... This is sort of a non sequitur. "Security through obscurity" traditionally means that you can't leave data lying around and just hope people aren't going...
Tim Pierce
twp@...
Mar 1, 2001 4:48 pm
11006
... Except that's not really true. If you search on ".com", ".net" and ".edu" you solve 95% of the problem, and that's more than good enough for most ...
Chuq Von Rospach
chuqui@...
Mar 1, 2001 5:24 pm
11007
... You mean there are not a lot of passwords which are likely to yield access? :-) ... Yes, searching on .com, .net and .edu in a search engine will often ...
Tim Pierce
twp@...
Mar 1, 2001 6:01 pm
11008
... Can I quote "assumption is the mother of all f*** up" ? Let me go to any old search engine (private or public) and try the query "mailto". Oops. Perhaps...
Peter Galbavy
peter.galbavy@...
Mar 1, 2001 6:35 pm
11009
... You're pretty much right. However, I don't plan on waiting for them to upgrade their systems to upgrade mine. Instead, I'll fix it now, and when they come...
Chuq Von Rospach
chuqui@...
Mar 1, 2001 6:55 pm
11010
... Sympa MLM archives are protected by a cookie. This cookie is sent to anyone acknoledging a simple form (method post) saying "i'm not a spammer". Currently...
Aumont
serge.aumont@...
Mar 2, 2001 7:59 am
11011
Rumor has it that AOL has posted instructions on the web on how to make AOL 6.0 send plain text messages. In my mind this is a good thing because it now...
Todd Olson
tco2@...
Mar 5, 2001 5:43 pm
11012
On 3/5/01 10:49 AM, Todd Olson <tco2@...> wrote... ... To the best of my knowledge, AOL has not published any such instructions. An AOL member has,...
Adam Bailey
adamb@...
Mar 5, 2001 9:48 pm
11013
Todd Olson wrote, ... AOL customer Adam Bailey has posted such instructions; that much I can verify. Whether there are also instructions available from...
David W. Tamkin
dattier@...
Mar 5, 2001 9:59 pm
11014
Thanks to all who replied about AOL 6.0 and plain text. Thanks also for the clarification of that status of the available information. Regards, Todd Olson...
Todd Olson
tco2@...
Mar 6, 2001 4:39 pm
11015
... I'm left scratching my head wondering why system administrators feel unable or unwilling to put a filter on the front end which will convert HTML encoded...
John Neale
jneale@...
Mar 7, 2001 1:01 pm
11016
... Just to make clear, it *IS* hard. It is not hard to unwrap the MIME sections and hack away the HTML tags and let the devil take the hindmost, but it is...
Bernie Cosell
bernie@...
Mar 7, 2001 2:18 pm
11017
... It's not hard *for system administrators*. For list administrators who are not system administrators, it's impossible. System administrators, however,...
Jim Trigg
blaise@...
Mar 7, 2001 2:37 pm
11018
... Ah, Bernie, you haven't read my 57000 posts on the subject: Demime home page: http://scifi.squawk.com/demime.html Demime perl script:...
SRE
eckert@...
Mar 7, 2001 3:48 pm
11019
From: "Bernie Cosell" <bernie@...> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 08:52:28 -0500 Just to make clear, it *IS* hard. It is not hard to unwrap the MIME ...
Cyndi Norman
cnorman@...
Mar 7, 2001 5:54 pm
11020
... It's definitely possible. If you have not seen w3m, you should: it is a very good text-mode browser for Unix systems. (Whether it can be built on...
Tim Pierce
twp@...
Mar 7, 2001 6:03 pm
11021
... Er, this inquiry was in the context of something to do filtering... I guess, as sysadmin, you could trap those pages, store them in local .html files, lynx...
Bernie Cosell
bernie@...
Mar 7, 2001 7:20 pm
11022
... This is `quoted-printable' encoding (colloquially called `quoted-unreadable' for good reason) and is probably not under the users' control. If they are...
Tim Pierce
twp@...
Mar 7, 2001 9:06 pm
11023
Tim wrote, ... I call it "quoted-unprintable" because anything quoted from me after seeing it is unprintable. ... The pass through a qp filter is probably not,...
David W. Tamkin
dattier@...
Mar 8, 2001 5:04 am
11024
Hi John ... My question was entirely focused on the interaction between HTML and *command* processors that expect plain text. I was not concerned about...
Todd Olson
tco2@...
Mar 8, 2001 4:55 pm
11025
One other solution for AOL users who want to post plain text: If you use Netscape 6, the mail part of the program lets you set up your AOL account so that you...
Margaret Levine Young
margy@...
Mar 8, 2001 7:06 pm
11026
On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Todd Olson wrote: I'd go even further and claim that e-mail-clients should include in there menues, options that automatically generate...
James M Galvin
galvin@...
Mar 8, 2001 7:17 pm
11027
... Surprising? Who owns Netscape? ;)...
Bob Comperini
robertc@...
Mar 8, 2001 8:33 pm
11028
... heh. I bet it would work if you configured Eudora somehow to say "Hi, I'm Netscape 6 and I need the IMAP account for foo....". It would be interesting to...
JC Dill
inet-list@...
Mar 8, 2001 8:49 pm
11029
On 3/8/01 11:51 AM, Margaret Levine Young <margy@...> wrote... ... It /won't/ work. You can find that on the same page as my AOL 6 & HTML FAQ. -- Adam...
Adam Bailey
adamb@...
Mar 8, 2001 10:33 pm
11030
Margy wrote, ... Comparably, Outlook Express does pseudo-IMAP and pseudo-SMTP over HTTP for Hotmail mailboxes, and it's the OE settings that determine plain...
David W. Tamkin
dattier@...
Mar 8, 2001 11:05 pm
11031
On 3/8/01 4:27 PM, David W. Tamkin <dattier@...> wrote... ... Outlook Express is using WebDAV. They claim that any WebDAV client can access Hotmail, but...
Adam Bailey
adamb@...
Mar 9, 2001 1:33 am
11032
... I have demime in the pipe to both the list and the list server. Works great. No more "invalid command" bull....
SRE
eckert@...
Mar 9, 2001 2:05 am
11033
... This is probably as simple as: sed -e '/^$/,$ {' \ -e 's/<[^>]*>//g' \ -e 's/"/"/g' \ -e 's/</</g' \ -e 's/>/>/g' \ -e 's/&/&/g' \ -e '}' ...
Tim Pierce
twp@...
Mar 9, 2001 4:45 pm
11034
From: "Bernie Cosell" <bernie@...> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 13:38:22 -0500 ... Er, this inquiry was in the context of something to do filtering... I ...
