I agree that this is a possible problem... but a companies opt-in list of aol members wont miraculously become void of actual people. They will drop off slowly, to where said org can appropriately groom their list (WHICH YOU JERKS SHOULD DO ANYWAY INSTEAD OF BEING LAZY)
Adn essentially, I imagine a LOT of people do this locally. But AOL is in a unique position, that they are the largest target for spam, and have the EASIEST way of detecting it (by flagging excessive mail to unused accounts). Have that list for the general public to suck down and everyones spam from said places would drop dramatically. The response time could be multitudes faster and more effective than spews
Actually, I started noticing this as well, but what was peculiar is these, of all the mail that I got, was somehow NOT being flagged as spam (or possible spam for that matter). Upon some minor investigation, the email coming across actually did have other charactors in the subject, just wierd non-ascii ones you generally cant see. I imagine this, plus some randomness in the actual body, and spam filters get pretty baffled. At least for now
... you know, something really simple that would help the war on spam.
1) Clean up your 20 year old database of it's unused usernames 2)Blacklist any server/ip/whatever that sends email to x amount of disabled accounts (I would say x ==5 but any value really would work)
3) Publish said blacklist
There is no way a spammer could avoid an AOL address. Start doing this with hotmail, yahoo mail, netscape mail, whatever mail, and I think we would be able to lock off the "bad" senders a lot faster than projects such as spews.
Using Dice.com (or Monster.com) as an example that IT jobs are more in demand, is plain rediculous. Have you SEEN any of said job postings? Nothing like a receptionist looking for "10 years experience in windows XP and Interweb Gooey experience a must".
Humans --> Apes --> [pass millions of years... something happened but we have no idea what] --> Primordial Slop --> [Pass bunches of billions of years... who knows how many or what happened] --> Big Bang --> [We have no idea but its fun to speculate]
The scientists you speak of set up the "perfect environment" because they don't have billions of years for certain things to "possibly" happen. Life itself is pretty hard to come by. It apparently can't be just anywhere. What is most likely is a set of criteria needs met (like the formation of amino acids) before life can begin. Maybe it failed a trillion times before getting going on earth. Who knows. The "gaps" in species (meaning the reason we can't tell what organism jumped to what) is likely two reasons... 1) Everything we see right now is a miniscule fraction of things that have been alive before. It could be that in a lot of cases the "intermediate" stages of said creature failed when an upgraded version showed up. This is certainly a strong theory of what happened when going from Ape->Man. 2) It could be part of evolution to start making radical genetic changes when the species is in danger or other circumstances. Maybe it failed a trillion times, but on the trillion and first, a good, large, genetic mutation took place.
Relativity was never "proven". It is still a theory. It's just a theory that keeps on getting confirmed by experiment after experiment.
The difference is, I can SHOW you evidence of evolution. Walk into the Natural History Museum in Washington DC... there are plenty. Now show me ANYTHING other than babble that "proves" anything about intelligent design.
While this is mostly off-topic, it is something I have very recently experienced. Generic Tussin DOES NOT WORK the same as Robotussin. I dont know why. I just know that I have to take twice as much (same volume of active ingredients) Generic to feel even CLOSE to better as Robotussin. The same holds true for Excedrine as well. Name brand Excedrine will almost always get rid of my headache. Its just Acetaminophen (tylenol), Asprin, and a bit-o-caffine. Generics with the same active ingredients do absolutely nothing for me. Maybe the inactive ingredients have some purpose...
I would say a guinea pig IS a real job. More productive than... flipping burgers at McDonalds. More noble than a crack dealer. Just because said person didn't do what you did, doesn't make it any less worthwhile.
I think you fail to realize how seperated China TRIES to be from the rest of us. They already cripple the internet for their people to where its more like a ChinaNet. The same goes for their economy. Walk down the street and people are selling pirated american IP with no threat of persecution. They could care less what it means to business or economy of anyone outside of china.
My take? If they are saying "Fuck you", then I say "Well, FUCK YOU TOO, BUDDY!"
I think if it ultimately gets out of hand, we will just blacklist all of china traffic at the backbones. They like to play by themselves phyically... so lets just help them out virtually too.
I call bullshit. What are you doing to get your registry corrupted? Being directly in charge of countless NT4/Win2k/XP workstations in my 8 years of doing so, I had one... yes ONE instance of a registry corruption, and it happened due to the powwer going out and the UPS being no good. Honestly. I can't simply be having "stellar luck"
... the secretary that did the typing NEEDS TO LAY OFF THE MCDONALDS. You would think your fat ass would cause some concern, but now your fat fingers are COSTING.
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I agree that this is a possible problem... but a companies opt-in list of aol members wont miraculously become void of actual people. They will drop off slowly, to where said org can appropriately groom their list (WHICH YOU JERKS SHOULD DO ANYWAY INSTEAD OF BEING LAZY)
Adn essentially, I imagine a LOT of people do this locally. But AOL is in a unique position, that they are the largest target for spam, and have the EASIEST way of detecting it (by flagging excessive mail to unused accounts). Have that list for the general public to suck down and everyones spam from said places would drop dramatically. The response time could be multitudes faster and more effective than spews
Actually, I started noticing this as well, but what was peculiar is these, of all the mail that I got, was somehow NOT being flagged as spam (or possible spam for that matter). Upon some minor investigation, the email coming across actually did have other charactors in the subject, just wierd non-ascii ones you generally cant see. I imagine this, plus some randomness in the actual body, and spam filters get pretty baffled. At least for now
Thanks. Not only do you apparently not understand the full nature of spamhaus, you never even read my full comment, else you wouldnt have made yours.
... you know, something really simple that would help the war on spam.
1) Clean up your 20 year old database of it's unused usernames
2)Blacklist any server/ip/whatever that sends email to x amount of disabled accounts (I would say x ==5 but any value really would work)
3) Publish said blacklist
There is no way a spammer could avoid an AOL address. Start doing this with hotmail, yahoo mail, netscape mail, whatever mail, and I think we would be able to lock off the "bad" senders a lot faster than projects such as spews.
Using Dice.com (or Monster.com) as an example that IT jobs are more in demand, is plain rediculous. Have you SEEN any of said job postings? Nothing like a receptionist looking for "10 years experience in windows XP and Interweb Gooey experience a must".
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Actually, the Outlook Express COM Object is inaccessible to active scripting. Any exploits of such nature only work with Outlook.
Christ, have you to be on smack. Have you ever LOOKED at the Linux Kernel code? There is some CRAP in there. Mountains of it. Solar systems of it.
More like:
Humans --> Apes --> [pass millions of years... something happened but we have no idea what] --> Primordial Slop --> [Pass bunches of billions of years... who knows how many or what happened] --> Big Bang --> [We have no idea but its fun to speculate]
The scientists you speak of set up the "perfect environment" because they don't have billions of years for certain things to "possibly" happen. Life itself is pretty hard to come by. It apparently can't be just anywhere. What is most likely is a set of criteria needs met (like the formation of amino acids) before life can begin. Maybe it failed a trillion times before getting going on earth. Who knows. The "gaps" in species (meaning the reason we can't tell what organism jumped to what) is likely two reasons... 1) Everything we see right now is a miniscule fraction of things that have been alive before. It could be that in a lot of cases the "intermediate" stages of said creature failed when an upgraded version showed up. This is certainly a strong theory of what happened when going from Ape->Man. 2) It could be part of evolution to start making radical genetic changes when the species is in danger or other circumstances. Maybe it failed a trillion times, but on the trillion and first, a good, large, genetic mutation took place.
Relativity was never "proven". It is still a theory. It's just a theory that keeps on getting confirmed by experiment after experiment.
The difference is, I can SHOW you evidence of evolution. Walk into the Natural History Museum in Washington DC... there are plenty. Now show me ANYTHING other than babble that "proves" anything about intelligent design.
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While this is mostly off-topic, it is something I have very recently experienced. Generic Tussin DOES NOT WORK the same as Robotussin. I dont know why. I just know that I have to take twice as much (same volume of active ingredients) Generic to feel even CLOSE to better as Robotussin. The same holds true for Excedrine as well. Name brand Excedrine will almost always get rid of my headache. Its just Acetaminophen (tylenol), Asprin, and a bit-o-caffine. Generics with the same active ingredients do absolutely nothing for me. Maybe the inactive ingredients have some purpose...
I would say a guinea pig IS a real job. More productive than... flipping burgers at McDonalds. More noble than a crack dealer. Just because said person didn't do what you did, doesn't make it any less worthwhile.
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I think you fail to realize how seperated China TRIES to be from the rest of us. They already cripple the internet for their people to where its more like a ChinaNet. The same goes for their economy. Walk down the street and people are selling pirated american IP with no threat of persecution. They could care less what it means to business or economy of anyone outside of china.
My take? If they are saying "Fuck you", then I say "Well, FUCK YOU TOO, BUDDY!"
I think if it ultimately gets out of hand, we will just blacklist all of china traffic at the backbones. They like to play by themselves phyically... so lets just help them out virtually too.
A Beowulf cluster? Bah. I trump thee with an OpenSSI cluster of Trios! Imagine the roaming charges....
I call bullshit. What are you doing to get your registry corrupted? Being directly in charge of countless NT4/Win2k/XP workstations in my 8 years of doing so, I had one... yes ONE instance of a registry corruption, and it happened due to the powwer going out and the UPS being no good. Honestly. I can't simply be having "stellar luck"
Bah. McOpenSSI would definitely taste better...
... the secretary that did the typing NEEDS TO LAY OFF THE MCDONALDS. You would think your fat ass would cause some concern, but now your fat fingers are COSTING.
And it still works
For now...