My company's emais were being dumped into the spam folder on Yahoo! Getting our email out of the Bulkmail folder was a lengthy process that took several attempts to start. I had to submit sample copies of our standard emails, and a copy of our privacy policy, and a rather lengthy survey. They reviewed the information, put us on probation, and reviewed the findings at the end of a month. My company is legit. I had no doubt that they would back our company off the blacklist. Incidently, the only way I found the proper channel to report the problem was to contact corporate HQ. Some deep digging was done and I finally ended up with an email address to report to: mail-abuse-bulk@yahoo-inc.com
What're your thoughts on why it REALLY went down? Price point for Replay? Difficult to hack? SONICblue's legal bills? People asking "What is a SONICblue??"
Think about this: Why do I get 1000's of spam emails per month and I get 10's of peices of junk snail mail/month? Simple: It costs nearly nothing to send millions of spam messages, while it costs a bundle to send junk snail mail.
A simple solution would be to find a way to charge per email...
Now, I certainly wouldn't pay per email. But, I shouldn't complain when someone abuses a messaging system that allows millions of messages to be sent out for nearly no cost. I use that system too, on a much smaller scale, for personal and legitimate business use.
All I can do is ignore as much of the mail as I can, and BOYCOTT anything that is sold via spam.
I can't agree more. RAV for Qmail is an EXCELLENT product. It is an incredibly simple and seamless integration. The configuration is simple, and the (US) tech support is friendly and knowledgable, IMO. The price is very reasonable, even for the extra domains. The latest version has optional "push" updates so that new virus outbreaks can be taken care of quickly and easily.
It melts the standard RAV engine right into the Qmail config be replacing qmail-queue. As a bonus you can use the ravav engine for other scanning jobs.
One would think that you could allow/disallow tftp access from any given host.
However, an access point makes a lousy firewall... Which interface is the protected interface anyway? The one that you can access from the internet, or the one that you can access as you drive by?
Sony Tivo archives to Sony VHS automagically. Not sexy (by a longshot!), but it _is_ archived... One would think that archiving to videocd/dvd/backpack hdd would be a minor extension of that capability.
Whatabout current implimentations of mbox that need to be converted into maildir... Can this even be done in an orderly fashion, or is it just slash and burn/var/spool/mail? If maildir is indeed the great thing that some people make it out to be, you'd think that there would be more people switching, and a couple of scriptz to do it, eh?
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My company's emais were being dumped into the spam folder on Yahoo! Getting our email out of the Bulkmail folder was a lengthy process that took several attempts to start. I had to submit sample copies of our standard emails, and a copy of our privacy policy, and a rather lengthy survey. They reviewed the information, put us on probation, and reviewed the findings at the end of a month. My company is legit. I had no doubt that they would back our company off the blacklist. Incidently, the only way I found the proper channel to report the problem was to contact corporate HQ. Some deep digging was done and I finally ended up with an email address to report to: mail-abuse-bulk@yahoo-inc.com
What're your thoughts on why it REALLY went down? Price point for Replay? Difficult to hack? SONICblue's legal bills? People asking "What is a SONICblue??"
Think about this: Why do I get 1000's of spam emails per month and I get 10's of peices of junk snail mail/month? Simple: It costs nearly nothing to send millions of spam messages, while it costs a bundle to send junk snail mail.
A simple solution would be to find a way to charge per email...
Now, I certainly wouldn't pay per email. But, I shouldn't complain when someone abuses a messaging system that allows millions of messages to be sent out for nearly no cost. I use that system too, on a much smaller scale, for personal and legitimate business use.
All I can do is ignore as much of the mail as I can, and BOYCOTT anything that is sold via spam.
Ag.
I can't agree more. RAV for Qmail is an EXCELLENT product. It is an incredibly simple and seamless integration. The configuration is simple, and the (US) tech support is friendly and knowledgable, IMO. The price is very reasonable, even for the extra domains. The latest version has optional "push" updates so that new virus outbreaks can be taken care of quickly and easily. It melts the standard RAV engine right into the Qmail config be replacing qmail-queue. As a bonus you can use the ravav engine for other scanning jobs.
One would think that you could allow/disallow tftp access from any given host.
However, an access point makes a lousy firewall... Which interface is the protected interface anyway? The one that you can access from the internet, or the one that you can access as you drive by?
Sony Tivo archives to Sony VHS automagically. Not sexy (by a longshot!), but it _is_ archived... One would think that archiving to videocd/dvd/backpack hdd would be a minor extension of that capability.
Whatabout current implimentations of mbox that need to be converted into maildir... Can this even be done in an orderly fashion, or is it just slash and burn /var/spool/mail? If maildir is indeed the great thing that some people make it out to be, you'd think that there would be more people switching, and a couple of scriptz to do it, eh?