🚀 go-pugleaf

     - hi; in dipsp article, <1190697209snz@nospam.demon.co.uk>,
             pete@nospam.demon.co.uk observed & enquired:
>        v$af$ppint@i-m-t.demon.co.uk "ppint. at IMT" writes:
>>       pete@nospam.demon.co.uk up and announced (in parts):
>>>
>[snip utf-8 stuff]
>>>Off to investigate Unicode now...
>>>
>>	- that took me a bit by surprise, that did - and then it
>>	wasn't possible to connect to demon by dial-up a] reliably,
>>	b] on 08440416662, c] on 08440996662, and/or any other way
>>	from 015395-624xx and/or 01524-3821xx for...
>>	                 [it still isn't :-((]
>
>I trust it's better now?  Since I came back from hols (which is 
>my excuse for the tardy response) things here seem to be back to 
>"normal" re: authentication and routing.

	- ummm; from 01524-3821xx i can connect via 08440416662 to
	anchor-du-22, 23 or 24 (iirc) approximately one dial-up in
	two; the other attempts give what i believe to be the sig-
	nal for "engaged" or "line busy"; this is not entirely sat-
	isfactory, but is a *vast* improvement;

	- from 015395-624xx i cannot of late reliably comment:
	i-m-t-at-home, which has, for my sins, been a windows 2000
	professional (if that's not an oxymoronic cognomen) machine
	(to allow me to make use of paypal, livejournal, & the like)
	after complaining about being asked to perform its various
	accustomed functions - increasingly slowly for a while - has
	ceased to function at all; and i do not have another, fully
	set-up box working at home (i should have another, strictly
	dos 486 box set up tonight/tomorrow, some time; but whilst
	this should see me back online from home reliably enough, in-
	definitely, it'll not solve the minor matters of lj, paypal,
	and other more complicated sites' demands upon browsers, that
	gpl arachne cannot [- yet? -] handle.)

	(- i'd've been back up & on with the dos/dis/gremonos/pcoak/
	snewsjw/arachne/protext 486 earlier, but things in I.M.T.
	got a bit exciting just after i left, saturday night.) (see
	http://www.i-m-t.demon.co.uk/diary.htm (or should i now give
	the url with /docroot/ stuck into it?) for details, and you
	're interested.) 
>
>>	- um, any update on the ease (or otherwise) of tackling
>>	this, and possibly even upon your having accomplished it,
>>	awaited with interest (but i cannot promise bated breath).
>
>Still "work in progress"[*].  I might get to take a look this w/e 
>and see how simply ignoring the top 8 bits of the Unicode char 
>works (or most likely doesn't...)
>
>[*] which of course means I haven't even started yet :-(

	- whilst it's desirable, and would certainly improve the
	elegance of the presentation, as well as the functionality,
	it's hardly a matter, over delays to which you should re-
	proach yourself: an occasional dribblet of news, or else
	the periodic "nothing yet" from time to time... ;-)
>
>>	- your next task, "should you choose to accept it", is to
>>	identify the simplest way of allowing the use of regexps
>>	in the news kill file... *g*
>
>Which version of NET are you using?  I'm using the latest 
>official GremNOS here, and notice that my news kill file contains 
>regexps -- well, the simplified regexps that wildmat() handles 
>anyway like '*', '?' and '[...]' sets.  Seems to work for me.
>
	- i am, i believe, using pplt_03d.zip (unzipped), kindly
	crafted for me because some lowlife's taken to targeting
	postmaster at my d[e,o]m[o,(ai)]n...

	       - occasionally hundreds of time a day.

	- it certainly gives the impression of not understanding
	regexps to the extent that, by contrast, work in mailkill.
	  most recently, i've been a little dismayed to discover
	that trolls & spammers placing an extra space in between
	the From: and the overt poster is sufficient for them to
	evade all my news killfile rules testing this line. :-(

	- love, ppint.
	[the address from which this was posted bounces e-mail;
	 please change the "f" to a "g" and drop the "v" if you
	               wish to cc. or e-mail me.]
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         - glinda, 23/10/96 (10/23/96 for merkins)