As a former purchaser (and IT person) for a company, I can say that when given the choice, businesses will choose the cheaper solution. "Spend the bare minimum to get it done" was the constant mantra from management.
Was laid off, but I wasn't angry. Budget cuts. They called me in about once a month as a consultant for something I hadn't documented yet, or something only I had experience with.
Now they hired me as a consultant in a different department at consultant rates, and are trying to change the budget to hire me back for real. I said I'd consider it.
My former employer had many people leave for many circumstances.
The best exit routes were where the employee gave 2-3 months notice, so things could be handled in a nice and calm way. Documentation could be changed, and responsibilities moved and managed.
The worst were where the employee gave half-day notice, and there was nobody trained adequately to fill those responsibilities. Panic ensues. Worst was a CFO who quit.
There are going to be some that say that we are already applying that to humans more than we think, and really have been for a long time.
Old (asian?) stories of farmers trading their daughters for livestock to plow the field..... Even today, I know people who would take in a stray cat, but won't give 50 cents to a homeless person. Especially with the continued marginalizing of the poor.
Check the slashdot archives/history for email. These items have been discussed MANY times before here. Search slashdot for "spam" or google for "spam solution site:slashdot.org" or "Obligatory spam solution rejection form"
To answer your wonderings: Some ISPs block port 25 except going to their own servers. This means you can only access the email server of your ISP and no other ISP. Can't forge return addresses then. Many people don't like this.
Charging a fee for email is immediately flamed by mailing lists. Those people legitimately send 1000 or so messages a day to people that signed up for the list. This will cost them upward of $10 a day or more.
Tell him to start with the big email ISPs (including Hotmail, Yahoo,....) Getting accounts is sometimes too easy, and becomes a game of whack-a-mole with 3 million holes and one hammer.
Checking for valid email addresses and routes has been brought up many times. ISPs (sometimes justifyably) don't want to implement the changes necessary to stop spam.
Sorry to whine here, but if big ISPs haven't changed yet, why should small ones.
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As a former purchaser (and IT person) for a company, I can say that when given the choice, businesses will choose the cheaper solution.
"Spend the bare minimum to get it done" was the constant mantra from management.
Did to me.
Was laid off, but I wasn't angry. Budget cuts. They called me in about once a month as a consultant for something I hadn't documented yet, or something only I had experience with.
Now they hired me as a consultant in a different department at consultant rates, and are trying to change the budget to hire me back for real. I said I'd consider it.
I'm waiting for sites to start putting "This site best viewed with FireFox" statements on them.
Doesn't mean the site actually has to have a different view, just a statement. Things always look better in FireFox....
At least promp some more people to change......
OMGWTFBBQ?
Oh my god!
What the fsck?
Bar-b-que!
Don't like him?
Set your proxy to block his site.
The people who got spam probably got annoyed at getting spam, increasing their heart rate, and burning more energy.
That, or the exercise of clicking "Delete"
My former employer had many people leave for many circumstances.
The best exit routes were where the employee gave 2-3 months notice, so things could be handled in a nice and calm way. Documentation could be changed, and responsibilities moved and managed.
The worst were where the employee gave half-day notice, and there was nobody trained adequately to fill those responsibilities. Panic ensues. Worst was a CFO who quit.
There are going to be some that say that we are already applying that to humans more than we think, and really have been for a long time.
Old (asian?) stories of farmers trading their daughters for livestock to plow the field.....
Even today, I know people who would take in a stray cat, but won't give 50 cents to a homeless person.
Especially with the continued marginalizing of the poor.
I can't find a proper link yet, but didn't someone once set up a conversation between Alice chatterbot and a Zippy the Pinhead chatterbot?
IIRC, Alice got upset and stopped the conversation because Zippy was....well...being Zippy.
Check the slashdot archives/history for email.
These items have been discussed MANY times before here.
Search slashdot for "spam" or google for "spam solution site:slashdot.org" or "Obligatory spam solution rejection form"
To answer your wonderings:
Some ISPs block port 25 except going to their own servers. This means you can only access the email server of your ISP and no other ISP. Can't forge return addresses then. Many people don't like this.
Charging a fee for email is immediately flamed by mailing lists. Those people legitimately send 1000 or so messages a day to people that signed up for the list. This will cost them upward of $10 a day or more.
Tell him to start with the big email ISPs (including Hotmail, Yahoo, ....)
Getting accounts is sometimes too easy, and becomes a game of whack-a-mole with 3 million holes and one hammer.
Checking for valid email addresses and routes has been brought up many times. ISPs (sometimes justifyably) don't want to implement the changes necessary to stop spam.
Sorry to whine here, but if big ISPs haven't changed yet, why should small ones.
How long until MS starts suing for using "Office"???
Can't we find better names for projects that won't get sued?????