Re: More on spam
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 10:20:33AM -0400, David Crane wrote: > For the sake of the list, please change the policy of posting > e-mail addresses on the web and in news groups. For the sake of the open community, for accountability and the benefit of the Debian community please _do not_ change the policy. David, I enjoy you posts as I enjoy everyone's posts on this list but as a fellow contributor I want the ability to contact you and I want you to have the ability to contact me. Maybe you don't see or understand the point but for me it's a matter of community. When I ask or even search the archives I'm admitting I'm vulnerable, and I really would prefer to not take help from [EMAIL PROTECTED], thank you. > We do use mailfilter and spamassassin. But we are losing mail. We > have a 56K modem and a ISP with POP mail, and they limit us to a > couple of megabytes. Not everyone can afford DSL, and we don't want > to keep the computer on all the time. We definitely won't want to > automatically dialup ever few hours to clean out the damn Swen > mails. Did you file a complaint with your ISP? Did you investigate alternative providers? Did you write to the BBB or your senator/congressperson (or any elected officials that are part of your government)? If your technical solutions are not working to your needs why did you not attempt to use the protections/feedback methods provide by your society? > My Swen volume had dropped to a manageable one per day since my last > post here around six weeks ago. I posted last night (helping > someone fight Swen), and this morning, there were 20+ Swens, over 3 > Megabytes. I was *that* close to losing e-mail. Never again. Think and act my friend! Unlike the virus you can pick up the phone and get try to find a sympathetic person inside the ISP. Ask them to set up some filters for you. One simple one would be to reject all emails larger than ~40KB. Setup a separate, private, email address for your friends and family who want to send you large attachments. There are a million other technical stopgap solutions that can be implemented - few of which would be so sad as obfuscating the address of posters. > > I am not being allowed to post again to this list from this account > (I'm sneaking in this one last post, figuring 12 hours won't matter > much). A sad goodbye -- my next post will come from a hotmail > account. I'm Bill Gates and Steve B. will be using you as a statistic before long: Linux users use Hotmail! Study shows -Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: More on spam
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 11:37:05AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > One addition to Karsten's questions/issues: > It has been claimed that one person's spam is another person's ham. To > what extent is this actually true? Or is this just obfuscation by the > advocates of spam? If we had collections of ham and spam that have > been accumulated by different users with different filter set ups, we > could look for overlap and disjointness of sets. Or just run one > person's spam thru another person's filter. Lots of opportunities for > useful statistical studies. I think insofar that spam == unsolicited commercial email; the definitions are pretty clear. -Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: More on spam
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 10:57:20AM -0700, Tom wrote: > I think a more precise definition might be "unsolicited commercial or > organizational email from a source in which I have no interest." > > If I respect an organization, I'll read what it sends me. The problem > is too many organizations think they deserve my respect. Ok, for me, I'd chop off the last part though - "unsolicited commercial or organizational email". I think the emphasis should be on the unsolicited part, if I want your stuff I'll request it, thank you. I mean Debian did just start sending me the debian-user mailing list, regardless of whether I was interested or not. Spammers don't want your respect, they want your money (or money substitute) -- even the non-profit ones. -Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X client problem..
Ishwar Rattan wrote: > results in > ... Can't open display "A:0" > > Any ideas? Read http://www.linux.com/howtos/Remote-X-Apps-6.shtml Right there on top it says: "Notice that some X servers (from XFree86) can be configured not to listen on the usual TCP port with the -nolisten tcp argument. Notably the default configuration of Debian GNU/Linux is to disable the X server listening on the TCP port. If you wish to use remote X on a Debian system, you should re-enable this by altering the way the X server is started. Look at /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc for a start." There's some additonal simple debugging info as well. -Dave -- If you've found this email interesting, are interested in Free Software and would like to help the FSF please drop me a line so I can provide you with more information about their Associate Membership. It is my personal goal to sign up at least one new member this year. Thank You. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Are Debian's 2.6 kernels stable?
Matthew T. Atkinson wrote: > IMHO, it seems totally unfair to community efforts like Debian that they > can now look forward to spending more time on patching and testing > something that really should be stable when released as such and less > time packaging and improving the infrastructure that supports the > project. Hey.. that sounds less like the Linux kernel and more like the Debian project. Think about it: Most Debian users run Unstable, Debian has incredible "infrastructure that supports the project" & most of us prefer Debian over the competetion. So, One could say that Linux is being Debian-ized. Does it sound as bad, when I put it like that? -Dave -- If you've found this email interesting, are interested in Free Software and would like to help the FSF please drop me a line so I can provide you with more information about their Associate Membership. It is my personal goal to sign up at least one new member this year. Thank You. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: performance problems with alsaplayer and xmms
martin f krafft wrote: > My machine here is an Athlon XP 3000+ with 1 Gb of memory and a VIA > chipset with a > > :00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. > VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) Similar setup here: :00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400/KT600 AGP] Host Bridge :00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 PCI Bridge --and-- :00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) --but also of note-- :00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang] That ethernet card completely wrecks my sound setup, the problem is moderately well documented on the LKML and google in general. ogg123 doesn't give me the ALSA underrun errors that you provide in your follow up post but my problem is almost precisely the same. Do you have a 3Com card with a similar chipset? Some additional details of my system: Linux jupiter 2.6.5-jupiter-1090131120 #1 Sun Jul 18 02:21:09 EDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Debian Sarge [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep SND /boot/config-`uname -r`|grep y CONFIG_SND=y CONFIG_SND_TIMER=y CONFIG_SND_PCM=y CONFIG_SND_RAWMIDI=y CONFIG_SND_OSSEMUL=y CONFIG_SND_MPU401_UART=y CONFIG_SND_AC97_CODEC=y CONFIG_SND_VIA82XX=y (Monolithic Kernel) If you find a software solution could you please post it to the list or CC me on it? As it is I will be removing that net card at my next reboot. Thanks, -Dave -- I had a terrible dream last night: There was a sign tacked to the server room door that read, "There is No Escape". When I told my therapist he said I was, "Out of Control". I decided he was an EMACS user. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
