To anyone in their service area (I'm not sure exactly how far that area extends), I recommend Linkline. I've got 768/128 DSL with one static IP address for your basic $49/mo, and additional IP addresses are available for $5 each (my telco is GTE, YMMV).
Speed is good, uptime is good, and I'm allowed to run any servers I want. They even set up reverse DNS for my IP addresses for me. I work for a differnet ISP but have stuck with them for these reasons.
Well, I've been out of that department for a while now, but I recall hearing that they're now distributing some other Windows firewall software. Something free, I don't remember what it's called, but it's not Zone Alarm. It's included on the CD we ship, but we aren't supporting it. I'm sure they get plenty of calls about it though and lots of "Ok, so you don't offer support for it, but I've just got this one question..."
Doesn't matter what OS you run, if its misconfigured, its not going to be secure.
And likewise, it's not difficult to set up even Win98 so that it's fairly secure. Turning off file sharing in Windows effectively closes all ports. I don't know how someone's going to hax0r a box that isn't listening anywhere.
This is of course assuming the end user is bright enough not to get themselves BO'd or something.
It should be the responsibility of the company supplying the broadband access to supply and configure a firewall as part of the installation, and explain to the users whay it is needed.
Great. You want to handle the tech support calls when your average cable modem using consumer hoses up his $ISP provided firewall software? I thought not.
Speaking as someone who used to work in broadband at a large ISP, no fscking way would we get involved in end-user security. Our customers were encouraged to read up on security and run firewall software, but we weren't going to give them the software or provide tech support for it.
You have to draw the line somewhere. If you help them install/configure a firewall, who is held responsible when it's compromised? Whether or not the ISP should be held responsible, that's exactly how the users would see it.
Yeah, but there is a pattern -- same credit card number, same checking account (same name even!). These things can be traced if the will is there.
It's not possible for an end-user to determine whether spam was sent out from one account or multiple accounts. Sure, this can be done at the ISP level, but I was addressing the concern of an end-user claiming that UUNET does nothing about these accounts.
This also doesn't answer the question why they don't jump on amazon
This I don't have an answer for. Possibly because they're more concerned with the garden variety spam, which tends to be a lot more destructive and annoying. *shrug* Just a guess.
Exactly. Also, AFAIK, Hotmail recycles their usernames. Hotmail mailboxes expire after a period of inactivity (six months? I don't remember) and then the username is available again. When setting up a Hotmail account you run the risk of picking an address that's already on one of those "millions of e-mail addresses" CDs.
Half of the spam I get originated from Uu.net ips. I send complaints, get their canned response, then nothing. Often I get the same spam a few days later. WTF! Practice what you preach boys.
They do. Remember, UUNET leases POPs and bandwidth to other ISPs. They process their complaints, determine which ISP's luser was responsible, and sent it off to the appropriate party with the RADIUS logs identifying the offending account. Do you have any idea the volume of complaints UUNET gets daily? There's no way they could follow up personally even if they wanted to.
You may receive the same spam again, but it's extremely unlikely that it was sent from the same dialup account. Spammers sign up 10, 20, or more, accounts at a time so that when one gets whacked, they switch to another and keep spamming without missing a beat. Killing these parasites is called "playing whack-a-mole" for a reason.
no offense to.org-ers out there, but I bet you'd rather have.com
Not particularly, no. I own three domains: two are.org and one is.net. I refuese to register a.com domain simply because I'm sick of all the hype surrounding "dot-com".
I have yet to actually make it to one of their performances, but I've been interested in them for years. Imagine battlebots, only with real projectile and weapons and flamethrowers and all the danger that comes with it. Great stuff:)
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Nope, they appear the same, whether I use 'ls', 'dir', or Explorer. And I still have no checkbox. Then again, this is NT4, Win98 may be different, I dunno, I don't have it.
Well of course the geeks don't drool over a site who's URL is www.WINFIRST.com. It's probably only going to be supported by WINdows. Kill it now before anyone else knows about it!
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I'm sure I'm stating the obvious here, but you never know what kind of stupid shit people are going to spout off around here...
Hi. I work for the abuse department of a large ISP. I deal with this every day. I know what I'm talking about.
In most cases, your statement is incorrect. The common practice now is to set up throw-away accounts with stolen credit cards, then do it again when that one is cancelled. Repeat as necessary.
And this is most definitely stealing. Stealing the account and stealing the server resources used when they send out hundreds of thousands of messages. I've spoken to smaller ISP who's mail servers are basically DoS'd by a flood of incoming mail to thousands of randomly generated usernames @their_domain. I've spoken to people who have had their servers rendered unusable by a flood of bounce messages because some scumbag spammer did this with forged return address at their domain.
The last few flights that I've been on explicitly prohibited the use of DVD drives (along with CD drives/players and MDs) at all times.
Really? I haven't heard an airline require that. IME, they ask that cell phones be kept off for the duration of the flight, but laptops and gadgets and such only need to be off during takeoff and landing.
So, from an end-user perspective (that is, absent from programmer-level worries about bloated code and the like), what exactly do people dislike about That Paper Clip?
Personally, my major problem with it is the same problem I have with animated.gifs on the web... I can see it moving with my peripheral vision and it distracts me from what I'm reading or writing. I find it intensely annoying for this reason.
Notice: Archive searches for postings prior to May 15, 1999, are temporarily unavailable.
This notice has been up for I don't know how long, but so far there is no sign of the old archives coming back.
Note also the name change: dejanews.com to deja.com. Dropping "news" in their name seems like a pretty good indication that they'll drop it in reality as well.
My ISP outsources their newsfeed from Supernews, who does a very good job with it. If only they'd buy up Deja's news archive and pick up where they left off... I don't pay for a Supernews newsfeed now, as I get it through my ISP, but I'd definitely be willing to pay for the archive service.
That would be something your ISP needs to take care of then. The DUL (MAPS Dial-up User List) is the only decent list out of the bunch.
It's purpose is to stop spammers sending mail directly to port 25 on the receiving server while using a dynamically assigned IP address. Your ISP at one time noted your IP block as dynamically assigned. If it now is not, they need to fix it.
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To anyone in their service area (I'm not sure exactly how far that area extends), I recommend Linkline. I've got 768/128 DSL with one static IP address for your basic $49/mo, and additional IP addresses are available for $5 each (my telco is GTE, YMMV).
Speed is good, uptime is good, and I'm allowed to run any servers I want. They even set up reverse DNS for my IP addresses for me. I work for a differnet ISP but have stuck with them for these reasons.
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Well, I've been out of that department for a while now, but I recall hearing that they're now distributing some other Windows firewall software. Something free, I don't remember what it's called, but it's not Zone Alarm. It's included on the CD we ship, but we aren't supporting it. I'm sure they get plenty of calls about it though and lots of "Ok, so you don't offer support for it, but I've just got this one question..."
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They're going to put the contestents on a raft and send them into the south Pacific to meet it.
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Doesn't matter what OS you run, if its misconfigured, its not going to be secure.
And likewise, it's not difficult to set up even Win98 so that it's fairly secure. Turning off file sharing in Windows effectively closes all ports. I don't know how someone's going to hax0r a box that isn't listening anywhere.
This is of course assuming the end user is bright enough not to get themselves BO'd or something.
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It should be the responsibility of the company supplying the broadband access to supply and configure a firewall as part of the installation, and explain to the users whay it is needed.
Great. You want to handle the tech support calls when your average cable modem using consumer hoses up his $ISP provided firewall software? I thought not.
Speaking as someone who used to work in broadband at a large ISP, no fscking way would we get involved in end-user security. Our customers were encouraged to read up on security and run firewall software, but we weren't going to give them the software or provide tech support for it.
You have to draw the line somewhere. If you help them install/configure a firewall, who is held responsible when it's compromised? Whether or not the ISP should be held responsible, that's exactly how the users would see it.
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Yeah, but there is a pattern -- same credit card number, same checking account (same name even!). These things can be traced if the will is there.
It's not possible for an end-user to determine whether spam was sent out from one account or multiple accounts. Sure, this can be done at the ISP level, but I was addressing the concern of an end-user claiming that UUNET does nothing about these accounts.
This also doesn't answer the question why they don't jump on amazon
This I don't have an answer for. Possibly because they're more concerned with the garden variety spam, which tends to be a lot more destructive and annoying. *shrug* Just a guess.
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Exactly. Also, AFAIK, Hotmail recycles their usernames. Hotmail mailboxes expire after a period of inactivity (six months? I don't remember) and then the username is available again. When setting up a Hotmail account you run the risk of picking an address that's already on one of those "millions of e-mail addresses" CDs.
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Half of the spam I get originated from Uu.net ips. I send complaints, get their canned response, then nothing. Often I get the same spam a few days later. WTF! Practice what you preach boys.
They do. Remember, UUNET leases POPs and bandwidth to other ISPs. They process their complaints, determine which ISP's luser was responsible, and sent it off to the appropriate party with the RADIUS logs identifying the offending account. Do you have any idea the volume of complaints UUNET gets daily? There's no way they could follow up personally even if they wanted to.
You may receive the same spam again, but it's extremely unlikely that it was sent from the same dialup account. Spammers sign up 10, 20, or more, accounts at a time so that when one gets whacked, they switch to another and keep spamming without missing a beat. Killing these parasites is called "playing whack-a-mole" for a reason.
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no offense to .org-ers out there, but I bet you'd rather have .com
Not particularly, no. I own three domains: two are .org and one is .net. I refuese to register a .com domain simply because I'm sick of all the hype surrounding "dot-com".
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UUNET is owned by MCI.
From the t-shirt I'm wearing right now... UUNET: Am MCI/Worldcom Company
Of course that doesn't change the fact that it's MCI who ownes more backbone, not UUNET.
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<aol>Yes, SRL fucking rocks.</aol>
I have yet to actually make it to one of their performances, but I've been interested in them for years. Imagine battlebots, only with real projectile and weapons and flamethrowers and all the danger that comes with it. Great stuff :)
There's a good review of their shows here.
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Nope, they appear the same, whether I use 'ls', 'dir', or Explorer. And I still have no checkbox. Then again, this is NT4, Win98 may be different, I dunno, I don't have it.
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C:\WINNT\Profiles\christk\Desktop>ls
Eudora Pro.lnk docs on 'D'.lnk latin.txt
bad_ani.txt k1639386.txt mrobbins.txt
C:\WINNT\Profiles\wilsonkl\Desktop>
I see both lowercase and mixed case. No active desktop here and I don't even have that checkbox you mention. Maybe that's a Win98 thing.
And yes, that was 'ls', not 'dir' :)
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What I get when trying http://personal.law. mia mi.edu/~froomkin/articles/icann1.pdf:
That seems pretty effective to me.
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Well of course the geeks don't drool over a site who's URL is www.WINFIRST.com. It's probably only going to be supported by WINdows. Kill it now before anyone else knows about it!
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I'm sure I'm stating the obvious here, but you never know what kind of stupid shit people are going to spout off around here...
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And the spammers pay their ISPs and phone bills.
Hi. I work for the abuse department of a large ISP. I deal with this every day. I know what I'm talking about.
In most cases, your statement is incorrect. The common practice now is to set up throw-away accounts with stolen credit cards, then do it again when that one is cancelled. Repeat as necessary.
And this is most definitely stealing. Stealing the account and stealing the server resources used when they send out hundreds of thousands of messages. I've spoken to smaller ISP who's mail servers are basically DoS'd by a flood of incoming mail to thousands of randomly generated usernames @their_domain. I've spoken to people who have had their servers rendered unusable by a flood of bounce messages because some scumbag spammer did this with forged return address at their domain.
Spammers should be shot, IMO.
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Remove the $sessionid$ bit. Try this link instead.
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Holidays coming up?
Geez, it gets worse every year. Last year I thought xmas decorations at Halloween was bad...
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The last few flights that I've been on explicitly prohibited the use of DVD drives (along with CD drives/players and MDs) at all times.
Really? I haven't heard an airline require that. IME, they ask that cell phones be kept off for the duration of the flight, but laptops and gadgets and such only need to be off during takeoff and landing.
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> Software designers are so infatuated with the fact that they can,
> that they don't stop to think if they should.
I don't get it. Are you trying to be ironic?
Based on reading his other posts, that's his .sig, not part of the comment.
I sure wish people would learn to clearly seperate the two.
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So, from an end-user perspective (that is, absent from programmer-level worries about bloated code and the like), what exactly do people dislike about That Paper Clip?
Personally, my major problem with it is the same problem I have with animated .gifs on the web... I can see it moving with my peripheral vision and it distracts me from what I'm reading or writing. I find it intensely annoying for this reason.
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Their usenet archive is alive and well.... http://www.deja.com/usenet/
Nope. From their "Power Search" page (http://www.deja.com/home_ps.shtml):
Notice: Archive searches for postings prior to May 15, 1999, are temporarily unavailable.
This notice has been up for I don't know how long, but so far there is no sign of the old archives coming back.
Note also the name change: dejanews.com to deja.com. Dropping "news" in their name seems like a pretty good indication that they'll drop it in reality as well.
My ISP outsources their newsfeed from Supernews, who does a very good job with it. If only they'd buy up Deja's news archive and pick up where they left off... I don't pay for a Supernews newsfeed now, as I get it through my ISP, but I'd definitely be willing to pay for the archive service.
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That would be something your ISP needs to take care of then. The DUL (MAPS Dial-up User List) is the only decent list out of the bunch.
It's purpose is to stop spammers sending mail directly to port 25 on the receiving server while using a dynamically assigned IP address. Your ISP at one time noted your IP block as dynamically assigned. If it now is not, they need to fix it.
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The link on the Inktomi page is broken. Try corporate.yahoo.com.
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Thats the thing that *really* pisses me off about IIS is that you need a CAL for the maxium number of simulanioues clients.
No, you don't. You do NOT need CALs for anonymous users (ie. people browsing your web site).
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