It should be "no one who wants their mail system to run smoothly blocks on level 2".
SPEWS does not recommend that level 2 listings be used for filtering, but they don't disallow it because... well, they don't own the mailservers on which their lists are used.
I can still fire a barrage of complaints against spam-friendly ISPs through both email and phone correspondence until they take action. I'm also certain that it's only a matter of time before someone puts a bullet in Alan Ralsky's head and does the world a favour.
Every time you get a doubleclick hosted at that somehow gets through your ad-blocking methods, send an email to the company involved telling them that you will NEVER purchase products from them because of their choice of intrusive advertising methods. CC your mail to contact addresses at doubleclick. Include a full copy of the advertisement page. Typically such ads are just a single image, so include the image (the full binary) as an attachment so that they know exactly what you saw.
Although I despise spam, clearly the CAN-SPAM bill would indicate that there are some situations in which unsolicited e-mail will be sent in the future that will be commonly accepted.
No, it only indicates that a sufficient number of Congress slime balls were bribed by the criminal outfit known as the Direct Marketers Assocation. Email spam is, and always will be, theft. Spammers deserve death, without exception and regardless of any DMA-crafted "rules" that they claim to be following. Since spammers are always fundamentally dishonest, you can bet that they're not even following those rules.
It's quite likely that we will learn to live with some forms of unsolicited e-mail on the Internet rather than eliminate it entirely, especially given the personality types that always seem to chase the fast buck without regard to other people's expense.
This is why I advocate execution of email spammers. Kill the spammers, and you kill the problem. Header forging becomes irrelevant if any email spam, regardless of how or why its sent, merits death.
Until it is legal to kill spammers, or until I finally snap and give Alan Ralsky, Eddie (or Eddy) Marin and the rest of the group what they truly deserve, I will respond to each and every junk email that I recieve with a nasty slew of complaints to the hosting ISPs for the sending IP address and for any website or email account involved. Should the spam continue, my complaints will only increase in number and frequency. I don't care what laws they claim to follow, spam is unethical, fraudulent and it amounts to stealing.
It's time that we started executing email spammers, and anyone who contracts email spammers.
Spammers are sociopaths. They don't care that their efforts are always, without exception, criminal. They don't care that people don't want their junk. The best thing to do is to kill them and remove them from society.
Hopefully someone will soon snap and put a bullet in Alan Ralsky's head, signaling the start of the true anti-spam revolution and doing a great favour to the world.
Yes, they put up a valiant ten minute struggle. Most of that time was spent going from one end of the country to the other, because they hadn't expected the German forces to attack from the Belgian border. I mean, it's not like they had done it before, except for that one time in THE FIRST WORLD WAR!
I was referring to college performance, as I did not start taking Ritalin until my second semester. I survived high school without medication, but I'd rather not discuss my academic performance there.
ADD/ADHD is when you cannot force yourself to choose what to concentrate on, but are capable of concentrating only upon the perceived item of greatest interest.
I should have said this before, because this is how it works for me. I once got so engrossed in a video game that I played it from 08:00 to 00:00 without realising that any time had passed at all. I would have said it, had I not been so distracted when typing up my previous post.
Still, while I can concentrate on video games (or computer-related stuff, since I'll spend hours configuring various things), I can't make myself concentrate on homework (even with subjects where I have an active interest) unless I'm medicated. No matter what I do otherwise, I end up distracted and wandering off for ten minutes at a time.
Though it would seem that you don't believe what I believe: You can do anything, if you put your mind to it.
Guess what. I've put my mind to it. I fail, no matter what I try. I've managed to struggle through courses without medication and manage a C because I was just barely able to focus enough to learn something, but I find that I have much greater success when I'm taking medication and I'm actually able to sit down, read a textbook or do assigned homework without finding myself distracted by my own thoughts flashing off topic like a broken TV tuner (I used that analogy years before the "adult ADD" adverts started playing) every five minutes.
You don't live in my head. Stop telling me what it's like. Stop telling me what will work when I've already tried it and failed. If you were able to overcome it through sheer force of will, then I don't think that you understand what I go through, and neither do your kids.
That's exactly what I was, but I survived to adulthood. Unfortunately, my fast metabolism did not, as hypothyroidism and a sedentary lifestyle took care of it. Sadly, I now actually have to eat less food and excercise to avoid becoming fat, even with Ritalin.
It's great that you have such extensive knowledge of everyone's brain.
You see, he knows of exactly one example where Ritalin apparently was detrimental, therefore he is qualified to speak of the drug as being bad for everyone regardless of their medical history or their own personal experiences.
Given the rising obesity levels in children, appetite supression isn't that bad.
I notice that Ritalin makes me feel somewhat "empty" even when it kills my appetite, though it's not unlike the way that I feel if I have too much caffeine.
I find myself tuning out people at times. It's like they talk too slow. I've noticed this problem especially with the older generation. They feel they must talk in very precise terms and verbally illustrate their ideas. Problem is, I often get their point long before they've finished babbling. So I find myself drifting in and out of attentiveness with them.
That isn't ADD/ADHD. That's getting bored with someone who belabours a point. ADD/ADHD is when you CANNOT, despite your best efforts, concentrate on anything for a long period of time. This is really bad in a classroom environment when you need to pay attention to new material (especially in Calculus courses) and you keep drifting out every five minutes regardless of the effort that you put into paying attention.
I have to deal with ADHD. I know what it's like to suddenly get distracted by the smallest thing, and I know that -- in my case -- Ritalin helps with the concentration problems. I can't stand it when someone who does not have to deal with what I live with comes forth with an "authoratitive" position on ADHD, calling it a myth.
You only need one "technical" measure and one "legal" measure. The "technical" measure involves a loaded Desert Eagle pressed against the forehead of any and all email spammers and those who contract email spammers. The "legal" measure is a law allowing the person holding said Desert Eagle to pull the trigger.
If I'm not mistaken, we in the US have to pay a royalty tax on CD-R media as well -- it's not quite the level of extortion that exists in Canada, but it's still there. I have two questions.
Could Canadians mail-order CD-R media (or other products subject to the extortion fee set up by the criminal recording outfit) from the US to bypass this tax that has been implemented by crooked politicians?
Because we're paying money to the recording industry -- both in the US and in Canada -- and not receiving any content from them when we purchase CD-R media, are we entitled to free music downloads? I've justified quite a bit of my MP3 downloading based on the fact that the RIAA has already gotten my money from CD-R purchases, and I'm just taking content for it now.
This sounds like a motherboard specific problem, as I still use a PS/2 mouse (Well, USB with the PS/2 adapter, since I don't see a need to fill up a USB slot when I have a port available), and I don't have this problem.
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It should be "no one who wants their mail system to run smoothly blocks on level 2".
... well, they don't own the mailservers on which their lists are used.
SPEWS does not recommend that level 2 listings be used for filtering, but they don't disallow it because
Therefore nac.net is correctly listed. I don't see the problem here.
I can still fire a barrage of complaints against spam-friendly ISPs through both email and phone correspondence until they take action. I'm also certain that it's only a matter of time before someone puts a bullet in Alan Ralsky's head and does the world a favour.
Somebody sends some spam. Wastes $50 worth of bandwidth and 3 seconds of your time.
Where have you been? Spam steals billions of dollars per year, and it certainly wastes more than 3 seconds of time for all of the recipients combined.
Spammers deserve horrible, painful death.
Spammers shouldn't be killed, tortured, raped, or any of the other things many posters here are suggesting (and those suggestions are mostly joking)
I am not joking. The sooner Alan Ralsky gets a bullet in his brain, the better.
Personally, I feel giving the spammers a year in jail and giving their cell mate a steady supply of v1agra would be a fitting punishment.
Why would you punish their cellmate in that way?
Personally, I believe that execution is the only effective solution. I'm dead serious about that, too.
Every time you get a doubleclick hosted at that somehow gets through your ad-blocking methods, send an email to the company involved telling them that you will NEVER purchase products from them because of their choice of intrusive advertising methods. CC your mail to contact addresses at doubleclick. Include a full copy of the advertisement page. Typically such ads are just a single image, so include the image (the full binary) as an attachment so that they know exactly what you saw.
The main page is still up. The proper way to handle it would be to delete EVERYTHING from the webserver.
Although I despise spam, clearly the CAN-SPAM bill would indicate that there are some situations in which unsolicited e-mail will be sent in the future that will be commonly accepted.
No, it only indicates that a sufficient number of Congress slime balls were bribed by the criminal outfit known as the Direct Marketers Assocation. Email spam is, and always will be, theft. Spammers deserve death, without exception and regardless of any DMA-crafted "rules" that they claim to be following. Since spammers are always fundamentally dishonest, you can bet that they're not even following those rules.
It's quite likely that we will learn to live with some forms of unsolicited e-mail on the Internet rather than eliminate it entirely, especially given the personality types that always seem to chase the fast buck without regard to other people's expense.
This is why I advocate execution of email spammers. Kill the spammers, and you kill the problem. Header forging becomes irrelevant if any email spam, regardless of how or why its sent, merits death.
Until it is legal to kill spammers, or until I finally snap and give Alan Ralsky, Eddie (or Eddy) Marin and the rest of the group what they truly deserve, I will respond to each and every junk email that I recieve with a nasty slew of complaints to the hosting ISPs for the sending IP address and for any website or email account involved. Should the spam continue, my complaints will only increase in number and frequency. I don't care what laws they claim to follow, spam is unethical, fraudulent and it amounts to stealing.
It's time that we started executing email spammers, and anyone who contracts email spammers.
Spammers are sociopaths. They don't care that their efforts are always, without exception, criminal. They don't care that people don't want their junk. The best thing to do is to kill them and remove them from society.
Hopefully someone will soon snap and put a bullet in Alan Ralsky's head, signaling the start of the true anti-spam revolution and doing a great favour to the world.
The French fought valiently in WW2.
Yes, they put up a valiant ten minute struggle. Most of that time was spent going from one end of the country to the other, because they hadn't expected the German forces to attack from the Belgian border. I mean, it's not like they had done it before, except for that one time in THE FIRST WORLD WAR!
I was referring to college performance, as I did not start taking Ritalin until my second semester. I survived high school without medication, but I'd rather not discuss my academic performance there.
No, I finally realised, after several years without, I do much better with Ritalin.
I went from academic probation to a B average. Once again, you're arrogantly projecting your own experiences onto everyone else.
ADD/ADHD is when you cannot force yourself to choose what to concentrate on, but are capable of concentrating only upon the perceived item of greatest interest.
I should have said this before, because this is how it works for me. I once got so engrossed in a video game that I played it from 08:00 to 00:00 without realising that any time had passed at all. I would have said it, had I not been so distracted when typing up my previous post.
Still, while I can concentrate on video games (or computer-related stuff, since I'll spend hours configuring various things), I can't make myself concentrate on homework (even with subjects where I have an active interest) unless I'm medicated. No matter what I do otherwise, I end up distracted and wandering off for ten minutes at a time.
Though it would seem that you don't believe what I believe:
You can do anything, if you put your mind to it.
Guess what. I've put my mind to it. I fail, no matter what I try. I've managed to struggle through courses without medication and manage a C because I was just barely able to focus enough to learn something, but I find that I have much greater success when I'm taking medication and I'm actually able to sit down, read a textbook or do assigned homework without finding myself distracted by my own thoughts flashing off topic like a broken TV tuner (I used that analogy years before the "adult ADD" adverts started playing) every five minutes.
You don't live in my head. Stop telling me what it's like. Stop telling me what will work when I've already tried it and failed. If you were able to overcome it through sheer force of will, then I don't think that you understand what I go through, and neither do your kids.
But I actually learned all the material- and did good on tests :p
:)
You mean that you did "well" on tests. Either that, or English courses were an exception.
That's exactly what I was, but I survived to adulthood. Unfortunately, my fast metabolism did not, as hypothyroidism and a sedentary lifestyle took care of it. Sadly, I now actually have to eat less food and excercise to avoid becoming fat, even with Ritalin.
It's great that you have such extensive knowledge of everyone's brain.
You see, he knows of exactly one example where Ritalin apparently was detrimental, therefore he is qualified to speak of the drug as being bad for everyone regardless of their medical history or their own personal experiences.
So let me ask- were you in fact *learning* the material, even though you weren't getting good grades?
It's called "never doing homework". I had that problem too.
Given the rising obesity levels in children, appetite supression isn't that bad.
I notice that Ritalin makes me feel somewhat "empty" even when it kills my appetite, though it's not unlike the way that I feel if I have too much caffeine.
I find myself tuning out people at times. It's like they talk too slow. I've noticed this problem especially with the older generation. They feel they must talk in very precise terms and verbally illustrate their ideas. Problem is, I often get their point long before they've finished babbling. So I find myself drifting in and out of attentiveness with them.
That isn't ADD/ADHD. That's getting bored with someone who belabours a point. ADD/ADHD is when you CANNOT, despite your best efforts, concentrate on anything for a long period of time. This is really bad in a classroom environment when you need to pay attention to new material (especially in Calculus courses) and you keep drifting out every five minutes regardless of the effort that you put into paying attention.
I have to deal with ADHD. I know what it's like to suddenly get distracted by the smallest thing, and I know that -- in my case -- Ritalin helps with the concentration problems. I can't stand it when someone who does not have to deal with what I live with comes forth with an "authoratitive" position on ADHD, calling it a myth.
I'm of the opinion that ADD/ADHD is not a disorder, and should never be "treated".
As someone with ADHD, I think that you need to get your head out of your ass. I can tell you from personal experience that
You only need one "technical" measure and one "legal" measure. The "technical" measure involves a loaded Desert Eagle pressed against the forehead of any and all email spammers and those who contract email spammers. The "legal" measure is a law allowing the person holding said Desert Eagle to pull the trigger.
If I'm not mistaken, we in the US have to pay a royalty tax on CD-R media as well -- it's not quite the level of extortion that exists in Canada, but it's still there. I have two questions.
Could Canadians mail-order CD-R media (or other products subject to the extortion fee set up by the criminal recording outfit) from the US to bypass this tax that has been implemented by crooked politicians?
Because we're paying money to the recording industry -- both in the US and in Canada -- and not receiving any content from them when we purchase CD-R media, are we entitled to free music downloads? I've justified quite a bit of my MP3 downloading based on the fact that the RIAA has already gotten my money from CD-R purchases, and I'm just taking content for it now.
This sounds like a motherboard specific problem, as I still use a PS/2 mouse (Well, USB with the PS/2 adapter, since I don't see a need to fill up a USB slot when I have a port available), and I don't have this problem.