Maby you should try using one of the aftermarket torrent clients, like the ones that let you cap your upstream. I'm not saying cap it at 5k but cap it so you don't max out your upstream, you'd be suprised how much this improves the bt experiance.
http://bt.degreez.net/ bt client with upstream cap
I've heard people recommend opt-out lists like they use for telemarketers- that's not gonna work because spammers are much more slimy- they'll use the opt-out list as a verified list.
For the most part spammers don't want to send to someone who doesn't want it and who doesn't click or buy. For example: If I can get a list of known people who don't want stuff, why would I waste my time and bandwidth sending to them? I mean come on guys... Think about it.
I've worked for a few opt-in mailers so I know the game. Trust me when I say that we don't want to send to you if you don't want it. But granted there are people who _do_ want it. They DO optin. I mean most people on slashdot havn't and you have had your addresses trolled from some url or mailing list. but all in all we don't want to spam you if you don't want it.
http://www.checkupdown.com/status/E503.html
403 would apply if the server wasn't too busy to reply. But,/.ing doesn't cause 403s, it causes a DDoS or 503.:-)
I agree. This does seem rather unimportant. Given that this was the best possible (read: least shitty) story to post, what does this say about slashdot? I find it really hard to beleave that there is nothing more intresting to talk about than this. This could be because I don't go to arcades much, and I'm not in, nor have I ever been to Japan. But hey, this could be the 4 glasses of wine talking now to.
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When I grow up, I want to be the Internet.
I know we've been over the whole mirror thing before, but It would be really nice if slas(dot|code) supported some sort of building a mirror when the message was taken from queue and posted to the front page.
Just a thought.
Slashdot Mirror
Its now only a matter of time for a torrent to be posted. I honistly expected it sooner.
No, once your done with your install just do an emerge sync, emerge -uD world.
that will bring you up to -current or 2004.0 what ever you want to call it.
I still use my Sparc IPX. got to love the 40mhz box.
obsd runs great on it.
The worst part is upgrading to -current.
Maby you should try using one of the aftermarket torrent clients, like the ones that let you cap your upstream. I'm not saying cap it at 5k but cap it so you don't max out your upstream, you'd be suprised how much this improves the bt experiance.
http://bt.degreez.net/ bt client with upstream cap
http://www.checkupdown.com/status/E503.html /.ing doesn't cause 403s, it causes a DDoS or 503. :-)
403 would apply if the server wasn't too busy to reply. But,
I agree. This does seem rather unimportant. Given that this was the best possible (read: least shitty) story to post, what does this say about slashdot? I find it really hard to beleave that there is nothing more intresting to talk about than this. This could be because I don't go to arcades much, and I'm not in, nor have I ever been to Japan. But hey, this could be the 4 glasses of wine talking now to.
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When I grow up, I want to be the Internet.
should be
503: Out of Resources
I know we've been over the whole mirror thing before, but It would be really nice if slas(dot|code) supported some sort of building a mirror when the message was taken from queue and posted to the front page.
Just a thought.