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