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Hello Wayne - 

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CA>> I really get stressed out when I find myself in a
CA>> situation like that. Good that you knew what you had to
CA>> do. :-) 

WC> It didn't bother me at all much. Just oops and go about
WC> fixing it. Could have been a lot worse if I'd not taken the
WC> time with the boot and root disks to check out and
WC> re-establish the Linux partitions before I DOS formatted
WC> and restored from tape. 

If/when I get the 450 here it has a CD burner and I will have
total backups of _everything_ burned to CDs here. THEN I will
say "oops" when those things happen. 

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CA>> I am annoyed that ISPs change long-established practices
CA>> without any consideration for all the software they are
CA>> going to 'break' and it annoys me that much of the
CA>> software combined two separate functions into one with no
CA>> way to separate them. Many DOS programs are failing
CA>> because of these two things. 

WC> I think they do it on purpose because they know Windows GUI
WC> users for the most part are inept and on the whole less
WC> likely to cause mischief than those with more powerful
WC> tools at their disposal. 

If they think that they are correct. A young man that I
'mentored' since childhood became a Linux zealot after leaving
the Navy and has told me many times that he can login to dozens
of systems and cause denial of service at any server he wants
to in a matter of minutes and he _does_ do this if anyone makes
him angry. 

WC> GTE previously did not require SMTP user and password
WC> authorization and SMTP and POP3 were called just that...
WC> now they are respectively outgoing.verizon.net and
WC> mail.verizon.net I've no malicious intent and thus am
WC> annoyed at this sort of crap. Not too long I'll be at
WC> Internet Junction at substantial savings and none of the
WC> crud Verizon is dealing. 

Some simple thing like scanning for duplicate text in the
messages and limiting that to a reasonable number would be
sufficient to discourage spammers. Real spammers send out 10s
of thousands of emails not just a few. 

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CA>> That is what I did, cotton swab and dupe backups. At $20
CA>> per tape I was not happy with using tapes. 

WC> Got mine free as Ed Koon said he was going to toss them. 

I paid for all of mine and purchased them new at roughly $20
each. Some may have been as low as $17 but some were more than
$20. 

WC> This was before Ed underwent some kind of midlife crisis
WC> and _changed_. 

I would have to think he changed. The person I am familiar with
doesn't seem a person who would give anyone anything but grief. 

WC> I find that HV stuff be it a monitor or T.V. doesn't hold
WC> up too well in storage due to moisture and the capacitors
WC> not being charged often enough to stay _formed_. 

Too bad for me then. I have a half dozen monitors I've not been
using lately. 

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