test-drb February 2000

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by jpl15＠netcom.com

Here at wurk they have decomissioned a largish computer room, shipped off all the 'puters in their crates, and disposed of the above-captioned Topaz unit. It has Model number A9-M150, and has three seperate breaker sections in it, each with 30 or so single-phase breakers, one 225 A disconnect per section, and a 300A main breaker, as well as the displays for the input and regulation sections. It is big, heavy +/- 1 kilopounds, on wheels... Any interest? It can be had fairly cheaply, and must have been in the $20K range new. E-mail me off list if interested. Cheers John

25 years, 1 month

regarding the reply address on the list....

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Feb 3, 19:09, Tony Duell wrote: > > Several people wrote.... > > > I wonder if you would prefer if the "Respond To" portion should be: > On the other hand, the lists that have Reply-to: pointing to the list > almost always have a lot of discussion on them. Interesting observation, and whilst I don't doubt Tony's word, I can't help noticing that an awful lot of discussion seems to have managed to make it's way onto the list today! -- Pete Peter Turnbull Dept. of Computer Science University of York

25 years, 1 month

regarding the reply address on the list.... (fwd)

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Feb 3, 7:59, Aaron Christopher Finney wrote: > My mailer doesn't "click"... > > On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, David C. Jenner wrote: > > > I vote for the new way. It's now trivial to > > reply either to the sender alone, the sender > > and the list, or the list alone. > > > > With a decent mailer each of these options is > > now one click. Maybe Aaron has soundless keys :-) -- Pete Peter Turnbull Dept. of Computer Science University of York

25 years, 1 month

Not setting Reply-To: affects me this way ...

by spc＠armigeron.com

I just realized another annoyance I'm encountering because of the lack of Reply-To---I now have to search for mail I've sent. I use elm. I've been using elm since 1989 and I have no plans to change that any time soon (I've tried pine and I don't care for it). One setting I have enabled on elm is saving all email I send out. Such email is stored based upon the email address being sent to. Since a group reply places the list address in the Cc: line, the email is still stored, but not under the classiccmp folder (file actually), but a different folder. So now I have to search (grep) through 231 (at of right now) folders for messages I send to classiccmp. That also means when I want to save a particular message it won't be stuffed under the classiccmp folder by default (I'm used to hitting 's-enter' and now that does The Wrong Thing). But majordomo (or any mailing list software) is still RFC-822 compliant even if it does set the Reply-To: field and it seems to me that the annoyance having to do a 'group' reply outweighs the benefit of `reply' going to the list. So, what exactly, is the problem (really, no hypothetical pathological cases here) of setting the Reply-To: field? -spc (Yes, I should clean out my folders ... )

25 years, 1 month

regarding the reply address on the list....

by ard＠p850ug1.demon.co.uk

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25 years, 1 month

Reply-to amd &%^$^ HTML crap

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Feb 3, 8:10, John Lawson wrote: > In all this discussion of the New Classiccmp regime... I would > like to weigh in with Allison on the issue of HTML and Binary > attachments propagated to this List. [...] > If this instance of majordomo has such filters, I, for one, would > like to see them energized.... I was about to "second" Allison, but I'll "third" John instead since he beat me to it :-) I don't mind the bandwidth (though I might if HTML became more common), it's just that it's a nuisance to read HTML (or anything with "alternate-part"s) in another window, so I just skip over it with the delete key. And my non-Microsoft mailers on no-M$ OSs don't handle some of their more execrable alternatives anyway. As far as I'm concerned, email is an ASCII (or perhaps ISO-8859-X) medium. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Dept. of Computer Science University of York

25 years, 1 month

Vocal Minority

by jpl15＠netcom.com

In all the interesting discussion re: the 'reply' function (and I am a tad annoyed that I have to get two copies of each reply, from each person who replies, to a message that I posted, separated by as much as 15 minutes) I got to thinking that there might be 25 or 30 listmembers who actively post messages out of... ??? how many subscribers? 200? 400? Are (we) attempting to dictate list policy for the majority? Is anyone keeping even a rough record of the 'Old' vs 'New' camps? If votes be kept... I am tending to like the 'Reply To:' functionality the way it >WAS< ... ie' hitting 'reply' [in Pine] replies to the List and not to the Poster. I am one of those who has no control over the configuration of Pine, and, it would seem, neither does anyone else at Netcom/Mindspring/Earthlink, or whatever they're called *this* week. ;} obclassiccmp: Speaking of S/N ratios... I got a pair of DEC Pro-350 machines, with a large amount of original software packages, documentation etc... are there any other 300/350 owners out there who are trying to restore a system? I may be able to help with printsets, etc. Cheerz John PS: Classiccmp Mantra: "OM! Its only a hobby; Its only a hobby; Its only a hobby; Its only........."

25 years, 1 month

Send Again instead of Reply

by mikeford＠socal.rr.com

I was just sitting looking at the headers, and it dawned on me, instead of reply I could just do a "send again" since the TO: header has the list address. This is using Eudora 3.1 on a Mac, but may apply to others as well.

25 years, 1 month

DEC Hardware in Kansas City, TK25, RD53

by mmcfadden＠cmh.edu

For all you mature computer lovers I just came across the following, I'm looking for a home for it. 2 TK25 tape drives in desktop cases 1 RD53 disk in desktop case 1 desktop case, looks like MicroVax2000 external disk or tape case. Mike mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu

25 years, 1 month

UnknownTI Hardware in Kansas City

by mmcfadden＠cmh.edu

Back to old computers I came across a TI system 1100 in my surplus excavations. I haven't found anything on the Web about it. It's not a TI explorer. It looks like a blue-Grey deskside case. I've searched both TI's web site which indicates they sold all UNIX hardware to HP. I've searched HP's web site which is not very informative. Any information out there? Mike If I had kept one of every computer I've programmed I would be living in a warehouse without family or pets, but I would have lots of fun. mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu

25 years, 1 month

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