I have to admit my interest in politics has been on the rise for a handful of years. As a Network Engineer you probably wouldn't expect it. A former peer at a state university is into state politics. He's one our the state reps for his district and a fellow network engineer. I'm returning to college soon to complete a degree and it's been suggested that I consider taking political science courses while I'm there. Does anyone have any thoughts on what it takes to get into politics as a techie? Is a background in IT as good as a background in business used to be with respect to being qualified for politics? I think it's time techies rose up and met the challenge. Perhaps a representative with an electrical engineering degree will be more useful and provide more insight that a person with a MBA...
Aren't they missing a major component of the total cost of spam? Filtering far and away is the most expensive aspect of spam. It doesn't cost Joe Blow much to delete or use MUA filters to dump spam that gets through. It takes one hell of a lot of time to maintain blacklists, keep scoring software up to date (something that is an absolute MUST), deal with the increased CPU load and disk space consumption due to the scoring and archiving, and reporting to the FTC and NANAS. That certainly isn't free and this article doesn't even take that into account. It takes Suzy Q well under 5 minutes to deal with her daily intact of spam. It takes a full-time admin to deal with the spam filtering at a large site. Which costs more? Certainly not the trivial amount of users' time.
Actually, it's very simple. If you were negligent---if you left your house unlocked and someone walked in, picked up the set of keys hanging by the door, and ran over 14 kids with your car, then yeah, you're liable. You aren't criminally guilty (though you might be held criminally negligent). You are, however, partially responsible for the crime in a civil sense, and thus could be held liable in a civil suit.
That's utter bullshit! What kind of a screwed up world are you living in? I don't have to lock my home. I'm don't have to lock my car. If someone steals my car while it was unlocked and parked at Dillons then it is DAMNED sure not my fault. Why not take your logic one step further. Say I did lock my car but the crook broke the window and stole it anyways. Is it my fault I didn't buy unbreakable glass? What if I locked the door on my house but didn't lock and upstairs window that is extremely hard to reach from the outside; am I still liable? It is certainly not my fault that I have something someone wants to steal. I don't have to secure my home, car, or possesions to absolve me of any legal liabilites from dishonest people. I don't know where the hell you think you're living but it damned sure isn't the US.
...almost every has good samaritan laws that universally say that you must assist as long as it can be done with minimal risk to yourself. So, what that means in this case is yes you are required by law to jump in the pool and pull the woman out unless there is a high risk to your own person. For example if you were a stroke victim and don't have the full faculties of your left side. Or for example if you can't swim. If you have no pressing medical issue that would prevent you from being able to swim or if you can't swim then yes you are required by law to assist the drowning victim. If you don't assist then you would be guilty of whichever manslaughter statute that covers negligence for your state. Moral of the story, don't be a schmuck and help out.
...and I can certainly say that not all of Kansas is flat. The Flinthills certainly aren't flat (where I'm from) as anyone that has ever tried to haul a load up one of those hills can tell you. Sure Western Kansas is quite flat. Basically the entire western half of the state is flat (with some exceptions of course, and the line that devides the flat part of Kansas from the feature-rich part of Kansas isn't really straight). Central and Eastern Kansas is anything but flat. Our glacier-cut hills are fairly steep (including the one named after my family near my home town). Not as steep as the Ozark "hills" mind you but steep enough to give gravel trucks a long grade to pull. This doesn't look very flat. Those hills are mild compared to the ones in my neck of the woods. Kansas flat? Ha! Only if the Pope is Athiest.
I agree with the first poster that said you should now go back to court. My father had to do this once with a guy he paid in advance to cut firewood as well as providing him with a chainsaw. IIRC he first took him to small claims and got the judgement against him. IIRC the judge outlined a payment deadline. When the guy failed to meet the deadline they went back to court and had a lien put on his truck and garnisheed his wages at his day job. I'm pretty sure that's how it worked. I was a little kid when all that happened.
When you go back to court, make sure you ask for legal expenses. I think they can still do that at this point. It wouldn't hurt to consult with a lawyer. Knowing what you can and can't do would be helpful.
My motorcycle until I wrecked it 4.5 months ago (although I'm getting back on it now)
When I was in college I was in the marching band (don't laugh. I had great seats at the game and was situated close to the cheerleaders:) )
I used to run for fun. I did it daily for 4 years. If only...
Cooking. I'm not a gourmet chef by any means but I enjoy cooking. It's really not that hard. If you have an idea for something, try to make it. Don't forget to learn from your mistakes.
I used to bring a lot of work home with me in a way. I did contract work from home so when my regular job was done for the day I'd come home and do almost the exact same thing at night.
I also personally enjoy simulating complex network environments in my lab. Yes, it's geeky but it is a hobby. I have thousands of dollars invested in my lab. I can't afford an inland-marine policy for the (literally) hundreds of thousands of dollars a "replacement policy" would have to cover. Nice, eh?
Why does it feel like I'm being interviewed on a first date? Hmm...
I liked the movie. It wasn't anything terribly spectacular but it was still well written, cast, and played out. You can always improve things. This was still a decent movie. Oh, and that speech rocked. It's one of my favorite inspirational speechs of all time. I'd like to see someone compile a list of speeches like that and vote on which was the best. I have that DVD. I think I'll go watch it again.:)
It was a phone company/ISP in Wichita. I won't name names but it's been able 8 years or so since it happened. I don't know all the details but if memory serves me correctly the middle management treated the IT staff like shit. Overworked and underpaid the grunts. The upper management was supposedly nice. I believe that's how it went. In the end the vast majority of the IT staff quit in the same week.
My advice is to not settle for a second-rate job. That kind of stress is not worth it. You shouldn't have to constantly watch your ass for the next person with a sharpened instrument who wants to stab you in the back. You shouldn't have to play office politics and wonder if everything your coworkers say have double meanings or wonder what their real intentions are. You should work with and for people that are looking for doing the best possible job they can a turn out the best possible product available to the users. You shouldn't work with or for people that have no ambitions farther than maintaining their own job security. We don't all have to work in an "Office Space"-like environment. I've been there. It's just not worth it. Stress affects every part of your life. Cut your losses and leave. You're loved ones and your stomach will thank you. Can you say no more Maalox?
I can't stress this one enough. As you lay out the plan for your tables also lay out a plan for a power topology. You need to decide how many machines can be put on a single wall outlet. I wouldn't recommend more than 8. Even that is pushing it. You need to provide a reasonably high gauge extension cord from the outlet to the table (12 gauge would be good). You need to securely attach the outlet and cord together and either tape the cord to the floor, route it away from feet, or put it in the rubber floor runways (wire molds) to prevent someone from tripping over it (that's a Bad Thing(tm)). Ideally you'd only have to provide a single surge strip per table and each gamer would bring their own. This isn't likely to happen though. Plan on two. Also make sure you securely fasten them to the tables to prevent someone from accidentally unplugging them. It would be worthwhile to write your name on each surge strip and power cord with a Sharpie too. You need to learn how the large room or rooms are wired and which outlets correspond to which breakers. Draw yourself a map if need be. You need to have access to the breaker panel(s) as well. Do your best to NOT overload a breaker. Rewiring in the middle of a LAN will be very time consuming and will likely upset the geeks. Finally make it VERY clear to all the attendees that no one is to under any circumstances change the electrical wiring system you put in place. This goes from the outlets to the surge strips you provide. I've seen it happen too many times where a table of geeks overloads a break. While waiting for the LAN staff to reset the breaker these know-it-all geeks elected to plug their tables into the neighbor table's primary surge strip. All the geeks from the first table then power on all their hardware more or less at once. POP! There goes another breaker. So table 2 then procedes to plud their table into table 3's primary surge strip. Simultaneously table 1 (the original know-it-alls) elect to plug their table into a different wall outlet. This particular outlet is on the same breaker as the music system, big screen TV running a movie that many people are watching, and best of all the server farm. POP! Now everyone is pissed as hell and we have a mass exodus as everyone takes the opportunity to go tell the LAN staff how best to flip a breaker (the sudden increase in electricial experts is amazing at this point).
While something a simple as "power" won't make your LAN party, it can certainly break it.
Sorry for the delay in replying. I've been AFK for a while.
Again (not to be redudant be reassuring:), Sendmail doesn't care about the inbox format. It simply hands the entire envelope to the LDA (usually Procmail) which then decides what to do from there. Now the easiest way to make Procmail write mailDirs is to write a short recipe that drops a copy of a message in a folder. For example, say you wanted to sort mail from the SpamAssassin mailing list into a mbox called "spamassassin." You'd simply have a recipe like this one:
See the change? It's a small but important one. It's the trailing slash on the target directory (was a mbox, now a directory or mailDir). I can't think of a particularly good way to write mailDirs systemwide. I really haven't done much of anything with mailDir. I know it's possible and quite easy to do, even if I don't know how to do it. It's probably something simple that involves $USER in the system procmailrc. Since mailDir is almost always written to a user's $HOME instead of a mail volume, I'd bet this simple idea for a script is probably what you'd want to do:
:0:
$USER/$MAILDIR/inbox/
That would probably do it right there. If you're using DROPPRIVS then you could probably lose the $USER as well, I think. Test it just to be sure.
I'm dinking around with mailDir on my mailing list account right now. I'm using the simple recipe below to drop a copy of all incoming mail into a directory for all my mailDir stuff:
:0 c:
$MAILDIR/maildir/
I'd love to have the time to learn more about mailDir. I hear it's quite useful, especially in IMAP and Webmail applications. One of these days I'll learn what I need to know. Till then mbox will do nicely.:-)
BTW, Procmail and Sendmail aren't related packages. Neither include the other. Distributions do however almost always pair the two up when they choose a MTA/LDA combo since they compliment each other so well. Because of that editing the sendmail.cf/mc won't have any effect on Procmail, assuming of course that you don't change "MAILER(procmail)," "PROCMAIL_MAILER_PATH," or "FEATURE(local_procmail).":-) Procmail is configured by the system procmailrc commonly found in/etc/procmailrc.
And it wasn't "integrated" like the person you're replying to stated. Bundled? Yes. Integrated? No. Could you delete it? Yes. Could you use something else without fear of the bundled app getting jealous? Yes.
The problem is that these software packages that we intentionally disable keep mysteriously reenabling themselves. Oddly enough this seems to happen after I install a product created by MS or an update created by MS or wipe my nose with a MS tissue. Every damned time I let one of their apps do something on *my* machine it sets the defaults for email app, web browser, even the damned search engine to Microsoft crap. If I could delete their crap to begin with then there would be no need for me to worry about them deciding my defaults needed to be changed.
Create one software base so that it creates or maintains the demand for another software base? Doesn't sound all that unreasonable or unexpected to me. Maybe they think they can stop viruses and trojans better than the professionals that already do this since they have access to the full range of Windows bugs, I mean source code.
Hey I just created this new nail that won't bend when you hit it like a little girl and won't snap when you have to "adjust" what you're nailing with a crowbar! The only problem is the nails require a special hammer to use them
Hey I just created a special hammer that only works with these great new nails!....
And rather anti-competitive, don't you think? I mean if they include it as part of the OS distribution and integrate it into the overall OS, wouldn't that hinder the efforts of other companies that make competing software? Think of the ramifications. What if they made a Internet chat application, Internet web browser, Internet connection software and services, word processors, or even spreadsheet programs and integrated them into their operating system. Oh wait...
To hell with tc shell. tcsh has always annoyed the living hell out of me. Get a real shell like Bash. Tab completion in bash is excellent. Even better, look into the Bash Programmable Completion Project. It's quite nice. Skip the csh, tcsh, and kornhole shells. Stick with what works well: bash.
I want to give a plug to these folks. I've never used their terminal emulation software. In fact I haven't used their software in about 5 years. The last product of their's I used was VICOM Internet Gateway (now called Intergate apparently). I loved their software back then and still do. Their support was also first rate. If the quality of their work and service is still as good, then you should have no problems with their terminal emulation solutions. My $.02
I was never a fan of MacSSH. I used NiftyTelnet w/ SSH back when I used OS 9. It was more simple than MacSSH but worked so much better. When I switched to OS X I ended up using JellyFiSSH to organize my Terminal.app connections. Terminal.app would crash on me once a day or so as well. The damned thing never did quite work right. I don't have an OS X box available anymore, unfortunately. Otherwise I'd be more in touch with this problem. I'm holding out for a SMP G5.:)
That said I have yet to find any terminal emulator on any platform (Mac, Windows, even *terms in X11) that I couldn't make crash at some point. Even SecureCRT which I have to use here at home has crashed on me before.
...are constantly bloodshot around the edges, especially the outside edge. I too stare at a CRT for 2/3 of my day whether working or gaming. It's always annoyed me. I never really realized how bad it was until a few months ago. I wrecked my motorcycle going about 70-75 mph out on Hwy 400 on February 1. Many said I was lucky to walk away; I agree. About a week later I stopped by the sheriff's office to pick up the police report. The woman that brought it out to me asked about the wreck. I described the trivial amount of damage both the bike and I suffered (a few abrasions and a thoroughly rattled rib cage causing back pain). She asked if I'd hurt my eyes in the process. I wasn't sure what she meant so I asked. She then commented on how bloodshot they were. That's when I realized how much of an eye sore my bloodshot eyes were, no pun intended.
I'm assuming you're comment about people making assumptions after looking at your eyes is referring to either your social life (lots of drinking and/or late night partying) or drug usage. I don't think people have ever assumed I use drugs because of my bloodshot eyes. At least I hope none have. I have never and never will use drugs. I'd hope people wouldn't assume that I do because of my eyes. That would be like assuming a person with numerous puncture marks on their fingers and arms are heroin addicts when really they're diabetic.
I don't wear glasses and still have 20/20 vision, at least for now. I'm sure I'll need corrective eye hardware at some point and time. Finding a way to reduce eye strain would certainly be a good thing(tm) before it's too late.
If I wanted maildirs instead of mbox, and I didn't feel competent to hack them into my sendmail.mc, I'd run Courier.
Sendmail could care less if you use mbox, maildir, or some proprietary format. MTAs don't care. Writing to disk is the LDA's job. Then again IIRC QMail wants to do everything and therefore writes to disk as well (bad security model IMHO). Procmail can write maildir if you want. That's the only LDA I ever use but I know there are others and I'm sure some of them can write maildir as well.
BTW, the other points were good ones. The licensing point was answered by other folks so I won't mention it here.
Boy I'd hate to see a network like that respan.:-)
Those who know Ethernet know what I'm talking about. Nothing like 45 seconds of downtime (unless you're implementing the newer 802.1w standard or one of its many variants, such as the half a dozen proprietary Cisco methods).
That's bullshit. The Nigerian government IS part of the 419 scams. They always have been. There are numerous and confirmed accounts of people going to Nigeria to meet with the supposed Dr. Whatever or whatever title he claimed and being given tours of Nigerian Government buildings by people in the government. Saying that the Nigerian government isn't part of the scam is absolute bullshit. It's like saying that George W's administration didn't have a hand in bailing out Worldcom and lessoning the impact on the Enron execs. We all know what really happened there. Check your facts next time before you post. Oh, that's right. This is Slashdot. We don't check facts here.
Except I don't have a Mac capable of running OS X at home and I no longer have access to my work machines. That's the catch. If I had a decent Mac again BBEdit would be the first thing I'd install.:)
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I have to admit my interest in politics has been on the rise for a handful of years. As a Network Engineer you probably wouldn't expect it. A former peer at a state university is into state politics. He's one our the state reps for his district and a fellow network engineer. I'm returning to college soon to complete a degree and it's been suggested that I consider taking political science courses while I'm there. Does anyone have any thoughts on what it takes to get into politics as a techie? Is a background in IT as good as a background in business used to be with respect to being qualified for politics? I think it's time techies rose up and met the challenge. Perhaps a representative with an electrical engineering degree will be more useful and provide more insight that a person with a MBA...
Aren't they missing a major component of the total cost of spam? Filtering far and away is the most expensive aspect of spam. It doesn't cost Joe Blow much to delete or use MUA filters to dump spam that gets through. It takes one hell of a lot of time to maintain blacklists, keep scoring software up to date (something that is an absolute MUST), deal with the increased CPU load and disk space consumption due to the scoring and archiving, and reporting to the FTC and NANAS. That certainly isn't free and this article doesn't even take that into account. It takes Suzy Q well under 5 minutes to deal with her daily intact of spam. It takes a full-time admin to deal with the spam filtering at a large site. Which costs more? Certainly not the trivial amount of users' time.
That's utter bullshit! What kind of a screwed up world are you living in? I don't have to lock my home. I'm don't have to lock my car. If someone steals my car while it was unlocked and parked at Dillons then it is DAMNED sure not my fault. Why not take your logic one step further. Say I did lock my car but the crook broke the window and stole it anyways. Is it my fault I didn't buy unbreakable glass? What if I locked the door on my house but didn't lock and upstairs window that is extremely hard to reach from the outside; am I still liable? It is certainly not my fault that I have something someone wants to steal. I don't have to secure my home, car, or possesions to absolve me of any legal liabilites from dishonest people. I don't know where the hell you think you're living but it damned sure isn't the US.
...almost every has good samaritan laws that universally say that you must assist as long as it can be done with minimal risk to yourself. So, what that means in this case is yes you are required by law to jump in the pool and pull the woman out unless there is a high risk to your own person. For example if you were a stroke victim and don't have the full faculties of your left side. Or for example if you can't swim. If you have no pressing medical issue that would prevent you from being able to swim or if you can't swim then yes you are required by law to assist the drowning victim. If you don't assist then you would be guilty of whichever manslaughter statute that covers negligence for your state. Moral of the story, don't be a schmuck and help out.
...and I can certainly say that not all of Kansas is flat. The Flinthills certainly aren't flat (where I'm from) as anyone that has ever tried to haul a load up one of those hills can tell you. Sure Western Kansas is quite flat. Basically the entire western half of the state is flat (with some exceptions of course, and the line that devides the flat part of Kansas from the feature-rich part of Kansas isn't really straight). Central and Eastern Kansas is anything but flat. Our glacier-cut hills are fairly steep (including the one named after my family near my home town). Not as steep as the Ozark "hills" mind you but steep enough to give gravel trucks a long grade to pull. This doesn't look very flat. Those hills are mild compared to the ones in my neck of the woods. Kansas flat? Ha! Only if the Pope is Athiest.
When you go back to court, make sure you ask for legal expenses. I think they can still do that at this point. It wouldn't hurt to consult with a lawyer. Knowing what you can and can't do would be helpful.
Woodworking
My motorcycle until I wrecked it 4.5 months ago (although I'm getting back on it now)
When I was in college I was in the marching band (don't laugh. I had great seats at the game and was situated close to the cheerleaders :) )
I used to run for fun. I did it daily for 4 years. If only...
Cooking. I'm not a gourmet chef by any means but I enjoy cooking. It's really not that hard. If you have an idea for something, try to make it. Don't forget to learn from your mistakes.
I used to bring a lot of work home with me in a way. I did contract work from home so when my regular job was done for the day I'd come home and do almost the exact same thing at night.
I also personally enjoy simulating complex network environments in my lab. Yes, it's geeky but it is a hobby. I have thousands of dollars invested in my lab. I can't afford an inland-marine policy for the (literally) hundreds of thousands of dollars a "replacement policy" would have to cover. Nice, eh?
Why does it feel like I'm being interviewed on a first date? Hmm...
I liked the movie. It wasn't anything terribly spectacular but it was still well written, cast, and played out. You can always improve things. This was still a decent movie. Oh, and that speech rocked. It's one of my favorite inspirational speechs of all time. I'd like to see someone compile a list of speeches like that and vote on which was the best. I have that DVD. I think I'll go watch it again. :)
My advice is to not settle for a second-rate job. That kind of stress is not worth it. You shouldn't have to constantly watch your ass for the next person with a sharpened instrument who wants to stab you in the back. You shouldn't have to play office politics and wonder if everything your coworkers say have double meanings or wonder what their real intentions are. You should work with and for people that are looking for doing the best possible job they can a turn out the best possible product available to the users. You shouldn't work with or for people that have no ambitions farther than maintaining their own job security. We don't all have to work in an "Office Space"-like environment. I've been there. It's just not worth it. Stress affects every part of your life. Cut your losses and leave. You're loved ones and your stomach will thank you. Can you say no more Maalox?
While something a simple as "power" won't make your LAN party, it can certainly break it.
Again (not to be redudant be reassuring :), Sendmail doesn't care about the inbox format. It simply hands the entire envelope to the LDA (usually Procmail) which then decides what to do from there. Now the easiest way to make Procmail write mailDirs is to write a short recipe that drops a copy of a message in a folder. For example, say you wanted to sort mail from the SpamAssassin mailing list into a mbox called "spamassassin." You'd simply have a recipe like this one:
To put that mail into a mailDir instead of a mbox, you'd make a minor change to the recipe:
See the change? It's a small but important one. It's the trailing slash on the target directory (was a mbox, now a directory or mailDir). I can't think of a particularly good way to write mailDirs systemwide. I really haven't done much of anything with mailDir. I know it's possible and quite easy to do, even if I don't know how to do it. It's probably something simple that involves $USER in the system procmailrc. Since mailDir is almost always written to a user's $HOME instead of a mail volume, I'd bet this simple idea for a script is probably what you'd want to do:
That would probably do it right there. If you're using DROPPRIVS then you could probably lose the $USER as well, I think. Test it just to be sure.
I'm dinking around with mailDir on my mailing list account right now. I'm using the simple recipe below to drop a copy of all incoming mail into a directory for all my mailDir stuff:
I'd love to have the time to learn more about mailDir. I hear it's quite useful, especially in IMAP and Webmail applications. One of these days I'll learn what I need to know. Till then mbox will do nicely. :-)
BTW, Procmail and Sendmail aren't related packages. Neither include the other. Distributions do however almost always pair the two up when they choose a MTA/LDA combo since they compliment each other so well. Because of that editing the sendmail.cf/mc won't have any effect on Procmail, assuming of course that you don't change "MAILER(procmail)," "PROCMAIL_MAILER_PATH," or "FEATURE(local_procmail)." :-) Procmail is configured by the system procmailrc commonly found in /etc/procmailrc.
And it wasn't "integrated" like the person you're replying to stated. Bundled? Yes. Integrated? No. Could you delete it? Yes. Could you use something else without fear of the bundled app getting jealous? Yes.
The problem is that these software packages that we intentionally disable keep mysteriously reenabling themselves. Oddly enough this seems to happen after I install a product created by MS or an update created by MS or wipe my nose with a MS tissue. Every damned time I let one of their apps do something on *my* machine it sets the defaults for email app, web browser, even the damned search engine to Microsoft crap. If I could delete their crap to begin with then there would be no need for me to worry about them deciding my defaults needed to be changed.
Hey I just created this new nail that won't bend when you hit it like a little girl and won't snap when you have to "adjust" what you're nailing with a crowbar! The only problem is the nails require a special hammer to use them
Hey I just created a special hammer that only works with these great new nails! ....
And rather anti-competitive, don't you think? I mean if they include it as part of the OS distribution and integrate it into the overall OS, wouldn't that hinder the efforts of other companies that make competing software? Think of the ramifications. What if they made a Internet chat application, Internet web browser, Internet connection software and services, word processors, or even spreadsheet programs and integrated them into their operating system. Oh wait...
To hell with tc shell. tcsh has always annoyed the living hell out of me. Get a real shell like Bash. Tab completion in bash is excellent. Even better, look into the Bash Programmable Completion Project. It's quite nice. Skip the csh, tcsh, and kornhole shells. Stick with what works well: bash.
I want to give a plug to these folks. I've never used their terminal emulation software. In fact I haven't used their software in about 5 years. The last product of their's I used was VICOM Internet Gateway (now called Intergate apparently). I loved their software back then and still do. Their support was also first rate. If the quality of their work and service is still as good, then you should have no problems with their terminal emulation solutions. My $.02
That said I have yet to find any terminal emulator on any platform (Mac, Windows, even *terms in X11) that I couldn't make crash at some point. Even SecureCRT which I have to use here at home has crashed on me before.
I'm assuming you're comment about people making assumptions after looking at your eyes is referring to either your social life (lots of drinking and/or late night partying) or drug usage. I don't think people have ever assumed I use drugs because of my bloodshot eyes. At least I hope none have. I have never and never will use drugs. I'd hope people wouldn't assume that I do because of my eyes. That would be like assuming a person with numerous puncture marks on their fingers and arms are heroin addicts when really they're diabetic.
I don't wear glasses and still have 20/20 vision, at least for now. I'm sure I'll need corrective eye hardware at some point and time. Finding a way to reduce eye strain would certainly be a good thing(tm) before it's too late.
Sendmail could care less if you use mbox, maildir, or some proprietary format. MTAs don't care. Writing to disk is the LDA's job. Then again IIRC QMail wants to do everything and therefore writes to disk as well (bad security model IMHO). Procmail can write maildir if you want. That's the only LDA I ever use but I know there are others and I'm sure some of them can write maildir as well.
BTW, the other points were good ones. The licensing point was answered by other folks so I won't mention it here.
This gives an entirely new meaning to the legendary "Man-In-The-Middle Attack."
Those who know Ethernet know what I'm talking about. Nothing like 45 seconds of downtime (unless you're implementing the newer 802.1w standard or one of its many variants, such as the half a dozen proprietary Cisco methods).
That's bullshit. The Nigerian government IS part of the 419 scams. They always have been. There are numerous and confirmed accounts of people going to Nigeria to meet with the supposed Dr. Whatever or whatever title he claimed and being given tours of Nigerian Government buildings by people in the government. Saying that the Nigerian government isn't part of the scam is absolute bullshit. It's like saying that George W's administration didn't have a hand in bailing out Worldcom and lessoning the impact on the Enron execs. We all know what really happened there. Check your facts next time before you post. Oh, that's right. This is Slashdot. We don't check facts here.
Except I don't have a Mac capable of running OS X at home and I no longer have access to my work machines. That's the catch. If I had a decent Mac again BBEdit would be the first thing I'd install. :)
Quite possibly. Their reviews paint an ugly picture which leads me to believe their handling is at fault.