Your From line should contain the account on the email server you are sending from. If you want recipients to reply to a different address then put that address in the Reply-To field.
This is from RFC822:
4.3.1. RETURN-PATH
This field is added by the final transport system that
delivers the message to its recipient. The field is intended
to contain definitive information about the address and route
back to the message's originator.
Note: The "Reply-To" field is added by the originator and
serves to direct replies, whereas the "Return-Path"
field is used to identify a path back to the origina-
tor.
While the syntax indicates that a route specification is
optional, every attempt should be made to provide that infor-
mation in this field.
If I am clueless yet I know what I am talking about and you don't then how smart can you be?:)
And by the way what are the hostnames of all these open relays that you are sending forged From headers through? I will submit them to the blackhole lists so you won't be sending any more spam through them.
I guess you are saying, how would we know at the receiving end whether a particular message was a bounce? This is true. For a 100% solution all smtp software makers would have to agree to share a common signal and to include the headers from the bounced message which most already do anyway. That would pretty much require an update to the RFC.
My suggestion is to aim for 90% coverage by watching for the formats from the half dozen biggest vendors, after all, the goal is just to put a damper on the secondary traffic caused by viruses. As long as they include the headers then picking out something like <20040127031244.FC91349445@mail-02.flugelheimer.co m> (assuming I am flugelheimer.com) and comparing it with my database is trivial.
The best solution would allow notification to users who actually send a virus unknowingly yet drop all bogus bounce messages. The server receiving the bounce should look up the SMTP id from the bounced message and compare it against messages that have been sent out recently. Drop the bounce unless it matches something from the last three days. Having records of smtp id, sender, and recipient could also be helpful in investigations of where a virus originated from.
Funny you should mention preschools. I was just thinking that letting Microsoft pay off its fines by giving its software to schools is about like letting a pedophile pay off his debt to society by driving around in an icecream truck giving away candy to small children.
or stuff it in an abandoned mine like they're trying to do with gaseous CO2 already.
I haven't heard about plans to store it in a mine. I have heard several times about sinking it to the bottom of the ocean. That seems like a bad idea to me though. What if something disturbed the ocean like an asteroid strike or nuclear blast? If a lot of CO2 came to the surface at once (in addition to the methane currently locked in ice) it could asphyxiate millions depending on how much was released. Similar things happen frequently in volcanic regions. A CO2 eruption in Camaroon in 1986 killed thousands of people and animals.
http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/Nyo s.html
Just do the tapes. It will take longer to screw with software setup and cleanup than to just do it. But if you either buy or rig up a foot switch to play/rewind the tape I think it would help. Also I am assuming you are a touch typist. If not then get someone who is to do this job for you.
I think I know how he feels. I too have an open source project, however I have received a few thank you's and a little bit of help. But there are a small percentage of end users who are demanding and ingrateful, one I can remember in particular. Those few stick out and leave a bad impression. But based on the total downloads I know that the vast majority did read the FAQ before emailing and often do help one another out in the forums, and I honestly never expected anything out of it except a good feeling for contributing back to the open source community that I have been leeching from for many years now.
I would say that cable companies are in an infinitely better position than the broadcast networks who only charge in one direction. Are you saying that cable networks must pay actors more than ABC, CBS, and NBC?
Good point! This is exactly like cable was. When cable tv first rolled out they told us that we only had to pay to watch tv because there would be no commercial advertising except on the rebroadcast local channels from outside our area. Well it didn't take long before all the cable-only channels started playing commercials, but they still charge us outrageous prices to pipe video over lines they strung 20 years ago. And it didn't cost them anything to run the cables in the first place since they charged us 10 cents per telephone pole to have it run from the next town over! Now the cable companies make money from both ends. They charge us consumers to watch the commercials that they charge the advertisers to play for them.
Wasn't Microsoft developing something called SmartTags to place links in other parties web pages. I would think that if this ruling stands then there is no way MS could hijack the trademarks and copywritten material in a web page to 'use in commerce' without the authors permission.
If you can find out where in the registry it launches IE from, you can change it to point to Mozilla instead. Then export those branches to a reg file and distribute to anyone that wants it. Try searching in regedit for iexplore.exe and see if it shows up as a shell open command or under a Class associated with Outlook.
One thing I noticed was the LCD display over the range. At first I thought it was stupid because why would you want a tv there. Then I though well maybe you could use it as a internet appliance recipe book. But then I realized that having electronics hanging above steaming pots really is a bad idea after all. It should be moved to counter space where you would be doing cutting and mixing. You also need better task lighting in a kitchen unless you want to slice your finger off.
Having the sconces with their beams of super bright light reflecting off the wall and providing indirect lighting is very cool and is like a fusion of 21st century modern with 19th century retro since it is similar to gas lamps or candleholders. I couldn't help but be reminded of all those dungeons my 24th level Magic-user had traipsed through. However, it appears the sconces are below eye level. It doesn't take an 18 intelligence to know that is a bad idea.
The LEDs in the floor of the kitchen look like the emergency lighting in the aisles in a passenger jet. It might be useful if your apartment ever crash lands and you need to crawl to the exit through thick smoke. And I won't even go into the colors because so many people have already commented about it that it would just be redundant.
Actually I picked it up from someone I know who is a civil servant, intelligent, and politicaly astute. But since I wasn't really paying that much attention to it at the time I wouldn't be surprised if I only got it half right. But you really read much more into than what I said. Notice I was talking about lower levels of government not the Whitehouse. But if you want to talk about the Whitehouse, then let's. Appointees control who gets hired, fired, and promoted. They can make or break careers and sometimes they even decide whether to expose CIA agents to punish their spouse for stating the truth. (That has to do with Iraq, Africa, and 'nucular' material if you want to learn about it) But if you think politics plays no part in government then I say you're wrong. That's like believing you're hidden if you cover your eyes.
IIRC the government employee who explained it to me used the term 'expected'. You are "expected" to vote a certain way depending on which appointee you serve under. Not being a government employee myself I am not sure what subtle hints are used to 'expect' you to vote a certain way but I suspect it has to do with program funding and job security. For example, if you are a prison guard, you would probably want things like mandatory jail time for drug first offenders instead of treatment. That way the prison population swells and you have a stable career and many opportunities for promotion. That is a typical plank in a Republican platform so prison guards are probably expected on average to vote Republican. Of course, the same guy pointed out that the polls are anonymous so no one can actually force you to vote the way you are expected to. But anyway, while they may not be lobbying for a certain political party, those appointees and the career managers under them will make sure that the peons know where their bread and butter comes from.
Want to know why incumbents typically don't get voted out even after proving themselves 'untrustworthy' as you call it? It's because the longer your congressman is in Washington the more responsibility he gets. Think about it, would it benefit the people of your state more if you had a congressman who is chairman of the powerful Approprations Commitee or just another freshman who is a junior member on the National Flower Day committee? Also most regular people don't bother to vote. Maybe it seems like too much hassle or they don't even know how to register or where their polling station is or they just don't pay enough attention to the issues to trust their own judgement. Meanwhile, all government employees are actively encouraged by their party appointed bosses to vote and are given time off to go do so. Republican appointees in agencies like the prison system tend to encourage their peons to vote Republican. Democrat appointees in agencies like HUD tend to encourage their peons to vote Democrat. But both parties are cognizant of the fact that the longer an incumbant stays in place the more power he holds for his district.
1. You could score using this punc filter based more heavily on the email title than the body. If I see g.E*t,^r/i.c%h,.f_@.st as the title of an email I know it is junk. Also the score could be normalized by the length or the original especially if you are scoring the message body.
2. ???????? and !!!!!!!! wouldn't normally be used to obfuscate a word because they are too regular and don't look similar to any letters like @ for 'a' or/\/ for 'N', so we could disregard those.
3. Again we only should need to score based on the email title. I don't need to look inside spam to know it is spam so a filter should not need to either.
I also wonder if we couldn't just filter out all the punctuation in the title so that in the above example you would have "gEt rich fst" and run this through a spelling checker which offers suggestions. All variants that are suggested such as "fast", "fist", "fest" would have weights and they could all be summed for each variant and for each word in the title giving a composite score.
(essentially, that is in an open market, and Americans need to compete fairly with the off-shore developers).
Who says? Americans need to do what is best for Americans. And who are you to decide what is fair? And you are wrong about what 'alot of people are saying'. What a lot of (American) people are saying is, 'The TV says the economy is picking up but when am I going to find a job again?' or 'Boy I'd like one of those big screen TV's but the way they're "cutting costs" at work, I don't know if I'll have a job next month.'
I have given to relief efforts and charities to build wells, feed, educate many of this world's less fortunate inhabitants. But some people just won't be happy until I trade places with them by giving up my livlihood too.
Sending food and blankets to third world countries is like giving away the milk. It is a fine and noble thing when done from the goodness in your heart. But sending our better paying, high skill, middle class jobs is like giving away the whole cow (since colleges won't educate another generation of replacements after those jobs are gone.)
Internet Appliances
PC component prices plunged during the Internet Appliance heyday, so a full PC wound up costing just a few dollars more than the truncated Applicances.
WebTV:
But when sales stalled at around a million users, someone woke up and realized that low-resolution TVs are lousy at displaying emails and web pages
If these are really the reasons for their failures then both may experience a resurgence. I say that because of the new TV's that are in the stores today. Plasma/LCD TV's were a big seller for Christmas and their price has been projected to drop to half what they are today by next Christmas. Their crisp, bright, HDTV capable pictures will cure what Louderback says ails the category. It is just a matter of time. And Microsoft makes so much money in its monopoly markets of OS and Office S/W that it has all the time in the world for WebTV to take off.
Secondly, WebTV IS an Internet Appliance just not in the form that Ellison was pushing with the "Internet Computer". People will continue to buy TV's for their livingrooms, kitchens, bedrooms, and the backseat of their SUV's not PC's. And once those TV's are capable of displaying high definition images, then the asian commodity manufacturers will jump into the market and bring the prices down along with a multitude of features. I can imagine settop boxes competing year after year with new features like voice and gesture recognition instead of a clumsy remote controls, DRM, long term storage of data in Internet connected facilities, access to grid computing, MMORPG, biometrics, etc. all for $199 and the effort of connecting a few cables to a preexisting TV.
Within a few years I think we will finally see the success of both of these categories.
If all the students signed something to delete the copyrighted works in question after the class was over, it would be fair use, since the purpose would be educational and non-profit. It's the same as if someone showed a movie during class.
That's not quite the same as showing a movie in class. The original post talks about making the songs available from a server and also says it is a requirement to be able to burn the music to CD's for a final project. The equivalent using your movie analogy would be to make copies on video cassette of whole movies for a film classics class. I don't believe that has ever been legal.
An instructor showing a movie during class would actually be equivalent to playing a song during class, and I am sure that used to be legal under the Fair Use Act since that is what Music Appreciation was like at my university.
They could make diskettes that don't use DOS at all. When they start executing code from the boot sector, the code would just raw read the ROM image from sectors x through y and then perform the same commands that their DOS based floppy does. DOS stands for Disk Operating System but in the case of flashing a ROM the only disk access needed is to read one file and possibly make a backup of the existing image first. Cramming DOS onto a flash disk is a waste of space and costs the manufacturer more than it's worth for the license. The only obstacle is their habit of hiring worthless microserfs who couldn't program "hello world" unless there is a wizard button to click their mouse on and do it for them. They need programmers who actually know what the PC is doing as it boots.
And another important point is that even if they weren't resistant is that wolves are not in the human food chain. Better to have wasting wolves out there than wasting deer that ends up in a hunter's family's bellies.
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Your From line should contain the account on the email server you are sending from. If you want recipients to reply to a different address then put that address in the Reply-To field.
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This is from RFC822:
4.3.1. RETURN-PATH
This field is added by the final transport system that
delivers the message to its recipient. The field is intended
to contain definitive information about the address and route
back to the message's originator.
Note: The "Reply-To" field is added by the originator and
serves to direct replies, whereas the "Return-Path"
field is used to identify a path back to the origina-
tor.
While the syntax indicates that a route specification is
optional, every attempt should be made to provide that infor-
mation in this field.
If I am clueless yet I know what I am talking about and you don't then how smart can you be?
And by the way what are the hostnames of all these open relays that you are sending forged From headers through? I will submit them to the blackhole lists so you won't be sending any more spam through them.
It doesn't cause any problems at all. If you thought it did then you would have listed them instead of being vague.
Receiving and sending SMTP servers are not necessarily the same machine
If you don't know that different machines can access the same database then you don't know enough about networking to comment in this forum.
My suggestion is to aim for 90% coverage by watching for the formats from the half dozen biggest vendors, after all, the goal is just to put a damper on the secondary traffic caused by viruses. As long as they include the headers then picking out something like <20040127031244.FC91349445@mail-02.flugelheimer.co m> (assuming I am flugelheimer.com) and comparing it with my database is trivial.
The best solution would allow notification to users who actually send a virus unknowingly yet drop all bogus bounce messages. The server receiving the bounce should look up the SMTP id from the bounced message and compare it against messages that have been sent out recently. Drop the bounce unless it matches something from the last three days. Having records of smtp id, sender, and recipient could also be helpful in investigations of where a virus originated from.
Funny you should mention preschools. I was just thinking that letting Microsoft pay off its fines by giving its software to schools is about like letting a pedophile pay off his debt to society by driving around in an icecream truck giving away candy to small children.
I haven't heard about plans to store it in a mine. I have heard several times about sinking it to the bottom of the ocean. That seems like a bad idea to me though. What if something disturbed the ocean like an asteroid strike or nuclear blast? If a lot of CO2 came to the surface at once (in addition to the methane currently locked in ice) it could asphyxiate millions depending on how much was released. Similar things happen frequently in volcanic regions. A CO2 eruption in Camaroon in 1986 killed thousands of people and animals. http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/Nyo s.html
Oops. I just noticed it said several dozen, not several.
Just do the tapes. It will take longer to screw with software setup and cleanup than to just do it. But if you either buy or rig up a foot switch to play/rewind the tape I think it would help. Also I am assuming you are a touch typist. If not then get someone who is to do this job for you.
Maybe this is a dumb question but is Robert Love and relation to Ransom Love?
I think I know how he feels. I too have an open source project, however I have received a few thank you's and a little bit of help. But there are a small percentage of end users who are demanding and ingrateful, one I can remember in particular. Those few stick out and leave a bad impression. But based on the total downloads I know that the vast majority did read the FAQ before emailing and often do help one another out in the forums, and I honestly never expected anything out of it except a good feeling for contributing back to the open source community that I have been leeching from for many years now.
I would say that cable companies are in an infinitely better position than the broadcast networks who only charge in one direction. Are you saying that cable networks must pay actors more than ABC, CBS, and NBC?
Good point! This is exactly like cable was. When cable tv first rolled out they told us that we only had to pay to watch tv because there would be no commercial advertising except on the rebroadcast local channels from outside our area. Well it didn't take long before all the cable-only channels started playing commercials, but they still charge us outrageous prices to pipe video over lines they strung 20 years ago. And it didn't cost them anything to run the cables in the first place since they charged us 10 cents per telephone pole to have it run from the next town over! Now the cable companies make money from both ends. They charge us consumers to watch the commercials that they charge the advertisers to play for them.
Wasn't Microsoft developing something called SmartTags to place links in other parties web pages. I would think that if this ruling stands then there is no way MS could hijack the trademarks and copywritten material in a web page to 'use in commerce' without the authors permission.
If you can find out where in the registry it launches IE from, you can change it to point to Mozilla instead. Then export those branches to a reg file and distribute to anyone that wants it. Try searching in regedit for iexplore.exe and see if it shows up as a shell open command or under a Class associated with Outlook.
One thing I noticed was the LCD display over the range. At first I thought it was stupid because why would you want a tv there. Then I though well maybe you could use it as a internet appliance recipe book. But then I realized that having electronics hanging above steaming pots really is a bad idea after all. It should be moved to counter space where you would be doing cutting and mixing. You also need better task lighting in a kitchen unless you want to slice your finger off.
Having the sconces with their beams of super bright light reflecting off the wall and providing indirect lighting is very cool and is like a fusion of 21st century modern with 19th century retro since it is similar to gas lamps or candleholders. I couldn't help but be reminded of all those dungeons my 24th level Magic-user had traipsed through. However, it appears the sconces are below eye level. It doesn't take an 18 intelligence to know that is a bad idea.
The LEDs in the floor of the kitchen look like the emergency lighting in the aisles in a passenger jet. It might be useful if your apartment ever crash lands and you need to crawl to the exit through thick smoke. And I won't even go into the colors because so many people have already commented about it that it would just be redundant.
Actually I picked it up from someone I know who is a civil servant, intelligent, and politicaly astute. But since I wasn't really paying that much attention to it at the time I wouldn't be surprised if I only got it half right. But you really read much more into than what I said. Notice I was talking about lower levels of government not the Whitehouse. But if you want to talk about the Whitehouse, then let's. Appointees control who gets hired, fired, and promoted. They can make or break careers and sometimes they even decide whether to expose CIA agents to punish their spouse for stating the truth. (That has to do with Iraq, Africa, and 'nucular' material if you want to learn about it) But if you think politics plays no part in government then I say you're wrong. That's like believing you're hidden if you cover your eyes.
IIRC the government employee who explained it to me used the term 'expected'. You are "expected" to vote a certain way depending on which appointee you serve under. Not being a government employee myself I am not sure what subtle hints are used to 'expect' you to vote a certain way but I suspect it has to do with program funding and job security. For example, if you are a prison guard, you would probably want things like mandatory jail time for drug first offenders instead of treatment. That way the prison population swells and you have a stable career and many opportunities for promotion. That is a typical plank in a Republican platform so prison guards are probably expected on average to vote Republican. Of course, the same guy pointed out that the polls are anonymous so no one can actually force you to vote the way you are expected to. But anyway, while they may not be lobbying for a certain political party, those appointees and the career managers under them will make sure that the peons know where their bread and butter comes from.
Want to know why incumbents typically don't get voted out even after proving themselves 'untrustworthy' as you call it? It's because the longer your congressman is in Washington the more responsibility he gets. Think about it, would it benefit the people of your state more if you had a congressman who is chairman of the powerful Approprations Commitee or just another freshman who is a junior member on the National Flower Day committee? Also most regular people don't bother to vote. Maybe it seems like too much hassle or they don't even know how to register or where their polling station is or they just don't pay enough attention to the issues to trust their own judgement. Meanwhile, all government employees are actively encouraged by their party appointed bosses to vote and are given time off to go do so. Republican appointees in agencies like the prison system tend to encourage their peons to vote Republican. Democrat appointees in agencies like HUD tend to encourage their peons to vote Democrat. But both parties are cognizant of the fact that the longer an incumbant stays in place the more power he holds for his district.
1. You could score using this punc filter based more heavily on the email title than the body. If I see g.E*t,^r/i.c%h,.f_@.st as the title of an email I know it is junk. Also the score could be normalized by the length or the original especially if you are scoring the message body.
/\/ for 'N', so we could disregard those.
2. ???????? and !!!!!!!! wouldn't normally be used to obfuscate a word because they are too regular and don't look similar to any letters like @ for 'a' or
3. Again we only should need to score based on the email title. I don't need to look inside spam to know it is spam so a filter should not need to either.
I also wonder if we couldn't just filter out all the punctuation in the title so that in the above example you would have "gEt rich fst" and run this through a spelling checker which offers suggestions. All variants that are suggested such as "fast", "fist", "fest" would have weights and they could all be summed for each variant and for each word in the title giving a composite score.
Who says? Americans need to do what is best for Americans. And who are you to decide what is fair? And you are wrong about what 'alot of people are saying'. What a lot of (American) people are saying is, 'The TV says the economy is picking up but when am I going to find a job again?' or 'Boy I'd like one of those big screen TV's but the way they're "cutting costs" at work, I don't know if I'll have a job next month.'
I have given to relief efforts and charities to build wells, feed, educate many of this world's less fortunate inhabitants. But some people just won't be happy until I trade places with them by giving up my livlihood too.
Sending food and blankets to third world countries is like giving away the milk. It is a fine and noble thing when done from the goodness in your heart. But sending our better paying, high skill, middle class jobs is like giving away the whole cow (since colleges won't educate another generation of replacements after those jobs are gone.)
PC component prices plunged during the Internet Appliance heyday, so a full PC wound up costing just a few dollars more than the truncated Applicances.
WebTV:
But when sales stalled at around a million users, someone woke up and realized that low-resolution TVs are lousy at displaying emails and web pages
If these are really the reasons for their failures then both may experience a resurgence. I say that because of the new TV's that are in the stores today. Plasma/LCD TV's were a big seller for Christmas and their price has been projected to drop to half what they are today by next Christmas. Their crisp, bright, HDTV capable pictures will cure what Louderback says ails the category. It is just a matter of time. And Microsoft makes so much money in its monopoly markets of OS and Office S/W that it has all the time in the world for WebTV to take off.
Secondly, WebTV IS an Internet Appliance just not in the form that Ellison was pushing with the "Internet Computer". People will continue to buy TV's for their livingrooms, kitchens, bedrooms, and the backseat of their SUV's not PC's. And once those TV's are capable of displaying high definition images, then the asian commodity manufacturers will jump into the market and bring the prices down along with a multitude of features. I can imagine settop boxes competing year after year with new features like voice and gesture recognition instead of a clumsy remote controls, DRM, long term storage of data in Internet connected facilities, access to grid computing, MMORPG, biometrics, etc. all for $199 and the effort of connecting a few cables to a preexisting TV.
Within a few years I think we will finally see the success of both of these categories.
That's not quite the same as showing a movie in class. The original post talks about making the songs available from a server and also says it is a requirement to be able to burn the music to CD's for a final project. The equivalent using your movie analogy would be to make copies on video cassette of whole movies for a film classics class. I don't believe that has ever been legal.
An instructor showing a movie during class would actually be equivalent to playing a song during class, and I am sure that used to be legal under the Fair Use Act since that is what Music Appreciation was like at my university.
They could make diskettes that don't use DOS at all. When they start executing code from the boot sector, the code would just raw read the ROM image from sectors x through y and then perform the same commands that their DOS based floppy does. DOS stands for Disk Operating System but in the case of flashing a ROM the only disk access needed is to read one file and possibly make a backup of the existing image first. Cramming DOS onto a flash disk is a waste of space and costs the manufacturer more than it's worth for the license. The only obstacle is their habit of hiring worthless microserfs who couldn't program "hello world" unless there is a wizard button to click their mouse on and do it for them. They need programmers who actually know what the PC is doing as it boots.
And another important point is that even if they weren't resistant is that wolves are not in the human food chain. Better to have wasting wolves out there than wasting deer that ends up in a hunter's family's bellies.