test-drb February 2000

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HTML: was Re: Announcement: CHANGES TO THE LIST

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Feb 4, 17:01, Jay West wrote: > Now that the major issue appears to be resolved, I'm taking requests on > any other list behaviour that people don't like. I don't promise to > implement all of them, but I'll gladly take a look at it. My request-for-enhancement is: "do something" about HTML, or better still, "do something" about any "multipart/alternative" posting (which would include M$ richtext, with those application/ms-tnef attachments). Options I can think of: a) silently discard any such postings (probably not a good idea) b) bounce them back to the author, with an explanation of why bounced c) remove the non-text part d) combination of (b) and (c) e) accept, but warn the author (who may not realise (s)he's sent HTML) All of these would involve scanning the content to a greater or lesser extent. I've no idea how doable that would be with majordomo, whether the extra processing is acceptable to the server, or whether Jay has the time to do that. Just for information, some of these policies are implemented on our helpdesk at work, which automatically tracks, redirects, and archives user support enquiries. We implement (e) on the first "offence", and (b) thereafter, but since every incoming email is read by a human, we do it by paw and memory, and occasionally discretion (ie we tend to discard fewer mails from professors than students :-)). We also have a policy of discarding attachments (or indeed any message) by simple automated truncation at the 10-kilobyte mark (mainly to prevent filling mailboxes and archives with "why doesn't this 4Mb PostScript/JPEG/Word document print?"). I think the record idiocy was a 63MB Word document ("I can't send this document to my friend. Why?") -- Pete Peter Turnbull Dept. of Computer Science University of York

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[ClassicCMP] Does RSX-11M 4.0 support MSCP drives?

by allisonp＠world.std.com

<In RT-11, full MSCP support post-dates even 5.1. 5.1 works with RQDX1/2, define full? <but not RQDX3, for example; because whoever wrote the DU: handler ignored Dont tell mine RT11 V5.01c system then as the RQDX3 runs just fine. To the best of my knowlege RQDXn are interchangeable (I have done that) with one exception... the drive must be formatted for the RQDX3 as it's apparently different from the 1/2. Allison

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Ping

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

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[ClassicCMP] Re: HTML: was Re: Announcement: CHANGES TO THE LIST

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

Apologies if anyone already got this; I originally posted it during what seems to have been an outage, and I assume the original is lost... On Feb 5, 20:16, Chuck McManis wrote: > I'd send to Gary but, you know ... > > Go to the options panel and turn off "use microsoft viewer" and it wont > convert to HTML. It will still "flow" it however. So this message has been > "flowed" by Eudora, can anyone confirm or deny that it is in HTML or RTF? > (I see it as having two change bar type things on the left side. Neither, it's flat text; no HTML, no attachments. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Dept. of Computer Science University of York

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Another test

by cmcmanis＠mcmanis.com

Well this is my third message since last night and I haven't seen one yet. Then the Ping's came through this morning, perhaps this one will make it... --Chuck

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[ClassicCMP] Heath H89 diskette request

by KB9VU＠aol.com

Oh, I forgot to tell you, there is a disk in the software pile called EMULATE. It will allow you to read and write several other computer disk write schemes (Kaypro, Osborne, Cromemco, Tandy, Magnolia, CDR, Z-37, Z-47, Etc.). The disks need to be the same media (Hard Sector or Soft Sector) but it works pretty slick. Mike

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[ClassicCMP] Re: Disk size limits in VMS 5.4-1?

by allisonp＠world.std.com

<Certainly possible, the controller can "split" the drive into multiple <parts probably to get around this. Does anyone know what the largest drive <VMS 5.4 could use? Is that in the Software SPD somewhere? (This I have but <it is pretty opaque) <--Chuck It's not so much a limit on 5.4 as the specific hardware limits that were usually lower than VMS maxima. FOr example 3100s(early) cant have a boot device more than 1.07gb but data devices can be much larger. The problem was a artifact of early SCSI implmentations and not VMS limits. Since VMS allowed (even before V5) things like bound and shadow volumes to create terabyte sized disk fields I can see a limit for practical systems. Allison

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[ClassicCMP] Re: ClassicCMP Re: [ClassicCmp] Tag requested in Subject: line

by cmcmanis＠mcmanis.com

I think Jay has turned them off, at least a couple of messages further down seem to have them off, but the point is not how long they are, it is that the software is too stupid to see "Re: [ClassicCMP]" and say "gee this thing already has a tag on it, I'll leave it alone." Instead it adds another one, so every reply adds 16 characters to the subject line. Tags are evil. --Chuck At 06:05 PM 2/5/00 -0800, you wrote: >I think just [C] or [CC] would be OK, too. >-Mike

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[ClassicCMP] Does RSX-11M 4.0 support MSCP drives?

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Feb 5, 14:47, Chuck McManis wrote: > Does anyone know if RSX-11M 4.0 supports MSCP drives? 4.x certainly does, but I can't remember exactly which interfaces. I recall using an RQDX2 on miy 11/73, maybe RQDX3. The earliest MSCP support appeared in 3.x, I think. I assume you have a reason for asking? If I know what interface/drive you were thinking of, I might be able to look it up in the SYSGEN manual. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Dept. of Computer Science University of York

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[ClassicCMP] Re: HTML: was Re: Announcement: CHANGES TO THE LIST

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Feb 5, 9:09, emanuel stiebler wrote: > I like b) most. This sending of HTML, happens mostly to new members, (or to > "old" users, which got a browser "update" ;-)) so they can see immediatly > whats wrong, and we don't even see this email, so no reason for a new > discussion about it AGAIN. ;-) I've noticed on rare occasions, that regular contributors post an HTML or multipart message as a follow-up. I don't have one handy to check, but I suspect that's due to Netscape Messenger (and I think Outlook may do it too) having a setting that normally sends plain text, but HTML-ises a reply to an HTML message. I'm pretty sure the regulars who've let that happen have done so unintentionally. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Dept. of Computer Science University of York

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