[Nottingham] Nottingham Digest, Vol 287, Issue 1

anthony leeson anthonyleeson at hotmail.co.uk
Mon Mar 30 14:43:19 UTC 2009 

Requiescat in pace until you get another PSU mate hope there is no internal damage to your EEE-PC.

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>    1. Re: Navigation meeting, 2nd April (Michael Erskine)
>    2. Re: Navigation meeting, 2nd April (email!) (Martin)
>    3. Re: Navigation meeting, 2nd April (email!) (Michael Erskine)
>    4. Re: Navigation meeting, 2nd April (email!) (Martin)
>    5. Re: Navigation meeting, 2nd April (email!) (Richard Ward)
>    6. Re: Navigation meeting, 2nd April (email!) (Richard Ward)
>    7. Re: Navigation meeting, 2nd April (email!) (Thomas Preece)
>    8. Re: Navigation meeting, 2nd April (email!) (Michael Erskine)
>    9. Re: Navigation meeting, 2nd April (email!) (Michael Erskine)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:10:40 +0100
> From: Michael Erskine <msemtd at googlemail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Nottingham] Navigation meeting, 2nd April
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> 2009/3/28 Simon Osborne <flibble at gmail.com>:
> > Does anybody have any ideas for the event next week?
> 
> Sure, but none anyone else would be interested in :) I need to fix my laptop!
> 
> Seriously though, I believe Martin put forward a few ideas last week.
> Whatever the weather, I'll be there to bore people with my puzzle
> collection! (Be sure to bring your skewb Simon!)
> 
> Regards,
> Michael Erskine.
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:22:01 +0100
> From: Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Nottingham] Navigation meeting, 2nd April (email!)
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> Michael Erskine wrote:
> > 2009/3/28 Simon Osborne <flibble at gmail.com>:
> >> Does anybody have any ideas for the event next week?
> > 
> > Sure, but none anyone else would be interested in :) I need to fix my laptop!
> > 
> > Seriously though, I believe Martin put forward a few ideas last week.
> > Whatever the weather, I'll be there to bore people with my puzzle
> > collection! (Be sure to bring your skewb Simon!)
> 
> Well, I'll be talking email. Boring or what?! ;-)
> 
> 
> More seriously, we all take email for granted, but how does it all work? 
> And why doesn't it always work? And what about all the SPAM?! And is 
> there an ultimate fix against SPAM?...
> 
> I've just had a few tussles with TNEF in email whereas I would hope 
> everyone has at least heard of MIME for email 'attachments'... And 
> there's other fun!
> 
> Recently, Wietse Venema (who's he?) received the FSF's Award for the 
> Advancement of Free Software. Even if you don't know his name, likely 
> the majority of the worlds email relies upon his freely given software 
> every day.
> 
> 
> So the talk is about how a very old protocol with zero security for text 
> messages (32k bytes max size) has morphed over the decades into handling 
> multi-megabyte attachments of anything and SPAM!
> 
> I may even show how to directly talk email /without/ the aid of an email 
> client :-)
> 
> All at the NAV,
> 
> This Thursday 02/04/2009
> 
> 19:30 meet in the bar
> 
> 20:00 the talk
> 
> 21:00-ish general discussion
> 
> 
> All welcome,
> 
> See ya there!
> 
> Cheers,
> Martin
> 
> 
> TNEF:
> 
> http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/microsoft-outlook-tnef.html
> 
> 
> -- 
> ----------------
> Martin Lomas
> martin at ml1.co.uk
> ----------------
> 
> 
> 
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:44:25 +0100
> From: Michael Erskine <msemtd at googlemail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Nottingham] Navigation meeting, 2nd April (email!)
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> Nice one Martin!
> 
> I'll be bringing the projector if you want to do slides -- if no
> slides then we'll do something fun with it! Wifi permitting we can do
> Streetview anomaly spotting!
> 
> Ooh, that reminds me: my eee pc 701 power supply went bang and I'm
> left with a very cute paperweight. Could some kind soul bring along a
> 701 charger so I can get a few more hours out of it?
> 
> Regards,
> Michael.
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
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> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:19:02 +0100
> From: Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Nottingham] Navigation meeting, 2nd April (email!)
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> Michael Erskine wrote:
> > Nice one Martin!
> > 
> > I'll be bringing the projector if you want to do slides -- if no
> > slides then we'll do something fun with it! Wifi permitting we can do
> > Streetview anomaly spotting!
> 
> Projector good.
> 
> I'm sure all can play after the email bits :-)
> 
> > Ooh, that reminds me: my eee pc 701 power supply went bang and I'm
> > left with a very cute paperweight. Could some kind soul bring along a
> > 701 charger so I can get a few more hours out of it?
> 
> Shame on the burn-out. Soo... It's seen some use has it?!
> 
> 
> See ya there,
> 
> Cheers,
> Martin
> 
> -- 
> ----------------
> Martin Lomas
> martin at ml1.co.uk
> ----------------
> 
> 
> 
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> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:43:09 +0100
> From: Richard Ward <daedalusfall at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Nottingham] Navigation meeting, 2nd April (email!)
> To: nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
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> On 30/03/2009, Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk> wrote:
> > Michael Erskine wrote:
> > And is there an ultimate fix against SPAM?...
> 
> Google Mail.
> :D
> 
> 
> 
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> Message: 6
> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:46:45 +0100
> From: Richard Ward <daedalusfall at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Nottingham] Navigation meeting, 2nd April (email!)
> To: nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
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> On 30/03/2009, Richard Ward <daedalusfall at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 30/03/2009, Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk> wrote:
> >> Michael Erskine wrote:
> >> And is there an ultimate fix against SPAM?...
> >
> > Google Mail.
> > :D
> >
> 
> No! Michael didn't write that! Martin did!
> Grrr... That was Google Mail's fault and I hereby denounce it!
> 
> 
> 
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> Message: 7
> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:47:57 +0100
> From: Thomas Preece <thomas at tpreece.net>
> Subject: Re: [Nottingham] Navigation meeting, 2nd April (email!)
> To: nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
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> 2009/3/30 Richard Ward <daedalusfall at gmail.com>:
> > On 30/03/2009, Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk> wrote:
> >> Michael Erskine wrote:
> >> And is there an ultimate fix against SPAM?...
> >
> > Google Mail.
> I don't know about that, mine's been letting an awful lot through recently. :(
> 
> On a mildly related note, I notice that when I hit reply it puts not
> one but two blank lines above the quote... seems they're trying to
> encourage top-posting...
> 
> 
> 
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> Message: 8
> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:19:21 +0100
> From: Michael Erskine <msemtd at googlemail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Nottingham] Navigation meeting, 2nd April (email!)
> To: nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
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> Yes :D       (but note how well they "- Hide Quoted text -" on top-posts!)
> 
> 2009/3/30 Thomas Preece <thomas at tpreece.net>:
> > 2009/3/30 Richard Ward <daedalusfall at gmail.com>:
> >> On 30/03/2009, Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk> wrote:
> >>> Michael Erskine wrote:
> >>> And is there an ultimate fix against SPAM?...
> >>
> >> Google Mail.
> > I don't know about that, mine's been letting an awful lot through recently. :(
> >
> > On a mildly related note, I notice that when I hit reply it puts not
> > one but two blank lines above the quote... seems they're trying to
> > encourage top-posting...
> >
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> Message: 9
> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:21:09 +0100
> From: Michael Erskine <msemtd at googlemail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Nottingham] Navigation meeting, 2nd April (email!)
> To: nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
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> BTW: my previous post was meant to be ironic by top-posting - just in
> case anyone didn't get it :)
> 
> Regards,
> Michael (who doesn't advocate top-posting under any circumstances
> other than for humour)
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