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davel
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response 200 of 263:
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Feb 3 17:07 UTC 1998 |
<expurgated and scribbled>
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orinoco
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response 201 of 263:
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Feb 3 17:45 UTC 1998 |
It's also an easy source of 'power', I'd guess. Either you can have power
by being able to make computers crash, or you can have power by creating your
own system, running it well, attracting users, etc. The first choice is more
attractive to some.
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mcnally
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response 202 of 263:
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Feb 3 18:33 UTC 1998 |
Not to mention easier and cheaper, though presumably not as satisfying.
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senna
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response 203 of 263:
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Feb 3 18:54 UTC 1998 |
It amounts to masturbation for the ego.
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orinoco
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response 204 of 263:
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Feb 4 02:40 UTC 1998 |
Well, it would be more satisfying if you're not willing to put forth much
effort.
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gibson
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response 205 of 263:
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Feb 4 06:30 UTC 1998 |
Valerie, what is that file you say can be deleted? I saw it in my file
and wondered.
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scott
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response 206 of 263:
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Feb 4 17:34 UTC 1998 |
(just a note about modem problems... I'm dropping Agora for a while, so I
won't see any modem reports in this item)
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davel
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response 207 of 263:
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Feb 5 22:42 UTC 1998 |
(I read it in helpers, myself ... not that Scott will see this ...)
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tpryan
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response 208 of 263:
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Feb 6 04:26 UTC 1998 |
Gave up after three minutes into a 'browse all'
Took close to 5 minutes to dexecute a 'fixeen'.
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valerie
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response 209 of 263:
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Feb 6 06:06 UTC 1998 |
This response has been erased.
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rcurl
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response 210 of 263:
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Feb 6 07:47 UTC 1998 |
I have received e-mail apparently composed in IE with both the text
and html versions attached. The pine reader displays the html verson, but
when I try to view the attached text version, pine hangs. Interestingly,
when I initiate a reply with the message included, the text version is
presented. What is the solution to the difficulty in viewing the text
attachment?
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scg
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response 211 of 263:
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Feb 6 20:55 UTC 1998 |
IE is evil. I've given up on jumping through hoops to read such mail, and
started replying telling people to send it in a format that I can read.
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i
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response 212 of 263:
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Feb 6 23:47 UTC 1998 |
Ditto. Let people know that using various complex, proprietary, buggy,
clever, etc. mail programs defeats the basic purpose of mail - reliable
communications.
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kaplan
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response 213 of 263:
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Feb 7 03:44 UTC 1998 |
IE is the web browser. The mail client that comes with it is Outlook Express.
I have been using IE 4.0 and OE since the day they came out. I can not stand
sending e-mail with HTML for no good reason. To turn off that annoying
feature:
Pull down Tools and select Options
In the Send tab, switch from the default HTML to Plain Text.
Before I discovered this option, the way I discovered I was sending HTML was
that I sent an e-mail to one of those pagers which puts the beginning of your
e-mail on the pager's display. I was careful to put the gist of the message
in at the beginning, but it did not help. All that showed up in the pager
was HTML tags!
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scg
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response 214 of 263:
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Feb 7 03:58 UTC 1998 |
Outlook Express is generally evil, even when you turn the HTML tags off.
Outlook Express apears to have been written by somebody who had not read the
POP3 standard.
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mcnally
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response 215 of 263:
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Feb 7 10:23 UTC 1998 |
Steve, Steve, you don't understand.. Microsoft delivers the "solutions"
its customers clamor for, unhampered by slavish adherence to "legacy"
standards.. <gack> <urrggh> Get your hands off my throat! Help! Help!!
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tpryan
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response 216 of 263:
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Feb 9 03:44 UTC 1998 |
Why does the system have 63 users logged on when it can't
provide reasonable speed to any of them? Dial-n lag is horrible again
and load average is near 18.
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garima
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response 217 of 263:
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Feb 9 05:10 UTC 1998 |
Thanks for all the suggestiosn Re #153 to #159. Thanks Valerie Re #170.
Well, I guess I'll try to download kermit from grex then...
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mdw
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response 218 of 263:
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Feb 9 08:02 UTC 1998 |
Re #216 - basically, because this is not a "for pay" system. If you
want real speed, that's where you go. river.org and well.com are two
fine systems that do just this.
Incidently, a load average of 18 is probably not due to the fact there
are 63 users. It's more likely to be due to some other combination of
factors you can't always easily tell, such as a temporarily e-mail
traffic snarl, a bunch of web hits, the activites of one user trying to
run "mailrace" or compile "eggdrop", or something we don't even know
about, like lunch hour at ge.com or the indian holiday where everyone
mails each other big .exe's or somebody at mckendree convincing all of
their friends to hurry up and get an account on grex.
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valerie
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response 219 of 263:
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Feb 9 13:24 UTC 1998 |
This response has been erased.
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mcnally
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response 220 of 263:
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Feb 9 18:54 UTC 1998 |
heh.. I must not be on the guest list for that particular occasion but
I'm certainly fair game for the large-ASCII-picture fests as far as some
of my Indian correspondents are concerned..
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valerie
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response 221 of 263:
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Feb 10 13:43 UTC 1998 |
This response has been erased.
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remmers
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response 222 of 263:
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Feb 10 19:16 UTC 1998 |
When I dialed 761-3000 earlier today, right after the "Please
wait a bit for a connection" message, it printed a number
indicating my position in the queue. (The position was 1.)
Does this mean that the terminal server is back on the queue?
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mdw
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response 223 of 263:
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Feb 10 23:44 UTC 1998 |
No, it probably means somebody else connected at almost exactly the same
time, and hadn't allocated a pty yet.
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valerie
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response 224 of 263:
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Feb 11 17:26 UTC 1998 |
This response has been erased.
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