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From: Mason C on 15 Apr 2010 04:24 Sometimes a line of text wraps to fit the box its in. Sometimes a line of text refuses to wrap and sets the box width. How can a line be made to give up its control of the width? (which is desirable for width liquidity) MasonC
From: Chris F.A. Johnson on 16 Apr 2010 23:40 On 2010-04-17, Mason C wrote: ... > Some years ago I got a virus from such a > collector -- I've forgotten its name but it was a major internet problem. No, it was a Windows problem. > I don't know about today but in those days (before Google), when Usenet > was more important, it was very unwise to expose a valid address on Usenet. I have always used a valid address. The only problem was the amount of spam. That's why I now use a throw-away address. It's valid, and I do check it, but gmail has a good spam filter. -- Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfajohnson.com> =================================================================== Author: Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress) Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress)
From: invalidmasonc on 17 Apr 2010 17:51 On 17 Apr 2010 03:40:38 GMT, "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson(a)gmail.com> wrote: >On 2010-04-17, Mason C wrote: >.. >> Some years ago I got a virus from such a >> collector -- I've forgotten its name but it was a major internet problem. > > No, it was a Windows problem. > >> I don't know about today but in those days (before Google), when Usenet >> was more important, it was very unwise to expose a valid address on Usenet. > > I have always used a valid address. The only problem was the > amount of spam. That's why I now use a throw-away address. It's > valid, and I do check it, but gmail has a good spam filter. It was the "swen" virus ("news") and here's a reference to it: http://www.rlmueller.net/SwenVirus.htm "Are you (like me) bombarded by E-mail messages infected with the Swen virus? Perhaps you were foolish enough (like me) to use your real E-mail address in Newsgroup discussions. Now infected computers all over the world are sending you bogus messages day and night." Google "swen virus" for others. Mason C
From: Chris F.A. Johnson on 17 Apr 2010 18:37 On 2010-04-17, invalidmasonc(a)invalid.invalid wrote: > On 17 Apr 2010 03:40:38 GMT, "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >>On 2010-04-17, Mason C wrote: >>.. >>> Some years ago I got a virus from such a >>> collector -- I've forgotten its name but it was a major internet problem. >> >> No, it was a Windows problem. >> >>> I don't know about today but in those days (before Google), when Usenet >>> was more important, it was very unwise to expose a valid address on Usenet. >> >> I have always used a valid address. The only problem was the >> amount of spam. That's why I now use a throw-away address. It's >> valid, and I do check it, but gmail has a good spam filter. > > It was the "swen" virus ("news") and here's a reference to it: > > http://www.rlmueller.net/SwenVirus.htm > > "Are you (like me) bombarded by E-mail messages infected with the Swen virus? Perhaps you were foolish enough (like me) to use your real E-mail address in Newsgroup discussions. Now infected computers > all over the world are sending you bogus messages day and night." > > Google "swen virus" for others. Ah, yes! September 2003. I was bombarded for a few hours. I couldn't find a filter that would delete it at my ISP, so I wrote a shell script to download my mail, deleting swen messages at the ISP. (That script appeared in my first book.) -- Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfajohnson.com> =================================================================== Author: Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress) Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress)
From: Jonathan N. Little on 17 Apr 2010 19:03
invalidmasonc(a)invalid.invalid wrote: > On 17 Apr 2010 03:40:38 GMT, "Chris F.A. Johnson"<cfajohnson(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 2010-04-17, Mason C wrote: >> .. >>> Some years ago I got a virus from such a >>> collector -- I've forgotten its name but it was a major internet problem. >> >> No, it was a Windows problem. >> >>> I don't know about today but in those days (before Google), when Usenet >>> was more important, it was very unwise to expose a valid address on Usenet. >> >> I have always used a valid address. The only problem was the >> amount of spam. That's why I now use a throw-away address. It's >> valid, and I do check it, but gmail has a good spam filter. > > It was the "swen" virus ("news") and here's a reference to it: > > http://www.rlmueller.net/SwenVirus.htm > > "Are you (like me) bombarded by E-mail messages infected with the Swen virus? Perhaps you were foolish enough (like me) to use your real E-mail address in Newsgroup discussions. Now infected computers > all over the world are sending you bogus messages day and night." > > Google "swen virus" for others. Have always used my real email on UseNet. Had the same email for over a decade until an ISP change last year. Do not get more than the usual spam since I have disabled spam filters at the server. I prefer to filter with my mail client. Now that said, I have always used a decent (not OE) mail client and decent updated anti-virus. Also was not fooled to *ever* open such a bogus attachment. -- Take care, Jonathan ------------------- LITTLE WORKS STUDIO http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com |