You can also just get your company's mail admin to make the server listen on something other than port 25, for outbound SMTP authenticated relay. ISP's generally just filter port 25 outbound.
I have been unemployed (in Canada). And the social safety net pretty much consisted of "well, once you're broke, we may give you enough for a few years so you won't starve". I didn't qualify for EI because my last job was as a contractor, even though I paid into it for 10 years before that.
Fuck the social safety net. Give me back the several hundred thousand dollars I've paid in taxes over the last 15 years and get your hand out of my pocket.
Bullshit. It's trivially easy to get off SPEWS. Stop selling network services to spammers. Remove all traces of them from your network. Voila, entry disappears.
If you are complaining about your ISP's entry in SPEWS, well, then you need to complain to your ISP, not to SPEWS. You (presumably, as a customer) have standing with your ISP.
Actually SPEWS is very effective. It makes people DO something about spammers they are harbouring or sharing space with. Naturally, that's why you hate them.
Just do what we did to the assholes that brought in photo radar here. Vote them out of office the first chance you get and makes sure the replacements throw the shit out.
Ghost images work fine if everyone is running essentially the same hardware. I challenge you to find a school environment where (outside of maybe a single lab that was donated at one time) you would find that to be true.
2 factors have made me virtually stop going to theatres.
1) prices have at least doubled in the last 5-6 years. 10.50 for matinee is completely ridiculous.
2) getting bombarded with ads while at a movie I paid to watch. Complete bs.
I used to go out to movies probably 2-3 times a month. That's down to about twice a year for the odd movie I just have to see on the big screen, and even those are getting so incredibly painful that I may stop entirely.
lol what planet do you live on? Has your place never been broken into. What do you think the people breaking in would have done to you if you had been home? Shouldn't you be able to defend yourself and your family in the event?
Yes there are deranged psychotics running around and they are hell-bent on invading your home. And they don't obey gun-control laws either.
I thought Good Samaritan laws protected you in case you DID help but screwed up - ie. if you pull someone out of a burning car but paralyze them for life they can't sue you. They don't obligate you to help.
A lot of sites send mail out from different servers than they receive mail in from. You'd need a new DNS record type to indicate an "authorized" sending server.
Also, that only works if they send direct to your server. What if the person using the domain name sends through their ISP server from home? What if they send to a mailing list?
Bouncing mail you don't want is not against anyone's AUP. If you really think you're gonna get someone's access cut because they bounce spam, you're an idiot.
In fact, bouncing mail that your system does not accept, to the envelope sender, is an RFC requirement. People must receive bounces for messages that are not delivered, period.
Yes, occassionally someone whose address gets used to send spam will get a ton of bounces. But the price of the alternative is to make E-mail even more useless for communication where the parties must be able to assume the message was received.
Now, having said that, of course I don't bounce spam that actually makes it into my mailbox. What would be the point. But I certainly issue 550 rejects on my DNSbl blocks, so any real mail rejected there will get bounced back to the sender.
No, here in Canada it's actually illegal for private companies to provide the services that are covered by Medicare. We are thus forced to wait in the ever-longer lines for mediocre health care (or drive over the border), even though we could afford to pay for real care.
Unless you're a senior bureacrat, or play for a major sports team. Then for some reason it's OK to jump the lines for priority care. But you still can't get private health care.
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You can also just get your company's mail admin to make the server listen on something other than port 25, for outbound SMTP authenticated relay. ISP's generally just filter port 25 outbound.
Anyone with code in the Linux kernel should file a similar lawsuit asap. I bet IBM or RedHat would even help pay for the filing costs.
I have been unemployed (in Canada). And the social safety net pretty much consisted of "well, once you're broke, we may give you enough for a few years so you won't starve". I didn't qualify for EI because my last job was as a contractor, even though I paid into it for 10 years before that.
Fuck the social safety net. Give me back the several hundred thousand dollars I've paid in taxes over the last 15 years and get your hand out of my pocket.
Damn I wish I could mod you up. By far the most insightful post on this article.
Bullshit. It's trivially easy to get off SPEWS. Stop selling network services to spammers. Remove all traces of them from your network. Voila, entry disappears.
If you are complaining about your ISP's entry in SPEWS, well, then you need to complain to your ISP, not to SPEWS. You (presumably, as a customer) have standing with your ISP.
That's actually not a bad idea. The cops here sure don't seem to give a shit, unless you point a plastic gun at somebody or light up a joint.
You can break into people houses all day long and steal stuff just fine.
And permanently enters thousands of private blacklists. Forever.
The same people that watch Jerry Springer. Remember - the average IQ is 100. Half of everyone is dumber than that.
The US government essentially said spam wasn't their problem, and that the industry should self-regulate. Blocklists are self-regulation in action.
Actually SPEWS is very effective. It makes people DO something about spammers they are harbouring or sharing space with. Naturally, that's why you hate them.
Just do what we did to the assholes that brought in photo radar here. Vote them out of office the first chance you get and makes sure the replacements throw the shit out.
or you have out-of-state license plates.
It's worse than the address book. SoBig scrapes E-mail addresses from your web cache and other local files too I believe.
Well we could rephrase that a little.
If 60% of my income wasn't being STOLEN in the form of taxes, I could probably afford to give a lot more to charity. How's that?
Ghost images work fine if everyone is running essentially the same hardware. I challenge you to find a school environment where (outside of maybe a single lab that was donated at one time) you would find that to be true.
Of course it's an option. Hell, it's free.
If your organization is bigger than 2 people you will encounter politics.
Kazaa isn't Windows-only (unless you really have to have the genuine spy-ware).
See http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/mldonkey/ for at least one open source Kazaa client (and many other p2p networks).
2 factors have made me virtually stop going to theatres.
1) prices have at least doubled in the last 5-6 years. 10.50 for matinee is completely ridiculous.
2) getting bombarded with ads while at a movie I paid to watch. Complete bs.
I used to go out to movies probably 2-3 times a month. That's down to about twice a year for the odd movie I just have to see on the big screen, and even those are getting so incredibly painful that I may stop entirely.
lol what planet do you live on? Has your place never been broken into. What do you think the people breaking in would have done to you if you had been home? Shouldn't you be able to defend yourself and your family in the event?
Yes there are deranged psychotics running around and they are hell-bent on invading your home. And they don't obey gun-control laws either.
I thought Good Samaritan laws protected you in case you DID help but screwed up - ie. if you pull someone out of a burning car but paralyze them for life they can't sue you. They don't obligate you to help.
A lot of sites send mail out from different servers than they receive mail in from. You'd need a new DNS record type to indicate an "authorized" sending server.
Also, that only works if they send direct to your server. What if the person using the domain name sends through their ISP server from home? What if they send to a mailing list?
Bouncing mail you don't want is not against anyone's AUP. If you really think you're gonna get someone's access cut because they bounce spam, you're an idiot.
In fact, bouncing mail that your system does not accept, to the envelope sender, is an RFC requirement. People must receive bounces for messages that are not delivered, period.
Yes, occassionally someone whose address gets used to send spam will get a ton of bounces. But the price of the alternative is to make E-mail even more useless for communication where the parties must be able to assume the message was received.
Now, having said that, of course I don't bounce spam that actually makes it into my mailbox. What would be the point. But I certainly issue 550 rejects on my DNSbl blocks, so any real mail rejected there will get bounced back to the sender.
Why? We don't make 1 guy count them all. You just need 10 times the vote counters.
No, here in Canada it's actually illegal for private companies to provide the services that are covered by Medicare. We are thus forced to wait in the ever-longer lines for mediocre health care (or drive over the border), even though we could afford to pay for real care.
Unless you're a senior bureacrat, or play for a major sports team. Then for some reason it's OK to jump the lines for priority care. But you still can't get private health care.