Well. I used to be a 1&1 customer too.
I left them because of this and other inflexibilities.
Can't add custom DNS records
Can't have a simple user name (I hated their cryptic and long home-dir scheme)
Most importantly: can't run filters on the incoming mail servers
I switched to dreamhost who for the same <$10/month price also doubled my storage to 4GB (and rising each month) and seem to be so much more friendly and flexible to reasonable requests.
I saw a huge increase in bogus-bounces (what someone called backscatter) to my domain in October. About 10k bounces/day more than in September. I added an SPF record covering my domain via the self-serve custom DNS record at my ISP (dreamhost.com).
The result: a _dramatic_ decrease in bogus bounces from over 10k/day to about 60/day.
There's no doubt that enough MTA out there are implementing SPF verification and rejecting the spammer's bogus attempts. Enough to make the spammers clean SPF-protected domains from their "why not use this domain in the From: just for the heck of it" lists.
In my case it took minutes from the publishing of an SPF record, to seeing the sharp drop.
My November stats look even better. I'm down to about 6500 spams/day (total, not just bogus bounces) none of which I actually see. This is down from the well over 10k/day October peak. Not sure this has anything to do with SPF though.
I also have a solution (hey, works for me) for the recent increase in pump-and-dump GIF attachments. I'm taking multiple signatures of all MIME parts of anything hitting my honeypots and mark anything matching them as spam-by-association for a limited time.
Not only the article summary is incorrect, the reasoning itself contains some factual errors
that leave one wondering of the validity of the whole "model".
Quote:
"Consider SCO, a small Swiss-based "vulture" firm that had bought up the
intellectual property rights to a particular version of Unix and
threatened Linux users with lawsuits over infringement of those rights
unless they agree to pay substantial licensing fees. IBM, which was one of
the prime corporate sponsors of Linux as well as the target of a lawsuit
by SCO that sought $1 billion in damages, alleged in mid-2003 that SCO was
in cahoots with Microsoft...."
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Swiss based?
Bought up the intellectual property rights to a particular version of Unix?
Sounds to me like these guys are woefully uninformed to think-up realistic
"mathematical" models.
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I left them because of this and other inflexibilities.
- Can't add custom DNS records
- Can't have a simple user name (I hated their cryptic and long home-dir scheme)
- Most importantly: can't run filters on the incoming mail servers
I switched to dreamhost who for the same <$10/month price also doubled my storage to 4GB (and rising each month) and seem to be so much more friendly and flexible to reasonable requests.The result: a _dramatic_ decrease in bogus bounces from over 10k/day to about 60/day.
There's no doubt that enough MTA out there are implementing SPF verification and rejecting the spammer's bogus attempts. Enough to make the spammers clean SPF-protected domains from their "why not use this domain in the From: just for the heck of it" lists.
In my case it took minutes from the publishing of an SPF record, to seeing the sharp drop.
My story in detail is here: http://yendor.com/nospam/
My November stats look even better. I'm down to about 6500 spams/day (total, not just bogus bounces) none of which I actually see. This is down from the well over 10k/day October peak. Not sure this has anything to do with SPF though.
I also have a solution (hey, works for me) for the recent increase in pump-and-dump GIF attachments. I'm taking multiple signatures of all MIME parts of anything hitting my honeypots and mark anything matching them as spam-by-association for a limited time.
No more GIF attachment spam either.
Quote:
EndQuote- Swiss based?
- Bought up the intellectual property rights to a particular version of Unix?
Sounds to me like these guys are woefully uninformed to think-up realistic "mathematical" models.ssh allows (via authorized_keys) to execute selective remote/local actions by certain authenticated entities. And it is all highly configurable:
- who can execute remote (or local) commands
- what operations (commands) can be executed
- using what privileges (via setuid/setgid bits and command owner/group)
And since the agent (sshd) is a permanently running process, there's really nothing new in this patent as decribed.Am I missing something?