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Re: Debian 2.%$#@*&!



On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 11:50:50PM -0400, maxalbert@juno.com wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 19:43:57 -0700 (PDT) George Bonser
> <grep@shorelink.com> writes:
> >On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 maxalbert@juno.com wrote:
> >
> >> AAaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrgggghhhh!!!!  This @$#%^!*&@# system is driving me
> crazy!!!  How does anybody ever get it to work? -- Max 
> >
> 
> >Is it plugged in? Is it turned on?
> >
> 
> Hold on, lemme check.  ---------------------      Yup.
> 
> 
> Btw, I've it seems that exim abhors a POP.  Even if fetchmail gets an
> incoming message under POP, exim acts like it didn't get through, with
> error messages announcing that the SMTP listener is grievously offended. 
> This is inconvenient, since my ISP sends by POP3.  After several hours of
> trying various exim configurations, I replaced exim with smail, and the
> problem went away.  Still won't do NNTP, however. No news is bad news.
> 
> I attempted to install Netscape4 (4.0-15) from my Debian 2.1 CD, using
> dselect. Setup was unsuccessful.  During configuration it says:
> 
> ERROR:  The netscape archive must be in /tmp, owned by root, and under   
>     name matching one of the following:
>           communicator*-v4*.x86-*-linux*glibc*.tar*
>           navigator*-v4*.86-*-linux*glibc*.tar*
>        
>        Archive files can be found at netscape.com and its mirrors.
> 
> I tried connecting with netscape.com by ftp, and was refused.  At this
> point I refer you to my previous e-mail.      
> 

Use ftp.netscape.com instead.

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