And the whole "cheating on his wife" thing is a load of horse hooey! JFK had a number of mistresses, but he was also pretty tight with the press corps and the were descrete with him. Franklin Roosevelt died while he was with his mistress, about whom his wife knew. There were no secrets there. Clinton was elected to do a job, and people can argue about how well he did it, but his personal life is a personal matter and people who think it's the public's business need an attitude adjustment!
If I flaw Clinton for anything in this regard, it's for not telling Congress and the special prosecutor that his sex life is none of their business. He'd have gotten applause from me and a whole lot of other people who are sick of the petty moralistic double standard re. sex which seems to be so prevelant in the US. Other countries just laugh at us.
Would you kindly point out to me where their TOS document prohibits anyone from "watching porn"? I read it over, although fairly quickly, and all I saw was a notice that you were responsible for what you accessed on the Internet, not Sprint. And as far as a restriction on sending out spam, more power to them. Almost all ISPs have this in their AUP.
The service looks little better than TW/RR's cable comsumer level access as far as what you can and can't do. The bigger question is whether or not they can be required to provide open access to their broadband service. TW, by being big and piggy, has successfully stonewalled a number of states and municipalities which have tried to require them to provide IP transport to the provider of one's choice rather than to their own proprietary service.
The webserver at www.ihateapple.com appears to have been rooted and the link posted with the article appears to have been replaced with a hacked page. Anyone have another source for information on this topic?
"That being said, if someone wrote a sendmail ruleset to allow
activating/deactivating the DNS-based
spamhaus-lookup services (RBL, DUL) on a per-destination-address
basis, I'd install it in a heartbeat to give my
customers the choice to unfilter their mail."
It's called qmail, with Sam Varshavchic's qmail-uce patches using per-user maildrop filters. The RBL can be implemented at a system level or at a user account level.
I believe Sam's courier MTA does this too, but it's still not ready for prime time.
I didn't see this myself but I'm inclined to believe the evidence presented on the Peacefire technical list. Bennett Haselton was getting some pretty puzzling reports of people within the AboveNet network unable to access the peacefire website, and he used the usual probe tools from the peacefire website to track the problem. I'm not sure how it was found out that it hinged on the RBL. These folks are professional programmers and very savvy about the Internet.
Paul Vixie, who helped develop the RBL, is on the advisory board of AboveNet, which owns PAIX, which houses MAPS, so there's ample room for collaboration there.
1. The RBL is not used by individuals, it's used by ISPs. Some ISPs give individual subscribers the option of using the RBL to filter mail or not. Others don't
2. The RBL comes in different flavors. One flaver, provided as a router Border Gate Protocol feed, can be, and apparently sometimes is used to block access altogether to sites listed in the RBL.
"The MAPS RBL is used by AboveNet to help reduce the amount of spam received by customers. "
The implication obviously is that they're using the RBL specifically to block spam email, so you have less of it in your mailbox. Missing from this is the information that they're using the RBL to block access to parts of the Internet, and that some of the sites blocked may have nothing at all to do with spam.
I for one will probably remove the RBL from my mail servers now that I've read this.
I use the RBL in its DNS lookup form on my mail server. I also use the Open relay list (RSS) and the Dial-up User list (DUL). I go over my mail logs from time to time to see what's being caught. Here's how a recent log looked.
SMTP connections blocked by the RSS - 286
SMTP connections blocked by the DUL - 16
SMTP connections blocked by the RBL - 4
I went over the logs pretty carefully, and all appeared to be legitimate blocks. Most of the RSS blocks were on servers in Asia or Eastern Europe, or were IP's listed by APNIC. The DUL blocks were mostly by clueless uu.net spammers trying to talk to my server from their uu.net dialups using names like "califmillionaire@yahoo.com". The RBL blocks were all to from harrispollonline.com, which is a major pest and deserves to in the RBL.
If it were only spammers whose websites were in the RBL it would be one thing. Jamie's point is that the escalation of MAPS' actions with the RBL to block entire class C's, coupled with the use of the router BGP to stop all traffic to and from RBL-listed addresses, effectively prevents access to a lot of legitimate sites from within the network space of providers like AboveNet, and this constitutes censorship, albeit more of the nature of killing innocent bystanders than actively going after these sites because of some mis-begotten assumption about their contents. Censorship is still censorship, whether it's accidental or intentionally targeted.
Apparently AboveNet also failed to inform its customers, or prospective customers via its website, that portions of the Internet would be dark to them because of an action by an intermediate provider (AboveNet) against another intermediate provider (Media3). This ain't the way it's done, folks! As much as I hate spam (and I use the RBL, DUL and RSS to block on port 25) this breaks the Internet.
IMHO, even though it seems that AboveNet has stopped BGP blocking of RBL-listed sites, at least for the moment, they owe an apology and explanantion to their customers, Media3's non-spamware customers, and to the Internet community at large.
Some of this stuff goes back a long time! Back in 1995 Justin Hall tried to register fuck.com and ended up with an extended and very funny series of exchanges with various DNS registrars from Jon Postel on down. Take a look at http://www.justin.org/webpub/fuck.com.ht ml.
Interesting... The domain is currently registered.
$whois fuck.com
Registrant:
STATUS QUO ANTE (FUCK17-DOM)
United States District Court, District of
New Hampshire, 55 Pleasant Street
Concord, NH 03301
NSI is the Tech, Admin and Billing contact. Looks like they're scared of someone registering it, and also scared of someone suing them because they've locked it out.
I note, interestingly enough, that while the domain has a whois registration, it has no name servers. Try to do that for a domain of your choosing! Perhaps if someone wrote the court a nice letter, and since they're obviously not no using the domain, they'd be willing to give it to someone who might make better use of it:)
So use NT, where a Microsoft staffer may make changes that no one else knows about, and that probably go undocumented - and in the next release, suprise! (and no source code to boot)
It's one thing to develope an OS which will run non-MS apps built on the published MS Windows API. It's quite another to be able to run MS apps such as the MS Office Suite or MSIE which apparently rely on unpublished features of the API.
Micro$oft has been playing with a stacked deck for years! It's naive of anyone to think that cloning the functionality of the published Windows API will bring them even close to cloning Windows. MS, as usual, reserves the best for its own. Look at the difficulty the WINE people have had.
This is the usual troll-fare which ZDNet spews out all the time. Remember that one of their star columnists is Jesse Berst whose article "You could get fired for using Linux" was one of the classic FUD pieces of recent years.
I think ZDNet does this sort of thing intentionally just to get people to their site so they can demonstrate traffic to their advertisers. Journalistic integrity be hanged! If you can't draw people to your site by saying intelligent and knowledgable things, then surely you can get them there by spewing out inflamatory misinformation which is guaranteed to draw flames.
This is only going to happen if we let it happen. If people get carried away with high-tech whiz-bang techo toys and forget that the Internet is first and foremost a new and powerful way for people to communicate, then yes, we're going to lose our Internet freedoms. The ONLY way to stop Bad Things from happening is for people to get together and bust their butts to make sure these things don't happen.
I'm in the middle of the CyberPatrol / CPHack / Peacefire issue - square in the middle. If everyone on/. who sympathises with us were to get involved we'd have the problem licked!
Short and simple! Please keep in mind that public libraries are operated by governments, local, state and/or federal. It is not the responsibility of government and in fact is expressly forbidden by the US Constitution for any governmental institution to engage in censorship. Libraries are no exception. If you want to open a private library with private funds, no problem, but a public library is another matter.
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If I flaw Clinton for anything in this regard, it's for not telling Congress and the special prosecutor that his sex life is none of their business. He'd have gotten applause from me and a whole lot of other people who are sick of the petty moralistic double standard re. sex which seems to be so prevelant in the US. Other countries just laugh at us.
The service looks little better than TW/RR's cable comsumer level access as far as what you can and can't do. The bigger question is whether or not they can be required to provide open access to their broadband service. TW, by being big and piggy, has successfully stonewalled a number of states and municipalities which have tried to require them to provide IP transport to the provider of one's choice rather than to their own proprietary service.
The webserver at www.ihateapple.com appears to have been rooted and the link posted with the article appears to have been replaced with a hacked page. Anyone have another source for information on this topic?
It's called qmail, with Sam Varshavchic's qmail-uce patches using per-user maildrop filters. The RBL can be implemented at a system level or at a user account level.
I believe Sam's courier MTA does this too, but it's still not ready for prime time.
Paul Vixie, who helped develop the RBL, is on the advisory board of AboveNet, which owns PAIX, which houses MAPS, so there's ample room for collaboration there.
1. The RBL is not used by individuals, it's used by ISPs. Some ISPs give individual subscribers the option of using the RBL to filter mail or not. Others don't
2. The RBL comes in different flavors. One flaver, provided as a router Border Gate Protocol feed, can be, and apparently sometimes is used to block access altogether to sites listed in the RBL.
"The MAPS RBL is used by AboveNet to help reduce the amount of spam received by customers. "
The implication obviously is that they're using the RBL specifically to block spam email, so you have less of it in your mailbox. Missing from this is the information that they're using the RBL to block access to parts of the Internet, and that some of the sites blocked may have nothing at all to do with spam.
I use the RBL in its DNS lookup form on my mail server. I also use the Open relay list (RSS) and the Dial-up User list (DUL). I go over my mail logs from time to time to see what's being caught. Here's how a recent log looked.
SMTP connections blocked by the RSS - 286
SMTP connections blocked by the DUL - 16
SMTP connections blocked by the RBL - 4
I went over the logs pretty carefully, and all appeared to be legitimate blocks. Most of the RSS blocks were on servers in Asia or Eastern Europe, or were IP's listed by APNIC. The DUL blocks were mostly by clueless uu.net spammers trying to talk to my server from their uu.net dialups using names like "califmillionaire@yahoo.com". The RBL blocks were all to from harrispollonline.com, which is a major pest and deserves to in the RBL.
Apparently AboveNet also failed to inform its customers, or prospective customers via its website, that portions of the Internet would be dark to them because of an action by an intermediate provider (AboveNet) against another intermediate provider (Media3). This ain't the way it's done, folks! As much as I hate spam (and I use the RBL, DUL and RSS to block on port 25) this breaks the Internet.
IMHO, even though it seems that AboveNet has stopped BGP blocking of RBL-listed sites, at least for the moment, they owe an apology and explanantion to their customers, Media3's non-spamware customers, and to the Internet community at large.
Some of this stuff goes back a long time! Back in 1995 Justin Hall tried to register fuck.com and ended up with an extended and very funny series of exchanges with various DNS registrars from Jon Postel on down. Take a look at http://www.justin.org/webpub/fuck.com .ht ml.
:)
Interesting... The domain is currently registered.
$whois fuck.com
Registrant:
STATUS QUO ANTE (FUCK17-DOM)
United States District Court, District of
New Hampshire, 55 Pleasant Street
Concord, NH 03301
NSI is the Tech, Admin and Billing contact. Looks like they're scared of someone registering it, and also scared of someone suing them because they've locked it out.
I note, interestingly enough, that while the domain has a whois registration, it has no name servers. Try to do that for a domain of your choosing! Perhaps if someone wrote the court a nice letter, and since they're obviously not no using the domain, they'd be willing to give it to someone who might make better use of it
So use NT, where a Microsoft staffer may make changes that no one else knows about, and that probably go undocumented - and in the next release, suprise! (and no source code to boot)
Micro$oft has been playing with a stacked deck for years! It's naive of anyone to think that cloning the functionality of the published Windows API will bring them even close to cloning Windows. MS, as usual, reserves the best for its own. Look at the difficulty the WINE people have had.
I think ZDNet does this sort of thing intentionally just to get people to their site so they can demonstrate traffic to their advertisers. Journalistic integrity be hanged! If you can't draw people to your site by saying intelligent and knowledgable things, then surely you can get them there by spewing out inflamatory misinformation which is guaranteed to draw flames.
I'm in the middle of the CyberPatrol / CPHack / Peacefire issue - square in the middle. If everyone on /. who sympathises with us were to get involved we'd have the problem licked!