I discovered SpamAssassin a couple months ago and I must say I am very pleased.
It has successfully stopped around 84% of incoming spams and no false-positives (marking non-spam as spam) thus far.
You can hook it into blacklists, but I never used that feature. I doubt it'd really help much, anyways and would probably end up doing more harm than good.
Yes, 16% of spam still gets through, but that's not nearly as annoying as having mailboxes fill up with spam and eat away the spool partition at an alarming rate. Not to mention I could probably stop 90%+ of spam, but that increases the change of incorrectly tagging non-spam as spam.
Best of all, I control the rules and the scoreboard... I don't rely on a third party to deem who sends spam.
Is this not a step backwards? Take the power away from the individual users and back into the hands of those who control the servers?
I do not want the MCP having control of my data and forcing my programs to compete in games.
Actually SuSE is a germany-based linux distro. I am sure that the German government could work with SuSE to work out any possible international security kinks.
The title says it all. Maybe M$ will save us alot of tax dollars when they go belly up before they get back in court. At the very least M$ will be downgraded to a "normal" company after the.NET fiasco. Then the whole monopoly issue will finally be at rest.
Of course there is a very slim chance that.NET will succeed, but considering both it's harebrain idea and the lukewarm reception to Me/2000, M$ is on the downslide (no, it won't die... but it'll be weakened greatly).
A year or two down the road AOL/Time will be investigated and forced to break up. It seems to be a pattern which I for one do not understand.
Gov: "Sure... go ahead and merge."
Gov: "Wait... you guys got too big and powerful... not break up!"
A/T: "But... you told us to go ahead and merge and get this large/powerful."
Gov: "That is beside the point."
It is only a matter of time before advertisers take notice of devices like TiVo. They are like the borg... they walk on past TiVo and not even acknowledge it because it does not pose a threat yet (not a sizeable enough userbase to make a real dent into advertising revenue).
Here comes Microsoft... and they tout similar features (with the exception of not only removing commercials, but replacing them with MSN commercials!). I am sure that may ignite advertisers.
It's like that little-known shortcut you use to get home a little faster (going around the heavy-traffic area). Once people catch on... then it is no longer a shortcut, because it's just as deadlocked.
Devices like this are better off aiming at a niche market... because that way it can be left unmolested. If it becomes the de-facto device, then expect advertisers to strike some deals with the manufacturers of these devices to somehow get their advertisements to you.
Not good or bad... just futile.
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Let's say we bring back the Tasmanian Tiger. What good would it do? Every species has a time and place... and the Tasmanian Tiger's time is over. Perhaps we could bring them back, but nature would have to adjust itself to accomodate the immediate re-entry of an old player.
Other species may die off from being hunted by these creatures. We may even end up hunting them back into extinction again. Who knows what will happen, but who cares? Either way we have a delicate balance of species that will be upheld. We can bring back one species, only to kill off another.
New species are popping up everyday and at the same time many species are dying off. One day it will be our time to die off as a species and have a new species replace us.
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I discovered SpamAssassin a couple months ago and I must say I am very pleased.
It has successfully stopped around 84% of incoming spams and no false-positives (marking non-spam as spam) thus far.
You can hook it into blacklists, but I never used that feature. I doubt it'd really help much, anyways and would probably end up doing more harm than good.
Yes, 16% of spam still gets through, but that's not nearly as annoying as having mailboxes fill up with spam and eat away the spool partition at an alarming rate. Not to mention I could probably stop 90%+ of spam, but that increases the change of incorrectly tagging non-spam as spam.
Best of all, I control the rules and the scoreboard... I don't rely on a third party to deem who sends spam.
I thought the general consensus is that if the merger fails that she will booted out.
While Compaq is trying to improve itself for the merger, it seems that HP's only game plan is the merger. Now that's some real corporate foresight!
Bah... I want Carly Fiona to experience some pain for what she did to the HP calc division.
Is this not a step backwards? Take the power away from the individual users and back into the hands of those who control the servers? I do not want the MCP having control of my data and forcing my programs to compete in games.
Actually SuSE is a germany-based linux distro. I am sure that the German government could work with SuSE to work out any possible international security kinks.
The title says it all. Maybe M$ will save us alot of tax dollars when they go belly up before they get back in court. At the very least M$ will be downgraded to a "normal" company after the .NET fiasco. Then the whole monopoly issue will finally be at rest.
.NET will succeed, but considering both it's harebrain idea and the lukewarm reception to Me/2000, M$ is on the downslide (no, it won't die... but it'll be weakened greatly).
Of course there is a very slim chance that
A year or two down the road AOL/Time will be investigated and forced to break up. It seems to be a pattern which I for one do not understand. Gov: "Sure... go ahead and merge." Gov: "Wait... you guys got too big and powerful... not break up!" A/T: "But... you told us to go ahead and merge and get this large/powerful." Gov: "That is beside the point."
It is only a matter of time before advertisers take notice of devices like TiVo. They are like the borg... they walk on past TiVo and not even acknowledge it because it does not pose a threat yet (not a sizeable enough userbase to make a real dent into advertising revenue). Here comes Microsoft... and they tout similar features (with the exception of not only removing commercials, but replacing them with MSN commercials!). I am sure that may ignite advertisers. It's like that little-known shortcut you use to get home a little faster (going around the heavy-traffic area). Once people catch on... then it is no longer a shortcut, because it's just as deadlocked. Devices like this are better off aiming at a niche market... because that way it can be left unmolested. If it becomes the de-facto device, then expect advertisers to strike some deals with the manufacturers of these devices to somehow get their advertisements to you.
Let's say we bring back the Tasmanian Tiger. What good would it do? Every species has a time and place... and the Tasmanian Tiger's time is over. Perhaps we could bring them back, but nature would have to adjust itself to accomodate the immediate re-entry of an old player. Other species may die off from being hunted by these creatures. We may even end up hunting them back into extinction again. Who knows what will happen, but who cares? Either way we have a delicate balance of species that will be upheld. We can bring back one species, only to kill off another. New species are popping up everyday and at the same time many species are dying off. One day it will be our time to die off as a species and have a new species replace us.