Re: Problem Maintaining Subscription

2003-10-26 Thread Bijan Soleymani
"Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I will resubscribe for the xyz mailbox this morning. If you know of > any other preventative measures I should taked, please let me know. A very nice way to use this list is through gmane. Gmane is a news gateway to this group. It gives you access

Re: Problem Maintaining Subscription

2003-10-26 Thread Conrad Newton
>From Monique Y. Herman on Saturday, 2003-10-25 at 10:35:06 -0600: > > Tech support folks are generally overworked and underpaid -- > unfortunately, that results in a lot of "maybe he doesn't really know > what he's talking about -- I'll send him this stuff and maybe he'll go > away." And apparen

Re: Problem Maintaining Subscription

2003-10-26 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 at 19:06 GMT, Conrad Newton penned: > From Monique Y. Herman on Saturday, 2003-10-25 at 10:35:06 -0600: >> >> Tech support folks are generally overworked and underpaid -- >> unfortunately, that results in a lot of "maybe he doesn't really know >> what he's talking about -- I'll

Re: Problem Maintaining Subscription

2003-10-25 Thread John Yurcik
Hi, Unfortunately I am going over my quota every couple of hours now. So until I find a reasonable solution, and it's definately not Yahoo, ( I can't even contact them) it will be adios for awhile. I have tried many things with my video card problem, including installing ncurses and running make me

Re: Problem Maintaining Subscription

2003-10-25 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 06:28:01PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > I tried emailing my ISP suggesting they block the "star offender" > viruses like swen and sobig at SMTP time, pointing out that this might > also help stop the complaints they've been getting lately about their > POP3 server being slow,

Re: Problem Maintaining Subscription

2003-10-25 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 18:28:01 +0100, Pigeon wrote: > They use exim 4.10... anyone got an exim.conf rule for 4.10 to block swen > at SMTP time, so I can send them a prepackaged solution - "Read this line, > you can see it's not malignant, stick it in your exim.conf and make lots > of people very

Re: Problem Maintaining Subscription

2003-10-25 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 10:28:57AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > Twice in the past few weeks my subscription to the debian-user list has > been unsubscribed though I never sent or wanted to send an unsubscribe > message. > > The problem may relate to the deluge of MS mail bombs. Originally

Re: Problem Maintaining Subscription

2003-10-25 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 at 15:30 GMT, Conrad Newton penned: > > I would not mind having some advice, either. I wrote to the ISP, but > they addressed me as an idiot, explaining the meaning of "bounced > mail", when instead I wanted to know why they were getting an error > message of the form: > >

Re: Problem Maintaining Subscription

2003-10-25 Thread Conrad Newton
>From Thomas H. George on Saturday, 2003-10-25 at 10:28:57 -0500: > Twice in the past few weeks my subscription to the debian-user list has > been unsubscribed though I never sent or wanted to send an unsubscribe > message. I have had the same problem, although not all my mailing lists were aff

Problem Maintaining Subscription

2003-10-25 Thread Thomas H. George
Twice in the past few weeks my subscription to the debian-user list has been unsubscribed though I never sent or wanted to send an unsubscribe message. The problem may relate to the deluge of MS mail bombs. Originally my subscription was to my second mailbox which was georgeacct. When the d