Re: [mac.system] Two Leopard Issues
- From: dempson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (David Empson)
- Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 20:36:46 +1300
Chris Schram <schram@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
First off, in another thread someone suggested that prefixing the subject
lines in this group might help to distinguish real posts from the
ever-increasing background noise. Someone else suggested [mac.system] as
an easy to recognize prefix. I'm all for it. I've seen this tactic work
well in a group that had gotten inundated with spam. The irony of all this
is that I don't see much garbage in the group today.
It probably won't work for long. The spammers can just notice the
pattern and adapt accordingly (if they are smart enough to modify the
spamming tools, and aren't just script kiddies).
It will also make it harder for others to read the subject lines.
One feature I'd lose is that in my newsreader (MacSOUP) I can jump
straight to a subject by starting to type it. This is defeated by having
an extra prefix which is in widespread use. (I don't use this feature
often, so I don't particularly care about it.)
More importantly, new posters might not know about the convention, so
anyone coming here to ask a question might be ignored because their post
is regarded as spam rather than a legitimate post.
Overall I think it is a bad idea.
A news server upstream from me seems to be dealing with the spam flood
most of the time, and it has been easy to spot and delete any bursts
which slip through by identifying where they originated from and
deleting all messages from the same source.
Now for my two Leopard issues: I have not seen these problems mentioned
elsewhere. I have reported one of them to Apple as a bug.
First: I am periodically losing my Expose & Dashboard trigger keys
(F9-F12). When this happens, I go to System Preferences and the popup for
these triggers is blank. If I re-enter F9-F12, the problem will reoccur
some random time days later.
I've had that happen to me once. According to my notes it was in late
November, after I installed 10.5.1. I haven't seen it since, and no idea
what caused it.
Second: If I leave iTunes (7.4.2 or 7.5) running hidden long enough, next
time I bring it up, its window has centered itself on my screen. If I then
move the window to where I want it, it pops back to the center when I
click one of iTunes' interface elements.
Can't say I've seen that one.
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David Empson
dempson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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