Re: Fwd: Please confirm your message

2002-12-04 Thread Andreas Fuchs
fault is 50k. Right, and in TMDA there is also MAX_AUTORESPONSES_PER_DAY, which only seems to consider messages per sender. I'm not quite convinced that such a setup can not be abused as a spam reflector, useless as it may be (it bounces the full headers), other than annoying a lot of people.

Re: Fwd: Please confirm your message

2002-12-03 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 11:49:09PM +0100, Andreas Fuchs wrote: >> Right. I just thought up a scheme to exploit this, based on the fake >> source-IP address approach you find in descriptions of ping-floods. > > Wow, you&#

Re: Fwd: Please confirm your message

2002-12-03 Thread Andreas Fuchs
; approaches) can be used against the person running the filter. If the filter is configured so that it doesn't send the Received: lines, it actually acts as a pseudo-anonymysing relay. Thus, my conclusion: These things are evil. Don't use them or somebody might use them against you, eventua

Re: gpg-agent?

2002-11-28 Thread Andreas Fuchs
xec(2) this file via the file descriptor from this open(2) calland not the path name. Root, of course, could still replace the /usr/bin/gpg program and get away with it, but this seems to me to guarantee that the binary can not be stolen away under the unsuspecting user's noses. Have fun, --

Re: rfc1149

2001-05-07 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, Hilko Bengen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> No, no. Pigeons are ugly horrid things that infest cities and leave >> droppings on my car. > You mean packet loss? ITYM "log entries" as defined in RFC2549. -- Andreas Fuchs, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMA

Re: Developer Behavior

2001-01-09 Thread Andreas Fuchs
more than one a year > anyway Only applies if you use unstable on a production server (or a calculatron of similar designation), and You Shouldn't Do That, remember? (-; Next post is on topic. I promise. -- Andreas Fuchs, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, antifuchs Hail RMS! Hail Cthulhu! Hail Eris! All hail Discordia!

Re: jabber field on db.debian.org?

2001-01-08 Thread Andreas Fuchs
ng about encouragement... (-: -- Andreas Fuchs, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, antifuchs Hail RMS! Hail Cthulhu! Hail Eris! All hail Discordia!

Re: Linux Gazette [Was: Re: big Packages.gz file]

2001-01-08 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Keeps the Packages.gz file clean, and LG readers happy. Or am I missing something? -- Andreas Fuchs, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, antifuchs Hail RMS! Hail Cthulhu! Hail Eris! All hail Discordia!

Re: big Packages.gz file

2001-01-06 Thread Andreas Fuchs
On 2001-01-05, Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do large packages have to do with the size of the index file, > Packages? They waste one byte per multiple of 10 bytes of package size. (-; Bad joke? So sue me. -- Andreas Fuchs, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTEC

wit goes here (was: Re: dueling banjos)

2000-12-26 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, Kim Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > could you please mail me sheet music for dueling banjos And before you post a witty comment, please search through the list archives to make sure you don't duplicate effort. Let the jokes begin! -- Andreas Fuchs, <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Grub question/problem

2000-12-26 Thread Andreas Fuchs
have you tried running grub-install --recheck and then reinstalling grub? Alternatively, you could just edit /boot/grub/device.map. I don't know if this helps, but it has worked for me. > Any help sppreciated. HTH. -- Andreas Fuchs, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, a

Re: looking for replacement for run (because of critical bug in

2000-12-26 Thread Andreas Fuchs
= qux $ fg ^C $ tail --version tail (GNU textutils) 2.0 -- Andreas Fuchs, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, antifuchs Hail RMS! Hail Cthulhu! Hail Eris! All hail Discordia!

Re: What do you wish for in an package manager?

2000-12-24 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Either you'd have to have transactions on every fs then (and rollback each of them afterwards) or have a trans-filesystem transaction monitor, AFAIK. I'm afraid some serious non-trivial magicks are at work here. > Wichert. -- Andreas Fuchs, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PR

Re: looking for replacement for run (because of critical bug in

2000-12-24 Thread Andreas Fuchs
spawn' mode might not be a bad idea. ACK. This does sound like a better solution than run. Trying this now. -- Andreas Fuchs, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, antifuchs Hail RMS! Hail Cthulhu! Hail Eris! All hail Discordia!

Re: finishing up the /usr/share/doc transition

2000-12-23 Thread Andreas Fuchs
On 2000-12-22, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > web/weblint > net/zenirc Fixes for these two are in the BTS, in bug numbers #79747 and #79750, respectively. HTH, -- Andreas Fuchs, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, antifuchs Hail RMS! Hail Cthulhu! Hail Eris! All hail Discordia!

Re: looking for replacement for run (because of critical bug in

2000-12-23 Thread Andreas Fuchs
ave debian handy at the moment > but I think it might do what you want. start-stop-daemon won't work, because console-log (contrary to Marc's explanation needs a (nay, two) less process in the foreground to allow the user to watch log messages. I wonder if a sh script could do wha

Re: dualing banjos

2000-09-13 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, Miros/law `Jubal' Baran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 13.09.2000 pisze Rick Younie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> Probably doesn't make any sense to many non-native English >> speakers or those from different cultures but it really is >> hilarious. > It did make sense. ;-> Yea, but only if you spe

Re: new experimental ISDNUTILS packages available

2000-09-07 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu 07 Sep 2000, Andreas Fuchs wrote: >> Today, I <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Calling isdnrep is not working well: it's looking for the zone files >> > in /usr/lib/isdn/zone, but they are in /us

Re: new experimental ISDNUTILS packages available

2000-09-07 Thread Andreas Fuchs
(I already replied to this, but I figured that would be "better style" than replying to my own mails three times in a row.) Today, Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please let me know if you use this version, and keep me informed of > ANYTHING, good or bad. I *do* mean anything, like spe

Re: new experimental ISDNUTILS packages available

2000-09-07 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, I <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Calling isdnrep is not working well: it's looking for the zone files > in /usr/lib/isdn/zone, but they are in /usr/lib/isdn/: Oh, silly me. I had configured isdnrep to look specifically there, in /etc/isdn/isdn.conf. Fixed this now, let's see if it works...

Re: new experimental ISDNUTILS packages available

2000-09-07 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu 07 Sep 2000, Andreas Fuchs wrote: >> Today, Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> deb http://www.murphy.nl/~paul/debian isdnutils/ >>> After this, "apt-get update; apt-get install ippp

Re: new experimental ISDNUTILS packages available

2000-09-07 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been promising this for a while, but now it's happened: > The latest version of isdn4k-utils has been packaged. Yippie! [...] > deb http://www.murphy.nl/~paul/debian isdnutils/ > After this, "apt-get update; apt-get install ipppd isdnlog-da

Re: alternatives for MUA and NUA?

2000-09-05 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do most mail readers have the same command line interface? Perhaps, > but I really doubt that news readers do. Not even mail readers do, AFAIK. Console readers have the mail(1) interface to stick to, but if it comes to an x MUA... It would reall

Re: Help on Debian Project - Need Me?

2000-09-04 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, Marcelo E Magallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Andreas Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> None of them look DFSG-Free to me. Nonetheless, SMIL _is_ a nice tool >> to produce something multimedia-ish. Hopefully, somebody writes a >> DFSG-Free pl

Re: Help on Debian Project - Need Me?

2000-09-03 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, Jacob Kuntz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > does mozilla support SMILE? that's "syncronized multimedia event language", > a W3 consortium stanard that tries to do much of what flash is capable of. IIRC, only these programs officially support SMIL at the moment (http://www.w3c.org/AudioVideo/)

Re: Project Gutenberg

2000-09-02 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, Ralf Treinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote >> I was wondering that the work done by Project Gutenberg >> (http://sailor.gutenberg.org) should be made available through debian. > This came already to discussion some months ago when someone proposed to > package the con

Re: Potato now stable

2000-08-15 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The user should see a list of groups (I will call them this because I > think groupings can be more general than just tasks). The UI tool will > allow sorting and searching of the groups and when browsing individual > packages it will be possible