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- Subject: tlug: re: fetchmail flushes flushing Laszlo's career down the drain
- From: Tony Laszlo <laszlo@example.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 17:07:23 +0900 (JST)
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> From: Jonathan Q <jq@example.com> > Looks the same as mine. What version of fetchmail are you running? > Is it the distro's version, or one you built yourself? distro version. > There's a thing called Getmail (haven't tried it) that's intended Thanks for the advice, Selva, Stephen and Jonathan. I will look into these options [at least the ones I undestand :) ] How much of what Stephen said would be possible with GOL? > only send it over the (authenticated) PPP line. Question is, how many > people are in Tony's situation? It's probably not really worth GOL's > trouble, since very few people would use it. > What are you talking about?! Lot's of people don't have tenure :) Seriously, I imagine that my problem must be a problem for anyone who uses fetchmail to receive these funky Japanese messages. For me, it's, say, two messages per day (out of maybe 100 messages per day, total) that are coming in like this. Some of that may be spam, but, just to give you an idea, one of them is from a university prof. and another from a government bureaucrat, both of whom are making professional requests of me. It's not easy asking them to fix their mail when I'm the only one they know who is complaining about it. I nominate Stephen Turnbull to be president of a crack task force which searches out these offending parties and reprimands them (and their software developers)! :) I'll buy the first round of beer. I also think that, while such a task force is building up strength and creating its database, Linux folks need to devise a way to be as lenient as the other OSes in this regard. Their from field could be made up of homing pigeon feathers; if Win allows them to be retrieved and Linux doesn't, business is bad for the one who chooses Linux. That's a pretty decent sized population considering the sales of the various Japanese localized Linux distributions. <whining ends> They tell me that Friday is a national holiday. Have a good weekend, everybody! -T.L. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Next Nomikai Meeting: February 18 (Fri) 19:00 Tengu TokyoEkiMae Next Technical Meeting: March 11 (Sat) 13:00 Temple University Japan * Topic: TBD -------------------------------------------------------------------- more info: http://www.tlug.gr.jp Sponsor: Global Online Japan
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