Re: Gateway newsgroup problem (redux - long)

2005-06-10 Thread Anthony Rowe
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 10:36:33AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jun 10, Tony Rowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > All of these are signs that the message has been posted somehow > > to Usenet but not gated to the list. > If they can post them, their news server is misconfigured. > If you see t

Re: lists.bofh.it

2003-08-21 Thread Anthony Rowe
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 04:53:41PM +0200, Wolfgang Lonien wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > > I cannot subscribe to this gateway, not with email, not with a browser, not > with mailman - what am I doing wrong? I want to use a newsreader instead of > getting

Re: rxvt/aterm not displaying symbols typed with Mode_Switch

2003-08-14 Thread Anthony Rowe
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 04:36:14PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > Guys, what should I do, I am helpless! > > I have two systems, and did xmodmap modifications on each, such that > my Windows key does a Mode_Switch and thus changed my Keycodes such > that pressing e.g Win-a produces an ä (a with t

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-14 Thread Anthony Rowe
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 04:10:02PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 11:38:48AM -0300, Anthony Rowe wrote: > > > > It turns out that the References: and Message-ID: headers are > > rewritten by the news gateway. I have since discovered that threading &

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-14 Thread Anthony Rowe
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 09:26:08PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 12:58:07PM -0300, Anthony Rowe wrote: > > > I wouldn't mind taking up the cause. What are the newsgroups this is > > > heard on? > > > > linux.debian.user > > Isn&

Automated message to d-u gateway

2003-08-14 Thread Anthony Rowe
[Open message Cc'ed to Marco d'Itri] I am interested in seeing a short, descriptive, automated post on the debian-user gateway (and to the debian-user gateway only), and have posted about this recently to the list. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200308/msg00774.html -- [

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-14 Thread Anthony Rowe
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 07:48:56PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 01:34:45PM -0300, Anthony Rowe wrote: > > I feel someone should contact Marco d'Itri who runs the bofh.it > > gateway, and ask his opinion about automating that small message about > &

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-14 Thread Anthony Rowe
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 06:40:55AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 01:50:26AM +0100, Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 05:48:42PM -0400, ScruLoose wrote: > > > A properly designed program *even if it doesn't know PGP* will just > > > display the m

Re: NNTP to email?

2003-08-10 Thread Anthony Rowe
*Blush* I sent this to Paul and I meant to send it to the list so I am forwarding it. I should take my own advice and subscribe to the list. Sorry for the noise, Paul. Tony --- Begin Message --- On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 12:55:03AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > I just tried slrn...two big conce

Re: Automated message to d-u gateway

2003-08-08 Thread Anthony Rowe
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 07:12:11PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > WTF? The gateway is *not at all* read only. Fair enough, but occasionally people post in a vacuum, so to speak. Here are two (News) message-ID's of articles posted to the debian-user gateway as News which never reached the mailing-

Re: d-u / Usenet gateway (was Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful)

2003-08-07 Thread Anthony Rowe
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 10:33:25PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Newsgroup descriptions are the proper repository for this information. Are you referring to those very short descriptions consisting of a few words which are displayed next to one's subscribed groups as a very general introduct

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-06 Thread Anthony Rowe
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 08:22:44AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 11:38:48AM -0300, Anthony Rowe wrote: > > I guess it is non-obvious to some people grazing > > Usenet that the gateway is meant to be RO. I am wondering if a post > > to the gateway cou

Re: Replying by email to the newsfeed

2003-07-24 Thread Anthony Rowe
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 09:30:08PM +0200, Alan Connor wrote: > > Am working on a sed script that will remove most of the headers and put > in > front of the lines in the body, etc That sed script (or the way it is used) still needs some tweaking it seems. While you can strip out headers it i

Re: Replying by email to the newsfeed

2003-07-23 Thread Anthony Rowe
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 12:40:07PM +0200, Anita Lewis wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:50:13PM +0200, Anthony Rowe wrote: > > > > I save articles I wish to keep or reply to (using 'o' in slrn) to the > > default file (probably ~/News/Linux.debian.user). Then br

Replying by email to the newsfeed [Was: Re: Linux Commands]

2003-07-22 Thread Anthony Rowe
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 07:00:21PM +0200, Alan Connor wrote: > > Tried to pipe the articles, with |, to mutt but it hasn't worked so far. I save articles I wish to keep or reply to (using 'o' in slrn) to the default file (probably ~/News/Linux.debian.user). Then browse this file using my MUA ('

Re: Linux commands

2003-07-21 Thread Anthony Rowe
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 04:49:06AM +, Alan Connor wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 05:50:07 +0200, GLS-Ausmines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1. Is there any Internet access to Linux commands? (I have not found any = > > at Debian and Redhat sites.) > > > > http://rute.sourceforge.net > > can b

Re: pppd + exim question

2002-02-13 Thread Anthony Rowe
>2) Does anyone have a version of exim.conf which works with and ISP > over a dialup connection? I will very grateful if anyone could email > it to me. I wrestled with this problem for a long time; selecting #2 in eximconfig and then trying everything I could think of. If all you are wanting ex