Europe's SMS is significantly less useful than the US.
NACK. The key feature is "sending a short message" without disturbing the recipient but enabling him to read your 160 characters message if he has the time.
I find it extremely useful the way it is in europe and using SMS for 5 years now i have received 1 (read: ONE) SMS-Spam as far as i can remember that and this is definitely due to the fact, that the sender has to pay for it!
That's absolutely the way i want it to be, anything else will lead to the simptoms we have with spam emails: you need a software to get rid of the unwanted stuff.
thanks ADRenalyn for that nice explanation. from that point of view you are showing it would really be a remarkable thought of P.J. And please do not get me wrong: I am not complaining about this, infact in a way it is quite understandable to show a little bit more re arwen & aragorn for people not having read tolkiens books.
Tolkien created a story so rich and detailed that there is no way it could be converted exactly to a movie that would succeed with the larger portion of todays audience
absolutely correct, having read the books i think they did a remarkable job in the FotR, as you say 100% correct, "there is no way it could be converted exactly to a movie "
I think it's not at all unusual for the entertainment industry to do this. If a favorite character is coming back, more people are likely to come watch if they know about it and if they're curious about how it happens.
of course you are right, and i guess they will do it at the end of the two towers in a similar way also with frodo. in the book you believe he is dead at the end of book 2. i doubt that they will let the audience in this belief, too.....
ok, i admit a few years have passed since i read the book, but i really cannot recollect where Arwen appeared in The two towers?
can anybody - who knows where to find that passage in the book - give me a hint? we got to know her in the first book, but then i thought she then again appeared only at the end of the 3rd book in minas tirith......
Um, unless you're using geolocation to detect those sites, using things like looking for '.com' and '.net' is highly unreliable. Almost every European company will try to get the.com as well as the local country code domain, and.org/.net as well for that matter...
... and for example even the biggest german ISP (T-Online) or Arcor or many of the MSN-Ips assign IPs which almost all resolve to a.net Adress
A large part of the reason that Europe was lagging behind (at least from what I saw in Germany over the summer)
when was that? 1995?
I believe the issue is that the government has allowed a monopoly on all existing phone lines and the only companies that can get around it are newer, like cellular providers.
oh my god, sorry to say that, but that is exactly the ignorance about other countries i realise from so many people from the US, americans have asked me if we have Television (!) in Germany. i have a DSL flat rate at home and in the office even a wireless 512k DSL flat.
Things have changed here and in most of the European countries. Please visit them again to get a correct view of things.
I'd like to see what the FTC is doing with the spam sent to them.
Even i wonder what they have done with the spam i have sent to them in the past. it is quite i while ago i sent a cry of help to them because i simply could hardly manage the load caused by the thousands of bounces i got on my servers because some mega-spammer was faking the return adress to one of my domains.
thanks to/.'ers who helped my with suggestions in that issue i posted here, but i have not even received a response by the FTC if they have done anything or if they are the wrong agency to contact. i was not complaining to them, i was simply bidding them to help me how i as a german should proceed, whom i should contact in the USA since the spammer was obviously using FAX-Numbers which were american numbers.
so i cannot really say anything positive about them, because they did not even bother to contact me in any way and i am still getting hundreds of bounces a week (it got less though)
maybe it was that they thought that it's not their problem if a german gets spammed by a american company, if it were the other way round i bet they would have reacted.
well, if it is really true that the FTC Encourages Consumers to Forward Them Spam i will do again, maybe the will try to help me this time.
He already moved some stuff from the Two Towers to The Fellowship of the Ring.
... well, i think the ending of the first movie was really ok, it was not bad for the story that they included a few pages from the second book into the first episode.
they made a good job. but i really also do not like that they already showed the thing about the "white man in the forest", it's too logical for the folks out there who this is....
Not associated with LUCASFILM LTD.(TM) or any LFL Ltd.(TM) Film or Franchise. All prop designs are original creations owned by Parks sabers, Inc.(TM) and or Jeffrey A. Parks.
....They've had holes in the road up there for YEARS. Maybe the IT staff does something similar?
well, would not be too bad though. any "older" computer/mainframe will still be better than buying new windooz pc's to "replace" the AS/400. maybe i'll get my old C64 out of the cellar and donate it to them, should be more stable than new pcs.
whats $850 per month anyway? i have to pay that for my telephone system in the company to Siemens......
unfortunately i am living in Germany and with a US Fax Number involved which might be a call redirection to some other state i fear i do not have many chances to shut that down. FTV.GOV has not answered after two weeks now, which agency could be in charge then?
has it never come to your mind, that some people must be registering for pages like that? Otherwise spammer would have realized. believe me.
after all it's about earing money and not just " how can i send out millions of emails and do not earn anything from it?"
that is true and i never thought that THAT what @home did to stop nimda was the best method they could have used, but what i wanted to point out was, that ISPs could agree on blocking mails from well known open relays. (just like i am doing it using ordb.org)
i would be very happy if anybody could tell me a solution what to do with spammers, who only use Fax-Numbers to respond. I have a massive problem with a guy who is using my domainname as sender adress. He always sends via open relays in taiwan, korea and all these countries and he always includes to fax numbers in the US. I do get an average of 500 bounces per day from mails this guy sent, because the recipient does not exist. Since he uses my domain i get these bounces every day. I am now collecting every day IPs of the open relays this guy uses and submitting them to ordb.org Open Relay DataBase, but obviously this is not the way to stop this.
I read alot on pages dealing with spam, many of them were pointing to ftc.gov which one should contact if a company of the US is doing spammings. But besides reporting that guy what can one do. i cannot phone up the telco and ask them to shut down these well known numbers (i saw procmail recipies of other people who in their spamfilters had these fax numbers included)
AFAIK we in Germany also had somebody who managed to register "Webspace" as a trademark. Just like Capatain Zapp already stated in a previous post, as a trademark holder you then have to defend your trademark if other people are using that word (even if it is something like Webspace!). So this guy via that notorious Gravenreuth lawyer send mass-mails to hundreds of people who used "webspace" on their homepage and these people all had to pay the costs for that laywer (think it was ~ 600 Euro)
now we call it "markengrabbing" (trade-mark grabbing) here.
in a second instance a other court said this is not valid and he lost that trademark again, but that laywer earned quite a few bucks.
the question is not, where to install it: do you check what./configure does, that's sth. somebody already posted. Who reads the complete installation script ?
Fact is: Most of my spam comes from the US. I have the numbers to back it up
i can absolutely confirm what Hanno says. and we have chance to defend ourselves with legal measures agains these spammers. i do get 20 mortgage and online casino mails per day from the US, and onyl a few from china etc - we geeks have ways to get rid of that using procmail etc., but the average user cannot do that and gets all the stuff every day, paying money for that since free local calls are not common in germany and other european countries - we really pay for getting stuff we have never asked for.
set up a account at hotmail and wait a few days when you suddenly get 100s of mails per week in your bulk mail folder - do not tell me that this is they way E-Biz was intended to be.
and i think it it absolutely not acceptable that you (or kids for example) get sex mails in their mailbox just because their address has been scanned from a fourm dealing with Donald Dock where they had contributed an article.
Do the german providers have a "no running servers" clause in their contract? Most of the providers in the US do. They don't want you running a web server. If you want to do that, feel free to pay $250 / month. well i do not know the contracts too well, but AFAIK they only permit using the cheap flat-rate offers for business-use (e.g. sharing the connection for a office), i have not found any clauses permitting to run servers.
if it's in the clauses in the US then well, ok, let them shut down port 80, although its really a hard measure.
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Europe's SMS is significantly less useful than the US.
NACK. The key feature is "sending a short message" without disturbing the recipient but enabling him to read your 160 characters message if he has the time.
I find it extremely useful the way it is in europe and using SMS for 5 years now i have received 1 (read: ONE) SMS-Spam as far as i can remember that and this is definitely due to the fact, that the sender has to pay for it!
That's absolutely the way i want it to be, anything else will lead to the simptoms we have with spam emails: you need a software to get rid of the unwanted stuff.
- Fact is, there is no evidence. There is only oil
Full ACKNow tell me where you can hang out in the parking lot of fast food diner without getting (rent-a)cops to chase you away?
:)
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or drink a beer in public
furthermore in europe no 6 year old boy will get banned from school and sued for kissing a girl
absolutely correct, having read the books i think they did a remarkable job in the FotR, as you say 100% correct, "there is no way it could be converted exactly to a movie "
thanks again for your posting
of course you are right, and i guess they will do it at the end of the two towers in a similar way also with frodo. in the book you believe he is dead at the end of book 2. i doubt that they will let the audience in this belief, too
ok, i admit a few years have passed since i read the book, but i really cannot recollect where Arwen appeared in The two towers?
can anybody - who knows where to find that passage in the book - give me a hint? we got to know her in the first book, but then i thought she then again appeared only at the end of the 3rd book in minas tirith......
Um, unless you're using geolocation to detect those sites, using things like looking for '.com' and '.net' is highly unreliable. Almost every European company will try to get the .com as well as the local country code domain, and .org/.net as well for that matter...
... and for example even the biggest german ISP (T-Online) or Arcor or many of the MSN-Ips assign IPs which almost all resolve to a .net Adress
Give it a break lame ass, what are the swiss known for besides cukoo cukoo clocks and hidden NAzi bank accounts ?
... which proves again the ignorance of the US to other countries. Cukoo clocks come from Germany.
....
yes, we all know, US is the center of the world
A large part of the reason that Europe was lagging behind (at least from what I saw in Germany over the summer)
when was that? 1995?
I believe the issue is that the government has allowed a monopoly on all existing phone lines and the only companies that can get around it are newer, like cellular providers.
oh my god, sorry to say that, but that is exactly the ignorance about other countries i realise from so many people from the US, americans have asked me if we have Television (!) in Germany. i have a DSL flat rate at home and in the office even a wireless 512k DSL flat.
Things have changed here and in most of the European countries. Please visit them again to get a correct view of things.
I'd like to see what the FTC is doing with the spam sent to them.
/.'ers who helped my with suggestions in that issue i posted here, but i have not even received a response by the FTC if they have done anything or if they are the wrong agency to contact. i was not complaining to them, i was simply bidding them to help me how i as a german should proceed, whom i should contact in the USA since the spammer was obviously using FAX-Numbers which were american numbers.
Even i wonder what they have done with the spam i have sent to them in the past. it is quite i while ago i sent a cry of help to them because i simply could hardly manage the load caused by the thousands of bounces i got on my servers because some mega-spammer was faking the return adress to one of my domains.
thanks to
so i cannot really say anything positive about them, because they did not even bother to contact me in any way and i am still getting hundreds of bounces a week (it got less though)
maybe it was that they thought that it's not their problem if a german gets spammed by a american company, if it were the other way round i bet they would have reacted.
well, if it is really true that the FTC Encourages Consumers to Forward Them Spam i will do again, maybe the will try to help me this time.
i wonder what you did wrong. worked like a charm for me, although i have always preferred Perl on *NIX machines .....
maybe you should read the manuel of your http server?
He already moved some stuff from the Two Towers to The Fellowship of the Ring.
... well, i think the ending of the first movie was really ok, it was not bad for the story that they included a few pages from the second book into the first episode.
they made a good job. but i really also do not like that they already showed the thing about the "white man in the forest", it's too logical for the folks out there who this is....
well, on his homepage it reads:
Not associated with LUCASFILM LTD.(TM) or any LFL Ltd.(TM) Film or Franchise.
All prop designs are original creations owned by Parks sabers, Inc.(TM)
and or Jeffrey A. Parks.
that sort of disclaimer should do the job
....They've had holes in the road up there for YEARS. Maybe the IT staff does something similar?
well, would not be too bad though. any "older" computer/mainframe will still be better than buying new windooz pc's to "replace" the AS/400. maybe i'll get my old C64 out of the cellar and donate it to them, should be more stable than new pcs.
whats $850 per month anyway? i have to pay that for my telephone system in the company to Siemens......
HOWEVER, if there is someone you hate, (for instance, a spammer), type his name instead of yours after the URL to one of these sites
yeah and his email adress will probably be forged anyway and you will bother another innocent user
unfortunately i am living in Germany and with a US Fax Number involved which might be a call redirection to some other state i fear i do not have many chances to shut that down. FTV.GOV has not answered after two weeks now, which agency could be in charge then?
has it never come to your mind, that some people must be registering for pages like that? Otherwise spammer would have realized. believe me.
after all it's about earing money and not just " how can i send out millions of emails and do not earn anything from it?"
that is true and i never thought that THAT what @home did to stop nimda was the best method they could have used, but what i wanted to point out was, that ISPs could agree on blocking mails from well known open relays. (just like i am doing it using ordb.org)
i would be very happy if anybody could tell me a solution what to do with spammers, who only use Fax-Numbers to respond. I have a massive problem with a guy who is using my domainname as sender adress. He always sends via open relays in taiwan, korea and all these countries and he always includes to fax numbers in the US. I do get an average of 500 bounces per day from mails this guy sent, because the recipient does not exist. Since he uses my domain i get these bounces every day. I am now collecting every day IPs of the open relays this guy uses and submitting them to ordb.org Open Relay DataBase, but obviously this is not the way to stop this.
I read alot on pages dealing with spam, many of them were pointing to ftc.gov which one should contact if a company of the US is doing spammings. But besides reporting that guy what can one do. i cannot phone up the telco and ask them to shut down these well known numbers (i saw procmail recipies of other people who in their spamfilters had these fax numbers included)
any hints or help would be greatly aprreciated
ISPs should agree to pull the plug on those who do not close their open relays, just like @home did with people not able to patch their bloody IIS.
AFAIK we in Germany also had somebody who managed to register "Webspace" as a trademark. Just like Capatain Zapp already stated in a previous post, as a trademark holder you then have to defend your trademark if other people are using that word (even if it is something like Webspace!). So this guy via that notorious Gravenreuth lawyer send mass-mails to hundreds of people who used "webspace" on their homepage and these people all had to pay the costs for that laywer (think it was ~ 600 Euro)
now we call it "markengrabbing" (trade-mark grabbing) here.
in a second instance a other court said this is not valid and he lost that trademark again, but that laywer earned quite a few bucks.
http://www.afs-rechtsanwaelte.de/webspace1.htm
http://www.markengrabbing.de
the question is not, where to install it: do you check what ./configure does, that's sth. somebody already posted. Who reads the complete installation script ?
Fact is: Most of my spam comes from the US. I have the numbers to back it up
i can absolutely confirm what Hanno says. and we have chance to defend ourselves with legal measures agains these spammers. i do get 20 mortgage and online casino mails per day from the US, and onyl a few from china etc - we geeks have ways to get rid of that using procmail etc., but the average user cannot do that and gets all the stuff every day, paying money for that since free local calls are not common in germany and other european countries - we really pay for getting stuff we have never asked for.
set up a account at hotmail and wait a few days when you suddenly get 100s of mails per week in your bulk mail folder - do not tell me that this is they way E-Biz was intended to be.
and i think it it absolutely not acceptable that you (or kids for example) get sex mails in their mailbox just because their address has been scanned from a fourm dealing with Donald Dock where they had contributed an article.
Do the german providers have a "no running servers" clause in their contract? Most of the providers in the US do. They don't want you running a web server. If you want to do that, feel free to pay $250 / month.
well i do not know the contracts too well, but AFAIK they only permit using the cheap flat-rate offers for business-use (e.g. sharing the connection for a office), i have not found any clauses permitting to run servers.
if it's in the clauses in the US then well, ok, let them shut down port 80, although its really a hard measure.