I probably tried after they pulled the plug to work on it. I couldn't traceroute to www.hotmail.com at all, and the browser would time-out (my first clue).
You don't have to use the web form. MS added an interface to Outlook. Yes, some idiot spammers have used Outlook as a spamtool. Besides, using COM automation, you can make Outlook dance like a monkey on a stick from an external app. As well, people have reverse-engineered Outlook's WebDAV interface and some spamtools use this.
It's still a crummy way to spam, but disappointing after years of assuming any headers claiming to be from Hotmail were forged.
You do know that the second Received line (from Hotmail) was forged, right? (Clues: Hotmail rarely relays email via a interbusiness.it dynamic IP. An Italian server using west coast time is odd. Adjusting for timezones the email was received an hour before it was sent.)
you can only use outlook or the website to read your emails (unless you use hotwayd from hotwayd.sf.net)
There was a two part article in Delphi Informant (Jan-Feb) on creating a proxy server using SMTP/POP and WebDAV to talk to Hotmail from any email program. (Their WebDAV interface is undocumented, but they can't change it too much without breaking Outlook.)
So it was you! I missed several important messages from a business associate in Nigera and others for expanding my.. opportunities. Important security update from Microsoft were lost! I'll sue!!!
Gads, I've had my hotmail account since before Microsoft bought them. It makes a useful account to hand out on Usenet posts, Slashdot or on web pages--I can quickly give any emailer a real address for contact--mainly it's a spamtrap. But I would never ever depend on it for email or cry if it died.
I wasn't getting to www.hotmail.com, and traceroute was dying somewhere on the west coast. I forget if the last hop was into Microsoft space or not. My first thought was: Did they fsck up the domain registration again?:^)
Routing to Slashdot occasionally has problems passing through Clueless & Witless space, but that's normal.
As soon as the Articles of Confederation were ratified, the title changed to President of the United States in Congress Assembled. Now.. you might say that's just congress, but that's all there was at the time. Also, even after the Constitution, the seperation of the President from legislative debates only happened because Washington eventually said he "would be damned" if he was going to sit through all that, setting a precident.
It's a "yeah, so what?" point of trivia, of course.
They had a tough time even taking that creep Zundel to court on that one. I forget if they even got a conviction. Hopefully it'll be easier to boot his sorry ass out of the country. Guess not.
If it were that easy to abuse that law, $cientology would have had critics in jail years ago.
I'm shocked. In the past, government agencies usually destroyed any stationary with the old name right away. I guess they've changed names so many times that it was getting silly.
Call me cynical, but all these mergers and splits of agencies have more to do with who the prime minister wants to be holding those cards at the time. (Not unlike playing KingMaker.)
It's pragmatism, but it does lead to more patchwork licencing worries when you include code from several sources. It's not at the Fizbin or Dragon Poker level yet, thank Ghod.
All Spam Kings brag about how much money they make. They frequently show off their big house and fancy cars. But in at least one case (Ronnie Scelson?) it turned out that the house was mortgaged to the hilt and the cars were rented--with loans and taxes due. They probably do make money, but being the type of people that they are, they are unable to live wisely or invest it.
As for "Holy Shit", keep in mind that Bernie lives next door to Cow Shit Valley Farms, and evaluate his claims accordingly.
I doubt that it'll sell as many posters and be used as much as the classic Earth from orbit centered on Africa shot, or the Earthrise ones from the Moon. Lugging a telescope along to Mars to get a better picture of Earth might seem stupid, but it definitely is a "money-shot" (as they say in the porn industry).
We'll know we're exploring far when it's an arrow labeled "Place where the Earth would be if you could see it from there, but you just can't."
Some of the dedicated spamware probably acts like a relay. (Why waste time using an 0w3n3d box like a socks-puppet? Let it do all the work!) Certainly not an open relay, of course. The tiff between the various MyDumb-type trojan groups might be because they're locked out of each other's relay-farms.
Type "two dead spammers" into Google. You might even get a link back to Slashdot where it was covered. (Stock spammers likely killed by their business.. partners.)
You mean the agency formerly known as Revenue Canada. They are now the knigh.. the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency.
In Canada, the idea is to keep changing the words to the national anthem and the names of government agencies until we're so confused that we.. umm.. I forget.
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I probably tried after they pulled the plug to work on it. I couldn't traceroute to www.hotmail.com at all, and the browser would time-out (my first clue).
It's still a crummy way to spam, but disappointing after years of assuming any headers claiming to be from Hotmail were forged.
You do know that the second Received line (from Hotmail) was forged, right? (Clues: Hotmail rarely relays email via a interbusiness.it dynamic IP. An Italian server using west coast time is odd. Adjusting for timezones the email was received an hour before it was sent.)
There was a two part article in Delphi Informant (Jan-Feb) on creating a proxy server using SMTP/POP and WebDAV to talk to Hotmail from any email program. (Their WebDAV interface is undocumented, but they can't change it too much without breaking Outlook.)
Gads, I've had my hotmail account since before Microsoft bought them. It makes a useful account to hand out on Usenet posts, Slashdot or on web pages--I can quickly give any emailer a real address for contact--mainly it's a spamtrap. But I would never ever depend on it for email or cry if it died.
Routing to Slashdot occasionally has problems passing through Clueless & Witless space, but that's normal.
It's a "yeah, so what?" point of trivia, of course.
Yeah, but then they'd hand the actual job off to Verisign, who'd claim that they owned all unused clock cycles.
If it were that easy to abuse that law, $cientology would have had critics in jail years ago.
No.
It's traditional. Samuel Huntington, the first President of the United States, wasn't elected by popular vote either. :^P
Call me cynical, but all these mergers and splits of agencies have more to do with who the prime minister wants to be holding those cards at the time. (Not unlike playing KingMaker.)
It's pragmatism, but it does lead to more patchwork licencing worries when you include code from several sources. It's not at the Fizbin or Dragon Poker level yet, thank Ghod.
I too have big scary news that shows what a clued-in dude I am, but I can't talk about it because .. the cat's eaten it. Look over there, shiny FUD!
Not true! In Microsoft's EULA, they'll pay off on any proven liability .. up to $10 or the cost of the product. :^P
As for "Holy Shit", keep in mind that Bernie lives next door to Cow Shit Valley Farms, and evaluate his claims accordingly.
Are you sure that's not Bala instead? That far up past Webbers' it all starts to look the same.
So Bernard Balan claims to be the (ex) king of spam and "one of the best programmers around"? Oh wait, spammer rule #1.
We'll know we're exploring far when it's an arrow labeled "Place where the Earth would be if you could see it from there, but you just can't."
Unless they're using old envelope stock (which they don't), it was still Canada Customs and Revenue Agency (or CCRA - ADRC) as of March 8th.
Some of the dedicated spamware probably acts like a relay. (Why waste time using an 0w3n3d box like a socks-puppet? Let it do all the work!) Certainly not an open relay, of course. The tiff between the various MyDumb-type trojan groups might be because they're locked out of each other's relay-farms.
Type "two dead spammers" into Google. You might even get a link back to Slashdot where it was covered. (Stock spammers likely killed by their business .. partners.)
And that poor little Worldcom store on the corner had to change their name to MCI. Shocking!
In Canada, the idea is to keep changing the words to the national anthem and the names of government agencies until we're so confused that we .. umm .. I forget.
Yes, but they have far more experience with fraud in Quebec. :^P