Re: Please permanently block *@lists.debian.org from your mailing lists: [info@bairestrade.com: canned peach in syrup x 850 grs.]

2003-10-21 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 12:34:50AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Bairestrade: > > Someone is apparently subscribing one or more mailing lists at > @lists.debian.org to your mailing lists. These relate to a > computer-related project, the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, which has > no interest in

Re: Your debian-user@lists.debian.org subscription has been terminated

2003-10-21 Thread Pascal Hakim
bounce handler could reliably tell that something was spam, we wouldn't be using it as a bounce handler but as a spam checker. ;-) You shouldn't be bounced from debian-users now unless you reach the threshold (for real this time). > > This message has been generated by reaper.pl (0.

Re: Who unsubscribed me from this list?

2003-10-24 Thread Pascal Hakim
could change are the list archives, and no one seems to agree on what should be done, whether addresses should be hidden or not, whether addresses should be obfuscated and so on. Cheers, Pasc -- Pascal Hakim +61-403-411-672 &

Re: Who unsubscribed me from this list?

2003-10-24 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 12:37:39AM +1000, Pascal Hakim wrote: > That's right... > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > if you feel this message to be in error. > Gah. That was a mouse-o... It should have been: Content

Re: mailing list

2003-10-04 Thread Pascal Hakim
It sends you a message when you get removed, so if you didn't get that either, your mailbox was probably full. Cheers, Pasc -- Pascal Hakim +61-403-411-672 "Do not bend." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mailing list

2003-10-05 Thread Pascal Hakim
being removed. There could be fake bounce messages being sent, or maybe only some messages bounces. There's no harm in trying to send that information email out. Cheers, Pasc -- Pascal Hakim +61-403-411-672 "Do not be

Re: mailing list

2003-10-06 Thread Pascal Hakim
f your mail server behaves correctly (99% of cases), it will respect this header, even when mail is being relayed, and bounces will work correctly, and get you unsubscribed. Cheers, Pasc -- Pascal Hakim +61-403-411-672

Re: mailing list

2003-10-06 Thread Pascal Hakim
it. Have a look at http://cr.yp.to/proto/verp.txt for more info on VERP (Variable Envelope Retun Paths). Cheers, Pasc -- Pascal Hakim +61-403-411-672 "Do not bend." pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Testing user-list

2003-10-07 Thread Pascal Hakim
attachments which are eating up all your disk quota. When legitimate mail then comes in, there's no room for it, and it gets bounced. Cheers, Pasc -- Pascal Hakim +61-403-411-672 "Do not bend." -- To UNS

Re: virus' on the list

2003-08-27 Thread Pascal Hakim
. By contrast, July only had 2 such messages. > afterthought: while on the windows mailing-list, I never received > anything closely related to a "virus warning", which is why I ask the > question now, instead of my pre-Linux days. Having a virus which sends out a mess

Re: list mail filters: was Re: Wicked screensaver

2003-09-04 Thread Pascal Hakim
lines worth of checks. Cheers, Pasc -- Pascal Hakim 0411-283-060 "Do not bend." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: list mail filters: was Re: Wicked screensaver

2003-09-04 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 06:42:11PM +1000, Pascal Hakim wrote: > On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 07:59:40PM -0600, Jacob Anawalt wrote: > > I'm impressed that we didn't see more of a showing of Sobig.F on the > > list. What mail rules are inplace other than Spamassasin, or

Re: Why am I no longer receiving the digest?

2003-06-13 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 12:15:09AM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 02:25:06AM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > It still ain't working, and www.faqchest.com is not receiving digests > > either. > > Now we're in the middle of June and it STILL doesn't F**G WORK... I've > checked www.faqchest

Re: CTRL+ALT+Backspace will kill the X-server

2003-11-20 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 08:13:08AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > But then it just springs back to life again, with a login prompt (at > least with xdm here). > > Let's pretend my monitor is being borrowed for a few days and being > replaced by a VT100, and I want to properly end all X processes and

Re: www.debian.org

2003-11-21 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 01:22:27PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > > Cristi Banciu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-11-21 13:17]: > > > > http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/files/fw/debian-security-20031121.txt > > > > after having read: I have run upgrades on various machines this > morning. > > Is there any chanc

Re: how do I subscribe to debian-announce?

2003-11-25 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 09:50:32AM -0500, Rohit Kumar Mehta wrote: > > I had previously used the web interface at lists.debian.org to get on > this debian mailing > list, but now that redirects me here: http://www.debian.org/distrib/ftplist The list archives (lists.debian.org) are hosted on mast

Re: how do I subscribe to debian-announce?

2003-11-26 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 04:54:03PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > As with any other mailing list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] works. For > debian-announce, this would be [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: how do I subscribe to debian-announce?

2003-11-26 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 06:33:44PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 12:51:06PM +1100, Pascal Hakim wrote: > > Please use -request, not -subscribe =-) > > Is Debian running something stupid like ezmlm? > Smartlist Cheers, Pasc -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: unchecked 31 times

2003-11-29 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 11:21:11AM +0530, Joydeep Bakshi wrote: > Hi list, > hre is a typical prob in debian. after particular days my debian show during > booting * /dev/hda6 mounted 31 times without checking, check forcde* and it > starts fsck. > > now my question is that has debian programm

Re: References headers missing in debian-user-digest

2004-01-01 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 11:54:10PM +, Pigeon wrote: > Hi, > > Just catching up with several weeks' worth of list traffic (or trying to :-) ) > and it seems that all the debian-user-digests dated after November 21 are > missing the References: headers from the messages contained in them. The >

Re: References headers missing in debian-user-digest

2004-01-02 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 11:54:10PM +, Pigeon wrote: > Hi, > > Just catching up with several weeks' worth of list traffic (or trying to :-) ) > and it seems that all the debian-user-digests dated after November 21 are > missing the References: headers from the messages contained in them. The >

Re: reject non-english mail as spam?

2004-01-13 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 10:10:08PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 01:03:30AM -0700, Lucas Albers wrote: > > I keep getting spam on the list that is completelly foreign. > > > > SA scores it as this in regards the foreign langauge component: > > 1.5 BODY_8BITS BODY: Body inclu

Re: reject non-english mail as spam?

2004-01-16 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 11:54:01PM -0700, Lucas Albers wrote: > sounds like a great idea, reduce the spam volume by 2/3rds. > When do you plan to implement this? Well... funny you should ask ;-). I used debian-devel as the test list, managed to stuff it up, and there's now a 7 hour delay or so, fo

Re: How to count actual users?

2003-06-24 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 12:31:46AM +0100, Hugh Saunders wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 01:03:00AM +0200, Paul Wright wrote: > > I decided that it may be easier to get a reasonable count of how many known > > users of Debian can be counted by the number of unique email addresses have > > suscribed

Re: You must have Ncurses installed in order to use 'make menuconfig'

2003-06-27 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 03:49:12PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings! > I am trying to recompile my kernel on a freshly installed machine, and got into > a problem: when I try to go for 'make manuconfig', here's what happens: > > However, I *do* have libncurses5 installed, as well as e

Re: Why aren't my mails reaching the mailing list!?!?

2003-06-29 Thread Pascal Hakim
Hi, Your messages are reaching the mailing list. We've just been having a few problems on lists.debian.org. Things are getting normal again on that machine, and most missing messages have been put through the queue again. We have been having problems with spamassassin, and the load on murphy (the

Re: I have a problem with this list

2003-07-14 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 12:29:05PM +0100, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 14:06, Colin Watson wrote: > > murphy, a.k.a. lists.debian.org, has been having some major problems > > over the last day or two. Just wait a while for things to clear. > > I am curious, what sort of problems ?

Re: Correction to installation errors of "fortune"

2004-05-26 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 05:45:16PM +0200, Alexander Schmehl wrote: > * Bob Tilley (AT&T) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040525 14:17]: > > > It was now located "whereis fortune" at "/usr/games/fortune". > > "/usr/games" was added to my PATH system-variable by "PATH= > > $PATH:/usr/games" and normal functi

Re: USE THREADS, DAMMIT! Re: No list mail

2004-08-18 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 09:44:44AM -0700, Stefan O'Rear wrote: > In case it helps... the mail has magically resumed coming to me. I believe we've fixed it now, as long as you don't have a gmail address. Cheers, Pasc (with his listmaster hat on) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Delayed mails on debian-user [Now mostly fixed]

2004-08-18 Thread Pascal Hakim
teergrubing lists.debian.org. Unforunately, gmail users will probably continue to suffer for a while until all problems are resolved. Cheers, Pasc (still with his listmaster hat on) -- Pascal Hakim 0403 411 672 Do Not Bend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Delayed mails on debian-user [Now mostly fixed]

2004-08-19 Thread Pascal Hakim
'lo, I got some emails asking me what teergrubing was after this post which I managed to delete before replying to. Hopefully the people who were wondering about it will catch this message. On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 03:40:34AM +1000, Pascal Hakim wrote: > Hi, > > Delays were

Re: Delayed mails on debian-user [Now mostly fixed]

2004-08-20 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 07:52:54PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > BTW, I didn't see a single delayed message during the whole affair. I > wonder if this is because I subscribed to this list so many years ago. > If the list manager sends out messages in the order in which people > subscribed, every sing

Re: can't post to "linux.debian.user" "solved"

2004-08-25 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 03:27:41PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > Brian Pack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Fri, 20 Aug 2004 09:53:16 -0400: > > On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 08:01, Roel Schroeven wrote: > > > Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > > On Aug 20, Tim Connors <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > du.au> wrote: > > > >>Unfortu

Re: Important notify about your e-mail account.

2004-03-02 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 06:16:28PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello user of Debian.org e-mail server, > > Your e-mail account will be disabled because of improper using in next > three days, if you are still wishing to use it, please, resign your > account information. > > For more

Re: Debain on the rise ! - However ....

2004-02-03 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 11:40:08AM -0500, Adam Aube wrote: > I think a separate General Discussion list would be a good idea - it would > keep debian-user focused on user support. Perhaps call it debian-talk or > debian-chat? > debian-curiosa? My experience with this type of thing is that eve

Re: I can't unsubscribe from the list

2004-04-24 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 07:14:48PM -0400, Daniel Guido wrote: > someone take me off these lists: debian-user and debian-devel. i tried > 3 different methods of unsubscribing so far (web form, REQUEST address, > and emailing the listmaster) and none worked. sorry to be a bother, but > this is f

Re: OT: Viruses on lists

2004-05-10 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 09:22:41PM +0100, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > Paul Johnson had the gall to say: > > "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [snip] > > > Almost. murphy generates a bounce and sends it to the list manager > > > (mailman, majordomo, ezmlm, etc. - I don't know wha

Re: OT: Viruses on lists

2004-05-10 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 02:06:43PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > Almost. murphy generates a bounce and sends it to the list manager > (mailman, majordomo, ezmlm, etc. - I don't know what one murphy is > running). The list manager then counts that against you in its > determination of whic

Re: Why are my posts so delayed??

2006-05-26 Thread Pascal Hakim
f more than a few seconds except in cases like this. Pasc -- Pascal Hakim 0403 411 672 Do Not Bend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why are my posts so delayed??

2006-05-26 Thread Pascal Hakim
f people greylisting murphy.d.o during the 24h it was listed in the spamcop listing is contributing quite heavily to the huge queues we're seeing. Cheers, Pasc -- Pascal Hakim 0403 411 672 Do Not Bend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Why are my posts so delayed??

2006-05-26 Thread Pascal Hakim
k up. We're trying to talk to some of the postmasters of the hosts that are affecting us the most. To make matters worse, we were blacklisted by spamcop for around 24h a couple of days ago, which made things worse. Cheers, Pasc -- Pascal Hakim 0

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-31 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 03:31:49PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > The Queen may be "Head of state" but the person with power here is the > > Prime Minister... The Queen is just a figurehead... > > Australian constitutional crisis of 1975. Unelected Governor- > General Sir John Kerr forced the ele

Re: Strange List Behavior

2006-06-04 Thread Pascal Hakim
nd a knowing tap to work correctly. I've kicked them and tapped them in the appropriate places, and they're updating again. Pasc -- Pascal Hakim 0403 411 672 Do Not Bend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: does reporting to spamcop do any good?

2006-06-18 Thread Pascal Hakim
discouraged. A fair number of people manage to report either their own ISPs or mails they've actually signed up to receive (for example, this list server has been blacklisted a few times), so you'll need to be careful as to what you report, unless you

Re: mutt configuration not displaying my name in mailing list threads

2006-06-18 Thread Pascal Hakim
ndex_format[1] variable. You'll want to change the author display from %v (first name of the author, or the recipient if the message is from you) to %t (`to:' field (recipients)) Mutt will decide whether the email is from you or not based on the value of alternates[2] variable. Cheers,

Re: OT: does reporting to spamcop do any good?

2006-06-18 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 11:59:56PM +, s. keeling wrote: > Pascal Hakim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > A fair number of people manage to report either their own > > ISPs or mails they've actually signed up to receive (for example, > > this list server has been bla

Re: apt-get update doesn't work?

2006-06-22 Thread Pascal Hakim
art? I just did an update using the same > mirror with no problems. ftp.us.debian.org points to a few different machines, so it's quite possible for different people to get different results. If there's a mirror behind there that is missing some files, it might be worth telling the mi

Re: Using a development server also as a backup production server

2007-05-20 Thread Pascal Hakim
far behind you want the slave to be. As far as 'flipping' setups go, have a look at the "heartbeat" or "heartbeat-2" packages if you want to do something more complex (and automated). If you've gone that far, ldirectord might also be interesting to you. Cheers, Pasc

Re: HP/Compaq DL380 G2 advice/help sought

2007-05-20 Thread Pascal Hakim
d know > of any pitfalls, etc I should be aware of? > While you've obviously figured this out since, a great place to find out info about Debian on various proliant machines is: http://wiki.debian.org/HP/ProLiant Cheers, Pasc -- Pascal Hakim

Re: Using a development server also as a backup production server

2007-05-20 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 05:04:29AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 06:56:45PM +1000, Pascal Hakim wrote: > > > > I realise the original poster uses MySQL, but if you want to keep a > > postgresql DB in sync like that, a great way to do it is

Re: I recieve spam "Debian security."

2006-04-03 Thread Pascal Hakim
or so and recently came back. We have been trying to reach someone at the ISP, but it doesn't appear we've had much luck so far. We're trying to avoid having to take some more drastic measures. Cheers, Pasc (with his listmaster hat on) -- Pascal Hakim

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-04-03 Thread Pascal Hakim
google groups. Wait for 4-5 days. > Look at the spam you receive. You will see what I mean. You shouldn't get any spam sent to your new address unless you actually post something. If you do, you will get some. This doesn't have to come from a sp

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-04-03 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 05:18:19PM -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > On 2006-04-03, Pascal Hakim penned: > > > > There have been a number of discussions about that. The main issue > > with that so far, is that the @ sign is used by a number of > > different programs to

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-04-04 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 06:58:52PM -0500, Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote: > Pascal Hakim wrote: > > > >Some people leak headers into the body of their email. > > > >For example, the first email in this month's archive: > > > >http://lists.

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-04-04 Thread Pascal Hakim
; > I've noticed debian-www being very busy, but I think that's > because webmaster@ forwards to it. > debian-www@lists.debian.org is in the footer of most webpages on http://www.debian.org Cheers, Pasc -- Pascal Hakim 0403 411

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-04-04 Thread Pascal Hakim
e, the debian-www list, as there will be fewer messages cross-posted from that list to others. Cheers, Pasc -- Pascal Hakim 0403 411 672 Do Not Bend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-04-06 Thread Pascal Hakim
g of course, as the metric to use is the number of spam messages that make it through rather than the percentage that make it through. SNR and all that. Cheers, Pasc -- Pascal Hakim 0403 411 672 Do Not Bend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-04-06 Thread Pascal Hakim
your > position, it won't sway those who disagree with you > (5) some will consider you foolish for trying yet again, though > secretly they will admire your courage > (6) others will think you foolish for being so stupid as not to > understand why letting everyone send his crap is a goo

Re: default group ownership of a file

2006-04-06 Thread Pascal Hakim
mpletly_ true... > at least in my expirience if the user has write permisions in the diectory > only > because of a certain group membership (for example in /usr/src with the > src group) the gid of the file is set to respective group and not the > users pr

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-04-11 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 11:36:05AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Quoting Pascal Hakim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >Even if we assume that I fell asleep on the page down key while counting > >4., and guess that I missed half, we're still talking about blocki

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-04-11 Thread Pascal Hakim
efore they begin. If I had a way to automatically count the number of spam messages that had made it through the list, I wouldn't be using that tool to do stats but to actually do the filtering. Cheers, Pasc (with his listmaster hat on) -- Pascal Hakim 0403 411 672 Do Not Bend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: anacron can't run hourly?

2005-07-21 Thread Pascal Hakim
on. Adding support for anacron to have hourly granularity would be possible, but I can't really think of a situation where this would be desirable (but feel free to file a wishlist bug against anacron if you can come up with a situation where it would be useful to h