Don't put your email address online, period. Other solutions like filters only address part of the problem, because you still have to pay for the bandwidth and there's the problem of false positives. I wrote a little Javascript Turing email obfuscator, which prevents renders your email address invisible to bots, even those that can execute javascript.
It comes down to a choice:
Get less spam
Make it harder for people to contact you
I don't want to put barriers in people's ways when they wish to contact me (OK, sometimes I do - 'No I will not fix your computer! I don't even know you!' - but generally I don't). Making people use a JavaScript enabled web browser AND answer a question is a barrier, and I don't want it.
Spam operators are getting more creative in their efforts to get around spam filters. R.a..n,d,o.,m p,u,,n,c.t,,u_a.t.1..0.n makes it nearly impossible to block spam messages by filtering keywords.
It doesn't take very much CPU to s/\W//g
Operators are changing to graphics interchange format images with no searchable text.
Yeah! Block all email containing only graphics!
Some spammers send in encoded formats, like Base64, to circumvent keyword filters altogether,
Base64 isn't hard to decode... or to just bin.
and relay through IP addresses that have no Domain Name System domains associated with them.
I've never seen an email with an IP address based URI that wasn't spam. Trash em
These recent developments are challenging spam-filter vendors and frustrating users.
Not this user, or this user's spam filter. Spams using these techniques get the highest spam scores and when 5 is worthy of trashing, 35 is worthy of laughing at (at least until I get so much spam I'll put it in/dev/null rather then ~/mail/spam)
Don't they
test that the relayed mail is actually delivered? ORDB does:
http://www.ordb.org/faq/#mail_accepted
Any tester that doesn't isn't very intelligent...
... but as this system lets the first few mails though from a source before blocking them, the tester will be able to send the test message through it - and welcome to RBH.
It's attitudes like this that I really have to wonder why ANY business would use Linux instead of something more free like FreeBSD. Why people feel they are entitled to proprietary source code modifications is beyond me.
Why people complain that Joe Coder says 'You can use my code if you let other people use your modifications to my code' is beyond me.
As to why people would choose Linux over BSD - maybe Linux does somethings that BSD doesn't. I certainly don't remember hearing lots of talk about embedded BSD.
Obviously he is talking about the desktop with his slamming of the development model used by free software and his grand total of zero uses of the word 'desktop' in the article!
> Funnily enough SCO are the only ones that don't run their > own OS on their webservers. The run Linux, whats wrong > with OpenServer???
They can't afford their license fees, once their billing department gets themselves sorted out they are going to switch to Windows as their can't afford the licenses for the Linux kernel either.
you either have body tags or you have frameset tags, the one you use depends on the type of html document you have
No, the specification says you need a body element or a frameset element, you don't need to use a tag to create an element though.
7.5.1 The BODY element
Start tag: optional, End tag: optional
The following is a valid HTML 4.01 Strict document, feed it in to the validator if you want conformation.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
<title>Demo of a Valid Document</title>
<h1>Demo of a Valid Document</h1>
<p>This is a valid HTML 4.01 Strict document. Note the lack of
<body> tags.</p>
(Instructions are provided for converting gaim buddy lists to the format needed by the system, but it took me a couple of minutes to figure out the syntax, so here it is):
I suggest that instead of continuing to try to get Yahoo to stop sending the messages you instead contact your telephone company and ask them to block the messages before they get to your phone.
As they are making money off you and Yahoo isn't, you are more likely to get a useful response.
I can't think of any questions right now, but some places to start if you want to find out about the topic (and hopefully generate some really insightful questions) include:
Slashdot Mirror
In my experience, it is. I can't remember the last time I got a false positive or negative, and I haven't even bothered training the bayesian filter.
Maybe I just get targetted by clueless spammers, but spam is not a major problem for me.
Spammers make money becuase most people don't run spam filters, and some people are clueless enough to do what the spammer wants.
While the spam might be increasing, I don't see it until I go and look in my spamtrap Maildir, and I don't expect that to change any time soon.
It comes down to a choice:
I don't want to put barriers in people's ways when they wish to contact me (OK, sometimes I do - 'No I will not fix your computer! I don't even know you!' - but generally I don't). Making people use a JavaScript enabled web browser AND answer a question is a barrier, and I don't want it.
It doesn't take very much CPU to s/\W//g
Yeah! Block all email containing only graphics!
Base64 isn't hard to decode... or to just bin.
I've never seen an email with an IP address based URI that wasn't spam. Trash em
Not this user, or this user's spam filter. Spams using these techniques get the highest spam scores and when 5 is worthy of trashing, 35 is worthy of laughing at (at least until I get so much spam I'll put it in /dev/null rather then ~/mail/spam)
OK... so they predict...
More Of The Same!
Astounding.
Remind you of something?.
I, on the other hand, wouldn't rest if such an exchange could take place.
Nothing wrong with Swedish stuff. Now lets see. Insert rod A in to stantion slot B. Damn! They forgot to put rod A in the box!
Why people complain that Joe Coder says 'You can use my code if you let other people use your modifications to my code' is beyond me.
As to why people would choose Linux over BSD - maybe Linux does somethings that BSD doesn't. I certainly don't remember hearing lots of talk about embedded BSD.
Obviously he is talking about the desktop with his slamming of the development model used by free software and his grand total of zero uses of the word 'desktop' in the article!
> Funnily enough SCO are the only ones that don't run their
> own OS on their webservers. The run Linux, whats wrong
> with OpenServer???
They can't afford their license fees, once their billing department gets themselves sorted out they are going to switch to Windows as their can't afford the licenses for the Linux kernel either.
While Linux can communicate with a Mac over SMB, it can also speak Appletalk.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Net-HOWTO/x2202.html
So making it harder for people to help themselves to media files over the Internet is supposed to encourage people to switch to broadband?
No he doesn't, George A. Theall does, in a comment attached to an article by Mark.
... OK, here I am getting RMS and ESR mixed up. Bad me.
Linux: Bastardisation of GNU/Linux used by entities that simply don't care about all my hard work.
No, the specification says you need a body element or a frameset element, you don't need to use a tag to create an element though.
The following is a valid HTML 4.01 Strict document, feed it in to the validator if you want conformation.
The body tags are optional in HTML (if you leave them out the browser is supposed to imply them).
Now. Download, extract the tarball, drop the ttfs into your fonts directory.
Don't you mean the male human brain? :)
Oi! I'm running Gaim!
(Instructions are provided for converting gaim buddy lists to the format needed by the system, but it took me a couple of minutes to figure out the syntax, so here it is):
On the other hand, Xine can play the first two episodes without any problems whatsoever.
Eeep - I'm up to about 25 bookshelf meters. Thankfully most of that is novels rather then RPG books.
I suggest that instead of continuing to try to get Yahoo to stop sending the messages you instead contact your telephone company and ask them to block the messages before they get to your phone.
As they are making money off you and Yahoo isn't, you are more likely to get a useful response.
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