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Revising the Internet Email Infrastructure
Lauren Weinstein writes "People For Internet Responsibility (PFIR) today released a white paper aimed at starting discussion and work to fundamentally revamp Internet e-mail systems to control spam, forgeries, and a range of other problems, while empowering e-mail users rather than ISPs." Excellent start.
SMTP is here to stay and it won't change within any reasonable time period. It's unfortunate that it's so unsecure, but that's just the way it is.
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Players and Equipment
Three in One is best for 4 to 7 players (and is possible for 2 to 9). It requires a standard deck of 52 cards, the cards ranking in each suit, from low to high: 2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-J-Q-K-A. You also need a supply of chips for betting, and a board or cloth marked out to receive the various stakes. The layout looks something like this:
3 in 1 layout
The Deal and Placing the Stakes
Before the deal, each player must place nine chips on the board - one on each of the labelled spaces: ace of hearts, king of hearts, queen of hearts, jack of hearts, ten of hearts, king-queen of hearts, 8-9-10, kitty and pot. It may be that some of these spaces already contain unclaimed chips from previous deals; in this case the new chips are added to these.
The dealer then deals out the cards one at a time, clockwise, to form one hand for each player plus a spare hand. The spare hand does not belong to anyone. Some players will have one more card than others.
If as dealer you do not like your hand you can exchange it for the spare hand. You are not allowed to look at the spare hand before deciding whether to swap. If you do swap, your whole original hand is discarded face down and becomes the spare (you cannot combine cards from the two hands).
Alternatively, the dealer can offer the spare hand unseen for sale to the highest bidder. The person (if any) who buys the spare hand discards their own original hand face down and pays the dealer in chips the amount bid for the spare hand; if you auction the spare hand and no one wants to buy, you still have the option to swap your hand for the unseen kitty. Another possibility is to exchange your hand for the spare and then auction your old hand to the highest bidder. What you cannot do is exchange your hand for the spare and then exchange back - once you look at the spare hand you have to keep it.
First Stage - collecting stakes for pay cards
Anyone who holds the ace, king, queen, jack or ten of hearts takes all the chips from that space.
If a player has the king and queen of hearts, that player takes the chips from the king-queen space, in addition to the chips from the king and queen spaces.
The chips in the 8-9-10 space can be taken by a player who has an 8-9-10 sequence in one suit (for example spade8-spade9-spade10). The 8, 9 and 10 must all be in the same suit, but the suit does not have to be hearts. If two or more players have 8-9-10 in different suits they share the chips in the 8-9-10 space equally, leaving any remainder on the layout for the next winner.
Usually the chips in some of the spaces are unclaimed - these are left on the layout to be won in a future hand. Since more chips are added to each space at the start of each hand, the king-queen and 8-9-10 spaces, which are less often claimed, tend to produce higher winnings when someone does have the right cards.
Second Stage - Poker
Before the stops play begins, there is a round of poker. Everyone selects five cards from their hand that they wish to play poker with, separates them from the rest of their hand, and temporarily puts the other cards aside. You do not necessarily have to select the cards that form your best poker hand (you may have cards that you do not want to reveal until the stops part of the game, especially if you play the variation where stakes are collected from the layout in stage three rather than stage one). If you are not familiar with poker combinations, see the ranking of poker hands page for details.
All poker bets are placed in the pot space of the layout. The player to dealer's left begins the betting, and can either bet (putting an additional chip or chips in the pot) or check. If the first player checks, the next player can bet or check, and so on clockwise around the table. If everyone checks, all the poker hands are exposed and the player with the highest hand takes the pot.
If a player bets, it is no longer possible for subsequent players to check. After a b
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If people would only use this RFC: http://www.faqs.org/ftp/rfc/rfc2549.txt (IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service, a modification of http://www.faqs.org/ftp/rfc/rfc1149.txt), there would be no spam, as the normal can of spam is MUCH too heavy for a carrier pigeon to carry.
Maybe an African Swallow, however...
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We just have to accept the fact that we have lost the war with Spam and learn to live with it in our daily lives. I have, and am a lot better for it;
I have learned over 400 ways to refinance my house, increased my penis size by 5 times, heard from lots of hot slutty girls that want to hang out with me, Cured my erectile dysfunction disorder, saved money on Norton Antivirus, and will become a millionaire once I mail out the five letters stuffed with a dollor and my name at the bottom of the list.
There is a lot of good information out there that I have benefitted from and I did not even have to leave to my house! I even forward all of the good opportunities I receive to all of my family and friends.