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X-Real-To: stagecraftlist [at] theatrical.net Received: by prxy.net (CommuniGate Pro PIPE 4.2.10) with PIPE id 32960005; Wed, 09 Aug 2006 03:01:18 -0700 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on localhost X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,INFO_TLD, NO_RECEIVED,NO_RELAYS autolearn=no version=3.1.3 X-ListServer: CommuniGate Pro LIST 4.2.10 List-Unsubscribe: List-ID: Message-ID: From: "Stagecraft" Sender: "Stagecraft" To: "Stagecraft" Precedence: list Subject: Stagecraft Digest #908 Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 03:00:40 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline X-TFF-CGPSA-Version: 1.4 X-prxy-Spam-Filter: Scanned For info, archives & UNSUBSCRIBE, see --------------------------------------------------- Stagecraft Digest, Issue #908 1. OT: increase in spam by "Brian Munroe" 2. Stairs and Safety - Poles Apart ? by John Arrowsmith 3. Re: OT: increase in spam by Steve Larson 4. Re: OT: increase in spam by John Bracewell 5. Foley Artists by SS 6. Re: Question about an ETC system... by "Bill Nelson" 7. Re: OT: increase in spam by Jerry Durand 8. Audio Visual Company in Paris, France by Norman Lazarus 9. Re: Metal machine question by "Eric Rouse" 10. Re: OT: increase in spam - a simple but very effective technique by "Jim at TheatreWireless.com" 11. Re: OT: increase in spam - a simple but very effective technique by "Nathan Kahn" 12. Re: OT: increase in spam - a simple but very effective technique by "Jim at TheatreWireless.com" 13. Re: OT: increase in spam - a simple but very effective technique by "Steven Haworth" 14. Re: OT: increase in spam - a simple but very effective technique by Joe Golden 15. Re: OT: increase in spam - a simple but very effective technique by "LES LIND" 16. Storing flats by Dave Reynolds 17. Re: OT: increase in spam - a simple but very effective technique by "Steven Haworth" 18. Re: Synching video projectors by Brendan Quigley 19. Re: Question about an ETC system... by "Aaron W. Braun" 20. Re: Question about an ETC system... by frankwood95 [at] aol.com 21. Re: OT: increase in spam - a simple but very effective technique by Chip Wood 22. Re: OT: increase in spam - a simple but very effective technique by Jerry Durand 23. Re: OT: increase in spam - a simple but very effective technique by "Occy" 24. High School Theater Teachers: need resources for new web page by "Scott Parker" 25. Re: High School Theater Teachers: need resources for new web page by "Paul Puppo" *** Please update the subject line of your reply to use the subject *** line of the message you are replying to! Please only reply to *** one message subject in each reply. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 07:01:30 -0400 From: "Brian Munroe" Subject: OT: increase in spam Has anyone else noticed an increase in the amount of spam they are getting lately? I use this address almost exclusivley for the stagecraft list and I have been getting hammered lately by spam. Brian Munroe bpmunroe [at] gmail.com ------------------------------ From: John Arrowsmith Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 12:27:48 +0100 Message-ID: <200688122748.566656 [at] arrowsmiths> Subject: Stairs and Safety - Poles Apart ? My apologies for the title ... really should groan ! http://tinyurl.com/ekt2s John -- John Arrowsmith, voluntary website provider/editor of http://www.rockchallenge.co.uk for the annual performing-arts anti-substance-abuse extravaganza called UK Rock Challenge ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 07:53:25 -0400 Subject: Re: OT: increase in spam From: Steve Larson Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Oh, you mean the additional 40-50 annoying messages I get every day. Steve > From: "Brian Munroe" > Reply-To: "Stagecraft" > Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 07:01:30 -0400 > To: "Stagecraft" > Subject: OT: increase in spam > > For info, archives & UNSUBSCRIBE, see > --------------------------------------------------- > > Has anyone else noticed an increase in the amount of spam they are > getting lately? > > I use this address almost exclusivley for the stagecraft list and I > have been getting hammered lately by spam. > > Brian Munroe > bpmunroe [at] gmail.com ------------------------------ Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20060808081858.02a4aea0 [at] pop.lightlink.com> Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 08:23:26 -0400 From: John Bracewell Subject: Re: OT: increase in spam In-Reply-To: At 07:01 AM 8/8/2006 -0400, you wrote: >For info, archives & UNSUBSCRIBE, see >--------------------------------------------------- > >Has anyone else noticed an increase in the amount of spam they are >getting lately? Oh, yeah. My ISP's spam trap catches a lot of it, but a lot still gets through. What I get appears to the spam filter to have real names and real subject headers, and, unfortunately, a lot of the content looks legit. The spammers, as always, are a couple of steps ahead of the anti-spam efforts. The new wave of this stuff is annoying, because there have been numerous occasions on which I've had to go into the spam trap and rescue posts from both Stagecraft and Theatre Sound. These are times when I curse the people who open anything in their mailboxes and who bite on any jazzy bait that comes their way. If the spam weren't profitable, there wouldn't be spam. But why am I wasting time saying this? We all knew that anyway. -- JLB ------------------------------ Message-ID: <8231e7ea0608080617n76937016k5b186080a39d8a11 [at] mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 09:17:57 -0400 From: SS Subject: Foley Artists This was posted on the Sound Listserve. I thought it was a rather amusing mockumentary, and figured some of you folks on this list would appreciate it. So I stole it. The original poster said this: "When you begin to take yourself too seriously, watch this" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NNlcEes-jo -- SS TTS-EKU "You can go anywhere you want if you look serious and carry a clipboard." ------------------------------ Message-ID: <1957.205.215.255.159.1155048550.squirrel [at] webmail.peak.org> In-Reply-To: References:

Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 07:49:10 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Question about an ETC system... From: "Bill Nelson" >> I don't see that as a problem, if safety lighting is working properly. >> Your exit signs should have remained lighted the whole time - as >> should aisle lights, if you have them in your venue. > > A valid point - Isle lights and exit signs did remain on. It was > still an extended "Blackout" condition, that was uncomfortable for > both performers and audience alike. The Emergency lights did not help > in that situation - but yes, safety of isle lights and exit signs > remained. "Uncomfortable", I can live with. My concern in such situations is safety. My viewpoint might be different if blackouts, brownouts and sags/spikes were common here. But in all my time in working two theatres, I can only recall one instance where power failed during a performance - and that was for an extended period. We probably should get the boards on UPS systems, but have not seen the need. I don't know if all dimmer racks boot up fast or not. But most venues are not going to be able to have UPS power on the racks, so the stage lighting is going to go out - even if the light board remains up. Bill ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 08:23:41 -0700 From: Jerry Durand Subject: Re: OT: increase in spam In-reply-to: Message-id: References: On Aug 8, 2006, at 4:01 AM, Brian Munroe wrote: > Has anyone else noticed an increase in the amount of spam they are > getting lately? It is up a bit, the house mortgage ones that are pure graphics tend to slip through the server filters, I'm getting 5-10 a day now. Still, better than when I was getting hundreds (my e-mail hasn't changed in over a decade, so EVERY spammer has it). ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20060808155123.88893.qmail [at] web51710.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 08:51:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Norman Lazarus Subject: Audio Visual Company in Paris, France In-Reply-To: Looking for a reliable Audio Visual Company in Paris, France. If anyone has any reccomendations please e-mail at laza1 [at] dyventive.com Thanks, Norman Lazarus __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Message-ID: <41f080680608080906pbd47b8di8dfb06975d9dd90d [at] mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 12:06:43 -0400 From: "Eric Rouse" Subject: Re: Metal machine question In-Reply-To: References:

> I should not advise this. The quill bearings in a drill press are not > designed to withstand the sideways loads that this would impose. I would agree with Frank. Drill a couple holes and then cut the rest out with a good sabre saw with a good metal blade. You can touch it up with a file or a die grinder. -- Eric Rouse TD-Penn State University State College, PA ------------------------------ From: "Jim at TheatreWireless.com" Subject: RE: OT: increase in spam - a simple but very effective technique Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 12:36:38 -0400 Message-ID: <00bf01c6bb08$d2167f20$7f9bfea9 [at] p3m866> In-Reply-To: Lately, I'm constantly receiving spam that looks like text but is actually an image. Down at the bottom is a series of random words/sentences that appear legit to spam detectors. Meanwhile, there are no detectable characters in the image. It's mostly stock/day-trading crap... hundreds of emails per day, every single one gets through to my inbox, each with a different sender address and subject line. THIS IS BAD! Jim RC4 > Oh, you mean the additional 40-50 annoying messages I get every day. > > Steve ------------------------------ Message-ID: <77fad3270608080952x51116e6dxf7537e018541a585 [at] mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 12:52:14 -0400 From: "Nathan Kahn" Subject: Re: OT: increase in spam - a simple but very effective technique In-Reply-To: References:

> Lately, I'm constantly receiving spam that looks like text but is actually > an image. Down at the bottom is a series of random words/sentences that > appear legit to spam detectors. Meanwhile, there are no detectable > characters in the image. It's mostly stock/day-trading crap... hundreds of > emails per day, every single one gets through to my inbox, each with a > different sender address and subject line. THIS IS BAD! I know the ones you mean, but my spam detector catches them. It's called popfile and it's free/open source. http://popfile.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl It works great! The only drawback is that it does not delete/mark spams on the email server. So you still have to take the time to download/retrieve those hundreds of emails; however, it puts them in your smambox instead of your inbox. Nathan -- Look Solutions USA, Ltd. Toll-Free: 1-800-426-4189 Email: usa [at] looksolutions.com Web: www.fogspecs.com ------------------------------ From: "Jim at TheatreWireless.com" Subject: RE: OT: increase in spam - a simple but very effective technique Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 13:23:07 -0400 Message-ID: <00e101c6bb0f$5080ce00$7f9bfea9 [at] p3m866> In-Reply-To: I like it!! Jim > I know the ones you mean, but my spam detector catches them. > It's called popfile and it's free/open source. > > http://popfile.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl > > It works great! ------------------------------ Subject: RE: OT: increase in spam - a simple but very effective technique Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 12:58:31 -0500 Message-ID: <5D5187063B6B8B46A99E8C0D36E0EB0901AAA5AF [at] danube.river.idm.com> In-Reply-To: From: "Steven Haworth" Another free tool, one that I've been using, is MailWasher: http://www.mailwasher.net/download.php It scans mail and actually bounces spam you've trained it to find, so that it looks like your address is invalid (to the spammers). I use it daily. - Steven (sjh [at] idm.com) --------------------------- http://www.stagelights.info ------------------------------ From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Joe=20Golden?= Subject: Re: OT: increase in spam - a simple but very effective technique Date: 08 Aug 2006 11:30:50 -0700 Message-ID: what mail client are you using it with? How much real mail/mailing lists= does it catch? Joe Golden Sent from my Treo -----Original Message----- Another free tool, one that I've been using, is MailWasher: http://www.mailwasher.net/download.php It scans mail and actually bounces spam you've trained it to find, so that it looks like your address is invalid (to the spammers). I use it daily. - Steven (sjh [at] idm.com) --------------------------- http://www.stagelights.info ------------------------------ Message-Id: <44D8A179020000290000046A [at] mailhost.nesd.k12.pa.us> Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 14:36:41 -0400 From: "LES LIND" Subject: Re: OT: increase in spam - a simple but very effective technique References: In-Reply-To: Anyone hear the piece about spam on Morning Edition on NPR this morning. = I'm terible at para-phrasing so look it up on NPR.org(?). It was quite = interesting. Les >>> Joe Golden 8/8/06 2:30 PM >>> For info, archives & UNSUBSCRIBE, see --------------------------------------------------- what mail client are you using it with? How much real mail/mailing lists = does it catch? Joe Golden Sent from my Treo -----Original Message----- Another free tool, one that I've been using, is MailWasher: http://www.mailwasher.net/download.php=20 It scans mail and actually bounces spam you've trained it to find, so that it looks like your address is invalid (to the spammers). I use it daily. - Steven (sjh [at] idm.com) --------------------------- http://www.stagelights.info ------------------------------ Message-ID: <44D8DA66.8010207 [at] macalester.edu> Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 13:39:34 -0500 From: Dave Reynolds Subject: Storing flats Hi folks, I do a couple of Community Education shows a year and have built up a collection of 1" square metal frame hard flats and an assortment of 1" x 4" muslin flats. Since I am buying a house, I have decided to discontinue paying rent for a climate-controlled storage space and store the flats in my new (not climate-controlled) garage. What are the pros/cons of doing this? Will the muslin flats warp? What is the best way to store them? Thanks in advance. Dave Reynolds reynolds [at] macalester.edu -- A man finds joy in giving an apt reply - and how good is a timely word! --Proverbs 15:23, New International Version Dave Reynolds Media Services Macalester College 1600 Grand Ave. St. Paul, MN 55105 voice: (651) 696-6378 fax: (651) 696-6304 reynolds [at] macalester.edu DV Cassie with lots of fonts and effects, KRON and Final Cut Pro. ------------------------------ Subject: RE: OT: increase in spam - a simple but very effective technique Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 14:15:15 -0500 Message-ID: <5D5187063B6B8B46A99E8C0D36E0EB0901AAA5B3 [at] danube.river.idm.com> In-Reply-To: From: "Steven Haworth" I'm using it at work, Outlook 2003 on Win2k, connected to a 2003 Exchange Server. Once you mark items as 'friends' it catches only new senders; it's pretty good. - Steven > >what mail client are you using it with? How much real=20 >mail/mailing lists does it catch? > >Joe Golden >Sent from my Treo > >-----Original Message----- >Another free tool, one that I've been using, is MailWasher: > http://www.mailwasher.net/download.php > >It scans mail and actually bounces spam you've trained it to=20 >find, so that it looks like your address is invalid (to the=20 >spammers). I use it daily. > > >- Steven (sjh [at] idm.com) >--------------------------- >http://www.stagelights.info > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 15:19:17 -0400 From: Brendan Quigley Subject: Re: Synching video projectors In-reply-to: Message-id: <1D0C6317-F42C-4C84-8F32-A7952ADE5872 [at] earthlink.net> References: dear God ... I never though I'd have to do this, but ... Mr. Lagerquist, I gotta disagree with you. I found the Watchout system (used on a number of shows here on Broadway, just not mine) to be cumbersome and tough to deal with. I refused to take their gear on the WICKED Tour. Went with a Catalyst system instead, similar to the Broadway show. While I don't have another suggestion, I'd say be careful with Watchout. Sure looks like a PITA to me ... especially when having to update a focus on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. > I am very happy with the experience I have had with Watchout from > Dataton. It uses a lot of hardware (n+1 computers) but is easy to > use. Kind Regards, Brendan C. Quigley Head Electrician / Vari*Lite Technician WICKED - A New Broadway Musical ------------------------------ From: "Aaron W. Braun" Subject: Re: Question about an ETC system... Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 14:52:59 -0500 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: I have worked on a few systems where a simple solution was used to momentartily keep the emergency lights on when normal power is restored to the building. A timer was put in-line with the sense feed to the transfer panel. A simple dial set the time delay in seconds or minutes (depending on the position of a switch on the timer). When power was restored, the timer waited the set amount of time before closing the circuit and restoring power to the transfer panel. This delay can be set for the normal reboot time of the DMX controller or dimmer rack electronics, whichever takes longer... (With some of the stuff the new Sensor+ and C21 dimmer racks can do, they take longer to boot than their predecessors.) The same theory with the timer can be used for battery-powered emergency lights (i.e. Bug Eyes), but the power draw may require the timer to drive a contactor that would supply the bug-eyes. Of course, check with your local engineers / AHJ to make sure that these timers will not violate local codes. Aaron Braun Ardee Design Group, LLC Nashville, TN -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Purdy Subject: Re: Question about an ETC system... Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 12:11:43 -0400 During a thunderstorm, we lost power momentarily. All the emergency lights came on just fine, but a moment later when the power was restored, the Emergency lights went out and we were plunged into darkness until the board re-booted! No houselights or anything! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 17:03:09 -0400 Message-Id: <8C88945300042E1-B34-30C [at] mblk-d13.sysops.aol.com> From: frankwood95 [at] aol.com References:

In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: Question about an ETC system... Frank Wood >=C2=A0 =C2=A0 Frank, "Bad ideas" is a relative term. Before I rigged the=20 houselights to run through the lighting board, I'd have to pay someone=20 just to run the houselights, as they had to be run from the projection=20 booth, and the lighting board is in the middle of the house!=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 They used to be wired up to a large rheostat board in the booth. The=20 dimmers I'm using now are old LMI analogue dimmers that were=20 decommissioned when we were given a used Colortran ENR rack which=20 upgraded us to DMX. I run the LMI units through an A/D adapter, which=20 makes operating through the board a snap!=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Also being able to write houselights into cues is quite useful.=C2= =A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 I suppose I *could* skip the A/D adapter and run a lot of analogue=20 cable (10 wires x 3 racks) down to the house position, and use a=20 separate board to control the houselights, but I think a UPS on the=20 Express board would be a more practical solution! ;-)=C2=A0 It's also a matter of power supply integrity. Ours wire straight back=20 to the incoming bus-bars, via appropriate breakers. The analogue dimmer=20 which controls them has a by-pass contactor, fed from the same feed.=20 This also has a switch which allows the House Manager to turn them on,=20 and deprives all the other stations of their control. Back when we were using analogue dimmers, it would have been easy to=20 steal a control line from the board. Now that we are all DMX, less so.=20 I agree that being able to write houselights into cues is useful. But=20 only if it can be done without compromising the security. =C2=A0 Bruce=C2=A0 ____________________=C2=A0 Bruce Purdy=C2=A0 Technical Director=C2=A0 Smith Opera House=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 ________________________________________________________________________ Check out AOL.com today. Breaking news, video search, pictures, email=20 and IM. All on demand. Always Free. ------------------------------ Message-ID: <44D90401.5090702 [at] gmail.com> Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 14:37:05 -0700 From: Chip Wood Subject: Re: OT: increase in spam - a simple but very effective technique References:

In-Reply-To: Nathan Kahn wrote: >> Lately, I'm constantly receiving spam that looks like text but is >> actually an image. > It's called popfile and it's free/open source. > > http://popfile.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl My gmail/Thunderbird/McAffee combo must be doing something right. I have had about 5-10 spams total get thru over the past several MONTHS. What a relief. Chip ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 14:57:36 -0700 From: Jerry Durand Subject: Re: OT: increase in spam - a simple but very effective technique In-reply-to: Message-id: References:

On Aug 8, 2006, at 2:37 PM, Chip Wood wrote: > My gmail/Thunderbird/McAffee combo must be doing something right. > I have had about 5-10 spams total get thru over the past several > MONTHS. What a relief. The server-side stuff like RBLs really helps. That's where the server doesn't let known spammers/virus/trojan senders even make a connection to the mail server. When the spammers see your system kicks them off, word gets around and the number of attempts goes down. When we first implemented the RBLs, our server was rejecting a connection every second or so. Now the log file scrolls MUCH slower. :) If you don't own your own server, complain to the person who does. ------------------------------ Message-ID: From: "Occy" References:

Subject: Re: OT: increase in spam - a simple but very effective technique Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 16:26:35 -0700 I not getting anything and I am on hotmail. This email account is used for email lists and product announcements for manufactures of products that I use. Now TheOccy account I use is set up for places that I go and they want my email address and it gets over hundreds a day. But I knew that was going to happen for those kind of sites. So MSN/Hotmail as the other 2 accounts are find spam once in a rare wild. Now that I have said this I should look out as tomorrow as I will have 1500 emails on all the accounts. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry Durand" > > The server-side stuff like RBLs really helps. That's where the > server doesn't let known spammers/virus/trojan senders even make a > connection to the mail server. When the spammers see your system > kicks them off, word gets around and the number of attempts goes > down. When we first implemented the RBLs, our server was rejecting a > connection every second or so. Now the log file scrolls MUCH > slower. :) > > If you don't own your own server, complain to the person who does. > > ------------------------------ Message-ID: <90d9c9980608081919t4611cb13wa478a114b1fc2797 [at] mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 22:19:36 -0400 From: "Scott Parker" Subject: High School Theater Teachers: need resources for new web page Greetings All, I'm in the middle of running a week long workshop for theater (performance) teachers and I'm creating a new resource page for them to access. So, I am looking for design and technology links to add to the site. http://stageseminars.com/index.php?option=com_weblinks&Itemid=24 This is a beginning (I'm not missing any of your valuable sites: I just haven't gotten to them yet.) I could use some more suggestions. This list is focused for Middle and High School teachers who have very little tech background. -- Thanks and take care, Scott Scott C. Parker Professor/Technical Director Dept. of Performing Arts Dyson College of Arts and Sciences [at] Pace University Office/shipping: 41 Park Row, 1205F Mailing: 1 Pace Plaza New York, NY 10038 212-346-1423 Fax: 914-989-8425 ------------------------------ Message-ID: <3998154b0608090203j7edf44e8mb23661a6ff3db562 [at] mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 02:03:13 -0700 From: "Paul Puppo" Subject: Re: High School Theater Teachers: need resources for new web page In-Reply-To: References: How about: http://www.animatedknots.com As mentioned on this list before... Paul Puppo ILLUMINEERING http://www.Nifty-Gadgets.com On 8/8/06, Scott Parker wrote: > I am looking for design and technology links to add to > the site. ------------------------------ End of Stagecraft Digest #908 *****************************