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tsty
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response 128 of 293:
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Feb 1 09:55 UTC 2002 |
mvpel, whaqt i need to do is point pine to MY CHOICE of inbox
files (into which i save special emails tha require pine).
as shown above, i hard-coded the INBOX path but still get that
sily error about " context ']' "
i wo nOT wnat pine to handle everything. mail is JustGreat (tm).
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jep
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response 129 of 293:
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Feb 1 14:59 UTC 2002 |
Backtalk is down right now.
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mvpel
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response 130 of 293:
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Feb 1 17:15 UTC 2002 |
I'm pretty sure you can just specify the file pathname instead of INBOX.
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janc
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response 131 of 293:
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Feb 1 21:58 UTC 2002 |
Personally, I prefer mutt to pine when I have to send mail with attachments.
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tsty
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response 132 of 293:
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Feb 2 22:27 UTC 2002 |
re 130 ... omit the filename? the 'directions' dont indicate
path-only as i read them.
,
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twill
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response 133 of 293:
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Feb 5 23:50 UTC 2002 |
Hi, I'm Twill!
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bdh3
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response 134 of 293:
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Feb 6 07:32 UTC 2002 |
yer mother.
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gull
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response 135 of 293:
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Feb 6 15:00 UTC 2002 |
Backtalk just stopped accepting my username and password. It keeps spitting
the authorization dialog back at me.
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vidar
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response 136 of 293:
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Feb 6 17:03 UTC 2002 |
It did that to me too.
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gull
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response 137 of 293:
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Feb 6 17:37 UTC 2002 |
Seems to be working now.
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rcurl
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response 138 of 293:
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Feb 6 19:42 UTC 2002 |
Is there any way to protect picospan against denial-of-service attacks,
such as mounted by twill and bdh3?
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jp2
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response 139 of 293:
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Feb 6 20:02 UTC 2002 |
This response has been erased.
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rcurl
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response 140 of 293:
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Feb 6 20:54 UTC 2002 |
Free expression is fine, but one or a few postings of a response is
usually sufficient, and the effect of these denial-of-service attacks is
to cause inconvenience for other users, which may in fact cause an
obstacle, especially to new and less experienced users, and drive them
away from the system.
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oval
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response 141 of 293:
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Feb 6 20:58 UTC 2002 |
don't leeron's posts have the same effect? :D
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gull
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response 142 of 293:
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Feb 6 21:03 UTC 2002 |
Twill's posts weren't exactly a denial-of-service attack, but the
program that generated them could easily be used to create one.
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jp2
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response 143 of 293:
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Feb 6 21:12 UTC 2002 |
This response has been erased.
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rcurl
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response 144 of 293:
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Feb 6 21:18 UTC 2002 |
I was prevented from reading new meaningful responses in reasonable
rapidity due to the necessity of having to react to hundreds of
items to which the meaningless drivel was attached. I used fixseen,
but new or inexperienced users may not know this, and it may also
have skipped a response that I would have liked to have read. Doing
this was an intentional creation of an obstacle to the convenient
use of the system. It is disrespectful to all users.
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jep
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response 145 of 293:
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Feb 6 21:32 UTC 2002 |
I agree with Rane. The system is much less usable after a mass posting
such as this. There's no way to deal with it which isn't worse than
the problem, though.
What would be nice is a "fixseen <user> in which all items would
be "fixed" if the last response in the item was from that user. Or
maybe even:
fixseen -n <number> user
in which the item would be "fixed" if there was a response from the
user in the last <number> responses.
But it would probably be hard to implement this, cause a big drain on
the system, and wouldn't really solve the problem. I don't think there
is a way to solve it.
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oval
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response 146 of 293:
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Feb 6 21:45 UTC 2002 |
yea my finger *really* hurts bad from having to press <RETURN> so many goddamn
times. took less time than it does to read some peoples' posting here. it twas
annoying, but giving it this much attention is annoying too.
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jp2
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response 147 of 293:
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Feb 6 21:50 UTC 2002 |
This response has been erased.
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flem
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response 148 of 293:
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Feb 6 22:44 UTC 2002 |
(what oval said)
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remmers
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response 149 of 293:
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Feb 6 23:23 UTC 2002 |
(what flem said)
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keesan
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response 150 of 293:
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Feb 7 00:46 UTC 2002 |
I figure it wasted about 10 minutes total of my time to have to keep hitting
the enter key and then wait 5 sec to get to the next unwanted item, per item.
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gull
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response 151 of 293:
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Feb 7 01:43 UTC 2002 |
Couldn't you just 'twit filter' the offender?
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jhudson
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response 152 of 293:
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Feb 7 03:54 UTC 2002 |
<g>
Remember: security = 1 / (1.072 * convenience)
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