I am getting spam from an address at EROS.STOEN.NET. This is for sites like AUTOWEB.COM and other "big names". They say I subscribed to a mailing list but I doubt it. All mail is addressed to "Stu Dent", a name I probably used when filling in a web form once upon a time. STOEN.NET is not being used as a web server except for a Apache test page and the domain is registered for..
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I say "have a look at what the different programs can do when you've got some spare time" and the answer is always "I've not got time, I just want to get the work done, I haven't got time for looking through all these programs". It's hard for people to learn anything if they're not really interested, if all they need the computer for is to type something up for a deadline in 24 hours, by then it's too late. Kids learn fast because they're surfing the web and using things like e-mail and ICQ, because they find it fun. For a bored adult wanting to do work it's not fun.
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SMS in the UK, sent from a phone costs 10 pence on average (10 - 20 cents). SMS sent through a web gateway costs the gateway provider 2 pence (about 4 cents) per message. Because of this you are normally limited to something like 10 free messages a day from any user name. Unless spammers tricked the gateway into sending unlimited messages, it would cost them £20000 per million phones, it's cheaper to advertise on a cable TV channel or radio station. Another difference for spam SMS is that you can't do anything with a text message except save it or reply. No links to click on, there isn't really enough room for a snail mail address. Most SMS advertising is like "Win concert tickets 4 U n UR M8s: fone 0906 9999999" where the 0906 phone number costs £1 a minute to call. It is annoying to get something like this but e-mail is probably more effective for the Herbal Viagra merchants.
Apart from with my now useless Hotmail account, most spam for me is now from Asian sources (not just relayed via Asia). These spam messages aren't of the "herbal viagra $20.00" type, they are usually HTML format, advertising what looks to be a respectable (if it wasn't for the bulk emailing) store. They are usually sent to name@mysubdomain.domain.net which makes a dictionary type system seem improbable, usenet and guestbooks seem most likely for their gathering.
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Browsing the web is just like reading a book or newspaper. If the internet wasn't here the people who spend ages surfing web sites would be reading printed material. Someone who read books a lot isn't suddenly going to use the 'net for random chat just because it's there to use.
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Email doesn't always have to be social. If you're on a lot of group mailing lists then it's about as personal as usenet. Most email I get isn't addressed to me personally.
I would use Windows 2000 if it wasn't for all the hardware it isn't compatible with. I've bought stuff this year which still doesn't have Windows 2000 drivers.
If it detects your hardware on install then you're fine, if not then it's useless, even with the nice visual effects.
You could try swapping modems and soundcards with other people, my experience of Win 2K is that most people have either a modem or a sound card which doesn't work with it but few people have BOTH.
"Millions of dollars are wasted on perceived need.
Not that much has really changed since I was using Wordperfect in Dos 3.3 or doing DTP in GEM or using Lotus 123."
Lotus Approach and Organizer are stuck in a time warp, there has been no significant change to those applications since 1994 (apart from long filenames - wow, I can now use names which contain characters which are forbidden by most CD filesystems). I started using SmartSuite in 1995 and 3 versions later there was no real change to any of the applications except Word Pro could handle HTML documents in SS 96 and later.
It is no wonder that SS Millienium can now be bought for under £10 in many places.
Microsoft Office is little better, HTML support is the only thing which has increased its usefulness to me in any way since I first used it in about 1993.
I could go back to using Office 4.3 if it wasn't for those people who insist on sending me Word documents, what's wrong with RTF for a simple letter (or even plain text). Windows Write would be fine if only it had a word count feature.
If it wasn't for internal modems, CD writers and mp3 software I would still be using Windows 3.1
Notice that all but the mp3 software is a matter of hardware support. Not animated paperclips or having my spelling corrected while I type. Not web pages which won't display without 12 different plug-ins.
So muggers might get you if you follow the non-camera route?
Think back many many years to those forgotten times when there weren't cameras on every street corner. You went outside every so often then, didn't you? Just for a little while, before all the nasty criminals could get you. How scared you felt with nobody to watch over you 24 hours a day.
Maybe crime was less then. No, it couldn't possibly be lower, repeat after me Cameras Reduce Crime. In fact in a few years there will be no crime at all and no drugs either. America will win the war!
Such a small price to pay for an end to crime and badness.
Even though I don't care much for anything being copyrighted, I find that most of my music has been obtained quite legally, even since I started downloading MP3s from the net.
I only use a 56K modem (there is no alternative except ISDN in my area) and the ones which get downloaded are ones I hear on the radio and are not on any compilation album. I will not buy an album by any artist, only compilation albums as there isn't anywhere near the possible 80 minutes on most albums.
In my rush to get the latest tunes, I end up downloading the radio edit or incomplete versions a lot of the time.
When I buy CDs, I normally get compilation albums like the ones where there are 4 or 5 CDs for £10. Most of the stuff on them is never going to be released on CD single or ever played on the radio. I couldn't download it since I've never even heard of most of the music before I buy the album (what do I type in on Napster then?)
I pay an average of £2.50 per full length CD.
The best use of the internet for me is to find old dance music which was probably never released on CD, not everything was in the late 80s/early 90s, even if it got in the charts. To buy these would cost £5-10 per piece of vinyl, second hand too. What are the artists and labels going to gain from this - nothing, the records have been deleted for the past 8 years.
Web sites which have mp3s for download are not much help because a lot of the time they only have stuff which is in the top 40. If I want to hear new dance music then I may as well go to MP3.COM because someone making a 'Top100 mp3 downloads' site isn't going to be any help.
I think CD writers have actually increased CD sales because in the 'old days' if you liked a song you would just tape it off the radio unless you were a real fan and bought all their albums. Now listeners might be tempted to buy a CD in the hope that they could swap it with a friend who would be able to copy it. Even if 10% of copies were legal, it would be better than everyone having it on a cassette off the radio. The chances of everybody in the USA having a copy from the same legal master is very small.
Most people don't even use all the pirated software they have. Apart from Windows and Office (which can often be included with new PCs), there aren't many applications which home users get into seriously. Take Photoshop for example, someone might have it on a warez CD, install it and then use it only for viewing pictures. If it wasn't there already they wouldn't bother getting it as it isn't worth anything to them.
The software used most apart from games (game copying is probably the biggest problem for industry as there are no business customers buying site licences like there is for Windows) is free (IE, Winamp, Real Jukebox etc.) Office is useful but the home user is more likely to want free web gizmos even though they are getting to be spyware these days.
If somebody does use Office at home then it's likely to be for work or school purposes. This means that in many cases whatever you do isn't even your own work, it belongs to the employer. If your office is closed at 5pm and you go home and finish off some work using Office 2000, should you really have to have your own licenced copy of it?
How about only requiring businesses and schools to have legal copies of software? Home users don't rely on things like Photoshop, if there was no development money left at Adobe then would Joe Average care? even if they went bust?
Since web based accounts are often the worst for getting spam, can't a service like Hotmail have an option where if the user so wishes, anybody wanting to send them mail has to go to hotmail.com, type recipients user name and their message. Nothing wrong with making it anonymous since e-mail headers can always be forged anyway. If some spammer tried to use an automated thing to generate random user names then hotmail would be able to detect quite quickly since they would be getting so many errors returned, blocking their IP address for a while. An image of a number could be used to stop spammers as well, if someone typed the wrong number in three times they were kicked out.
Then real e-mail addresses could be used for private mail only.
I'm a radio ham and here in the UK there isn't any revolutionary material. Most amateurs are busy complaining that it is too easy to get a licence these days. I'd say the average ham in this country would call the authorities if he or she heard anything too 'revolutionary' being said over the air. Even our pirate broadcasters don't really discuss anything political, it's probably 90% dance music based and we even have ones playing Britney Spears!
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I am getting spam from an address at EROS.STOEN.NET. This is for sites like AUTOWEB.COM and other "big names". They say I subscribed to a mailing list but I doubt it. All mail is addressed to "Stu Dent", a name I probably used when filling in a web form once upon a time.
STOEN.NET is not being used as a web server except for a Apache test page and the domain is registered for..
Registrant:
Mazen Araabi
ResponseBase
2120 Colorado Avenue
Suite 300
Santa Monica, California 90404
United States
I say "have a look at what the different programs can do when you've got some spare time" and the answer is always "I've not got time, I just want to get the work done, I haven't got time for looking through all these programs".
It's hard for people to learn anything if they're not really interested, if all they need the computer for is to type something up for a deadline in 24 hours, by then it's too late.
Kids learn fast because they're surfing the web and using things like e-mail and ICQ, because they find it fun. For a bored adult wanting to do work it's not fun.
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Copyright for 70 years after the death of the author? Why? They're dead. Their family should go and get jobs.
SMS in the UK, sent from a phone costs 10 pence on average (10 - 20 cents). SMS sent through a web gateway costs the gateway provider 2 pence (about 4 cents) per message. Because of this you are normally limited to something like 10 free messages a day from any user name.
Unless spammers tricked the gateway into sending unlimited messages, it would cost them £20000 per million phones, it's cheaper to advertise on a cable TV channel or radio station.
Another difference for spam SMS is that you can't do anything with a text message except save it or reply. No links to click on, there isn't really enough room for a snail mail address. Most SMS advertising is like "Win concert tickets 4 U n UR M8s: fone 0906 9999999" where the 0906 phone number costs £1 a minute to call. It is annoying to get something like this but e-mail is probably more effective for the Herbal Viagra merchants.
Apart from with my now useless Hotmail account, most spam for me is now from Asian sources (not just relayed via Asia). These spam messages aren't of the "herbal viagra $20.00" type, they are usually HTML format, advertising what looks to be a respectable (if it wasn't for the bulk emailing) store. They are usually sent to name@mysubdomain.domain.net which makes a dictionary type system seem improbable, usenet and guestbooks seem most likely for their gathering.
Browsing the web is just like reading a book or newspaper. If the internet wasn't here the people who spend ages surfing web sites would be reading printed material. Someone who read books a lot isn't suddenly going to use the 'net for random chat just because it's there to use.
Email doesn't always have to be social. If you're on a lot of group mailing lists then it's about as personal as usenet. Most email I get isn't addressed to me personally.
I would use Windows 2000 if it wasn't for all the hardware it isn't compatible with. I've bought stuff this year which still doesn't have Windows 2000 drivers.
If it detects your hardware on install then you're fine, if not then it's useless, even with the nice visual effects.
You could try swapping modems and soundcards with other people, my experience of Win 2K is that most people have either a modem or a sound card which doesn't work with it but few people have BOTH.
"Millions of dollars are wasted on perceived need.
Not that much has really changed since I was using Wordperfect in Dos 3.3 or doing DTP in GEM or using Lotus 123."
Lotus Approach and Organizer are stuck in a time warp, there has been no significant change to those applications since 1994 (apart from long filenames - wow, I can now use names which contain characters which are forbidden by most CD filesystems). I started using SmartSuite in 1995 and 3 versions later there was no real change to any of the applications except Word Pro could handle HTML documents in SS 96 and later.
It is no wonder that SS Millienium can now be bought for under £10 in many places.
Microsoft Office is little better, HTML support is the only thing which has increased its usefulness to me in any way since I first used it in about 1993.
I could go back to using Office 4.3 if it wasn't for those people who insist on sending me Word documents, what's wrong with RTF for a simple letter (or even plain text). Windows Write would be fine if only it had a word count feature.
If it wasn't for internal modems, CD writers and mp3 software I would still be using Windows 3.1
Notice that all but the mp3 software is a matter of hardware support. Not animated paperclips or having my spelling corrected while I type. Not web pages which won't display without 12 different plug-ins.
So muggers might get you if you follow the non-camera route?
Think back many many years to those forgotten times when there weren't cameras on every street corner. You went outside every so often then, didn't you? Just for a little while, before all the nasty criminals could get you. How scared you felt with nobody to watch over you 24 hours a day.
Maybe crime was less then. No, it couldn't possibly be lower, repeat after me Cameras Reduce Crime. In fact in a few years there will be no crime at all and no drugs either. America will win the war!
Such a small price to pay for an end to crime and badness.
Even though I don't care much for anything being copyrighted, I find that most of my music has been obtained quite legally, even since I started downloading MP3s from the net. I only use a 56K modem (there is no alternative except ISDN in my area) and the ones which get downloaded are ones I hear on the radio and are not on any compilation album. I will not buy an album by any artist, only compilation albums as there isn't anywhere near the possible 80 minutes on most albums. In my rush to get the latest tunes, I end up downloading the radio edit or incomplete versions a lot of the time. When I buy CDs, I normally get compilation albums like the ones where there are 4 or 5 CDs for £10. Most of the stuff on them is never going to be released on CD single or ever played on the radio. I couldn't download it since I've never even heard of most of the music before I buy the album (what do I type in on Napster then?) I pay an average of £2.50 per full length CD. The best use of the internet for me is to find old dance music which was probably never released on CD, not everything was in the late 80s/early 90s, even if it got in the charts. To buy these would cost £5-10 per piece of vinyl, second hand too. What are the artists and labels going to gain from this - nothing, the records have been deleted for the past 8 years. Web sites which have mp3s for download are not much help because a lot of the time they only have stuff which is in the top 40. If I want to hear new dance music then I may as well go to MP3.COM because someone making a 'Top100 mp3 downloads' site isn't going to be any help. I think CD writers have actually increased CD sales because in the 'old days' if you liked a song you would just tape it off the radio unless you were a real fan and bought all their albums. Now listeners might be tempted to buy a CD in the hope that they could swap it with a friend who would be able to copy it. Even if 10% of copies were legal, it would be better than everyone having it on a cassette off the radio. The chances of everybody in the USA having a copy from the same legal master is very small.
Most people don't even use all the pirated software they have. Apart from Windows and Office (which can often be included with new PCs), there aren't many applications which home users get into seriously. Take Photoshop for example, someone might have it on a warez CD, install it and then use it only for viewing pictures. If it wasn't there already they wouldn't bother getting it as it isn't worth anything to them. The software used most apart from games (game copying is probably the biggest problem for industry as there are no business customers buying site licences like there is for Windows) is free (IE, Winamp, Real Jukebox etc.) Office is useful but the home user is more likely to want free web gizmos even though they are getting to be spyware these days. If somebody does use Office at home then it's likely to be for work or school purposes. This means that in many cases whatever you do isn't even your own work, it belongs to the employer. If your office is closed at 5pm and you go home and finish off some work using Office 2000, should you really have to have your own licenced copy of it? How about only requiring businesses and schools to have legal copies of software? Home users don't rely on things like Photoshop, if there was no development money left at Adobe then would Joe Average care? even if they went bust?
An artist getting more money because more people buy their records isn't right. How many hours did they do this week?
Since web based accounts are often the worst for getting spam, can't a service like Hotmail have an option where if the user so wishes, anybody wanting to send them mail has to go to hotmail.com, type recipients user name and their message. Nothing wrong with making it anonymous since e-mail headers can always be forged anyway. If some spammer tried to use an automated thing to generate random user names then hotmail would be able to detect quite quickly since they would be getting so many errors returned, blocking their IP address for a while. An image of a number could be used to stop spammers as well, if someone typed the wrong number in three times they were kicked out. Then real e-mail addresses could be used for private mail only.
I'm a radio ham and here in the UK there isn't any revolutionary material. Most amateurs are busy complaining that it is too easy to get a licence these days. I'd say the average ham in this country would call the authorities if he or she heard anything too 'revolutionary' being said over the air. Even our pirate broadcasters don't really discuss anything political, it's probably 90% dance music based and we even have ones playing Britney Spears!