[Savannah-hackers] [fwd] www: GIF files

[Mark H. Weaver]

Who sent this message?  I like to know who's talking to me, especially
when they're asking me to do a job.

Humans write messages, not mailing lists.  Even the "Received" headers
do not reveal the origin, as it was sent by address@hidden

Why did this anonymous person send this job to me, and only me?

I'm also rather puzzled that this person would take the time to write
a script to do the task, and then ask me to run it.  Why don't they
just run the script?

        Mark


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> www: GIF files
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> Sat, 19 Jan 2002 12:50:48 -0500
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>     Hi,
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>     Could you please remove the following GIF files from the project
> www hosted on the GNU machines ? 
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>     For an explanation on why there are not GIF files on the GNU
> machines read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html. This policy was
> established years ago by the GNU project and is an integral part of
> the requirements for every project registering on savannah.gnu.org
> (see http://savannah.gnu.org/register/requirements.php).
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>     The home page of your project is 
>       http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/www/
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>     You can convert GIF files to PNG using the gif2png program.
>       http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/gif2png/gif2png-2.4.2.tar.gz
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>     Here is a sample script to convert the GIF files that are in
> your web pages to PNG.
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>     export CVS_RSH=ssh
>     cvs -d address@hidden:/webcvs co 
>     cd 
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>     while read file 
>     do
>         gif2png -O $file.gif
>         cvs delete -f $file.gif
>         cvs add $file.png
>     done <<'EOF'
> software/cfengine/cfconsole/cfconsole
> software/cfengine/cfengine-NT/img1
> software/cfengine/cfengine-NT/img2
> software/cfengine/cfengine-NT/img3
> software/cfengine/cfengine-NT/img4
> software/cfengine/cfengine-NT/l2h22381/img1
> software/cfengine/cfengine-NT/l2h22543/img2
> software/cfengine/cfengine-NT/l2h22543/img3
> software/cfengine/cfengine-NT/l2h22543/img4
> software/gnumeric/gnumeric3
> software/gnumeric/gnumeric4
> software/gnumeric/gnumeric5
> software/gnumeric/gnumeric6
> software/gnumeric/gnumeric7
> software/gnumeric/gnumeric8
> software/lilypond/docxx/down
> software/lilypond/docxx/icon1
> software/lilypond/docxx/icon2
> software/lilypond/docxx/logo
> software/mswordview/mswordview
> software/nosql/NoSQL
> EOF
>     cvs commit -m 'Convert GIF to PNG'
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>         Thanks for your help,
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>         The GNU volunteers, address@hidden
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