Why is it that everyone seems to think that anything on the internet is 'public'? His personal mailing list hosted at his personal domain on a private server is not public
Um, You didn't read any of the context did you? This isn't about what he does on his list, of which I am a happy member. This is about what he does on other, public lists - which is what started the whole debate. The list in question was one in which 99% of the members used windows and outlook.
Check your facts first, in future.
And I don't use outlook, I use free software, I do however, reserve the right to call him an ass for behaving like one, whether his behaviour directly affects me or not.
The actual exploit he is abusing is described here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=k b; en-us;Q260822
and is triggered by the text:
"begin " at the beginning of a line, followed by some text. Outlook renders from the begin onwards as an attachment, even without a matching "end".
The headers actually do different stuff, as described here:
http://www.rodos.net/outlook/
Now the headers by themselves are of minor amusement, the begin exploit is extremely discourteous on public mailing lists, as for digest members, it destroys the rest of the disgest - ie. it affects the posts of others.
Opinion:
Nick seems to think he's being terribly clever, by putting this "begin " in his attribution, so that his every mail is deliberately disruptive to public mailing lists. The whole thing is just a "look how clever I am" stunt and his actions justifications are purile in the extreme.
Don't condone this behaviour if you object when people send you unreadable html mail, or when script kiddies attack your box "to make you aware of a security problem", or when people take the words "freedom", "open source", and "linux" to support such idiotic, antisocial and deliberately disruptive behaviour.
CmdrTaco needs to stop posting stories until he
a) learns some grammar skills (lose 20 points for repetition of "the past"
b) reads slashdot
c) stops posting year-old "news"
What's amusing is all the coverage of super-high bandwidth connections to ISPs, especially all the "last-mile" advances and the potential to plug users into the net at 10Mbps+.
Why are they bothering when it's clear their networks can't handle even current traffic levels? And who would elect to pay for a 10Mbps+ connection if they're gonna get capped to a tenth of that within 3 months of signing up?
What exactly is going to change when 10Mbps ISP connections are available?
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Um, You didn't read any of the context did you? This isn't about what he does on his list, of which I am a happy member. This is about what he does on other, public lists - which is what started the whole debate. The list in question was one in which 99% of the members used windows and outlook.
Check your facts first, in future.
And I don't use outlook, I use free software, I do however, reserve the right to call him an ass for behaving like one, whether his behaviour directly affects me or not.
Facts:
k b; en-us;Q260822
The actual exploit he is abusing is described here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=
and is triggered by the text:
"begin " at the beginning of a line, followed by some text. Outlook renders from the begin onwards as an attachment, even without a matching "end".
The headers actually do different stuff, as described here:
http://www.rodos.net/outlook/
Now the headers by themselves are of minor amusement, the begin exploit is extremely discourteous on public mailing lists, as for digest members, it destroys the rest of the disgest - ie. it affects the posts of others.
Opinion:
Nick seems to think he's being terribly clever, by putting this "begin " in his attribution, so that his every mail is deliberately disruptive to public mailing lists. The whole thing is just a "look how clever I am" stunt and his actions justifications are purile in the extreme.
Don't condone this behaviour if you object when people send you unreadable html mail, or when script kiddies attack your box "to make you aware of a security problem", or when people take the words "freedom", "open source", and "linux" to support such idiotic, antisocial and deliberately disruptive behaviour.
CmdrTaco needs to stop posting stories until he
a) learns some grammar skills (lose 20 points for repetition of "the past"
b) reads slashdot
c) stops posting year-old "news"
It's about them finally realising what a dreadful security hole IIS is in the hands of your average home user.
What's amusing is all the coverage of super-high bandwidth connections to ISPs, especially all the "last-mile" advances and the potential to plug users into the net at 10Mbps+.
Why are they bothering when it's clear their networks can't handle even current traffic levels? And who would elect to pay for a 10Mbps+ connection if they're gonna get capped to a tenth of that within 3 months of signing up?
What exactly is going to change when 10Mbps ISP connections are available?