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Actually not so (this from a guy who cannot get it working )... http: or mms: or rtsp: all work and are sanctioned by MS, but only access from different ports. mms: will be more efficient, but is blocked by some firewalls. Using http: uses port 80 which is open on most networks. MS allows all transport protocols to be used to access the windows media stream. There is some negotiation between the player and the server to set a number of parameters, including the bit-rate at which to stream. Using the MS encoder you can specify several for one file. The streaming server company I'm using (I'm not streaming from TCH, as you noted) says to use http: Naturally, I've tried them all Richard may be on to something. I took his file and uploaded it to my page and his playlist works where mine doesn't... curiously enough, though, the blinx test playlist that I took from the MS site doesn't work either. Now, what blix and my playlists have in common is a target file with dashes in the name, whereas Richards uses underscores... nah, that didn't work. For some reason my asx file (and blinx's) doesn't invoke the media player, whereas Richards does. OK, I got something to work. It looks like the Title tag outside the Entrys may have been the problem, though MS says that is ok. This is what is working: <ASX version = "3.0"> <BANNER HREF="http://www.austin78704.com/images/austin78704-WMPbanner.bmp"> <ABSTRACT>Click here to see how you can stream your band.</ABSTRACT> <MOREINFO HREF="http://www.austin78704.com" /> </BANNER> <ENTRY> <REF HREF="http://stream1.highvault.com/wkg_austin78704_com/ReddBilly/P6281878Root66a.wmv" /> <TITLE>Route 66 a</TITLE> </ENTRY> <ENTRY> <REF HREF="http://stream1.highvault.com/wkg_austin78704_com/ReddBilly/P6281879-Root66b.wmv" /> <TITLE>Route 66 b</TITLE> </ENTRY> </ASX> Hmm... the Title tag works if I put it AFTER the entry tags. Though the player is ignoring the Title tags within the entry. Oh, well, at least I can create a playlist that works. Thanks to Richard and Raul and all. This was really driving me nuts. I appreciate your time and support. Bill

Is there something which interferes with linking to metafiles on here? Am I doing something wrong? Am I missing the obvious? I've been playing around with some video streaming through a windows-media streaming server host. I can link from my TCH web page to the basic .wmv files on the server and they open the external media player and play fine. But when I construct a metafile, a.k.a., playlist, which is an ASX file the media player doesn't open. I spent lots of time trying to figure out what I was doing wrong with the syntax and have come to the conclusion that my metafile is fine. I can launch it from windows explorer and it works fine, but if I link to it via http: on my web page it loads into the browser window and not the player. I tried both ascii and binary for uploading and two differnt ftp programs. It is as if my browsers (both IE6 and NS7) won't recoginize that it is an asx file. I saved someone else's asx file, which works fine on their site. I uploaded it here and linked to it on my TCH page. But when clicked, it only loaded into the browser, not the player. I'm at my wit's end. Any ideas? Thanks, Bill -------------- Here is the link: <a href="http://www.austin78704.com/ReddBilly.asx" target="_blank">asx</a> ------------------------ Here is the asx file if you are interested: <ASX VERSION = "3" PREVIEWMODE = "NO" BANNERBAR = "AUTO" > <title>ReddBilly - Route 66</title> <BANNER HREF="http://www.austin78704.com/images/austin78704-WMPbanner.bmp"> <ABSTRACT>Click here to see how you can stream your band.</ABSTRACT> <MOREINFO HREF="http://www.austin78704.com" /> <!-- The text in the Abstract element displays as a ToolTip when the mouse hovers over the banner graphic. When a user clicks the banner, the URL given in the MoreInfo element opens in the browser. --> </BANNER> <ENTRY> <REF HREF="http://stream1.highvault.com/wkg_austin78704_com/ReddBilly/P6281878-Root66a-1.wmv" /> <TITLE>Route 66 a</TITLE> </ENTRY> <ENTRY> <REF HREF="http://stream1.highvault.com/wkg_austin78704_com/ReddBilly/P6281879-Root66b.wmv" /> <TITLE>Route 66 b</TITLE> </ENTRY> </ASX>

Are the filters set up in cpanel upstream or downstream of the Spamassassin filters? I'm hoping they filter the mail after Spamassassin is finished that way I can use the comprehensive features of SA then just set the cpanel filter to discard any email that SA marks as *****SPAM***** This is based on my assumption that the cpanel filter will prevent a filtered email from ever being downloaded by my mail program. Sure I can trash those messages on my local machine, but now that I'm confident Spamassassin is doing the proper job, why waste the b/w and time to d/l them?

Caught my first real spam in the assassin's net today! (yesterday was an unusually slow day.) And SpamCop didn't have any problems with Spamassassin's markups in the header either. Excellent! Those of you who haven't enabled Spamassassin should give it a try. Contrary to its name it doesn't actually delete or redirect anything. It just allows you to easily set up a filter on your local computer's email program to handle the spam how ever you wish. wkg

It was great seeing Head Guru's posts with his new avatar this morning. Really classes up the joint. Congratulations, John. wkg

Absolutely. In fact I'm not even going to filter for a week or so. That way I can see its behaviour with real spam and non-spam. At that point I'll set up my filter to move offenders to a folder to temporarily store the supposed spam. I should know by then if I need to add any of my regular lists and such to the so-called whitelist. Thanks, wkg

I sent myself a couple of messages from various accounts with faux spam wording to try it out. I see what you mean now about the added text; and it is fairly inoffensive for non-spam messages. I can hardly wait to get some real spam now Thanks, wkg

Since it apparently doesn't do anything, but add lines to the header, I guess the thing to do is to just enable it and look at the headers for a while as mail comes in and then decide how to filter it. Thanks, rayners, for taking the time to respond. wkg

Do you have to do any configuration at the hosting level for this? wkg

OK, I know how to "enable" spamassassin and I know it creates a configuration file with a few brief comments as place holders. I've looked at the documentation at http://spamassassin.taint.org/doc.html and there is way too much info there for me to digest - especially since I don't know the details of how it is implemented here. Can anyone point me to a simple help file or would a user be so kind as to post an example config file. I've just figured out that spamassassin "marks up" the suspected spam, then I need to filter that with my mail program on my computer, in my case Eudora. I know how to set up filters, but am unclear on what to filter for... am I looking for X-Spam-Status or the number of stars after X-Spam-Level? See, told you I needed help. Thanks. wkg [i used to sign Bill, but don't want to be confused with the real Bill ]

Thanks, Turtle, although your method would work, I was reluctant to go in and change all my links. But you did trigger a memory of an HTML element I'd seen in the past, never used, and never quite understood what it was used for - the BASE element. I had to go look it up in the spec and then gave it a try. By adding: <BASE href="http://www.austinamericana.com/calendar/index.html"> in the HEAD of my document all the relative links point to the right place no matter which entry (domain or subdomain) is used. Thanks, I've learned something today Bill

Howdy, I have a subdomain set up... http://calendar.austinamericana.com/ which I can access, but the images don't load properly. However, if I enter the URL http://www.austinamericana.com/calendar/ everything looks fine. I must be missing some critical concept on how sub-domains work. Can some one help? Thanks, Bill