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To illustrate my points, I've created a series of screenshots. They demonstrate the large amount of screen real estate that gaim takes up on Windows compared to AIM and ICQ, the offset preferences window that gtk generates compared to AIM's small and centered preference window, and the disk space required by AIM, ICQ, gaim+gtk, and AIM+ICQ vs. gaim+gtk.

My conclusion is obvious, but please draw your own. You should definitely install gaim 1.0.0 if you haven't already, even if only to test it out.

I've mirrored the PDF file here. At 2.5MB a pop, this mirror is subject to disappear at any time, but perhaps it'll alleviate the load on Groklaw for the time being. Please post other mirrors here.

Thanks PJ for all you do :)

What problem? If there were really some awful "blog noise problem" as Orlowski thinks, Google would have done something about it, in much the same way that they deal with the Googlebombers. The folks trying to manipulate search results are still overwhelmingly commercial sites; just in the past few days I've been getting a lot of hits from a tool intended for just that purpose.

I just saw some sad news on CNN - popular childrens' figure Easter Bunny was found dead on a Georgia road this evening. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon ;)

I just saw some sad news on CNN - popular childrens' figure Easter Bunny was found dead on a Georgia road this evening. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.

I just saw some sad news on CNN - popular childrens' figure Easter Bunny was found dead on a Georgia road this evening. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.

I just saw some sad news on CNN - popular childrens' figure Easter Bunny was found dead on a Georgia road this evening. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.

I just saw some sad news on CNN - popular childrens' figure Easter Bunny was found dead on a Georgia road this evening. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.

I just saw some sad news on CNN - popular childrens' figure Easter Bunny was found dead on a Georgia road this evening. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.

I just saw some sad news on CNN - popular childrens' figure Easter Bunny was found dead on a Georgia road this evening. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.

I just saw some sad news on CNN - popular childrens' figure the Easter Bunny was found dead on a Georgia road this evening. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.

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To lighten the load.

World of Spectrum is denying external links to the "correspondence" page based upon referer. The direct link in the submission does not work, you have to visit it from within their site.

Here is a mirror.

The link to remove posts from Google's usenet archive is here. There are a couple of stipulations in order for automatic removal to be possible. One, the "From" address on the usenet post must point to the real, unmunged email address under your control. Two, you must register and confirm a groups.google utility account from that same address (you can do so at the above link). The parent's parent's poster should be able to meet both of these qualifications.

If you find that you have a large number of posts that you need removed, I wrote a PHP script called NukePost which will remove huge batches from the Google archive at once. The script simulates a browser session and makes all the required, repetative form posts at Google's controller site for you. All you need are the Message-IDs of the offending posts. I may write a groups.google spider to retrieve those in the future.

In situations where it's obvious that you made the post but you can't qualify for automatic removal, an email to groups-support {at} google should get you taken care of. You need to include a few things in your message, details are here.

I've heard rumors that Google maintains a separate usenet archive for paying customers (i.e. governments, corporations) to browse, which does not honor the removal requests or the X-No-Archive header - though I have absolutely nothing to back that up with - so it's possible that nuking posts is a futile effort. It should keep the cheap spammers away, at least.

Shaun
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