Government has no right to steal from me, or you, to pay for this guy's pipe dream. If he really wanted to do it, he should have done it with his own dollars, not robbing the tax payer of anything.
Since stupid conservatives such as you will **NEVER** do anything to advance Humanity Forward, it is the government's DUTY to take your ill-earned (because earned through primitive economic means) money and redistribute it amongst those who **DO** look forward beyond their own noses.
Should we trust them more than a used car salesman who tries to pass that yellow car with checkered racing lines as "only driven by an old lady to go to church"???
Wait! Do we see Microsoft's collective noses lengthening???
Moreover, how do people feel when talked down to by their auto mechanics? Their dentists?
Doctors.
Doctors are pretty condescending.
Nowadays, people expect pills. Pills to fix everything.
So, one day, I was in front of that specialist, and he chicken-scratches me a prescription.
So I ask him what is it. What it does, how it works.
He was befuddled.
-- You can tell me, I have a master's degree in science, so I'll understand (better than Joe Sixpack anyways).
THEN, he explained me what his pills would do (they were't much effective, I healed myself).
* * *
Fortunately, it's not always like that. Once, I was having glasses made, and the oculist proposed me a custom-crafted lens. He started to make a diagram and explain the light rays through the lens, and when I talked about refraction indices, his eyes lighted-up and he obviously was delighted to meet a client who understand his work.
Do not base your opinions upon Jean Chrétin, who had two second languages (he spoke french as bad as he spoke english). Take the dreaded Jacques "money & ethnic votes" Parizeau* who was much more polished as an example of a well-respected uncomprimising (and most importantly, uncompromised) statesman.
So? Like his counterpart the marquis de Montcalm, he did not live to see the outcome of the battle.
No, the real culprit here is the king of France who told the britshit to keep canada when they offered it back to him when the treaty ending the seven war year was signed.
And this is one of the many little things which paved the way to the US revolution, since the britshit could not apply their discriminatory laws towards scatholics where they were but a tiny minority; this scared the shit out of the US colonies who certainly didn't want to be part of an empire with so much scatholics.
(This also proved to the french Nation how their kings were fucking them in the ass, and within a generation, the dynasty was overthown and it's head cut-off and the first modern republic was born, with considerable effect towards human rights and freedom).
"Eskimo" means "raw meat eater", does it? So that makes it a bad name? "Inuit" just means "people", which is nonsensical in its lack of specificity. Of the two, I'd say the former is much superior, if you insist on going by etymology.
So does "innu".
You don't live near inuit, so you didn't learn early that you don't call them "eskimos", just like when you live near blacks (do you?), you learn early not to call them "niggers".
We QI Educated Brits know that Eskimos and Inuits are NOT the same thing. Inuits are a strict subset of Eskimos
Here's the typical limey cluelessness at work of the slimy limey who barges-in, colonizes, suck the life out of the colonizees and then fucks-off back to the britshit country, happy as a clam and as stupid as he ever was.
(We know: we've had to deal with limey cluelessness for a quarter millenium here in Québec).
"Eskimo" is a cree insult hurled at inuit people. It means "raw meat eater".
When you say "eskimo", you're just as clueful as any stupid redneck who says "nigger". And you deserve as well to be beaten-up.
So you totally failed at impressing us with your "education" (more like a lack of).
Pegasus mail was great when it started. Then a Windows version emerged, with was potent, flexible and useful, despite some quirks (you could not select anything less than a line in message text -- this gave me the habit I still follow to put URLs in e-mails on a single line without unrelated text).
But it is obviously a product that evolved by slapping-on additions haphazarldy; the configuration was nothing but unified. Related features were spread accross several configuration screens amongst several configuration options, without a grand master plan.
In the end, it was a sorry kluge that was easily replaced by other clients (Eudora, Thunderbird) who eventually evolved to Pegasus' capabilities, but without the configuration nightmare.
So it arrived at it's natural end of life. It cannot compete against nimbler and swifter clients, so it now belongs in the annals of internet paleontology as a reverable footnote, much as the Great Eastern does in steamship paleontology or The Rocket in locomotive paleontology.
R.I.P. Pegasus, you won't be forgotten, but certainly not missed.
It's time to move on. Perhaps Mr Harris could bring his expertise and experience to Thunderbird, where he would be more than welcome.
They only annoying part is that it's the innocent collection agency who loses here, as they've already paid the original company for the debt. But I guess that's a buyer beware situation for them.
Fuck them. They're in a shady business anyways, so if they can't stand the heat, they oughta get out of the kitchen.
I wonder what would happen if a subscriber didn't update their credit card info once their card expires to let the account lapse.
I actually did that with Stupidico "high-speed edition". They actually lodged a complaint for credit card fraud, saying I gave them a false credit card number. Nothing ever came out of it because, well, the credit card has been cancelled...
The most stupid thing is that I had no problem whatsoever opening another account in another city afterwards. Seems their marketing department has more cloud than their accounts receivable...
No, we were (past tense) bound into a contract with an ISP that SPEWS claimed were spam-friendly. Since there's no appeal process, I struggle to treat that claim as having Voice of God authority.
SPEWS carefully documents the reason behind each listing. There is nothing arbitrary there.
How long it takes an ISP to investigate a claim and terminate a hosting contract in such a way as to avoid being sued by their former customer. (If my ISP terminated my hosting contract in error, I would certainly sue for punitive damages.)
Then the contract has been written in a clown. A proper contract would have a terminate for cause clause, for causing a listing on a blocklist.
Again, this is not SPEW's fault but the ISP's/yours.
which is that you are supporting a spam-friendly ISP. And for this, you deserve to be listed.
And this is the stupid attitude that makes people hate SPEWS so much. Who says its a spam supporting ISP? SPEWS does, but are they right? Why should we listen to SPEWS? Why should we give a damn what SPEWS thinks?
You don't have to give a damn. No one forces you to use SPEWS. If you don't like them, just don't use them!
SPEWS hides away in its secret lair somewhere deciding X is a spammer, Y is not a spammer, and anyone who is listed is, for some reason, expected to immediately jump and guess what will mollify SPEWS, or post on a public newsgroup and essentially beg to be removed, where they wil lbe told what they need to do by peopel who make it perfecrtly cclear that they don't represent the organisation.
SPEWS is anonymous precisely to avoid being sued into oblivion by spammers.
SPEWS carefully documents the reason for every one of it's listings. It is up to the culprit to clean up his act and announce that he cleaned-up his act on NANAE to be delisted.
And delisted he will be, IF, and ONLY IF he REALLY cleaned-up his act.
What is wrong with that?
You want to use them for listing. Fine. But what makes you think other people should give a damn about their opinion? It's the mail admins whop are doing the blocking. Not the spammer. The mail admin should accept responsibility for what they're doing and not blame it on someone else.
And that's what they do. They block under advisory from SPEWS and if you have beef with that, take it to those who block you, not SPEWS (or blocklists in general).
We had defamation laws for a reason, and that reason is that while sticks and stones will break your bones, words most certainly can hurt you as well. I don't see why the actions of SORBS
There is nothing defamitory there. SORBS says that spam comes from such-and-such range, and they have samples to prove it.
so they block me, and therefore I cannot send email to anyone using two of the major ISP's in Australia. I have emailed sorbs and asked them to check my server.
You're shooting at the wrong duck. You're not being blocked by SORBS, but by the "two major ISPs in Australia". Your beef is with them, not SORBS.
Large netblocks will be repeatedly put onto one of their lists if they dont comply with the founder/main admin's idea of how reverse dns should be configured. They will list IP blocks that dont conform to an RFC that funnily enough, he wrote.
What they can do is list the IPs from which spam has originated. Period.
And you will have as much spam as before.
Spam-friendly ISPs will regularly give different Ip addresses to spammers.
SPEWS stands for SPam Early Warning System. That is, it BLOCKS spam BEFORE it leaves the network, in anticipation of the ritual spammer IP address change. And that can only be achieved by listing the whole IP range of the spam-friendly ISP.
And SPEWS' policy didn't make me put pressure on my ISP, it just made me vow never ever to use SPEWS on any server I have anything to do with, and to bitch about SPEWS on every possible occasion until the end of time.
Then you totally missed the point. It is not SPEWS that blocks you, it's the networks who use SPEWS that do.
And no amount of bitching is going to solve your problem, which is that you are supporting a spam-friendly ISP. And for this, you deserve to be listed.
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Boy there is going to be lots of tears when you run out of people who are willing to work while you sit on your fat arse!!!
Wait! Do we see Microsoft's collective noses lengthening???
And FLP (Funny Looking Parents - usually of a trisomic).
And "Hey Doc!"s (drunk patients in the emergency ward who go "Hey Doc" at the sight of any white blouse).
And "Goober" (malignant tumor).
And "Roasted Goober" (the same, after radiation treatment).
Doctors are pretty condescending.
Nowadays, people expect pills. Pills to fix everything.
So, one day, I was in front of that specialist, and he chicken-scratches me a prescription.
So I ask him what is it. What it does, how it works.
He was befuddled.
-- You can tell me, I have a master's degree in science, so I'll understand (better than Joe Sixpack anyways).
THEN, he explained me what his pills would do (they were't much effective, I healed myself).
* * *
Fortunately, it's not always like that. Once, I was having glasses made, and the oculist proposed me a custom-crafted lens. He started to make a diagram and explain the light rays through the lens, and when I talked about refraction indices, his eyes lighted-up and he obviously was delighted to meet a client who understand his work.
Sorry, sugar-tits, you can't have your dick and eat it at the same time.
For this to happen, the US will need a major addition of brains.
* Founder of the much-feared Caîsse de dépôt et de placement du Québec.
No, the real culprit here is the king of France who told the britshit to keep canada when they offered it back to him when the treaty ending the seven war year was signed.
And this is one of the many little things which paved the way to the US revolution, since the britshit could not apply their discriminatory laws towards scatholics where they were but a tiny minority; this scared the shit out of the US colonies who certainly didn't want to be part of an empire with so much scatholics.
(This also proved to the french Nation how their kings were fucking them in the ass, and within a generation, the dynasty was overthown and it's head cut-off and the first modern republic was born, with considerable effect towards human rights and freedom).
This is to further drive the point home about how stupid you are by not learning another language.
And, last time I checked, "limey"'s use is not restricted to yankees.
You don't live near inuit, so you didn't learn early that you don't call them "eskimos", just like when you live near blacks (do you?), you learn early not to call them "niggers".
(We know: we've had to deal with limey cluelessness for a quarter millenium here in Québec).
"Eskimo" is a cree insult hurled at inuit people. It means "raw meat eater".
When you say "eskimo", you're just as clueful as any stupid redneck who says "nigger". And you deserve as well to be beaten-up.
So you totally failed at impressing us with your "education" (more like a lack of).
Old dinosaurs wither...
Pegasus mail was great when it started. Then a Windows version emerged, with was potent, flexible and useful, despite some quirks (you could not select anything less than a line in message text -- this gave me the habit I still follow to put URLs in e-mails on a single line without unrelated text).
But it is obviously a product that evolved by slapping-on additions haphazarldy; the configuration was nothing but unified. Related features were spread accross several configuration screens amongst several configuration options, without a grand master plan.
In the end, it was a sorry kluge that was easily replaced by other clients (Eudora, Thunderbird) who eventually evolved to Pegasus' capabilities, but without the configuration nightmare.
So it arrived at it's natural end of life. It cannot compete against nimbler and swifter clients, so it now belongs in the annals of internet paleontology as a reverable footnote, much as the Great Eastern does in steamship paleontology or The Rocket in locomotive paleontology.
R.I.P. Pegasus, you won't be forgotten, but certainly not missed.
It's time to move on. Perhaps Mr Harris could bring his expertise and experience to Thunderbird, where he would be more than welcome.
The most stupid thing is that I had no problem whatsoever opening another account in another city afterwards. Seems their marketing department has more cloud than their accounts receivable...
Take this down, bitch!!!
Again, this is not SPEW's fault but the ISP's/yours.
SPEWS carefully documents the reason for every one of it's listings. It is up to the culprit to clean up his act and announce that he cleaned-up his act on NANAE to be delisted.
And delisted he will be, IF, and ONLY IF he REALLY cleaned-up his act.
What is wrong with that?
And that's what they do. They block under advisory from SPEWS and if you have beef with that, take it to those who block you, not SPEWS (or blocklists in general).Truth is proof against defamation.
Spam-friendly ISPs will regularly give different Ip addresses to spammers.
SPEWS stands for SPam Early Warning System. That is, it BLOCKS spam BEFORE it leaves the network, in anticipation of the ritual spammer IP address change. And that can only be achieved by listing the whole IP range of the spam-friendly ISP.
And no amount of bitching is going to solve your problem, which is that you are supporting a spam-friendly ISP. And for this, you deserve to be listed.