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Re: SPAM posts
Garth G. Groff <ggg9y@...>
Ed and Bruce:
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I went into the Yahoogroups page as Bruce suggested, and was able to reset the preferences. We shall see how well this works when I come back to work on Monday. Unfortunately, to work the Yahoo registration page, I had to give them a whole lot of personal information (I lied about some of it) just to move from screen to screen. What effect this will have I don't know, but I moved my birthday to February 29th and changed my sex in the process. In addition, I had to accept over 15 cookies, which I normally have blocked. I spent half an hour (of company time!) tracking them down and deleting same from my cache. Probably no harm done, unless I missed some. I suspect that the "disable cookies" fuction in Netscape does not actually work. Some cookies are no longer cookies at all, but have been redesigned to thwart local machine settings. Kind regards, Garth G. Groff Ed Workman and Bruce Smith wrote:
Go to the Yahoogroups page (http://www.yahoogroups.com) and sign in. ClickWRONG! There are apparently harvesters at work or YAHOO lies
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Re: SPAM posts
Tim O'Connor <timoconnor@...>
SPAM, unfortunately, is just a fact of life. Even more unfortunately,
many of the software providers (e.g. Netscape) are now owned by large companies (AOL-Time-Warner in the case of Netscape) who make a great deal of money from advertising. I have noticed recent versions of the Netscape web browser make it difficult to configure a "proxy" filter for advertising. (I use Siemen's Webwasher.) If I had a LOT more time I would compose my own filter software to automatically remove the crap from my yahoogroups emails... and more intelligent filters for general SPAM mail. Egroups and presumably Yahoogroups does prevent "spambots" from doing the harvesting of emails -- but this can be gotten around by creating phony subscriptions. I have spotted a few such subscriptions to the steamloco list and denied them access. But as they say at the CIA, every measure has a countermeasure. The battle rages on.... Timothy O'Connor <timoconnor@mediaone.net> Marlborough, Massachusetts
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Re: SPAM posts
Ed Workman <eworkman@...>
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From: Bruce F. Smith V.M.D., Ph.D. <smithbf@mail.auburn.edu> Go to the Yahoogroups page (http://www.yahoogroups.com) and sign in. ClickWRONG! There are apparently harvesters at work or YAHOO lies
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Re: Moody's Industrial Manual
Dave & Libby Nelson <muskoka@...>
A manual like this is a great tool for quick reference, but they aren'tActually there were 4 available and $20 less than the typical price. Now and then I get these notices and if I don't buy it myself I do forward it on to lists like this, so if these are not your years of interest or they're all gone when you call, surely there will be another time. Our library has a pretty fair run of Poor's and Moody's manuals datingI find myself doing the single company search far less often than an industry review and, has been my way since youth, once I start flipping reference book pages looking for a specific item, long before I reach the intended destination my eye invariably falls on some interesting heading which requires a stop and often a re-directed search, so by the time I do get to where I started for I've often wandered thru a half dozen or more other items. Dave Nelson
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Re: SPAM posts
Ed Workman <eworkman@...>
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From: Garth G. Groff <ggg9y@virginia.edu> To: STMFC@yahoogroups.com <STMFC@yahoogroups.com> Date: Friday, February 09, 2001 5:28 AM Subject: [STMFC] SPAM posts , I am thoroughly sick of "make a million dollars" schemes, ads forMe too, and I wonder why spammer scumbags who are obviously aware of the illegality of their behavior, think that anyone would patronize them?? Is the web sufficiently full of the terminally stupid as to afford any sort of income for these @3!!!&*$$ 's
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Re: SPAM posts
Garth G. Groff <ggg9y@...>
Bruce,
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Thanks much. I will try this right now. I'm sure others will want to do this too. Kind regards, Garth G. Groff "Bruce F. Smith V.M.D., Ph.D." wrote:
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Re: SPAM posts
Bruce F. Smith V.M.D., Ph.D. <smithbf@...>
Garth,
Go to the Yahoogroups page (http://www.yahoogroups.com) and sign in. Click on the link for "Account info". Under Member Information, hit edit and set your account to "do not send me any offers". That should fix the problem. Happy SPAM free Rails Bruce Dear friends:Bruce F. Smith V.M.D., Ph.D. Scott-Ritchey Research Center 334-844-5587, 334-844-5850 (fax) http://www.vetmed.auburn.edu/~smithbf/ "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy" - Benjamin Franklin __ / \ __<+--+>________________\__/___ ____________________________________ |- ______/ O O \_______ -| | __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ | | / 4999 PENNSYLVANIA 4999 \ | ||__||__||__||__||__||__||__||__||__|| |/_____________________________\|_|____________________________________| | O--O \0 0 0 0/ O--O | 0-0-0 0-0-0
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SPAM posts
Garth G. Groff <ggg9y@...>
Dear friends:
Since this group opened for business, I have noticed a great increase in SPAM posts in my e-mail. Many, though not all, come from the domain "yahoo.com". I believe this is the price we pay for a "free" group, especially since Yahoo took over Onelist. However, I am thoroughly sick of "make a million dollars" schemes, ads for ANIMAL HOUSE clone videos, and solicitations for laser toner cartridges from Georgia (reputed to be a scam). If this is a worthy topic to discuss here (it is related to the administration of our group), I would like to have other members thoughts on this. I am contemplating a filter which would block the "yahoo.com" domain, though I wonder if it would also affect the domain "yahoogroups.com" which our group operates. Any thoughts on this? I might add that a filter is only a partial solution to SPAM. Most SPAM posters frequently change their addresses and their subject lines to sneak around any filters receivers may create. They also use false addresses, which make direct requests to be removed impossible. Thanks in advance for the suggestions, but since my e-mail is provided by my employer on a state-owned machine, I am not allowed to mount any unauthorized blocking software. Kind regards, Garth G. Groff
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Re: Moody's Industrial Manual
Garth G. Groff <ggg9y@...>
Dear friends,
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A manual like this is a great tool for quick reference, but they aren't cheap, and only one person is going to get this one. Our library has a pretty fair run of Poor's and Moody's manuals dating back to the late 19th century. If anyone on this group needs a look-up, please contact me off line and I will see what can be found. After all, that's what library's are for. Kind regards, Garth G. Groff Dave & Libby Nelson wrote:
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Re: SPAM posts
BillD53A@...
Speaking of spam on yahoo I just got some porno email that came from an
address on yahoo. It got deleted along with anything else from anyone I dont know.
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Moody's Industrial Manual
Dave & Libby Nelson <muskoka@...>
Came across the wire. The date is a late for my interests -- these usually
sell for $65.... 1. Moody's Industrial Manual American and Foreign 1958 by Moody, John New Haven, CN, Moody's Investor Service: 1958 Not Stated Hardback, 4to, 2963 pp. The spine on this book is very weak. Shipping is at cost due to weight of book. Boards edge worn. Boards bumped. Boards scuffed. Boards faded. Spine stained. Spine ends bumped. Spine creased. Good Book/No Dust Jacket. (Keywords: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY) The price of the book is US$ 45.00 See all our books at http://www.dustybookworm.com Please reference the seller's book # 4322 when ordering. 2. Moody's Industrial Manual, American and Foreign; 1954 8. Moody's Industrial Manual, June 1965, American and Foreign 9. Moody's Industrial Manual, 1962, American and Foreign ----------------------------------- Dave Nelson
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Milwaukee Ribbed Side Boxcars
I am currently working on my Sunshine kit. Is anyone aware of any published
plans that might show the routing of the trainline? Martin did not include it, but it upsets my sensibilities to have the other brake detail and not have it "connected" to anything. I have looked at the on-line index and Mainline drawings in 92 and 88 had no under frame view at all. MR drawings from 89 do not match Martin's instructions as to location of the Reservoir, so I would take the piping with a grain of salt. Thanks for the help! Steve Hile
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Re: GTW lettering
Stafford F. Swain <sswain@...>
Hi:
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I think these dates would have been virtually simultaneous. The CNR tilted monogram (not herald) stencil layout drawing was issued July 19, 1954. I'll ask our GTW gurus (Jim Gilmore and Bob Smith) to comment on this.
I have information that in '53, the GTW made their herald level and added --
Stafford Swain 26 Kenneth Street Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3T 0K8 (204) 477-9246 sswain@mts.net Please note that my new email address is sswain@mts.net (was sswain@total.net).
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Re: Greenville gons
Al & Patricia Westerfield <westerfield@...>
Thanks, Tim, John and Charlie. Neither car will fit my loads. If they were
the proper width they would. Grumble, grumble.... - Al Westerfield Westerfield
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Re: Ratios of Home Road vs. Foreign Roads
Dave & Libby Nelson <muskoka@...>
Tom,
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You still have these? It is exactly the type of data I already transcribe to ascii for further analysis. I'd be very keen on getting one (actually, I've already got a B&O jumbo from Wheeling WV, but something outside the coal belt would be another very interesting view). Dave Nelson
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GTW lettering
John Nehrich <nehrij@...>
I have information that in '53, the GTW made their herald level and added
the maple leaf, which would be a year before the CN made their maple leaf herald level. Do I have the right dates here? Also, does the wet noodle GT scheme date from '61 as does the CN? Is that when they started painting their cars blue? When was the "Good Track" logo introduced? Inquiring modelers want to know. - John
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Re: Greenville gons
charles slater
Al the Proto 2000 measures about 9'2"
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Re: Greenville gons
charles slater
Al the Proto 2000 measures about 9'2"
Charlie Slater From: "Al & Patricia Westerfield" <westerfield@multipro.com>_________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
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Re: Greenville gons
charles slater
Al the Proto 2000 measures about 9'2"
From: "Al & Patricia Westerfield" <westerfield@multipro.com>_________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
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Tom's 1938 Register
Shawn Beckert
List,
Some or all of you may be familiar with the above mentioned book title. It's been reviewed by Bill Jewett in the Operations-Industry SIG newsletter, the "Dispatchers Office". Well, I received my copy in the mail Monday night and I'm impressed as all get-out. As far as I'm concerned everyone on this list should have one. The book lists the businesses and industries all across the United States that were around in 1938. I wouldn't say it's *all* of them, but by golly there's quite enough. The book gives the name of a company, where it was located, what it produced, and what railroad(s) it was served by. That's just for starters. There are also maps of regions where certain crops and commodities were concentrated, as well as the time of year when crops were harvested in that area. Plus a large bibliography and other good bits of information. The web site for this book is located at: http://pws.prserv.net/usinet.tgloger/t38r.htm I invite you to go check it out. I have my copy here at work if you have any questions. No, I don't have any vested interests, but I'll tell you-this is the book I would have written had I the time and the resources. My interests lean more towards 1944-1960, but the information in here still has validity. All those companies didn't disappear right at 1939! Shawn Beckert
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