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A user who is a loser. The result of a dispute at MIT some years ago where computer error messages referred to errors by users. Others changed users to losers, and the dispute continued until someone coined the term lusers, which everyone liked.
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luser - Patrick,It seems that I don't understand the rules for posting tocomp.dcom.telecom. I'm keenly interested in the E9-1-1 vs VoIPdiscussion and recently posted a response regarding thatsubject. Since it didn't make the cut I can only assume that eitherthe content didn't pass the credibility test or that my anti-spammeasures were too restrictive to meet the group requirements. Can youpoint me to the FAQs or otherwise advise me on what I need to do tojoin this important discussion.TIAMike Sutter ENP - Ctek Inc AkaMike_The_bikePO 141Piffard, NY 14533-0141USA+1.585.746.2032mike@ctekproducts.comwww.ctekproducts.com[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I have a couple of questions, Mike. Didyou receive an auto-reply from me within a minute or two after yousent your message? If you did NOT receive an auto-ack then there is agood possibility your message never reached me OR it did get here andfell into my Spam Assassin file (auto-acks are not sent out on those.)If you did NOT get an auto-ack, because my incoming mail filtersthought there was a strong possibility the message was spam then tryresending it after attempting to clean it up a little. I do go throughthe spam bucket looking for obvious mistakes (for instance, a nameI recognize as a regular poster here; a thread in progress with a'Re:' subject line I've seen before, etc. When I now and then seethose things, I issue a very short, simple manual ack back to theperson to try to comfort them a little, since they took the time tocompose the message and send it in. I am not like some moderatorswho just arrogantly toss out what they do not want to use. But thereare times -- out of self defense more than anything else -- that I seea spam mail folder with 500 new items (only 500 new items? well, yeahcause I had previously checked the file just an hour or two earlier;if I don't check it for a full day, *then* you should see it) then Ispend maybe 1-2 seconds reviewing the message sent by and subjectlines for each item (a screen full -- 20 such lines -- gets all of*maybe 30 seconds between calling them up onto screen and thendeleting them in clusters of the 20 on display* and moving the next20 into view). It is EXTREMELY important to stick to the 'proper'subject header, have a 'reasonable' looking name, and a message length(according to the byte counter in Unix) of one to four or five K.That basically means do not use HTML (huge consumption byte-wise). IfI see -- in this cursory review -- a Unix byte count of thirty orforty thousand bytes -- and Spam Assassin also thought it was spam,then I don't go further. I just bash them as fast as I can, twentyor thirty seconds per screen full, twenty messages per screen. The'good' messages I find in this cursory review I pull out as I gothrough zapping the rest (almost all of them). Lisa Minter sits hereusually each day two or three times and zaps spam also on the sameformula.If you *did* get an auto-ack but the message still did not appear herethen a couple things may have happened. First of all, I have mySpam Assassin set sort of low; I'd rather throw out a couple dozenspams/viruses rather than risk losing a good message. Ergo, a lotof spam which I would rather not answer at all, gets an auto-ackalso. You got an auto-ack for this inquiry did you not? I found yourinquiry in my regular mail, not the spam box. Using the same criteriaas above, I scan through it all deleting the obvious spam and viruses.About 99.9 percent of what Spam Assassin catches is in fact spam.About 85 percent of what hits the real mailbox is also spam. Spammersare getting smarter, to say the least. Now and again, 'good' mail inthe 'good' mailbox gets trashed by accident. I can recover/reconstructmost of that, or at least write to the person and ask their help inreplacing the message. So did you or did you NOT get the initialauto-ack from me on the message about which you are inquiring? PAT]
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