This rocks. Its basically what I've had
in mind for a qmail plugin (hence all users
could benefit.)
Btw, does the "response" send out what essentially
amounts to a "bounce"? or is it a friendly message?
I'm thinking of basically bouncing when the address is not in the whitelist; when the user receives the bounce, there will be a link in the bounce reply so the user can put himself in the whitelist... of course there will be some magic passphrase that will require human intervention.
The reason for the bounce is that hopefully the spam sender will process the bounce and remove the address from the list.
jeff
jlc 'at' myrealbox 'period' com
It turns out that if one of the antennas in
the link is high-gain, then it is high-gain
on transmit *and* receive.
Consider cell phones.. the phone has this
tiny little antenna, but the cell site has
a big honking high gain antenna that concentrates
the RF in a pancake, and in some case in just
more-or-less one direction -- e.g. towards the highway.
Hence, this thing works with standard laptop cards. Pretty neat, eh?
jeff
My understanding is that the 802.11b RF bandwidth is currently limited by the 802.11b protocol.
However... a new variation of 802.11 -- 802.11g (yes "g", not "a") will increase the data rate to 54mbps. 802.11g is also supposed to be dual mode and support 802.11b clients.
Fwiw, (sorry I dont have an online
reference), there was a very recent (like last week)
article in the WSJ that went into detail about
GatesCo's efforts to address uses of opensource.
In fact, once instance was where the the Pentagon commisioned
a research project on OpenSource (from Mitre) that basically concluded that open source is a good thing. MS came in and requested/demanded the conclusion be watered down.
There have been other cases, such as india, where the govt decides to use open source apps for some educational project, then MS (unrelated of course) shows up the next day with big donation of "free" windows software, office, etc. How can a cash strapped gov't turn that down?
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This rocks. Its basically what I've had in mind for a qmail plugin (hence all users could benefit.) Btw, does the "response" send out what essentially amounts to a "bounce"? or is it a friendly message? I'm thinking of basically bouncing when the address is not in the whitelist; when the user receives the bounce, there will be a link in the bounce reply so the user can put himself in the whitelist... of course there will be some magic passphrase that will require human intervention. The reason for the bounce is that hopefully the spam sender will process the bounce and remove the address from the list. jeff jlc 'at' myrealbox 'period' com
It turns out that if one of the antennas in the link is high-gain, then it is high-gain on transmit *and* receive.
Consider cell phones.. the phone has this tiny little antenna, but the cell site has a big honking high gain antenna that concentrates the RF in a pancake, and in some case in just more-or-less one direction -- e.g. towards the highway.
Hence, this thing works with standard laptop cards. Pretty neat, eh? jeff
My understanding is that the 802.11b RF bandwidth is currently limited by the 802.11b protocol.
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jeff
However... a new variation of 802.11 -- 802.11g (yes "g", not "a") will increase the data rate to 54mbps. 802.11g is also supposed to be dual mode and support 802.11b clients.
(The link above is http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,21749,
Fwiw, (sorry I dont have an online reference), there was a very recent (like last week) article in the WSJ that went into detail about GatesCo's efforts to address uses of opensource. In fact, once instance was where the the Pentagon commisioned a research project on OpenSource (from Mitre) that basically concluded that open source is a good thing. MS came in and requested/demanded the conclusion be watered down. There have been other cases, such as india, where the govt decides to use open source apps for some educational project, then MS (unrelated of course) shows up the next day with big donation of "free" windows software, office, etc. How can a cash strapped gov't turn that down?
"Hey kid, the first one is free."