Huge email mistake

[alexkerhead]

Tonight, I decided to get on my computer and play around on youtube. I wasnted to see if anyone from my contact list had a youtube account, so I used their automated account checker thingy. It wasn't supposed to send invites, but it did.
I sent a youtube invite to all my friends, family, customers, teachers and such, to 95 people.
I cant believe I did that.
Errrrr, this week is going to suck.

[alexkerhead]

Oh darned!
I was hoping that everyone who got the stupid invite would unserstand and be cool, and a lot of people have been so far, but some people I hardly know have been somewhat rude about it....errrr, this is a bix fuxup!

[Vlad]

Don't worry about it. They'll get over it eventually. We all make mistakes.

-VK

[alexkerhead]

Thanks Vlad, lol, even you got that mess.
I went ahead and deleted any contact I dont ever talk with, so if I ever screw up again, it won't be so bad.
Turns out, 95 was just my recent contacts, it sent it to all THREE HUNDRED contacts listed...lol
I am getting a bunch of mailer deamon though, so maybe fifty didn't go through.

[atari2600a]

Just send out a mass email apoligizing.

By the way, what are you using?
Yahoo?
Outlook?
Thunderbird?
Telnet? (Yeah, right. Someone's gonna use Telnet as their primary email app in the 21st century! :p)

[carlsson]

Telnet is not an email application, it is a terminal program. Once you are connected to a command line shell on a server, you can use a variety of email programs (e.g. Pine, Mutt, elm, mailx or even Emacs in form of RMail or Gnus).

[atari2600a]

Yes, I know, but Telnet is the app in which you input the data, same w/ Yahoo, Outlook, Thunderbird, ect...

No matter what app you use, it all goes to the same server somewhere...

[alexkerhead]

Just send out a mass email apoligizing.

By the way, what are you using?

Already sent five minutes after it happened..lol
I use Evolution to access my gmail in Ubuntu and I use firefox to access gmail in winblowz.

[atari2600a]

so, on the topic of YouTube, you said it is possible to save a movie onto your hard disk? If so, I couldn't figure out how to do it, side saving the SWF file...

[Vlad]

you said it is possible to save a movie onto your hard disk?


Ya know? I re-read all of his comments and NO WHERE does it say anything about that. Where are you getting this? Do you even know what youtube is?

[atari2600a]

Read through the "Picard Song" thread I posted. I know it's off topic, but It's related to YouTube, which was in the original post of this thread, & I knew that If I didn't ask now, I'd forget. Sorry!:p

[alexkerhead]

Read through the "Picard Song" thread I posted. I know it's off topic, but It's related to YouTube, which was in the original post of this thread, & I knew that If I didn't ask now, I'd forget. Sorry!:p
Youtube wasn't even close to the topic of this thread. I am with vlad, where did that association come from? The topic was that I fuxed up real nice using a feature of youtube's profile page.
To download videos, use http://keepvid.com/lite/ and get a flv video player.

[carlsson]

Yes, I know, but Telnet is the app in which you input the data, same w/ Yahoo, Outlook, Thunderbird, ect...

No matter what app you use, it all goes to the same server somewhere...
No. I don't know if Yahoo has their own e-mail program, but Outlook and Thunderbird are clients, just like Pine or elm. I could telnet or ssh to about any server (even some printers have a telnet interface), but it doesn't necessarily have programs to send e-mail. Once online, you could either send mail through the same server, or configure the e-mail program to contact a different e-mail server. For that matter, I'm personally using Pine for Windows, so I don't have to ssh to my provider's shell account (or use webmail) just to read my mail.

[Terry Yager]

While you might find a program named 'TELNET.EXE' somewhere on your drive, telnet is actually (originally) just a protocol to allow login to a host from a remote computer Once the remote user is authenticated & logged-in, they are able to operate the host machine as if from the console, including running programs that are installed on the host machine, such as PINE or emacs.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=RNWI,RNWI:2005-50,RNWI:en&q=define%3Atelnet

Later, some software makers began to produce 'telnet client' utilities, to automate a lot of the processes that had to be done 'by hand' before, but the app is not 'telnet' by definition. It's mainly just a dialer/terminal emulation program.

--T

[Terry Yager]

When I first started using daNet, it was about four steps before I could hit the Internet itself. First was a dial-up to a local modem, which would then transfer me to the MichNet name-server. The prompt would simply ask 'Which Host?' Since my (first) account was on the NMU server, I'd type-in 'nmu.edu', at which point I'd be transferred to a server at NMU, and the prompt would read:

login:

password:

...at which I'd have to type-in the username and password for my NMU account. Then I'd be logged onto the NMU server, but dat ain't da internet yet. Accessing the I-Net proper still required the execution of a program, such as PINE for checking email, or lynx for surfing the (new, at the time) www. Mostly, we used gopher, but there were other programs like 'Archie', 'Veronica' and WAIS, not to mention, ftp, telnet, etc. All are just programs mounted on the host machine.

Now ain't you glad that we can do it all with just a click of daMouse theze dayz?

--T

[carlsson]

Yeah, the advent of ppp made modeming easier, they say. Personally, I have never used a modem but helped supporting it quite a bit.

When I got online in the fall of 1994, the introductionary stuff on computer lab and Internet still mentioned the other services you mention. I think I got to use Veronica and WAIS once each, but never had any other need for those library (?) services. Gopher a couple of times, and Archie a bit more before ftp search became available through WWW.

[Terry Yager]

Yeah, Archie is/was a search tool that allowed you to search daNet for keywords, and Veronica was a more advanced version of the same concept, IIRC. WAIS (WideAreaInformationService) was like an early version of the *concept* of daWeb...a linking together of all the sites to be accessible via a single command/program. The ones I used the most were PINE (PineIsNotEmacs) and gopher. If ya couldn't find the info ya wanted via gopher, then ya didn't need it anyways.

--T

[mandarina]

so, on the topic of YouTube, you said it is possible to save a movie onto your hard disk? If so, I couldn't figure out how to do it, side saving the SWF file...


there`s a very convenient way to save movies (flash, youtube) on your hard disk.. that`s a special converter by geovid.com FlashFetcher..
i found it great `cause it`s simple to use; just make some clicks and flash file gets stored on your hard disk... :p

[atari2600a]

Well yes, of course, anyone with some basic knowledge of HTML can save the flash file to their HD, but you can't really do anything w/ it except watch it. I have some Adobe Premiere skills, so I would need an actual *.mpg, *.avi, or *.mov file...

[alexkerhead]

Well yes, of course, anyone with some basic knowledge of HTML can save the flash file to their HD, but you can't really do anything w/ it except watch it. I have some Adobe Premiere skills, so I would need an actual *.mpg, *.avi, or *.mov file...
LOL, three words.
Total Video Converter.

I use it all the time.

[atari2600a]

Would it just take a screenshot of the flash file every frame?

[alexkerhead]

Would it just take a screenshot of the flash file every frame?
No, it takes the .flv files and converts them to most any format you want.