There is almost never a legitimate reason for dialup clients to be doing direct delivery of mail!
What if you're on a braindead ISP (Such as Verizon) and there's not really another valid choice (For DSL) and they block all e-mail that doesn't come "from" your Verizon-supplied e-mail address?
I agree that using a dialup/DSL/cable hosted computer as a mail server is generally a bad idea, but there are legitimate uses.
Of course one can always relay mail to a third-party SMTP server using TLS, too.
Here in Fort Wayne, 96.3 (Then called The Edge) launched with a week-long 24 hour marathon of monks chanting rock music. It was actually quite amusing. And come to think of it, it was better than most of the stuff they play now.
This seems all-too-familiar. This is similar to something that happened to me a while ago.
Once upon a time a number of years ago (5 years ago February actually) Concentric instituted a policy on their "$19.95 unlimited" dial-up account where they monitored how long you were dialed in. If you dialed in for too long they offered you two choices: Pay $245/mo (Plus $100 setup fee) for a "Professional Business" account, or get out. Needless to say I cancelled the account.
They claimed I was idling or using an automated program to stay connected, when in fact I was only ever dialed in when I was actively using the Internet. They refused to disclose how they determined how long was "too long" and basically used it as a way to get rid of people who were actually using the service.
Now I admit I dialed in a lot more than the average person (I was a college student with no job at the time) but I would at least have appreciated an explanation as to exactly how much I had gone over their usage limits.
Now with respect to AOL/TW, I hope they are a little more forthcoming with bandwidth usage stats. I'm sure the problem users will know who they are and the bill will be a shock (to them, or more likely their parents.) however it is the users on the borderline that really get screwed. Especially those who have no idea how much they use on average, or even what "bandwidth" means. I wonder how many people will turn off their computers because they think they can't have them on without running up the cable modem bill.
Thankfully, I have DSL which is currently unmetered. However, if this practice becomes more widespred the age-old arguments against spam (It directly costs me money for download time.) will be even more prevalent, and more people will be using ad filtering software on the justification that they don't want to waste their money on downloading ads.
(Side question: Has anyone collected any stats on exactly what % of content downloaded is advertisements?)
On IU campuses (and the Regional campuses associated with it) most all Microsoft Products are $5/cd because of the deal they have with M$.
Which means: Office XP: 3 CDs, $15 Office 2k: 2 or 4 CDs, $10-20 Windows (Any of XP Pro Corp, 2k Pro, ME, or 98se): 1 CD, $5 Visual Studio 6: 5+ CDs, $25
I don't know about other students, but that's a pretty good deterrant to Piracy for me.
It also gets the students familiar with Microsoft's programs, which has its own set of interesting implications.
Yes, but those are both cartoons, and held to a different standard. Drew Carey is a comedy, which also lends itself somewhat to that. Drew's musicals can be good, but also bad (The one with him dancing around singing about finally sleeping with Kate comes to mind under the 'bad' category.)
However, Buffy is a "Drama" (Or Comedy/Drama, but more Drama/Wit/Whatever) and for a show of its kind to pull it off so well is worth noting. I surely hope it gets some recognition, but historically the Emmys ignore Buffy (And this year they ignored WB entirely.)
Of course they're implying by the use of the word "gatekeeper" that Bill Gates has a backdoor he can use to get in and out of all their systems, only to be foiled by Sandra Bullock's skillfull pressing of the escape key.
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Got any links, faqs or suggestions on how to do this? Thanks!
Try here, here, or here for information and links on SSH tunneling. The second one (on uoregon.edu) actually covers doing it for e-mail.
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Seems like having an SSH tunnel to your favorite mail server would be ideal. At least my main mail server I can SSH to, and others I could forward there.
And of course if you are tunneling to your mail server directly, pop3 being in plaintext isn't such a problem. If it'd work with other authentication means, I don't know. However, it seems to me like a good alternative.
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The plates in the fault system(s) around California are pretty much all horizontal and not vertical. See here. So it won't fall into the ocean, but it might relocate parts of itself. I researched this a little, as earthquakes are one of the reasons I don't want to move to California (Aside from crazy people, mudslides, fires, high taxes, and now the market conditions.)
I wondered if it was as bad as I thought. And in this case at least, the rumors aren't true.
Because then they can't have pretty labels on the top of the DVD saying what it is.
If you have 5 DVDs in a changer, and you want to pull out one, but none of them have labels, it could be hard to distinguish immediately. (Not that I have a 5-disc changer, just an observation.)
I also know one person who hates DVDs with two sides, and if she knows a movie is that way, she will not buy it.
So it seems to be more a marketing issue than technical.
- I don't have an enormous pipe to download applications. I can only get 28.8 where I live
Upgrading FreeBSD via cvsup can be done easily over a slow line. "I can't upgrade because my link is slow" is a common myth. Now downloading an install ISO or installing via FTP do take some speed/time.
- When people say 'RTFM' I actually have something to refer to
The whole handbook and many docs are located on the system post-install in/usr/share/doc/(language)/ if they are not there, you can use cvsup to get the latest Docs from the FreeBSD Documentation Project
- It's too time consuming to look up all kinds of documentation online. I know it exists, but downloading it, finding what I want, printing it, etc is annoying. I don't have another box to use while setting up BSD.
That's why there are the ``man'' and ``info'' commands, in addition to the documentation above. ``info'' has loads of manuals and other documentation, but many people don't even know it exists. Docs are also put in/usr/share/doc/ or/usr/local/share/doc/ for installed applications.
The FreeBSD project has great existing documentation. A book is nice but for some it is a waste of money. (Unless the money goes back to the project somehow, and then it's a nice donation.)
The funniest one I've seen so far (or maybe the saddest) is a law firm "Alleguez and Lieb Attorenys at Law" (finding the infected machine is left as an exercise for the reader)
As a rule I don't try exploiting back, even more so against a law firm. Makes one wonder what would happen if they were actively compromised though. I'm sure someone would end up sued.
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I've received 172 Code Red II attempts today alone (as opposed to 22 Code Red I attempts). Code Red II attempts started at 10:01am (CST) and contine even now. It doesn't appear to be affecting my speed at all (I'm on a DSL line) or even the general speed of the Internet at large, but it's definitely annoying log clutter.
Hmm, make that 173.
Legality aside, why doesn't someone write a worm that will make infected hosts download the patch and run it, then reboot themselves? Or at least power off the infected PCs. Now that would be useful.
Really? And Internet Millionaire? I didn't think there were any of those left!
It doesn't say how much this guy paid, but it must be less than Tito paid. Maybe Russia's recent announcement that they're reviving their space shuttle problem is just so they can take a dozen or so people up at once. At $10 mil each, that's $120mil per launch, I'm sure they could get people willing to pay that, or more.
I am on Verizon's network and have never used their SMTP server, so this isn't a big deal. I think requiring their own From: address is a Good Thing(tm) overall. I would also support an action to block outgoing connections to port 25 if it meant less spam being released into the wild.
I currently run a mail server on my home network that I use for outgoing mail. The only downside is that mail (very rarely) gets rejected because my IP is on a list of known "dialup" IP addresses and mail servers that check against that list reject mail from them. I've only had that happen once.
Seems to me anyone could tunnel SMTP over SSH to an SMTP server that is outside their network. Why would that be so hard? And it wouldn't require any auth because to the remote it should appear to be coming from @localhost. Plus, at least for the first hop, the traffic is encrypted.
Granted I've never set that up, but it seems like an easy solution.
Slashdot Mirror
Are there any mirrors on Internet2 links?
I didn't see any listed, and I figure as long as I'm sitting on a fat university pipe I could put it to good use...
There is almost never a legitimate reason for dialup clients to be doing direct delivery of mail!
What if you're on a braindead ISP (Such as Verizon) and there's not really another valid choice (For DSL) and they block all e-mail that doesn't come "from" your Verizon-supplied e-mail address?
I agree that using a dialup/DSL/cable hosted computer as a mail server is generally a bad idea, but there are legitimate uses.
Of course one can always relay mail to a third-party SMTP server using TLS, too.
Here in Fort Wayne, 96.3 (Then called The Edge) launched with a week-long 24 hour marathon of monks chanting rock music. It was actually quite amusing. And come to think of it, it was better than most of the stuff they play now.
This seems all-too-familiar. This is similar to something that happened to me a while ago.
Once upon a time a number of years ago (5 years ago February actually) Concentric instituted a policy on their "$19.95 unlimited" dial-up account where they monitored how long you were dialed in. If you dialed in for too long they offered you two choices: Pay $245/mo (Plus $100 setup fee) for a "Professional Business" account, or get out. Needless to say I cancelled the account.
They claimed I was idling or using an automated program to stay connected, when in fact I was only ever dialed in when I was actively using the Internet. They refused to disclose how they determined how long was "too long" and basically used it as a way to get rid of people who were actually using the service.
Now I admit I dialed in a lot more than the average person (I was a college student with no job at the time) but I would at least have appreciated an explanation as to exactly how much I had gone over their usage limits.
Now with respect to AOL/TW, I hope they are a little more forthcoming with bandwidth usage stats. I'm sure the problem users will know who they are and the bill will be a shock (to them, or more likely their parents.) however it is the users on the borderline that really get screwed. Especially those who have no idea how much they use on average, or even what "bandwidth" means. I wonder how many people will turn off their computers because they think they can't have them on without running up the cable modem bill.
Thankfully, I have DSL which is currently unmetered. However, if this practice becomes more widespred the age-old arguments against spam (It directly costs me money for download time.) will be even more prevalent, and more people will be using ad filtering software on the justification that they don't want to waste their money on downloading ads.
(Side question: Has anyone collected any stats on exactly what % of content downloaded is advertisements?)
Does it strike anyone else as strange that the Linux kernel is still run by a small monarchy?
:)
From the way the story was worded it sounds more like the mafia.
Maybe Linus offered Marcelo an offer he couldn't refuse, and now he is a lieutenant in the Linux "family."
On IU campuses (and the Regional campuses associated with it) most all Microsoft Products are $5/cd because of the deal they have with M$.
Which means:
Office XP: 3 CDs, $15
Office 2k: 2 or 4 CDs, $10-20
Windows (Any of XP Pro Corp, 2k Pro, ME, or 98se): 1 CD, $5
Visual Studio 6: 5+ CDs, $25
I don't know about other students, but that's a pretty good deterrant to Piracy for me.
It also gets the students familiar with Microsoft's programs, which has its own set of interesting implications.
Yes, but those are both cartoons, and held to a different standard. Drew Carey is a comedy, which also lends itself somewhat to that. Drew's musicals can be good, but also bad (The one with him dancing around singing about finally sleeping with Kate comes to mind under the 'bad' category.)
However, Buffy is a "Drama" (Or Comedy/Drama, but more Drama/Wit/Whatever) and for a show of its kind to pull it off so well is worth noting. I surely hope it gets some recognition, but historically the Emmys ignore Buffy (And this year they ignored WB entirely.)
Of course they're implying by the use of the word "gatekeeper" that Bill Gates has a backdoor he can use to get in and out of all their systems, only to be foiled by Sandra Bullock's skillfull pressing of the escape key.
Got any links, faqs or suggestions on how to do this? Thanks!
Try here, here, or here for information and links on SSH tunneling. The second one (on uoregon.edu) actually covers doing it for e-mail.
Seems like having an SSH tunnel to your favorite mail server would be ideal. At least my main mail server I can SSH to, and others I could forward there.
And of course if you are tunneling to your mail server directly, pop3 being in plaintext isn't such a problem. If it'd work with other authentication means, I don't know. However, it seems to me like a good alternative.
Ok, while looking at that, I saw this.
Read the caption. It's kind of bad, but I can't help but laugh at how at happened.
The plates in the fault system(s) around California are pretty much all horizontal and not vertical. See here. So it won't fall into the ocean, but it might relocate parts of itself. I researched this a little, as earthquakes are one of the reasons I don't want to move to California (Aside from crazy people, mudslides, fires, high taxes, and now the market conditions.)
I wondered if it was as bad as I thought. And in this case at least, the rumors aren't true.
Because then they can't have pretty labels on the top of the DVD saying what it is.
If you have 5 DVDs in a changer, and you want to pull out one, but none of them have labels, it could be hard to distinguish immediately. (Not that I have a 5-disc changer, just an observation.)
I also know one person who hates DVDs with two sides, and if she knows a movie is that way, she will not buy it.
So it seems to be more a marketing issue than technical.
- I don't have an enormous pipe to download applications. I can only get 28.8 where I live
/usr/share/doc/(language)/ if they are not there, you can use cvsup to get the latest Docs from the FreeBSD Documentation Project
/usr/share/doc/ or /usr/local/share/doc/ for installed applications.
Upgrading FreeBSD via cvsup can be done easily over a slow line. "I can't upgrade because my link is slow" is a common myth. Now downloading an install ISO or installing via FTP do take some speed/time.
- When people say 'RTFM' I actually have something to refer to
The whole handbook and many docs are located on the system post-install in
- It's too time consuming to look up all kinds of documentation online. I know it exists, but downloading it, finding what I want, printing it, etc is annoying. I don't have another box to use while setting up BSD.
That's why there are the ``man'' and ``info'' commands, in addition to the documentation above. ``info'' has loads of manuals and other documentation, but many people don't even know it exists. Docs are also put in
The FreeBSD project has great existing documentation. A book is nice but for some it is a waste of money. (Unless the money goes back to the project somehow, and then it's a nice donation.)
The funniest one I've seen so far (or maybe the saddest) is a law firm "Alleguez and Lieb Attorenys at Law" (finding the infected machine is left as an exercise for the reader)
As a rule I don't try exploiting back, even more so against a law firm. Makes one wonder what would happen if they were actively compromised though. I'm sure someone would end up sued.
I've received 172 Code Red II attempts today alone (as opposed to 22 Code Red I attempts). Code Red II attempts started at 10:01am (CST) and contine even now. It doesn't appear to be affecting my speed at all (I'm on a DSL line) or even the general speed of the Internet at large, but it's definitely annoying log clutter.
Hmm, make that 173.
Legality aside, why doesn't someone write a worm that will make infected hosts download the patch and run it, then reboot themselves? Or at least power off the infected PCs. Now that would be useful.
Really? And Internet Millionaire? I didn't think there were any of those left!
It doesn't say how much this guy paid, but it must be less than Tito paid. Maybe Russia's recent announcement that they're reviving their space shuttle problem is just so they can take a dozen or so people up at once. At $10 mil each, that's $120mil per launch, I'm sure they could get people willing to pay that, or more.
I am on Verizon's network and have never used their SMTP server, so this isn't a big deal. I think requiring their own From: address is a Good Thing(tm) overall. I would also support an action to block outgoing connections to port 25 if it meant less spam being released into the wild.
I currently run a mail server on my home network that I use for outgoing mail. The only downside is that mail (very rarely) gets rejected because my IP is on a list of known "dialup" IP addresses and mail servers that check against that list reject mail from them. I've only had that happen once.
Seems to me anyone could tunnel SMTP over SSH to an SMTP server that is outside their network. Why would that be so hard? And it wouldn't require any auth because to the remote it should appear to be coming from @localhost. Plus, at least for the first hop, the traffic is encrypted.
Granted I've never set that up, but it seems like an easy solution.
Anyone else notice that the rings of flame are not unlike the rings of plasma they're using for facilitating fusion?
Other parallels between fire and nuclear power:
I'm sure more can be thought of. Interesting to think about, though.