and advice have been extremely valuable), and anyone I may have missed for
your outstanding service to our computer user community.
I use and have benefited from Pan and understand that the benefits I have
enjoyed are all thanks to the hard work of volunteers like you.
Thank you again.
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>
> From: Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net>
>To: pan-users@nongnu.org
>Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 2:19 AM
>Subject: Re: [Pan-users] Wh
g the ones that were
previously made invisible? Or is it just the messages posted after the get out
of jail date that become visible?
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> From: Travis
> To: pan-users@nongnu.org
> Sent: Tue, July 5, 2011 7:34:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [Pan-users] Policy discussion: GNKSA
>
> -Original Message- From: Joe Zeff
> Sent: Monday, July 04, 2011 10:24 PM
> To: pan-users@nongnu.org
> Subject: Re: [Pan-us
;s usually what you have to do when switching between email
clients.
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Rob wrote:
> On Monday 04 July 2011 11:42, Alan Meyer wrote:
> > Of course in theory, theory and practice are the same. But in
> > practice ... maybe I'm totally screwed up here.
>
> Practically speaking, I hit binsearch.info and found an Ubuntu ISO to test
> wit
tions
provides a significant advantage.
Of course in theory, theory and practice are the same. But in
practice ... maybe I'm totally screwed up here.
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. Two or three may be plenty for that.
Does someone have data to suggest that there is a real advantage
to having more than four connections?
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r I addressed
the envelope using an ink pen and hand lettering. Then I licked
the back, sealed it, affixed a stamp, and carried it to a
mailbox.
And now, dear me, I see tar pits yawning on every side and worry
about what will happen to my poor eggs if I fall into one of
them.
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ISP's news server? That would
> explain why it doesn't affect other people?
That sounds like a pretty good explanation to me. If the news
server is sending bad headers, Knode may be ignoring them but Pan
taking them seriously and doing the wrong thing.
Can you call or write to th
in case, are you sure that your news server didn't
stop offering binaries on March 12, 2:41 pm? Or maybe they still
offer them but not in the groups you're using?
News providers can change their policies sometimes.
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_
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Duncan wrote:
> > Alan Meyer posted on Mon, 21 Feb 2011 10:45:55 -0800 as
> > excerpted:
> [...]
> >> Since I'm paid for the work that I do I have no grounds for
> >> complaint. If they want to pay me to do work that they
Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote:
> ... To recognize or fail to recognize the contributions, code
> especially but not just code, that one has made, is to pay them
> or rob them of their "payment" -- the only payment many
> receive. Thus, giving credit where credit is due is a *HUGE*
> *DEAL*
ut it's worth a try.
I found that pan behaved very badly in Ubuntu when "Assistive Technologies"
Go to System / Preferences / Assistive Technologies.
If the checkbox for "Enable assistive technologies" is checked,
uncheck it. Then re-open pan and try aga
Lacrocivious Acrophosist wrote:
...
> Duncan's presence and constancy here is valued by many.
...
Count me among them. And he has the most delightful way of sailing
above a flame war with nary a feather singed while those below hose
each other with napalm.
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Steven,
Our postings have crossed in the ether. I didn't see this before
posting a reply to your last one, and of course you hadn't seen
my reply.
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > Perhaps if more of us would transpose remarks like Stallman's,
> > substituting our own favorite gender, religion, race,
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
...
> > http://img341.imageshack.us/i/qsoladvertisementps2.jpg/
> >
> > OK, I can see both sides of that one. As a guy, it's amusing, but
> > offensive as well, because I can empathize with women.
>
> Why on earth would it be *offensive*? It's empowering. It's
> about a wo
Petr Kovar wrote:
> Duncan, Thu, 5 Aug 2010 06:06:59 + (UTC):
> ...
> > One of the topics of discussion (and alarm, in some quarters,
> > from both sides) in the FLOSS community (various talks at
> > conferences, articles on LWN and the like) has been the fact
> > that while women /do/ seem t
Alan Meyer wrote:
> ...
> I read the exchange between David "Lefty" Schlesinger and Richard
> Stallman, and a fair number of the comments.
> ...
I should have quoted Duncan's citation to this exchange. Here it
is:
http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/EMACS_virgi
soner who decides to take away
our virginity with respect to what he has in mind.
Stallman was not advocating the physical rape of anyone and
neither were his supporters. I don't want to make more of this
than was there. He and his supporters have nothing in common
with criminals. It's ju
that an internal combustion engine mixes
air and gasoline in a carburetor (well, they used to.) Yes, it
gives you important information. Yes it was a great innovation
in its time. But it doesn't tell you anything about how to make
it work and it's
im!"
I don't know if "hundreds" of others make a living from open
source. I'm sure that the great majority of open source authors
do not make a living at it. Like 99.99% of all professional
programmers they have day jobs that pay the bills.
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never be caught or punished or rewarded?
Should we do what is right even if it hurts us?
Why?
There is 2,500 years of literature on these questions. Many
fascinating and enlightening answers have been proposed. But not
even a fellow as smart as Plato could summa
Universalists. Maybe the Quakers would come in second. I don't
know if Buddhism qualifies as a religion, I don't know much about
it, but it might also be among the leaders.
For myself though, I'm content to belong to no religion at all.
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...
> Sorry about posting the answer before the question, that's the
> way that Yahoo formats it by default. Also, I'm not posting
> anything in HTML, unless Yahoo is forcing it in. Not sure about
> that, because there's no option about it in anything I can see.
Yahoo is forcing it in, but you can
I did say earlier that I would love to discuss religion but
didn't want to bore everyone. Well, I'm weak. I've given in to
temptation ...
Joe Zeff wrote:
...
> And, I might add, that entire bit of "salvation by faith" is
> completely foreign to Judaism. If you wish to earn Paradise,
> you do
han it
was 50 years ago in the paper era.
And that's just the docs stored on disbursed media. Online is
another story. Where, for example, will all of Usenet be if
Google decides to drop it? Who will pay to preserve it even if
Google offers it free to a good home?
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- I'd be happy to jump into
that (have I done that already :^) I love to discuss religion
(I'm mostly against it) and I never get offended by people who
disagree with me about it. But I will restrain myself in the
interest of not boring everyone.
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Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> The great Ken Thompson (co-inventor of Unix and inventor of B, the
> precursor to C) published a paper "Reflections on Trusting Trust" which
> describes how he subverted the C compiler to insert a backdoor to the
> login program:
YIKES!
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Travis wrote:
> From: "Alan Meyer"
> > ... I have found that a number of closed source
> > programs I have installed on my Windows machines included
> > spyware. ...
>
> Why don't you name names?
I have run the ZoneAlarm free firewall program on my Win
Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote:
> There's no problem buying a program. In fact ...
I see that this is a subject on which you have thought long and
deeply.
I have to agree with some of your points. On the issue of trust,
for example, I trust that the open source software that I run is
safe
es of Microsoft and
Intel have anti-social monopoly characteristics. I oppose those.
But if someone wants to buy a computer program, even including
buying it from Microsoft, why not?
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that only multipart posts are affected at your end, am
> I right?
I don't see this problem using Pan 0.132 on Ubuntu 9.04.
I can download both single and multipart binary posts.
Try a right mouse click on the desired posting and click "Save articles".
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t seems safer to me than killing a process you had forgotten
was running or, if on a multi-user system, a process that another
user was running.
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On Tue, 9/29/09, Charles Kerr wrote:
> ...
> Other than the GMime update to fix multipart messages -- which
> is already in K Haley's repo -- are there any honest-to-God
> showstoppers left? Not feature requests, tweaks, or whatnot,
> but things that would actually prevent Pan 1.0 from finally,
On Tue, 8/25/09, Ron Johnson wrote:
...
> > At last! Someone understands why I need 4,000
> > books in my basement and another thousand upstairs.
>
> But that's just it: you have them in your house, not in an
> uber-Kindle From Hell that you carry everywhere!
True, but I do pine for them when I
On Tue, 8/25/09, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
...
> What will you do now? Is the fate of the entire world worth
> the risk?
At last! Someone understands why I need 4,000 books in my
basement and another thousand upstairs.
At last, now even _I_ understand it. I am sure now that I can
finally make
On Tue, 7/28/09, Gary wrote:
> Petr Kovar wrote:
>
> > Gary, try searching for gtk2rc-2.0, preferably in your
> user profile. It
> > seems to me like there are multiple configuration
> files present on your
> > system, and GTK+ reads the unchanged one when
> initializing the pan
> > executable.
"heck yeah, I'd
> write a page or two", I'll set you up a wiki, and provide the
> hosting. ...
Glen,
That's very nice of you. I'm far from expert in using the
software, but I would be willing to contribute a page or two
about the things
#
# uniqpan.py
#
# Filter a Pan newsgroup articles file to find article subjects and dates.
#
# Author: Alan Meyer
# License: Free under the GNU GPL.
import sys, time, re
if len(sys.argv) != 2:
sys.std
opped all alt.* groups. There is a story
about it here:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9967119-38.html
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> From: David Shochat
> To: pan-users@nongnu.org
> Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2009 4:25:39 PM
> Subject: [Pan-users] Re: Pan brings PC to a standstill
>
> On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:27:24 -0700, walt wrote:
> > Well, two points.
> >
> [snip]
> > Second, at-spi-registryd. Unless you know you need it
Beartooth wrote:
> ...
> I just tried to post to rec.guns, asking the location of the FAQ
> -- there used to be a routine message with its location. I thought I
> could check about binaries.
>
> I tried three different posting profiles, all with the Motzarella
> server, and got two di
Alan Meyer wrote:
> ...
> Although I prefer using a news server to using a web server,
> there are web interfaces to news that you might use as a last
> resort.
> ...
Although there are things I like better about Pan, you
can also connect to Motzarella with Thunderbird, the fre
Beartooth wrote:
> ...
> Error reading from news.motzarella.org: unknown error
>
> I've been getting quite a few of those.
>
> Any bets I'm doing something the nice people at motzarella hadn't
> thought of?
I've had good luck with Motzarella, though I do get server busy
messages from the
; there, in addition to gmane, grc, and opera. (I don't need
You might try www.motzarella.org. I like them.
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> From: apebrigade
> ...
> unrar x /filename /
>
> This brings up a dialog where I can see the files contained within the
> archive,
> but when I try to extract them they do not appear in the target folder. It
> fails to extract the files for some reason. I have tried this on my windows
>
On Sat, 3/7/09, Beartooth wrote:
> Background : my chief offline activity is squirreling ...
I have to say that this one sent me to Google, Wikipedia, and
tracing various leads to find out just what "squirreling" is, and
why a GPS is involved:
Websters Online has:
"to store up for future
Cool. Couldn't be easier.
Thanks.
Alan Meyer
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--- On Fri, 1/30/09, Greg Lee wrote:
> From: Greg Lee
> Subject: [Pan-users] Re: Manual manipulation of the groups list
> To: pan-users@nongnu.org
> Date: Friday, January 30, 2009, 12:41 AM
> On Wed, 28 Jan
andard (on Unix/Linux,
> anyway) based newsrc format, so they can be shared between
> clients and/or used for import/ export.
...
Thank you Duncan.
I edited the newsrc file and replaced the "!" at the end of the
group of interest with &quo
approach for robust
programming and debugging. And because of that, I'm encouraged
to think that there may be a way for me to do this.
Thanks.
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