POSSIBLE += $(shell test -f bitdomain && echo bitdomain.db) POSSIBLE += $(shell test -f uudomain && echo uudomain.db) POSSIBLE += $(shell test -f genericstable && echo genericstable.db)
People who think that Peter Jackson made a bad movie should be tied down and forced to watch Raplh Bakshi's movie, followed by the Rankin-Bass fiasco (Orcs singing "Where's there's a whip, there's a way") and then forced to listen to Leonard Nimoy sing about Bilbo Baggins.
Yet another prime case for a "-1, Bzzt! Wrong!" moderation option.
One of the key themes in the book is a rejection of the sweeping modernisations which Tolkien saw as destroying the villages he grew up in.
Saruman and Sauron develop methods of mass-producing warriors (Orcs) with inhumane technology, while each hero is crafted by the good guys. Saruman's technology (the mines and mills of Isengard) is destroyed by the ents as evil works. The Scouring Of The Shire is a direct rejection of industrial methods from the pastoral idyll.
Dwarven civilisation is the height of craftsmanship, not industrialisation.
Having briefly looked at the paper, it seems like the usual complaining about RBLs as being too broad you see all the time in NANAE (news:news.admin.net-abuse.email).
Summary: someone tries to send email and finds that they're listed on SPEWS. They complain because "we're not an open relay", without figuring out just why they're on that list. Almost invariably, they're on the list because their ISP persistently ignores spam complaints and prefers spammer money to honest customer money. I think there's been about two or three actual mistakes in the SPEWS listings in the year or so I've been following NANAE. Otherwise, it's all been a legitimate extension of the block because the ISP knowingly ignores complaints and supports spammers.
Spam is theft. Theft of Bandwidth, theft of service and theft of time. It's that simple. Spammers are thieves. ISPs which support spammers are thieves. Soon, they'll be blocked from the public internet for anti-social behaviour. After all, if your local bargain supermarket ignored the thieves stealing 20% from every transaction you make with them, will you go back?
Many South American and Asian ISPs are blacklisted because they were quite happy to spam everyone when they could steal bandwidth and service from other ISPs. Now that they're blacklisted, they're whinging and moaning about 'freadom of speach', interference with interstate commerce, and other such bullshit.
It's about none of these things. Blacklists are about protecting your network from a Denial of Service attack by spammers.
People who complaing about RBLs (OR DNSBLs, to be more accurate) are missing the point. They should be complaining about spammers who think it's acceptable to steal my bandwidth and your bandwidth to advertise their product..
dave "the only good spammer is a rotting corpse, dangling from the noose"
I think the standard for Government housing is 44 or 45 stories, or it was the last time I had to do some work on Government housing development. Hung Hom seems to be uniformly lower than that, apart from that huge pointy thing built recently.
That horrible development at Leighton Hill seems to be pretty tall, not sure exactly how tall though.
Now that I'm awake, I think it's technically 230v plus or minus 10v, so that 220v and 240v both fit. Looking around my apartment here in HK, I can see some things with 220v marked and some with 240v. I guess it depends on where they were made.
The HK power systems is 220v, same as the UK. There is nothing special about the HK power system as opposed to the UK power system.
However, because almost everyone lives in apartment blocks of 40 stories (average), converting one single building to powerline internet at construction time can result in 200+ flats with powerline. A typical large suburban development will be 10 towers, each of forty+ stories, with 6 or more flats per floor. If you own the company which builds the flats, you can build in your other company's internet, and lock those tenants into your services. Not only do they have to buy from you, they have to pay you a monthly access fee. Also, at build time, you can lock out cable and telecoms providers, so tenants have to pay extra to have those services.
I think you're reading a lot into 'faith in science' particularly the 'faith' part. Perhaps 'trust in science', or 'understanding of science' would have been a better choice.
Good point - I think that maybe there's a faction which says you can believe in Religion or in Science, but not both. It preys on devout people: says "thou shalt not believe in Science", as if Science was some mystical thing.
I wonder if there's a faction who'd like a populace which doesn't understand the word it lives in and reverts to superstition and prayer when a little thought would do. Then they can blame events on lack of faith, rather than a rational analysis.
Because these anti-science crackpots are trying to make it look as if NASA spent billions with nothing to show for it. They're trying to undermine the faith that society has in science.
By bouncing spam, you're just forwarding on the spam to either an innocent user, or the spammer's dop box. You're either harassing an innocent, or confirming your address to a spammer.
By following the 'unsubscribe' links, you're confirming your email adress to a spammer. He can sell that.
What good does forwarding it to the US government do? I haven't seen that the ftc has done anything at all with the spam they've got.
Going by your practises above, you're probably increasing your spam load.
> And now you too can try it, for the low low price of a single aluminum hardball > bat. Spun aluminum with a non-slip rubber grip means never having to say "For > all that is good and holy it does not optimize your connection!"
You can't properly go postal without automatic weapons. If you're going to do something, so it right!
That's basically my setup here as well, except that after virus checking, I pass the email onto procmail to have SpamAssassin run over it. *Then*, if it ain't spam, it get's forwarded to the Exchange server where a second, different virus checker scans it.
I tried eManager, but it was awful. SpamAssassin is much better.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, that's just *so* difficult to set up:
/etc/mail/Makefile
/etc/sendmail.cf
cat
POSSIBLE += $(shell test -f bitdomain && echo bitdomain.db)
POSSIBLE += $(shell test -f uudomain && echo uudomain.db)
POSSIBLE += $(shell test -f genericstable && echo genericstable.db)
all: ${POSSIBLE} virtusertable.db access.db domaintable.db mailertable.db sendmail.cf
virtusertable.db : virtusertable
makemap -f hash $@
(This is Redhat 7.2, and I added the sendmail.mc make myself.)
dave
> and is quite simply an obnoxious program to deal with. ...and then there's the author...
dave
People who think that Peter Jackson made a bad movie should be tied down and forced to watch Raplh Bakshi's movie, followed by the Rankin-Bass fiasco (Orcs singing "Where's there's a whip, there's a way") and then forced to listen to Leonard Nimoy sing about Bilbo Baggins.
dave
Yet another prime case for a "-1, Bzzt! Wrong!" moderation option.
One of the key themes in the book is a rejection of the sweeping modernisations which Tolkien saw as destroying the villages he grew up in.
Saruman and Sauron develop methods of mass-producing warriors (Orcs) with inhumane technology, while each hero is crafted by the good guys. Saruman's technology (the mines and mills of Isengard) is destroyed by the ents as evil works. The Scouring Of The Shire is a direct rejection of industrial methods from the pastoral idyll.
Dwarven civilisation is the height of craftsmanship, not industrialisation.
dave "nikon zoom"
He could just have been indulging in a little office politics:
From: Sysadmin
To: Management
Subject: Everything's OK!
Hi,
I just logged in from sunny Goa here to check up on things. Everything's going ok! My well trained junior admins are keeping everything ship-shape.
Must go back to the beach now.
See you in two weeks!
regards,
BOFH
Having briefly looked at the paper, it seems like the usual complaining about RBLs as being too broad you see all the time in NANAE (news:news.admin.net-abuse.email).
Summary: someone tries to send email and finds that they're listed on SPEWS. They complain because "we're not an open relay", without figuring out just why they're on that list. Almost invariably, they're on the list because their ISP persistently ignores spam complaints and prefers spammer money to honest customer money. I think there's been about two or three actual mistakes in the SPEWS listings in the year or so I've been following NANAE. Otherwise, it's all been a legitimate extension of the block because the ISP knowingly ignores complaints and supports spammers.
Spam is theft. Theft of Bandwidth, theft of service and theft of time. It's that simple. Spammers are thieves. ISPs which support spammers are thieves. Soon, they'll be blocked from the public internet for anti-social behaviour. After all, if your local bargain supermarket ignored the thieves stealing 20% from every transaction you make with them, will you go back?
Many South American and Asian ISPs are blacklisted because they were quite happy to spam everyone when they could steal bandwidth and service from other ISPs. Now that they're blacklisted, they're whinging and moaning about 'freadom of speach', interference with interstate commerce, and other such bullshit.
It's about none of these things. Blacklists are about protecting your network from a Denial of Service attack by spammers.
People who complaing about RBLs (OR DNSBLs, to be more accurate) are missing the point. They should be complaining about spammers who think it's acceptable to steal my bandwidth and your bandwidth to advertise their product..
dave "the only good spammer is a rotting corpse, dangling from the noose"
I think the standard for Government housing is 44 or 45 stories, or it was the last time I had to do some work on Government housing development. Hung Hom seems to be uniformly lower than that, apart from that huge pointy thing built recently.
That horrible development at Leighton Hill seems to be pretty tall, not sure exactly how tall though.
dave
Now that I'm awake, I think it's technically 230v plus or minus 10v, so that 220v and 240v both fit. Looking around my apartment here in HK, I can see some things with 220v marked and some with 240v. I guess it depends on where they were made.
dave
The HK power systems is 220v, same as the UK. There is nothing special about the HK power system as opposed to the UK power system.
However, because almost everyone lives in apartment blocks of 40 stories (average), converting one single building to powerline internet at construction time can result in 200+ flats with powerline. A typical large suburban development will be 10 towers, each of forty+ stories, with 6 or more flats per floor. If you own the company which builds the flats, you can build in your other company's internet, and lock those tenants into your services. Not only do they have to buy from you, they have to pay you a monthly access fee. Also, at build time, you can lock out cable and telecoms providers, so tenants have to pay extra to have those services.
dave "and you thought it was a free economy"
Umm, if you'd read the article you'd've know that they're doing this in Hung Hom, which is Kowloon side and not on Hong Kong Island at all.
Still very densely populated, but, Hong Kong is not the same as Hong Kong Island.
Did you even read my earlier comment about replacing 'faith in science' with 'understanding the scientific method'?
dave
I think you're reading a lot into 'faith in science' particularly the 'faith' part. Perhaps 'trust in science', or 'understanding of science' would have been a better choice.
dave
Good point - I think that maybe there's a faction which says you can believe in Religion or in Science, but not both. It preys on devout people: says "thou shalt not believe in Science", as if Science was some mystical thing.
I wonder if there's a faction who'd like a populace which doesn't understand the word it lives in and reverts to superstition and prayer when a little thought would do. Then they can blame events on lack of faith, rather than a rational analysis.
dave
Because these anti-science crackpots are trying to make it look as if NASA spent billions with nothing to show for it. They're trying to undermine the faith that society has in science.
I could draw parallels with creationism.
dave
Nasa should take off and nuke the crackpots from orbit - it's the only way to be sure.
dave
It's disingenuous to characterize MesaGL as "some people who have a page on Sourceforge". It's worse than disingenuous, it's FUD.
Mesa is the defacto standard which isn't Sun's or Microsoft's. It's the standard on RedHat, which is pretty damn mainstream for anyone running Linux.
dave
By bouncing spam, you're just forwarding on the spam to either an innocent user, or the spammer's dop box. You're either harassing an innocent, or confirming your address to a spammer.
By following the 'unsubscribe' links, you're confirming your email adress to a spammer. He can sell that.
What good does forwarding it to the US government do? I haven't seen that the ftc has done anything at all with the spam they've got.
Going by your practises above, you're probably increasing your spam load.
dave
duh!
"so it right" should be "do it right".
dave
> And now you too can try it, for the low low price of a single aluminum hardball
> bat. Spun aluminum with a non-slip rubber grip means never having to say "For
> all that is good and holy it does not optimize your connection!"
You can't properly go postal without automatic weapons. If you're going to do something, so it right!
dave
Some webmail type systems have a gui front end for Spamassassin - http://www.horde.org is one.
To be honest, I don't change the rules much, just edit the whitelist.
dave
That's basically my setup here as well, except that after virus checking, I pass the email onto procmail to have SpamAssassin run over it. *Then*, if it ain't spam, it get's forwarded to the Exchange server where a second, different virus checker scans it.
I tried eManager, but it was awful. SpamAssassin is much better.
dave
Which is what I said. Do you have problems reading?
dave
SpamAssassin is rule based and doesn't as yet use this new, dubios, spamarchive. It can use Vipul's Razor, however, as well as SPEWS, SpamCop, etc.
dave
> What "definate proof" exactly is AT&T looking for?
Thay're waiting for his check to bounce and then they may shut him down. Otherwise, they're a spam friendly provider.
dave
The response rate is 0.25%. That's not effective marketing.
That's 99.75% of people you're advertising to who don't want to see your advertising. That's a heck of a lot of people.
Companies with big budgets aren't smarter - that's just nonsense.
dave