From: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org (chakram-refugees-digest) To: chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Subject: chakram-refugees-digest V3 #181 Reply-To: chakram-refugees@smoe.org Sender: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk chakram-refugees-digest Sunday, June 29 2003 Volume 03 : Number 181 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: OT: Re: [chakram-refugees] Yahoo & Spam [Cousin Liz ] Re: [chakram-refugees] Friend In Need Part 1 [cr ] Re: [chakram-refugees] Friend In Need Part 1 [cr ] Re: [chakram-refugees] Friend In Need Part 1 [cr ] Re: OT: Re: [chakram-refugees] Yahoo & Spam [cr ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 18:37:52 -0400 From: Cousin Liz Subject: Re: OT: Re: [chakram-refugees] Yahoo & Spam meredith wrote: > Unfortunately, many small ISPs whose mail admins aren't as > well-informed as they might be resort to blacklists Yes, I've recently become all too aware of this. I just this minute got off the phone with my isp after spending an exciting day of emailing them back & forth. It wasn't until I talked to an informative tech that I finally got some answers. Three months ago my yahoo mailing list emails suddenly stopped showing up and I found out from their site that they couldn't get thru. After a run-around with my isp, I finally found someone who admitted they had just set filters up to block spam and put everyone on them without asking. I requested to be placed outside of their filters, and after that all was fine. Now it turns out that my isp is still being inundated with spam to the point that they say their servers are becoming blogged down. So they set up some new type of software/filtering in addition to the filters already in place. Unfortnately, they set up the new software/filters outside of the people who requested to be off their filters, so now I'm sandwiched between these filters. I've been told that *hopefully* by Tuesday evening they should have something figured out. ARGGHHH!!! > You might want to see if your ISP is willing to install > SpamAssassin -- it's free. Thanks for the heads-up on this. > I have to swallow my bile when I get to the iNews section and > see all the spam lists that are being bought and sold there...) The US recently started up a national 'do not call' list to try and thwart telemarketers. How long do we have to wait before something like this is set-up for email? - -- Cousin Liz eas01@fast.net Soulmates Xena Dinosaur Bards http://cousinliz.com ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 13:12:58 +1200 From: cr Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] Friend In Need Part 1 On Sunday 29 June 2003 06:59, IfeRae@aol.com wrote: (snip) > From what we saw, Harukata wasn't a great warrior or anything. It didn't > take that much for him to skewer the ghosts of Yodoshi's victims -- most of > whom were simple folk before their demise. Yodoshi was a whole 'nother > issue. While maybe getting "close" to him could be accomplished by dying, > it seemed that conquering him required someone with uncommon skill, > experience and courage -- which is why Akemi sent for the best. Harukata > was brave, but not suicidal in a lost cause. I think he willingly risked > his life, once he knew Xena might be the edge they needed. Anyway, that's > my rationalization. > > -- Ife An excellent rationalization it is, too. And of course, Harukata *was* killed in the process of defeating Yodoshi. cr ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 13:10:54 +1200 From: cr Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] Friend In Need Part 1 On Sunday 29 June 2003 06:59, IfeRae@aol.com wrote: (snips) > > I inferred vaguely that the attack was somehow linked with Yodoshi, but > > the DVD made it explicit. So I did like the extra scene.>> > > Ah, it could be that I didn't really care about the "politics" of the > situation. Like with all that god stuff, I simply treated it as background > "music" to the "real" story. I felt the same about some of those big > battles, where I didn't feel like hurting my brain with what the heck was > going on. That's what we've got folks like you for. Well, I didn't think it was all that important a point, and it leaves unexplained (I think) why Yodoshi needed an army anyway. Maybe just to produce more dead souls for him to capture? Maybe he had plans for world domination.... But it does, explain, I guess, why stopping Yodoshi suddenly became so much more important to Akemi. > > Though they never brought M'Lila back. Problem was, she appeared and > > died in the same ep, which made that impossible. If there's one > > character in the > > series I really would have loved to see more of, it's M'Lila. >> > > Me too, if only to see a little of her back story. > > -- Ife Yes, they could have done that... though it would only peripherally have been a Xena story. (And we know how you feel about Xena-lite eps :) cr ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 13:16:14 +1200 From: cr Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] Friend In Need Part 1 On Sunday 29 June 2003 06:59, IfeRae@aol.com wrote: > > Not to mention where she got the bow and infinite number of arrows (like > Gabby's sais) in the first place. Maybe that scanty outfit had magic > hidden pockets? I expect she ambushed an outlying troop of Morimoto's archers and took theirs. Give her credit for *some* resourcefulness cr ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 14:27:38 +1200 From: cr Subject: Re: OT: Re: [chakram-refugees] Yahoo & Spam On Sunday 29 June 2003 09:51, meredith wrote: > Spam-filtering software is much more effective at blocking spam. At the > network level it can detect spam that has routed through open relays, and > then at the individual user level it can flag messages as spam and allow > the user to decide what to do with it. We've got SpamAssassin at smoe.org, > which works pretty well, though I need to take some time this weekend to > teach it a few things so its filtering will get better. It rates the > message's content according to various criteria and gives it a score, and > you can tweak what score you want it to consider spam. If a message gets a > high enough score, it flags the subject line with "SPAM", which I use to > filter the mail into a special trash mailbox on my computer. You can also > compile a "whitelist", which contains e-dresses from which you want to > receive bulk email, for example amazon.com, ebay or, in my case, > independent musicians with announcement mailing lists. You might want to > see if your ISP is willing to install SpamAssassin -- it's free. Thanks for the info. Is SpamAssassin individually configurable for (and by) each user? Or does every user have to live with whatever setting the ISP decides on? My ideal would be for my ISP to run a spamkiller (so it bounces spam *before* I download the stuff through a slow modem) but which I can configure. cr ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. 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