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remmers
response 136 of 248: Mark Unseen   Nov 17 15:24 UTC 2002

I move that a name length limit of 48 characters be implemented.
keesan
response 137 of 248: Mark Unseen   Nov 17 16:17 UTC 2002

Or a way to wrap lines in names so that they don't split mid-word.
slynne
response 138 of 248: Mark Unseen   Nov 17 21:35 UTC 2002

Names wrap well in backtalk. 
janc
response 139 of 248: Mark Unseen   Nov 17 21:54 UTC 2002

Aside from ugly wrappinng, Picospan seems to have no problem displaying long
names.
other
response 140 of 248: Mark Unseen   Nov 17 22:32 UTC 2002

uh huh.
davel
response 141 of 248: Mark Unseen   Nov 18 01:00 UTC 2002

AFAICS, Picospan doesn't wrap long names at all.  The wrap is imposed by the
terminal emulation used by the user.
remmers
response 142 of 248: Mark Unseen   Nov 18 02:00 UTC 2002

Are we having fun yet?
jmsaul
response 143 of 248: Mark Unseen   Nov 18 02:05 UTC 2002

They can't?  What do you do in the perennial hypothetical case where someone
posts a credit card number?
other
response 144 of 248: Mark Unseen   Nov 18 02:08 UTC 2002

uh huh
jmsaul
response 145 of 248: Mark Unseen   Nov 18 02:32 UTC 2002

Heh...
janc
response 146 of 248: Mark Unseen   Nov 18 04:56 UTC 2002

In that perennial hypothetical case, cfadm or root edits the response. 
Incidentally, they can edit the pseudonym too.
davel
response 147 of 248: Mark Unseen   Nov 18 13:12 UTC 2002



Re 142: I guess we must be, John.  Why else is this continuing?



jhudson
response 148 of 248: Mark Unseen   Nov 19 18:18 UTC 2002

lol
fuzzman
response 149 of 248: Mark Unseen   Nov 20 17:28 UTC 2002

wierdness:

fuzzman@cyberspace.org's password: 
Warning: Remote host failed or refused to allocate a pseudo tty.
Warning: no access to tty (Bad file number).
Thus no job control in this shell.
mesg: I/O stream 2 improperly redirected
stty: TCGETS: Operation not supported on socket
stty: standard input: Operation not supported on socket
TERM: Undefined variable.
stty: standard input: Operation not supported on socket
mesg: I/O stream 2 improperly redirected

Is someone hogging ttys?
janc
response 150 of 248: Mark Unseen   Nov 20 17:49 UTC 2002

Grex rations ttys to limit usage.  If you telnet in and we are out of
ttys, you get put in a queue.  If you ssh in ... yucky things happen.
fuzzman
response 151 of 248: Mark Unseen   Nov 20 17:51 UTC 2002

Ah, that makes much sense.  Thanks for the information.
gull
response 152 of 248: Mark Unseen   Nov 21 18:56 UTC 2002

Yup, if you get the 'failed or refused to allocate a pseudo tty' message,
it's best to kill that ssh session and either telnet in, or try again later. 
It's rare to have a long queue these days, so often trying ssh again a few
minutes later works fine.
remmers
response 153 of 248: Mark Unseen   Nov 21 23:08 UTC 2002

Or even just a few seconds later.
fuzzman
response 154 of 248: Mark Unseen   Nov 22 14:50 UTC 2002

I asked because it was consistent for about 20 minutes.
albaugh
response 155 of 248: Mark Unseen   Dec 3 16:10 UTC 2002

grex timing out mail connection attempts from other systems continues to be
a problem (refusing / unable for > 1 hour).  In this case, I'm talking about
Ford, not some spam-factory.  This is now what I consider chronic; is this
because grex now receives so much e-mail that it can't handle all foreign
systems?  If so, I posit that to be due to so much spam.  Does staff have any
time to investigate why mail connections are being refused this way?
keesan
response 156 of 248: Mark Unseen   Dec 3 16:23 UTC 2002

I only had problems with two particular senders, whose systems timed out or
something.  THe rest of my mail gets through all the time.
dang
response 157 of 248: Mark Unseen   Dec 3 22:06 UTC 2002

Grex was breifly timing out for me, but that went away, and hasn't come
back, so I assume it was high load.  I get mail from Grex all the time,
and regularly, as I'm staff, so there doesn't seem to be a general
cronic mail delivery problem on Grex.  I'm not a mail guru, so I can't
help beyond that.
russ
response 158 of 248: Mark Unseen   Dec 4 01:14 UTC 2002

I am also in the situation of getting no e-mail for most of a day
or even close to two days, then getting a huge backlog.

Seriously, folks.  If we no longer have the capacity to be the
mail drop for a big chunk of the third world, let's cut them off.
They are not part of the Grex community and are threatening our
very existence.  Let them use Hotmail or Yahoo.
gelinas
response 159 of 248: Mark Unseen   Dec 4 01:36 UTC 2002

Don't assume that mail is all they use.  I know that I see a fair number in
party.

I'm not privileged to look at the logs, so I can't attempt to do any
diagnosis of a potential problem.
other
response 160 of 248: Mark Unseen   Dec 4 02:12 UTC 2002

I got my first porn spam at board@cyberspace.org.

I would assume that's a big chunk of the problem.
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