"Stealing Brand Traffic" ? - thats on page 2 of the article if you have not read it - Good heavens you better send these 'terrorists' to Cuba at the same time.
While I cannot spell shakespears-globe.org and always end up at some typosquatter i feel this is my fault not a trademark 'ip theft' - or put another way amzon should have registered that too along with amazon
Looks like standard ms 'fud' here. - Im still blaming my english teachers and 1960's teaching methods. - if these guys had there way billgatesisgay.com would link to microsoft.com - to stop 'theft' or censor the internet. but i dont trust microsoft.
I for one welcome George W Bush to the fight against terrorist zombie pc's on A T & T networks.
I'm going to comment all my spamcop reports from now on with 'how was Sesame Street today George'
(humour)
Notes is so so, The Domino product has suffered through wary customers (who got an old version of notes for free with the ibm support deal and are too dumb to use it for anything else other than email.
IBM have given this product line some awfull big bosses too, Mr Zollar comes to mind - IBM sold the ibm pc business he 'ran' and poor Lotus had him as general manager - he left but you get the idea.
As installing its ok as long as you have the 'supported' version of linux. - patches worked too on the right version
As to release 7, not used it (nor have ibm contacted me about it), email server wise it works, and domino can be fairly well 'tuned' I prefer postfix and some people dont use domino and an inbound external smtp server
Notes perhaps is complex to explain as it does quite a lot and is not a real 'database' - but as it does not come from Microsoft and is probably a 'hard sell' to pointy hair types - you all probably know the myth about why did IBM bought Lotus - apparently to fix the out of office agent in release 3 for the ceo.
Indeed - but the debate in the government appears to be is the new 'Trusted Computing' software and hardware on the motherboards etc safe.
While firms like intel are not that 'willing' to discuss what there hardware does, and an austrailain employee said its not intels job to police the reports of say unauthorized file access/etc that may get sent to them.
Its an it industry problem which Bill Gates and the committee behind the secrets of what 'trusted computing is' has failed to spell out what there aims where. - safe for the mpaa/riaa or safe or for users? - I'm not a big follower of that sort of thing but i see new room for abuse here and the silience about tc speaks louder than words to me. - While our chinese friends might be honest, who really knows.
Roach Runner (rr.com) is full of spambots trying to send out email, fwiw all rr ip space it is blocked from emailing our domain - quite a few listings in spamhaus.org there too.
Its strange that the rr.com side of time warner seems to have missed the point of spam that aol 'hates' so much.
I have no issues with blocking email, yet i look for changed behavior from an isp, rather than money for their recieving there 'spam'.
Charging for mail - is up to aol, and although the free whitelist is still there if they (aol) cannot use spf, yahoo dom keys etc to validate email why should I have to verify with them that when we do email an aol dumb user, that yes we are good guys rather than bad guys ?
We are in europe - we dont have an american site/operation, so i hope that does not exclude us from the the scheme - as you had to have an american office in the stuff i read previously about aols new system - on that point we would fail because we dont have an american postal address.
The web person has put a note on the web forms that 'email to aol addresses cannot be guaranteed'
The point of this is if aol can only think that money will solve the problem of spam then there as dumb as they come. We have spf, etc. I might submit to that white list - but since the average aol user is not our target audience, im not going to either pay or fill out a form that aol might provide us with. If i do it for aol, why i might be doing it for all isp's soon.
if your an aol user: you are going to need a webmail account with google, or yahoo
if your on rr.com: tell them to clean up there network (both biz and residential.
I was affected - but perhaps the ddosers wanted some cash from the spammers?. However our spam load was much reduced as to who wanted what and from whom i dont know - less spam was the result here.
Perhaps this will do joker some good either by stopping the sales of junk domain names like ikty677899dddff.com (made up example) and clean up the domain name 'trade', which is by no means perfect but makes many of us think there as complict as the spammers.
My new car insurance firm wanted my old policy number / stuff - I'd tore it up - so on the 2nd request I taped it together again posted it them , and got a discount back - what that says anout online insurance operations you can think about that yourself
My dad (europe based) was phoned up by a boilerhouse stock operation in america offering him shares in Toys R us, it came arround christmas time this offer too. Sounded fishy even then.
Before this sd account is deemed worthless (everything I write a zero), may i add i now use safari instead of buying 'amazon books' - having to login to a9 (yes i once got discount from amazon) seemed a right royal pain up the backside.
I've not bought a 'book' in months, or visited amazon either. - Googling is easier
Nice idea but , I only generate pdf's on the fly from a php script, not a big pdf user but i would need an php plugin library thingy as well.
There missing a lot of the functions many of us take for granted, pdf is something i know users will have, and its easy to generate pdf code and present to a browser to handle.
I'd rather not have to use microsoft windows to create documents from our website and then ftp/scp it back.
Bills done a lot - I mean he helped create an army of compromised windows pcs through bad software design leadership.
As to things like m/s's senderid, or yahoos domain keys I'm thinking of implementing domain keys, not the microsoft 'solution' - no effort(or money) will be given to microsofts help in solving there problem.
Yep we already have spf.
The problem with Yahoo domain keys (or solutions) is that the tools out there are ok, once you start you then hit a few brick walls, validating keys is easy (but no benefit to us), signing is something I've yet to successfully automate.
So I know that it can be done, but the few extra headers you get our email clients do not take any notice off. Domain keys like spf needs to be easier for users to determine if the message is fake - without going to view the headers in email.
If domain keys (or other insert spam reducing scheme) makes life easier for one organisation say yahoo, but makes very little difference to the end users I see not much point in it.
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"Stealing Brand Traffic" ? - thats on page 2 of the article if you have not read it - Good heavens you better send these 'terrorists' to Cuba at the same time.
While I cannot spell shakespears-globe.org and always end up at some typosquatter i feel this is my fault not a trademark 'ip theft' - or put another way amzon should have registered that too along with amazon
Looks like standard ms 'fud' here. - Im still blaming my english teachers and 1960's teaching methods. - if these guys had there way billgatesisgay.com would link to microsoft.com - to stop 'theft' or censor the internet. but i dont trust microsoft.
I for one welcome George W Bush to the fight against terrorist zombie pc's on A T & T networks. I'm going to comment all my spamcop reports from now on with 'how was Sesame Street today George' (humour)
Well heres what Jerry Taylor (yes him) of Tuttle thinks:
"Get this web site off mah home page!!!!! It is weed-smokin' access ta mah website!!!!~!,"azoogled and seen on a blog.
Notes is so so, The Domino product has suffered through wary customers (who got an old version of notes for free with the ibm support deal and are too dumb to use it for anything else other than email.
IBM have given this product line some awfull big bosses too, Mr Zollar comes to mind - IBM sold the ibm pc business he 'ran' and poor Lotus had him as general manager - he left but you get the idea.
As installing its ok as long as you have the 'supported' version of linux. - patches worked too on the right version
As to release 7, not used it (nor have ibm contacted me about it), email server wise it works, and domino can be fairly well 'tuned' I prefer postfix and some people dont use domino and an inbound external smtp server
Notes perhaps is complex to explain as it does quite a lot and is not a real 'database' - but as it does not come from Microsoft and is probably a 'hard sell' to pointy hair types - you all probably know the myth about why did IBM bought Lotus - apparently to fix the out of office agent in release 3 for the ceo.
Indeed - but the debate in the government appears to be is the new 'Trusted Computing' software and hardware on the motherboards etc safe.
While firms like intel are not that 'willing' to discuss what there hardware does, and an austrailain employee said its not intels job to police the reports of say unauthorized file access/etc that may get sent to them.
Its an it industry problem which Bill Gates and the committee behind the secrets of what 'trusted computing is' has failed to spell out what there aims where. - safe for the mpaa/riaa or safe or for users? - I'm not a big follower of that sort of thing but i see new room for abuse here and the silience about tc speaks louder than words to me. - While our chinese friends might be honest, who really knows.
Well they still seem to send out spam. I gave up on the one rr.com abuse desk employee.
Its strange that the rr.com side of time warner seems to have missed the point of spam that aol 'hates' so much.
I have no issues with blocking email, yet i look for changed behavior from an isp, rather than money for their recieving there 'spam'.
Charging for mail - is up to aol, and although the free whitelist is still there if they (aol) cannot use spf, yahoo dom keys etc to validate email why should I have to verify with them that when we do email an aol dumb user, that yes we are good guys rather than bad guys ?
We are in europe - we dont have an american site/operation, so i hope that does not exclude us from the the scheme - as you had to have an american office in the stuff i read previously about aols new system - on that point we would fail because we dont have an american postal address.
The web person has put a note on the web forms that 'email to aol addresses cannot be guaranteed'
The point of this is if aol can only think that money will solve the problem of spam then there as dumb as they come. We have spf, etc. I might submit to that white list - but since the average aol user is not our target audience, im not going to either pay or fill out a form that aol might provide us with. If i do it for aol, why i might be doing it for all isp's soon.
if your an aol user: you are going to need a webmail account with google, or yahoo
if your on rr.com: tell them to clean up there network (both biz and residential.
I was affected - but perhaps the ddosers wanted some cash from the spammers?. However our spam load was much reduced as to who wanted what and from whom i dont know - less spam was the result here.
Perhaps this will do joker some good either by stopping the sales of junk domain names like ikty677899dddff.com (made up example) and clean up the domain name 'trade', which is by no means perfect but makes many of us think there as complict as the spammers.
My new car insurance firm wanted my old policy number / stuff - I'd tore it up - so on the 2nd request I taped it together again posted it them , and got a discount back - what that says anout online insurance operations you can think about that yourself
they seem to accept distressed mail just 'fine'
My dad (europe based) was phoned up by a boilerhouse stock operation in america offering him shares in Toys R us, it came arround christmas time this offer too. Sounded fishy even then.
Its 'blame the computer' time - there 'professionals', personally speaking ive yet to find a computer that did not admit it was at fault. (humour)
I'm a very nice freak, and every slashdotter should have one. - I thought everybody knew about safari other than being an apple thingy.
I've not bought a 'book' in months, or visited amazon either. - Googling is easier
Nice idea but , I only generate pdf's on the fly from a php script, not a big pdf user but i would need an php plugin library thingy as well. There missing a lot of the functions many of us take for granted, pdf is something i know users will have, and its easy to generate pdf code and present to a browser to handle. I'd rather not have to use microsoft windows to create documents from our website and then ftp/scp it back.
In my next 'learn to use your windows pc book'.
/mbr
to reboot your windows pc, open a dos prompt and type fdisk
As to things like m/s's senderid, or yahoos domain keys I'm thinking of implementing domain keys, not the microsoft 'solution' - no effort(or money) will be given to microsofts help in solving there problem.
Yep we already have spf.
The problem with Yahoo domain keys (or solutions) is that the tools out there are ok, once you start you then hit a few brick walls, validating keys is easy (but no benefit to us), signing is something I've yet to successfully automate.
So I know that it can be done, but the few extra headers you get our email clients do not take any notice off. Domain keys like spf needs to be easier for users to determine if the message is fake - without going to view the headers in email.
If domain keys (or other insert spam reducing scheme) makes life easier for one organisation say yahoo, but makes very little difference to the end users I see not much point in it.