What effing Russia are you talking about? Get an effing clue.
Since when is Stalin a Russian. Saying "Mu Russkie" with a thick Georgian accent does not classify him as Russian at least in my book. Since when is Trosky Russian? Since when is Dzerdzhinsky Russian? Since when is Buharin Russian? Since when is Kamenev Russian? Since when is...
As a matter of fact Russia and Russians suffered as much if not more then Ukraine. The estimate for the overall famine deaths for the entire ex-soviet union is 30-33 million. 7 million in Ukraine leaves 27+ million elsewhere. Mostly in Russia by the way.
300 years of occupation my arse. 2006-1654 is 352 years.
Ukraine was having the shit beaten out of it by the Polish during the second phase of the Secession from Poland war.
It asked for protection and assistance. In fact it begged for it. Its own Duma voted unanimously to request it and it asked for it in officially in a letter. And after that as was customary spent an astronomical amount of money in graft payments to the major families in the Russian Duma to get this through.
Learn your history. Searching for who is Bogdan Hmelnitcki and what did hi do for Ukraine is a good start.
In 1998 BBN Planet had the same whinge about Exodus. It even stopped their peering with them. It did not last. Users demanded it being turned back on and it got turned back on.
Even more entertaining....
Since 1997 a large portion of the non-US Internet has been using QoS. Been there, done that myself. The world did not end from traffic being prioritised, limited and otherwise bastardised left right and center. It continues to be bastardized and this is posted across a bastardization like this. It has gone through. There were cases where idiots tried to use this otherwise beneficial tool to extract more commercial advantage out of the network or their market position. They are now all bankrupt and their assets are broken down and sold around. There is a limit to the gain possible here after which users start to leave for other ISPs.
Super entertaining....
ATT has been running diffserv for god knows how long. In fact it is the only ISP that used to state as policy that it will honour an incoming diffserve markings(dunno if they still do). It is phenomenally entertaining to observe the fact that the knowledge about this has reached a PHB somewhere up there. He should be congratulated on finally understanding some of the technology behind his network about which engineers have been speaking for the last several years.
Whatever... Move along... Nothing new here...
If they wall off content completely the users will eat their arse. If they drop it under some SLAs the content owners will once eat their arse. The reason has nothing to do with common carrier. Nearly all content providers are directly connected to Tier 1 networks in the US. There are no public peerings left. It is essentially negotiated transit and there are legally binding contracts to slap an overly inventive BellDroid across the wrists. And if a content provider does not have a good transit manager it is their fault. It is a part of doing business in the US. This is the same as running a garage without a good mechanic.
First of all, if you are indeed running "an Internet Business" you should put your money where your mouth is.
One cannot run a shipping business without having his truck serviced every few thousand miles. One cannot run a garage without having the wheel alignment and testing equipment serviced at regular intervals. One cannot run a hotel without someone servicing the heating and plumbing once in a while.
So why on earth have you decided that you can run "an Internet Business" without a specialist servicing your mail and other systems once in a while?
And on your actual problem.
You are not providing enough information, but I will venture some guesses:
1. Are you using an ISP mail relay (including hosting ones)? Looking at the UK ISP market for example half of the ISPs have some problem in DNS resolution, mail relaying or both. If you run a full regression test versus the DNS infrastructure of the most loud ones (in the marketing "we have been awarded this and that sense") you will see that they do not pass. There is no way in hell one can get working mail when there is no working DNS in first place.
2. Where are you sending your mail from? Have you checked that your mail block has not been blacklisted in the past. Once again some UK ISPs are now reusing for fixed lines blocks which they used to use for dialups. These are all over blacklists around the world.
One of the most recent eco-suggestions in the UK parliament is to raise the tax on oldfashioned light bulbs until they even in price with the low power and fluorescent lighting.
In fact it will die if the CPU frequency is not scaled down all the time. 9 out of 10 or so different Pentium M laptop models I have tried over the last 1 year could not survive for more then half a day just typing on them without cpufreq. In fact most did not survive through a full Debian install because Debian default kernel cpufreq support is not good enough (and is not enabled by default). Fixing cpufreq at 75% of the nominal value has kept them alive but this brings the performance to less than that of the Turion. And it also shows that they are clearly 25% overclocked.
By the way nearly all the reviewers and benchmarkers cheat for Pentium M. It is tested from cold, not after it has run for 4 hours. This makes a lot of difference. On windoze which takes into account thermals for CPU Frequency scaling an average compile is slower by up to 50% after 4 hours of average desktop use.
Disclaimer: I have not had a chance to try a statistically significant sample of AMD laptops so I cannot say if AMD suffers from the same problem.
Looking at the frequency of attempted exploits for drupal holes on my website there is a lot wrong with it (I do not even have PHP installed). At least from security perspective.
This is a record as far as I know. Dupes - yes. But tripple posting of the same garbage is a bit too much to my liking. Even on a slow going Friday morning.
Debian ships with both 2.4 and 2.6, just use the 2.6.
Enter linux26 on the initial boot prompt and off you go.
As far as 2.4 is concerned it should read drives above 137GB, but it may have problems with some hard disc controllers. If you are running new or esoteric hardware 2.6 is definitely your answer.
Based on my personal experience with American educational system non-standard thinking is not encouraged. You have to conform to the general point of view.
I had that in English classes. The c*nt that taught them pulled 4 times in a row the trick "Oh, what a nice paper, I could give you a B now, not higher because it needs some minor work on spelling and grammar. Would you mind correcting it a bit an bringing in it next week?". This followed by "Your paper is one week overdue, I will have to give you an F now".
I had the same in a philosophy class. In fact even worse. We were allowed and even encouraged by the prof to discuss the material outside class when working on the coursework. Several American kids took to one or two of my whacky ideas which were way off-the-beaten track and used them as starting points for their original papers. This resulted in me being blamed for cheating. Nothing personal, you are just not supposed to think in a non-conformist manner and god forbid infect others with your rebellious thinking.
These are just two examples. I can continue ad naseum till tomorrow. In the two years I spent in a uni in the US I the history repeated itself again and again and again.
So I am not surprised that kids resort to cut-and-pasting ready papers. They are usually afraid to think originally. This has been weeded out.
End of the day, I had enough and I went to finish my degree in a more sane country. Possibly one of the best choices I ever made.
Or maybe that Telstra is the only ISP in the world that puts the knowledge of Microsoft Windows and its management within the company above the knowledge of ISP services and their management for user facing activities.
This observation is based on their job ads in the UK from a year ago after they bought PSI Net. They had the Windows stuff for internal use way ahead of anything ISP related on the job spec. Similarly, they are one of the very few large ISPs which are still beating the nearly dead Clarify helldesk horse instead of going for something that can be used with proper end-user input.
Now we can order the troops to do a My Lai every day and they will have no regrets, will not feel moral repercussions and their conscioiusness will not eat them at night for lining up innocent civilians against the wall.
Do not understand me wrong, I am all for treating people for actual post-traumatic stress disorder, but somehow I have this gut feeling that is not what this drug will be used for. And I do not want to be anywhere near a person whose "magic pill" has suddenly stopped working.
Barroso decided to play it safe and did not put his commission for voting and delayed the vote for one month until the Italian commissioner was replaced.
This is also the only moment when the parliament gets to decide anything. It can either approve the whole commission or turn it down. Once it has elected it, the parliament has no means to fire it. Same for a single commissioner.
This is in fact the french model for civil service. They are (sometimes) accountable to an elected body only for initial approval and never after that.
You are mistaken. It was a FreeBSD/Solaris system. All Web frontend and anything internet facing was BSD 2.x. Solaris was used for storage and backend processing only. This was for a reason. Solaris 2.5.x was one big gaping security hole in those days. If it was left facing the internet Hotmail would not have lasted long enough to be acquired.
The people who founded it had a clue and knew what they were doing. I am not FreeBSD fan (though I have managed FreeBSD boxes on and off for 10 years now), but 2.x should be given credit where credit is due. Its security, stability and networking stack were way ahead of everyone else at the time.
Microsoft tried to move it to Windows soon after they acquired it and it fell over. Twice the number of servers with much better spec then BSD running the same application under IIS could not handle the load. After that they spent more then a year developing and planning and migrated it in several steps to Windows.
It will be very difficult for the FCC to do anything here because as a result of the death of public peering points around 2000 all usual content suspects are directly connected to the BellSouth (and other tier 1 providers) networks and are in direct commercial agreement with them. As a result these are just normal customer/provider relations. It is not transit or anything originated by another carrier carried across BellSouth and dumped onto another carrier. So common carrier ideas will be very difficult to apply. If the FCC did not close their eyes when the Tier1 effectively formed a cartel and killed all peering points around 2000 and if it did not allow babybells to grow back to mabell size it would not have happened. Now there is little that can be done besides restarting the MaBell breakup process
You need to read non-Apple security material more. When MacOS X came out a whole list of setuid apps used by the "pretty shell" to tell the OS to do simple things like load a CD or eject it had security wholes all over the place. http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/securityfoc us/bugtraq/2001-10/0117.html is a prime example. I admit Apple learned from its mistakes pretty fast, but the initial release of MacOS X was one big local security hole. You are correct - networkwise it was more or less OK, but once someone managed to connect it was ripe for picking.
Never judge things by appearance and what the majority thinks of them. This is an instinctive reaction and this is what people usually do and it is wrong.
There was a very cool research article published recently. It compared reactions of people to a selected set of especially "scary and disgusting" faces of serial killers and other hardcore criminals with their reaction to an morph face generated by averaging from all the delinquents used in the study. Funnily enough they found this face calming and attractive. Similarly, an average face of a large set of the population was more attractive then 95% of the members used to produce it. So on, so fourth.
Essentially what this (and a few other) psychological studies have proven is that we are scared of the different and attracted to the familiar average. It takes us an extra effort to look at something unfamiliar.
Sad but true. So one should never judge things in 50 milliseconds, because 50 milliseconds are not enough for something unfamiliar. Unfortunately the article is right, this exactly what Joe Average does.
You cannot turn off SPAM protection on neither Yahoo nor Hotmail. Both use greylisting with positive feeback loop and per netblock statistics on their border. This cannot be turned of on a per recipient basis.
This approach alone kills 98%+ of all SPAM out there.
Speaking based on experience deploying it. It works (TM). If you one or more RBLS of relatively low viciousness like SBL+XBL and spamcop the SPAM goes to sub 1% of its 2005 level.
You are kind'a correct. True, algae grows everywhere. The problem is that it is not growing in a concentration for anything usefull. If you dip your fish in an algae broth that is as concentrated as necessary for it to be of any use for extracting food supplements they will die in 5 minutes or less because their gills will be completely clogged up. I assume that biofuel is the same (I may be wrong). And by the way - I used to study this (granted this was 20 years ago) and I used to have 8+ fish tanks around the apartment. So I know both sides of the story first hand.
Nope you are not wrong. Algae are an extreme pain in the arse to grow. They require loads of sun, loads of CO2 and the moment their concentration reaches a usefull level the broth tends to start dieing out, bacteria take over and contaminate the broth. So on. Of course, growing them for fuel is different from growing them for biotech where you need them "pure", but still. The idea of using algae is wildly optimistic.
Meganne safety rating is off the scale. The occupant safety level is so good that they are having to redesign the tests because of it. At 35 mph collision of any type (front, side flat, back and side pillar) there is no damage to the occupants. At all. The test result is all green with a possible minor spot of yellow (which corresponds to a bruise). Just look at the EUROncap safety tests http://www.euroncap.com/. Same for every Renault made in the last 3 years.
At the same time the Hummer is not even on the list. In fact if it was, it would have pulled a 2-2.5 star rating at best. Same as a suicidal box like Fiat Ceicento. I have seen a crashed Hummer so this unscientific opinion is based on seeing what happens when it smashes. If you are driving this POS you have a death wish.
A version of RBL which included both Spammers and advertised targets was available as a BGP feed since days forgotten. As early as 1998.
Simply, none is suicidal enough to use it except Teleglobe. At least noone that I know. I have considered its use in two jobs and have said "nope, do not smoke that stuff".
Above used to run the service so no wonder they were using it themselves. Whatever people say about Paul Vixie he is a great believer in "Though Shalt Eat Ya Own Dogfood".
There is plenty of space for other more meaningfull conspiracy theories. Move along.
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What effing Russia are you talking about? Get an effing clue.
Since when is Stalin a Russian. Saying "Mu Russkie" with a thick Georgian accent does not classify him as Russian at least in my book. Since when is Trosky Russian? Since when is Dzerdzhinsky Russian? Since when is Buharin Russian? Since when is Kamenev Russian? Since when is...
As a matter of fact Russia and Russians suffered as much if not more then Ukraine. The estimate for the overall famine deaths for the entire ex-soviet union is 30-33 million. 7 million in Ukraine leaves 27+ million elsewhere. Mostly in Russia by the way.
300 years of occupation my arse. 2006-1654 is 352 years.
Ukraine was having the shit beaten out of it by the Polish during the second phase of the Secession from Poland war.
It asked for protection and assistance. In fact it begged for it. Its own Duma voted unanimously to request it and it asked for it in officially in a letter. And after that as was customary spent an astronomical amount of money in graft payments to the major families in the Russian Duma to get this through.
Learn your history. Searching for who is Bogdan Hmelnitcki and what did hi do for Ukraine is a good start.
Entertaining...
In 1998 BBN Planet had the same whinge about Exodus. It even stopped their peering with them. It did not last. Users demanded it being turned back on and it got turned back on.
Even more entertaining....
Since 1997 a large portion of the non-US Internet has been using QoS. Been there, done that myself. The world did not end from traffic being prioritised, limited and otherwise bastardised left right and center. It continues to be bastardized and this is posted across a bastardization like this. It has gone through. There were cases where idiots tried to use this otherwise beneficial tool to extract more commercial advantage out of the network or their market position. They are now all bankrupt and their assets are broken down and sold around. There is a limit to the gain possible here after which users start to leave for other ISPs.
Super entertaining....
ATT has been running diffserv for god knows how long. In fact it is the only ISP that used to state as policy that it will honour an incoming diffserve markings(dunno if they still do). It is phenomenally entertaining to observe the fact that the knowledge about this has reached a PHB somewhere up there. He should be congratulated on finally understanding some of the technology behind his network about which engineers have been speaking for the last several years.
Whatever... Move along... Nothing new here...
If they wall off content completely the users will eat their arse. If they drop it under some SLAs the content owners will once eat their arse. The reason has nothing to do with common carrier. Nearly all content providers are directly connected to Tier 1 networks in the US. There are no public peerings left. It is essentially negotiated transit and there are legally binding contracts to slap an overly inventive BellDroid across the wrists. And if a content provider does not have a good transit manager it is their fault. It is a part of doing business in the US. This is the same as running a garage without a good mechanic.
First of all, if you are indeed running "an Internet Business" you should put your money where your mouth is.
One cannot run a shipping business without having his truck serviced every few thousand miles. One cannot run a garage without having the wheel alignment and testing equipment serviced at regular intervals. One cannot run a hotel without someone servicing the heating and plumbing once in a while.
So why on earth have you decided that you can run "an Internet Business" without a specialist servicing your mail and other systems once in a while?
And on your actual problem.
You are not providing enough information, but I will venture some guesses:
1. Are you using an ISP mail relay (including hosting ones)? Looking at the UK ISP market for example half of the ISPs have some problem in DNS resolution, mail relaying or both. If you run a full regression test versus the DNS infrastructure of the most loud ones (in the marketing "we have been awarded this and that sense") you will see that they do not pass. There is no way in hell one can get working mail when there is no working DNS in first place.
2. Where are you sending your mail from? Have you checked that your mail block has not been blacklisted in the past. Once again some UK ISPs are now reusing for fixed lines blocks which they used to use for dialups. These are all over blacklists around the world.
Welcome to the real world.
One of the most recent eco-suggestions in the UK parliament is to raise the tax on oldfashioned light bulbs until they even in price with the low power and fluorescent lighting.
Hello? Ever heard of thermodynamics?
So where exactly does that power go? In the form of flying angels that flap around the room maybe?
Seconded.
In fact it will die if the CPU frequency is not scaled down all the time. 9 out of 10 or so different Pentium M laptop models I have tried over the last 1 year could not survive for more then half a day just typing on them without cpufreq. In fact most did not survive through a full Debian install because Debian default kernel cpufreq support is not good enough (and is not enabled by default). Fixing cpufreq at 75% of the nominal value has kept them alive but this brings the performance to less than that of the Turion. And it also shows that they are clearly 25% overclocked.
By the way nearly all the reviewers and benchmarkers cheat for Pentium M. It is tested from cold, not after it has run for 4 hours. This makes a lot of difference. On windoze which takes into account thermals for CPU Frequency scaling an average compile is slower by up to 50% after 4 hours of average desktop use.
Disclaimer: I have not had a chance to try a statistically significant sample of AMD laptops so I cannot say if AMD suffers from the same problem.
Looking at the frequency of attempted exploits for drupal holes on my website there is a lot wrong with it (I do not even have PHP installed). At least from security perspective.
This is a record as far as I know. Dupes - yes. But tripple posting of the same garbage is a bit too much to my liking. Even on a slow going Friday morning.
Are you referring to this http://www.dominique-petersen.com/photos/Funny/fun nypics1/.pabin/bushie.jpg.detail.html?
So what exactly is your problem?
Debian ships with both 2.4 and 2.6, just use the 2.6.
Enter linux26 on the initial boot prompt and off you go.
As far as 2.4 is concerned it should read drives above 137GB, but it may have problems with some hard disc controllers. If you are running new or esoteric hardware 2.6 is definitely your answer.
The reason here is rather more fundamental.
Based on my personal experience with American educational system non-standard thinking is not encouraged. You have to conform to the general point of view.
I had that in English classes. The c*nt that taught them pulled 4 times in a row the trick "Oh, what a nice paper, I could give you a B now, not higher because it needs some minor work on spelling and grammar. Would you mind correcting it a bit an bringing in it next week?". This followed by "Your paper is one week overdue, I will have to give you an F now".
I had the same in a philosophy class. In fact even worse. We were allowed and even encouraged by the prof to discuss the material outside class when working on the coursework. Several American kids took to one or two of my whacky ideas which were way off-the-beaten track and used them as starting points for their original papers. This resulted in me being blamed for cheating. Nothing personal, you are just not supposed to think in a non-conformist manner and god forbid infect others with your rebellious thinking.
These are just two examples. I can continue ad naseum till tomorrow. In the two years I spent in a uni in the US I the history repeated itself again and again and again.
So I am not surprised that kids resort to cut-and-pasting ready papers. They are usually afraid to think originally. This has been weeded out.
End of the day, I had enough and I went to finish my degree in a more sane country. Possibly one of the best choices I ever made.
Or maybe that Telstra is the only ISP in the world that puts the knowledge of Microsoft Windows and its management within the company above the knowledge of ISP services and their management for user facing activities.
This observation is based on their job ads in the UK from a year ago after they bought PSI Net. They had the Windows stuff for internal use way ahead of anything ISP related on the job spec. Similarly, they are one of the very few large ISPs which are still beating the nearly dead Clarify helldesk horse instead of going for something that can be used with proper end-user input.
So on, so fourth.
Now we can order the troops to do a My Lai every day and they will have no regrets, will not feel moral repercussions and their conscioiusness will not eat them at night for lining up innocent civilians against the wall.
Do not understand me wrong, I am all for treating people for actual post-traumatic stress disorder, but somehow I have this gut feeling that is not what this drug will be used for. And I do not want to be anywhere near a person whose "magic pill" has suddenly stopped working.
Barroso decided to play it safe and did not put his commission for voting and delayed the vote for one month until the Italian commissioner was replaced.
This is also the only moment when the parliament gets to decide anything. It can either approve the whole commission or turn it down. Once it has elected it, the parliament has no means to fire it. Same for a single commissioner.
This is in fact the french model for civil service. They are (sometimes) accountable to an elected body only for initial approval and never after that.
No. EC is built according to the french civil service model: "We know better and we are not accountable to anyone".
IIRC, For the time being there is no procedure to impeach or remove one specific commissioner via any of the elected bodies.
You are mistaken. It was a FreeBSD/Solaris system. All Web frontend and anything internet facing was BSD 2.x. Solaris was used for storage and backend processing only. This was for a reason. Solaris 2.5.x was one big gaping security hole in those days. If it was left facing the internet Hotmail would not have lasted long enough to be acquired.
The people who founded it had a clue and knew what they were doing. I am not FreeBSD fan (though I have managed FreeBSD boxes on and off for 10 years now), but 2.x should be given credit where credit is due. Its security, stability and networking stack were way ahead of everyone else at the time.
Microsoft tried to move it to Windows soon after they acquired it and it fell over. Twice the number of servers with much better spec then BSD running the same application under IIS could not handle the load. After that they spent more then a year developing and planning and migrated it in several steps to Windows.
It will be very difficult for the FCC to do anything here because as a result of the death of public peering points around 2000 all usual content suspects are directly connected to the BellSouth (and other tier 1 providers) networks and are in direct commercial agreement with them. As a result these are just normal customer/provider relations. It is not transit or anything originated by another carrier carried across BellSouth and dumped onto another carrier. So common carrier ideas will be very difficult to apply.
If the FCC did not close their eyes when the Tier1 effectively formed a cartel and killed all peering points around 2000 and if it did not allow babybells to grow back to mabell size it would not have happened. Now there is little that can be done besides restarting the MaBell breakup process
You need to read non-Apple security material more. When MacOS X came out a whole list of setuid apps used by the "pretty shell" to tell the OS to do simple things like load a CD or eject it had security wholes all over the place. http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/securityfoc us/bugtraq/2001-10/0117.html is a prime example. I admit Apple learned from its mistakes pretty fast, but the initial release of MacOS X was one big local security hole. You are correct - networkwise it was more or less OK, but once someone managed to connect it was ripe for picking.
Never judge things by appearance and what the majority thinks of them. This is an instinctive reaction and this is what people usually do and it is wrong.
There was a very cool research article published recently. It compared reactions of people to a selected set of especially "scary and disgusting" faces of serial killers and other hardcore criminals with their reaction to an morph face generated by averaging from all the delinquents used in the study. Funnily enough they found this face calming and attractive. Similarly, an average face of a large set of the population was more attractive then 95% of the members used to produce it. So on, so fourth.
Essentially what this (and a few other) psychological studies have proven is that we are scared of the different and attracted to the familiar average. It takes us an extra effort to look at something unfamiliar.
Sad but true. So one should never judge things in 50 milliseconds, because 50 milliseconds are not enough for something unfamiliar. Unfortunately the article is right, this exactly what Joe Average does.
You cannot turn off SPAM protection on neither Yahoo nor Hotmail. Both use greylisting with positive feeback loop and per netblock statistics on their border. This cannot be turned of on a per recipient basis.
This approach alone kills 98%+ of all SPAM out there.
Speaking based on experience deploying it. It works (TM). If you one or more RBLS of relatively low viciousness like SBL+XBL and spamcop the SPAM goes to sub 1% of its 2005 level.
You are kind'a correct. True, algae grows everywhere. The problem is that it is not growing in a concentration for anything usefull. If you dip your fish in an algae broth that is as concentrated as necessary for it to be of any use for extracting food supplements they will die in 5 minutes or less because their gills will be completely clogged up. I assume that biofuel is the same (I may be wrong). And by the way - I used to study this (granted this was 20 years ago) and I used to have 8+ fish tanks around the apartment. So I know both sides of the story first hand.
Nope you are not wrong. Algae are an extreme pain in the arse to grow. They require loads of sun, loads of CO2 and the moment their concentration reaches a usefull level the broth tends to start dieing out, bacteria take over and contaminate the broth. So on. Of course, growing them for fuel is different from growing them for biotech where you need them "pure", but still. The idea of using algae is wildly optimistic.
Meganne safety rating is off the scale. The occupant safety level is so good that they are having to redesign the tests because of it. At 35 mph collision of any type (front, side flat, back and side pillar) there is no damage to the occupants. At all. The test result is all green with a possible minor spot of yellow (which corresponds to a bruise). Just look at the EUROncap safety tests http://www.euroncap.com/. Same for every Renault made in the last 3 years.
t ails.php?id1=1&id2=201) is safer then being in a Hummer.
At the same time the Hummer is not even on the list. In fact if it was, it would have pulled a 2-2.5 star rating at best. Same as a suicidal box like Fiat Ceicento. I have seen a crashed Hummer so this unscientific opinion is based on seeing what happens when it smashes. If you are driving this POS you have a death wish.
Essentially even being in a something microscopic by American standards (like Modus http://www.euroncap.com/content/safety_ratings/de
There is nothing secret here.
A version of RBL which included both Spammers and advertised targets was available as a BGP feed since days forgotten. As early as 1998.
Simply, none is suicidal enough to use it except Teleglobe. At least noone that I know. I have considered its use in two jobs and have said "nope, do not smoke that stuff".
Above used to run the service so no wonder they were using it themselves. Whatever people say about Paul Vixie he is a great believer in "Though Shalt Eat Ya Own Dogfood".
There is plenty of space for other more meaningfull conspiracy theories. Move along.