You people need to set up a vigilance committee to bring the spammers and phishers preying on your site to justice. The twit that stole those addresses would be a good place to start. As others have posted, whoever did that isn't a vigilante, he's a target for them. I don't really think he meant any harm by what he did, but by making his exploit public, he's not only exposed a vulnerability in a very irresponsible fashion, he's exposed himself to retaliation.
Back in The Old West, when the law was too week or two thinly spread out to control outlaws and bandits, various towns set up secret societies known as "Vigilance Committees." They took the law into their own hands, arrested felons and, when they had to, they executed them. Their members were known as vigilantes, and that's where the term came from. Today, mailbombing or otherwise DOSing spammers is a form of vigilante activity. Finding the electronic equiviant of a broken lock on a door and shouting out to the world, "Here's where you can get in for free!" is just plain stupid.
Not sending huge attachments (and, of course, the bottom limit of "hugh" grows as does bandwidth) is just one part of nettiquette. Keeping lines in Usenet posts to a certain limit,.sig seperators and size, and any number of other things are included. Good manners are the grease that keep the wheels of civilization turning without too much friction, and you abandon them at your peril.
Either you're exceptionaly skilled in keeping your server up or you've had bad luck with ISP's. The one I worked for had enough servers and reduncancy that the system was almost never down, although sometimes, of course, an indiviual server might be offline. As we had several different names for the servers (all served from the same IP pool) it was easy to change the server name, get a new DNS lookup and the IP of a currently working server.
I don't think you can blame yourself for an outage after an ice storm. Acts of God take precedence over almost everything.
Multiple domains on one IP make reverse DNS lookup hard, if not impossible. I'm no expert on it, but I gather that when you send an IP in for RDNS, you expect to get exactly one hostname back, and if there's more than one, it's hard to know which to send. As far as the filtering goes, with more and more people sending business email from home over their private ISP's servers, we're all going to see an increase in legitimate email who's address doesn't match the IP. I'm not saying this should be taken out of the filters, but maybe its priority should be lowered. Again, I'm not an expert on this and would welcome input from somebody with more direct experience.
It's not that you have no right to do so, it's that I see no reason that you would want to on a home account, except for geek value. Just because most people did back when the net was young doesn't mean that you should need to today, anymore than the fact that one hundred years ago you could buy stock on 10% margin means that you should be able to today.
The concept of "netiquette" is dead and gone, along with the dream of a "commerce-free" Internet.
What you're saying is that good manners are old-fashioned and it's now OK for you to be as rude, inconsiderate and selfish as you want. That's all nettiquette is, you know, good manners.
Commercial accounts should be different. I don't know what the policy was for them at the ISP I did support for, as I concentrated on individual customers, not corporate accounts. My comments are meant to be for home users only and I should have specified.
Automatic filters will block messages where the sender's domain doesn't match the IP only if you set it to do so. It's not always safe to assume that a mis-match like this means spam. If I had a domain hosted as a virtual domain sharing an IP with similar domains there'd be no way for me to do otherwise.
An ISP typically has hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of users. They have massive mail servers that are designed to provide service to those vast quntities of users.
Try millions of users. That means that an ISP has multiple redundant mail servers, using robust hardware and software with people monitering them 24/7. what do you do if the mailserver falls over when you're at work?
If my club's hosting company used SMTP AUTH, I'd send it out through them. As they don't, I send it the only way I can. I did tech support for that ISP for a long time, and many of their customers send mail from home using corporate return addresses. It all goes out through the ISP's servers and unless you read the headers you'll never know the difference. And, even if you know how to, why would you bother if the message itself is legit?
If you want to log all your email, just keep copies. As far as the rest, I'm sure you can invent as many specious excuses as you want. My best advice if you don't like your ISP's servers is find one that works better.
As I pointed out in my earlier post, a good ISP will let you use whatever domain you want and address you want on your mail. Unless you have a control-freak ISP, your point one is no reason at all, as you should already be able to do that.
If you really think your ISP is reading your mail, you shouldn't be using it.
There's nothing to stop you from filtering out spam as you download it, to have your machine notify you or to have it forward it, so points three and five are moot.
About the only point that might, under some circumstances be valid is the last one. However, I'd certainly not try running my own server, not only for security reasons but because I see no reason to put that much work into duplicating what I'm already paying for.
You don't need port 25 to check your email; POP3 is 110. My ISP blocks all outgoing port 25 connections but doesn't insist (unlike some idiotic ISP's) that the return address be at their domain. I have an alternate address at the domain of a private club I'm a member of. I can check that email just fine, but when I send mail on that address it goes through my ISP's SMTP server. Unless you're either a spammer, a control freak or a hobbyist that really wants to learn how to run a mail server there's no real reason to run your own.
If water is dripping into a gap caused by a fault, it might not take that long for dissolved minerals to fill the hole. Considering how big stalactites and stalagmites can get in a few thousand years with just a slow drip, how long would this take with periodic flooding followed by a long dry spell?
There must be tens of thousands of people out there trying to build some home-brew device needing custom designed parts. Most of them can design them (or get them designed) but few have the resources to get them made. Something like this will give them the chance to make their ideas and dreams come true. I wonder how many inventors have failed simply because they could neither buy or build the one thing they needed to get their idea to work. Only time will tell, of course, but I'd bet this will be a great help to people who's imagination goes further than their skills can follow.
Yeah, but at least the patent owners will get something for it. I just hope they don't make the mistake one company did: they signed an agreement allowing M$ to use their technology in IE with a royalty for every copy sold, then NanoLimp bundled it with Winderz and paid nothing.
Sumatra Blue Lintong? That's what I was drinking before I subscribed to Gevalia. Good, rich, well-balanced and reasonably priced. If I couldn't get Gevalia, I'd go right back to it in a heart-beat.
If you want pure Kona, get Royal Kona. It's one of the few varietals that is good unblended; rich, smooth with a "winey" subtlty. Alas, it's expensive, so most of what you get is blended to keep the cost reasonable.
It's a matter of taste. I like it, others I know like it, you don't. I first heard of it from somebody who gave me some because they couldn't stand it. I mentiioned it first to show that I have some idea what good coffee is like and second to let others try it and (maybe) enjoy it. I notice you're not defending Starcrud.
If you buy Gevalia that way, you're never sure what you'll get. However, if you find a blend you like, like Royal Stockholm or Breakfast Blend and tell them to send you only that, you've got the consistancy you expect.
I suspect that Starbucks is mixing Robusto with the Aribica beans to get the effect you describe. As far as I can tell, they're two different species, and I'm told that unroasted Robusto beans smell more like peanuts than like coffee, but I've never encountered them. You'll note that most quality blends specify that they're all Aribica with no Robusto. BTW, for a good store-blend, try Chock Full 'O Nuts. Quite good!
Didn't need to drink more than a spoonfull of that to keep awake thou:P
That reminds me of one of my Dad's stories about coffee in the Army. He knew somebody that would make boiled coffee by putting the grounds, a dash of salt and an egg shell in the pot and boiling it. When the pot was empty, he'd add more of each on top of the old grounds and make more. The last pot before he was forced to empty it was small, and tasted horrid, but it was great when you were trying to wake up for sentry duty late at night.
I don't find French style over-roasted, just roasted longer than American blends. Done right it can be quite good. Gevalia makes a good espresso blend, and even the regular blends make a good espresso. Again, the best coffee is the one you like best, and for me, Starbucks Just Isn't It.
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Back in The Old West, when the law was too week or two thinly spread out to control outlaws and bandits, various towns set up secret societies known as "Vigilance Committees." They took the law into their own hands, arrested felons and, when they had to, they executed them. Their members were known as vigilantes, and that's where the term came from. Today, mailbombing or otherwise DOSing spammers is a form of vigilante activity. Finding the electronic equiviant of a broken lock on a door and shouting out to the world, "Here's where you can get in for free!" is just plain stupid.
Not sending huge attachments (and, of course, the bottom limit of "hugh" grows as does bandwidth) is just one part of nettiquette. Keeping lines in Usenet posts to a certain limit, .sig seperators and size, and any number of other things are included. Good manners are the grease that keep the wheels of civilization turning without too much friction, and you abandon them at your peril.
I don't think you can blame yourself for an outage after an ice storm. Acts of God take precedence over almost everything.
Multiple domains on one IP make reverse DNS lookup hard, if not impossible. I'm no expert on it, but I gather that when you send an IP in for RDNS, you expect to get exactly one hostname back, and if there's more than one, it's hard to know which to send. As far as the filtering goes, with more and more people sending business email from home over their private ISP's servers, we're all going to see an increase in legitimate email who's address doesn't match the IP. I'm not saying this should be taken out of the filters, but maybe its priority should be lowered. Again, I'm not an expert on this and would welcome input from somebody with more direct experience.
It's not that you have no right to do so, it's that I see no reason that you would want to on a home account, except for geek value. Just because most people did back when the net was young doesn't mean that you should need to today, anymore than the fact that one hundred years ago you could buy stock on 10% margin means that you should be able to today.
What you're saying is that good manners are old-fashioned and it's now OK for you to be as rude, inconsiderate and selfish as you want. That's all nettiquette is, you know, good manners.
Commercial accounts should be different. I don't know what the policy was for them at the ISP I did support for, as I concentrated on individual customers, not corporate accounts. My comments are meant to be for home users only and I should have specified.
Automatic filters will block messages where the sender's domain doesn't match the IP only if you set it to do so. It's not always safe to assume that a mis-match like this means spam. If I had a domain hosted as a virtual domain sharing an IP with similar domains there'd be no way for me to do otherwise.
Try millions of users. That means that an ISP has multiple redundant mail servers, using robust hardware and software with people monitering them 24/7. what do you do if the mailserver falls over when you're at work?
If my club's hosting company used SMTP AUTH, I'd send it out through them. As they don't, I send it the only way I can. I did tech support for that ISP for a long time, and many of their customers send mail from home using corporate return addresses. It all goes out through the ISP's servers and unless you read the headers you'll never know the difference. And, even if you know how to, why would you bother if the message itself is legit?
If you want to log all your email, just keep copies. As far as the rest, I'm sure you can invent as many specious excuses as you want. My best advice if you don't like your ISP's servers is find one that works better.
If you really think your ISP is reading your mail, you shouldn't be using it.
There's nothing to stop you from filtering out spam as you download it, to have your machine notify you or to have it forward it, so points three and five are moot.
About the only point that might, under some circumstances be valid is the last one. However, I'd certainly not try running my own server, not only for security reasons but because I see no reason to put that much work into duplicating what I'm already paying for.
You don't need port 25 to check your email; POP3 is 110. My ISP blocks all outgoing port 25 connections but doesn't insist (unlike some idiotic ISP's) that the return address be at their domain. I have an alternate address at the domain of a private club I'm a member of. I can check that email just fine, but when I send mail on that address it goes through my ISP's SMTP server. Unless you're either a spammer, a control freak or a hobbyist that really wants to learn how to run a mail server there's no real reason to run your own.
I was thinking in terms of floods in the spring, then a full (two Earth years) Martian year of drying out again.
If water is dripping into a gap caused by a fault, it might not take that long for dissolved minerals to fill the hole. Considering how big stalactites and stalagmites can get in a few thousand years with just a slow drip, how long would this take with periodic flooding followed by a long dry spell?
...and besides, the grapes are probably sour, anyway.
There must be tens of thousands of people out there trying to build some home-brew device needing custom designed parts. Most of them can design them (or get them designed) but few have the resources to get them made. Something like this will give them the chance to make their ideas and dreams come true. I wonder how many inventors have failed simply because they could neither buy or build the one thing they needed to get their idea to work. Only time will tell, of course, but I'd bet this will be a great help to people who's imagination goes further than their skills can follow.
In Soviet Russia crappy jokes have to put up with you!
Yeah, but at least the patent owners will get something for it. I just hope they don't make the mistake one company did: they signed an agreement allowing M$ to use their technology in IE with a royalty for every copy sold, then NanoLimp bundled it with Winderz and paid nothing.
Sumatra Blue Lintong? That's what I was drinking before I subscribed to Gevalia. Good, rich, well-balanced and reasonably priced. If I couldn't get Gevalia, I'd go right back to it in a heart-beat.
If you want pure Kona, get Royal Kona. It's one of the few varietals that is good unblended; rich, smooth with a "winey" subtlty. Alas, it's expensive, so most of what you get is blended to keep the cost reasonable.
It's a matter of taste. I like it, others I know like it, you don't. I first heard of it from somebody who gave me some because they couldn't stand it. I mentiioned it first to show that I have some idea what good coffee is like and second to let others try it and (maybe) enjoy it. I notice you're not defending Starcrud.
I suspect that Starbucks is mixing Robusto with the Aribica beans to get the effect you describe. As far as I can tell, they're two different species, and I'm told that unroasted Robusto beans smell more like peanuts than like coffee, but I've never encountered them. You'll note that most quality blends specify that they're all Aribica with no Robusto. BTW, for a good store-blend, try Chock Full 'O Nuts. Quite good!
That reminds me of one of my Dad's stories about coffee in the Army. He knew somebody that would make boiled coffee by putting the grounds, a dash of salt and an egg shell in the pot and boiling it. When the pot was empty, he'd add more of each on top of the old grounds and make more. The last pot before he was forced to empty it was small, and tasted horrid, but it was great when you were trying to wake up for sentry duty late at night.
I don't find French style over-roasted, just roasted longer than American blends. Done right it can be quite good. Gevalia makes a good espresso blend, and even the regular blends make a good espresso. Again, the best coffee is the one you like best, and for me, Starbucks Just Isn't It.