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| Whammo 2006-03-27, 7:52 am |
| Hi all,
Just wondering if there's been any new work on this nifty tool?
Whammo
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| Stephen K. Gielda 2006-03-31, 12:11 am |
| In article <1816033b853412f6d085c7b17de2ff99
@msgid.frell.theremailer.net>, whammo@myown.net says...
> Hi all,
> Just wondering if there's been any new work on this nifty tool?
>
Yeah, I actually have a GUI version done. Done some time ago, actually,
also fixed the issue with the conflict with Quicksilver. Just haven't
released it, mainly because venturing into "GUI land" probably means
even more work for me as more start using it and I've been kind of
swamped lately. I can release it if you want, but it's not widely
tested and if someone can't get it working, or finds a conflict with
something, I won't be able to do anything about it for a while.
/steve
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| Whammo 2006-03-31, 12:11 am |
| Stephen K. Gielda <steve@packetderm.com.bogus> wrote in
news:MPG.1e92160c562ef7d99896f0@news.newsreader.com:
> In article <1816033b853412f6d085c7b17de2ff99
> @msgid.frell.theremailer.net>, whammo@myown.net says...
>
> Yeah, I actually have a GUI version done. Done some time ago, actually,
> also fixed the issue with the conflict with Quicksilver. Just haven't
> released it, mainly because venturing into "GUI land" probably means
> even more work for me as more start using it and I've been kind of
> swamped lately. I can release it if you want, but it's not widely
> tested and if someone can't get it working, or finds a conflict with
> something, I won't be able to do anything about it for a while.
>
> /steve
Releasing it is your call, of course. But I, for one, would love to tinker
with the GUI version. Also having one that plays well with a side-by-side
installation of Quicksilver would definitely be apreciated.
Thanks for your efforts!
Whammo
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| Stephen K. Gielda 2006-03-31, 12:11 am |
| In article <0770fc12db8de1ed6bb9a275671ae8e7
@msgid.frell.theremailer.net>, whammo@myown.net says...
> Stephen K. Gielda <steve@packetderm.com.bogus> wrote in
> news:MPG.1e92160c562ef7d99896f0@news.newsreader.com:
>
>
> Releasing it is your call, of course. But I, for one, would love to tinker
> with the GUI version. Also having one that plays well with a side-by-side
> installation of Quicksilver would definitely be apreciated.
>
> Thanks for your efforts!
Alright, if you want an early look at it, here it is:
http://www.cotse.net/news2remail/2remail.zip
It is currently 7.2 meg of bloatware (I was going to wait until I
figured out how to chop it down before any type of release (sharing
libs, etc)...but oh well). It's still all done in PERL and the source
is in the zip. It's not linked anywhere on Cotse.Net right now. Lets
call it an early alpha and use at your own risk code.
It is basically news2remail with a GUI interface added and some minor
code changes (fix for running with QS). All the GUI does is give you
easy ways to edit configs, send the pool, add dummy messages to the
pool, and launch news2remail. Otherwise the actual news2remail part is
the same code as what is being used now. The GUI part is not widely
tested, although it runs fine on the two machines I tested it on. It
will not run on win9x. It runs on 2k or XP. It may not run on your
machine.
You also likely cannot run it and quicksilver at the exact same time
because it changes a registry entry QS uses while it is running and
changes it back on exit*. I haven't even looked at it in weeks. I make
no promises with it, it may not even run for you. Use it at your own
risk. I recommend the regular news2remail over it as it's now been well
tested and this hasn't.
If that hasn't dissuaded you from trying it...installation should be
easy, just unzip the exe to the dir of your choice (don't try to put it
in the same directory you currently have news2remail in, I don't think
they'll play well together) then run it. It will create configs, etc.
itself upon running. It is designed to be self contained, it makes no
perm changes to your system, it cleans up it's temp files on exit, and
works entirely out of it's own dir with it's own installation of
mixmaster.
It does make two temporary registry changes when run, one is removing
CurrentUser\Software\Mixmaster\MixDir when it runs and readding it when
it exits (for QS), and the other is to add LocalMachine\Software
\Packetderm\2Remail\Path on start and remove it on exit. Other than
that it won't mess with any of your settings* or other software. So
feel free to play with it and let me know if and how it runs on your
system. There are probably unforeseen bugs in it, so test carefully
before relying on it for anonymity.
/steve
* about the only danger it could cause would be deleting CurrentUser
\Software\Mixmaster\MixDir and not readding it, I have not coded a
failsafe yet. If it crashes while running this will likely happen and
you'll have to manually readd that registry entry for QS to work again.
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| Borked Pseudo Mailed 2006-03-31, 12:11 am |
| In article <MPG.1e92b2f053a422449896f2@news.newsreader.com>
Stephen K. Gielda <steve@packetderm.com.bogus> wrote:
>
> It is currently 7.2 meg of bloatware
I can see a successful career at Microsoft waiting for you ;)
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| Stephen K. Gielda 2006-03-31, 12:11 am |
| In article <bba21566d314dfc2620918c5238be866@pseudo.borked.net>,
nobody@pseudo.borked.net says...
> In article <MPG.1e92b2f053a422449896f2@news.newsreader.com>
> Stephen K. Gielda <steve@packetderm.com.bogus> wrote:
>
> I can see a successful career at Microsoft waiting for you ;)
>
>
No doubt. 
I really do need to learn some other language than PERL for this. The
perl compiler adds an instant 3+ meg to an exe. The GUI version is a
combo of three compiled scripts and numerous mods. I have not yet
figured out how to share DLL's between the executables (windows PERL is
new to me), so two times 3+ meg plus mods. I should be able to at least
chop it back to around three meg once I figure out the sharing. It's
set up to add a SMTP listener in the future, so there are some currently
unused mods compiled in. I wasn't planning to release until I did, but
work on it stalled and someone wanted to see it, so alpha preview. It
works pretty well, it's just overly bulky.
/steve
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| Whammo 2006-03-31, 12:11 am |
| Stephen K. Gielda <steve@packetderm.com.bogus> wrote in
news:MPG.1e92b2f053a422449896f2@news.newsreader.com:
> In article <0770fc12db8de1ed6bb9a275671ae8e7
> @msgid.frell.theremailer.net>, whammo@myown.net says...
>
> Alright, if you want an early look at it, here it is:
>
> http://www.cotse.net/news2remail/2remail.zip
>
> It is currently 7.2 meg of bloatware (I was going to wait until I
> figured out how to chop it down before any type of release (sharing
> libs, etc)...but oh well). It's still all done in PERL and the source
> is in the zip. It's not linked anywhere on Cotse.Net right now. Lets
> call it an early alpha and use at your own risk code.
>
> It is basically news2remail with a GUI interface added and some minor
> code changes (fix for running with QS). All the GUI does is give you
> easy ways to edit configs, send the pool, add dummy messages to the
> pool, and launch news2remail. Otherwise the actual news2remail part
> is the same code as what is being used now. The GUI part is not
> widely tested, although it runs fine on the two machines I tested it
> on. It will not run on win9x. It runs on 2k or XP. It may not run
> on your machine.
>
> You also likely cannot run it and quicksilver at the exact same time
> because it changes a registry entry QS uses while it is running and
> changes it back on exit*. I haven't even looked at it in weeks. I
> make no promises with it, it may not even run for you. Use it at your
> own risk. I recommend the regular news2remail over it as it's now
> been well tested and this hasn't.
>
> If that hasn't dissuaded you from trying it...installation should be
> easy, just unzip the exe to the dir of your choice (don't try to put
> it in the same directory you currently have news2remail in, I don't
> think they'll play well together) then run it. It will create
> configs, etc. itself upon running. It is designed to be self
> contained, it makes no perm changes to your system, it cleans up it's
> temp files on exit, and works entirely out of it's own dir with it's
> own installation of mixmaster.
>
> It does make two temporary registry changes when run, one is removing
> CurrentUser\Software\Mixmaster\MixDir when it runs and readding it
> when it exits (for QS), and the other is to add LocalMachine\Software
> \Packetderm\2Remail\Path on start and remove it on exit. Other than
> that it won't mess with any of your settings* or other software. So
> feel free to play with it and let me know if and how it runs on your
> system. There are probably unforeseen bugs in it, so test carefully
> before relying on it for anonymity.
>
> /steve
>
> * about the only danger it could cause would be deleting CurrentUser
> \Software\Mixmaster\MixDir and not readding it, I have not coded a
> failsafe yet. If it crashes while running this will likely happen and
> you'll have to manually readd that registry entry for QS to work
> again.
Hi Steve,
Bloatware or not it works very well!
The setup was a breeze. I just needed to add in my own server address
for reading in the conf, and then configured another Xnews server entry
(127.0.0.1:1990) for the posting chores. (The last change was actually
already done from using the console version.)
Using Xnews with SP-2
I haven't tried it in the BartPE setup yet. I suspect I'll have to do a
little modding of the BartPE registry entries in order to make it work
correctly.
Great job!
Whammo
| |
| Whammo 2006-03-31, 12:11 am |
| Stephen K. Gielda <steve@packetderm.com.bogus> wrote in
news:MPG.1e92b2f053a422449896f2@news.newsreader.com:
> In article <0770fc12db8de1ed6bb9a275671ae8e7
> @msgid.frell.theremailer.net>, whammo@myown.net says...
>
> Alright, if you want an early look at it, here it is:
>
> http://www.cotse.net/news2remail/2remail.zip
>
> It is currently 7.2 meg of bloatware (I was going to wait until I
> figured out how to chop it down before any type of release (sharing
> libs, etc)...but oh well). It's still all done in PERL and the source
> is in the zip. It's not linked anywhere on Cotse.Net right now. Lets
> call it an early alpha and use at your own risk code.
>
> It is basically news2remail with a GUI interface added and some minor
> code changes (fix for running with QS). All the GUI does is give you
> easy ways to edit configs, send the pool, add dummy messages to the
> pool, and launch news2remail. Otherwise the actual news2remail part
> is the same code as what is being used now. The GUI part is not
> widely tested, although it runs fine on the two machines I tested it
> on. It will not run on win9x. It runs on 2k or XP. It may not run
> on your machine.
>
> You also likely cannot run it and quicksilver at the exact same time
> because it changes a registry entry QS uses while it is running and
> changes it back on exit*. I haven't even looked at it in weeks. I
> make no promises with it, it may not even run for you. Use it at your
> own risk. I recommend the regular news2remail over it as it's now
> been well tested and this hasn't.
>
> If that hasn't dissuaded you from trying it...installation should be
> easy, just unzip the exe to the dir of your choice (don't try to put
> it in the same directory you currently have news2remail in, I don't
> think they'll play well together) then run it. It will create
> configs, etc. itself upon running. It is designed to be self
> contained, it makes no perm changes to your system, it cleans up it's
> temp files on exit, and works entirely out of it's own dir with it's
> own installation of mixmaster.
>
> It does make two temporary registry changes when run, one is removing
> CurrentUser\Software\Mixmaster\MixDir when it runs and readding it
> when it exits (for QS), and the other is to add LocalMachine\Software
> \Packetderm\2Remail\Path on start and remove it on exit. Other than
> that it won't mess with any of your settings* or other software. So
> feel free to play with it and let me know if and how it runs on your
> system. There are probably unforeseen bugs in it, so test carefully
> before relying on it for anonymity.
>
> /steve
>
> * about the only danger it could cause would be deleting CurrentUser
> \Software\Mixmaster\MixDir and not readding it, I have not coded a
> failsafe yet. If it crashes while running this will likely happen and
> you'll have to manually readd that registry entry for QS to work
> again.
Hi Steve,
Bloateware or not it was easy to setup and works quite well.
However I have found one little annoyance. Occasionally I will send off
a post with Xnews and it seems to have sent. But when I check the
mixmaster pool there are no posts, and none of the usual mixmaster
activity has shown in the 2remail console. It's like the post just
disappeared. A bit odd... Let's see if this one acts right...
Again, thanks for the preview! And it does work right with QS, as I've
switched back and forth with them several times now without any problems.
Whammo
| |
| [Anonymous] Persona 2006-03-31, 12:11 am |
| -----BEGIN TYPE III ANONYMOUS MESSAGE-----
Message-type: plaintext
In <0e518cb81f7d95a72bd181be5bb0a07a@msgid.frell.theremailer.net> Whammo <whammo@myown.net> wrote:
>Stephen K. Gielda <steve@packetderm.com.bogus> wrote in
<snip>
>Hi Steve,
>
>Bloateware or not it was easy to setup and works quite well.
>
>However I have found one little annoyance. Occasionally I will send off
>a post with Xnews and it seems to have sent. But when I check the
>mixmaster pool there are no posts, and none of the usual mixmaster
>activity has shown in the 2remail console. It's like the post just
>disappeared. A bit odd... Let's see if this one acts right...
>
>Again, thanks for the preview! And it does work right with QS, as I've
>switched back and forth with them several times now without any problems.
>
>Whammo
I, too, enjoyed the preview, and agree it works well.
Suggestions (not to be a nuisance, but...):
1. mixmaster progress bar or text.
2. Indicator when messages are present to be sent
3. Consider sending upon closing program or
even immeidiately upon pressing "send" in the
News Reader (immediately after formatting the messages)
4. Check the installation - I think a good portion of
it is going into Documents and settings/user/local/temp/
something.
Persona
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| [Anonymous] Persona 2006-03-31, 12:11 am |
| -----BEGIN TYPE III ANONYMOUS MESSAGE-----
Message-type: plaintext
In <MPG.1e94102d17c5af889896f7@news.newsreader.com> Stephen K. Gielda <steve@packetderm.com.bogus> wrote:
>In article <bba21566d314dfc2620918c5238be866@pseudo.borked.net>,
>nobody@pseudo.borked.net says...
>No doubt.
>
>I really do need to learn some other language than PERL for this. The
>perl compiler adds an instant 3+ meg to an exe. The GUI version is a
>combo of three compiled scripts and numerous mods. I have not yet
>figured out how to share DLL's between the executables (windows PERL is
>new to me), so two times 3+ meg plus mods. I should be able to at least
>chop it back to around three meg once I figure out the sharing. It's
>set up to add a SMTP listener in the future, so there are some currently
>unused mods compiled in. I wasn't planning to release until I did, but
>work on it stalled and someone wanted to see it, so alpha preview. It
>works pretty well, it's just overly bulky.
>
>/steve
>--
>Cotse.Net Privacy Service
>Your Shield From The Internet
>http://www.cotse.net
>
>
There is a curious thing about the installation. About
1/2 of the programs, dlls and such wound up in
"C:\Documents and Settings\User\Local\temp\some directory
that begins with "p"".
I was expecting everything to be installed into the
directory of 2Remail or a subdirectory, and I installed
it on an encrypted drive. This kind of spoils the
idea of using an encrypted drive, doesn't it? Well,
a little bit?
Persona
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| Stephen K. Gielda 2006-03-31, 12:11 am |
| In article <1143659013_652@bigapple.yi.org>,
anonymous@bigappleremailer.com says...
> -----BEGIN TYPE III ANONYMOUS MESSAGE-----
> Message-type: plaintext
>
> In <0e518cb81f7d95a72bd181be5bb0a07a@msgid.frell.theremailer.net> Whammo <whammo@myown.net> wrote:
> <snip>
>
>
> I, too, enjoyed the preview, and agree it works well.
>
> Suggestions (not to be a nuisance, but...):
>
> 1. mixmaster progress bar or text.
> 2. Indicator when messages are present to be sent
> 3. Consider sending upon closing program or
> even immeidiately upon pressing "send" in the
> News Reader (immediately after formatting the messages)
There are many features that would be nice to have, I can think of even
more. Add as many as you'd like. ;)
> 4. Check the installation - I think a good portion of
> it is going into Documents and settings/user/local/temp/
> something.
Yeah, compiled PERL works with temp files. It will remove those files
and dir on exit. It's also the reason for the delay on launch as it
unpacks it's files. Those are the libs I was talking about, some are
even dupes, but I had not yet figured out how to share dll's between
compiled exe's. PERL for windows is new to me, this is my very first
GUI attempt with PERL on Windows. I'm a perl/Unix guy.
/steve
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| |
| Stephen K. Gielda 2006-03-31, 12:11 am |
| In article
<e35e977622d549ccb8d705479eee976b@msgid.frell.theremailer.net>,
whammo@myown.net says...
> Stephen K. Gielda <steve@packetderm.com.bogus> wrote in
> news:MPG.1e92b2f053a422449896f2@news.newsreader.com:
>
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> Bloatware or not it works very well!
> The setup was a breeze. I just needed to add in my own server address
> for reading in the conf, and then configured another Xnews server entry
> (127.0.0.1:1990) for the posting chores. (The last change was actually
> already done from using the console version.)
>
> Using Xnews with SP-2
>
> I haven't tried it in the BartPE setup yet. I suspect I'll have to do a
> little modding of the BartPE registry entries in order to make it work
> correctly.
>
> Great job!
Thanks, it does work pretty smoothly, but it's way over bloated though,
not too much of an issue if you think in terms of Windows and windows
programs and it being only 7+ meg. But when you realise that is just
for two 10k scripts, it's ugly. It's even worse right now because it's
including two versions of the PERL libs it needs as well as some unused
modules that are compiled in for future additions.
It could orders of magnitude smaller if done in C, but alas I can only
hack around in C. I know I should pick it up, and it probably wouldn't
be all that difficult coming from a PERL background, but I haven't yet.
I just stuck with what I know.
/steve
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| |
| Stephen K. Gielda 2006-03-31, 12:11 am |
| In article
<0e518cb81f7d95a72bd181be5bb0a07a@msgid.frell.theremailer.net>,
whammo@myown.net says...
> Stephen K. Gielda <steve@packetderm.com.bogus> wrote in
> news:MPG.1e92b2f053a422449896f2@news.newsreader.com:
>
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> Bloateware or not it was easy to setup and works quite well.
>
> However I have found one little annoyance. Occasionally I will send off
> a post with Xnews and it seems to have sent. But when I check the
> mixmaster pool there are no posts, and none of the usual mixmaster
> activity has shown in the 2remail console. It's like the post just
> disappeared. A bit odd... Let's see if this one acts right...
Watch this one, make sure it's not going directly to your news server
bypassing the script completely. If the client contacts the server via
2remail it will show in the window. If it doesn't show it means that
your news client never even attempted to send it through 2remail,
instead possibly sending it directly to the news server.
This would be entirely at your newsreader's end, so be careful of which
sending droplist you use in XNews (if you have mult servers), and your
configs if using other clients. A good safe way would be to have only
one setting in the newsreader with 2remail reading from a read only
server like readfreenews. That way no accidents can occur.
>
> Again, thanks for the preview!
Not a problem, thanks for being an early tester.
/steve
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| |
| [Anonymous] Persona 2006-03-31, 12:11 am |
| -----BEGIN TYPE III ANONYMOUS MESSAGE-----
Message-type: plaintext
In <MPG.1e94d3887eb33b909896fa@news.newsreader.com> Stephen K. Gielda <steve@packetderm.com.bogus> wrote:
>In article <1143659013_652@bigapple.yi.org>,
>anonymous@bigappleremailer.com says...
>
>There are many features that would be nice to have, I can think of even
>more. Add as many as you'd like. ;)
I wish! I have enough problems with the very basics of
configuring a program, much less altering or writing one.
>
>
>Yeah, compiled PERL works with temp files. It will remove those files
>and dir on exit. It's also the reason for the delay on launch as it
>unpacks it's files. Those are the libs I was talking about, some are
>even dupes, but I had not yet figured out how to share dll's between
>compiled exe's. PERL for windows is new to me, this is my very first
>GUI attempt with PERL on Windows. I'm a perl/Unix guy.
>
>/steve
>--
The files are still there after exit. Should I delete them
and see if they reaccumulate (and if the program works)?
Persona
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| |
| Stephen K. Gielda 2006-03-31, 12:11 am |
| In article <1143697606_657@bigapple.yi.org>,
anonymous@bigappleremailer.com says...
> -----BEGIN TYPE III ANONYMOUS MESSAGE-----
> Message-type: plaintext
>
> In <MPG.1e94d3887eb33b909896fa@news.newsreader.com> Stephen K. Gielda <steve@packetderm.com.bogus> wrote:
>
> I wish! I have enough problems with the very basics of
> configuring a program, much less altering or writing one.
>
> The files are still there after exit. Should I delete them
> and see if they reaccumulate (and if the program works)?
Go right ahead and delete them. They are recreated upon launch. They
are placed in a dir named pdk-username-processid. If you have that dir
open when you exit the application or if the machine is shut down while
the program is running, that directory will not be removed, otherwise it
is deleted upon program exit.
/steve
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| Whammo 2006-03-31, 12:11 am |
| Stephen K. Gielda <steve@packetderm.com.bogus> wrote in
news:MPG.1e94d629597fb91f9896fc@news.newsreader.com:
> In article
> <0e518cb81f7d95a72bd181be5bb0a07a@msgid.frell.theremailer.net>,
> whammo@myown.net says...
>
> Watch this one, make sure it's not going directly to your news server
> bypassing the script completely. If the client contacts the server
> via 2remail it will show in the window. If it doesn't show it means
> that your news client never even attempted to send it through 2remail,
> instead possibly sending it directly to the news server.
>
This was my first thought also, but I don't think this has happened.
> This would be entirely at your newsreader's end, so be careful of
> which sending droplist you use in XNews (if you have mult servers),
> and your configs if using other clients. A good safe way would be to
> have only one setting in the newsreader with 2remail reading from a
> read only server like readfreenews. That way no accidents can occur.
>
I'm thinking that this might be the best solution as I do have numerous
servers configured in Xnews.
I do have readfreenews configured in 2remail.conf, but I am reading from
a different server and composing my replies initially through it. Like
readfreenews, posting with this one is also disabled. Occasionally I
forget to change to my posting server with the droplist box, but this
usually results in a 'posting not allowed' error. This is what has me
befuddled because it acts just like it usually does when using 2remail.
The posts do end up in the Sent folder, so I can resend them without
having to recompose them.
I think I'll configure a second instance of Xnews inside the 2remail
folder and just add in the main server I read from with the appropriate
entry in 2remail.conf, along with the 2remail server entry for posting.
I've ran across several other bugs in Xnews in the past when using
multiple server, so this is probably related.
>
> Not a problem, thanks for being an early tester.
>
> /steve
Whammo
| |
| Stephen K. Gielda 2006-03-31, 12:11 am |
| In article <e27b05eea8816123ac4226ac9c7905f4
@msgid.frell.theremailer.net>, whammo@myown.net says...
> I do have readfreenews configured in 2remail.conf, but I am reading from
> a different server and composing my replies initially through it. Like
> readfreenews, posting with this one is also disabled. Occasionally I
> forget to change to my posting server with the droplist box, but this
> usually results in a 'posting not allowed' error. This is what has me
> befuddled because it acts just like it usually does when using 2remail.
> The posts do end up in the Sent folder, so I can resend them without
> having to recompose them.
>
>
You have something configured wrong if you are reading from one server
and posting to another with news2remail. It's all one server, set
readfreenews in 2remail.conf, set the news server to 127.0.0.1 (nntp
listener port) and that's it. 2remail works with a single server, no
need to read from one and post to another.
/steve
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| Anonyma 2006-03-31, 12:11 am |
| In article <MPG.1e94102d17c5af889896f7@news.newsreader.com>
Stephen K. Gielda <steve@packetderm.com.bogus> wrote:
>
> I really do need to learn some other language than PERL for this. The
> PERL compiler adds an instant 3+ meg to an exe. The GUI version is a
> combo of three compiled scripts and numerous mods. I have not yet
> figured out how to share DLL's between the executables (windows PERL is
> new to me), so two times 3+ meg plus mods. I should be able to at least
> chop it back to around three meg once I figure out the sharing. It's
> set up to add a SMTP listener in the future, so there are some currently
> unused mods compiled in. I wasn't planning to release until I did, but
> work on it stalled and someone wanted to see it, so alpha preview. It
> works pretty well, it's just overly bulky.
In the big scheme of things, does it really matter? People just want
the program as it's useful. Whether it's 20k or 7mb, as long as it works
that's all that matters. Even on dialup 7mb would only take about 25
minutes to get.
If you are comfortable programming in PERL you should stick with it.
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| Whammo 2006-03-31, 12:11 am |
| Stephen K. Gielda <steve@packetderm.com.bogus> wrote in
news:MPG.1e957e8d32ab1fd09896fe@news.newsreader.com:
> In article <e27b05eea8816123ac4226ac9c7905f4
> @msgid.frell.theremailer.net>, whammo@myown.net says...
> You have something configured wrong if you are reading from one server
> and posting to another with news2remail. It's all one server, set
> readfreenews in 2remail.conf, set the news server to 127.0.0.1 (nntp
> listener port) and that's it. 2remail works with a single server, no
> need to read from one and post to another.
>
> /steve
Oh! Well I'll be danged! That's too easy! Thanks for clearing this up.
One more little annoyance I've discovered, which may be cured now but
I'll mention it anyway.
About fifty-percent of the time only 3 out of 4 of my messages will send
from the mix pool. Is this normal? Unlike before, I now find myself
watching the messages leaving from the mix pool all the time now, so it
could have been happening with QS also but I never knew it.
Also, are there any plans for incorporating TOR into the mix?
Whammo
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| Stephen K. Gielda 2006-03-31, 12:11 am |
| In article
<4e8c567410de769124d5c15bc270205f@msgid.frell.theremailer.net>,
whammo@myown.net says...
> Stephen K. Gielda <steve@packetderm.com.bogus> wrote in
> news:MPG.1e957e8d32ab1fd09896fe@news.newsreader.com:
>
>
> Oh! Well I'll be danged! That's too easy! Thanks for clearing this up.
That is the big difference between the personal version and the gateway.
The personal version will work with any newsreader and one news server.
>
> One more little annoyance I've discovered, which may be cured now but
> I'll mention it anyway.
>
> About fifty-percent of the time only 3 out of 4 of my messages will send
> from the mix pool. Is this normal? Unlike before, I now find myself
> watching the messages leaving from the mix pool all the time now, so it
> could have been happening with QS also but I never knew it.
It likely depends upon the SMTP server configured in the mix.cfg. If it
doesn't allow relaying for certain remailers the messages will stay in
queue.
>
> Also, are there any plans for incorporating TOR into the mix?
>
Nope. You can do that yourself if you wish, but you'll still be up
against whether or not tor exit servers support the port you want for
news.
/steve
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| Anonyma 2006-04-01, 12:29 pm |
| In article <MPG.1e94d3887eb33b909896fa@news.newsreader.com>
Stephen K. Gielda <steve@packetderm.com.bogus> wrote:
>
> There are many features that would be nice to have, I can think of even
> more. Add as many as you'd like. ;)
OK, here's one.
It would be nice to have an additional option for it to *not* pipe messages
to mixmaster but still act as a proxy to the news server, stripping/adding
user-defined headers.
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| [Anonymous] Persona 2006-04-02, 7:00 pm |
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In <MPG.1e9638907b3b529d989700@news.newsreader.com> Stephen K. Gielda <steve@packetderm.com.bogus> wrote:
>In article
><4e8c567410de769124d5c15bc270205f@msgid.frell.theremailer.net>,
>whammo@myown.net says...
>
>That is the big difference between the personal version and the gateway.
>The personal version will work with any newsreader and one news server.
>
>
>It likely depends upon the SMTP server configured in the mix.cfg. If it
>doesn't allow relaying for certain remailers the messages will stay in
>queue.
>
>
>Nope. You can do that yourself if you wish, but you'll still be up
>against whether or not tor exit servers support the port you want for
>news.
>
>/steve
I tried to launch News2Remail from Sockscap, but it failed
to launch (and hence failed to socksify).
If I were going to somehow use TOR to read messages through
News2Remail, how could that be done if not via
sockscap? Is there a way to set news2remail to use
TOR directly?
Persona
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