User: ecrips

Re:3M appears to make something

On: A Keyboard Vacuum that Sucks?

I suggest putting the keyboard through the dishwasher. I tend to take the electronics out of mine first and just run the plastic (keycaps, chassis) through, but there's nothing particularly bad about water and keyboards, or any other modern electronics.

Although there isn't anything bad about water and electronics in general, make sure you don't put any dishwasher tablets/powder in - they are pretty nasty things and will probably make a mess of any electronics in the keyboard. Also you can probably take off the text of the keycaps with most brands. And remember to make sure you dry out your keyboard fully before you plug it back in - otherwise it'll probably behave a bit strange :)

Blacklists and Smart hosts

On: Are SPAM Blacklists Unreasonable?

One of the common things that people complain about on my ISP (Demon Internet) is that of the 'smart hosts' (servers that relay the mail to avoid you having to send the messages direct to the recipients) being marked as being open relays due to people having badly configured mail servers that use the smart hosts - or even open proxies that can be used to relay through these smart hosts. Whenever these smart hosts get listed on the blacklists it affects all customers of the ISP, not just the offending customers who have these open relays. Admittedly Demon should take a harder line on these people who have the badly configured mail servers/proxies - and indeed there was a recent announcement by Demon that access to the smart hosts would be cut off if abuse was detected - but even then its usually too late - the hosts have been already marked as open relays. Perhaps there should be some way of preventing these smart hosts from being added to the blacklists.