Even.Net, the new secure infrastructure, and built with security in mind, lets you have access to the 'old ways'. Yes, you are not supposed to, but people somehow do, and hackers will.
It does not take a hacker to use System.Runtime.InteropServices. People unfamiliar with a technology should not make stupid comments about it.
And you read 100% of all posts before posting right? People who think they have some kind of ownership or special bond with slashdot really need to get a life. The system is designed to filter out the crap. If I post redundant crap so be it. Why are you reading score 1 posts anyway?
Since you obviously can't read let me attempt to sum up my initial post for you:
I did not accuse Brightmail of anything. I intentionally withheld the name of the reseller precisely because I am attempting to give them the benefit of the doubt as a company. I did question whether their employees could be doing something without their knowledge. I was merely stating my bad experience with their service. If you think Brightmail is above making deals with spammers you haven't been properly introduced to the human race.
And I must say your *belief* or accusation that I am Scott Richter is one of the funniest damn things I have ever come across. LOL
What evidence would you believe? Think about it. I admit it was not a carefully crafted and well documented scientific experiment. At the time (about 6-7 months ago) there were others (on usenet and the services' own forums) echoing the same feeling that their spam increased after starting the service. I don't suppose you believe them either. After posting on slashdot I talked about this incident with a colleague and we both had the same idea that the fault may lie nowhere near Brightmail or the reseller service but with our ISP or theirs. There are approximately 14-16 hops along the way from our mailserver to theirs that the traffic could be sniffed and email addresses extracted from. I will do further testing on that. As we no longer contract with a Brightmail service I cannot reproduce the prior conditions.
We can't all be longtime slashdot users. I stand by my claim. Yes I am new here. So are lots of people. Being a skeptic myself I realize there is little I can do to convince you otherwise. But then again I really don't care.
My company is far too small to contract directly with Brightmail so we setup an account with a Brightmail service reseller recommended by Brightmail. The very day we switched our MX record over to them the amount of spam we received actually skyrocketed. I even tested this theory by sending a piece of mail to a brand new mailbox with a GUID as the address through a telnet session directly to the service mailserver. Within an hour that mailbox started to receive spam!
They deny the possibility and called me a liar. We no longer use that service.
There is always the possibility that one of their employees is not so honest and the company has no knowledge of this activity but something is amiss.
My company is far too small to contract directly with Brightmail so we setup an account with a Brightmail service reseller recommended by Brightmail. The very day we switched our MX record over to them the amount of spam we received actually skyrocketed. I even tested this theory by sending a piece of mail to a brand new mailbox with a GUID as the address through a telnet session directly to the service mailserver. Within an hour that mailbox started to receive spam!
They deny the possibility and called me a liar. We no longer use that service.
There is always the possibility that one of their employees is not so honest and the company has no knowledge of this activity but something is amiss.
First of all I am no technophobe. I embrace technology as part of my life. Where I see a problem is giving ourselves over completely to technology. Who is in control? What are the safeguards, checks, and balances to a system that knows everything about you? If I purchase a tube of Preparation H for a family member will I be subjected to a system that insists that I have hemorrhoids? Will there be a donut cushion waiting for me on the next flight I take?
You know... you don't have to watch it. If it totaly sucks it will not be a great tragedy. Someone else WILL make it again... and again.. and again... How many Peter Pans do we need anyway!:)
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Go read how the mod system works. Then bitch about it.
Troll? Slashdot totaly sucks if you cant post reality without being modded down!
Even .Net, the new secure infrastructure, and built with security in mind, lets you have access to the 'old ways'. Yes, you are not supposed to, but people somehow do, and hackers will.
It does not take a hacker to use System.Runtime.InteropServices. People unfamiliar with a technology should not make stupid comments about it.
And you read 100% of all posts before posting right? People who think they have some kind of ownership or special bond with slashdot really need to get a life. The system is designed to filter out the crap. If I post redundant crap so be it. Why are you reading score 1 posts anyway?
Term paper obfuscation! Technology at its finest.
Since you obviously can't read let me attempt to sum up my initial post for you:
I did not accuse Brightmail of anything.
I intentionally withheld the name of the reseller precisely because I am attempting to give them the benefit of the doubt as a company.
I did question whether their employees could be doing something without their knowledge.
I was merely stating my bad experience with their service. If you think Brightmail is above making deals with spammers you haven't been properly introduced to the human race.
And I must say your *belief* or accusation that I am Scott Richter is one of the funniest damn things I have ever come across. LOL
What evidence would you believe? Think about it. I admit it was not a carefully crafted and well documented scientific experiment. At the time (about 6-7 months ago) there were others (on usenet and the services' own forums) echoing the same feeling that their spam increased after starting the service. I don't suppose you believe them either. After posting on slashdot I talked about this incident with a colleague and we both had the same idea that the fault may lie nowhere near Brightmail or the reseller service but with our ISP or theirs. There are approximately 14-16 hops along the way from our mailserver to theirs that the traffic could be sniffed and email addresses extracted from. I will do further testing on that. As we no longer contract with a Brightmail service I cannot reproduce the prior conditions.
We can't all be longtime slashdot users. I stand by my claim. Yes I am new here. So are lots of people. Being a skeptic myself I realize there is little I can do to convince you otherwise. But then again I really don't care.
We are so technology bound to our current calendar systems it is very implausible that we will invent or adopt a new one.
Unless there is a major disaster disrupting the entire planets ability to use current technology I doubt it will happen.
The only other likely possibility is when(if) humans progress and expand to a point that a calendar system based on earth/moon/sun becomes irrelevant.
My company is far too small to contract directly with Brightmail so we setup an account with a Brightmail service reseller recommended by Brightmail. The very day we switched our MX record over to them the amount of spam we received actually skyrocketed. I even tested this theory by sending a piece of mail to a brand new mailbox with a GUID as the address through a telnet session directly to the service mailserver. Within an hour that mailbox started to receive spam!
They deny the possibility and called me a liar. We no longer use that service.
There is always the possibility that one of their employees is not so honest and the company has no knowledge of this activity but something is amiss.
GRRRRR dont know how this ended up here.. its supposed to be on the brightmail thread!
My company is far too small to contract directly with Brightmail so we setup an account with a Brightmail service reseller recommended by Brightmail. The very day we switched our MX record over to them the amount of spam we received actually skyrocketed. I even tested this theory by sending a piece of mail to a brand new mailbox with a GUID as the address through a telnet session directly to the service mailserver. Within an hour that mailbox started to receive spam!
They deny the possibility and called me a liar. We no longer use that service.
There is always the possibility that one of their employees is not so honest and the company has no knowledge of this activity but something is amiss.
First of all I am no technophobe. I embrace technology as part of my life. Where I see a problem is giving ourselves over completely to technology. Who is in control? What are the safeguards, checks, and balances to a system that knows everything about you? If I purchase a tube of Preparation H for a family member will I be subjected to a system that insists that I have hemorrhoids? Will there be a donut cushion waiting for me on the next flight I take?
You know... you don't have to watch it. If it totaly sucks it will not be a great tragedy. Someone else WILL make it again... and again.. and again... How many Peter Pans do we need anyway! :)