Textbook-l September 2003

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including email addresses in replies
by Karl Wick 18 Sep '03

18 Sep '03

Please, when you reply to an email on this list, please eliminate the "from" email address from the text before you send it. All of these emails are posted online and little robotic spiders crawl thru the pages looking very specifically for emial addresses to use for spam. After a while of this you start getting more and more and more spam. Up to now my spam leven with my yahoo email has been very low. Even tho the archiving software does the service of slightly altering the format of the email a spider can probably change it back and harvest it the same. Am I wrong about this ? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

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NYT article on textbook prices
by Karl Wick 17 Sep '03

17 Sep '03

This was on the front page of my local paper this morning: "When Books Break the Bank" http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/16/nyregion/16BOOK.html?pagewanted=all&posit… An article about outrageous textbook prices and the things that students are doing to avoid paying them. (No mention of our site unfortunately). I saw old NYT articles on Sept 11 archived on the main wikipedia .. could we do that with this one, put the text on Wikibooks ? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

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slashdotting the NYT story and us
by Karl Wick 17 Sep '03

17 Sep '03

Oh yeah, would it be a good idea to submit the NYT story to Slashdot with a link to our site and describing what we are doing to improve the situation ? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

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Re: [Textbook-l] Broken link on your website
by Geoffrey Thomas 15 Sep '03

15 Sep '03

Hello. There's a link on the left called "Edit this page". You can use it to delete the link. :-) (I just did so.) The entire Wikipedia is a WikiWiki, meaning anyone can edit any page. There are a whole bunch of broken links around the Wikipedia, and they get cleaned out as people visit them. This is the mailing list for textbook.wikipedia.org, the Wikibooks project. The main Wikipedia mailing list is wikipedia-l(a)wikipedia.org. Geoffrey Thomas, one of the many hundred regulars at Wikipedia, the free, open-content, fastest-growing, WikiWiki encyclopedia > Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 21:48:27 -0400 (EDT) > From: Connie Davis <connie.davis(a)mail.internetseer.com> > Subject: [Textbook-l] Broken link on your website > To: textbook-l(a)wikipedia.org > Message-ID: <6751842.1063504107386.JavaMail.Administrator@pm68> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > There appears to be a problem on this page: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zufall > When we click on your link to: http://www.fh-weingarten.de/iaf/projekte/is/zufall.htm > we get the error: 404 File not found > > We last examined your page on Sat Sep 13, 2003 at 09:49:35 PM EDT. If it > has not been updated since then, the link is most likely broken. > > We discovered this error during our normal course of website content > checking for one of our search engine clients. > > If you would like to receive notifications like this in the future if we > find pages unavailable, click here: > http://scclick.internetseer.com/sitecheck/clickthrough.jsp?I5s57l5h5o5d5k5i… > > Click here to learn more about us: > http://scclick.internetseer.com/sitecheck/clickthrough.jsp?I5s57l5h5o5d5k5i… > > Sincerely, > > Connie Davis > InternetSeer.com > http://www.internetseer.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Your email address was found during a prior visit to your website on > 09-13-2003. The error listed above was verified from both of our > indexing servers in Philadelphia, Pa. and Los Angeles, Ca. This error could > have been caused by any number of events, including connectivity problems on > our part and/or connectivity problems in the Internet as we tried to reach > your site. This error should not be construed as a guaranteed problem on the > part of your website or hosting company since there are never any guaranteed > connection routes on the Internet. > > If would like to be excluded from any potential future contact, click here: > http://scclick.internetseer.com/sitecheck/cancel.jsp?PMX97mkPVINH59C5vTLHXy… > > > ##textbook-l(a)wikipedia.org## SRC=58 ===== -Geoffrey Thomas geoffreyerffoeg(a)yahoo.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

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Broken link on your website
by Daniel Mayer 15 Sep '03

15 Sep '03

Brion wrote: >No one "subscribed", it's automated spam. I just set this list to only accept email from subscribed list members - everything else will now be held indefinitely until a list admin accepts or rejects the message. Sorry for the inconvenience folks - I was on holiday. -- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)

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Internet Seer (and Google news tracker)
by Karl Wick 15 Sep '03

15 Sep '03

Whats this internet seer thing ? Did someone sign up for it ? -Karl BTW Did anyone see the new feature on Google that does news article tracking ? I am tracking the term "Wikipedia" and anytime it comes up as a term in any of the news articles that Google indexes it sends me a link to my email. Its free and the signup was the least painful I have ever seen for an internet service. Here is a link it just sent me: http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/columns/091403BENSON_SEP15.html __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

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InternetSeer- Account Set Up
by Mike Dever 14 Sep '03

14 Sep '03

Dear Subscriber Your account has been set up. Please keep this email for your records. Login: textbook-l(a)wikipedia.org Password: 270oyb50 If you have not completed the activation process, please do so now by logging into your account: http://www.internetseer.com/ep/my_internetseer.jsp?7g7j5YM47gX6v76OwKTJyWUD… We look forward to providing you with our valuable monitoring service. Best Regards, Michael Dever CEO/Co-Founder InternetSeer.com

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InternetSeer Alert
by InternetSeer 14 Sep '03

14 Sep '03

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InternetSeer Alert
by InternetSeer 14 Sep '03

14 Sep '03

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Broken link on your website
by Connie Davis 14 Sep '03

14 Sep '03

There appears to be a problem on this page: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zufall When we click on your link to: http://www.fh-weingarten.de/iaf/projekte/is/zufall.htm we get the error: 404 File not found We last examined your page on Sat Sep 13, 2003 at 09:49:35 PM EDT. If it has not been updated since then, the link is most likely broken. We discovered this error during our normal course of website content checking for one of our search engine clients. If you would like to receive notifications like this in the future if we find pages unavailable, click here: http://scclick.internetseer.com/sitecheck/clickthrough.jsp?I5s57l5h5o5d5k5i… Click here to learn more about us: http://scclick.internetseer.com/sitecheck/clickthrough.jsp?I5s57l5h5o5d5k5i… Sincerely, Connie Davis InternetSeer.com http://www.internetseer.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Your email address was found during a prior visit to your website on 09-13-2003. The error listed above was verified from both of our indexing servers in Philadelphia, Pa. and Los Angeles, Ca. This error could have been caused by any number of events, including connectivity problems on our part and/or connectivity problems in the Internet as we tried to reach your site. This error should not be construed as a guaranteed problem on the part of your website or hosting company since there are never any guaranteed connection routes on the Internet. If would like to be excluded from any potential future contact, click here: http://scclick.internetseer.com/sitecheck/cancel.jsp?PMX97mkPVINH59C5vTLHXy… ##textbook-l(a)wikipedia.org## SRC=58

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Textbook-l September 2003