Who has noticed a decrease in the effectiveness of Spam Assasin. I have! Anyone else?
I have been running Spamassassin for over a year now and have not noticed any real change. 1 or 2 spams get through (out of about 500) every 1 to 2 days. I should add that I also use spamcop, razor, bays, server blocks, and in the begining I wrote many of my own rules. If anything, Spamassassin is getting better because the inbound spam level goes up, but the amount in my inbox stays the same. These results will vary from person to person based on the spam lists you are on. If you need to take viagra, need breast/penis enlargment, can't find your Rolex, need meds or a loan, need to loose weight, want to gamble online, want to see women do everything under the sun, etc., etc., your results might be different:)
Then I left a drive letter assignment gap (windows has default drive letter assignment rules, and it's easier to go along)
I guess I should have been a little clearer with what I said. When I stated that changing drive letters was not an option, this is what I meant. The XP box setup must match the setup on the 98 boxes. I'm not going to go back an reconfigure the drive letters and software on the other machines just because XP can't check to see if a drive letter is already in use. While it may be easier to go along with windows drive assignment rules, is it too much trouble to ask for them to be the same between windows versions? (Win98 mounts usb drives correctly)
While I have added more memory to the XP box, I have seen no real difference in stability.... Now I don't have quite a gig of RAM installed, but I think that is a bit much to run one application on XP. I don't have that much on my linux servers and they run 90+ aplications. My long term plans are to find a way to get this application running under wine or crossover office and then to ditch windows all together.
Where does one go to find the list of good Linux distros vs bad Linux distros?
I don't know of any sites right off hand but I can give you my personal opinions (Read: OPINION, no flames please) of the distro's and OS's I have used, and still use.
Linux Slackware, 2 computers (8 years ago, used for 2 years) I found file locations and the structure to be very intuitive. Overall I liked it. Red Hat, 2 computers (6 years ago, used for 4 years) The file locations were not as intuitive at first, but I grew to like it. It had a little better hardware support and with the few problems I had I was able to find a solution on usenet within a few hours Debian, 1 computer (about 6 years ago, used for about 2 years) File locations and setup issues were not really that big of a deal as I had learned more about linux. I loved apt for installing new software and upgrading packages went well. But after the last upgrade, the system got unstable and apt was all but broken. Mandrake, 7 computers (5 years ago, 5 systems still in use) In the begining, very good hardware support and very very stable. Upgrades went well, but the systems that were upgraded got less stable. Three of the remaining five which are not on the internet have never been upgraded are still rock solid. I liked the earlier versions better for their stability and the newer versions for their features. However three of the five systems are slated for new installs of gentoo, the remaining two will be converted to network boot or to knoppix. Suse, 1 computer (2 years ago) Overall the best hardware support of any linux distro I have used. Gentoo, 1 computer (about 1 year ago) Installs (stage 1) can take a long time, hardware support is good, ugrades go well, portage works very well. Very stable. Knoppix, (3 months ago) Don't leave home without it. OS/2, 1 computer (? years ago) Very stable, a little lacking on software. Win95, 2 computers (9? years ago) Very Stable in the begining, didn't take long to go south. Lots of software. Win98, 4 computers (was this really new? It looked like a bug fix to me) 1 system still in use, only because it has to be. Locks up about twice a month. WinXP, 2 computers, 1 still in use again only because it has to be. Locks up about once a month, problems with usb drives because of mounted network drive. The only way to fix the problem is to change the drive letter of the network mount, which is not an option.
This is not really a good vs bad, because many of the distros I used were from years ago. I have noticed that most linux users think that the distro they are using is the best. I would recomend that you try out serveral distros and use the one you like best.
A story like this should have been posted later in the day.... I woke up, went to slashdot, read the story and for a brief second thought the last 25 years of my life had been some type of twisted dream and that I was late for school. Gee thanks guys.... I nearly had a heart attack;)
Wow, name calling from someone called "Anonymous Coward." Now let's look at a few points.
1. People leave with the knowledge of how to write a virus. 2. 25% of the course was on ethics. 3. All applicants were personally screened.
I have a few questions and points here. 1. Who is going to personally gaurantee that NO ONE in this class will ever misuse what they learned? 2. How is 1/4 of a single class in ethics supposed to be reassuring when lawyers take entire courses in it but some still fail to understand it. 3. Personal screening is supposed to mean what? "Personal screening" in no way means that every person who will misuse the knowledge will be screened out. Just look at some of the comments co-workers had about Ted Bundy. I am not saying that anyone in the class is or will be like him, just that the possiblity exists. 4. Just what does this statement "The Unversity of Calgary is a real academic institution, where real serious research takes place, not the private sector sellouts that seem to be common in the US. Just because you can't imagine a school that wouldn't sell its soul for a couple bucks, doesn't mean they don't exist." have to do with this thread? I never questioned the academic, research or soul selling standing of the school. History is full of people, institutes and governments conducting serious research that was still WRONG. 5.My statement "They write the spamming software and sell it, then write the anti-spamming software and sell it." is not "reactionary." This behavior is already happening. A good example is adware installed on systems advertising programs for sale to remove adware. 6. Why does the virus lab have tighter security than any airport you've even been to? If the screening of the applicants is perfect as you seem to believe, the security would not be needed. The reason the security is that high is because the potential for abuse/misuse is so high. Security does not prevent the knowledge from leaving the classroom. 7. You signed your message "Libeled Coward" but who did the name calling?
Many years, yes. 30 years, no. This attitude came about some time after I entered the work force. While I have been working for many many years, I don't quite have 30 in yet.:)
"Wouldn't it be more productive to study ways to combat spam?"
I agree, but the truth of the matter is, there is money being made in spam. Nevermind the fact that 99+% of the people being spammed hate it and hate the spammers. Now if I were an alumni of this University, they could kiss my shiney white backside before I would ever give them another dime.
Now the story does say "The aim is to develop new ways to fight these online nuisances." I read this and I see a whole new problem.... They write the spamming software and sell it, then write the anti-spamming software and sell it. This course will do nothing more than make problems worse.
When I see things like this course being offered, and things like this story, I no longer belive that what is right matters, it's all about the money or just being plain annoying to as many people as possible . I for one will not shed a tear if the University of Calgary burns to the ground for this as long as no one is hurt (no, I'm not saying it should be torched). What ever happened to doing things to help yourself and/or others?
Spammers remind me of the kid(s) in school who everyone ignored or avoided, only now they have found a way to make people pay attention to them, and they're getting even. I just wish I could burn my email addresses.:)
I'm still upset at the lack of action taken by the government to address the 143,000 connections in your example
I don't know..... I'm pretty upset by the fact that the morons thought I wanted their crap 143,000+ times:) You would think that the (55x)reject messages I send to some of them would give them a clue.... some of the reject messages are long enough that their email servers break the connection after only half of it gets sent;)
The guy who gives the email addresses to the spammers is forced to pay restitution costs to AOL for the amount they spent on dealing with email that the spammer's sent. This is bullshit. If anyone should have to pay, it is the spammers.
WTF? Smathers knew exactly what was going to be done with this list. I'll agree that the spammers should pay, and from TFA... "Smathers allegedly sold the list to Sean Dunaway, of Las Vegas, who used it to send unwanted gambling advertisements to subscribers of AOL, the world's largest Internet provider. Charges are pending against Dunaway."
Smathers should pay and pay dearly, after all he provided the list to the spammer in the first place.
...but he didn't directly cost AOL any money.
Again, WTF? Do you think that AOL gets bandwidth for FREE? As their bandwidth usage goes up from spam they must buy MORE bandwidth to keep things flowing smoothly and to keep their customers happy. Again from TFA.... " In December, the judge said he had dropped his own AOL membership because he received too much spam.
To me, that looks like 2 places that directly cost the company.
In November of 2003 I was getting about 175 spams per day. In December of 2003 I installed Spamassassin, set up ip# and domain name block lists, tweaked the rules and wrote my own, and wrote a user email/spam report system. I spent a good deal of time getting this set up and working out the bugs. My email server received over 145,000 connections in 2004, over 143,000 were spam.
I have the ability and resources to do these things but many internet users do not. While I don't have an AOL account, I still think he should have received more hard time. Put him away for a long time, maybe his cell mate will be a disgruntled AOL user who lost it after getting "one too many spams".... make other spammers and their helpers think twice.
My guess... my great uncle who has been deaf most if not all of his life. What I find disturbing is this statement from TFA:
Chianumba said she faxed a copy of her mother's death certificate to record company officials several days before the lawsuit was filed. She said she did that in response to a letter from the company regarding the upcoming legal filing.
And they still filed the lawsuit..... talk about cold. I know how ticked off I got a couple of weeks ago when a company sent a flyer addressed to my father who has been dead for 14 years. It didn't help that I got it the day before the anniverary of his death.
In theory this MIGHT be possible. In reality a 50W CO2 laser WILL NOT cut sheet metal. A quote from this site"Metal Cutting is "Not" possible, however the system does a fine job of "Etching" Anodized Aluminum" and they are talking about a 50W laser. While my 35W can make a piece of ceramic tile glow red/orange where the laser hits it, it will not even make a mark on steel.
Actually, if you buy one of these hoping to cut a hole in your metal case, you will be very disappointed and out some cold hard cash. This type of laser engraver is not designed to cut metal... in fact the best you could hope for would be to burn the paint off. While I don't own a Versalaser, I do own a 35 watt co2 laser engraver, and it will not cut metal. However, I used my routing table with a metal cutting bit to cut a window opening in my case, and then used the laser to cut the window pane of yellow/green acrylic.:)
And what happens if the machine you're legitimately trying to update can't be put on the internet?
Good point, I have two windows machines here at work. Neither of them have been given access to the internet for 2 reasons. 1. They are production machines and I can not take the risk of virii or worms. 2. I can't take the risk of an update breaking the system.
Now this also means that I will not need the security updates or other patches. When I manage to get the production software functional under wine/crossover/other these system will be converted to linux.
Actually your numbers are just a little off. He is donating $750M over the next 10 years which comes out to $75M per year. That would be 0.18% of his net worth. Now, I'm betting he makes better than that in interest and dividends per year. So this is a tax shelter for him, nothing more, nothing less. It just happens to be a tax shelter that a some good will come out of.
People are missing that because of the large amount of money. For someone making say $50K a year this would amount to $90 per year. Don't get me wrong, I am glad to see some good coming out of the money.
Having said that, I donated more than yesterday, and I don't even make $50K a year.
I agree. When I read the story, my first thought was.... "I'll bet this guy skips the country." After all, they're giving him 2 months to plan where to go. Bye bye Phillip! or given the fact he helped steal millions should that be Buy Buy Phillip?
Actually the story reads, "Under an agreement with the Federal Trade Commission, a man known as the "Spam King" will stop infecting computers with advertising programs until a federal lawsuit against him is resolved."
Installing adware and selling a product to remove it.... To me that would be about like a doctor walking up and shooting you in the leg and then offering to fix it for a fee.;-)
I didn't start watching Amazing Race until 9:45pm last night. By 11:30 I had seen both Amazing Race and Jon Stewart -- without watching a single commercial. That's 45 minutes of my life to do productive things (or surf Slashdot).
You have a valid point here, but what about this. Money talks. How long before the FF starts going a little slower so Tivo can sell a little more advertismet time? Your time saved may drop to 40 minutes, then 35... and so on. "Wait-and-see" is a great idea, but it still comes down to that good old talking money.
Cheaper PC's? I for one am sick and tired of hardware that dies shortly after the warranty is up. In the last four years, out of 9 desktop computers and 3 laptops, I have had a cd burner to die, a motherboard, a couple of keyboards, a trackball, a monitor, 2 power supplies, 2 harddrives, and 4 UPS's. I have repaired 3 (working on number 4) motherboards that had "Taiwanese Exploding Capacitors" in them. See here if you don't remember the story. http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/04/175 1210&tid=137
This list failures does not count lightning or power surges, as those are not really fault in the equipment, nor does it include the non PC equipment I have had to die. I don't buy cheap hardware, I pay for good hardware but I'm not getting it.
Yet I have hardware that is 8+ years old still chugging along. Monitors that are 11+ years old that are still working.
I don't want cheaper hardware, I want BETTER hardware.
Sorry for the double post, my grey matter hardware is fragmented.:)
Cheaper PC's? I for one am sick and tired of hardware that dies shortly after the warranty is up. In the last four years, out of 9 desktop computers and 3 laptops, I have had a cd burner to die, a motherboard, a couple of keyboards, a trackball, a monitor, 2 power supplies, 2 harddrives, and 4 UPS's. I have repaired 3 (working on number 4) motherboards that had "Taiwanese Exploding Capacitors" in them. See here if you don't remember the story. http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/04/175 1210&tid=137
This list failures does not count lightning or power surges, as those are not really fault in the equipment, nor does it include the non PC equipment I have had to die. I don't buy cheap hardware, I pay for good hardware but I'm not getting it.
Yet I have hardware that is 8+ years old still chugging along. Monitors that are 11+ years old that are still working.
I don't want cheaper hardware, I want BETTER hardware.
I know it is the amps that kill, but I never said anything about killing them. That would be too easy. Think high voltage, low current. Just enough to really hurt:) I want them to hide in fear every time someone snaps their fingers or pops bubble gum. A dead spammer is of no use. One that twitches violently and every sudden sound sends a much better message, hehehheehe.
I posted this question last week about spam with Habeas headers, but it got rejected:( I am glad to see the word is getting out though. I have yet to get any valid email with Habeas headers, so I no longer give any special consideration to Habeas headers. I believe this problem will get worse as Habeas can not catch every spammer that is forging the headers. You can change the HABEAS_SWE rule to give 0 points instead of the -8.0, and whitelist the valid habeas or add a custom rule to just add the points back, or write custom rules for the violators. I chose just to add the points back with a custom rule. I also whitelist valid email lists. One thing you will need to watch carefully for is the AWL rule. The forged Habeas headers can cause the spammer to get whitelisted and the AWL rule will subtract points from the spam score. If you see a negative score on AWL on a spam, save the spam (headers and all) to a file and run sa-learn --spam file.name This should unlearn it as valid email and learn it as spam
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Who has noticed a decrease in the effectiveness of Spam Assasin. I have! Anyone else?
:)
I have been running Spamassassin for over a year now and have not noticed any real change. 1 or 2 spams get through (out of about 500) every 1 to 2 days. I should add that I also use spamcop, razor, bays, server blocks, and in the begining I wrote many of my own rules. If anything, Spamassassin is getting better because the inbound spam level goes up, but the amount in my inbox stays the same. These results will vary from person to person based on the spam lists you are on. If you need to take viagra, need breast/penis enlargment, can't find your Rolex, need meds or a loan, need to loose weight, want to gamble online, want to see women do everything under the sun, etc., etc., your results might be different
I like this one better.... http://dupes_r_us.slashdot.org/
Then I left a drive letter assignment gap (windows has default drive letter assignment rules, and it's easier to go along)
I guess I should have been a little clearer with what I said. When I stated that changing drive letters was not an option, this is what I meant. The XP box setup must match the setup on the 98 boxes. I'm not going to go back an reconfigure the drive letters and software on the other machines just because XP can't check to see if a drive letter is already in use. While it may be easier to go along with windows drive assignment rules, is it too much trouble to ask for them to be the same between windows versions? (Win98 mounts usb drives correctly)
While I have added more memory to the XP box, I have seen no real difference in stability.... Now I don't have quite a gig of RAM installed, but I think that is a bit much to run one application on XP. I don't have that much on my linux servers and they run 90+ aplications. My long term plans are to find a way to get this application running under wine or crossover office and then to ditch windows all together.
Where does one go to find the list of good Linux distros vs bad Linux distros?
I don't know of any sites right off hand but I can give you my personal opinions (Read: OPINION, no flames please) of the distro's and OS's I have used, and still use.
Linux
Slackware, 2 computers (8 years ago, used for 2 years) I found file locations and the structure to be very intuitive. Overall I liked it.
Red Hat, 2 computers (6 years ago, used for 4 years) The file locations were not as intuitive at first, but I grew to like it. It had a little better hardware support and with the few problems I had I was able to find a solution on usenet within a few hours
Debian, 1 computer (about 6 years ago, used for about 2 years) File locations and setup issues were not really that big of a deal as I had learned more about linux. I loved apt for installing new software and upgrading packages went well. But after the last upgrade, the system got unstable and apt was all but broken.
Mandrake, 7 computers (5 years ago, 5 systems still in use) In the begining, very good hardware support and very very stable. Upgrades went well, but the systems that were upgraded got less stable. Three of the remaining five which are not on the internet have never been upgraded are still rock solid. I liked the earlier versions better for their stability and the newer versions for their features. However three of the five systems are slated for new installs of gentoo, the remaining two will be converted to network boot or to knoppix.
Suse, 1 computer (2 years ago) Overall the best hardware support of any linux distro I have used.
Gentoo, 1 computer (about 1 year ago) Installs (stage 1) can take a long time, hardware support is good, ugrades go well, portage works very well. Very stable. Knoppix, (3 months ago) Don't leave home without it.
OS/2, 1 computer (? years ago) Very stable, a little lacking on software.
Win95, 2 computers (9? years ago) Very Stable in the begining, didn't take long to go south. Lots of software.
Win98, 4 computers (was this really new? It looked like a bug fix to me) 1 system still in use, only because it has to be. Locks up about twice a month.
WinXP, 2 computers, 1 still in use again only because it has to be. Locks up about once a month, problems with usb drives because of mounted network drive. The only way to fix the problem is to change the drive letter of the network mount, which is not an option.
This is not really a good vs bad, because many of the distros I used were from years ago. I have noticed that most linux users think that the distro they are using is the best. I would recomend that you try out serveral distros and use the one you like best.
A story like this should have been posted later in the day.... I woke up, went to slashdot, read the story and for a brief second thought the last 25 years of my life had been some type of twisted dream and that I was late for school. Gee thanks guys.... I nearly had a heart attack ;)
Wow, name calling from someone called "Anonymous Coward." Now let's look at a few points.
1. People leave with the knowledge of how to write a virus.
2. 25% of the course was on ethics.
3. All applicants were personally screened.
I have a few questions and points here.
1. Who is going to personally gaurantee that NO ONE in this class will ever misuse what they learned?
2. How is 1/4 of a single class in ethics supposed to be reassuring when lawyers take entire courses in it but some still fail to understand it.
3. Personal screening is supposed to mean what? "Personal screening" in no way means that every person who will misuse the knowledge will be screened out. Just look at some of the comments co-workers had about Ted Bundy. I am not saying that anyone in the class is or will be like him, just that the possiblity exists.
4. Just what does this statement "The Unversity of Calgary is a real academic institution, where real serious research takes place, not the private sector sellouts that seem to be common in the US. Just because you can't imagine a school that wouldn't sell its soul for a couple bucks, doesn't mean they don't exist." have to do with this thread? I never questioned the academic, research or soul selling standing of the school. History is full of people, institutes and governments conducting serious research that was still WRONG.
5.My statement "They write the spamming software and sell it, then write the anti-spamming software and sell it." is not "reactionary." This behavior is already happening. A good example is adware installed on systems advertising programs for sale to remove adware.
6. Why does the virus lab have tighter security than any airport you've even been to? If the screening of the applicants is perfect as you seem to believe, the security would not be needed. The reason the security is that high is because the potential for abuse/misuse is so high. Security does not prevent the knowledge from leaving the classroom.
7. You signed your message "Libeled Coward" but who did the name calling?
"It's been that way for at least 30 years."
:)
Many years, yes. 30 years, no. This attitude came about some time after I entered the work force. While I have been working for many many years, I don't quite have 30 in yet.
"Wouldn't it be more productive to study ways to combat spam?"
:)
I agree, but the truth of the matter is, there is money being made in spam. Nevermind the fact that 99+% of the people being spammed hate it and hate the spammers. Now if I were an alumni of this University, they could kiss my shiney white backside before I would ever give them another dime.
Now the story does say "The aim is to develop new ways to fight these online nuisances." I read this and I see a whole new problem.... They write the spamming software and sell it, then write the anti-spamming software and sell it. This course will do nothing more than make problems worse.
When I see things like this course being offered, and things like this story, I no longer belive that what is right matters, it's all about the money or just being plain annoying to as many people as possible . I for one will not shed a tear if the University of Calgary burns to the ground for this as long as no one is hurt (no, I'm not saying it should be torched). What ever happened to doing things to help yourself and/or others?
Spammers remind me of the kid(s) in school who everyone ignored or avoided, only now they have found a way to make people pay attention to them, and they're getting even. I just wish I could burn my email addresses.
I'm still upset at the lack of action taken by the government to address the 143,000 connections in your example
:) You would think that the (55x)reject messages I send to some of them would give them a clue.... some of the reject messages are long enough that their email servers break the connection after only half of it gets sent ;)
I don't know..... I'm pretty upset by the fact that the morons thought I wanted their crap 143,000+ times
The guy who gives the email addresses to the spammers is forced to pay restitution costs to AOL for the amount they spent on dealing with email that the spammer's sent. This is bullshit. If anyone should have to pay, it is the spammers.
...but he didn't directly cost AOL any money.
WTF? Smathers knew exactly what was going to be done with this list. I'll agree that the spammers should pay, and from TFA...
"Smathers allegedly sold the list to Sean Dunaway, of Las Vegas, who used it to send unwanted gambling advertisements to subscribers of AOL, the world's largest Internet provider. Charges are pending against Dunaway."
Smathers should pay and pay dearly, after all he provided the list to the spammer in the first place.
Again, WTF? Do you think that AOL gets bandwidth for FREE? As their bandwidth usage goes up from spam they must buy MORE bandwidth to keep things flowing smoothly and to keep their customers happy. Again from TFA....
" In December, the judge said he had dropped his own AOL membership because he received too much spam.
To me, that looks like 2 places that directly cost the company.
In November of 2003 I was getting about 175 spams per day. In December of 2003 I installed Spamassassin, set up ip# and domain name block lists, tweaked the rules and wrote my own, and wrote a user email/spam report system. I spent a good deal of time getting this set up and working out the bugs. My email server received over 145,000 connections in 2004, over 143,000 were spam.
I have the ability and resources to do these things but many internet users do not. While I don't have an AOL account, I still think he should have received more hard time. Put him away for a long time, maybe his cell mate will be a disgruntled AOL user who lost it after getting "one too many spams".... make other spammers and their helpers think twice.
My guess... my great uncle who has been deaf most if not all of his life. What I find disturbing is this statement from TFA:
Chianumba said she faxed a copy of her mother's death certificate to record company officials several days before the lawsuit was filed. She said she did that in response to a letter from the company regarding the upcoming legal filing.
And they still filed the lawsuit..... talk about cold. I know how ticked off I got a couple of weeks ago when a company sent a flyer addressed to my father who has been dead for 14 years. It didn't help that I got it the day before the anniverary of his death.
In theory this MIGHT be possible. In reality a 50W CO2 laser WILL NOT cut sheet metal. A quote from this site "Metal Cutting is "Not" possible, however the system does a fine job of "Etching" Anodized Aluminum" and they are talking about a 50W laser. While my 35W can make a piece of ceramic tile glow red/orange where the laser hits it, it will not even make a mark on steel.
Actually, if you buy one of these hoping to cut a hole in your metal case, you will be very disappointed and out some cold hard cash. This type of laser engraver is not designed to cut metal... in fact the best you could hope for would be to burn the paint off. While I don't own a Versalaser, I do own a 35 watt co2 laser engraver, and it will not cut metal. However, I used my routing table with a metal cutting bit to cut a window opening in my case, and then used the laser to cut the window pane of yellow/green acrylic. :)
And what happens if the machine you're legitimately trying to update can't be put on the internet?
Good point, I have two windows machines here at work. Neither of them have been given access to the internet for 2 reasons.
1. They are production machines and I can not take the risk of virii or worms.
2. I can't take the risk of an update breaking the system.
Now this also means that I will not need the security updates or other patches. When I manage to get the production software functional under wine/crossover/other these system will be converted to linux.
Actually your numbers are just a little off. He is donating $750M over the next 10 years which comes out to $75M per year. That would be 0.18% of his net worth. Now, I'm betting he makes better than that in interest and dividends per year. So this is a tax shelter for him, nothing more, nothing less. It just happens to be a tax shelter that a some good will come out of.
People are missing that because of the large amount of money. For someone making say $50K a year this would amount to $90 per year. Don't get me wrong, I am glad to see some good coming out of the money.
Having said that, I donated more than yesterday, and I don't even make $50K a year.
I agree. When I read the story, my first thought was.... "I'll bet this guy skips the country." After all, they're giving him 2 months to plan where to go. Bye bye Phillip! or given the fact he helped steal millions should that be Buy Buy Phillip?
Actually the story reads, "Under an agreement with the Federal Trade Commission, a man known as the "Spam King" will stop infecting computers with advertising programs until a federal lawsuit against him is resolved."
;-)
Installing adware and selling a product to remove it.... To me that would be about like a doctor walking up and shooting you in the leg and then offering to fix it for a fee.
I didn't start watching Amazing Race until 9:45pm last night. By 11:30 I had seen both Amazing Race and Jon Stewart -- without watching a single commercial. That's 45 minutes of my life to do productive things (or surf Slashdot).
You have a valid point here, but what about this. Money talks. How long before the FF starts going a little slower so Tivo can sell a little more advertismet time? Your time saved may drop to 40 minutes, then 35... and so on. "Wait-and-see" is a great idea, but it still comes down to that good old talking money.
You find it amazing coming from this man? Do you not remember this? http://www.ntk.net/ballmer/mirrors.html
:)
Dance monkey boy, dance!
Cheaper PC's? I for one am sick and tired of hardware that dies shortly after the warranty is up. In the last four years, out of 9 desktop computers and 3 laptops, I have had a cd burner to die, a motherboard, a couple of keyboards, a trackball, a monitor, 2 power supplies, 2 harddrives, and 4 UPS's. I have repaired 3 (working on number 4) motherboards that had "Taiwanese Exploding Capacitors" in them. See here if you don't remember the story. http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/04/175 1210&tid=137
:)
This list failures does not count lightning or power surges, as those are not really fault in the equipment, nor does it include the non PC equipment I have had to die. I don't buy cheap hardware, I pay for good hardware but I'm not getting it.
Yet I have hardware that is 8+ years old still chugging along. Monitors that are 11+ years old that are still working.
I don't want cheaper hardware, I want BETTER hardware.
Sorry for the double post, my grey matter hardware is fragmented.
Cheaper PC's? I for one am sick and tired of hardware that dies shortly after the warranty is up. In the last four years, out of 9 desktop computers and 3 laptops, I have had a cd burner to die, a motherboard, a couple of keyboards, a trackball, a monitor, 2 power supplies, 2 harddrives, and 4 UPS's. I have repaired 3 (working on number 4) motherboards that had "Taiwanese Exploding Capacitors" in them. See here if you don't remember the story. http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/04/175 1210&tid=137
This list failures does not count lightning or power surges, as those are not really fault in the equipment, nor does it include the non PC equipment I have had to die. I don't buy cheap hardware, I pay for good hardware but I'm not getting it.
Yet I have hardware that is 8+ years old still chugging along. Monitors that are 11+ years old that are still working.
I don't want cheaper hardware, I want BETTER hardware.
I know it is the amps that kill, but I never said anything about killing them. That would be too easy. Think high voltage, low current. Just enough to really hurt :) I want them to hide in fear every time someone snaps their fingers or pops bubble gum. A dead spammer is of no use. One that twitches violently and every sudden sound sends a much better message, hehehheehe.
How about 1 volt per spam they sent.... I could live in the dark for a while :)
I posted this question last week about spam with Habeas headers, but it got rejected :( I am glad to see the word is getting out though. I have yet to get any valid email with Habeas headers, so I no longer give any special consideration to Habeas headers. I believe this problem will get worse as Habeas can not catch every spammer that is forging the headers. You can change the HABEAS_SWE rule to give 0 points instead of the -8.0, and whitelist the valid habeas or add a custom rule to just add the points back, or write custom rules for the violators. I chose just to add the points back with a custom rule. I also whitelist valid email lists. One thing you will need to watch carefully for is the AWL rule. The forged Habeas headers can cause the spammer to get whitelisted and the AWL rule will subtract points from the spam score. If you see a negative score on AWL on a spam, save the spam (headers and all) to a file and run sa-learn --spam file.name This should unlearn it as valid email and learn it as spam