How about when you refuse to pay the ludicrous taxes required to pay for your green socialist state? Oh, what's that? Freedom doesn't include keeping and enjoying the fruits of your own labour? Silly me.
I can't beleive it. NZ only gives residency visas to people who will contribute positively to the economy? What bastards. Every other country welcomes those who come to sponge off their taxpayers.
No, ISP's selling bulletproof services to spammers breaks the trust the E-mail system is founded upon. SPEWS is a last-ditch effort to preserve E-mail for the rest of us.
The only thing that will stop spammers is to run them out of places to hide. That means hurting the ISP's that harbour them, as badly as possible, until they stop supporting spammers. It is, in fact, the ONLY thing that has ever been effective in this fight. It got Sanford Wallace to stop spamming.
You can pussy around with filters all you want, but as long as the ISP you give money to every month is also taking money from spammers, you're a legitimate target.
No, you have it exactly backwards. the/8 or the/24 refer to the number of bits in the address that signify the network portion of the address. a/8 is 16 million-odd addresses. A/24 is 256 addresses.
Do you really want to fine people who don't maintain their cars, keep their signal lights and brakes working? That would certainly not be a popular law with anyone except the most overzealous drivers.
Sorry, the masses are watching "reality" TV. They aren't reading this. They will, however, vote for whichever politician is representing their party of choice in the next election (if they vote at all).
Anyone who does anything productive is an enemy of the determined environmentalist. That's why most of us ignore environmentalists, even if some of what they say is true and important.
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Once any significant percentage of domains use it, we can just not accept mail from the domains that don't.
Oh ya, our health care system is great. No one has to pay more for insurance, and everyone has the same access to it. Too bad you have to stand in line for months if you actually get sick... unless you're a senior bureaucrat or a professional athlete. For some reason, some people are more equal than others.
Our legal system also rocks. Not only do we no longer have a death penalty, but it's almost impossible to get criminals actually put in jail. We literally have people walking the streets days after they have been convicted of like their 30th B&E.
Oh ya, did I mention that our governments collectively take about 60% of our income in one tax or another, just to pay for these wonderful systems (and don't forget universal welfare, and the massive regional income redistribution system we call employment insurance).
It's wonderful. Unless you're one of the people who actually work for a living and aren't a career criminal.
OK, virtually everyone now lives to childbearing age. Natural selection in terms of strengthening the human species has ended. If we want to improve ourselves, we have to do it ourselves.
Or just outbreed our resources, ride out the inevitable crash, and go back to the old way of doing things. Which we're doing by default, by means of not doing anything to avoid it.
Well, you say that, but what you mean is, we don't want any of this new-fangled science stuff to go anywhere, cause once we can grow ourselves new organs we're another step closer to living forever, which will substantially cut down on the demand for our religious BS.
The FBI won't even talk to you unless you've suffered $50K+ worth of damages.
It's like car breakins. Who bothers even calling the police anymore, except to cya for the insurance? Our civilization is falling apart. The Internet is just a glaringly fast-paced precursor of what's coming.
Of course, if you take action yourself, that'll get you locked up faster than you can blink. Can't have people thinking they can defend themselves.
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How about when you refuse to pay the ludicrous taxes required to pay for your green socialist state? Oh, what's that? Freedom doesn't include keeping and enjoying the fruits of your own labour? Silly me.
I can't beleive it. NZ only gives residency visas to people who will contribute positively to the economy? What bastards. Every other country welcomes those who come to sponge off their taxpayers.
Only Canada.
It is trivially easy to get off SPEWS. Remove the spammers from your network.
No, ISP's selling bulletproof services to spammers breaks the trust the E-mail system is founded upon. SPEWS is a last-ditch effort to preserve E-mail for the rest of us.
SPEWS is very responsive. Kick the spammers off your network and they'll unlist you. It really isn't that hard.
No offense, but Vancouver has about as much in common with the Ontario and Quebec to the north of you as you have with Seattle.
ie. we don't actually get winter. Although it did snow a little last week.
It does rain a lot though. Like right now. Certainly not the best time to come here, but it isn't cold.
The only thing that will stop spammers is to run them out of places to hide. That means hurting the ISP's that harbour them, as badly as possible, until they stop supporting spammers. It is, in fact, the ONLY thing that has ever been effective in this fight. It got Sanford Wallace to stop spamming.
You can pussy around with filters all you want, but as long as the ISP you give money to every month is also taking money from spammers, you're a legitimate target.
No, you have it exactly backwards. the /8 or the /24 refer to the number of bits in the address that signify the network portion of the address. a /8 is 16 million-odd addresses. A /24 is 256 addresses.
Do you really want to fine people who don't maintain their cars, keep their signal lights and brakes working? That would certainly not be a popular law with anyone except the most overzealous drivers.
Sorry, the masses are watching "reality" TV. They aren't reading this. They will, however, vote for whichever politician is representing their party of choice in the next election (if they vote at all).
There are hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy alone.
setup SPF records in your DNS per http://spf.pobox.com/
Organizations like AOL will hopefully start blocking based on those records soon.
Extensive use of SPF records should make domain forgery more difficult (at least of the domains that use them).
Nope, Comcast has them all beat by a fair margin.
Probably not much. Name one person who wants drugs or guns currently but is unable to acquire them.
It's Bayes poison. They're trying to screw up spam filters by feeding them junk to train on.
It took geologists 50 years to believe in plate tectonics and continental drift. Give them a few more years on this one.
Anyone who does anything productive is an enemy of the determined environmentalist. That's why most of us ignore environmentalists, even if some of what they say is true and important.
Once any significant percentage of domains use it, we can just not accept mail from the domains that don't.
That's just people who register in their database.
I've published SPF records for >100K domains for my employer, and that's just one sample.
Oh ya, our health care system is great. No one has to pay more for insurance, and everyone has the same access to it. Too bad you have to stand in line for months if you actually get sick ... unless you're a senior bureaucrat or a professional athlete. For some reason, some people are more equal than others.
Our legal system also rocks. Not only do we no longer have a death penalty, but it's almost impossible to get criminals actually put in jail. We literally have people walking the streets days after they have been convicted of like their 30th B&E.
Oh ya, did I mention that our governments collectively take about 60% of our income in one tax or another, just to pay for these wonderful systems (and don't forget universal welfare, and the massive regional income redistribution system we call employment insurance).
It's wonderful. Unless you're one of the people who actually work for a living and aren't a career criminal.
OK, virtually everyone now lives to childbearing age. Natural selection in terms of strengthening the human species has ended. If we want to improve ourselves, we have to do it ourselves.
Or just outbreed our resources, ride out the inevitable crash, and go back to the old way of doing things. Which we're doing by default, by means of not doing anything to avoid it.
Well, you say that, but what you mean is, we don't want any of this new-fangled science stuff to go anywhere, cause once we can grow ourselves new organs we're another step closer to living forever, which will substantially cut down on the demand for our religious BS.
OK, you try and get someone to prosecute them. I'm not denying it's all illegal. I'm just saying you'll never get a cop to do anything about it.
The FBI won't even talk to you unless you've suffered $50K+ worth of damages.
It's like car breakins. Who bothers even calling the police anymore, except to cya for the insurance? Our civilization is falling apart. The Internet is just a glaringly fast-paced precursor of what's coming.
Of course, if you take action yourself, that'll get you locked up faster than you can blink. Can't have people thinking they can defend themselves.
The authorities are busy chasing DMCA violators and drug users.
Maybe if you can convince them that spammers don't pay their taxes or something we can get some action. Who knows.