Closing ports and effectively requiring users to proxy is _not_ the right solution. Rate limiting and/or shutting down customers exhibiting aberrant usage patterns is a far more effective and flexible solution. Other ISPs do this. Charter is just too cheap to choose the better solution. Ok, now I understand what you are trying to convey.
Verizon is another cheap one. Lots of spam from verizon.net. Likewise, shawcable in Canada is one of the worst. Many zombied computers sending spam from shawcable.net.
I put a block on each of these companies as well as a number of others. At least in my case, they have no reason to send email directly to my server. The ISP's email server from each of these companies comes through just fine, though. If the users are sending legitimate email through the ISP, it gets to me or if they have a legit relay that they send through, it will make it in as well. But not directly. Those are ALL spam.
We can fit 300 million single family homes in the US. Let's see, if we allow a certain amount of land for businesses, government buildings, factories, and some roads, everyone could still have 5-6 acres of land.
Of course, everyone would have to have their own garden to grow vegetables because there would be no more farms.
You do understand how email works right? I understand it, but maybe you don't.
When a charter subscriber wants to send an email, they will send it through the charter.net email server. Charter subscribers who have zombied computers (and there are a lot of them) don't send through charter.net, they send directly to outside email servers. What they send is something called "spam".
Like I said before, a real email server (notice I said email server, not a normal user's PC) runs on a static IP address, not a dynamic IP address from a cable modem.
Yeah. Why don't you just tell them that so I can't send mail anymore without going through their shitty servers, asshole?
I guess I wouldn't mind blocking anything coming in from you.
For anyone else subscribing through Charter, my message that said Charter should block port 25 was meant for Charter cable subscribers. And it was meant that outgoing mails from a cable modem to port 25 should be blocked. Nobody running on a cable system with a dynamic IP address should be running an email server. I've never seen a legitimate email coming directly from a Charter cable subscriber, they all go through Charter's own email server.
If you guys want to run a real email server, get a real setup with a static IP address.
There, is that a better explanation for you people that just don't get it?
...if we all turn our existing phones upside down and memorize the keypad that way, will we be in violation of the patent? Or can this ability prevent the patent from being accepted?
A previous poster mentioned the Garmin unit that is layed out this way. I've got one too, a different model of Garmin, but still, the screen is at the bottom and the buttons are at the top. The thing actually looks like a cell phone almost. Seems like Garmin could fight the patent as they thought of it first.
The 6035 has a built-in Palm Pilot and can do all kinds of stuff. I like it because it has a built-in modem and will connect to a serial port (i.e. COM1) and let's me use my laptop on the internet from my vehicle. The later 7135 with color display is even better yet.
I like using VCSWEB.com. Why? Because it's a small company run by a husband and wife (Rod and Gaelyne Gasson) and in the rare case where I need a little help or assistance, they are personally available through email.
Even though their prices are a little higher than some of the big discount places, their $15 (Australian) charge for a domain name registration which works out to somewhere around $11.50 for me in the US is still very, very reasonable.
Plus, they have a free DNS service which is very handy. And if you get to know them and they get to know and trust you, they can fix you up with an SSL certificate which is also a free service.
...the Internet is to cut China off from the rest of the world!
Let them have their own Internet. Then once they've finished spamming and hacking each other, maybe, just maybe, they'll ask nicely if they can come back.
However, take away the spam that originates from "infected" computers and then make the comparison between the US and China. China harbors the real spammers. In the US, they get it done by taking over home and business computers. The user doesn't even know he is sending out spam from his own computer.
Almost all spam originating from the US can be stopped at the SMTP level because spammers are a bit stupid in many ways. Infected computers don't actually operate like a real email server.
Now, take another look at that comparison on spamhaus.org. It looks like the numbers are higher for the US than China. However, even though there are fewer ISPs listed for China, that has nothing to do with the total quantity of spam. A server running 24 hours a day sending out spam can pump out more spam than an infected computer that might be turned off 22 hours each day. Spamhaus's numbers aren't true reality.
If you block China, Korea, and Russia, you'll block over 75 percent of the spam coming into your email server. If you have no use for any of those countries visiting your website or sending you email, just block them. I've got a few sites that don't need them. I block those 3 countries and about 40 others as well. It fixes a lot of problems.
When asked about Chinese censorship Toure said that issue is beyond the mandate of the ITU
China should be disconnected from the rest of the world and have it's own Internet. No more spammers and hackers operating out of China.
But then, where would it stop? Separate Korea and Russia too?
If the UN wants to help out, they should get their brains together and come up with an international plan to require these countries to put a stop to spammers and hackers.
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They should have done this in 1984.
-Maurice
Verizon is another cheap one. Lots of spam from verizon.net. Likewise, shawcable in Canada is one of the worst. Many zombied computers sending spam from shawcable.net.
I put a block on each of these companies as well as a number of others. At least in my case, they have no reason to send email directly to my server. The ISP's email server from each of these companies comes through just fine, though. If the users are sending legitimate email through the ISP, it gets to me or if they have a legit relay that they send through, it will make it in as well. But not directly. Those are ALL spam.
Sorry for ruffling the feathers.
-Maurice
We can fit 300 million single family homes in the US. Let's see, if we allow a certain amount of land for businesses, government buildings, factories, and some roads, everyone could still have 5-6 acres of land.
Of course, everyone would have to have their own garden to grow vegetables because there would be no more farms.
-Maurice
When a charter subscriber wants to send an email, they will send it through the charter.net email server. Charter subscribers who have zombied computers (and there are a lot of them) don't send through charter.net, they send directly to outside email servers. What they send is something called "spam".
Like I said before, a real email server (notice I said email server, not a normal user's PC) runs on a static IP address, not a dynamic IP address from a cable modem.
There, now you understand how email works.
-Maurice
I guess I wouldn't mind blocking anything coming in from you.
For anyone else subscribing through Charter, my message that said Charter should block port 25 was meant for Charter cable subscribers. And it was meant that outgoing mails from a cable modem to port 25 should be blocked. Nobody running on a cable system with a dynamic IP address should be running an email server. I've never seen a legitimate email coming directly from a Charter cable subscriber, they all go through Charter's own email server.
If you guys want to run a real email server, get a real setup with a static IP address.
There, is that a better explanation for you people that just don't get it?
-Maurice
They should block the SMTP port 25 instead. What's the matter with them?
In the past 4 months, my email server has rejected 291 spams coming in from zombied computers from Charter customers.
Come on Charter, get your act together.
-Maurice
...adding telemarketing lists to this?
No wait, that wouldn't work. The phonebook makers would then be put in jail.
-Maurice
...if we all turn our existing phones upside down and memorize the keypad that way, will we be in violation of the patent? Or can this ability prevent the patent from being accepted?
A previous poster mentioned the Garmin unit that is layed out this way. I've got one too, a different model of Garmin, but still, the screen is at the bottom and the buttons are at the top. The thing actually looks like a cell phone almost. Seems like Garmin could fight the patent as they thought of it first.
-Maurice
The 6035 has a built-in Palm Pilot and can do all kinds of stuff. I like it because it has a built-in modem and will connect to a serial port (i.e. COM1) and let's me use my laptop on the internet from my vehicle. The later 7135 with color display is even better yet.
What is so new and great about the ELnk thing?
-Maurice
...but rather the software that is bundled with it and any additional software that could be used later on down the road.
The hardware has to be done right the first time and so should the bundled software. Hopefully they will get it right.
-Maurice
Even though their prices are a little higher than some of the big discount places, their $15 (Australian) charge for a domain name registration which works out to somewhere around $11.50 for me in the US is still very, very reasonable.
Plus, they have a free DNS service which is very handy. And if you get to know them and they get to know and trust you, they can fix you up with an SSL certificate which is also a free service.
As an added bonus, they like Linux and they also like Commodore computers.
-Maurice
...the Internet is to cut China off from the rest of the world!
Let them have their own Internet. Then once they've finished spamming and hacking each other, maybe, just maybe, they'll ask nicely if they can come back.
-Maurice
Almost all spam originating from the US can be stopped at the SMTP level because spammers are a bit stupid in many ways. Infected computers don't actually operate like a real email server.
Now, take another look at that comparison on spamhaus.org. It looks like the numbers are higher for the US than China. However, even though there are fewer ISPs listed for China, that has nothing to do with the total quantity of spam. A server running 24 hours a day sending out spam can pump out more spam than an infected computer that might be turned off 22 hours each day. Spamhaus's numbers aren't true reality.
If you block China, Korea, and Russia, you'll block over 75 percent of the spam coming into your email server. If you have no use for any of those countries visiting your website or sending you email, just block them. I've got a few sites that don't need them. I block those 3 countries and about 40 others as well. It fixes a lot of problems.
-Maurice
China should be disconnected from the rest of the world and have it's own Internet. No more spammers and hackers operating out of China.
But then, where would it stop? Separate Korea and Russia too?
If the UN wants to help out, they should get their brains together and come up with an international plan to require these countries to put a stop to spammers and hackers.
Can you tell I hate spammers?
-Maurice