Give the a nice open relay server they can send mail to....lets modify some mail server code to just accept mail and send it to the bit bucket.
Open relays are detected by the fact that they actually do relay email. A system that merely accepts email, but does not pass it on to the email address used by the open relay tester, will never be identified as an open relay in the first place.
Are there ways of communicating to management that long hours to rush a project to completion is not the way to complete a successful project?
By the time you get to this point, it likely that management has already painted themselves into a corner by promising an unrealistic delivery date, budget, or both.
Something has got to give. And usually in management's view it is the programming staff's responsibility to make up for management's lack of skill (or honesty) in planning and estimating the project.
(Then again, your company may not have gotten this job in the first place, if the sales people had told the customer how long it would really take.)
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If you're willing to spend five months waiting for a two hour escape, forsaking all real human contact for a brief work of fiction, what you should be waiting in line for is a shrink.
These are not merely foolishly infatuated fans. This is being done intentionally and thoughtfully as an "art project".
"This project also explores the issue of the pursuit of happiness. It asks how much will a person sacrifice for a temporary acquisition, and questions whether a person can be happy with just food and shelter in pursuit of that acquisition. It also asks, will society as a whole fear or accept people for not desiring the things they desire, or for desiring things they consider frivilous or ridiculous."
Living on the street for five months is hardly "forsaking all real human contact". In fact I expect they will have much more interesting human contact than most of us who are chained to our computers for 40+ hours a week.
Whether you are a fan or not (and personally, I am not) this project does have deeper implications than what you are seeing.
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Open relays are detected by the fact that they actually do relay email. A system that merely accepts email, but does not pass it on to the email address used by the open relay tester, will never be identified as an open relay in the first place.
By the time you get to this point, it likely that management has already painted themselves into a corner by promising an unrealistic delivery date, budget, or both.
Something has got to give. And usually in management's view it is the programming staff's responsibility to make up for management's lack of skill (or honesty) in planning and estimating the project.
(Then again, your company may not have gotten this job in the first place, if the sales people had told the customer how long it would really take.)
You are all missing the point.
Take a look at http://www.seattlestarwars.com/.
These are not merely foolishly infatuated fans. This is being done intentionally and thoughtfully as an "art project".
"This project also explores the issue of the pursuit of happiness. It asks how much will a person sacrifice for a temporary acquisition, and questions whether a person can be happy with just food and shelter in pursuit of that acquisition. It also asks, will society as a whole fear or accept people for not desiring the things they desire, or for desiring things they consider frivilous or ridiculous."
Living on the street for five months is hardly "forsaking all real human contact". In fact I expect they will have much more interesting human contact than most of us who are chained to our computers for 40+ hours a week.
Whether you are a fan or not (and personally, I am not) this project does have deeper implications than what you are seeing.