The only downside of greylisting that I can see is that real mail can be delayed a while, up to a few hours.
As I understand it, mail can be delayed for up to 10 minutes if it is coming from a mail server your server hasn't seen before. Are you sure your mail can be delayed for so long?
If you run a mail server, and you aren't greylisting, then you need to be.
Its a simple idea whereby your server exploits the fact that most mail servers obey the SMTP standard, while most spam sending software does not, to only accept mail from servers which behave properly. Plugins are available for most popular mail server software.
I implemented this about 6 weeks ago and noticed a dramatic and immediate reduction in spam, perhaps better than any other single anti-spam measure.
Well no, I never said that, it is just one of thousands of examples the exist. Any sane company will have a clause in their employee contracts that covers bringing the company into disrepute in or out of work.
And such a clause would be unenforceable if used to stifle employee's political opinions.
Good grief. Over react much? Congratulations on invoking Godwin's law. This thread is now over.
You haven't actually read Godwin's law, have you? You probably should before you start accusing people of invoking it.
If the company was an abortion clinic and the opinion expressed by the employee was anti-abortion, then there would be no uproar if they were fired.
If the employee had not allowed their opinion to affect their work performance, then I see no justification for firing them, and I strongly suspect that the law wouldn't either.
He expressed anti copyright and IP views, while working for a firm that relies on copyright and IP.
Ah, so you can only be fired if your boss happens to disagree with you. Right...
My firm relies on copyright, and I am extremely critical of intellectual property law. I believe that many aspects of intellectual property law hurt my company.
all companies insist on a probabtion period of at least a month to see if your face fits, with instant dismissal if you don't.
Um, wrong, mine doesn't. Either way, having a probation period is not a license to fire someone for whatever reason you like.
through to the Police in the UK at least not being allowed to express racist views even when not on duty.
Ah, because criticising intellectual property law is just like expressing a racist view. Is this were you accuse me of being just like Hitler?
To what extent can an opinion about intellectual property (or any other law) form grounds for dismissal?
IMHO it is the right, indeed the obligation of anyone living in a democracy to question the laws that govern them. Intellectual property laws are increasingly valid targets for such scepticism.
There would be an uproar in most countries if someone was fired for expressing their opinion on abortion, or religion, why should someone's opinion on intellectual property law be any different?
This letter is a lie. The Lib Dem MEP on the Legal Affairs committee, Diane Wallis, voted against Rocard's amendments, in effect voting in favour of software patentability.
The Lib Dems claim to be against software patents, but this has not been reflected in the actions of most Lib Dem MEPs, Diane Wallis and Sharon Bowles being the two worst offenders.
The reason corporations control our politicians is partially due to exactly the cynicism and apathy you are trying to spread. Democracy isn't a birthright, you need to fight for it or you will lose it.
I have spoken to many MEPs over the last few weeks, and take it from me that emails are a complete waste of time at this stage. You need to phone them to make any difference.
At this stage sending an email is a complete waste of time, MEPs now routinely ignore emails about this Directive because they have been swamped. You need to phone them(or meet them, but it is probably too late for that now)
Most MEPs want to do the right thing, but many have been mislead by an aggressive pro-patent campaign that have variously claimed:
That companies will leave the EU if the EU doesn't introduce software patents (why? Your location makes no difference as to whether or not you can file for patents in other countries)
That the current text of the Directive won't introduce "pure" software patents, and so this is all a fuss about nothing (wrong, the European Patent Office has already granted many software patents that are currently unenforceable, but would become enforceable if the Directive isn't amended)
That people who don't want software patents really don't want patents on any machine that might include a computer (wrong, the Rocard-Bozek amendments won't prevent patents on machines that contain computers)
If you can, try to research your MEPs position on the issue before phoning them
Don't rant and rave. Be polite, but clear that the council text will hurt you/your business unless the Rocard-Buzek re-tabled amendments are passed.
Stress that a no-vote or an abstention counts as a vote in favour of software patentability.
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Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. this right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises.
Well, to bad I'm just an ordinary guy and not some flashy rich EU-politican which can travel to Brussels just for the joy talking to the people which are more or less employed by me.
You don't have to travel to Brussels, it is often possible to meet your MEP in their constituency.
Email is worthless at this stage, a face-to-face meeting is best, failing that, you may be able to arrange a phone conversation.
At this stage spamming your MEPs is a waste of time, every MEP has received hundreds of emails about this Directive, and they are now routinely ignored.
If you want to make a difference, ensure you are familiar with the issues and arrange a meeting with your MEP, even if that means flying to Brussels. In the meeting focus on the practical impact of software patents, and be sure to bring along the FFII's analysis of the various amendments which can be found here.
Its gone way beyond simply bombarding MEPs with emails, if you care about this you need to make sure your MEPs sit up and take notice of you, and email won't achieve that.
It's more than that now. A democratically elected body has rejected it, an appointed body is enforcing it. It's now about more than just code. more than software patents. It's now about the primacy of elected bodies.
Not to nitpick, but the legal affairs committee consists of elected MEPs.
It is rather sad that all of today's widely used operating systems (Windows, Linux, BSD, OSX) are essentially beefed-up descendants of an operating system first developed in the 70s - surely the time has come to move beyond these outdated metaphors? Where is the open source project to create the next generation operating system?
Sure, there are interesting efforts such as JNode, and people working on really cool new concepts like Zero-Install and Hans Reiser's vision of tomorrow's filesystem, but who is working to combine these and other concepts into something truly new and innovative?
BT doesn't have a "click/watch" type solution. BT is only good for asynchronous delivery of content due to it's download nature.
Check out Dijjer, its free (as in speech) and downloads files in-sequence as if from a HTTP server. As such, you can watch these files embedded in web pages as they come in from the P2P network.
I'm quite impressed at how the anglosaxon world reacts to ID cards. They are present in most countries, and are a far cry from a fascist tool.
Given that our anglosaxon world has had a far better history of economic prosperity and democracy than most of your non-anglosaxon world over the past century or two, perhaps your non-anglosaxon world could learn something from our "paranoid" instincts.
The problem is that there is little evidence that the ID card will be able to solve the problems you describe. Indeed, virtually every justification that has been given for the introduction of ID cards (terrorism, benefit fraud, illegal immigration) has failed to stand up to any depth of scrutiny.
Combine that with the UK government's dismal record on virtually every major IT project it has ever attempted, and you really have to wonder why our money is being wasted on this.
This is yet another example of Labour's reflexive desire to interfere in the lives of UK citizens in every way possible. This is one government that doesn't understand the maxim "If its not broken, don't fix it".
Lets consider two specific examples. Who is Dr. Karl-Friedrich Lenz working for when he argues against software patents? Who was Martin J. Adelman client when he visited Edinburgh and debated me, arguing that the EU should permit software patents?
It may be a nice (if strange) ideal to think that lawyers only have the opinions they are paid to have, but it simply isn't true.
the European Parliament (EP) has enlisted the help of intellectual property lawyers to amend the directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions
This could go either way, IP lawyers have a habit of wanting to extend patentability to everything that moves (a variation on the idea that, to a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail), so this could be a case of the foxes guarding the hen house.
OTOH not all IP lawyers are bad, so lets hope the ones being used by the EP genuinely want to do the right thing here.
Any dissident reading this should imeediately be able to ascertain the utter stupidity of Freenet. Pay attention because your freedom and life might depend on it: these clowns are telling you that finding people to trust with your life is something as easy as going to some "l33t" forum and typing "let me in d00des".
Any dissidents will, by now, have recognised your trolls for what they are. In a darknet you connect to people you trust, you form those trust relationships independently of Freenet. If you do-so on the basis of a "let me in d00des" on an IRC channel then you are a moron.
The inane arguments about who we are all only 2-3 people away from each other are the same kind of fallacy as the various "get-rich-quick" network marketing schemes which claim you can become millionaire if you onlu convince 3 people to buy your soap and each of them convinces other 3 etc.
What a moron. It is a recognised mathematical fact that networks of human relationships have a small diameter. Read up on small world networks before you continue to make a fool of yourself.
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And his network actually works. Now. As far as I'm concerned, it's the phoenix rising in the ashes of Freenet.
I2P is a cool project, but it is doing something rather different to Freenet. The next version of Freenet actually seeks to solve one of the core problem affecting all anonymity systems, including both the current Freenet, Tor, I2P, and others, which is that of "harvesting" nodes. If the Chinese government can, with relative ease, obtain a list of all nodes in your network - then you have problems. Freenet is the only one of these projects actually making headway on this.
Now it may well be that Freenet does the pioneering work on this, and it is then adopted by other projects, as has happened with many of Freenet's innovations - and that would be fine. Freenet is happy to be a R&D lab for anonymity ideas so long as they enrich the options available to the entire anonymity community.
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Ah yes, The Register, bastion of quality tech journalism, where a two year old known issue is an "Exclusive!!!";-)
FYI - there is a short response to this article on the Freenet website.
I will skip the obvious question of a reliable method of obtaining "trust"
Well, if you don't know anyone that you actually trust, then I'm afraid you have some pretty serious issues to deal with. I suggest you stop wasting time on/. and see a therapist.
Turning Freenet into an equvalent of a terrorist cell system, where members are introduced to each other based on their membership in the same group defeats this purpose.
You have missed the point, which is that its a scalable darknet. You might only be connected to a few trusted people, but you are indirectly connected, through those people, to a global network.
In short, the "darknet" is a last-ditch, desperate attempt at making the... kiddy porn network survive, because the only people to whom this model is suitable are... pedofiles.
Ah, I see, Freenet is a "kiddy porn" network, at least we know where you stand on freedom of communication.
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I love Edinburgh during the festival ;-)
Its a simple idea whereby your server exploits the fact that most mail servers obey the SMTP standard, while most spam sending software does not, to only accept mail from servers which behave properly. Plugins are available for most popular mail server software.
I implemented this about 6 weeks ago and noticed a dramatic and immediate reduction in spam, perhaps better than any other single anti-spam measure.
My firm relies on copyright, and I am extremely critical of intellectual property law. I believe that many aspects of intellectual property law hurt my company.
Um, wrong, mine doesn't. Either way, having a probation period is not a license to fire someone for whatever reason you like. Ah, because criticising intellectual property law is just like expressing a racist view. Is this were you accuse me of being just like Hitler?IMHO it is the right, indeed the obligation of anyone living in a democracy to question the laws that govern them. Intellectual property laws are increasingly valid targets for such scepticism.
There would be an uproar in most countries if someone was fired for expressing their opinion on abortion, or religion, why should someone's opinion on intellectual property law be any different?
The Lib Dems claim to be against software patents, but this has not been reflected in the actions of most Lib Dem MEPs, Diane Wallis and Sharon Bowles being the two worst offenders.
So, what are you doing to defend your democracy?
I have spoken to many MEPs over the last few weeks, and take it from me that emails are a complete waste of time at this stage. You need to phone them to make any difference.
Email is worthless at this stage, a face-to-face meeting is best, failing that, you may be able to arrange a phone conversation.
If you want to make a difference, ensure you are familiar with the issues and arrange a meeting with your MEP, even if that means flying to Brussels. In the meeting focus on the practical impact of software patents, and be sure to bring along the FFII's analysis of the various amendments which can be found here.
Its gone way beyond simply bombarding MEPs with emails, if you care about this you need to make sure your MEPs sit up and take notice of you, and email won't achieve that.
Sure, there are interesting efforts such as JNode, and people working on really cool new concepts like Zero-Install and Hans Reiser's vision of tomorrow's filesystem, but who is working to combine these and other concepts into something truly new and innovative?
See the difference?
Combine that with the UK government's dismal record on virtually every major IT project it has ever attempted, and you really have to wonder why our money is being wasted on this.
This is yet another example of Labour's reflexive desire to interfere in the lives of UK citizens in every way possible. This is one government that doesn't understand the maxim "If its not broken, don't fix it".
It may be a nice (if strange) ideal to think that lawyers only have the opinions they are paid to have, but it simply isn't true.
OTOH not all IP lawyers are bad, so lets hope the ones being used by the EP genuinely want to do the right thing here.
Now it may well be that Freenet does the pioneering work on this, and it is then adopted by other projects, as has happened with many of Freenet's innovations - and that would be fine. Freenet is happy to be a R&D lab for anonymity ideas so long as they enrich the options available to the entire anonymity community.
FYI - there is a short response to this article on the Freenet website.