What's happening to Comp.Sys.Sinclair and Acorn?

[outsoft]

I continue receive 300 messages per day, are spamming on these channels?

The problem starts 15 days ago and never stops.

Best regards to all here.



--Simon

[Jan van den Broek]

Post by outsoft
I continue receive 300 messages per day, are spamming on these channels?
The problem starts 15 days ago and never stops.

In a nutshell, spammers from GoogleGroups.
In comp.lang.c there as more than thousands messages per day.

[Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood]

Groovy hepcat Jan van den Broek was jivin' in comp.sys.cbm on Wed, 25
Oct 2023 08:26 pm. It's a cool scene! Dig it.

Post by Jan van den Broek

Post by outsoft
I continue receive 300 messages per day, are spamming on these channels?
The problem starts 15 days ago and never stops.

In a nutshell, spammers from GoogleGroups.

That explains why I'm not seeing them. I have GG killfiled. I long ago
found it more productive to plonk GG altogether and "un-plonk" those
few clueful individuals who post via it (i.e., raise their score in the
killfile).

Post by Jan van den Broek
In comp.lang.c there as more than thousands messages per day.

I am blissfully unaware of those. :)

[Jan van den Broek]

Post by Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood
Groovy hepcat Jan van den Broek was jivin' in comp.sys.cbm on Wed, 25
Oct 2023 08:26 pm. It's a cool scene! Dig it.

I'm not quite sure if I'm really a groovy hepcat, but I've listened to
Go! bij Dexter Gordon this morning.

Post by Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood

Post by Jan van den Broek

Post by outsoft
I continue receive 300 messages per day, are spamming on these channels?
The problem starts 15 days ago and never stops.

In a nutshell, spammers from GoogleGroups.

That explains why I'm not seeing them. I have GG killfiled. I long ago

Same here.

[Schnipp]

But to get a bit on-topic, here is a Basic-program:
10 poke 53280,0:poke 53281,0
20 s$="acgt"
30 c$=chr$(28)+chr$(30)+chr$(31)+chr$(158)
40 r=1+int(rnd(0)*4)
50 print mid$(c$,r,1);mid$(s$,r,1);
60 goto 40

Also a JavaScript-version on
https://balglaas.home.xs4all.nl/mvzi/dna/dna.html

[Dave Drum]

-=> Jan van den Broek wrote to Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood <=-

Post by Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood
Groovy hepcat Jan van den Broek was jivin' in comp.sys.cbm on Wed, 25
Oct 2023 08:26 pm. It's a cool scene! Dig it.

JvB> I'm not quite sure if I'm really a groovy hepcat, but I've listened to
JvB> Go! bij Dexter Gordon this morning.

A little Alligator Boogaloo with Long Tall Dexter is always groovy.

Or Quincy Jones, for that matter.
... "A cheapskate won't tip a server. I'm just careful with my money" Dave Drum

[Anssi Saari]

Post by Jan van den Broek
10 poke 53280,0:poke 53281,0
20 s$="acgt"
30 c$=chr$(28)+chr$(30)+chr$(31)+chr$(158)
40 r=1+int(rnd(0)*4)
50 print mid$(c$,r,1);mid$(s$,r,1);
60 goto 40

Pretty cool.

So what's a convenient command line way to get from an ascii basic
listing to a prg inside a d64 image? After some looking I used tok64 and
c1541.

Second place was bastext to t64 and then to d64 via c1541 but I was
weirded out since it seems the only binary output bastext is willing to
do is a t64 file. And while c1541 should handle those, it didn't in this
case.

[Andreas Kohlbach]

Post by Anssi Saari

Post by Jan van den Broek
10 poke 53280,0:poke 53281,0
20 s$="acgt"
30 c$=chr$(28)+chr$(30)+chr$(31)+chr$(158)
40 r=1+int(rnd(0)*4)
50 print mid$(c$,r,1);mid$(s$,r,1);
60 goto 40

Pretty cool.

I was also about to type it into the VICE emulator.

Post by Anssi Saari
So what's a convenient command line way to get from an ascii basic
listing to a prg inside a d64 image? After some looking I used tok64 and
c1541.
Second place was bastext to t64 and then to d64 via c1541 but I was
weirded out since it seems the only binary output bastext is willing to
do is a t64 file. And while c1541 should handle those, it didn't in this
case.

So no image created?

I'll write it down then at the weekend and type it into the C64 (emulated
in VICE). Can upload the image to my web server for others then.

[Robert Roland]

On Mon, 30 Oct 2023 19:08:08 -0400, Andreas Kohlbach

Post by Andreas Kohlbach
I was also about to type it into the VICE emulator.

You do know that you can simply paste it into the Vice window?

(On the Windows version, at least)

[Andreas Kohlbach]

Post by Robert Roland
On Mon, 30 Oct 2023 19:08:08 -0400, Andreas Kohlbach

Post by Andreas Kohlbach
I was also about to type it into the VICE emulator.

You do know that you can simply paste it into the Vice window?
(On the Windows version, at least)

I didn't know!. Thank you!

[Anssi Saari]

Post by Andreas Kohlbach
So no image created?

If I was unclear, not by the bastext + c1541 combo. No issue with tok64
and c1541.

I just wanted the image so I could run it in some browser based emulator
which takes d64 images.

[Andreas Kohlbach]

Post by Anssi Saari

Post by Andreas Kohlbach
So no image created?

If I was unclear, not by the bastext + c1541 combo. No issue with tok64
and c1541.

Sorry, I don't know what these are. Thought some disk emulators.

[Andreas Kohlbach]

Post by Anssi Saari

Post by Andreas Kohlbach
So no image created?

If I was unclear, not by the bastext + c1541 combo. No issue with tok64
and c1541.

Sorry, I don't know what these are. Thought some disk emulators.

I was able to paste in the BASIC code into VICE and run it. Beautiful:
the C64 creates life. :-)

Anyway, I was able to "save it on tape" and created an *tap image. If
interested I can upload it to my web server.

[Felice Murolo]

Post by outsoft
I continue receive 300 messages per day, are spamming on these channels?
The problem starts 15 days ago and never stops.
Best regards to all here.
--Simon
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Hi.

Here, however, everything seems to work. 1-2 messages per day in this
conference.

Ciao.
Felix

[Mike Powell]

Post by outsoft
I continue receive 300 messages per day, are spamming on these channels?
The problem starts 15 days ago and never stops.
Best regards to all here.

I am not seeing them here, but was seeing them in comp.lang.cobol. The
spam appears to be binary or otherwise encoded. I was able to filter most
of it as the FROM names being used followed a similar pattern.

Mike


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