Furthermore, the reason spam only accounts for 90 percent of incoming mail is because of the increasingly drastic action being taken against spammers. If we all Just Hit Delete and not let it bother us, there will be no negative consequences to spamming, and more people will feel free to spam more; eventually 99.9+% of email will be spam.
My "favorite" were the pre-ATX power supplies with full AC line voltage running through the power switch mounted at the front of the case. Sometimes the switch terminals were incompletely insulated, and brushing up against them would send your hand flying into something, usually whatever was sharpest. That only had to happen to me a couple of times before I got in the habit of always unplugging all power cables before any hardware surgery. Electricity can be a powerful teaching tool.
By reducing load on the power grid we free up capacity (or potential capacity) for recharging electric cars, which can reduce our petroleum consumption.
How about this: Give him a new email address which is discoverable by webcrawlers, and maybe seed it in a few places where spammers will collect it. Apply no incoming spam filtering to the address whatsoever. Each week send one email to that address, disguised as spam, to which he must reply or he'll be sent to PMITA prison (or whatever bad place 16 year olds can be sent to).
Maybe it's because the whole thing is a sham. They were originally going to use snakes as the feedstock, but then they decided turkey-oil would be easier to sell.
Why does it matter whether it "already" happened? We cannot know about it or be affected by it until the first photons reach us. If it happened 1000 years ago 1000 light years away, or 100,000 years ago 100,000 lightyears away, or yesterday 1 lightday away, it's still "happening now" as far as we're concerned.
Same here, except no Xbox. I've run Windows networks at home since 1993, with dozens of PCs running all versions of Windows from 3.11 to 2000 and Samba, and never had a problem like GP's. As far as I can tell, simple Windows networking (sharing files and printers in a workgroup) "just works". Or rather, "just worked" in pre-XP Windows. I haven't tried running XP on my LAN yet; maybe MS borked its workgroup handling badly.
Whew, in that case I'm being ripped off pretty badly (paying way more in taxes than my public school education was worth).
I prefer to look at it as paying to keep most rugrats and punks off the streets, if only for six hours a day and half the year. I'd gladly pay more if it'd keep them busy all day long, all year round.
Seriously when I was growing up my parents never had any of this technology and yet they managed to keep me out of trouble.
Your parents didn't keep you out of trouble, you kept yourself out of trouble, assuming you stayed out of trouble that is. Most of us didn't. But in any event, we're the ones who survived. The ones who didn't survive might have, if their parents had managed to keep better track of them. Sometimes it's good/bad parenting, sometimes it's just good/bad luck. Most kids get a little wild sometimes, and whether they survive that wildness is not entirely under anybody's control. Giving kids a slightly greater chance of being rescued when the shit hits the fan, or parents a few more early warning signs about just how wild their kids are getting, might occasionally be enough to make the difference.
I'm pretty sure Russ Nelson is neither anonymous nor affiliated with any kind of "email marketing". I have great respect for his accomplishments and philosphy (see his web page) but wish he would change his mind about autoresponses (including NDRs). After AOL, Yahoo, and Hotmail saw the light my backscatter spam load went down tremendously; now we just need to spread the word to the remaining few thousand mail admins still living in the 20th century.
I see that argument a lot, but it doesn't get RBLs off the hook.
There is no hook. Truth negates slander; if you read Spamcop's claim carefully you will see it is true. If somebody misinterprets their statement to mean, "so and so is a spammer," that's not Spamcop's fault.
They could run a bot that signs up thousands of addresses scraped from webpages. Some of those are likely to be spamtraps. If they were careful and the list operators not particularly vigilant, such an attack might slip through. Of course it is arguable that the fallout of that attack (thousands of random addresses receiving subscription confirmations) is in fact spam.
Sending NDRs to forged addresses is spam. Spamcop called that one right. If you can't verify the MAIL FROM, don't send any NDR. Best to reject with a 55x at RCPT or DATA.
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Or possibly toxic heavy metals such as lead and mercury.
Furthermore, the reason spam only accounts for 90 percent of incoming mail is because of the increasingly drastic action being taken against spammers. If we all Just Hit Delete and not let it bother us, there will be no negative consequences to spamming, and more people will feel free to spam more; eventually 99.9+% of email will be spam.
The traditional human lifespan is three score and ten, not four score and ten. GoogleFight proves it!
My "favorite" were the pre-ATX power supplies with full AC line voltage running through the power switch mounted at the front of the case. Sometimes the switch terminals were incompletely insulated, and brushing up against them would send your hand flying into something, usually whatever was sharpest. That only had to happen to me a couple of times before I got in the habit of always unplugging all power cables before any hardware surgery. Electricity can be a powerful teaching tool.
I disagree: if the New York Times subsequently makes the same error, that's certainly no improvement!
By reducing load on the power grid we free up capacity (or potential capacity) for recharging electric cars, which can reduce our petroleum consumption.
Elegant, but not really enforceable of course.
How about this: Give him a new email address which is discoverable by webcrawlers, and maybe seed it in a few places where spammers will collect it. Apply no incoming spam filtering to the address whatsoever. Each week send one email to that address, disguised as spam, to which he must reply or he'll be sent to PMITA prison (or whatever bad place 16 year olds can be sent to).
sci.astro.research is not a "Google newsgroup", it is a Usenet newsgroup. Google just happens to keep an archive of it.
Maybe it's because the whole thing is a sham. They were originally going to use snakes as the feedstock, but then they decided turkey-oil would be easier to sell.
Why does it matter whether it "already" happened? We cannot know about it or be affected by it until the first photons reach us. If it happened 1000 years ago 1000 light years away, or 100,000 years ago 100,000 lightyears away, or yesterday 1 lightday away, it's still "happening now" as far as we're concerned.
There are two types of impulsive, irrational people: men, and women.
Same here, except no Xbox. I've run Windows networks at home since 1993, with dozens of PCs running all versions of Windows from 3.11 to 2000 and Samba, and never had a problem like GP's. As far as I can tell, simple Windows networking (sharing files and printers in a workgroup) "just works". Or rather, "just worked" in pre-XP Windows. I haven't tried running XP on my LAN yet; maybe MS borked its workgroup handling badly.
Whew, in that case I'm being ripped off pretty badly (paying way more in taxes than my public school education was worth).
I prefer to look at it as paying to keep most rugrats and punks off the streets, if only for six hours a day and half the year. I'd gladly pay more if it'd keep them busy all day long, all year round.
The engineers have zero input, or maybe slightly less, into the naming of the product. I don't recall ever being in a meeting with marketing people.
Döh!
I'm pretty sure Russ Nelson is neither anonymous nor affiliated with any kind of "email marketing". I have great respect for his accomplishments and philosphy (see his web page) but wish he would change his mind about autoresponses (including NDRs). After AOL, Yahoo, and Hotmail saw the light my backscatter spam load went down tremendously; now we just need to spread the word to the remaining few thousand mail admins still living in the 20th century.
They could run a bot that signs up thousands of addresses scraped from webpages. Some of those are likely to be spamtraps. If they were careful and the list operators not particularly vigilant, such an attack might slip through. Of course it is arguable that the fallout of that attack (thousands of random addresses receiving subscription confirmations) is in fact spam.
Sending NDRs to forged addresses is spam. Spamcop called that one right. If you can't verify the MAIL FROM, don't send any NDR. Best to reject with a 55x at RCPT or DATA.
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The only correct time format (YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm) is included in the list. Use that one!
A small 54% increase in external clock gives a huge 54% increase in core clock? Huh?