It's reqlly quite good. In the 2 years I've used it, I may have gotten 3 spams.
And how many false positives? How many legitimate emails have you lost? Do you even know?
If you know, how do you know? Do you look at your TMDA pending folder and sift through it for false positives? If you do, how is that better than no spam filtering at all?
I ask these questions because I kicked out TMDA for these reasons. I found myself still looking at spam trying to find missing emails and finally I said screw it and adopted a more elegant solution. Oh well.
And only trusted friends give permanent (or ermanent sub-domain) email addresses.
I don't find this to be a workable solution. What's the point of having your own domain if the email address you give to most people is something like "lorcha@blahdyblahblah26.blah.com"?
The whole reason I got my own domain was to have a simple address I could give out that people would remember easily. And it doesn't matter how careful you tell people to be. Inevitably you'll get an evite from someone, or someone will give out your "real" address to someone who likes to send email greeting cards. Or some idiot will get a virus and start sending you 300 screensavers in a zip file with a password of 8828282. You get the idea.
I also tried TMDA, but confirmation schemes are not an acceptable solution for me.
In the end, I opted for clamav+spamassassin. This solution has far surpassed even my most optimistic expectations. About 1 spam per 200 I receive goes to the "probably spam" folder and about 1 spam per 5000 hits my inbox. The rest are rejected in the SMTP session.
I know what you're thinking: false-positives. Well, I only reject viruses and SA scores >10. I have never ever ever had someone contact me asking why his/her email was rejected as spam. Seriously, not even once.
It seems the talented folks at spamassassin are just too good at keeping a few steps ahead of the spammers. And clamav kicks ass all over every commercial AV solution I've tried in terms of performance and accuracy.
Yeah, I don't really understand why people still have spam problems. My system is even simpler than yours (my server only gets about 300-400 messages/day so I can get away with this):
Run email through clamd and 554 if clam says it's a virus.
Run email through spamassassin (spamd) and if the score is 10+ send 554 and if it's 5-10, deliver to "probably spam" folder
I get a few "probably"s a week and every few months a spam actually makes it to my inbox when over 95% of the email the server gets on average is spam. This is well within my tolerance for inbox pollution.
As far as I'm concerned, the spam war is over and the good guys have won. Spamassassin is just too good.
I really haven't worried about spam in a long time. Ever since I installed spamassassin and clamav (plus freshclam, of course), I've been getting like 3 spams a week in my "probably spam" folder (SA scores 5-10) and 1 every few months actually hits my inbox. This is well within my spam tolerance. Approximately 150-200 spams per day are rejected during the SMTP session, and I have never had one legitamate sender complain to me that he/she got an email rejected. SMTP returns permanent reject code if the email scores 10+ in SA or clamAV says it's a virus.
As far as I am concerned, the fight against spam is over and the good guys have won. SA+Clam are just too good.
Yer funny. Grandparent's point is that Great-Grandparent referenced the wrong form. Great Grandparent meant W-2, not W-4, which is a different form entirely. So grandparent made a tonge-in-cheek comment pointing out the error, and you are just totally clueless.
Thanks for the laugh at your expense. I needed that today. Hopefully you get yourself a nice W-4 next month while the rest of us are getting our W-2s! Hahahahahahah.
With most of the layoffs coming from the Northern Virginia offices, what are their hopes for finding new jobs?"
I had a contract end suddenly last month. I had a new contract within 3 weeks.
The kicker? I wasn't even looking. I just wanted to take some time off and relax. But the job market here is so hot I got an offer I couldn't refuse within 3 weeks.
So, yeah, those AOLers are fine. The dirty little secret in the DC area is that the job market is smokin' hot if you're decent. Put another way, if you are looking for an IT job in DC for more than 3 months, you need to find a new career because if you aren't snatched up here, you won't find a job anywhere.
If you truly wanted to know more about someone, then open your mouth and ask that someone.
As a rental property owner, I can confidently state that that is not good enough. I perform a thorough background check on every potential renter because, and I'm sure you'll be shocked by this, people with something to hide will frequently lie to you.
This is critical to my business because if I allow a convicted axe-murderer to live in one of my buildings and he hacks another resident to bits, I'm looking at a nasty lawsuit. Such is life in America, I guess.
What is this "international law" that you speak of? And more specifically, who enforces it? Who should I call if I see someone violating this "international law"? Where might I go to read this "international law"?
The whole "different context" idea has nothing to do with the race of the TV personality, or the demographics of the audience. The difference in context is right there in the content of the two shows.
The difference between hot lesbian teenage oral sex on Oprah vs. Stern is simple: Oprah is discouraging that type of behavior and Stern is encouraging it. It is very different thing to bring teenagers on your show and tell them not to do such things (Oprah style) as opposed to bringing teenage girls on your show and having them perform various sex acts in the studio while on the air and actively encouraging it (Stern style).
Don't get me wrong, I'm with Stern on this one. I think Oprah can take her attitude and shove it. But realize that in the eyes of a 'moral' zealot, the difference is very much in the content and not in the messenger/audience.
Dude, are you seriously betting your house on the future of this business? I don't know where you live, but where I live it gets cold in the winter.
Maybe you better find some financing that is not secured by your only source of shelter. Someone you don't really have to pay back if your business flops.
Who forced you to sign year or two long contracts? On a cellphone, or something? Buy prepaid. Who else requires a commitment from you? Or were you just making more poor choices?
Verify employment by calling former employers? What about companies that no longer exist? Besides, I do both credit reports and calling former employers. Plenty of people's stories check out. I don't need the added risk of someone whose story does not check out.
Look, I empathize with your predicament, but don't take the tone with me like I (or somebody other than you) got you into your mess. There are plenty of ways to get your head above water and it only takes a year or so of being clean to get your FICO out of the tank. I'll take someone who is resourceful and meets his obligations over someone who blames everything on others like you do. I'd never hire you.
I think you fail to appreciate the risk that businesses take on from their employees. That's why we prefer the squeaky clean ones. You don't like it, start your own business and hire all the deadbeats you want. It wouldn't bother me.
I pull credit reports on all prospective employees to check for honesty. If you say you worked for Company A for the last 3 years but you really were flipping burgers at McDonalds while crashing at your buddy's place, you're not getting hired by me.
And if you have a bunch of judgments against you, guess what? That means you ripped a bunch of businesses off, got sued, and lost. And you wonder why employers are saying "No thanks"?
Did you try setting myth to record one fewer minutes when it records CSI? I know you can make it end late for a particular show... but I think you can also make it end early? I'll check when I get home.
This is not the court system we are dealing with, this is free enterprise, and is little different than me refusing to personally associate with anyone under 5'0", simply because that is how I do business.
You do realize that it is perfectly legal and ethical to refuse to do business with anyoen under 5' tall, don't you? Last I checked, "people with slightly below-average height" is not a protected class. And even then it varies by industry.
For instance, in my property rental business, I cannot refuse to rent to gay people in one county but in the county next door, I can ask on the rental application "Are you gay?" and not rent to them if they say yes. If I later find out that they lied on their application about being gay, I could evict. Obviously I don't do this, but I'm just saying that I could and it would be perfectly legal. Gay people are not a federally protected class (but some localities extend Fair Housing protections to other classes like gays, which is their right).
For people with disabilities it's different. Airlines have to accomodate disabled passengers at their own expense. I have to accomodate disabled renters at the renter's expense (that's right, if you are in a wheelchair, I can't refuse to rent to you, but I can make you build your own ramp to get up the stairs). Many businesses don't have to do a damn thing for disabled people.
My point is, most businesses can do business in a discriminatory way (even in hiring in some instances, believe it or not!) if they want to. Most do not, because it is bad business to cut off huge sections of the population from your customer base, but just so you know, we can do it.
Yes, spammers are evil scum who need a standard NATO round square in the forehead. But this sort of rough and ready justice worries me.
You have no problem with summarily shooting people who send you unwanted email, but all of a sudden when it comes to visiting spammer websites you start to get alarmed?!
Unbelievable! Methinks you could stand to rethink your priorities in life.
All children (including special ed) must be tested.
Special Ed. children can be assigned to any grade level.
I'm sure you'll be surprised to learn that all special ed students in her school are assigned the grade level 11 for their entire stay at her school. An "unfortunate" side effect is that the special ed students are never tested. C'est la vie, eh?
Unless you are transferring to MIT, good on-campus recruiting is most important. Getting that first job is key, because after that, very few companies give a shit where you went to undergrad.
If you are planning on getting an advanced degree, that's different. Getting accepted to a good grad school will be easier if your degree is from a more prestigious undergrad. But if you're done going to school after you get your BS, then seek out the best on-campus recruiting school you can.
Personally, I went to a huge state school and wanted to transfer to a small private school. I am so glad I didn't! Getting that first job would have been hell because I needed to relocate to a different part of the country. Without national employers recruiting on-campus, I would have been screwed.
Now that I have a bunch of experience, my education section is the last line on my resume. I sure am glad that line only cost me $30k rather than $150k!
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If you know, how do you know? Do you look at your TMDA pending folder and sift through it for false positives? If you do, how is that better than no spam filtering at all?
I ask these questions because I kicked out TMDA for these reasons. I found myself still looking at spam trying to find missing emails and finally I said screw it and adopted a more elegant solution. Oh well.
The whole reason I got my own domain was to have a simple address I could give out that people would remember easily. And it doesn't matter how careful you tell people to be. Inevitably you'll get an evite from someone, or someone will give out your "real" address to someone who likes to send email greeting cards. Or some idiot will get a virus and start sending you 300 screensavers in a zip file with a password of 8828282. You get the idea.
I also tried TMDA, but confirmation schemes are not an acceptable solution for me.
In the end, I opted for clamav+spamassassin. This solution has far surpassed even my most optimistic expectations. About 1 spam per 200 I receive goes to the "probably spam" folder and about 1 spam per 5000 hits my inbox. The rest are rejected in the SMTP session.
I know what you're thinking: false-positives. Well, I only reject viruses and SA scores >10. I have never ever ever had someone contact me asking why his/her email was rejected as spam. Seriously, not even once.
It seems the talented folks at spamassassin are just too good at keeping a few steps ahead of the spammers. And clamav kicks ass all over every commercial AV solution I've tried in terms of performance and accuracy.
- Run email through clamd and 554 if clam says it's a virus.
- Run email through spamassassin (spamd) and if the score is 10+ send 554 and if it's 5-10, deliver to "probably spam" folder
I get a few "probably"s a week and every few months a spam actually makes it to my inbox when over 95% of the email the server gets on average is spam. This is well within my tolerance for inbox pollution.As far as I'm concerned, the spam war is over and the good guys have won. Spamassassin is just too good.
If your threshold is set that low, you've gotta be rejecting on the order of 10,000 messages per day, at least, to be having 100 spams hit your inbox.
Seriously, check your configuration. You might be able to get some relief yet!
As far as I am concerned, the fight against spam is over and the good guys have won. SA+Clam are just too good.
B-E-T-A. Obviously the final rollout will be more robust.
Who needs to load-test a server when you have slashdot to do it for you?
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HTH. HAND.Thanks for the laugh at your expense. I needed that today. Hopefully you get yourself a nice W-4 next month while the rest of us are getting our W-2s! Hahahahahahah.
The kicker? I wasn't even looking. I just wanted to take some time off and relax. But the job market here is so hot I got an offer I couldn't refuse within 3 weeks.
So, yeah, those AOLers are fine. The dirty little secret in the DC area is that the job market is smokin' hot if you're decent. Put another way, if you are looking for an IT job in DC for more than 3 months, you need to find a new career because if you aren't snatched up here, you won't find a job anywhere.
This is critical to my business because if I allow a convicted axe-murderer to live in one of my buildings and he hacks another resident to bits, I'm looking at a nasty lawsuit. Such is life in America, I guess.
What is this "international law" that you speak of? And more specifically, who enforces it? Who should I call if I see someone violating this "international law"? Where might I go to read this "international law"?
The difference between hot lesbian teenage oral sex on Oprah vs. Stern is simple: Oprah is discouraging that type of behavior and Stern is encouraging it. It is very different thing to bring teenagers on your show and tell them not to do such things (Oprah style) as opposed to bringing teenage girls on your show and having them perform various sex acts in the studio while on the air and actively encouraging it (Stern style).
Don't get me wrong, I'm with Stern on this one. I think Oprah can take her attitude and shove it. But realize that in the eyes of a 'moral' zealot, the difference is very much in the content and not in the messenger/audience.
Maybe you better find some financing that is not secured by your only source of shelter. Someone you don't really have to pay back if your business flops.
Verify employment by calling former employers? What about companies that no longer exist? Besides, I do both credit reports and calling former employers. Plenty of people's stories check out. I don't need the added risk of someone whose story does not check out.
Look, I empathize with your predicament, but don't take the tone with me like I (or somebody other than you) got you into your mess. There are plenty of ways to get your head above water and it only takes a year or so of being clean to get your FICO out of the tank. I'll take someone who is resourceful and meets his obligations over someone who blames everything on others like you do. I'd never hire you.
I think you fail to appreciate the risk that businesses take on from their employees. That's why we prefer the squeaky clean ones. You don't like it, start your own business and hire all the deadbeats you want. It wouldn't bother me.
And if you have a bunch of judgments against you, guess what? That means you ripped a bunch of businesses off, got sued, and lost. And you wonder why employers are saying "No thanks"?
4a. Record conflicting shows in peace
HTH. HAND.
Did you try setting myth to record one fewer minutes when it records CSI? I know you can make it end late for a particular show... but I think you can also make it end early? I'll check when I get home.
For instance, in my property rental business, I cannot refuse to rent to gay people in one county but in the county next door, I can ask on the rental application "Are you gay?" and not rent to them if they say yes. If I later find out that they lied on their application about being gay, I could evict. Obviously I don't do this, but I'm just saying that I could and it would be perfectly legal. Gay people are not a federally protected class (but some localities extend Fair Housing protections to other classes like gays, which is their right).
For people with disabilities it's different. Airlines have to accomodate disabled passengers at their own expense. I have to accomodate disabled renters at the renter's expense (that's right, if you are in a wheelchair, I can't refuse to rent to you, but I can make you build your own ramp to get up the stairs). Many businesses don't have to do a damn thing for disabled people.
My point is, most businesses can do business in a discriminatory way (even in hiring in some instances, believe it or not!) if they want to. Most do not, because it is bad business to cut off huge sections of the population from your customer base, but just so you know, we can do it.
Unbelievable! Methinks you could stand to rethink your priorities in life.
- SOL tests are administered in grades 10 and 12
- All children (including special ed) must be tested.
- Special Ed. children can be assigned to any grade level.
I'm sure you'll be surprised to learn that all special ed students in her school are assigned the grade level 11 for their entire stay at her school. An "unfortunate" side effect is that the special ed students are never tested. C'est la vie, eh?I graduated debt-free and my alumni network is huge... ;)
If you are planning on getting an advanced degree, that's different. Getting accepted to a good grad school will be easier if your degree is from a more prestigious undergrad. But if you're done going to school after you get your BS, then seek out the best on-campus recruiting school you can.
Personally, I went to a huge state school and wanted to transfer to a small private school. I am so glad I didn't! Getting that first job would have been hell because I needed to relocate to a different part of the country. Without national employers recruiting on-campus, I would have been screwed.
Now that I have a bunch of experience, my education section is the last line on my resume. I sure am glad that line only cost me $30k rather than $150k!
I guess it's easiest to be correct if you just say everything.