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Feb 25, 2006, 9:36pm

[View Quote] One step forward!

Next thing is to obey the RFC regarding to the signature length.
It shouldn't exceed 4 lines i.e. FOUR LINES.
RFCs doesn't care about your historical reasons :)
One advise:
Have the mail client randomly pick ONE quote each time - that would make your goal comes through and you still within the limits :)

Thanks for trying!
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Andras
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Feb 26, 2006, 6:28am

I used to say: Google is your friend!

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=random+signature+outlook+express&btnG=Google+Search

Just a few picked from the result (YMMV) :

http://textver.filehungry.com/english/product/windows_software/e-mail_tools/miscellaneous_mail_tools/random_signature_changer
http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Email_Tools/Mail_Signature_Tools/Signature_Swapper_for_Outlook_Express.html


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May 7, 2003, 5:53pm

[View Quote] > I can not send files off of my laptop in aw. I can send them in msn and aol
> have put in port=877 have turned off router and all and still can't send
> files in aw on my laptop but i can get them. what is wrong?
>
>
Try port=3000 - this is the default file transfer port.

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Andras
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May 31, 2003, 4:36pm

FYI:
andras.net will be up and down sporadically in the next couple of days due to a major change in the server environment.
I apologize up front about the inconvenience it may cause.

I hope (crossing fingers) that all data will be preserved :)

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Andras
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Jun 19, 2003, 7:14pm

[View Quote] > They are the admin newsgroups, Bill has access to them etc.
>
> They contain posts from years and years ago until a small accident when I
> believe they all got wiped...
>
> - Mark
>
>

You are wrong. Those groups are built-in groups in DNews to handle message cancelling, etc.

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Andras
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Jun 22, 2003, 6:00am

[View Quote] Well said, Elyk. Thanks!

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Andras
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Jun 25, 2003, 5:08pm

<spam>
There is a 160 GBytes 7200 RPM 8M cache Maxtor IDE disk on sale at CompUSA. The box comes with a dual Ultra Ata 133 controller card too.
I'm not employed by those companies but I think it is an excellent deal. The cost is $99.99 after rebates which I think is excellent.
Just a warning - this sale ends at 6/28/03 so act fast! (I just bought 2 of them:)
</spam>
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Andras
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Jun 26, 2003, 3:58am

[View Quote] > Well what is it before rebates lol.
>
> --
> Brock - 308723 - DE Leader
>
>
$169.99

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Andras
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Jul 4, 2003, 2:29am

[View Quote] > Has anyone given any thought to maybe taking him under their wing and
> guiding him into a more productive existance?
> It might just be that he needs attention and is getting that attention
> through negative actions?
> I have seen many folks in here as they grow and are nurtured, become VERY
> upstanding citizens in AW:)
> Heck, if he's that smart to get citizenships etc, then possibly that
> intelligence can be redirected?
> Just my 2 cents worth:)
>
>

Finally someone with a decent solution! Thanks Bits!!

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Andras
"It's MY computer" (tm Steve Gibson)

Jul 8, 2003, 11:12am

This is a repost due to the missing history of the ng:

Charter of the news.activeworlds.com/community

INTRO:

The need for a moderated group is best explained by taking a casual look at
the many off-topic postings in other, non-moderated group. Often times,
disputes arise of personal nature or insults are thrown about with no care
or regard for the rights or feelings of others. This flaming is not the
purpose or intent of this particular newsgroup. We would like to avoid such
problems from the start. News.activeworlds.com/community has been set up
as a media for dissemination of Information relative to the AW community and
the AW software in general. Events of interest to this community and the
sharing of knowledge and community discussion will be posted here. We invite
you all to take an active share in this newsgroup and hope it will be a
positive addition to your AW experience. Please join in and have fun.

CHARTER: news.activeworlds.com/awcommunity newsgroup is a moderated
newsgroup for the free exchange of information and opinions on AW culture,
language, history, economics, science, and other topics related to
ActiveWorlds. Posts appropriate for news.activeworlds.com/community
include, but are not restricted to, all aspects of ActiveWorlds,
informational posts about AW culture, history, etc. Language issues related
to AW. Discussion of education, health, environmental issues , politics,
elections, etc. Discussion of books , articles, webarticles, movies, etc.,
about AW or the 3D internet in general. Discussion of minority issues,
including language, within AW. Job opportunities within AW. Discussions
involving PeaceKeepers and GateKeepers. Suggestions and tips for newcomers.
Suggestions and tips for World Owners. Additions and alternative
implementations of the AW client or server. AWCOM. posts relevant to the AW
community and public meetings.

News.activeworlds.com/community newsgroup is for anyone who is interested
in AW and who can follow Usenet newsgroup netiquette, basic rules of polite
human interaction, and any further restrictions imposed by this charter.
There is no test or requirement as to how much of an AW citizen a person is
who wants to make a submission and participate. Any restrictions concerning
the contents of a post are intended to keep to the topic of AW, and are not
intended to restrict anyone's expression of opinions. Free speech exists
within the context of AW as a topic as defined in this charter. If the topic
is not about AW, forums other than news.activeworlds.com/community
newsgroup are probably more appropriate. Submissions unrelated to the AW
Community shall be rejected. Commercial advertisements unrelated to AW shall
be rejected; all personal ads shall be rejected. Submissions containing
ethnic slurs, or submissions intended to hurt any given race, religion,
gender, or sexual orientation, shall be rejected. Personal attacks on
individual posters will also be rejected. Attacks on AWCOM, its employees,
contractors or partners will be rejected.

When major changes to the charter are to be considered, an announcement will
be made on news.activeworlds.com/community newsgroup inviting interested
people to respond and thus participate via email. The role of the moderators
is to ensure the conditions of the charter are met by any submission to
news.activeworlds.com/community newsgroup. The moderators recognize that
they should be as unbiased and objective as is humanly possible.

Submissions are evaluated as to whether or not (1) they are on topic, (2) they meet
netiquette, (3) they are appropriate for the group membership as a group
(rather than something that belongs in e-mail to an individual(s)), and
(4) meet any other submission standards as defined in the charter. The deletions
of the rejected submissions to news.activeworlds.com/moderated newsgroup by
the moderators should be in a timely manner. Should a moderator reject a
submission, s/he will delete the complete with no notice to the group or the
submitter in a timely manner (usually within 48 hours). All of the other
moderators shall be included in any notification of the deletion. Should the
moderators as a group disagree with a moderator's decision about a
submission, a minimum a coin toss majority is required to override it.
Other details will be refined during the initial existence of
news.activeworlds.com/moderated newsgroup, recognizing that it is impossible
to anticipate all of the details of moderation in advance. Submitters to
news.activeworlds.com/community newsgroup should recognize the volunteer
nature of the moderators, possible equipment problems with the server, etc.,
and keep such issues in mind when considering whether or not a post or
deletion was made in a timely way. The moderators will also work among
themselves to define the details of moderation, for example, addressing such
issues as how many moderators are actively moderating at a time and how to
deal with threads that appear to have strayed from the subject of AW.

We appreciate your cooperation, be excellent to each other and enjoy your
stay here in Active Worlds.

Jul 10, 2003, 12:01pm

[View Quote] > Hi everyone:
>
[View Quote] Thank you but no thank you. Seems to me you did not read it because it is explicitly written for this NG by AWI.
My NGs had much simpler charter:)

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Andras
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Jul 10, 2003, 6:31pm

[View Quote] <snip>

> Hey Andras....if you're in the states while we are in Boston, we would love
> to meet up with you again:)

I'm in the states till the 14th at least, and what's more - I'm in a desperate need of some good italian food !!!

> And DMC2U....we will definately be seeing you for that hug you so
> desperately keep requesting *wink*.
>
> Bit:)
>
>
>


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Andras
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Jul 13, 2003, 12:29pm

[View Quote] That will not solve the problem of the embedded texture names :(


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Andras
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Jul 14, 2003, 11:35pm

[View Quote] > Hi we are looking for a new host someone who is NOT in DSL or has 1000
> outages a day, no offense but our present host it seems does not want to
> provide a suitable server for us and our world is crashing every 5 minutes
> for as much a 3 hours at a time! It is also crashing our computers when the
> bots we host to control the world find the world is not running. We can not
> have this, this is not a normal and we have to find a host who is willing to
> dump thier ISP if this is the case and provide something better. An ISP
> should not be disconnecting every 5 minutes for 2 hours at a time and anyone
> paying for such a service should request a refund, its also cuasing me to
> host of fmy PC while their server is down for 3 hours and upsetting my
> builders do to the prop being out of date!!
> Please contact me.
> MrBruce
>
>

The best hosting you can get is Builderz's! (He is even better than my hosting!!)

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Andras
"It's MY computer" (tm Steve Gibson)

Jul 23, 2003, 8:04pm

[View Quote] > One more reason to not worry about USENET standards, then. :)
>
> Don't get me wrong, I can understand why some are in place (i.e. Not
> posting in HTML, not attaching binaries, etc.), but some are just too
> trivial to pop a blood vessel over. :P
>

<snip>
I don't want to argue but <and this message is to sw chris too> when was the last time you read the NG charter?
Excerpt to refresh your memory:

"News.activeworlds.com/community newsgroup is for anyone who is interested
in AW and who can follow Usenet newsgroup netiquette .... "


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Andras
"It's MY computer" (tm Steve Gibson)

Jul 23, 2003, 11:50pm

[View Quote] > See, when I hear the word "netiquette", I think of "actions on the net
> that are considerate of other posters/readers," not "a set of rules that
> must be followed to the letter." That includes the No-HTML rule and the
> No-Binaries rule, but I don't see how bottom-posting would fall under
> that category. As I stated before, bottom vs. top posting is more a
> question of style than of consideration. In fact, I would think that top
> posting would be the more considerate of the two options, as it requires
> the reader to do less work to read what you wrote.
>
> But hey, that's just how I roll. Maybe you think you're doing your
> readers a valuable service by making them scroll to read your post. I
> never claimed to understand some of the USENET "logic." *shrug*
>
>

<snip>

The logic is clear behind it:
You can't expect the reader to read the previous post in the thread you are replying to.
It is a common courtesy to snip irrelevant info from the post and reply at the bottom, so the reader is able to follow what you are replying to and has no need to read another post.

Anyway - I won't argue more and will still bottom post (with proper snipping!). If you don't like it ... you'll miss the wisdom of an oldtimer :)

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Andras
"It's MY computer" (tm Steve Gibson)

Jul 23, 2003, 11:54pm

[View Quote] Hey! that's life!
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Andras
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Jul 23, 2003, 12:34pm

[View Quote] > Yep, that's correct. They could send data to the server, but wouldn't be
> able to get a response back. But knowing how most people think that
> whoever is making these Trojans in a "real hacker," they probably
> wouldn't know the difference. I was just saying that it was possible
> (why someone would do it besides trying to do a DoS attack, I don't
> know). Another thing that can be done that I haven't seen others mention
> would be to simply break into the NG server and steal passwords that way
> as well. They may be encrypted, but given enough time, I'm sure they
> could be decrypted.
>
> Builderz
> http://www.3dhost.net
>

AW's NG doesn't store the passwords - the authentication takes place at the uniserver through an SDK application as Calpantera already stated in another thread.
OTOH DNews (the NG software) uses a one way hash to store the password, so it is almost impossible to crack it (well,, not really if you have the same server software and have plenty of time at your hand to try all possible combination and compare the resulting hash with the stolen database).


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Andras
"It's MY computer" (tm Steve Gibson)

Jul 23, 2003, 12:36pm

[View Quote] > There are still ways to catch people that use proxies, even if they
> "chain" them together. However, if he rotates proxies like every thirty
> seconds and has a large list of them, that'd be a real pain in the butt
> to track.
>
> Builderz
> http://www.3dhost.net
>
>

The AW server software (uniserver and worldserver) is not happy when you change IP on the fly :)

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Andras
"It's MY computer" (tm Steve Gibson)

Jul 30, 2003, 12:11pm

[View Quote] > You know, on second thoughts, I'd volunteer as Yellow community leader.
>
> Might even make me want to come into AW even more.
>
> I think out of any of you I'd be best qualified ;) hahahahahha
>
>
> Oh, that'd actually be funny...only condition? No PK's allowed. At all -
> yeah, if that was the case, I'd do it.
>
> F.
>
>

And no [CustomAid] bot either, then I'll be a regular again :)


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Andras
"It's MY computer" (tm Steve Gibson)

Aug 5, 2003, 9:37pm

[View Quote] This was absolutely uncalled for :(

Shame on you!
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Andras
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Aug 4, 2003, 6:34pm

[View Quote] > I think AW should have their own democracy. I don't like seeing one man and
> lady teams doing almost everything. I think it's wrong. I sure don't have
> all the answers, but I'm going to send out as many telegrams as I can to try
> to gather some people up to draw up something on voting, elections, whatever
> it is that the people want and think is fair for them and AW.
>
> Investors, please cheer for that. : )
>
>


I tell you what - If I ever receive a single telegram from you I'll report you to abuse at activeworlds.com and to your ISP (abuse at cox-internet.com)!
What is enough is enough!!!!

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Andras
"It's MY computer" (tm Steve Gibson)

Aug 11, 2003, 11:17am

[View Quote] > ok thanx for letting me know.. i knew that it was questionable when it was
> telegramed instead of posted here or someting
>

Report it to 5u.com - I did.

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Andras
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Aug 11, 2003, 9:12pm

[View Quote] [View Quote] Actually it worked - the site is down :)

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Andras
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Aug 17, 2003, 9:02pm

[View Quote] > Yes... you should be.. if you go attacking others you can-not complain when
> someone decides to hit you.. and believe me a proper hacker / programmer
> will be able to hit you with more than you could ever throw back..
>
>

Do I hear AOL abuse department ????

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Andras
"It's MY computer" (tm Steve Gibson)

Aug 14, 2003, 12:06am

[View Quote] I'm an old man but not living in Canada:)
That is the most hillarious book ever written about the virtual reality!!!

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Andras
"It's MY computer" (tm Steve Gibson)

Aug 13, 2003, 11:38pm

Due to an unknow problem, andras.net is down. Looks like all server sockets are exhausted.
Since there is nobody to restart the server, you have to wait till I'll arrive back to Hungary sometimes around Friday evening.

Sorry for the inconvenience
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Andras
"It's MY computer" (tm Steve Gibson)

Aug 14, 2003, 11:13am

[View Quote] >
> I can connect to the news and web servers without problems. Either it fixed
> itself, you had someone fix it, or something needs fixing where you are
> now.
>
> KAH

I was able to restart it through it's secondary NIC but I can't guarantee a proper fix before friday :)

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Andras
"It's MY computer" (tm Steve Gibson)

Aug 23, 2003, 9:17pm

[View Quote] > wow It thought you left aw a good while back LB
>
> Paul
>
[View Quote] She always surfaces if a Yard'O'Margherita is around :)

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Andras
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Aug 24, 2003, 4:54am

[View Quote] > LOL I've received that from him too over a simple question!! Hamfon makes
> better bots as does Andras and they both have answered grams. Head's
> growing a little too rapidly I'd say ;)
>
> Elyk
>

To be honest, I prefer email over telegrams too. Reason? The TG feature of AW is nothing else but short messaging or remote chatting. You have no track of the whole conversation, you can't really archive them (except with a tedious process) and if you move between browsers (machines) they don't follow you.
Nevertheless emails catch your attention much better than a tg :) I answer tgs most of the time (fortunately I get only a few a day!) but if the topic is not solveable within a few message - I usually ask the sender to move it to email.
I think XelaG's reasoning is similar - maybe the execution is not the most user-friendly :)

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Andras
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