Yep, just like blank Compact Cassette and Digital Audio Tape (DAT) for audio rather than data backup. These all have significant fees which raise the cost, no matter what you use the media for, and the fees are distributed rather unfairly.
It appears that the US government is in favor of making certain behavior illegal while simultaneously charging a fee on raw materials under the assumption you're going to break the law anyway. Seems like you should be able to get out of a music pirating case by simply pointing out that you've already paid the fee to the artist and should not deserve any further punishment!
Why hasn't anyone considered that MAPS and ORBS have a "right" to create a list of ip addresses and distribute it as they see fit? Wouldn't it be restricting their free "speech" to stop them? (oops, too late: ORBS is already gone)
On the flip side, it isn't "censorship" if you still have a way to hear what the spammers are saying. From the point of view of MAPS, their DNS servers only give out information on specific ip addresses as they are requested. They're not delivering a (complete) list of spammers, and they're not even involved in the delivery of the spam itself. If a message is not delivered, it is not under the direct control of MAPS servers. Also, if you are not at liberty to remove MAPS rejection from your personal email, then that is an issue with your ISP, not MAPS.
It is inaccurate to say that MAPS has "failed in [its] fundamental design" - to quote the EFF. It's only when you try to paint the service as something it isn't that you might consider it to be a failure.
This has to be one of the most often grossly exagerrated problems anyone ever cites -- receive a few unsolicited emails and your inbox is "filled" with spam. [snip] I am as annoyed by spam as the next guy. But I understand that any time I receive any piece of unsolicited email it is because *I* supplied my email address to the spammer - either directly or indirectly.
I (almost) hate to say this, but if you only get a few unsolicited emails in your inbox, then you're a "nobody" on the Internet. Many of us who complain are not exaggerating in the least. Having been on the Internet for over two decades, and running a legitimate business at an email address which must remain constant to support early customers, I can say that you haven't had a chance to be as annoyed as I am. Try 14.3MB of spam on for size!
Only popular domains that everyone KNOWS host millions of email accounts, get probed with a dictionary list. Only giant mail domains are worth probing this way. The solution to dictionary spam, then, is LOTS OF DOMAINS, preferably several for each person.
This simply isn't true. The problem with your logic is that it is ALWAYS "worth" probing if probing is free, which it is! All a spammer needs to do is feed all existing e-mail addresses in their list to a program which probes each host, and voila! Instant expanded list!
I do like your proposed solution. It would work, but only if I could afford to buy another domain just to prevent spam.
You raise some good issues, but it still seems like you're only commenting from your point of view.
Don't blame OR{DB,BZ} for the content of the bounce messages you received. At the site I administer, RBL-listed senders get a blunt slap, but ORBS-listed senders don't hear a word because I redirect the incoming mail to a "suspect" folder rather than rejecting it. When ORBS-listed sites do get a message from my site, it is very polite and (hopefully) informative, as in: "did you know that..."
To use your analogy, it would be as if Boeing didn't have latches on the cabin doors, and the cockpit and bathrooms had no doors at all! It certainly would be expected that Boeing would hear some complaints if this was the way they decided to build planes, and a few complaints might not be worded so nicely, depending upon the person speaking.
Quartz (the window server/graphics API) does not, at this time, have remote display capabilities. Considering everything that had to be done for the first release of Mac OS X, and taking the target audience into account, it's not surprising that this wasn't a high priority.
But that's about where it ends. Quartz is quite full of functionality.
I agree, and I would also like to add the following:
Mac OS X Server 1.x did have network transparency. It was based on a Display PostScript imaging model which allowed redirection of the PostScript to any host's Window Server (provided the security settings allowed this). Not only did this function so well that every program automatically worked remotely (without special code to enable the ability), one could even calibrate a monitor with a program running on another host (useful for when the monitor is attached to a HP PA-RISC machine and the calibration program is only compiled for Motorola).
In the conversion from Display PostScript to Quartz's PDF imaging model, this universally available command-line feature went away. The only hope is an obscure comment in one of the FatBrain books on Mac OS X which mentions the ability to redirect the display to another host. The word on the street is that Apple has left this as a "third party opportunity."
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Yep, just like blank Compact Cassette and Digital Audio Tape (DAT) for audio rather than data backup. These all have significant fees which raise the cost, no matter what you use the media for, and the fees are distributed rather unfairly.
It appears that the US government is in favor of making certain behavior illegal while simultaneously charging a fee on raw materials under the assumption you're going to break the law anyway. Seems like you should be able to get out of a music pirating case by simply pointing out that you've already paid the fee to the artist and should not deserve any further punishment!
Why hasn't anyone considered that MAPS and ORBS have a "right" to create a list of ip addresses and distribute it as they see fit? Wouldn't it be restricting their free "speech" to stop them? (oops, too late: ORBS is already gone)
On the flip side, it isn't "censorship" if you still have a way to hear what the spammers are saying. From the point of view of MAPS, their DNS servers only give out information on specific ip addresses as they are requested. They're not delivering a (complete) list of spammers, and they're not even involved in the delivery of the spam itself. If a message is not delivered, it is not under the direct control of MAPS servers. Also, if you are not at liberty to remove MAPS rejection from your personal email, then that is an issue with your ISP, not MAPS.
It is inaccurate to say that MAPS has "failed in [its] fundamental design" - to quote the EFF. It's only when you try to paint the service as something it isn't that you might consider it to be a failure.
You raise some good issues, but it still seems like you're only commenting from your point of view.
Don't blame OR{DB,BZ} for the content of the bounce messages you received. At the site I administer, RBL-listed senders get a blunt slap, but ORBS-listed senders don't hear a word because I redirect the incoming mail to a "suspect" folder rather than rejecting it. When ORBS-listed sites do get a message from my site, it is very polite and (hopefully) informative, as in: "did you know that..."
To use your analogy, it would be as if Boeing didn't have latches on the cabin doors, and the cockpit and bathrooms had no doors at all! It certainly would be expected that Boeing would hear some complaints if this was the way they decided to build planes, and a few complaints might not be worded so nicely, depending upon the person speaking.
I agree, and I would also like to add the following:
Mac OS X Server 1.x did have network transparency. It was based on a Display PostScript imaging model which allowed redirection of the PostScript to any host's Window Server (provided the security settings allowed this). Not only did this function so well that every program automatically worked remotely (without special code to enable the ability), one could even calibrate a monitor with a program running on another host (useful for when the monitor is attached to a HP PA-RISC machine and the calibration program is only compiled for Motorola).
In the conversion from Display PostScript to Quartz's PDF imaging model, this universally available command-line feature went away. The only hope is an obscure comment in one of the FatBrain books on Mac OS X which mentions the ability to redirect the display to another host. The word on the street is that Apple has left this as a "third party opportunity."