As an e-mail admin, I have had the same problem many months ago with Comcast. I made phone calls and got nowhere.
But, more intrestingly, is Verizon's idea of cost effectiveness. Block lists are really a poor man's spam filter. A good spam filter will use block lists as only a single factor, one among many. But, to implement a weighted spam filtering system costs $money$.
A while back, I tried an experiment. I captured much of the spam being received (thanks to SpamAssassin), parsed out the sender's IP addressses and created a block list this way. If an IP sent us more than, say, 100 spam messages, then I put them on the list. I did not work out so well. Not a whole lot of spam was blocked, and a few good messages were blocked as well.
This is not just about borrowing images online. Painters in the Renaissance copied from each other frequently. The free, open exchange of information contributed to the flourishing art of the period. This is documented. This is not simply a matter of parody, as in the case of Duchamp, but of open borrowing.
In fact, copying great works is part of the training of many representational artists, including myself. As a painter, the idea of my work being analyzed for copyright infringement gives me a chill.
They can't win on either count? I wouldn't feel too bad for them. In any good engineering venture, isn't there an acceptable number of defects? Microsoft should have gotten it (mostly) right the first time and not used the general public as their beta testers. Do we really think that were not smart enough and not moneyed enough to find a better way?
-- a person who uses Microsoft products most hours of every day
Here is a different question. If a Mac provided a stable platform for running the few Windows applications that I must have, then what incentive would I have for buying Windows?
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As an e-mail admin, I have had the same problem many months ago with Comcast. I made phone calls and got nowhere.
But, more intrestingly, is Verizon's idea of cost effectiveness. Block lists are really a poor man's spam filter. A good spam filter will use block lists as only a single factor, one among many. But, to implement a weighted spam filtering system costs $money$.
A while back, I tried an experiment. I captured much of the spam being received (thanks to SpamAssassin), parsed out the sender's IP addressses and created a block list this way. If an IP sent us more than, say, 100 spam messages, then I put them on the list. I did not work out so well. Not a whole lot of spam was blocked, and a few good messages were blocked as well.
This is not just about borrowing images online. Painters in the Renaissance copied from each other frequently. The free, open exchange of information contributed to the flourishing art of the period. This is documented. This is not simply a matter of parody, as in the case of Duchamp, but of open borrowing. In fact, copying great works is part of the training of many representational artists, including myself. As a painter, the idea of my work being analyzed for copyright infringement gives me a chill.
They can't win on either count? I wouldn't feel too bad for them. In any good engineering venture, isn't there an acceptable number of defects? Microsoft should have gotten it (mostly) right the first time and not used the general public as their beta testers. Do we really think that were not smart enough and not moneyed enough to find a better way? -- a person who uses Microsoft products most hours of every day
Here is a different question. If a Mac provided a stable platform for running the few Windows applications that I must have, then what incentive would I have for buying Windows?