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[Savannah-hackers] Re: [fwd] www: GIF files
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Jeff Bailey |
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[Savannah-hackers] Re: [fwd] www: GIF files |
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Sat, 19 Jan 2002 10:57:05 -0800 |
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I just assumed it was more spam and deleted it. A mailing list would
never send a message.
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 01:51:04PM -0500, Mark H. Weaver wrote:
> 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
>
>
> X-From-Line: address@hidden Sat Jan 19 12:50:51 2002
> Envelope-to: address@hidden
> Delivery-date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 12:50:51 -0500
> Subject: www: GIF files
> To: address@hidden
> From: address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 12:50:48 -0500
>
> Hi,
>
> Could you please remove the following GIF files from the project
> www hosted on the GNU machines ?
>
> 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).
>
> The home page of your project is
> http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/www/
>
> You can convert GIF files to PNG using the gif2png program.
> http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/gif2png/gif2png-2.4.2.tar.gz
>
> Here is a sample script to convert the GIF files that are in
> your web pages to PNG.
>
> export CVS_RSH=ssh
> cvs -d address@hidden:/webcvs co
> cd
>
> 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'
>
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> The GNU volunteers, address@hidden
>
--
Tofu - The other white meat.
[Savannah-hackers] Re: [fwd] www: GIF files, Bradley M. Kuhn, 2002/01/19
[Savannah-hackers] Re: [fwd] www: GIF files, Hugo Gayosso, 2002/01/19
[Savannah-hackers] Re: [fwd] www: GIF files, Loic Dachary, 2002/01/20