response 20 of 480:

Nov 12 05:48 UTC 2006

My DSL service probably comes with email and Internet news
if their registration system were not Windows-only.  :-/
Never mind, at least it gets me on the net.

response 22 of 480:

Nov 13 04:08 UTC 2006

I would hate to see Grex eliminate email.  I don't read email here
anymore, but my cyberspace.org address is convenient because I can
forward it to whatever ISP I'm currently using.

response 24 of 480:

Nov 13 04:46 UTC 2006

Yes, lots of Deborahs.  Why don't you set up a filter to get rid of them,
using procmail.  Just dump anything From  Deborah.  Spamassassin gets most
of my Debora mail.  I set up a sample procmailrc.sample and procmailrc.simple
(not as many additional filters).  Copy to your home directory as .procmailrc
and also copy .forward and you will see 90% less spam.  I can explain how to
eliminate anything from Deborah if you can't figure it out. 
I forget what Deborah is selling - viagra or stocks?

response 26 of 480:

Nov 13 23:58 UTC 2006

I haven't set up any spam filters; I'm not that computer literate! Besides
a few very basic things here-everything else is mysterious to me.

response 28 of 480:

Nov 14 05:42 UTC 2006

But I just explained how to copy over a working filter to keep all the
Deborahs out of your mailbox.  cp /a/k/e/keesan/procmailrc.simple .procmailrc
then pico .procmailrc and change keesan to denise, then cp
/a/k/e/keesan/.forward .forward.  This copies my two files and changes one
of them to work for you.  Do you know how to use pico to edit?  I presume you
use it in your mail (with pine).  This should take you a minute or two.  Then
when using pine you type L to get a choice of seeing what is in your Inbox
or what is in your Spam folder.  And you get a list of what went where:
less ~/mail/from   shows you the list and you can delete 'from' every day.
The sample filter only dumps anything with 5 spam points and the rest goes
into the spam folder.  I use 3 points, which works better, and you can change
it to that.  

response 30 of 480:

Nov 14 13:51 UTC 2006

I think it's amazingly wonderful that despite the fact Denise doesn't 
edit, her responses are clear, typo and spelling error-free.  I 
use an editor and wish I could pull that off.

response 32 of 480:

Nov 14 14:01 UTC 2006

And TS, please realize that when you repost something like #27
you are simply acting as selfish as the original poster.  Worse,
actually, as you should know better.  

Don't make me filter you again.

response 34 of 480:

Nov 14 14:28 UTC 2006

Is it? I mean, if someone threatened *me* with filtering, most likely 
it wouldnt alter my behavior. But I might appreciate being told that I 
was being filtered. 

response 36 of 480:

Nov 14 14:38 UTC 2006

Denise, I can edit the procmailrc file for you if you can manage to copy it
to your own directory.  Let me know.  cp ~keesan/procmail.denise .procmailrc
and then cp ~keesan/.forward .   but you have to be at a prompt to do this,
not a menu.  
I wish someone in staff would set up a filter that people can use who don't
know how to edit, by just typing change and following instructions.  I am
still getting floods of debora and also est* and akst* .

response 38 of 480:

Nov 14 16:55 UTC 2006

resp:35 I think that some people do use the threat of filtering in a 
bossy way but I also think it is something of a courtesy to let people 
know you are considering filtering them. In fact, I generally dont tell 
people when I stop paying attention to them because I dont care enough 
about them to give them that courtesy. I suppose some people might 
actually believe that they are so important that it will come as a real 
blow to others to hear that they are being filtered. But mostly, I 
think people tell others when they do it to give others the opportunity 
to change their behavior if they wish to. 

I dont tell people because I am mean and I dont care if the socially 
retarded figure stuff out. Anyways, I guess what I find is funny is 
that you are calling a certain behavior childish which suggests that 
you think its opposite (i.e. NOT telling someone when they are going to 
be filtered) is a particularly mature behavior. It is funny because I 
engage in just that behavior but motivated not by any "taking the high 
road" sense. My motivation is pure and utter indifference to the 
feelings of certain others. It is unkind and has nothing to do with 
maturity at all. 

response 40 of 480:

Nov 15 00:12 UTC 2006

Could someone who uses the menu explain how to get to a prompt that lets
someone copy files?  It would really help people like denise if there were
a simple command in the menu that would set up a spam filter.

response 42 of 480:

Nov 15 08:34 UTC 2006

re #32 ................................again ?????????????????????????

response 44 of 480:

Nov 15 12:21 UTC 2006

Yes.