If you insure a car and then let illegals use it, then you'd be liable for any damage.
Not true at all.
Most insurance plans allow for 3rd parties to drive your on occasion.
It would be very difficult to prove that you KNOW someone is illegal. In absence of that proof, insurance companies would have to fulfill their obligation. I work for one of (if not the) largest auto insurers in the US, and to us it would not matter if you knew they were illegal or not. If you give someone permission to drive your car, they are covered regardless of age/licensed or not/illegal or not. As far as I know, all major insurance companies have the same policy.
That's one reason I quit using postfix awhile back. I hated having to either relay via socket out to another program, and then having it inject it back into postfix. I can definitely see where this would be a pain as well.
My only worries with sending email via your own SMTP server on a dynamic IP address is that greylisting might cause a false positive since you'd probably send with the domain name of a dynamic IP address site (e.g. dyndns.com, no-ip.com), but a reverse-lookup on that domain would get something like adsl-70-232-162-204.dsl.emhril.sbcglobal.net. Perhaps I understand greylisting incorrectly, but I though greylisting didn't allow that.
Greylisting (at least how I have it implemented) looks at 3 things, the IP of the sending MTA, the sender address, and the recipient address. Dynamic IPs shouldn't be affected unless the IP changes between retries.
Third, the DMCA makes reverse engineering copy protection methods illegal.
Except for the specific purpose of interoperability, IIRC, which I would think this would fall under.
Having said that, I dont see how any part of this would fall under the DMCA anyway, seeing as it is the Digital Millenium Copyright Act and we're not dealing with copyright here.
All CAN-SPAM does is outline how "bulk email marketers" can send their crap without running into legal problems. It still allows service providers to do whatever they want as far as accepting or blocking the email, even though it is now considered legal.
CAN-SPAM - Section 8(c)
NO EFFECT ON POLICIES OF PROVIDERS OF INTERNET ACCESS SERVICE- Nothing in this Act shall be construed to have any effect on the lawfulness or unlawfulness, under any other provision of law, of the adoption, implementation, or enforcement by a provider of Internet access service of a policy of declining to transmit, route, relay, handle, or store certain types of electronic mail messages.
I can't say for sure what Lycos is thinking, but from what I can see it looks like their whole point is to drive up the cost of the bandwidth for the spammer. More traffic = more money out of the spammers pocket, which hopefully will become more than what they make from their spamming.
I can see some ISPs actually liking the idea. More money for them.
Scotty lives in Westminster Colorado, just a few miles north of where i'm at presently. Although there are a number of bottom feeding scum in Boca Raton as well.
> Which means that our ISPs and mail providers that block this spam could potentially be liable for doing so.
Isn't that fscked up?
It would be, if it were true. There is nothing in the law that says that providers have to allow the email in. In fact, it specifically says that the law does not prevent blocking.
Section 8c of CAN-SPAM
"NO EFFECT ON POLICIES OF PROVIDERS OF INTERNET ACCESS SERVICE- Nothing in this Act shall be construed to have any effect on the lawfulness or unlawfulness, under any other provision of law, of the adoption, implementation, or enforcement by a provider of Internet access service of a policy of declining to transmit, route, relay, handle, or store certain types of electronic mail messages."
Not such a great idea. Hotmail can shut down addresses used for domain registration. They consider it commercial which is against their TOS. Not that they are very quick about it, but it's happened before.
The renters insurance shouldn't be a problem. I work for a major insurance company and our renters policies come with $100k in liability, and can be upgraded to 300k or 500k for not more than a few dollars a month.
I know someone that's had numerous pieces of SMC networking equipment and hasn't had any good luck with any of it. He warns everyone to stay as far away as possible.
EchoStar Chief Executive Charlie Ergen told reporters this week Viacom had asked for a 40-percent rate increase over an undisclosed multi-year period. But one of his own lawyers admitted in a San Francisco court Viacom was asking for an average 7-percent rate increase.
Analysts said Viacom has demanded rate increases closer to a mid-single digit percentage rate. A source familiar with the negotiations said Viacom has now offered a 5-percent annual rate increase for its cable channels.
I'd say your supervisors are feeding you bad information.
I've been really tempted to grab a can of spray paint and put a big 'spammer' sign on his front lawn. Just so his neighbors are aware of who's living next door.
Dont forget his home address. Being a resident of the Denver area, I've been tempted to drive by and let him know exactly what I think of his "marketing".
You're definately not the only one. Any time my in-laws have problems they call me. Heck, most of my family on both sides do. The thing that really iritates the hell out of me tho is that my wife likes to volunteer me without even asking first. All too often I've come home from work to hear "I talked to today and they're having problems with their computer. I told them that we'd come over tonight and that you could fix it for them."
The problem with this though, is that some black-hat isps move their spamming customers around to different ips, which is why places like spews decide to list entire netblocks instead of single ips. I do the same on my mailserver, Spam from a single address gets that ip listed. Another spam from the same netblock will get at least a/24.
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Not true at all.
Most insurance plans allow for 3rd parties to drive your on occasion.
It would be very difficult to prove that you KNOW someone is illegal. In absence of that proof, insurance companies would have to fulfill their obligation. I work for one of (if not the) largest auto insurers in the US, and to us it would not matter if you knew they were illegal or not. If you give someone permission to drive your car, they are covered regardless of age/licensed or not/illegal or not. As far as I know, all major insurance companies have the same policy.
That's one reason I quit using postfix awhile back. I hated having to either relay via socket out to another program, and then having it inject it back into postfix. I can definitely see where this would be a pain as well.
What MTA are you using? I have a fully working domainkeys system set up and working perfectly with 3 different domains on Exim.
My only worries with sending email via your own SMTP server on a dynamic IP address is that greylisting might cause a false positive since you'd probably send with the domain name of a dynamic IP address site (e.g. dyndns.com, no-ip.com), but a reverse-lookup on that domain would get something like adsl-70-232-162-204.dsl.emhril.sbcglobal.net. Perhaps I understand greylisting incorrectly, but I though greylisting didn't allow that.
Greylisting (at least how I have it implemented) looks at 3 things, the IP of the sending MTA, the sender address, and the recipient address. Dynamic IPs shouldn't be affected unless the IP changes between retries.
dynablock.njabl.org
Third, the DMCA makes reverse engineering copy protection methods illegal.
Except for the specific purpose of interoperability, IIRC, which I would think this would fall under.
Having said that, I dont see how any part of this would fall under the DMCA anyway, seeing as it is the Digital Millenium Copyright Act and we're not dealing with copyright here.
All CAN-SPAM does is outline how "bulk email marketers" can send their crap without running into legal problems. It still allows service providers to do whatever they want as far as accepting or blocking the email, even though it is now considered legal.
CAN-SPAM - Section 8(c)
NO EFFECT ON POLICIES OF PROVIDERS OF INTERNET ACCESS SERVICE- Nothing in this Act shall be construed to have any effect on the lawfulness or unlawfulness, under any other provision of law, of the adoption, implementation, or enforcement by a provider of Internet access service of a policy of declining to transmit, route, relay, handle, or store certain types of electronic mail messages.
Anidisable works wonders for me.
I can't say for sure what Lycos is thinking, but from what I can see it looks like their whole point is to drive up the cost of the bandwidth for the spammer. More traffic = more money out of the spammers pocket, which hopefully will become more than what they make from their spamming.
I can see some ISPs actually liking the idea. More money for them.
Spamhaus and NANAE are 2 good resources for checking up on potential providers.
Much easier said then done. Try getting MCI/UUNet to shut down a spammer. It will only happen if the bill doesn't get paid.
There are way too many providers out there that care more about the money than their reputation or connectivity.
It's not unheard of. I had one by 17 and another by 19.
Contrary to popular belief, it is possible for us geeks to get laid
Scotty lives in Westminster Colorado, just a few miles north of where i'm at presently. Although there are a number of bottom feeding scum in Boca Raton as well.
> Which means that our ISPs and mail providers that block this spam could potentially be liable for doing so. Isn't that fscked up?
It would be, if it were true. There is nothing in the law that says that providers have to allow the email in. In fact, it specifically says that the law does not prevent blocking.
Section 8c of CAN-SPAM
"NO EFFECT ON POLICIES OF PROVIDERS OF INTERNET ACCESS SERVICE- Nothing in this Act shall be construed to have any effect on the lawfulness or unlawfulness, under any other provision of law, of the adoption, implementation, or enforcement by a provider of Internet access service of a policy of declining to transmit, route, relay, handle, or store certain types of electronic mail messages."
Not such a great idea. Hotmail can shut down addresses used for domain registration. They consider it commercial which is against their TOS. Not that they are very quick about it, but it's happened before.
And have you considered how much crap you are now spewing back to innocent users that have their address forged as the from address in spam runs?
It fixes your spam problem but only makes it worse for other people.
The renters insurance shouldn't be a problem. I work for a major insurance company and our renters policies come with $100k in liability, and can be upgraded to 300k or 500k for not more than a few dollars a month.
I know someone that's had numerous pieces of SMC networking equipment and hasn't had any good luck with any of it. He warns everyone to stay as far away as possible.
Shareaza will let you limit up and down speed. Supports Gnutella1, Gnutella2, eDonkey, and Bittorrent
You can encrypt HTTP, FTP, and hopefully (if this wiretapping crap ever went into effect) they'll come out with an encrypted IRC.
IRC already can be. More ircds are starting to support SSL on alternative ports.
This story from yahoo tells a different story.
EchoStar Chief Executive Charlie Ergen told reporters this week Viacom had asked for a 40-percent rate increase over an undisclosed multi-year period. But one of his own lawyers admitted in a San Francisco court Viacom was asking for an average 7-percent rate increase.
Analysts said Viacom has demanded rate increases closer to a mid-single digit percentage rate. A source familiar with the negotiations said Viacom has now offered a 5-percent annual rate increase for its cable channels.
I'd say your supervisors are feeding you bad information.
I've been really tempted to grab a can of spray paint and put a big 'spammer' sign on his front lawn. Just so his neighbors are aware of who's living next door.
Dont forget his home address. Being a resident of the Denver area, I've been tempted to drive by and let him know exactly what I think of his "marketing".
You're definately not the only one. Any time my in-laws have problems they call me. Heck, most of my family on both sides do. The thing that really iritates the hell out of me tho is that my wife likes to volunteer me without even asking first. All too often I've come home from work to hear "I talked to today and they're having problems with their computer. I told them that we'd come over tonight and that you could fix it for them."
Thanks dear.....
The problem with this though, is that some black-hat isps move their spamming customers around to different ips, which is why places like spews decide to list entire netblocks instead of single ips. I do the same on my mailserver, Spam from a single address gets that ip listed. Another spam from the same netblock will get at least a /24.