I've had this floating around on my hard drive for quite a while, and have used it on occasion. Not sure if Yahoo still sends it out, but you get the drift from their questions....
Yahoo's 17 Questions
1. Do you rent, lease, buy or otherwise obtain email lists from
companies, individuals, organizations, or websites (other than those you
own) that do not indicate that the customer will be subscribed to this
specific email list?
a. If yes, do you explicitly send an opt-in confirmation email to the
email addresses you have acquired?
-- If yes, please send a text-only example of this email.
b. If no, please explain how you obtain email addresses.
2. How do you verify that the true owner of the email address you have
obtained is valid?
3. Do you offer list management services for other companies (i.e., as
an ASP)? If so, please provide us with your standards for accepting your
clients' email lists.
4. Do you rent, lease, sell, or otherwise give email lists to other
companies, individuals, organizations, or affiliates without providing
notice to the email users that they will be subscribed to the buyer's
specific email list?
5. Please indicate the information below pertaining to email sent to
Yahoo! mail.
a. How frequently do you send email to Yahoo! users in a given month
and how many emails are sent in the average mailing?
b. If you send email to multiple addresses, how many addresses are
sent to, for an average mailing?
c. If you are an ASP, what has your average client mailing frequency
been over the past six months?
d. Are you emails informational and subscriber based (newsletters)?
e. Are your emails for marketing to other than existing customers?
6. Please specify your policies pertaining to both soft (4xx) and hard
(5xx) SMTP response codes or bounce messages.
a. Do you remove email addresses from your mail server or list if
emails to them bounce?
Soft:
Hard:
b. How many bounced emails are required before you consider an email
address to be inactive and subject to removal from your list?
Soft:
Hard:
-After an email address reaches your bounce limit, how long
(i.e., minutes, hours, etc.) does it typically take to remove the email
address from your list?
Soft:
Hard:
c. Are there any circumstances under which you ignore the standard
definitions (4xx) being temporary and (5xx) being permanent, and instead
apply your own non standard interpretation? If so, when/what/how?
7. If a user requests removal from your email list, how long (i.e.,
minutes, hours, etc.) does it typically take to remove the email
address?
When user clicks an unsubscribe link (if applicable):
When user requests removal:
Other:
8. If a user is removed from your email list, what happens to that email
address in your database?
9. Please copy and paste a text-only example of a recent mailing, having
the delivery issue, including full Internet headers. Include the entire
error message if email is being returned or undeliverable.
Within a Yahoo! Mail account, you can display this information by
clicking the "Full Headers" link located within the message in the
bottom right-hand corner.
10. Please provide all of the active email IP address(es) and domain
names you are currently using to send your mailings including notes with
regards to dedicated or shared status for each. We do request email
administrators to describe which of their clients corresponds to each IP
address. Please submit this information in the following format:
IP Address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Mail Server Domain Name: server_name.domain.com
Notes: dedicated IP, domain/list server
At this time we can only consider active and correctly configured mail
servers/IPs for possible addition to the whitelist.
11. Are these IP addresses dedicated solely for your company's mai
The real question should be -- is it hackable in some way or form. Given that they are using off the shelf stuff, should mean that it *might* be more open to modifications. I would be interested in seeing a "take-apart" page to see the internals.
"So I called my other nerdy special effects pals, and they offered to replace Harrison Ford's face with mine. "
1. Nerdy pals promise egotistical friend a face replacement.
2. Nerdy pals make complete cast before defacing original.
3. Nerdy pals sell copies claiming "It... was a direct casting off the original prop."
4. Profit!!
5. Rinse and repeat!
Sometimes you need to hold them to the GOLD standard -- for every breach of privacy infraction they need to fork over $1,000 - $10,000. (depending on the infraction)
For instance: I get a lot less spam faxes since you can sue a company for $500 - $1,000 in small claims court for EACH spam fax you get. (in California) When I get a spam fax, I call and give them 1 warning, then I'll sue. I haven't gotten 1 since I started doing that.
If the FBI had a watchdog committee audit them and cut everyone a check from the FBI budget for each infraction, either we would profit, or they would coverup more.
This is commander Chuck, your eye in the sky! Hey everyone we have a major Sig Alert here on the 405 tonight. We have a major car fire in the middle lane with billowing clouds of black smoke. Reports say it's one of those new electric cars that use the laptop batteries."
(Bob at the desk) Wow, Chuck, this wire report lists' the car as having over 6,831 laptop batteries. That's some fire!
(Carol at the desk) Gee, 6,832 batteries on fire all at once, that's gotta be a mess!
(Bob) Uh, I thought I just said "over 6,831 laptop batteries".
(Carol) That would make it 6,832 batteries, right Bob?
(Bob)Whatever Carol! Hey Jim, How did those Dodgers do today?
Remember When . . .
on
Back to the Moon
·
· Score: 2, Insightful
You have to remember that back in the 1960's....
You could buy a new car for $2,500.
Most people didn't wear seat belts, and most cars didn't have them.
Most cars didn't come with air conditioning, if at all.
Gas cost around.27 a gallon.
Most people watched the moon walk on a black & white TV.
Calculators were big and expensive ($500.) and did the basic stuff.
The total electric house was the "house of the future".
I don't think that it would be possible to use the old 1960's technology to get to the moon nowdays. It would be like me dropping $45,000 to restore a 1960's car, that originally retailed for $2,500. It can be done, but why? You wouldn't trust it to take a cross-country road trip, would you?
I wonder if there is grounds for a class action lawsuit?
If the rootkit that was installed take me a few hours to uninstal and/or fix my system, why can't I claim damages? (like any other business hacked into!) My time is worth something. If everyone who had the rootkit installed, had to call Geeksquad to restore their computer to working order, AND shell out folding green dollars for their service, that is REAL monetary damages.
I started doing part-time gigs back in 1984 - keeping the full-time job. I went full time on my own back in 1996. There is a lot of ups and downs in income -- some months I have made up to $35,000, some months I have made only $2,500 bucks. It's a roller coaster.
A few things to consider: Insurance -- that magical health benefit that most employers pay a big chunk of -- you get to find out how much things really cost. Oh, and that year I didn't have insurance, my 14 year-old daughter flipped her quad out on some sand dunes at a beach and had to get air-lifted out by helicopter. That 15 min trip cost me 20 grand to find out she just had a slight concussion. (12 grand for the airlift, the rest in hospital bills, ouch!)
Free Time -- People think you have lots of it. Once I got a phone call in the middle of the day to change a flat tire on one of my wife's friends car. They might have said thanks, but geeze, they could have called AAA. Sometimes you do have time to do as you please. My family likes to take our motorhome camping at the beach and go surfing - great family memories. We also take two weeks off in the summer and rent a beach house. I also took a week off to go to my son's scout camp, BUT, if I'm not working, no cash is coming in, and no new jobs are getting lined up!
Distractions -- Sometimes I can think of a million things to do, except work. Like go to CostCo with my wife in the middle of the day. Anything that is unproductive and not producing billable hours, nets zero dollars at the end of the day. Sometimes you make up for wasted days at night, and come crawling in at 3 am -- only to have to roll out of the sack at 7 or 8 am to get a fresh start. Yup, my light seems to always be on.
Kids -- (see distractions above) You gotta love 'em. I'm home when they leave for school, and here when they get home. I proofread essays, make science projects, help with math worksheets, etc. I always have a few kids sneaking into my office area to hog my computers. It is kinda funny having techie kids though. My 17 year-old daughter was calling this kid a school a geek because he was bragging about his website. (free yahoo site) I asked her how many website's she had running on my servers. She thought a minute and sheepishly replied, "Three, I guess." It's also funny when your kids complain about how slow a download is taking, only to find out they are downloading a 600 meg demo game CD! My kids laugh a other kids slower DSL lines, and have never heard the crackle of a modem.
Loans -- When banks hear you are self employed, they want crawl up your posterior with a microscope before you can get a loan. They want to see bank statements, cash flow and tax returns. Don't skimp on the taxes and take too many deductions, in two years you might need to show that you actually MADE some money. After a few years and things stabilize, it gets a little easier. Or maybe I'm just used to the financial rubber glove with no lube.
You are your own boss -- That's right, nobody bossing you around, except the people you work and the guy signing the checks and every bossy secretary. Also, you are the janitor, the maid, bookkeeper, rain-maker, and pee-on. The buck starts and ends with you. If something goes wrong, it's your fault and you had better document each and every thing you do as if it's going to litigation. You will live or die on written memos and sign-offs.
That's it in a nutshell. If you got the nerve, cash in the 401K and get ready for a roller coaster ride. Is it worth it? You bet. I am healthier, happier and have time for the things that matter most -- my wife and four kids.
. . . I saw this on the 10:00 p.m. local Los Angeles news (KTLA 5) last night! I always thought that Slashdot and other internet news sources were a day ahead of the local news. They even had some stock video feed to spice the story up with!
Newt-dog
Maybe this will send a message to other spammers - If you play with fire, you might get burned. I'm sure the Russian Mob has it's fingers in anything profitable, including spam originating from Russia.
Try posting a custom layout on eBay with a few whistles and buzzers -- your layout will suck.
I did a page layout on eBay for an older retired friend who makes wooden toys. I used the normal.css file and div tags -- it looked like crap and was unusable. I had to go back to the drawing board and use tables! (Tables, nested in tables to get the same layout)
Most of the internet might be ready for bleeding edge stuff, but don't toss away your plain 'ole vanilla flavored HTML just yet.
Like anything else good, it will cost you extra dollars to use. The SpeakEasy.net I signed up for a few months ago gives me 1 gig a month free, the rest I have to pay a steep price for. Ok for text posting, but that sure puts a damper on the binaries' groups.;-) Goodbye to the freebies!
If we are tossing out all of the things that might infringe upon someone's copyright, we might as well as start with the copy machine and the Printing Press.
When Johannes Gutenberg invented the movable type in 1440 A.D., an awakening revolution swept the world -- The Age of Enlightenment. People could afford to buy printed books, and they could be printed cheaply. Education was no longer only for just the wealthy! The first book to be printed en mass? The Bible. Now it could be argued that someone, somewhere along the line held the copyright to the collection of books, if not the collected authors of each book. Was Gutenberg the first person to rip off a book for his own gain? Previous to the printing press, the bible was hand written by monks, and sold to the wealthy. If lesser people had access to a set of Scripture, it was memorized and recited to others as chants.
Growing up as a kid, the first thing I did with my paper route money was to buy a cassette recorder from Montgomery Wards. (with condenser mike, no less) I wanted to record my favorite songs off the radio, cutting out the drivel, leaving something worth listing to. Maybe that made me a criminal at age 12? Oh, wait, we already have teenage criminals that basicly copied and traded music like I did -- I just did it in a less technical way. (swapping tapes at school)
Maybe, if extremes could be acted out, we would have our own Fahrenheit "2005", where it would be illegal to have anything that could infringe on anothers copyright. The copyright police could go around and smash and burn anything they felt was in violation.
Contributors? How about the public library! If I can go to the library and check out a book, but if I need/want the volume, I can make a photo copy of it, or even hand write the text down for distribution or my own use. Should we ban the library also, as contributors? How about a pencil? I can write the lyrics to a song down and walk around singing it -- thus infringing on the song writers copyright.
IF MicroSoft comes to the table with their own search engine, you can be assured that there will be dozens of bugs that we can exploit to make our sites rank in the top 10, or that coveted "first page" of search.
I visited my local domain registry and did some searches on the New.net domains and ended up buying one for my wife. Her site is
http://www.family1st.org
which also answers to-
http://www.lds.family -- the "New.net" domain name
I run my own nameservers so all I did is set up the DNS like so: (short version)
Database file lds.family.dns for lds.family zone. Zone version: 25 (SOA deleted)
Zone NS records
@ NS ns1.digigraphnet.com. ns1.digigraphnet.com. A 66.12.xxx.xxx @ NS ns2.digigraphnet.com. ns2.digigraphnet.com. A 66.12.xxx.xxx @ NS ns1.newdotnet.net. ns1.newdotnet.net. A 206.132.100.43 @ NS ns2.newdotnet.net. ns2.newdotnet.net. A 64.211.63.138
Zone records
@ A 66.12.61.200 host A 66.12.61.200 www CNAME lds.family.
Works like a champ for my wifey;-) I thought that the few bucks I spent on the domain name was worth the gamble that it might work, or it might not. I don't have to use the spyware crap, and I don't think anyone will have to when they try the "New.net" domain names - as long as the ISP does the DNS, AND makes sure New.net sets it up correctly on their end! Of course THAT is the catch!!
The New.net spyware is just your run of the mill hijacking programs that can be deleted by using HiJackThis. Get it at http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/index.html
When they ask you if you have anything to declare, just whip out your fingefnail clippers and say, "I almost forgot to toss those in the trash before I left the hotel, could you take care of them?" They will thank you, and look for anything else small and sharp, completly missing the laptop.
Slashdot Mirror
I've had this floating around on my hard drive for quite a while, and have used it on occasion. Not sure if Yahoo still sends it out, but you get the drift from their questions....
Yahoo's 17 Questions
1. Do you rent, lease, buy or otherwise obtain email lists from companies, individuals, organizations, or websites (other than those you own) that do not indicate that the customer will be subscribed to this specific email list?
a. If yes, do you explicitly send an opt-in confirmation email to the email addresses you have acquired?
-- If yes, please send a text-only example of this email.
b. If no, please explain how you obtain email addresses.
2. How do you verify that the true owner of the email address you have obtained is valid?
3. Do you offer list management services for other companies (i.e., as an ASP)? If so, please provide us with your standards for accepting your clients' email lists.
4. Do you rent, lease, sell, or otherwise give email lists to other companies, individuals, organizations, or affiliates without providing notice to the email users that they will be subscribed to the buyer's specific email list?
5. Please indicate the information below pertaining to email sent to Yahoo! mail.
a. How frequently do you send email to Yahoo! users in a given month and how many emails are sent in the average mailing?
b. If you send email to multiple addresses, how many addresses are sent to, for an average mailing?
c. If you are an ASP, what has your average client mailing frequency been over the past six months?
d. Are you emails informational and subscriber based (newsletters)?
e. Are your emails for marketing to other than existing customers?
6. Please specify your policies pertaining to both soft (4xx) and hard (5xx) SMTP response codes or bounce messages.
a. Do you remove email addresses from your mail server or list if emails to them bounce?
Soft:
Hard:
b. How many bounced emails are required before you consider an email address to be inactive and subject to removal from your list?
Soft:
Hard:
-After an email address reaches your bounce limit, how long (i.e., minutes, hours, etc.) does it typically take to remove the email address from your list?
Soft:
Hard:
c. Are there any circumstances under which you ignore the standard definitions (4xx) being temporary and (5xx) being permanent, and instead apply your own non standard interpretation? If so, when/what/how?
7. If a user requests removal from your email list, how long (i.e., minutes, hours, etc.) does it typically take to remove the email address?
When user clicks an unsubscribe link (if applicable):
When user requests removal:
Other:
8. If a user is removed from your email list, what happens to that email address in your database?
9. Please copy and paste a text-only example of a recent mailing, having the delivery issue, including full Internet headers. Include the entire error message if email is being returned or undeliverable.
Within a Yahoo! Mail account, you can display this information by clicking the "Full Headers" link located within the message in the bottom right-hand corner.
10. Please provide all of the active email IP address(es) and domain names you are currently using to send your mailings including notes with regards to dedicated or shared status for each. We do request email administrators to describe which of their clients corresponds to each IP address. Please submit this information in the following format:
IP Address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Mail Server Domain Name: server_name.domain.com
Notes: dedicated IP, domain/list server
At this time we can only consider active and correctly configured mail servers/IPs for possible addition to the whitelist.
11. Are these IP addresses dedicated solely for your company's mai
The real question should be -- is it hackable in some way or form. Given that they are using off the shelf stuff, should mean that it *might* be more open to modifications. I would be interested in seeing a "take-apart" page to see the internals.
1. Nerdy pals promise egotistical friend a face replacement.
2. Nerdy pals make complete cast before defacing original.
3. Nerdy pals sell copies claiming "It
4. Profit!!
5. Rinse and repeat!
Buyers Remorse. He got caught up in the hype and now regrets it!
Sometimes you need to hold them to the GOLD standard -- for every breach of privacy infraction they need to fork over $1,000 - $10,000. (depending on the infraction)
For instance: I get a lot less spam faxes since you can sue a company for $500 - $1,000 in small claims court for EACH spam fax you get. (in California) When I get a spam fax, I call and give them 1 warning, then I'll sue. I haven't gotten 1 since I started doing that.
If the FBI had a watchdog committee audit them and cut everyone a check from the FBI budget for each infraction, either we would profit, or they would coverup more.
(Bob at the desk) Wow, Chuck, this wire report lists' the car as having over 6,831 laptop batteries. That's some fire!
(Carol at the desk) Gee, 6,832 batteries on fire all at once, that's gotta be a mess!
(Bob) Uh, I thought I just said " over 6,831 laptop batteries".
(Carol) That would make it 6,832 batteries, right Bob?
(Bob) Whatever Carol! Hey Jim, How did those Dodgers do today?
You could buy a new car for $2,500. .27 a gallon.
Most people didn't wear seat belts, and most cars didn't have them.
Most cars didn't come with air conditioning, if at all.
Gas cost around
Most people watched the moon walk on a black & white TV.
Calculators were big and expensive ($500.) and did the basic stuff.
The total electric house was the "house of the future".
I don't think that it would be possible to use the old 1960's technology to get to the moon nowdays. It would be like me dropping $45,000 to restore a 1960's car, that originally retailed for $2,500. It can be done, but why? You wouldn't trust it to take a cross-country road trip, would you?
. . . Sorry, I got a little sidetracked there for a few. I haven't browsed PirateBay for a quite a while. ;-)
If the rootkit that was installed take me a few hours to uninstal and/or fix my system, why can't I claim damages? (like any other business hacked into!) My time is worth something.
If everyone who had the rootkit installed, had to call Geeksquad to restore their computer to working order, AND shell out folding green dollars for their service, that is REAL monetary damages.
Buy Now!
A few things to consider:
Insurance -- that magical health benefit that most employers pay a big chunk of -- you get to find out how much things really cost. Oh, and that year I didn't have insurance, my 14 year-old daughter flipped her quad out on some sand dunes at a beach and had to get air-lifted out by helicopter. That 15 min trip cost me 20 grand to find out she just had a slight concussion. (12 grand for the airlift, the rest in hospital bills, ouch!)
Free Time -- People think you have lots of it. Once I got a phone call in the middle of the day to change a flat tire on one of my wife's friends car. They might have said thanks, but geeze, they could have called AAA. Sometimes you do have time to do as you please. My family likes to take our motorhome camping at the beach and go surfing - great family memories. We also take two weeks off in the summer and rent a beach house. I also took a week off to go to my son's scout camp, BUT, if I'm not working, no cash is coming in, and no new jobs are getting lined up!
Distractions -- Sometimes I can think of a million things to do, except work. Like go to CostCo with my wife in the middle of the day. Anything that is unproductive and not producing billable hours, nets zero dollars at the end of the day. Sometimes you make up for wasted days at night, and come crawling in at 3 am -- only to have to roll out of the sack at 7 or 8 am to get a fresh start. Yup, my light seems to always be on.
Kids -- (see distractions above) You gotta love 'em. I'm home when they leave for school, and here when they get home. I proofread essays, make science projects, help with math worksheets, etc. I always have a few kids sneaking into my office area to hog my computers. It is kinda funny having techie kids though. My 17 year-old daughter was calling this kid a school a geek because he was bragging about his website. (free yahoo site) I asked her how many website's she had running on my servers. She thought a minute and sheepishly replied, "Three, I guess." It's also funny when your kids complain about how slow a download is taking, only to find out they are downloading a 600 meg demo game CD! My kids laugh a other kids slower DSL lines, and have never heard the crackle of a modem.
Loans -- When banks hear you are self employed, they want crawl up your posterior with a microscope before you can get a loan. They want to see bank statements, cash flow and tax returns. Don't skimp on the taxes and take too many deductions, in two years you might need to show that you actually MADE some money. After a few years and things stabilize, it gets a little easier. Or maybe I'm just used to the financial rubber glove with no lube.
You are your own boss -- That's right, nobody bossing you around, except the people you work and the guy signing the checks and every bossy secretary. Also, you are the janitor, the maid, bookkeeper, rain-maker, and pee-on. The buck starts and ends with you. If something goes wrong, it's your fault and you had better document each and every thing you do as if it's going to litigation. You will live or die on written memos and sign-offs.
That's it in a nutshell. If you got the nerve, cash in the 401K and get ready for a roller coaster ride. Is it worth it? You bet. I am healthier, happier and have time for the things that matter most -- my wife and four kids.
Newt-dog
. . . I saw this on the 10:00 p.m. local Los Angeles news (KTLA 5) last night!
I always thought that Slashdot and other internet news sources were a day ahead of the local news. They even had some stock video feed to spice the story up with!
Newt-dog
I hope the people of Texas are prepared! http://www.redcross.org/services/prepare/0,1082,0_ 253_,00.html Hurricane Rita http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT18/refres h/AL1805W+gif/084857W_sm.gif is sporting 140 mph winds as of today!
Newt-dog
Maybe this will send a message to other spammers - If you play with fire, you might get burned.
I'm sure the Russian Mob has it's fingers in anything profitable, including spam originating from Russia.
I did a page layout on eBay for an older retired friend who makes wooden toys. I used the normal .css file and div tags -- it looked like crap and was unusable. I had to go back to the drawing board and use tables! (Tables, nested in tables to get the same layout)
Most of the internet might be ready for bleeding edge stuff, but don't toss away your plain 'ole vanilla flavored HTML just yet.
Newt-dog
I wonder how high one would get?
Newt-dog
Goodbye to the freebies!
Newt-dog
When Johannes Gutenberg invented the movable type in 1440 A.D., an awakening revolution swept the world -- The Age of Enlightenment. People could afford to buy printed books, and they could be printed cheaply. Education was no longer only for just the wealthy! The first book to be printed en mass? The Bible. Now it could be argued that someone, somewhere along the line held the copyright to the collection of books, if not the collected authors of each book. Was Gutenberg the first person to rip off a book for his own gain? Previous to the printing press, the bible was hand written by monks, and sold to the wealthy. If lesser people had access to a set of Scripture, it was memorized and recited to others as chants.
Growing up as a kid, the first thing I did with my paper route money was to buy a cassette recorder from Montgomery Wards. (with condenser mike, no less) I wanted to record my favorite songs off the radio, cutting out the drivel, leaving something worth listing to. Maybe that made me a criminal at age 12? Oh, wait, we already have teenage criminals that basicly copied and traded music like I did -- I just did it in a less technical way. (swapping tapes at school)
Maybe, if extremes could be acted out, we would have our own Fahrenheit "2005", where it would be illegal to have anything that could infringe on anothers copyright. The copyright police could go around and smash and burn anything they felt was in violation.
Contributors? How about the public library! If I can go to the library and check out a book, but if I need/want the volume, I can make a photo copy of it, or even hand write the text down for distribution or my own use. Should we ban the library also, as contributors? How about a pencil? I can write the lyrics to a song down and walk around singing it -- thus infringing on the song writers copyright.
This bill reeks of Orwellian overtones. :-(
Newt-dog
Translation: /. server melt down in progress!
No, Pinknets are for pr0n!! hehe ;-)
IF MicroSoft comes to the table with their own search engine, you can be assured that there will be dozens of bugs that we can exploit to make our sites rank in the top 10, or that coveted "first page" of search.
Beavis: Hehe...He just said wood!...hehe
Butthead: Yea, hehe, I know!
Bailiff, whack his peepee!
Her site is
http://www.family1st.org
which also answers to-
http://www.lds.family -- the "New.net" domain name
I run my own nameservers so all I did is set up the DNS like so: (short version)
Works like a champ for my wifeyThe New.net spyware is just your run of the mill hijacking programs that can be deleted by using HiJackThis.
Get it at http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/index.html
When they ask you if you have anything to declare, just whip out your fingefnail clippers and say,
"I almost forgot to toss those in the trash before I left the hotel, could you take care of them?"
They will thank you, and look for anything else small and sharp, completly missing the laptop.