Please try to attend if you can. We need more participation in the affairs of our growing organization.
For more on VOICE meetings and IRC please see the VOICE Meeting Information page at http://www.os2voice.org/meetinginfo.html or send me an
email at
- Speaking of participation, we have a great opportunity for members to help the OS/2 community by nominating themselves for the positions of President and Secretary of VOICE. If you are interested in helping us continue to grow and serve the OS/2 community, and you have the time to help, please give this serious consideration. We need your help, as it is difficult to continue to expand ourservices when we are short-handed.
VOICE is an all volunteer organization, dedicated to the education and support of the OS/2 user community. If you are intersted please send a short bio to
nominating yourself for.
- The VOICE mail lists have been extremely slow in processing since yesterday due to an inadvertent DOS attack on our mail server caused by a looping bounce message from an invalid email address subscribed to the
news list. We are proud of the fact that VOICE1, running Warp Server eBusiness, remained functional despite the problem.
We have contacted the ISP involved, but they have yet to fix their problem, and they keep sending the post, hundreds of them every hour. We finally fixed the problem on our end by blocking the loop at our router.
The mail lists remained up throughout the ordeal, just running slow. The websites hosted on the same machine continued to be available as well.
Another big thank you to our SysAdmin, Abel McClendon, who has been devoting large amounts of his time to keeping our server running and adding new features and services as well.
If you subscribe to a VOICE list, be aware that unless you explicitly subscribe an address in the body of the post, our Mailing list server uses the From address in your post. If that is incorrect or mangled to prevent
SPAM, you will be subscribed with an invalid address and any list posts will just bounce. Most only cause a minor headache for the list moderators. This one happened to cause a bigger then usual one. :-(
To subscribe a specific address to the VOICE News List send the following text to
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- The VOICE Newsletter will be 3 days late this month. We plan to go live on April 4th. This is due to several hardware problems on the part of the editorial staff, as well as the couple of days lost when our server was in transit to it's new location. The April issue will have articles on:
OS/2 Warp 4 Merlin Convenience Pack
Emacs 20.6.1 under OS/2 - Part II - Additional Setup
Using the Toshiba PDR-M4 Digital Camera with OS/2 via USB
Snakes and Hammers: Ogg Vorbis
Networking FixPaks under OS/2 Warp
The Free Files - Vol. 6 We make Music - Part 2
- Finally, I received a very nice note of thanks from Dan Casey's parents today.
"Thank you very much for remembering our son Dan with your generous gifts to the Edelweis House. Though I don't know you, I feel a closeness through Dan, for he spoke often of his friends at VOICE. He was committed
to that organization, and from the outpouring of email and condolences, he treasured your friendships. We feel the sorrow you have with us, but please know that we are truly comforted by your thoughtfulness.
Should "Warpers" ever convene in Indianapolis, we would love to welcome you to our family.
Most Sincerely,
Marguerite and Dan Casey"
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