I've been an admin at two ISPs, and both blocked port 25 to all mailservers except their own. If one wanted to run one's own smtp server one was required to get explicit permission which included open relay testing. If one wanted to mail out through an alien mailserver a similar process was required.
That's excellent practice, but from what I've seen, far from being common. Where do you live?
More ideas how ISPs could help fighting spam:
- Hold your customers responsible for Spam sent in any case. Maybe it really isn't their fault, and this new Trojan sent it, but how can you be sure it isn't just a spammer excuse?
- Require a security deposit for opening egress port 25. If spam is being sent, the deposit is forfeit (and port 25 is closed again). This could help fighting hit-and-run spammers creating accounts with stolen CC numbers or some other fraudulent way.
Throwaway Question that will Undoubtedly Get Dozens of Answers while the Rest of the Post Goes Unread: Why doesn't Mplayer disable XScreensaver while playing?)
SPEWS doesn't consider the innocents being caught up as unfortunate, they consider them the target.
Your "innocent bystanders" aren't innocent, they're giving their money to a spamming ISP. Which means, they're contributing to the problem that there are irresponsible ISPs who send out spam.
[A TV remote] is mostly single-purpose buttons, most of which have intuitively understandable functions.
As soon as you're using mplayer, your keyboard is exactly this. Cursor keys for navigation, and "f" for fullscreen. How much more intuitive could it get?
And you still need to explain why you want a GUI on your screen when you need that same screen to watch a movie.
As a side note, there have been GUIs for TVs. You needed to point the remote control at the screen, press some button, and navigate by aiming the remote control around on the screen. Guess why they didn't prevail?
"'Computer games are art and should be dealt with accordingly"
Rubbish.
By that argument, all films are also art and should be unclassified...
It all depends of what's meant with 'accordingly'. IMO, films OF COURSE are art. Still, we have a classification system for films. So why not also for games?
Sure, you *can* browse with Opera or Navigator, but only if you're willing to accept that you won't be able to view a good number of sites correctly.
Depends of what you mean with "correctly". Is MS defining what's "correct" nowadays?
I'm happily using Konqueror 2.1.2, and while it may not be the fastest browser, I didn't come across a site I've been unable to use in months.
Konqueror 2.2 seems to have a nasty bug with non-breaking spaces, unfortunately...
AboveNet is participating in a boycott of our ISP, organized by the Mail Abuse Prevention System, because of sites like http://209.211.253.69/ which sell mass email software (but does not spam or use spam for advertising).
Well, really? media3.net is the ISP in question. Have a look at Spamhaus. Who's at the top of the list? media3.net? gee...
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I've been an admin at two ISPs, and both blocked port 25 to all mailservers except their own. If one wanted to run one's own smtp server one was required to get explicit permission which included open relay testing. If one wanted to mail out through an alien mailserver a similar process was required.
That's excellent practice, but from what I've seen, far from being common. Where do you live?
More ideas how ISPs could help fighting spam:
- Hold your customers responsible for Spam sent in any case. Maybe it really isn't their fault, and this new Trojan sent it, but how can you be sure it isn't just a spammer excuse?
- Require a security deposit for opening egress port 25. If spam is being sent, the deposit is forfeit (and port 25 is closed again). This could help fighting hit-and-run spammers creating accounts with stolen CC numbers or some other fraudulent way.
Hanno
Who modded that funny? I'm getting most of my spam on the address I used for registering domains at Networksolutions (and no where else).
Hanno
Sure, why not. The longer they use Windows, the longer Windows' interoperability shortcomings are getting on my nerves.
Besides, this guy explains it better than I could do:
Hanno
Throwaway Question that will Undoubtedly Get Dozens of Answers while the Rest of the Post Goes Unread: Why doesn't Mplayer disable XScreensaver while playing?)
Try the option -stop_xscreensaver.
Hanno
SPEWS doesn't consider the innocents being caught up as unfortunate, they consider them the target.
Your "innocent bystanders" aren't innocent, they're giving their money to a spamming ISP. Which means, they're contributing to the problem that there are irresponsible ISPs who send out spam.
Hurga
As soon as you're using mplayer, your keyboard is exactly this. Cursor keys for navigation, and "f" for fullscreen. How much more intuitive could it get?
And you still need to explain why you want a GUI on your screen when you need that same screen to watch a movie.
As a side note, there have been GUIs for TVs. You needed to point the remote control at the screen, press some button, and navigate by aiming the remote control around on the screen. Guess why they didn't prevail?
Hurga
I think I could say MUCH worse things about the UI of Emacs than what JWZ said in his article about video players.
Hurga
Hint: I don't want no fucking GUI cluttering up my screen when I want to watch a movie using that same screen.
Is the remote control of your TV based on GUI navigation or pressing of some keys?
Dude, you badly need to read Stephenson's "In the beginning was the command line".
Hurga
There are lawyers to be fed, why should it have to make any sense other than that?
Hurga
Not quite. IIRC both ffmpeg and XviD are based on the old OpenDivX source. OK, both projects went a long way since then...
Hurga
It all depends of what's meant with 'accordingly'. IMO, films OF COURSE are art. Still, we have a classification system for films. So why not also for games?
Hurga
If 1) results in a lynch mob, that would be something, wouldn't it?
Hanno
Check http://www.lcd-keys.com/
Hurga
> You deal with americans, you deal with their laws.
It even works the other way, too... cf. Yahoo! vs. France.
Hanno
Depends of what you mean with "correctly". Is MS defining what's "correct" nowadays?
I'm happily using Konqueror 2.1.2, and while it may not be the fastest browser, I didn't come across a site I've been unable to use in months. Konqueror 2.2 seems to have a nasty bug with non-breaking spaces, unfortunately...
Hanno
> You'll likely to see this technology developed first for militaries then later adapted for civilian use.
Most probably it already is in use. Do a Google search on "aurora scramjet".
- Hurga
AboveNet is participating in a boycott of our ISP, organized by the Mail Abuse Prevention System, because of sites like http://209.211.253.69/ which sell mass email software (but does not spam or use spam for advertising).
Well, really? media3.net is the ISP in question. Have a look at Spamhaus. Who's at the top of the list? media3.net? gee...