My Computer is Going on a Diet

[Paul]

As my computer ages, it's drives keep getting fatter and fatter. I'm
putting it on a diet.

I'm changing from Fat32 to Slim22.

Naw, it's going to exFAT. And will need
a longer belt, to cinch up its pants.

That's one reason to stick with your dialup
service. It takes too long to fill a hard
drive that way.

Paul

 

[casey.o]

As my computer ages, it's drives keep getting fatter and fatter. I'm
putting it on a diet.

I'm changing from Fat32 to Slim22.

 

[casey.o]

Naw, it's going to exFAT. And will need
a longer belt, to cinch up its pants.

That's one reason to stick with your dialup
service. It takes too long to fill a hard
drive that way.

Paul

You got that right......

Although I do fill it up pretty fast when I go to a WIFI and download 5
gigs, then come home and dump all the stuff on the home computer, cuz
the drive is too small on that laptop. Plus I catalog everything I
download and save.

Sorry about all the duplicates. AIOE seems to be going bonkers. It
keeps saying my messages are not being posted, with some Perl
warning.... (Locale error)???? But now I see they ARE getting posted
anyhow. Early on Saturday I couldnt even connect to them. Obviously
the problem is on their end. I dont know what Perl does, but I know
it's a Unix thing (Linux too). I'm using Win98 so it's not on this end.

 

[Paul]

You got that right......

Although I do fill it up pretty fast when I go to a WIFI and download 5
gigs, then come home and dump all the stuff on the home computer, cuz
the drive is too small on that laptop. Plus I catalog everything I
download and save.

Sorry about all the duplicates. AIOE seems to be going bonkers. It
keeps saying my messages are not being posted, with some Perl
warning.... (Locale error)???? But now I see they ARE getting posted
anyhow. Early on Saturday I couldnt even connect to them. Obviously
the problem is on their end. I dont know what Perl does, but I know
it's a Unix thing (Linux too). I'm using Win98 so it's not on this end.

That's the CleanFeed front end.

Maybe the administrator updated the Perl release
on the server, and it broke CleanFeed.

It's so famous, it even got a very short article on Wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleanfeed_(Usenet_spam_filter)

http://www.mixmin.net/cleanfeed/

It doesn't filter posts between USENET servers, and
instead, it sits between the user and server, to
filter the material people try to post. So it can't
remove Google Groups spam.

Paul

 

[casey.o]

That's the CleanFeed front end.

Maybe the administrator updated the Perl release
on the server, and it broke CleanFeed.

It's so famous, it even got a very short article on Wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleanfeed_(Usenet_spam_filter)

http://www.mixmin.net/cleanfeed/

It doesn't filter posts between USENET servers, and
instead, it sits between the user and server, to
filter the material people try to post. So it can't
remove Google Groups spam.

Paul

Interesting.....

Yesterday I could not post at all. That was after their system came
back so I could read posts. I was sending that same post as a sort of
test, not knowing it was getting thru. I'm glad you replied to it, or I
would have thought that only "I" was seeing it, cuz I posted it, and it
was only on my own ISP. Because according to Agent's outbox, none of
these messages are being sent. (I've never seen that happen before).

I looked at your links and looked up Perl too. It's kind of over my
head, but I see it's a programming language. I've seen it in the
directories on Puppy linux, because the icon with the horse on it drew
my attention.

I think you're right, AIOE must be upgrading something. I noticed the
usage graph on their website dropped to almost zero for a good part of
Saturday. Yet there were no notices of an outage. It's pretty weird
how it's working now....

The worst spam usually comes from google groups!!!

This same program must be what they use to filter other stuff too. For
example, if I quote a large message without trimming the quote, my
message is rejected. And the limit is 3 groups for a multi-group post,
so if I reply to something that was posted to 5 groups, it's rejected,
so I have to always watch the headers adn remove more than 3. AIOE can
get kind of finiky at times, but the price is right, so I'll live with
it. I'd sure hate to have to be forced to use all web based groups,
especially on dialup, and I wont go anywhere near Facebook.

 

[casey.o]

That's the CleanFeed front end.

Maybe the administrator updated the Perl release
on the server, and it broke CleanFeed.

It's so famous, it even got a very short article on Wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleanfeed_(Usenet_spam_filter)

http://www.mixmin.net/cleanfeed/

It doesn't filter posts between USENET servers, and
instead, it sits between the user and server, to
filter the material people try to post. So it can't
remove Google Groups spam.

Paul

Interesting.....

Yesterday I could not post at all. That was after their system came
back so I could read posts. I was sending that same post as a sort of
test, not knowing it was getting thru. I'm glad you replied to it, or I
would have thought that only "I" was seeing it, cuz I posted it, and it
was only on my own ISP. Because according to Agent's outbox, none of
these messages are being sent. (I've never seen that happen before).

I looked at your links and looked up Perl too. It's kind of over my
head, but I see it's a programming language. I've seen it in the
directories on Puppy linux, because the icon with the horse on it drew
my attention.

I think you're right, AIOE must be upgrading something. I noticed the
usage graph on their website dropped to almost zero for a good part of
Saturday. Yet there were no notices of an outage. It's pretty weird
how it's working now....

The worst spam usually comes from google groups!!!

This same program must be what they use to filter other stuff too. For
example, if I quote a large message without trimming the quote, my
message is rejected. And the limit is 3 groups for a multi-group post,
so if I reply to something that was posted to 5 groups, it's rejected,
so I have to always watch the headers adn remove more than 3. AIOE can
get kind of finiky at times, but the price is right, so I'll live with
it. I'd sure hate to have to be forced to use all web based groups,
especially on dialup, and I wont go anywhere near Facebook.