Re: GAS-L: CHANGES TO REPP-CREST DISCUSSION LISTS!

[Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>]

On Wed, 8 May 2002 09:45:28 -0700, 
"Tom Miles" <tmiles@trmiles.com> wrote in message 
<007b01c1f6af$d3ca8860$6401a8c0@tommain>:

> THERE ARE TWO ITEMS OF INFORMATION:
> 
> FIRST - From now on attachments will no longer be allowed on CREST
> discussion lists.  The reason for this is a wave of irritating new
> viruses being sent as attachments.

..aaaaaah.  ;-)  _Finally_.  ;-) 

..does this _timely_ ban also apply to "html-mail" attachments? 
These too, can trigger MS-"Java", MS-"Javascript", MS-ActiveX and 
MS-Office macros etc vira, and ruin the common Wintendo boxes, I hear.  
 
> SECOND - if you have a pertinent file you wish to share with other
> lists members, please send them directly to me at dkostiuk@repp.org. 

...or simply put it on your webserver and post the link here.

> I will create an online library that will be rather low-tech until an
> efficient system is devised.  A link to the library will be created on
> the discussion list homepage soon, or after I receive the first 
> file(s).

..one more wee tweak:  Automate setting the "Reply-to: "-header, 
to default to reply to the mail list, for gas list members, it 
should read: "Reply-to: gasification@crest.org" on its own line,
and we will no longer have to cut'n'paste addresses to get it right, 
just click.   

..if you don't know how to do it, I'll do it for you/us.

..also loose the expensive gif's (and pdf's), which uses 
lzw (de)compression.

..for example, my archived message:
http://www.crest.org/discussion/gasification/199903/msg00055.html
has one gif format figure attached.  

..Unisys Inc. _is_ entitled to its 5000 or whatever 000 US$ license 
fee, until late in 2003.  As are they for all the other gif's (and 
pdf's).   For details, search for "lzw compression license gif pdf" 
at www.unisys.com.

..these gif's should be converted into the png format, which is free, 
and also uses less disk space and bandwidth.  Or, we can ask Unisys 
for a 5000 (or whatever) US$ license fee donation, and leave all 
the gif's as is.

..done offline on all my boxes.  To do this gif-to-png conversion 
legally _on_line, I need to pay my 5000 US$ to Unisys, since 
decompressing the gif (or pdf) is a neccessary first step in 
that (possible) _on_line service.   ;-)

..offline, is like looking up the gif in your web browser, and 
take a screen shot.  We can do it legally on our own boxes, but 
we cannot have people on Internet (or a Intranet), dump a gif 
into our box and give them a png or whatever, for that _service_, 
we'd need a lzw (de)compression service license from Unisys.  ;-)

..the 3 other ways is, ask Unisys nicely for a free 5000 US$ lzw 
compression license donation, 2, ask some nice Unisys licensee 
for access to use their licensed copy, or, 3, break the law. 


..if traffic on the other lists is as light as in the gas list,
we can stuff all services into one box, any recent* box will do, 
my preference is for an Apache web server, a Postfix mail server,
Procmail to massage and trim off excess fat from messages as above, 
possibly a MailMan web mail interface (to read list messages from 
internet cafees), and a Sourceforge-like mailing list interface 
allowing mail list users to decide on dayly digests, html or not 
or both etc message format, to please everyone.

..is not even hard.  ;-)

> Now, go back to talking amongst yourselves!
> 
> Best wishes,
> Damian Kostiuk
 

-- 
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
  Scenarios always come in sets of three: 
  best case, worst case, and just in case.

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