (75-178-175-62.libre.auna.net)
chaoswwc ftp17712 Feb 11 20:42   (75-178-175-62.libre.auna.net)

response 187 of 260:

Feb 12 08:50 UTC 2006

my slightly dated memory is that per mailbox brightmail is not too
expensive (50c or less), but the minimum commitment (1000 mailboxes) i
think is far beyond what grex can afford.

but more profoundly it integrates into the existing mail infrastructure;
neither openbsd or exim are supported.

that symantec now owns it i fear signals the beginning of the end of its
quality.

response 191 of 260:

Feb 12 22:20 UTC 2006

<southpark>
No Mr. Harmon, we can't turn off the idle
daemon.
</southpark>

response 193 of 260:

Feb 19 23:10 UTC 2006

-bash-3.00$

Sun Feb 19 13:53:58
This terminal has been idle 15 minutes. If it remains idle
for 5 more minutes it will be logged out by the system.



Logged out by the system.
Connection to grex.org closed.

response 195 of 260:

Feb 20 02:28 UTC 2006

 Here's the thing:  yes, somebody *could* turn off the idle daemon.
 I could, for example.  The reason I haven't despite your repeated
 requests is that absent an urgent reason I'm not willing to substitute
 my judgment, or yours, in place of current system policies.  If you
 give it even a little bit of thought is acting unilaterally to change
 the system policies really the kind of staff behavior you want to
 encourage, even if in this one instance it will lead to a result you
 approve of?

 If you're really interested in getting it turned off, why not try
 writing up an argument which will convince the board or proposing
 a member vote on the idle policy?

 Get the membership or their elected leadership to buy into your
 plan and I'll gladly make the changes as soon as you do so..

response 199 of 260:

Feb 21 01:11 UTC 2006

Jim was getting the same five at his WCC webmail account.  They all have
different From addresses.