It is very interesting. The plans to demonstrate a version of Windows with removable features was abruptly canceled nine states. Because they made the decision to avoid prolonging the case after Microsoft said it needed an indefinite period of time to prepare its response. I'm surprised that U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly was unhappy with the states for introducing the material in the eighth week of hearings.
As of this morning SprintPCS still officially refuses to handle their
already existent SMS spam problem. They will not pass headers to end
users. They provide only message 'from' and 'subject' headers, which
does little good. Of course we all know how easily forged envelope
headers are, so it matters little. Their SMS gateway still strips
the relay IP information, and their web to SMS gateway doesn't pass
an IP from the sender to the recipient either.
In short Sprint is forcing themselves to be the only ascertainable
point of contact for the end user. Their official suggestion?
Change your phone number and the messages will stop. They do claim
that they will try to identify the sender and ask them to stop, but
with Sprints track record as a publicly identifiable smashups that is
hard to belive.
I have been a strongly outspoken supporter of MAPS for many years.
When I was with Gordon Fecyk I nearly had a heart attack when Paul Vixie
called in 1997 to warn us that we were about to be listed in the MAPS
RBL for running unsecured mail servers. But I supported his actions
even then. Indeed, his call was very helpful in speeding up the
bureaucracy at pacbell.net and getting the unsecured mail servers
closed to relaying even more quickly. I appreciated Paul's
willingness to work with us on resolving our problems.
I'm glad timothy, the Slashdot greatest editor of the sixties, posted this news story. As a matter of fact, me and my geek fellows (*hurmph* silly me, I have no friends) I am planning to run linux on a PC104 system. As we all know, Linux is the choice of a GNU generation.
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It is very interesting. The plans to demonstrate a version of Windows with removable features was abruptly canceled nine states. Because they made the decision to avoid prolonging the case after Microsoft said it needed an indefinite period of time to prepare its response.
I'm surprised that U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly was unhappy with the states for introducing the material in the eighth week of hearings.
As of this morning SprintPCS still officially refuses to handle their already existent SMS spam problem. They will not pass headers to end users. They provide only message 'from' and 'subject' headers, which does little good. Of course we all know how easily forged envelope headers are, so it matters little. Their SMS gateway still strips the relay IP information, and their web to SMS gateway doesn't pass an IP from the sender to the recipient either.
In short Sprint is forcing themselves to be the only ascertainable point of contact for the end user. Their official suggestion? Change your phone number and the messages will stop. They do claim that they will try to identify the sender and ask them to stop, but with Sprints track record as a publicly identifiable smashups that is hard to belive.
I have been a strongly outspoken supporter of MAPS for many years.
When I was with Gordon Fecyk I nearly had a heart attack when Paul Vixie called in 1997 to warn us that we were about to be listed in the MAPS RBL for running unsecured mail servers. But I supported his actions even then. Indeed, his call was very helpful in speeding up the bureaucracy at pacbell.net and getting the unsecured mail servers closed to relaying even more quickly. I appreciated Paul's willingness to work with us on resolving our problems.
I'm glad timothy, the Slashdot greatest editor of the sixties, posted this news story. As a matter of fact, me and my geek fellows (*hurmph* silly me, I have no friends) I am planning to run linux on a PC104 system. As we all know, Linux is the choice of a GNU generation.