• What's happening to Comp.Sys.Sinclair and Acorn?

    From outsoft@3:770/3 to All on Wed Oct 25 10:47:03 2023
    I continue receive 300 messages per day, are spamming on these channels?

    The problem starts 15 days ago and never stops.

    Best regards to all here.



    --Simon

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  • From Felice Murolo@2:335/206 to outsoft on Wed Oct 25 12:41:30 2023
    On 25-10-2023 10:47:02, outsoft writes:

    I continue receive 300 messages per day, are spamming on these channels?
    The problem starts 15 days ago and never stops.
    Best regards to all here.
    --Simon
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    Hi.

    Here, however, everything seems to work. 1-2 messages per day in this conference.

    Ciao.
    Felix

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  • From Jan van den Broek@3:770/3 to outsoft on Wed Oct 25 09:26:30 2023
    2023-10-24, outsoft <outsoft@f173.n1.z21.fsxnet> schrieb:
    I continue receive 300 messages per day, are spamming on these channels?

    The problem starts 15 days ago and never stops.

    In a nutshell, spammers from GoogleGroups.
    In comp.lang.c there as more than thousands messages per day.

    --
    Jan v/d Broek balglaas@dds.nl

    "Ich kenne das Leben, ich bin im Kino gewesen."

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  • From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to OUTSOFT on Wed Oct 25 10:09:00 2023
    I continue receive 300 messages per day, are spamming on these channels?

    The problem starts 15 days ago and never stops.

    Best regards to all here.

    I am not seeing them here, but was seeing them in comp.lang.cobol. The
    spam appears to be binary or otherwise encoded. I was able to filter most
    of it as the FROM names being used followed a similar pattern.

    Mike


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  • From Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood@3:770/3 to All on Fri Oct 27 09:31:25 2023
    Groovy hepcat Jan van den Broek was jivin' in comp.sys.cbm on Wed, 25
    Oct 2023 08:26 pm. It's a cool scene! Dig it.

    2023-10-24, outsoft <outsoft@f173.n1.z21.fsxnet> schrieb:
    I continue receive 300 messages per day, are spamming on these
    channels?

    The problem starts 15 days ago and never stops.

    In a nutshell, spammers from GoogleGroups.

    That explains why I'm not seeing them. I have GG killfiled. I long ago
    found it more productive to plonk GG altogether and "un-plonk" those
    few clueful individuals who post via it (i.e., raise their score in the killfile).

    In comp.lang.c there as more than thousands messages per day.

    I am blissfully unaware of those. :)

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  • From Jan van den Broek@3:770/3 to Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood on Fri Oct 27 14:25:15 2023
    2023-10-26, Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood <phaywood@alphalink.com.au> schrieb:
    Groovy hepcat Jan van den Broek was jivin' in comp.sys.cbm on Wed, 25
    Oct 2023 08:26 pm. It's a cool scene! Dig it.

    I'm not quite sure if I'm really a groovy hepcat, but I've listened to
    Go! bij Dexter Gordon this morning.

    2023-10-24, outsoft <outsoft@f173.n1.z21.fsxnet> schrieb:
    I continue receive 300 messages per day, are spamming on these
    channels?

    The problem starts 15 days ago and never stops.

    In a nutshell, spammers from GoogleGroups.

    That explains why I'm not seeing them. I have GG killfiled. I long ago

    Same here.

    [Schnipp]

    But to get a bit on-topic, here is a Basic-program:
    10 poke 53280,0:poke 53281,0
    20 s$="acgt"
    30 c$=chr$(28)+chr$(30)+chr$(31)+chr$(158)
    40 r=1+int(rnd(0)*4)
    50 print mid$(c$,r,1);mid$(s$,r,1);
    60 goto 40

    Also a JavaScript-version on
    https://balglaas.home.xs4all.nl/mvzi/dna/dna.html
    --
    Jan v/d Broek balglaas@dds.nl

    "Ich kenne das Leben, ich bin im Kino gewesen."

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  • From Dave Drum@1:2320/105 to Jan van den Broek on Sun Oct 29 03:24:00 2023
    Jan van den Broek wrote to Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood <=-

    2023-10-26, Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood <phaywood@alphalink.com.au> schrieb:
    Groovy hepcat Jan van den Broek was jivin' in comp.sys.cbm on Wed, 25
    Oct 2023 08:26 pm. It's a cool scene! Dig it.

    I'm not quite sure if I'm really a groovy hepcat, but I've listened to Go! bij Dexter Gordon this morning.

    A little Alligator Boogaloo with Long Tall Dexter is always groovy.

    Or Quincy Jones, for that matter.
    ... "A cheapskate won't tip a server. I'm just careful with my money" Dave Drum --- MultiMail/Win v0.52
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  • From Anssi Saari@3:770/3 to Jan van den Broek on Mon Oct 30 21:28:34 2023
    Jan van den Broek <balglaas@dds.nl> writes:

    But to get a bit on-topic, here is a Basic-program:
    10 poke 53280,0:poke 53281,0
    20 s$="acgt"
    30 c$=chr$(28)+chr$(30)+chr$(31)+chr$(158)
    40 r=1+int(rnd(0)*4)
    50 print mid$(c$,r,1);mid$(s$,r,1);
    60 goto 40

    Pretty cool.

    So what's a convenient command line way to get from an ascii basic
    listing to a prg inside a d64 image? After some looking I used tok64 and
    c1541.

    Second place was bastext to t64 and then to d64 via c1541 but I was
    weirded out since it seems the only binary output bastext is willing to
    do is a t64 file. And while c1541 should handle those, it didn't in this
    case.

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  • From Robert Roland@3:770/3 to ank@spamfence.net on Tue Oct 31 00:30:45 2023
    On Mon, 30 Oct 2023 19:08:08 -0400, Andreas Kohlbach
    <ank@spamfence.net> wrote:

    I was also about to type it into the VICE emulator.

    You do know that you can simply paste it into the Vice window?

    (On the Windows version, at least)
    --
    RoRo

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  • From Anssi Saari@3:770/3 to Andreas Kohlbach on Tue Oct 31 13:00:51 2023
    Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> writes:

    So no image created?

    If I was unclear, not by the bastext + c1541 combo. No issue with tok64
    and c1541.

    I just wanted the image so I could run it in some browser based emulator
    which takes d64 images.

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  • From Andreas Kohlbach@3:770/3 to Anssi Saari on Tue Oct 31 22:50:23 2023
    On Tue, 31 Oct 2023 13:00:51 +0200, Anssi Saari wrote:

    Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> writes:

    So no image created?

    If I was unclear, not by the bastext + c1541 combo. No issue with tok64
    and c1541.

    Sorry, I don't know what these are. Thought some disk emulators.

    I was able to paste in the BASIC code into VICE and run it. Beautiful:
    the C64 creates life. :-)

    Anyway, I was able to "save it on tape" and created an *tap image. If interested I can upload it to my web server.
    --
    Andreas

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  • From Andreas Kohlbach@3:770/3 to Robert Roland on Tue Oct 31 22:33:10 2023
    On Tue, 31 Oct 2023 00:30:45 +0100, Robert Roland wrote:

    On Mon, 30 Oct 2023 19:08:08 -0400, Andreas Kohlbach
    <ank@spamfence.net> wrote:

    I was also about to type it into the VICE emulator.

    You do know that you can simply paste it into the Vice window?

    (On the Windows version, at least)

    I didn't know!. Thank you!
    --
    Andreas

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  • From Andreas Kohlbach@3:770/3 to Anssi Saari on Tue Oct 31 22:33:05 2023
    On Tue, 31 Oct 2023 13:00:51 +0200, Anssi Saari wrote:

    Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> writes:

    So no image created?

    If I was unclear, not by the bastext + c1541 combo. No issue with tok64
    and c1541.

    Sorry, I don't know what these are. Thought some disk emulators.
    --
    Andreas

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