Who's this Jerry Falwell character? His name must not be that big of a trademarkable string if no one's heard of him. I think I'll trademark "John Smith".
I'd rather see their booth have no attendees. I imagine the view from above would be this small area around their booth completly barron of attendees. That's what I invision.
I had 4 unknown number calls tonight. I finally answered #4 and had to say hello half a dozen times before some guy came on. He said he was from MCI and wanted to cut my telephone bill in half. I didn't let him finished. I asked if they were the ones that called here 3 other times that evening. He said he didn't know. I told him I wasn't interested in switching to MCI and asked to be put on their DO NOT CALL LIST. He said there wasn't such a thing. I informed him that they were required to by law. He said that wasn't possible because he was never told that in training. I asked for his super. He hung up on me. This shit is really aggravating.
If you're doing what the parent poster said to do and just deleting the spam, you're spending no more than 5 minutes a day and I'd say realistically 1 minute a day. LARTing spam takes time. The more you do the better you get at it. Then again not contributing to the fight against spam and not LARTing mail just means that you and everyone else will end up getting more. The spammers won't get booted from their ISPs and they'll continue to spam. Moral of the story, get off your ass and contribute to the cause.
I've thought about doing just that. I've tried to teach some people in the past. That's when I realized that a lot of what I do depends on my own memory. A domain sticks out in my head. A telephone number or name from a WHOIS entry rings a bell. A unique fake header gives me dejaveu (sp). It's hard to teach that to people. I still want to make a HOWTO for this. I should work on that when things slow down a bit. LARTing spam is a really important part of the process. It's like witnessing a crime but not saying anything about it. It only does good things for the person that committed the crime.
"I'm a sucker and I'm confirming that this address is valid and read. Now you can spam the hell out of me and sell my address to all your buddies.". No reason to beat around the bush. Be direct about it. This is what you're doing after all.
Spammers don't exactly "hack systems". In just about every respect they're pretty incompetent (with a few exceptions). A vulnerability is found in software like formmail or some dumbass admin puts up an open relay (read: installs Exchange) and someone far smarter than the spammers are writes a couple pieces of software to sploit those holes. The spammers use the ready-made software to fill your inbox with penis-enlarging stock scams from Nigeria. They didn't even write the software themselves. They are nothing more than script kiddies. Baaaahhhh, damned spammers piss me off.
Buddy, you've been Joe Jobbed. Sucks, doesn't it? When you get the spam complaints, explain the situation to the sender and ask for a copy of the message with full headers. Then LART it. Go after the sons of bitches with a big club.
Don't just delete it. Everybody deletes it and it does no one any good. LART it (read: report)! If you take a few minutes to look into the headers of the spam you'll find a wealth of information. Was the message sent through an open relay, was the message sent through a vulnerable formmail.cgi, was it a proxy, where the message actually originated from (usually but not always), etc.. Looking into the body of the message usually gives you links to the people that advertised through the spammers. LART everyone and send a copy to uce@ftc.gov. Report the open relays to the various DNS blacklist maintainers. Report repeat offenders to their upstream. Report the stock scams to the SEC. Report the penis enlargement pills to the FDA. Report the Nigerian Money scams to the Secret Service. Don't through the message away. Take a few minutes and do something with it. At the very least forward it to the FTC's dropbox. At the very least.
They should be made public. My father owned a garage up until the early 90s. He got out just as computerized cars were really becoming popular and widespread. The few years he had in them were hecktic. Every damned car had a different monitoring device and connector. Do you have any idea how much those bitches cost?! I think there should be a standard. Make it like SNMP where the basic, common things are given a common/standardized OID and then let the vendors put their proprietary stuff under their company OID. More things need standards.
I work at a Unv in Kansas. The State has endorsed a Project Management Methodology (PMM) structure and recommends it to all our state agencies. I heard about it at the 2002 CHECK conference a couple weeks ago. The State of KS also has training classes in Topeka that you can pay for. My Unv is bringing a couple of the State's training staff to my Unv in a couple of weeks to give 2 2-day overview courses. If I feel I need to, I may also convince my boss to let me attend the week-long larger course. I've run into a problem where I don't have project management training. While I feel I could easily get the job done, I don't have the experience in managing people or a.5 mil project (the technical stuff is easy; the political and non-tech administrative stuff is new to me). Management has since put someone else in charge of my project. While they too don't have the PMM training, they do have management experience and they don't have anything else to do being new to our dept. If I had PMM training I could much better argue my case.
The formal project management session at CHECK (sorry, the sessions aren't online yet) did outline the structure for the people involved in a project. The thing I remember most is that the structure that was presented to us (and endorsed by the State) had Project Managers in an organizational role *only*. They didn't make technical decisions. They drove home the process of managing a project. They generated reports for the suits, kept everyone on track with timelines (decided on by the group), documented the process, ran project meetings, and kept things neat and orderly. They didn't make technical decisions. The presentation giver did say that it would be ideal if the Project Manager was someone of a technically minded person so they could write documentation correctly, not give out false information, and would simply understand to a certain degree what all the technical people were saying. That doesn't mean they have to understand the ins and outs of BGP but they should be able to understand enough of what it is after an explanation to get the point across in writing.
IIRC I also heard one of the other (larger) Unvs say that they are considering highering a full-time Project Manager for their dept. Project management can easily become a full-time job.
Hopefully your state endorses some sort of PMM. I would try to convince the suits to let your team leaders take a class or two. If nothing else it will help the actual Project Manager out if the majority of the people that person works with understands the PMM process.
Did anyone else notice that the Makefile is missing from the 1.3.26 release? I can't find it anywhere. I was going to upgrade real quick but this rather important piece of the puzzle is missing.
The best option I saw was a fiber optic strand pulled through the case and the desk it was installed in. When the case was removed (or possibly tampered with) the fiber was broken. You could rig it with an alarm or a watch dog. Beware though, the cheap version using plastic optics rather than a good length of 62.5m MMF or 10m SMF. The plastic fiber gave many false positives. The ends wouldn't fit right so jiggling the case caused the LED light to be disrupted. If you're protecting nice Sparcs or SGIs, this is the answer for you. Don't skip on this though. You get what you pay for.
Something like this couldn't happen in, say, a bar full of drunks or perhaps a grocery store full of kid-toting mothers? What about a baseball stadium full of sun burnt, half lit aficionados? Hell what about a cubicle farm full of irate programmers? I think this fire could happen anywhere. Their communist government is just looking for reasons to police information. I foresee a violent uprising in China against the government in the next 10 years or so.
I had the same problem. They teach us to use the debuggers and trial and error to our advantage. Then they don't actually let us use it in the end. They teach us the process that we'll actually use in the industry, then they want to to resort to pen and paper for testing purposes. It just doesn't compute.
I used to run their mailing list for them. Manhattan is 5 hours from me. Topeka, a little over 4. Lawrence, about 2 and some change (but I hate Gay-U!). Wichita, 3 on the dot. 1.5 from south KC. I don't think I'll be around for the party though.:(
The first amendment doesn't give you the right use my property to excercise your right to run your mouth off. It would be like you coming into my home and and preaching to me in my living room. It's my property and it's not your right to be on or make us of it.
Hormel gets pissed if you called unsolicited commercial email "SPAM" because that's their trademark. They have however given their blessing to the use of "spam".
Better trick, create an auto-forward on your spamtrap addresses that redirects to uce@ftc.gov. Many mass mailers remove.gov addresses now, especially uce@ftc.gov. Trick them with a simple mail alias. Seed that address in the newsgroups and hide it on your webpages with mailto's on non-breaking spaces or transparent 1x1 images. Works like a champ.
I've had them blacklisted for a couple years now. I wish other states would jump on the bandwagon. These SOBs deserve to pay. They should be forced to read every piece of spam they ever sent out I think. That should keep them occupied for a few life sentences.
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Who's this Jerry Falwell character? His name must not be that big of a trademarkable string if no one's heard of him. I think I'll trademark "John Smith".
I'd rather see their booth have no attendees. I imagine the view from above would be this small area around their booth completly barron of attendees. That's what I invision.
I had 4 unknown number calls tonight. I finally answered #4 and had to say hello half a dozen times before some guy came on. He said he was from MCI and wanted to cut my telephone bill in half. I didn't let him finished. I asked if they were the ones that called here 3 other times that evening. He said he didn't know. I told him I wasn't interested in switching to MCI and asked to be put on their DO NOT CALL LIST. He said there wasn't such a thing. I informed him that they were required to by law. He said that wasn't possible because he was never told that in training. I asked for his super. He hung up on me. This shit is really aggravating.
If you're doing what the parent poster said to do and just deleting the spam, you're spending no more than 5 minutes a day and I'd say realistically 1 minute a day. LARTing spam takes time. The more you do the better you get at it. Then again not contributing to the fight against spam and not LARTing mail just means that you and everyone else will end up getting more. The spammers won't get booted from their ISPs and they'll continue to spam. Moral of the story, get off your ass and contribute to the cause.
Yes they do and I'm proud to say that I use those blacklists. :-) Die spammers!
I've thought about doing just that. I've tried to teach some people in the past. That's when I realized that a lot of what I do depends on my own memory. A domain sticks out in my head. A telephone number or name from a WHOIS entry rings a bell. A unique fake header gives me dejaveu (sp). It's hard to teach that to people. I still want to make a HOWTO for this. I should work on that when things slow down a bit. LARTing spam is a really important part of the process. It's like witnessing a crime but not saying anything about it. It only does good things for the person that committed the crime.
"I'm a sucker and I'm confirming that this address is valid and read. Now you can spam the hell out of me and sell my address to all your buddies.". No reason to beat around the bush. Be direct about it. This is what you're doing after all.
Spammers don't exactly "hack systems". In just about every respect they're pretty incompetent (with a few exceptions). A vulnerability is found in software like formmail or some dumbass admin puts up an open relay (read: installs Exchange) and someone far smarter than the spammers are writes a couple pieces of software to sploit those holes. The spammers use the ready-made software to fill your inbox with penis-enlarging stock scams from Nigeria. They didn't even write the software themselves. They are nothing more than script kiddies. Baaaahhhh, damned spammers piss me off.
Buddy, you've been Joe Jobbed. Sucks, doesn't it? When you get the spam complaints, explain the situation to the sender and ask for a copy of the message with full headers. Then LART it. Go after the sons of bitches with a big club.
Don't just delete it. Everybody deletes it and it does no one any good. LART it (read: report)! If you take a few minutes to look into the headers of the spam you'll find a wealth of information. Was the message sent through an open relay, was the message sent through a vulnerable formmail.cgi, was it a proxy, where the message actually originated from (usually but not always), etc.. Looking into the body of the message usually gives you links to the people that advertised through the spammers. LART everyone and send a copy to uce@ftc.gov. Report the open relays to the various DNS blacklist maintainers. Report repeat offenders to their upstream. Report the stock scams to the SEC. Report the penis enlargement pills to the FDA. Report the Nigerian Money scams to the Secret Service. Don't through the message away. Take a few minutes and do something with it. At the very least forward it to the FTC's dropbox. At the very least.
I think you've got a few URL mixed up. Why would ford care if someoneregistered "fuckgeneralmotors.com"? Hell I could see Ford doing that themselves.
I would love to see this happen to some spammers I know though. :-)
It's a contract violation at best. The authorities have no business getting involved.
They should be made public. My father owned a garage up until the early 90s. He got out just as computerized cars were really becoming popular and widespread. The few years he had in them were hecktic. Every damned car had a different monitoring device and connector. Do you have any idea how much those bitches cost?! I think there should be a standard. Make it like SNMP where the basic, common things are given a common/standardized OID and then let the vendors put their proprietary stuff under their company OID. More things need standards.
The formal project management session at CHECK (sorry, the sessions aren't online yet) did outline the structure for the people involved in a project. The thing I remember most is that the structure that was presented to us (and endorsed by the State) had Project Managers in an organizational role *only*. They didn't make technical decisions. They drove home the process of managing a project. They generated reports for the suits, kept everyone on track with timelines (decided on by the group), documented the process, ran project meetings, and kept things neat and orderly. They didn't make technical decisions. The presentation giver did say that it would be ideal if the Project Manager was someone of a technically minded person so they could write documentation correctly, not give out false information, and would simply understand to a certain degree what all the technical people were saying. That doesn't mean they have to understand the ins and outs of BGP but they should be able to understand enough of what it is after an explanation to get the point across in writing.
IIRC I also heard one of the other (larger) Unvs say that they are considering highering a full-time Project Manager for their dept. Project management can easily become a full-time job.
Hopefully your state endorses some sort of PMM. I would try to convince the suits to let your team leaders take a class or two. If nothing else it will help the actual Project Manager out if the majority of the people that person works with understands the PMM process.
Did anyone else notice that the Makefile is missing from the 1.3.26 release? I can't find it anywhere. I was going to upgrade real quick but this rather important piece of the puzzle is missing.
The best option I saw was a fiber optic strand pulled through the case and the desk it was installed in. When the case was removed (or possibly tampered with) the fiber was broken. You could rig it with an alarm or a watch dog. Beware though, the cheap version using plastic optics rather than a good length of 62.5m MMF or 10m SMF. The plastic fiber gave many false positives. The ends wouldn't fit right so jiggling the case caused the LED light to be disrupted. If you're protecting nice Sparcs or SGIs, this is the answer for you. Don't skip on this though. You get what you pay for.
Something like this couldn't happen in, say, a bar full of drunks or perhaps a grocery store full of kid-toting mothers? What about a baseball stadium full of sun burnt, half lit aficionados? Hell what about a cubicle farm full of irate programmers? I think this fire could happen anywhere. Their communist government is just looking for reasons to police information. I foresee a violent uprising in China against the government in the next 10 years or so.
I had the same problem. They teach us to use the debuggers and trial and error to our advantage. Then they don't actually let us use it in the end. They teach us the process that we'll actually use in the industry, then they want to to resort to pen and paper for testing purposes. It just doesn't compute.
I used to run their mailing list for them. Manhattan is 5 hours from me. Topeka, a little over 4. Lawrence, about 2 and some change (but I hate Gay-U!). Wichita, 3 on the dot. 1.5 from south KC. I don't think I'll be around for the party though. :(
The first amendment doesn't give you the right use my property to excercise your right to run your mouth off. It would be like you coming into my home and and preaching to me in my living room. It's my property and it's not your right to be on or make us of it.
Hormel gets pissed if you called unsolicited commercial email "SPAM" because that's their trademark. They have however given their blessing to the use of "spam".
Better trick, create an auto-forward on your spamtrap addresses that redirects to uce@ftc.gov. Many mass mailers remove .gov addresses now, especially uce@ftc.gov. Trick them with a simple mail alias. Seed that address in the newsgroups and hide it on your webpages with mailto's on non-breaking spaces or transparent 1x1 images. Works like a champ.
but close. The goal is to make it cost the spammer more to spam than it costs us to litigate.
I've had them blacklisted for a couple years now. I wish other states would jump on the bandwagon. These SOBs deserve to pay. They should be forced to read every piece of spam they ever sent out I think. That should keep them occupied for a few life sentences.