Lots of e-businesses generate unique email addresses for different consumer requests, which can then be thrown away, and individuals and mailing list managers (like ezmlm for subscription confirmations) do this too.
SPF only deals with the right-hand side of the address. e.g. everything after the at symbol.
That's like saying "a hammer isnt a building tool, its a hammering tool".
Which is also correct. Hammers can be used to take things apart, too. The point is that SPF's sole goal is to allow a domain owner to publish a policy that describes where valid email from that domain can originate. The fact that it will make life a little harder for spammers is a side effect, and a good one at that.
Seriously. Are you people really getting so much spam every day that the "delete" button just doesn't do it for you?
Yes. In one email account I received 4478 emails for December 2003. Out of all of those only 91 were legitimate messages. In another email account the spam folder had more than 10,000 spam messages caught by SpamAssassin from December 21st to January 8th. So yeah, it the "delete" button just isn't doing it for me. Thank god for SpamAssassin.
The biggest weakness of this system is that it doesn't protect against some user's system sitting on a broadband DSL/Modem line that has a Trojan Horse used to e-mail the spam. AOL's system probably would only encourage more viruses/worm designed to make computers email relays.
Correct. SPF isn't an anti-spam tool. It's an anti-forgery tool. AOL's SPF record in effect says "These are the IP addresses that are authorized to send mail whose FROM: address ends in aol.com. Please take that fact into consideration if you receive mail that says it's from aol.com but doesn't come from one of the authorized IP addresses."
Using muscle to force the Internet into a standard isn't going to work. We need something that *is* a standard, rather than *pushing* a standard upon people.
SPF isn't an AOL thing. It's something created independently and several people, most notably Meng Weng Wong, are working hard to make it a standard. There is an RFC in draft form. Feel free to join the mailing list if you want to participate in its development. AOL is just the largest user at the moment along with several others:
Two, info has cross-references. A lot of things are easier to read in a format with links, like HTML, which texinfo can output to. Now, this doesn't mean that texinfo is the optimal format, but I think man is certainly *not* the optimal format.
I agree that cross-references can be very handy. Personally, my problem with info is that I can't figure out how to show all of the nodes on one page. I find it confusing to follow the nodes and then try to go back. It's much easier for me to go up and down a single page like in man.
Okay, so their philosphical and moral stance more or less requires that behaviour, but it does seem a little unfair to criticise other groups for not cooperating.
It's not unfair. The FSF is extremely easy to predict and understand. They'd prefer that you use the GPL. Period. They have no interest in making their license compatible with others. They'd prefer that you use the GPL and that's the end of it. Have you noticed that it's all the other licenses that are striving to be compatible with the GPL, not the other way around?
...but I can't find any mention of DVDs in the article.
From the article:
"The search of Sprague's residence Thursday turned up DVD copies of 11 films...
According to the FBI, Sprague admitted receiving screeners from Caridi and said that he used the software program Copy Guard Breaker to copy the VHS tapes to DVD and then returned the original VHS tapes and two VHS copies of each to Caridi.
Sprague said that he'd made as many as six duplicate copies of each DVD and distributed them to family and friends. He supplied copies to another friend in exchange for using a FedEx shipping account, the FBI said."
If anyone is interested I found an article here that shows the difference between JPEG and JPEG2000 pictures. I found the original reference to this article in this slashdot comment.
If so, you're pretty likely to be CPU bound, so ripping from multiple drives isn't going to buy you much.
I disagree. The important variable here is his time, not his CPU speed. If he has a large hard drive then he can rip a bunch of CDs and then let the CPU convert all of them to MP3s (or whatever) while he's away from the computer. By being able to rip two CDs or more at once he's cut in half the time he has to sit at the computer waiting to insert the next CD.
The problem with that is that it assumes that the user's mail client is on the same machine as their web browser. I don't have an email client on my machine. I ssh into my server and use mutt. Your method makes it difficult to copy your email address, or just read it from the screen, and put it into mutt.
Why don't we do something similar to what was done to Alex in A Clockwork Orange. We can strap them down, keep their eyelids open, and force them to watch Gigli every day until they are "rehabilitated." Then again, maybe castration and breaking kneecaps is more humane.
according to the survey, which was based on telephone interviews with 1,002 U.S. adults in October and done in association with the independent market research firm Rockbridge Associates Inc.
1,002 people is a pretty small sample size from which to draw conclusions about all women in the U.S.
If it is the original except for the iPod, why do they say something about an "anniversary" at the beginning?
Did you listen to what was being said? It probably wouldn't make much sense unless you've read 1984. Here it is:
Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology. Where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our Unification of Thoughts is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people, with one will, one resolve, one cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death and we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!
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Here's the rest of the story.
I guess Bill Gates didn't read this.
Don't forget to publish SPF records for your domain if you have the ability to do so. If you have already done so, please register your domain via the validator.
Dupe
This could establish good case law for or against EULAs.
From the article: "The search of Sprague's residence Thursday turned up DVD copies of 11 films...
According to the FBI, Sprague admitted receiving screeners from Caridi and said that he used the software program Copy Guard Breaker to copy the VHS tapes to DVD and then returned the original VHS tapes and two VHS copies of each to Caridi.
Sprague said that he'd made as many as six duplicate copies of each DVD and distributed them to family and friends. He supplied copies to another friend in exchange for using a FedEx shipping account, the FBI said."
If anyone is interested I found an article here that shows the difference between JPEG and JPEG2000 pictures. I found the original reference to this article in this slashdot comment.
The problem with that is that it assumes that the user's mail client is on the same machine as their web browser. I don't have an email client on my machine. I ssh into my server and use mutt. Your method makes it difficult to copy your email address, or just read it from the screen, and put it into mutt.
Why don't we do something similar to what was done to Alex in A Clockwork Orange. We can strap them down, keep their eyelids open, and force them to watch Gigli every day until they are "rehabilitated." Then again, maybe castration and breaking kneecaps is more humane.
It's not a remake. It's the original with an iPod composited in.