Why wouldn't they, um, just set up their software to automatically respond to the emails?
(I assume "they" refers to spammers.)
That would require spammers to use valid return addresses. This raises their costs and makes them less anonymous. It won't happen (at least on a large enough scale to matter).
Mailing list software should never respond to a challenge from a subscriber. Any such challenges should be treated as bounces and should unsubscribe the user.
You don't necessarily have to run your own mail server, just have access to it. You can keep a local copy of all the TMDA Python scripts in your homedir. You just have to know the mail server setup. Essentially, each user makes their own key and filters anyways, the scripts would just reside in a directory accessable to all instead of your homedir.
You whitelist the envelope sender of , so they make it through to your mailbox. (All TMDA auto-generated confirmation messages are sent with the sender )
Alternatively, you can use dated, sender, or keyword addresses in your outgoing mail, ie: chris-dated-32542835.328523@foo.org would be a valid address for only a set period of time, so any mail coming in to that address would be dumped directly to my inbox.
Shrug, I've been using TMDA for a few months now and I love it.
You should consider properly installing your Afterburner before making comments like this.
The light is amazing, it helps every single game. I notice _no_ wash out in any of my games. Many people did have trouble installing it but the process is really easy, if you're patient. I've done a couple installs and averaged about two hours per. Following the directions and not rushing things led to a couple flawless installs. Read up on the latest tips in the forum and be prepared to spend a couple hours doing the actual install and you'll be 100% satisfied with the results.
Also, I've hit 8 hours with energizer 2 batteries and they haven't had to be replaced yet. Rechargable batteries won't ever last that long probably, depending on what type of batteries they are.
The funniest goof-up I've noticed when re-watching the DVD's was when they resurrect Starfire (the HUGE autobot that transforms to an airplane that carries the other autobots). He doesn't claim sides in the autobot vs decepticon war yet, but the decepticons find him, so being the bastard that he is, Megatron slaps a decepticon logo on him and convinces him autobots are evil. Then, multiple times, it shows Starfire talking and he's got an autobot logo where the decepticon logo should have been. It kept flipping back and forth until he finally decided decepticons were evil and joined forces with the autobots:)
There are all kinds of amusing goof-up's, but its still hard to shut off the dvd player once I've started watching the episodes. I'll definately keep buying the season box sets when they come out.
Your use of the nifty catch phrase is out of context here, and just doesn't make sense. In fact its almost *gasp* off topic.
A closer analogy here would be comparing this to a bunch of sysadmins who posted a list of ports/protocols they allow through their firewalls, what kind of firewall software they use, and what logging/tracking methods they use... its just not a good idea, reguardless of what your views of public disclosure are.
Hmmm.. I saw pictures of the Japanese pad long before Xbox was released in Japan. The outcry was the US demanding the Japanese controllers if anything.. Microsoft had already planned on releasing them in Japan. In fact, I've seen a screen capture of somebody playing a US-released game with a Japanese controller plugged into their Xbox and it had a picture of the smaller controller in the config screen. This means the game developers had known about the small controllers and had designed the setup screens accordingly. Lack of foresight? Probably not.
PS2 is the top of online play? EQ for PS2 isn't even out yet and they're already dominating? That's impressive. EQ is coming to PS2 to push the broadband adapter sales. You can't really compare online play with console games until Microsoft launches its Xbox gaming system. Sure thousands of people use GameSpy Tunnel to play Xbox online right now, but I'm sure that number will increase when Microsoft makes it easier to play online.
Xbox was designed for high definition video and audio. Plain and simple.. it was intended to be a better performing system and pump out solid frame rates at high resolutions. That's exactly what it does (compare Max Payne frame rate drops on PS2 to the lack of them on the Xbox if you don't know what I'm talking about). To suggest that the PS2 is a better performing system or even an equivalent system is just nonsense.
I'm so tired of anti-M$ cronies whining about how Xbox is an inferior system based on their mostly unfounded hatred of Microsoft. I don't think the PS2 is an entirely bad system, but for that same $300, you can get one hell of a better machine if you buy an Xbox instead.
Don't bother sending empty envelopes. Be sure you cut up their literature, old newspapers, etc, into small peices and shove them into the envelope until it can't take anymore.
For phone soliciters, passing them off just isn't fun. You've gotta play with them for a while first. I usually give them a quiz about their product/service they'd like to sell (throwing in my own made up words as I go along) and see how well they do. Usually, they hang up before me;)
As for the spammers, those bastards got what was coming to them.
They're not in a place that any of us can just go and visit to complain to;)
The efficiency issue is more of an issue the directors can take care of here on the planet. The people conducting the research and doing the work don't really have a direct means of being harassed by the consumers, AFAIK. I don't think this really effects efficiency that much, but it sure does raise the level of interest. It seems kind of odd NASA wouldn't want more people to know about it.
I've got somewhat mixed feelings about what the proper action is in this case also, but from a personal standpoint, I'd love to be able to read the logs freely. I don't think they necessarily 'owe' me the right to view the logs because I'm paying my tax dollars toward this. I'm paying taxes to benefit the society, whether or not that involves me looking at exactly what they are doing.
I'm using the latest drivers from voodoo.. q3a has a FPS lock it uses, I don't remember the var off the top of my head.. hit ~ for the console and type sv_ and hit tab for the list, its something like sv_maxfps I think. The default is 85 iirc. I set this to some ungodly high number and thats the only modification I made, the textures stayed at best, all eye candy switches were on. I did this at 1024x768 resolution. The machine is a dual pIII 850 with 256mb ram, and com_hunkmegs in q3a is set to take 100mb on startup.
If I feel like it, I may try to snap some screenshots if you still don't believe me. I've heard of people hitting 400fps but they were looking at a wall or something. I was looking across a space map (mostly black, textureless environment.. q3dm17 if anybody cares).
Don't doubt what you don't take the time to understand..
I've got a Voodoo5 5500 in my box, and I tried some beta drivers (availiable at linux.3dfx.com) that really didn't perform very well.
I was unable to get any color depth greater than 8bpp as I recall. This was on xfree 4.0.1 and I followed their instructions to the letter. I tried this on slackware-current (current as of a month or so ago).
The card performs very well in windows (200+fps easily in q3a), but if you're considering buying one to run in X, I'd suggest you stay away from the voodoo4/5 line until they produce some better drivers.
If you can't handle notepad or edit, this looks like it'll combine the debugging and intellisense stuff in VS. Says its due out when VS7 comes out, so I'm not going to hold my breath.
BTW, on perl.com, there is always a link to the FAQ "Is there a Windows version of Perl?" right there on the left side of the main page.
I do a lot of misc stuff with it on my workstation, like rotating logs, grab news, have a pyschotherapy session with Eliza *g*, whatever I need a quick script for. Perl can be used for a whole lot more than just web-related stuff, which many people don't consider (which IMHO is naive). Just ask #perl on EFnet;)
EFnet isn't dying entirely of DoS attacks, as the admins would lead you to believe. I've been a long time user of EFnet, and I think the DoS attacks coupled with very poor administration is whats slowly hacking away at the network. Opers just don't care anymore. All the ircd's are poorly written with the intent to stop spam, which ultimately stops the average joe, like me, from being able to do something as simple as a channel wallop.
I've complained plenty about this, but the opers don't listen/care. I hate this lack of concern/organization, and I truly believe it'll bring down EFnet eventually if it keeps up.
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Why wouldn't they, um, just set up their software to automatically respond to the emails?
(I assume "they" refers to spammers.)
That would require spammers to use valid return addresses. This raises their costs and makes them less anonymous. It won't happen (at least on a large enough scale to matter).
Mailing list software should never respond to a challenge from a subscriber. Any such challenges should be treated as bounces and should unsubscribe the user.
-chris
You don't necessarily have to run your own mail server, just have access to it. You can keep a local copy of all the TMDA Python scripts in your homedir. You just have to know the mail server setup. Essentially, each user makes their own key and filters anyways, the scripts would just reside in a directory accessable to all instead of your homedir.
You whitelist the envelope sender of , so they make it through to your mailbox. (All TMDA auto-generated confirmation messages are sent with the sender )
Alternatively, you can use dated, sender, or keyword addresses in your outgoing mail, ie: chris-dated-32542835.328523@foo.org would be a valid address for only a set period of time, so any mail coming in to that address would be dumped directly to my inbox.
Shrug, I've been using TMDA for a few months now and I love it.
-chris
You should consider properly installing your Afterburner before making comments like this.
The light is amazing, it helps every single game. I notice _no_ wash out in any of my games. Many people did have trouble installing it but the process is really easy, if you're patient. I've done a couple installs and averaged about two hours per. Following the directions and not rushing things led to a couple flawless installs. Read up on the latest tips in the forum and be prepared to spend a couple hours doing the actual install and you'll be 100% satisfied with the results.
Also, I've hit 8 hours with energizer 2 batteries and they haven't had to be replaced yet. Rechargable batteries won't ever last that long probably, depending on what type of batteries they are.
The funniest goof-up I've noticed when re-watching the DVD's was when they resurrect Starfire (the HUGE autobot that transforms to an airplane that carries the other autobots). He doesn't claim sides in the autobot vs decepticon war yet, but the decepticons find him, so being the bastard that he is, Megatron slaps a decepticon logo on him and convinces him autobots are evil. Then, multiple times, it shows Starfire talking and he's got an autobot logo where the decepticon logo should have been. It kept flipping back and forth until he finally decided decepticons were evil and joined forces with the autobots :)
There are all kinds of amusing goof-up's, but its still hard to shut off the dvd player once I've started watching the episodes. I'll definately keep buying the season box sets when they come out.
-chris
Your use of the nifty catch phrase is out of context here, and just doesn't make sense. In fact its almost *gasp* off topic.
A closer analogy here would be comparing this to a bunch of sysadmins who posted a list of ports/protocols they allow through their firewalls, what kind of firewall software they use, and what logging/tracking methods they use... its just not a good idea, reguardless of what your views of public disclosure are.
NiftyNews has a point.
Hmmm.. I saw pictures of the Japanese pad long before Xbox was released in Japan. The outcry was the US demanding the Japanese controllers if anything.. Microsoft had already planned on releasing them in Japan. In fact, I've seen a screen capture of somebody playing a US-released game with a Japanese controller plugged into their Xbox and it had a picture of the smaller controller in the config screen. This means the game developers had known about the small controllers and had designed the setup screens accordingly. Lack of foresight? Probably not.
PS2 is the top of online play? EQ for PS2 isn't even out yet and they're already dominating? That's impressive. EQ is coming to PS2 to push the broadband adapter sales. You can't really compare online play with console games until Microsoft launches its Xbox gaming system. Sure thousands of people use GameSpy Tunnel to play Xbox online right now, but I'm sure that number will increase when Microsoft makes it easier to play online.
Xbox was designed for high definition video and audio. Plain and simple.. it was intended to be a better performing system and pump out solid frame rates at high resolutions. That's exactly what it does (compare Max Payne frame rate drops on PS2 to the lack of them on the Xbox if you don't know what I'm talking about). To suggest that the PS2 is a better performing system or even an equivalent system is just nonsense.
I'm so tired of anti-M$ cronies whining about how Xbox is an inferior system based on their mostly unfounded hatred of Microsoft. I don't think the PS2 is an entirely bad system, but for that same $300, you can get one hell of a better machine if you buy an Xbox instead.
Don't bother sending empty envelopes. Be sure you cut up their literature, old newspapers, etc, into small peices and shove them into the envelope until it can't take anymore.
;)
For phone soliciters, passing them off just isn't fun. You've gotta play with them for a while first. I usually give them a quiz about their product/service they'd like to sell (throwing in my own made up words as I go along) and see how well they do. Usually, they hang up before me
As for the spammers, those bastards got what was coming to them.
I'm not sure that logic applies here.
;)
They're not in a place that any of us can just go and visit to complain to
The efficiency issue is more of an issue the directors can take care of here on the planet. The people conducting the research and doing the work don't really have a direct means of being harassed by the consumers, AFAIK. I don't think this really effects efficiency that much, but it sure does raise the level of interest. It seems kind of odd NASA wouldn't want more people to know about it.
I've got somewhat mixed feelings about what the proper action is in this case also, but from a personal standpoint, I'd love to be able to read the logs freely. I don't think they necessarily 'owe' me the right to view the logs because I'm paying my tax dollars toward this. I'm paying taxes to benefit the society, whether or not that involves me looking at exactly what they are doing.
I'm using the latest drivers from voodoo.. q3a has a FPS lock it uses, I don't remember the var off the top of my head.. hit ~ for the console and type sv_ and hit tab for the list, its something like sv_maxfps I think. The default is 85 iirc. I set this to some ungodly high number and thats the only modification I made, the textures stayed at best, all eye candy switches were on. I did this at 1024x768 resolution. The machine is a dual pIII 850 with 256mb ram, and com_hunkmegs in q3a is set to take 100mb on startup.
If I feel like it, I may try to snap some screenshots if you still don't believe me. I've heard of people hitting 400fps but they were looking at a wall or something. I was looking across a space map (mostly black, textureless environment.. q3dm17 if anybody cares).
Don't doubt what you don't take the time to understand..
Read my earlier post about the v5 5500 I've got. I'd hesitate to recommend it until I actually see one that can even handle decent 2d video.
I've also got a v3 2000 that works very well in X.. which would probably be a fine selection with the price of the card dropping all the time.
I've got a Voodoo5 5500 in my box, and I tried some beta drivers (availiable at linux.3dfx.com) that really didn't perform very well.
I was unable to get any color depth greater than 8bpp as I recall. This was on xfree 4.0.1 and I followed their instructions to the letter. I tried this on slackware-current (current as of a month or so ago).
The card performs very well in windows (200+fps easily in q3a), but if you're considering buying one to run in X, I'd suggest you stay away from the voodoo4/5 line until they produce some better drivers.
This looks promising: VisualPerl plugin
If you can't handle notepad or edit, this looks like it'll combine the debugging and intellisense stuff in VS. Says its due out when VS7 comes out, so I'm not going to hold my breath.
BTW, on perl.com, there is always a link to the FAQ "Is there a Windows version of Perl?" right there on the left side of the main page.
I do a lot of misc stuff with it on my workstation, like rotating logs, grab news, have a pyschotherapy session with Eliza *g*, whatever I need a quick script for. Perl can be used for a whole lot more than just web-related stuff, which many people don't consider (which IMHO is naive). Just ask #perl on EFnet ;)
Its handy, and most times just downright sexy.
EFnet isn't dying entirely of DoS attacks, as the admins would lead you to believe. I've been a long time user of EFnet, and I think the DoS attacks coupled with very poor administration is whats slowly hacking away at the network. Opers just don't care anymore. All the ircd's are poorly written with the intent to stop spam, which ultimately stops the average joe, like me, from being able to do something as simple as a channel wallop.
I've complained plenty about this, but the opers don't listen/care. I hate this lack of concern/organization, and I truly believe it'll bring down EFnet eventually if it keeps up.