Here's mine... I was thinking it was revenge on the person at the email address listed in the parent post. I have to admit, I found it kind of humorous.
I got the one from the parent post as well.
>>>>>>>>>> Hello,
I'm a time traveler stuck here in 2003. Upon arriving here my dimensional warp generator stopped working. I trusted a company here by the name of LLC Lasers to repair my Generation 3 52 4350A watch unit, and they fled on me. I am going to need a new DWG unit, prefereably the rechargeable AMD wrist watch model with the GRC79 induction motor, four I80200 warp stabilizers, 512GB of SRAM and the menu driven GUI with front panel XID display.
I will take whatever model you have in stock, as long as its received certification for being safe on carbon based life forms.
In terms of payment: I dont have any Galactic Credits left. Payment can be made in platinum gold or 2003 currency upon safe delivery of unit. Please transport unit in either a brown paper bag or box to below coordinates on Sunday July 27th at (exactly 3:00pm) Eastern Stand Time. If you miss this timeframe please email me.
42.4845467 & Longitude -71.1576157 and the ground is 101.3' above sea level.
Although those coordinates are a secure guarded area, these channels through email are never secure. Unfortunately it is the only form of communication I have right now. There is a good chance that sombody will try to redirect the signal. The unit must be teleported directly in a way that nobody will be able to interfere with the transference.
After unit has been sent please email me at: *address withheld* with payment instructions. Do not reply directly back to this email.
The fundamental problem with spam is that it's resource abuse. Filtering only increases the resources used.
By putting legislation into effect most spammers would move their operations offshore. The simple solution is to block those companies. To most of us it's not a big deal as we don't do business with companies outside the US. But it does hurt international business for those who do and it shifts our problem onto someone else.
I can only imagine the Good Guy sys admins overseas pissed off because their customers can't get email to American companies after having their entire country blacklisted.
At least Missouri does and I imagine most others do as well. So if you did forward your spam it might not get there.
The problem is half of our reps and senators don't even use a computer. Their assistants do but they don't. In Missouri at least, some of the ones that do use a computer see "just hit delete" as the perfect solution.
If I'm already on the Missouri list and it's been nearly 100% successful, why would I need to be on the national list? Missouri isn't sharing it's data according to the site and I'm kind of glad because that would probably lead to "charities" from out of state calling me.
Bandwidth and internet access isn't a God given right. It's a luxury and there are costs all over the place. Even if you cut out all the marketing and advertising you still have the cost of equipment and the cost of the people who have to run it.
Did it ever actually reach 54mbit? 802.11b
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Seems like they should have called it 802.11e or something.
Maybe I'm missing something but what happens when I send an email to you and your system sends me a challenge using a different email address? Then my system sends yours a challenge and it could go on forever...
It wouldn't necessarily have to be available. Instead, the spammers could upload their lists to a server and the server could return addresses not on the "Do not email" list.
I've proposed this to the state of Missouri but no go so far.
About a month ago I bought a vpr Matrix 175b4 laptop and the thing is great. The only two thing it's missing is USB 2.0.
At $800 AR it was the best bang for the buck that you could buy at the time.
I wouldn't have minded having a 2nd PCMCIA slot, but the truth of the matter is that all of the PCMCIA cards I use except a CF to PCMCIA converter take up too much room anyway.
AOL "sucks" because it used to be a crappy service that infested your PC and was never to be removed. Now I think they've cleaned up their act. I think you can even get connected to AOL without all the software using a standard dial-up connection.
The thing is, that crappy software interface is good for a lot of computer illiterate people.
The junk CDs help subsidize the cost of postage rates too.
While I don't think they made the best decision, it is nice to see SOMEONE doing something drastic to reduce spam. Maybe this will get enough coverage to make everyone agree that it's time to do something about the problem.
I'd hate to see them removed. Maybe it would be better to have a filter option, that way for the person that wants to see those, they can and possibly start a new fork and pick up where the project was left off.
We had a cisco isdn router that was somehow caching pages and giving 404 errors if you hit any existing pages, but letting newly created pages through.
The thing was definately possessed because this behavior was consistent across multiple OS and web servers!
We replaced it and everything was fine. Still can't figure out what the heck was going on that day.
What I mean is that games like Mario RPG were 3d but used in a 2d manner. It worked really well. I wish other developers would experiment with this route.
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Here's mine... I was thinking it was revenge on the person at the email address listed in the parent post. I have to admit, I found it kind of humorous.
I got the one from the parent post as well.
>>>>>>>>>>
Hello,
I'm a time traveler stuck here in 2003. Upon arriving here my dimensional warp generator stopped working. I trusted a company here by the name of LLC Lasers to repair my Generation 3 52 4350A watch unit, and they fled on me. I am going to need a new DWG unit, prefereably the rechargeable AMD wrist watch model with the GRC79 induction motor, four I80200 warp stabilizers, 512GB of SRAM and the menu driven GUI with front panel XID display.
I will take whatever model you have in stock, as long as its received certification for being safe on carbon based life forms.
In terms of payment:
I dont have any Galactic Credits left. Payment can be made in platinum gold or 2003 currency upon safe delivery of unit. Please transport unit in either a brown paper bag or box to below coordinates on Sunday July 27th at (exactly 3:00pm) Eastern Stand Time. If you miss this timeframe please email me.
42.4845467 & Longitude -71.1576157 and the ground is 101.3' above sea level.
Although those coordinates are a secure guarded area, these channels through email are never secure. Unfortunately it is the only form of communication I have right now. There is a good chance that sombody will try to redirect the signal. The unit must be teleported directly in a way
that nobody will be able to interfere with the transference.
After unit has been sent please email me at: *address withheld*
with payment instructions. Do not reply directly back to this email.
Thank You
squeak
hahaha. That's some funny stuff.
Yah, if they're only going to pay $75, I want royalties on sales as well.
The fundamental problem with spam is that it's resource abuse. Filtering only increases the resources used.
By putting legislation into effect most spammers would move their operations offshore. The simple solution is to block those companies. To most of us it's not a big deal as we don't do business with companies outside the US. But it does hurt international business for those who do and it shifts our problem onto someone else.
I can only imagine the Good Guy sys admins overseas pissed off because their customers can't get email to American companies after having their entire country blacklisted.
At least Missouri does and I imagine most others do as well. So if you did forward your spam it might not get there.
The problem is half of our reps and senators don't even use a computer. Their assistants do but they don't. In Missouri at least, some of the ones that do use a computer see "just hit delete" as the perfect solution.
If I'm already on the Missouri list and it's been nearly 100% successful, why would I need to be on the national list? Missouri isn't sharing it's data according to the site and I'm kind of glad because that would probably lead to "charities" from out of state calling me.
I use SWBell for local calls only and my sprint cell phone for everything else.
The prices our outrageous and there are no competitors in my area.
Bandwidth and internet access isn't a God given right. It's a luxury and there are costs all over the place. Even if you cut out all the marketing and advertising you still have the cost of equipment and the cost of the people who have to run it.
Seems like they should have called it 802.11e or something.
It's not the first by far. Go check out Suse's prices.
You're right though it does suck to have to pay for something that is normally free.
Maybe I'm missing something but what happens when I send an email to you and your system sends me a challenge using a different email address? Then my system sends yours a challenge and it could go on forever...
Is there some simple way to prevent this?
From what I understand, ARIN is still going to charge an arm and a leg to register blocks to corporations and you have to meet a lot of guidelines.
I'm sure they have their reasons, but all I want is a small block of a few million IP addresses for free. Is that too much to ask?
It wouldn't necessarily have to be available.
Instead, the spammers could upload their lists to a server and the server could return addresses not on the "Do not email" list.
I've proposed this to the state of Missouri but no go so far.
Help -> About is a good place to list credits.
Or maybe developers could start adding Help -> Credits menus to software.
I do think it's important that developers get credit, but do it in a way that's not counter productive to the end users of the software.
About a month ago I bought a vpr Matrix 175b4 laptop and the thing is great. The only two thing it's missing is USB 2.0.
At $800 AR it was the best bang for the buck that you could buy at the time.
I wouldn't have minded having a 2nd PCMCIA slot, but the truth of the matter is that all of the PCMCIA cards I use except a CF to PCMCIA converter take up too much room anyway.
AOL "sucks" because it used to be a crappy service that infested your PC and was never to be removed. Now I think they've cleaned up their act. I think you can even get connected to AOL without all the software using a standard dial-up connection.
The thing is, that crappy software interface is good for a lot of computer illiterate people.
The junk CDs help subsidize the cost of postage rates too.
Didn't AMD use Mustang and Thunderbird originally for their chips before they were released?
While I don't think they made the best decision, it is nice to see SOMEONE doing something drastic to reduce spam. Maybe this will get enough coverage to make everyone agree that it's time to do something about the problem.
spampal is pretty cool too. It's also open sourced.
How about PuTTY, WinSCP2, TortoiseCVS
I've suggested this but Taco Shot it down.
I personally think every story posted should go into a users journal.
That way people can develop fan clubs and post good info all day long instead of being shot down by the editors.
I'd hate to see them removed. Maybe it would be better to have a filter option, that way for the person that wants to see those, they can and possibly start a new fork and pick up where the project was left off.
We had a cisco isdn router that was somehow caching pages and giving 404 errors if you hit any existing pages, but letting newly created pages through.
The thing was definately possessed because this behavior was consistent across multiple OS and web servers!
We replaced it and everything was fine. Still can't figure out what the heck was going on that day.
sage.org@yourdomain.com
Then if you get a bunch of junkmail you can throw a fit and you can shut that address down.
It seems to me Microsoft has a couple of options here:
1. Open source NT4
2. Free upgrades to Win2k Advanced Server
3. Fix the problem
What I mean is that games like Mario RPG were 3d but used in a 2d manner. It worked really well. I wish other developers would experiment with this route.