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(...) Steve, Sorry to leave you wondering. I unsubscribed you on Sunday, but didn't send you an e-mail about it -- figured you'd just notice that the messages had stopped. Duane, You should be all set now. --Todd (23 years ago, 6-May-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Todd, Any updates on this? -Duane (23 years ago, 6-May-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) something like this: (URL) string "/1812/poo.ldr" should be in the environment variable PATH_INFO. (23 years ago, 5-May-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I was using Mozilla (on Windows 2000) and was unable to get it to display. --Bill. (23 years ago, 5-May-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I'll take a look at it today and get you fixed. I think a couple other people are experiencing a similar problem. --Todd (23 years ago, 4-May-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Hi, I'm currently subscribed to receive lugnet.space and lugnet.starwars by e-mail. Works a treat and I get lots of mail. However, I now want to unsubscribe (and continue reading by NNTP). When I go to (URL) and enter my email and confirmation code (...) (23 years ago, 4-May-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Brian, While I'm sure your intentions are good, the announcement group isn't really an appropriate place to post a sale, even if it's due to a major change like moving to a new house. I'm sure there are many people, like me, who subscribe via (...) (23 years ago, 3-May-03, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.admin.general)
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Hey! Anyone checking in on this thread? I wrote an e-mail regarding this issue in November and never got a response, so this time I'm not letting it drop. -Duane <snip> (...) (23 years ago, 2-May-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I already fell for that temptaion. According to Norman Anti-Virus, it is some kind of worm/trojan. I don't remember its name, but it's probaby Gibe.B. The reason McAfee's SpamKiller let it pass through is that it doesn't filter mails with (...) (23 years ago, 1-May-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I've just started forwarding all my spam to Bruce Schlickbernd. Problem solved. (...) It doesn't seem to happen often enough to be a major problem for me yet, and I'm gratified that the Microsoft is so concerned about my security. Dave! (23 years ago, 1-May-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I've had this about 10 times. My mail server intercepts it every time. It's getting to the point that I'm tempted to see what it'd do. Does anyone know? Scott A (23 years ago, 1-May-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Popfile isn't a spam filter per se, but a dynamic, learning Email categorizer. In other words, you make up several Email categories (for example mine are Lego, Personal, Spam) and it sorts your mail into the respective categories. If it get a (...) (23 years ago, 1-May-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Alright, when I'm disappointed at SpamAssassin, I'll give that one a try before attempting to write my own... :) /Tore (23 years ago, 1-May-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) What is a safe address? My "safest" address is one that actually contains the word NOSPAM. :) So far, the harvesters have filtered out that one... Today is the last day of my 30 days evaluation period of McAffe's SpamKiller. I must say I'm not (...) (23 years ago, 1-May-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Popfile (available at Sourceforge) is also very good once trained -Orion (23 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) sorry to say, but those emails already harvested will never stop getting spam now. Your only option is to abandon that address, and start a new (Safe) one. Or, just install really good spam filters, like spamassassin. :) Dan (23 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Still spammin!
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Maintaining the trend of LUGNET-culled spamlists, some enterprising soul has kindly sent me the latest 238K "security update from the Microsoft." Much as I appreciate the sender's concern for my security, I deleted the email, as I have done with (...) (23 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Yes, there is. Just add the proper group to the "Newsgroups" field, or request that any replies to your message be followed up to the proper group. I've gone ahead and done it for you. (I thought it had been done already, but was mistaken) -Duane (...) (23 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.people.newbie, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hmm. Dan, you might want to try filling out the posting setup again; I don't know if it's related, but I know the cookies for 'signed in member' and posting setup are related; if I happen to not be signed in, I can't post. (URL) that helps, (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Dan, Todd is away on vacation right now, so there might be a delay in correcting this. He still reads the news postings and checks in with me a few times a day. I think it's about 8 am where he is... a little early. :-) but I'm sure he'll help (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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This is a message Dan Mattia had me post for him: ===...=== This message is intended for whoever controls the posting by lifetime members. It is also from Dan Mattia (lugnet member 1959) who cannot post although he has received membership. I (...) (23 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Within the last two weeks, IIRC, and it is indeed nifty. See admin.general for more if you're interested... the question is off-topic for trains.org (grin). (23 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) No it actually works in Safari, Mozilla, Chimera and probably Opera as well. There's probably an SVG plug-in for recent Netscape releases too. I think there are about 20 vendors supplying SVG plug-ins. Some of the more recent browsers are (...) (23 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I find these two conflicting posts very conflicting: (URL) is it? Does this technology work with IE only as Bill says? Or does it work with multiple browsers on multiple platforms as Dave says? I ask mostly because I'm curious. (23 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd, thank you for creating such a wonderful project that isn't dependent upon using a specific browser in order to view the content as it is presented. That's been a BIG beef I've had with many Lego-related sites which force you to view them in (...) (23 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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This seems to require Internet Exploiter. Please stick to technologies that are platform-independent. (23 years ago, 22-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Question about CLSOTW April 13-19, 2003
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(...) Hi Mark, Good question. The polling mechanism doesn't have an automatic shut-off feature yet, so whatever site was in the lead when Tobbe did the writeup was that week's pick. If people continue to fill out the poll after the disclosure time (...) (23 years ago, 19-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Question about CLSOTW April 13-19, 2003
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I see rtlToronto got the award for CLSOTW for April 13-19, 2003. but according to the poll BZPower won: (URL) site would you like to see selected as next week’s Cool LEGO Site of the Week? (April 13-19, 2003) Average list position (ranked from 1 to (...) (23 years ago, 19-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I noticed that the email addresses showing on posts are now spam-blocked. My first reaction was "thank you, Thank You, THANK YOU", but then I noticed the spam-block part was on the left side of the '@', i.e. not part of the domain name. This is a (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) It's both. It's normal in that the robotics group is shared with an external mailing list, and people on mailing lists sometimes forget to suspend their subscription to the list while away on holidays. It's a problem in that people on mailing (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I just posted to robotics (replying to: Is there any interest in a tiny scout-like brick?) and after confirming and positing. I have received two emails with " Is there any interest in a tiny scout-like brick?" as part of the subject line. Theses (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Holy Nospammery!
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(...) Todd you are awesome! Cheers, - jsproat (23 years ago, 15-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Don't know if this always works, but it seems fairly reproducible to me: once you can't zoom any further, if you click on a country and move your mouse off that country (eg: to a neighbouring one) before the page updates, one of them will be (...) (23 years ago, 14-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"Tim Courtney" <tim@zacktron.com> wrote in message news:HDArH7.Bsr@lugnet.com... (...) it (...) This is sooo...ooo cool. Thank you Todd!! [ j o n ] -- (URL) (23 years ago, 14-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I've seen that a couple of times too. I didn't see a pattern to the behavior. :-( It's either a bug in the viewer or a bug in my mouseover code. It's pretty ugly, isn't it. --Todd (23 years ago, 14-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) If you zoom in on a country, like here: (URL) my browser, the selected (white) country appears black when you mouse over the text of a LUG, or when you mouse out of the country. Is this a known bug? I just updated my SVG viewer. -Tim (23 years ago, 14-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) BTW, I definitely know for-sure how to do this now in SVG. It's pretty easy using <a xlink:href></a> tagging. I'm still running a lot of the underlying data from icky flat textfiles, though, and haven't added group/event URLs into the data (...) (23 years ago, 14-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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A quick progress update... (...) I just put up version 0.5 tonight, which should also be considered "alpha" quality. (...) I took a stab at this today and I don't like the results. Mainly, I haven't figured out yet how to load a target URL into the (...) (23 years ago, 14-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: New World LUG Map demo
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(...) Simon, Sorry I missed the target on this yesterday. If you go to the map maker tool at the original URL, it now tells you three things below the map: (1) HTML code if you want to embed the map on an off-site web page; (2) the raw URL of the (...) (23 years ago, 14-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Monkeypede
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(...) Ok -- Steve Bliss ICQ'ed me and suggested trying L3Lab's Register File Types option to settle the MIME-types. Win2K doesn't allow you to manually edit the MIME-types through the interface, and I forget how to do it in the registry. So, I try (...) (23 years ago, 14-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) LOL indeed! Here's a neat one that just sneaked in .... 8?) Mark Sandlin <{sandlin@}Spamcake{...link.com}> (...) (23 years ago, 14-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Holy Nospammery!
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(...) For sure! Thanks Todd! :-) -Tim (23 years ago, 13-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Indeed. Lots of variations too! Coolness. Gee it's nice having Todd back hacking good stuff in again, innit? (23 years ago, 13-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) My IE 5.0 tries to download ldraw.cgi from that poo.ldr link, and mozilla 1.2.1 tries to download monkeypede.ldr.cgi, go figure. -Tim (23 years ago, 13-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Holy Nospammery!
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Hey Todd - I just noticed the automatic spamblock feature on the web interface when it displays email addresses. Cool! :-) -Tim (23 years ago, 13-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: New World LUG Map demo
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(...) I'm almost positive it was from the GRID website in Geneva, Switzerland. The files I downloaded are gnv029.zip (world city population database) and gnv019.zip (world coastline data) if that helps. The map data is given in a horribly designed (...) (23 years ago, 12-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: New World LUG Map demo
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(...) I think there may be some serious mistakes in the coordinate data of the cities. Hong Kong shows up in Canada! (I think this might be an accidentally negated coordinate.) I'd like to get a better data file. (...) It's from a public domain list (...) (23 years ago, 12-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Virus spam from Kim Brodie targetting LUGNET members?
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(...) You could do what I have done with my secondary yahoo email account (rolly_dog2000@yahoo.com) UNLESS the subject line as a special 4 alphanumeric code in it at the very beginning the messeage gets deleted and into the trashbox! So far I have (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Problem with Password page?
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(...) Success!!! Thanks Todd! Brady (23 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Follow-up: Virus spam from Kim Brodie targetting LUGNET members?
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Heya y'all, I've been digging back through my spam trap folder in Outlook, and have come up with the following conclusions: 1. I'm looking at at least two different spam virus attacks. Both are using open relays in traditional spam style, but: (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Problem with Password page?
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(...) Sounds good. Thanks for the efforts, Todd. I don't like writing down passwords but when you don't have to remember them for, like, a few years, you tend to forget them. Willing to test your implementation once you get it done (no rush--e-mail (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Monkeypede
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(...) that for mixing and matching... James (23 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I think I have an idea how we can automate this: you fill out a forgotten-password form, and the server sends a confirmation e-mail to you containing a special URL which would be valid for a day or so, after which it would expire. You click on (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: finding a password
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(...) Would you please reset mine as well? Member 1697. Thanks! Tim Emrick (23 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Is there also a way there can be a "forgot password" option? 'Cause, well, I forgot my password... Dave K (23 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Monkeypede
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You can blame MSIE and its crappy file handling here. Some parts of MSIE will use the MIME type from the server (application/x-ldraw or whatever) and some parts will use the filename. Unfortunatly, IE seems not to handle content-disposition (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Monkeypede
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(...) Flush the poo.ldr? :-D (...) -Tim (23 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Monkeypede
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(...) (URL) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hmm. (...) "Article lugnet.cad.dat.model...812poo.ldr not found on server." -Tim (23 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Monkeypede
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(...) Well, it's a LUGNET problem even if it's an MSIE bug, right? :-) I think there's another thing we can try. I remember reading once that MSIE in its infinite wisdom sometimes ignores MIME types and gleans the file type from the extension in the (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Monkeypede
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(...) Ok. MSIE 5.0 still tells me I'm attempting to open the file "ldraw.cgi." I'm trying this on two computers. The second computer, which doesn't have file associations configured for LDraw stuff, asks me what program to open the file in. I select (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Monkeypede
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(...) I think you're pretty close. The server isn't actually reporting 'ldraw.cgi' anywhere -- that's just the script name in the URL. Here's what the server reports: Content-type: application/x-ldraw Content-disposition: (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Monkeypede
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Quick followup with more notes: I have MLCad set to be my default program to load LDraw files. It works just fine with opening files on my hard drive, but it will fail to open the file when LUGNET passes it 'ldraw.cgi.' Is this an MLCad problem? (I (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Monkeypede
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Todd - This is an old topic, and I came across it cause I was browsing for models posted on the groups. It brings up a concern of mine - the CAD DAT groups and file associations/extensions in Windows. I'm a bit rusty on MIME-types in Win2K, cause I (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Problem with Password page?
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(...) Brady, I've fixed the problem -- although unfortunately I don't understand exactly what was causing the hang-up. It had to do with file locking rather than CPU consumption. I changed the version of Perl (5.00503 instead of 5.6.1) that's being (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Problem with Password page?
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(...) Well, I'll be darned...it's doing it to me too. Thanks for reporting this... I'll get to the bottom of it and let you know when it's fixed. --Todd (23 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Problem with Password page?
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Hi! I am a brand new member, so please excuse the confusion if I am asking a FAQ. I am trying to add a password, but cannot get it to work. Anytime I try to add--or even replace--from the password page, it just simply sits there forever. Doesn't (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Password Reset
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(...) done! (23 years ago, 10-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Password Reset
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Could you please rest the password for member #311? Thanks! Karl Barger (23 years ago, 10-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Virus spam from Kim Brodie targetting LUGNET members?
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(...) I'm afraid that I'm not at liberty to comment on that. Dave! (23 years ago, 10-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Virus spam from Kim Brodie targetting LUGNET members?
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I got this one too today. Not sure it was from Kim, but the attachment (patch.exe) was deleted by our mailserver telling there was a virus. This was first time I got it S Sproaticus <jeremy@sproat.us> wrote in message news:HD36qs.13A1@lugnet.com... (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Virus spam from Kim Brodie targetting LUGNET members?
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(...) SNIP (...) Maybe its a dastardly plan by clone-brands! AAA...AAARRRGHHHHHHH! ;) Jeff (23 years ago, 10-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Virus spam from Kim Brodie targetting LUGNET members?
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(...) Sorry, mate. I haven't posted anything on the top news, and I've been "under fire" for the past three weeks. Today was a "not so ad" day, only one e-mail with fake microsoft patches came into my inbox. (...) Same here. (...) The messages I've (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Virus spam from Kim Brodie targetting LUGNET members?
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(...) I have been on the list too. I did think it was unique to castle and space, but you have changed my mind. (...) Well I am on the list and I certainly don't consider myself on of the top members of the community - unless I am mistaken, which in (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Virus spam from Kim Brodie targetting LUGNET members?
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(...) I extracted one of those files a couple weeks back and scanned it. It is: Win32.Gibe.B worm. I've had probably a dozen emails with similar LUGNET lists of recipients, but from several different sources. Play well. Tim Strutt (23 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Virus spam from Kim Brodie targetting LUGNET members?
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(...) good - less of a chance it would be used to spam other people then :) You should never set up an email sending form that gives the user any control over where it's sent to. :) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Virus spam from Kim Brodie targetting LUGNET members?
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(...) I don't know if I'm one of the top 100, but I'm a frequent loudmouth. I joined LUGNET (officially) just the other day, and I've received 2-3 daily emails from Ms. Brodie since then. I didn't make the connection until you pointed it out, (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Virus spam from Kim Brodie targetting LUGNET members?
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(...) I'll look into it. (...) Yeah, I figured :\ It is also on the BrickMedia website. When I set up a new personal site at a new domain later this year, I won't publish the email at all on the web. Instead, I'll set up a contact form on the site (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Virus spam from Kim Brodie targetting LUGNET members?
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(...) I've been using spamassassin (woo, free!) for a while now, and it has been catching these (and almost all other) spam. (...) and now you'll get more - you post the email address on the web, trust me, something will harvest it. (23 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Virus spam from Kim Brodie targetting LUGNET members?
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(...) I've been getting them for some time too. My server admin is busy installing some spam blocking software, but I don't know if it will block that. I've set up several filter rules for this crap, though. I purchased SpamKiller before McAfee (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Virus spam from Kim Brodie targetting LUGNET members?
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<snip> The thing that pisses me of is the subject keeps changing every so often so an email rule only lasts so long. Maybe it really is a patch and it will make my PC work even better. ;-) Does anybody know what virus is in these emails? I just keep (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Virus spam from Kim Brodie targetting LUGNET members?
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Heya y'all, I don't know if this is old news or not, but a LUGNET search on "brodie" turned up 0 results. OTOH, it seems there was some discussion about 2 weeks back about a virus email hitting .space and .castle users... Anyway, for about a month (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)
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| | Todd Lehman's brain
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We've gone mad, some might say, to do a LEGO Picture Captionning about Todd Lehman's Brain (picture sent by Paul Sinasohn), but the picture is simply too hilarious ! www.rotule.qc.ca/humor/ Todd is, from our experience with him and by reading the (...) (23 years ago, 5-Apr-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.fun, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.galidor) !!
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(...) Very to the point, Todd. Thanks. Personally, (and really not trying to stir up the pot), but Jesse's comments aren't really appropriate to .Town forum. I think they belong maybe in Lugnet.Publish or in Lugnet.Off-Topic.Debate, but not Town, (...) (23 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Jesse, The use of internet discussion sites such as this one to share your viewpoints is actually a privilege rather than a right. Please keep that in mind when you post. Thanks. Now back to your regularly scheduled .town discussion. --Todd (23 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Jesse: Clean up your act immediately or you're out. --Todd (23 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.admin.general)
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Thanks. My E-mail address has been changed! Jaco "LUGNET Admin" <suz@lugnet.com> schreef in bericht news:HCECH5.1ypt@lugnet.com... (...) (23 years ago, 1-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) (URL) Currently the program is pretty basic (it only supports ArcInfo Ungenerate files). I've copied the code and modified it a bit to do several different map projections. Todd, If you remember where you got the country data from, will you (...) (23 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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In lugnet.announce, Todd Lehman writes: This is fantastic stuff Todd, well done and thanks. Most of my comments have already been covered by others but... (...) And often utterly bonkers... last time I was in Berks and Hants I didn't find anywhere (...) (23 years ago, 28-Mar-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Hi Todd, (...) I'm happy that you point that two OS. I've tried to have SVG working under Linux RedHat 7.3 and Mozilla 1.0.1 without success. The plugins that are on Adobe web page are from 2001 and have been developped for Mozilla 0.99 and they (...) (23 years ago, 28-Mar-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Many years ago (maybe 1986) I wrote some of the simple projection routines for a little mapping project.. I think it was some sort of independent study. While I was unaware of the Free BSD and linux issues, I wasn't intending to propose ArcView due (...) (23 years ago, 28-Mar-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Got the idea from this page (URL) that uses some nifty javascript to do something similar. ROSCO (23 years ago, 28-Mar-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) mmm, good idea. I wonder if I could get it to just fill in the form fields based on the viewport. If you zoom in (Command-click on Mac, Ctrl-click on Windows) or pan (Option-drag on Mac, Shift-drag on Windows), then the viewport changes. I bet (...) (23 years ago, 28-Mar-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) A public domain ESRI .e00 file from GRID or NOAA, I forget which. (...) ya (...) I realize how popular ArcView is, but I avoided it because I need things to run on Linux and FreeBSD (and also because of licensing issues, since it's a (...) (23 years ago, 28-Mar-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Pretty neat for an alpha version 8?) Any chance you could set it up to fill in the lat/long values by clicking a point on the map? ROSCO (23 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"Adrian Drake" <tremor@apk.net> skrev i meddelandet news:HCEwID.1EFv@lugnet.com... (...) It worked for me on Win2000 (Administrator rights). -- Anders Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (2 URLs) (23 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd, A few questions and comments. - What is your source for the country polygons? - You are coding all the map generation? You have your own code writing the SVG? I have been recently working with a program called SVGMapper. Well, it's an (...) (23 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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BTW, here's a quick comparison showing file sizes when the same view is rendered for different intended viewing sizes: (URL) reason they’re not all the same file size, even though it’s all vector graphics, is because at smaller intended viewing (...) (23 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Me too. Although that approach certainly has its downsides in cases like NELUG, which officially covers a 5-state area but 99% of the activity occurs within 20 miles of Boston. I think the arbitrary geometry approach really works great in (...) (23 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) oh absolutely, yes! In fact, in SVG, you can link not only to other webpages but also to other SVG files that load into the current viewport. Sorry I forgot to list this last night on my to-do list. It's a must-have. --Todd (23 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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