INFO-VAX Mon, 02 Apr 2007 Volume 2007 : Issue 183 Contents: Re: anti-spam advice Digital Storageworks equipment for sale... Re: Gore brainwashing world to ban the light bulb! Re: New site for OpenVMS books Re: Time for C.O.V.subgroups ? Re: Time for C.O.V.subgroups ? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 01 Apr 2007 18:49:33 GMT From: bugs@pu.net (Mark Hittinger) Subject: Re: anti-spam advice Message-ID: <460ffebd$0$4936$4c368faf@roadrunner.com> helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply) writes: >Goal: avoid seeing spam (see note at bottom) without wrongly rejecting >non-spam messages. I doubt its available for VMS but something to check into is "greylisting". In addition to blocking the dynamic ranges greylisting has proven to be quite a valuable technique - significantly better than any RBL. While its probably heresy to suggest here if I still ran VMS boxen I would probably have to put a linux box up as an MX host with greylisting and dul blocking. I'd then have the linux box MX relay to the VMS smtp boxes via a backend network. Later Mark Hittinger bugs@pu.net ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 19:28:34 -0500 From: "Schroeder, AJ" Subject: Digital Storageworks equipment for sale... Message-ID: <46104e02$0$5781$4c368faf@roadrunner.com> Hello group, I have quite a bit of Digital Storageworks equipment that I have collected over the past few years. I am looking to sell some of it off. I figured that I would give the newsgroup members first dibs on it, then I will go to eBay. I have multiple BA35x towers (tan and blue) with the fans, personality modules, and power supply units, some of them even have the complete "skins" with the doors and stands. If anyone wants them, I have a bunch of 4 GB tan and 9GB blue SBBs available. Also I have SCSI cables of varying lengths and connector types. All of this is coming from my personal collection of pieces and parts and all parts are known to be in working order and in good condition. I can sell some individual items off as parts, but I would like to sell a couple towers as whole packages. Shipping can be negotitated if outside the US, although I am told that there are massive amounts of fees if shipping is outside the US so it may not be worth it. I am in the Milwaukee, WI area so if you are near me local pickup can be arranged. Please email ajschroeder@no-spamhotmail.com (remove no-spam first) for a complete list of parts. Thanks, AJ Schroeder ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 21:25:24 +0200 From: Dirk Munk Subject: Re: Gore brainwashing world to ban the light bulb! Message-ID: Paul Anderson wrote: > In article <4602ca9a$0$8753$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net>, > "John Wallace" wrote: > >> I put 1 kilowatt of electric power into a light, any kind of light, >> tungsten, carbon arc, CFL, I get 1 kilowatt of heat in the room. >> Efficiency 100%. > > Isn't some of the energy used to make light? Or is it less than .5% > and you are rounding up? > >> I put gas or heating oil, at a rate equivalent to 1 kilowatts input >> power, into a typical central heating boiler (you call them >> "furnaces"?) and a good part of the power input goes up the chimney >> (flue?). Efficiency maybe 40-70% depending on various factors (though >> modern condensing boilers allegedly do rather better than 90%). Depends what you call modern. These condensing gas boilers have been standard over here in Holland for some 15 years now. I will replace mine in a couple of months, because burner technology has improved so much that it will also improve the overall efficiency. The latest developments are that a Stirling engine with an electric generator will be added to the boiler, so that even that last bit of energy will be extracted from the gas. It will produce about 1kW. Doesn't seem much, but it will mean a significant production of electricity because there are so many boilers. Thos fluorescent light bulbs have been around for some 20 years now, at least here in Europe. Nice anecdote: A few years after they were introduced I went on holiday to Bonaire (Caribbean, Netherlands Antilles). I stayed in a resort with some 25 cabins, and guests from all over the world. One of them came from the Detroit area, and had a company that installed production lines in the car industry. He looked at those light bulbs, and asked what they were. The owner explained, and then the guy asked informed about the generator that was used to power the resort. The owner told him that he used one 3.5 kW generator to power the whole resort. The American guy was totaly amazed, and said to his wife: "Did you hear that, he's using a 3.5 kW generator to power the whole resort. The generator in our motorhome has the same output!!" >> >> The electric light/heater is more efficient than gas or oil, on that >> basis, because all the energy goes into heating the room rather than >> some of it getting wasted up the chimney. > > Why, then, is heating your house with electric heat more expensive than > heating it with a furnace that uses oil or gas? I thought it was due to > the inefficiency of the electric heater, but maybe it's due to the cost > of electricity compared to oil or gas. > > Paul > ------------------------------ Date: 1 Apr 2007 15:33:35 -0700 From: yyyc186@hughes.net Subject: Re: New site for OpenVMS books Message-ID: <1175466815.346148.101560@n59g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> On Apr 1, 10:52 am, Paul Repacholi wrote: > > Ditto Opera. The top huge type header sinks into the first line > of the following text block. Everything worked with the version of Opera I have on my SuSE Linux 10.2 64-bit box. What are you trying with? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 15:00:44 -0400 From: "Richard B. gilbert" Subject: Re: Time for C.O.V.subgroups ? Message-ID: <4610015C.8050701@comcast.net> Arne Vajhøj wrote: > Paul Repacholi wrote: > >> genius@marblecliff.com writes: >> >>> but this group cannot be civil ... they call out conservatives and >>> Christians with their constant cracks, then they get rebutted and >>> resort to name calling and CENSORSHIP ... >> >> >> Where is Carl when you need him... > > > He would have been horrified if he has seen what this > forum has evolved into. > > Arne The Carl I remember would certainly have flamed certain participants here. Not that it would have done any good. Poor Carl; he was unable to understand that calling a moron a moron was useless because said moron was incapable of comprehending the fact! I guess it made Carl feel better. :-) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 20:37:38 -0400 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= Subject: Re: Time for C.O.V.subgroups ? Message-ID: <46105045$0$90275$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Richard B. gilbert wrote: > Arne Vajhøj wrote: >> Paul Repacholi wrote: >>> Where is Carl when you need him... >> >> He would have been horrified if he has seen what this >> forum has evolved into. > > The Carl I remember would certainly have flamed certain participants > here. Not that it would have done any good. > > Poor Carl; he was unable to understand that calling a moron a moron was > useless because said moron was incapable of comprehending the fact! > > I guess it made Carl feel better. :-) That was probably the most significant effect. Actually I do think that the victims got the message. But in those days new people joined all the time. Arne ------------------------------ End of INFO-VAX 2007.183 ************************