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********************* Ah, yes, the thrill of the old-fashioned "yellow press" of the Hearst newspapers, where no muck was too deep to rake and no fact important enough to check.
Linux World - the PRINT magazine, did not. However, Sys-Con, their owner, controls what appears in the online version. Until today, sys-con pushed the Ogara drivel onto several websites to run up the hit rates.
"they don't allow outbound port 25 access from end-user machines, everyone has to go through their SMTP server; Comcast doesn't get blacklisted because machines on their network can't spam. "
The current way of spamming is not to use Port 25... the spam-bots run the spam out through the ISP's mail server, JUST LIKE THE CUSTOMERS! A spam-bot sending 100-500 emails an hour, 24x7, doesn't sound like much until you figure out how many spam-bots Comcast has. I get spam from comcast... enough spam that I whitelisted a couple of people and/dev/null the rest.
The newer spam-bots send their mail through the ISP's regular mail server, just as if the user was sendingn it. The days of connecting to an open relay are gone.
Your suggestion for monitoring and throttling traffic if it's excessive might work. Few non-business users send more than 50 emails a day. Or the ISP could run a spam filter on outgoing traffic, looking for links to commonly spammed sites and common terms like V*agra.
I know it's there, but it's useless for my style of revising. You really should try MSWord so you can comprehend the true power of the outline tool. It's a direct, interactive way to change text by dragging it around the page... much like the old-fashioned cut and paste that infolved literally cutting up a manuscript and moving the bits of paper around.
Here's what I cannot do with the navigator, that I can do in MSWord:
Work in the document window so I can see what I'm doing... the Navigator is one level removed from the text, the Navigator window hides the text I'm working on, and the document doesn't show the changes well (the document stays with all text revealed, which makes checking the moves harder than it need be).
The navigator seems to show ALL the headings all the time... I couldn't see any way to show just the top level. That numbered scroll box seemed like it should show or hide, but it didn't. (Yeah, RTFM, but interfaces should have obvious ways to do whatever the interface does.)
Drag individual paragraphs or rows of tables up and down.
Show or hide different levels of headings and their underlying text - I may want to just see H1, I may want to open up the headings in one seciton and re-arrange the text.
"1. Word does not import SVG..... LAst I checked it doesnt even have anything other than a very primitive graphics editor....."
True, and I don't use Word as a graphic editor. I usually use OODraw and export as EMF.
1a. Everyone seems to ignore OODraw - which if you buy a manual and learn how to use it is VERY powerful.....
It can export what I draw as SVG, but can't import what it just exported! I realize that SVG is a huge spec, but surely they could manage to import the 2-d stuff they just exported.
2. Overbar? hmmmm... dont think it does that except if you programmed an overstrike?
I'm not a programmer, I'm a technical writer. And I've written or edited many documents, especially in the electronics industry, where overbars (which would just be an underline except way above the baseline) are necessary. It's odd that programmers don't see the usefulness of providing a feature that chip designers need.
3.Outlining? - OO does do that - check a manual?
It can show an outline, but unlike MSFT Word, you can't do anything useful with the outline. You can send it to the clipboard or dump it into a presentation. You can't hide and show different heading levels - so you can't see the document structure. You can't promote and demote headings, drag a heading to a new spot and have all the subheadings and text follow. It's useless as a document reorg tool.
4. Both Word and OO have crappy HTML..... I clean up with perl (which loves munching XML also).....
As far as the I/O filters go, they are only as good as the ability of the original authors in using styles.:::sigh::: True. I just finished working on a document written in Word that was so strangely formatted that Word couldn't get the format straight.
To get me to completely stop using MSFT Office, FrameMaker, and a few other programs, here's what OO has to add.
Import SVG and edit it... at least a simple subset of the language. It can export its drawings as SVG, so what's the problem with importing and editing?
Have the ability to put an overbar on text, which is the common way to indicate a negative signal on chip pins.
Have an outlining mode that works like MSFT Word's outline, where you can selectively see or hide levels, drag levels into position, etc. Right now, OO has an "outline", but you can't do much with it. I use outlines as an editing tool, to reorganize material in a document.
Stop mucking with my HTML: I would like it to be able to open, edit, and save an HTML file without changing the existing code. OK, Word is far worse in this regard, but OO still messes up HTML.
"An entire layered sediment canyon was created in 3 hours by the Mt. St. Helen's eruption."
Actually, it was the sudden melting of the snowpack after an eruption the following year. What the excited creationists fail to mention is that all that erosion was done through LOOSE dirt and volcanic ash, not rock. The Toutle river was merely reclaiming its riverbed from the ash and landslides that clogged it, not cutting a whole new channel through meters of bedrock.
Murphy conveniently ignores the tangled mess of who knew and contributed what when Santa Cruz Organization (oldSCO) was working with IBM and Intel in Project Monterey and Caldera(newSCO) was working with IBM on Project Trillian.
He also fails to examine what was sold and what was retained in the chain of sales... USL to Novell to oldSCO to Caldera/newSCO. It's quite suggestive that newSCO has not shown the sales contract between oldSCO and Caldera. They keep showing the contract between Novell and oldSCO, which doesn't appear to have done more than give oldSCO the right to act as an agent for Novell and keep a pittance for the effort.
As the clueless non-Linux geek who helped on the install mentioned by the grandparent post... we found TFM to be wrong in a number of places, and misleading in a few others. My suggestions on how they could fix their documentation and make it easier for novices to use were ignored.
The consistent weak point in any Linux distro I have ever tried is the lack of accurate user information that doesn't presuppose in-depth knowledge of the OS.
You mean the way that Rumanian dude, Tesla, lost out to that Italian dude, Marconi, for the "who invented radio" trivia contest answer?
The way Pasteur has been forgotten for his efforts? The way Noguchi... on the other hand, only microbiologists remember Noguchi, but we do give him credit for his work.
Where's the double standard? One statement is a declaration of fact - they WILL put some or all of the IP addresses on the list unless the spamming is stopped.
The other is also a fact - if the advice is good, other ISPs will use the list to help decide what to do with email from those addresses. If the advice is bad, and the ISPs that use the list start getting complaints from their own customers (the intended recipients) about missing email, thjey will stop using the list.
I fail to see a problem... but then I'm not hosted on a spam-tolerant ISP.
MAPS, and most other blocklists, make it perfectly clear that spamming activity was detected or reported coming from a certain range IP addresses. As a user of MAPS, I can decide what to do with that information. I can block it all, tag it as "probable spam", or let it through.
Restaurant reviews was not a good analogy. It's more like the US Department of State's travel advisories , where they inform travelers of activity in a region. If it's activity you find undesireable, you might want to avoid the area.
"By starting this discussion, I'm hoping to get some good dialogue going about the effectiveness of RBLs (MAPS in particular), and whether or not the practices of these RBLs are really something us geeks want to support."
Effectiveness? Remember "open relay" spam. Seen any lately? That was ORBS (the Open Relay Blacklist) at work. I use SpamBouncer, with all the blacklist lookups it can handle, and see massive log files telling me what was refused. They are effective at keeping the spam out of my account.
"us geeks"... don't presume we have anything in common with me, please. This geek strongly supports them and uses them. You are free to accept every bit of spam that heads towards your account if you wish.
"What about your customers who expect to be able to receive email from anyone/anywhere? You don't have to have a contract with the sender - you can (and usually do) have one with the recipient."
Have you read your ISP's TOS lately? They do not, and I don't remember that they ever have, guarantee that you will get any and all mail headed towards your account. Here's a typical one:
FOO does not warrant either the results to be obtained from the service or that the service will be uninterrupted or error free. FOO's services are provided on an "as is" basis without warranties of any kind, either express or implied. Neither FOO nor anyone else involved in creating, producing, or delivering FOO services shall be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages arising out of the use of FOO, the inability to use FOO, or any breach of any warranty. The provisions of this paragraph will survive termination of this agreement.
Others make it clear that their spam-blocking measures may block a bit of legitimate email.
MAPS, and other blackhole lists, do NOT themselves block any email. Others, to minimize the spam they recieve, use the recommendations of MAPS to filter probable spam before it hits their servers. Suing MAPs would be like suing the publisher of a restaurant review for saying the steak was tough and the service was surly. The actual blocking was happening at the recieving end of the emails our irate and indignant businessman was sending.
I can block anyone's email from my servers any time I want to, and there's nothing they can do about it, unless we have a contract to accept email from them.
" My ISP responded quickly and sufficiently, and it still took MAPS several more hours to remove the blacklist."
The blacklists you need to worry about are the ones that don't tell you that you are on them - the multiple small ones that quietly shut off access to their mail servers, or send email from certain net blocks to/dev/null and never check to see if the spam has stopped. You will never know how many of these your co-lo's spamming customers have annoyed to the extent they just flipped the switch.
Spam has been a big problem for long enough, and the various blackhole lists have been in action long enough, that your ISP or co-lo or whatever should have been aware of the consequences of harboring spammers. One of the " rules of the internet" is that I can refuse to accept email from any domain I don't feel like accepting email from. If I choose to accept the recommendations of MAPS, it's my right to do so... you and your ISP have no right to tell me I must or must not listen to MAPS or even Fluffy.
... all because of a few spam complaints that weren't dealt with quickly enough.
From experience, it was either way more than a few complaints, some major repeat offenders, or your CO-LO told MAPS to bugger off.
MAPS publishes the lists... MAPS can't force me, or anyone else, to use their lists. If they cease being useful, they will cease being used. To be blunt, I don't care if YOUR sending is blocked until it becomes apparent that I'm missing emails.
"It isn't Microsoft's fault that 3rd party developers are still dragging their feet after all this time."
I'm working for a very large company, with a group that has to write drivers and GUIs that run under Windows. So far the reliability of the documentation coming from MSFT about the current WinXP APIs has been about as reliable as the press releases by the Iraqui Minister of information under Saddam Hussein. Reverse engineering is usually faster than asking for more information.
With the betas of new MSFT releases, frequent undocumented changes to the APIs are the rule, not the exception.
It's no wonder no one wants to change anything: it's a certainty that something will blow up with SP 2 that is critical to the business.
"says the company is trying to help consumers by preventing them from deleting cookies that help website operators deliver better services.
"The user is not proficient enough in technology to know if the cookie is good or bad, or how it works," Tanembaum said. "
My, that makes me feel better, knowing that the wise marketeer is looking out for my best interests.
" If MegaCorp controls what you do, day to day, in some detail;"
If they can't tell me what to do for the project, if only to set some goals, why am I there? If MegaCorp has a contracted guard service, and tells the guards in explicit detail which buildings need what kind of guarding and how often to check the alarms, have they stopped being Pinkerton employees and become MegaCorp employees?
"if MegaCorp can fire you;" MegaCorp CAN NOT fire me... they inform the agency that my services are no longer needed, or that they don't want me on their premises - if there is still work to be done, the agency sends over a different staffer to finish out the contract.
"if MegaCorp/insert a bunch of other criteria/, then you might actually be an employee of MegaCorp."
Most companies I have worked with have certain things that only the permanent employees must do or are allowed to do... attend business update meetings, be on the site emergency response team and other commitees, attend certain recreation or civic service activities, get employee discounts on the product, etc.
"you often haven't a clue what the definition of "independent contractor" is. And you're making your living as one?
Uh... my employer is the agency who finds the job, witholds income and social security taxes and offers benefits. They have a contract with MegaCorp to locate, qualify, and provide them with one tech writer with certain skills for XX an hour. Agency bills MegaCorp, I get paychecks and W2s from the agency.
A truly independent contractor finds their own jobs, negotiates their own contracts, and takes care of the billing and taxes and crap. They usually provide their own equipment, set their own hours, etc.
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From the G2 website, and the "help wanted" link. It's obvious she isn't qualified, on the basis of intelligence, accuracy and wit.
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*****************
Investigative Reporters
Journalist with a nose for hard hitting weekly news. Fast paced. Tight deadlines.
Perseverance. Intelligence. Accuracy. Wit. Reporting on the computer industry.
Real news; business issues.
Salary, benefits, retirement.
Call now.
G2 News. 888-809-6397.
Or FAX resume to: 516-759-7028
If you want the thrill and job satisfaction that investigative reporting gives, call now.
Published weekly, our newsletters are anxiously read by the movers and shakers in the computer industry - worldwide. We do real reporting, not "puff pieces".
Since 1989, we have covered the business aspects of the computer age. Quoted in the NY Times, the Wall Street Journal and the boardrooms of the worlds leading computer companies, we cover the industry from Redmond, Washington to Wall Street; from Tokyo to London; from mainframes to PC's.
Get job fulfillment that only real old fashioned reporting can bring
*********************
Ah, yes, the thrill of the old-fashioned "yellow press" of the Hearst newspapers, where no muck was too deep to rake and no fact important enough to check.
Linux World - the PRINT magazine, did not. However, Sys-Con, their owner, controls what appears in the online version. Until today, sys-con pushed the Ogara drivel onto several websites to run up the hit rates.
The current way of spamming is not to use Port 25 ... the spam-bots run the spam out through the ISP's mail server, JUST LIKE THE CUSTOMERS! A spam-bot sending 100-500 emails an hour, 24x7, doesn't sound like much until you figure out how many spam-bots Comcast has. I get spam from comcast ... enough spam that I whitelisted a couple of people and /dev/null the rest.
Your suggestion for monitoring and throttling traffic if it's excessive might work. Few non-business users send more than 50 emails a day. Or the ISP could run a spam filter on outgoing traffic, looking for links to commonly spammed sites and common terms like V*agra.
Here's what I cannot do with the navigator, that I can do in MSWord:
"1. Word does not import SVG..... LAst I checked it doesnt even have anything other than a very primitive graphics editor....."
True, and I don't use Word as a graphic editor. I usually use OODraw and export as EMF.
1a. Everyone seems to ignore OODraw - which if you buy a manual and learn how to use it is VERY powerful.....
It can export what I draw as SVG, but can't import what it just exported! I realize that SVG is a huge spec, but surely they could manage to import the 2-d stuff they just exported.
2. Overbar? hmmmm... dont think it does that except if you programmed an overstrike?
I'm not a programmer, I'm a technical writer. And I've written or edited many documents, especially in the electronics industry, where overbars (which would just be an underline except way above the baseline) are necessary. It's odd that programmers don't see the usefulness of providing a feature that chip designers need.
3.Outlining? - OO does do that - check a manual?
It can show an outline, but unlike MSFT Word, you can't do anything useful with the outline. You can send it to the clipboard or dump it into a presentation. You can't hide and show different heading levels - so you can't see the document structure. You can't promote and demote headings, drag a heading to a new spot and have all the subheadings and text follow. It's useless as a document reorg tool.
4. Both Word and OO have crappy HTML..... I clean up with perl (which loves munching XML also).....
As far as the I/O filters go, they are only as good as the ability of the original authors in using styles. :::sigh::: True. I just finished working on a document written in Word that was so strangely formatted that Word couldn't get the format straight.
To get me to completely stop using MSFT Office, FrameMaker, and a few other programs, here's what OO has to add.
Actually, it was the sudden melting of the snowpack after an eruption the following year. What the excited creationists fail to mention is that all that erosion was done through LOOSE dirt and volcanic ash, not rock. The Toutle river was merely reclaiming its riverbed from the ash and landslides that clogged it, not cutting a whole new channel through meters of bedrock.
With the Beeb GIVING IT AWAY ... are all the hardworking media whores going to starve?
He also fails to examine what was sold and what was retained in the chain of sales ... USL to Novell to oldSCO to Caldera/newSCO. It's quite suggestive that newSCO has not shown the sales contract between oldSCO and Caldera. They keep showing the contract between Novell and oldSCO, which doesn't appear to have done more than give oldSCO the right to act as an agent for Novell and keep a pittance for the effort.
But what does it take to get a working USB port on Gentoo?
The consistent weak point in any Linux distro I have ever tried is the lack of accurate user information that doesn't presuppose in-depth knowledge of the OS.
The way Pasteur has been forgotten for his efforts? The way Noguchi ... on the other hand, only microbiologists remember Noguchi, but we do give him credit for his work.
The other is also a fact - if the advice is good, other ISPs will use the list to help decide what to do with email from those addresses. If the advice is bad, and the ISPs that use the list start getting complaints from their own customers (the intended recipients) about missing email, thjey will stop using the list.
I fail to see a problem ... but then I'm not hosted on a spam-tolerant ISP.
Restaurant reviews was not a good analogy. It's more like the US Department of State's travel advisories , where they inform travelers of activity in a region. If it's activity you find undesireable, you might want to avoid the area.
"By starting this discussion, I'm hoping to get some good dialogue going about the effectiveness of RBLs (MAPS in particular), and whether or not the practices of these RBLs are really something us geeks want to support."
Effectiveness? Remember "open relay" spam. Seen any lately? That was ORBS (the Open Relay Blacklist) at work. I use SpamBouncer, with all the blacklist lookups it can handle, and see massive log files telling me what was refused. They are effective at keeping the spam out of my account.
"us geeks" ... don't presume we have anything in common with me, please. This geek strongly supports them and uses them. You are free to accept every bit of spam that heads towards your account if you wish.
optinleadsinc.com ?
Albion Medical?
free-info-daily.com?
cdn-pharmacy.com?
Webfinity?
Just a bunch of pharmaspammers, high volume ones, and a couple of persistent lead-generation operations.
Above.net is far from clean, but they are probably big enough that they haven't been blocked entirely.
Have you read your ISP's TOS lately? They do not, and I don't remember that they ever have, guarantee that you will get any and all mail headed towards your account. Here's a typical one:
FOO does not warrant either the results to be obtained from the service or that the service will be uninterrupted or error free. FOO's services are provided on an "as is" basis without warranties of any kind, either express or implied. Neither FOO nor anyone else involved in creating, producing, or delivering FOO services shall be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages arising out of the use of FOO, the inability to use FOO, or any breach of any warranty. The provisions of this paragraph will survive termination of this agreement.
Others make it clear that their spam-blocking measures may block a bit of legitimate email.
I can block anyone's email from my servers any time I want to, and there's nothing they can do about it, unless we have a contract to accept email from them.
The blacklists you need to worry about are the ones that don't tell you that you are on them - the multiple small ones that quietly shut off access to their mail servers, or send email from certain net blocks to /dev/null and never check to see if the spam has stopped. You will never know how many of these your co-lo's spamming customers have annoyed to the extent they just flipped the switch.
Spam has been a big problem for long enough, and the various blackhole lists have been in action long enough, that your ISP or co-lo or whatever should have been aware of the consequences of harboring spammers. One of the " rules of the internet" is that I can refuse to accept email from any domain I don't feel like accepting email from. If I choose to accept the recommendations of MAPS, it's my right to do so ... you and your ISP have no right to tell me I must or must not listen to MAPS or even Fluffy.
From experience, it was either way more than a few complaints, some major repeat offenders, or your CO-LO told MAPS to bugger off.
MAPS publishes the lists ... MAPS can't force me, or anyone else, to use their lists. If they cease being useful, they will cease being used. To be blunt, I don't care if YOUR sending is blocked until it becomes apparent that I'm missing emails.
I'm working for a very large company, with a group that has to write drivers and GUIs that run under Windows. So far the reliability of the documentation coming from MSFT about the current WinXP APIs has been about as reliable as the press releases by the Iraqui Minister of information under Saddam Hussein. Reverse engineering is usually faster than asking for more information.
With the betas of new MSFT releases, frequent undocumented changes to the APIs are the rule, not the exception.
It's no wonder no one wants to change anything: it's a certainty that something will blow up with SP 2 that is critical to the business.
"The user is not proficient enough in technology to know if the cookie is good or bad, or how it works," Tanembaum said. "
My, that makes me feel better, knowing that the wise marketeer is looking out for my best interests.
If they can't tell me what to do for the project, if only to set some goals, why am I there? If MegaCorp has a contracted guard service, and tells the guards in explicit detail which buildings need what kind of guarding and how often to check the alarms, have they stopped being Pinkerton employees and become MegaCorp employees?
"if MegaCorp can fire you;" ... they inform the agency that my services are no longer needed, or that they don't want me on their premises - if there is still work to be done, the agency sends over a different staffer to finish out the contract.
MegaCorp CAN NOT fire me
"if MegaCorp /insert a bunch of other criteria/, then you might actually be an employee of MegaCorp." ... attend business update meetings, be on the site emergency response team and other commitees, attend certain recreation or civic service activities, get employee discounts on the product, etc.
Most companies I have worked with have certain things that only the permanent employees must do or are allowed to do
"you often haven't a clue what the definition of "independent contractor" is. And you're making your living as one?
Uh ... my employer is the agency who finds the job, witholds income and social security taxes and offers benefits. They have a contract with MegaCorp to locate, qualify, and provide them with one tech writer with certain skills for XX an hour. Agency bills MegaCorp, I get paychecks and W2s from the agency.
A truly independent contractor finds their own jobs, negotiates their own contracts, and takes care of the billing and taxes and crap. They usually provide their own equipment, set their own hours, etc.