A computer company I used to do support for a few years back had some viruses turn up on a ton of PCs. It turned out that they had got a virus on the box that held the disk images (draw your own conclusions). Just goes to show that just because something is shrinkwrapped doesn't mean it is worth letting your guard down. Even if this is squeaky clean and secure, if people start accepting this type of installation behavior as NORMAL, then it is really going to make infecting mass amounts of PCs a hell of a lot easier.
I didn't understand the words, sorry. First of all, they already turned down the bill to put unique identifiers in unsolicited email. It of course is the best way to go, but the powers that be will never let that dream happen.
Like I said, I have never recieved any complaints, and if a spammer forges your address and a couple of messages get bounced to you before my flood protection kicks in then I apologize in advance, but the likelyhood in that happening is slim, but I am not the one pretending to be you, and I'm not sending a nasty note or reporting you to your isp or anything. I am simply saying that if it is truly you who attempted to contact me, then please confirm this by performing this operation.
If the message is signed then you know that it came from that individual. You should not require further authentication, you might however decide to use authorization.
So by that logic, if a spammer sends me mail that is signed, I am obliged to accept it. I don't think so.
Duuhhh, hardly suprising since you filter out any negative responses.
You obviously don't understand what I was explaining. My autoreply contains a password that you include in the mail. This only requires user intervention which prevents the vast majority of spam. If you wanted to send me a complaint about it, you simply include that in the tagline. duhhhh.
It makes you look like an asshole to make assumptions about people. Despite your rude presentation, you did make a point. That is that this is only acceptable because it is not in use on a large scale. For that I don't have an answer. You sound like you do though.
I dislike the bounce-back loop as a filter for personal correspondence. I think it is great for the purpose of a lightweight authentication
mechanism for mailing list subscriptions. I get very irritated when people use it to filter email, particularly since all my email is signed. People
should not substitute their ad hoc authentication mechanisms without first supporting deployed standards.
I use a similar this method as a filter, and could care less wether or not an email is signed or not.
If you are not in my contact list or if I have not flagged you to send me mail, it will require you to include a daily random password on the subject line. I have had lots of people use this over the last couple of years. I have only recieved positive feedback about it, and just as importantly I have recieved virtually no spam for a very long time. The only disadvantages I found were:
A) Mailer daemons use nonstandard replies, and do not include message identifiers. My autoreply is frequently sent to bad addresses and triggers mail daemon responses. This means that the only way to determine if mail I send was undeliverable is to comb through a long list of messy mailer daemon replies. This is a small price to pay for the advantage of recieving zero spam, and not having to worry about false positives. Especially considering that it isn't often that I have to even check to see if someone recieved my mail because most people send me replies when I mail them.
B) It was vulnerable to being used to mailbomb. I fixed this by adding a flood protection to limit the number of autoreplies it can send to one address each day.
Regarding the mailing list archives.. I have been a member of mailing lists for years and never recieved spam masquerading as one. That is not to say that it can't or won't happen though. That seems like it would be a problem with mailing lists disclosing the member addresses though doesn't it?
I got hotbar (or rather it installed itself automatically on my work PC after going to a site), had to download an uninstaller to get it to remove since the uninstaller I got was broken, then after removing it my IE user agent is STILL suffixed with "hotbar".
I don't know much about subs, but I've played a lot of that game pirates. I wonder if I built one, painted a jolly roger on it and strapped on some homebuilt rockets if I could become a privateer for the U.S. and earn some bounty. Any o you landlubbers wanna follow me to davey joneses locker? arrrrrr
They said the same thing about skateboarding back in the day. We used to get tickets for skateboarding in the street in the neighborhood I lived in. It miraculously all stopped after they ticketed the police chiefs daughter for rollerskating in the street...
Personally, I don't think they should ban them, but instead regulate their usage and make owners responsible for their use just like they do with everything else.
I think I still have a patch to modify the high score list. There was this guy who snooded so good and he was always emberassing us with his scores so we faked our scores to shut him up.
I live in memphis TN, and it goes without saying that we have a lot of folks who drive trucks, but this one took the prize. I was driving to taco bell and I passed by a truck that had been modded so much it didn't resemble a truck anymore. It had steel plates over the windows with small rectangular holes to look through, a steel battering ram, steel plates welded to the body and the tires had spikes on it. I wonder how long before that thing got empounded?
I started reading from the bottom, and when you said junking pay phones I thought you meant people were making spam calls to payphones (hoping people would pick up I guess). Gosh, I hope I didn't give anyone any ideas with that. I need sleep...
The history I thought was kept separate from the back button list because it would be a pain to go through your entire history when you are looking for a page you just recently left, etc. I'm not going to say it is a bad idea though, and maybe they have a neat idea to make it work, I dunno. This reminds me. My manager told me something I'm trying to get the hang of. When I hear someone doing something stupid I'm not supposed to say anything. Then when they screw up miserably, then I tactfully present to them in writing why their idea sucked. It is much harder to do than it sounds.
I spent my entire Sunday playing Leisure Suit Larry 6. Sure, I could have been out flirting with real women all of that time... but the next time I have to light a cellulite burning lamp of knowledge to bone a chick with transparent pants in the penthouse I break into, I'll know that my zipper can be used as a match strike plate. I think it pays to devote a percentage of ones time to mastering the arts. It shows you care.
I did a book report of his Biography in school. I think it was very sad that the nurse who was attending him @ his deathbed was unable to speak German, so his last words were a mystery.
There was a guy in my english class who wore the same shirt everyday, and there was some debate over if it was the SAME shirt, or if he had multiple shirts that looked the same. We made a dot on him with permanent marker and yep, the dot stayed.
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A computer company I used to do support for a few years back had some viruses turn up on a ton of PCs. It turned out that they had got a virus on the box that held the disk images (draw your own conclusions). Just goes to show that just because something is shrinkwrapped doesn't mean it is worth letting your guard down. Even if this is squeaky clean and secure, if people start accepting this type of installation behavior as NORMAL, then it is really going to make infecting mass amounts of PCs a hell of a lot easier.
I'm in favor of bud-nippin
Like I said, I have never recieved any complaints, and if a spammer forges your address and a couple of messages get bounced to you before my flood protection kicks in then I apologize in advance, but the likelyhood in that happening is slim, but I am not the one pretending to be you, and I'm not sending a nasty note or reporting you to your isp or anything. I am simply saying that if it is truly you who attempted to contact me, then please confirm this by performing this operation.
If the message is signed then you know that it came from that individual. You should not require further authentication, you might however decide to use authorization.
So by that logic, if a spammer sends me mail that is signed, I am obliged to accept it. I don't think so.
Duuhhh, hardly suprising since you filter out any negative responses.
You obviously don't understand what I was explaining. My autoreply contains a password that you include in the mail. This only requires user intervention which prevents the vast majority of spam. If you wanted to send me a complaint about it, you simply include that in the tagline. duhhhh.
It makes you look like an asshole to make assumptions about people. Despite your rude presentation, you did make a point. That is that this is only acceptable because it is not in use on a large scale. For that I don't have an answer. You sound like you do though.
I use a similar this method as a filter, and could care less wether or not an email is signed or not. If you are not in my contact list or if I have not flagged you to send me mail, it will require you to include a daily random password on the subject line. I have had lots of people use this over the last couple of years. I have only recieved positive feedback about it, and just as importantly I have recieved virtually no spam for a very long time. The only disadvantages I found were:
A) Mailer daemons use nonstandard replies, and do not include message identifiers. My autoreply is frequently sent to bad addresses and triggers mail daemon responses. This means that the only way to determine if mail I send was undeliverable is to comb through a long list of messy mailer daemon replies. This is a small price to pay for the advantage of recieving zero spam, and not having to worry about false positives. Especially considering that it isn't often that I have to even check to see if someone recieved my mail because most people send me replies when I mail them.
B) It was vulnerable to being used to mailbomb. I fixed this by adding a flood protection to limit the number of autoreplies it can send to one address each day.
Regarding the mailing list archives.. I have been a member of mailing lists for years and never recieved spam masquerading as one. That is not to say that it can't or won't happen though. That seems like it would be a problem with mailing lists disclosing the member addresses though doesn't it?
I got hotbar (or rather it installed itself automatically on my work PC after going to a site), had to download an uninstaller to get it to remove since the uninstaller I got was broken, then after removing it my IE user agent is STILL suffixed with "hotbar".
I don't know much about subs, but I've played a lot of that game pirates. I wonder if I built one, painted a jolly roger on it and strapped on some homebuilt rockets if I could become a privateer for the U.S. and earn some bounty. Any o you landlubbers wanna follow me to davey joneses locker? arrrrrr
what percentage of those people changed the password TO 1234 at some point, but that it just happens to also be the default.
Thats easy enough to solve. Make finland a state. Since their president is a woman, we can basically tell them what to do right?
They said the same thing about skateboarding back in the day. We used to get tickets for skateboarding in the street in the neighborhood I lived in. It miraculously all stopped after they ticketed the police chiefs daughter for rollerskating in the street...
California used to think it was ok enough:
Old Press Release
Personally, I don't think they should ban them, but instead regulate their usage and make owners responsible for their use just like they do with everything else.
Since you gained infamy, how do things go with the ladies?
Mr T: I pity the fool that don't know about title loan!
Well I guess thats all. Hard to stay on topic when theres nothing to really talk about..
I think I still have a patch to modify the high score list. There was this guy who snooded so good and he was always emberassing us with his scores so we faked our scores to shut him up.
I think blogs are those little circle toy things kids play with.
I live in memphis TN, and it goes without saying that we have a lot of folks who drive trucks, but this one took the prize. I was driving to taco bell and I passed by a truck that had been modded so much it didn't resemble a truck anymore. It had steel plates over the windows with small rectangular holes to look through, a steel battering ram, steel plates welded to the body and the tires had spikes on it. I wonder how long before that thing got empounded?
Beowulf cluster imagines YOU!
I started reading from the bottom, and when you said junking pay phones I thought you meant people were making spam calls to payphones (hoping people would pick up I guess). Gosh, I hope I didn't give anyone any ideas with that. I need sleep...
The history I thought was kept separate from the back button list because it would be a pain to go through your entire history when you are looking for a page you just recently left, etc. I'm not going to say it is a bad idea though, and maybe they have a neat idea to make it work, I dunno. This reminds me. My manager told me something I'm trying to get the hang of. When I hear someone doing something stupid I'm not supposed to say anything. Then when they screw up miserably, then I tactfully present to them in writing why their idea sucked. It is much harder to do than it sounds.
No, but I take my car to a self taught mechanic.
I spent my entire Sunday playing Leisure Suit Larry 6. Sure, I could have been out flirting with real women all of that time... but the next time I have to light a cellulite burning lamp of knowledge to bone a chick with transparent pants in the penthouse I break into, I'll know that my zipper can be used as a match strike plate. I think it pays to devote a percentage of ones time to mastering the arts. It shows you care.
I did a book report of his Biography in school. I think it was very sad that the nurse who was attending him @ his deathbed was unable to speak German, so his last words were a mystery.
To be the biggest/largest/greatest takes hype. Unfortunately the other guy owns most of the media.
You can never be TOO safe when lives are at stake. I think at least 4 networks would really be needed.
Hotbar installs itself without any user intervention whatsoever.
There was a guy in my english class who wore the same shirt everyday, and there was some debate over if it was the SAME shirt, or if he had multiple shirts that looked the same. We made a dot on him with permanent marker and yep, the dot stayed.