I started agressively firewalling off spammy isps sometime ago, and its really paid off for me. I get maybe 1 spam a week (i check 10 different accounts). 5 different rbl's catch whatever spam my firewall doesnt get.
By carefully white listing people dumb enough to host on a spammy isp whose email i still want, i dont have a problem with collateral damage either.
they host spammers and ignore all complaints. Roving.com is one of their worst scumbags.
They wont boot a customer if the customer signed a pink contract. Spammer-nap is a nasty piece of filth, and i ended up firewalling all of their netspace as a result of them attacking my mail server. And if your curious, my slashdot email (which is a spamtrap of course) was one of the addresses getting hammered. So dont give me any bullshit about opting in.
fucking iranian isps are massive spam sewers. Fortunately their net backbone is small enough that they cant do the level of damage that china or korea can as far as spam goes.
whats the name of your company, who do they host with, etc? Nothing like a pre-emptive firewalling to keep my inbox clean.
Btw: tell your bosses that hopping mail servers is a good way to get your entire isp firewalled by a zillion mail admins, or sbl'ed, or listed in spews.
We already defacto banned IE on the Engineering network at the uni i work at, so i seriously doubt my department would allow this piece of crap to be installed either. Since moving over to mozilla / firefox, our spyware calls have dropped radically (easily 75-80% drop this semster) and allowing anything based on IE, let alone a AOL product, is just stupidity at its best.
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let the spammers flee to south america, asia, etc. Unless you need mail from such and such a country, firewall the HELL out of it. Koreans are already learning the hard way what it means to be so heavily blocked that no one accepts their mail traffic.
i'm not surprised, korea is one of the worst spam sewers on the net outside the US, and many mail admins just pre-emptively firewall or ACL korean (or all of apnic) net space. Apparently Korean isp's could care less about all the firewalling, ACL's, and blacklists they end up in and their users are just moving on to IM's.
for a grad student at work (i work IT for the engineering college) and the grad student insisted on intel. I warned him that intels run hotter and louder (because they need more cooling) but he said intel anyways. Well once i delivered the machine to him, the first thing he said was "wow that thing is loud". I used a boxed intel cpu (which comes with the heatsink and fan) and when you put it under load, you can hear it clear across the room. Intel's heat problem is just ridiciously, and i am afraid to even hear what a 3.8 ghz would sound like when you ran it full steam.
the P4 is the WORST possible cpu for a notebook. It needs massive memory bandwidth to perform somewhat acceptible, which most notebooks dont have. It draws a LOT of power, killing the battery rather quickly (90 min run time is pathetic), and all that dissapated power has to go somewhere (aka heat). The Pentium M or Athlon 64 series would of been a far better choice for a notebook.
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the old slogan was "invent"
.....
the new slogan
"merge, layoff, and go out of business"
shame he works for the #1 spam support company in the world.
his company adds new spammers on an almost daily basis, just check the dates on the various sbl records.
for your standard 3.5" drive, this works nicely
For those old MFM and SCSI drives though....
it looks like his personal domain is patrickg.com
soooo, lets see......
host -t mx patrickg.com
patrickg.com mail is handled by 0 poopsmith.retrix.com.
host poopsmith.retrix.com
poopsmith.retrix.com has address 69.90.28.179
whois 69.90.28.179
Peer 1 Network Inc. PEER1-BLK-08
69.90.0.0 - 69.90.255.255
Patrick Gibson PEER1-RETRIX-05
69.90.28.128 - 69.90.28.191
peer1 is a spammy shithole.
1840 complaints in NANAS for peer1 spam sightings.
http://tinyurl.com/6gvqw
and a whopping 37 sbl listings
http://tinyurl.com/52z4z
MAPS is the least of your problems buddy. You need a new isp, and soon. A lot of mail admins (including yours truly) block peer1 on sight.
trillian, gaim, etc
if you really want to fuck with the yellow child molesting bastards at AOL, encrypt all your im traffic.
Best of all, give the shitheads a giant middle finger and stop using the AIM network period.
verizon is quite spammy as well, just not as bad as mci/worldfraud is
sbl listings for verizon
sbl listings for level 3, which verizon owns
I started agressively firewalling off spammy isps sometime ago, and its really paid off for me. I get maybe 1 spam a week (i check 10 different accounts). 5 different rbl's catch whatever spam my firewall doesnt get.
By carefully white listing people dumb enough to host on a spammy isp whose email i still want, i dont have a problem with collateral damage either.
http://mail.btfh.net/spam.txt
http://mail.btfh.net/asia-spam.txt
couldnt agree more. Spammer Electric got firewalled on my mail server for massive non stop pink bullshit.
the pay isnt great, but the benefits rock, and they are usually VERY VERY stable jobs. No need to worry about being outsourced to india.
they host spammers and ignore all complaints. Roving.com is one of their worst scumbags.
They wont boot a customer if the customer signed a pink contract. Spammer-nap is a nasty piece of filth, and i ended up firewalling all of their netspace as a result of them attacking my mail server. And if your curious, my slashdot email (which is a spamtrap of course) was one of the addresses getting hammered. So dont give me any bullshit about opting in.
sounds like all the fucking spammers they host overtaxed spammer-nap's power resources and brought it all down.
Seriously though, spammer-nap is a massive spam haus, see for yourself
damn, she's both good looking and a geek! i think i am in love ; )
the more that needs to be turned off.
I even wrote a faq on how to setup and streamline Win xp so it doesnt run like crap.
fucking iranian isps are massive spam sewers. Fortunately their net backbone is small enough that they cant do the level of damage that china or korea can as far as spam goes.
whats the name of your company, who do they host with, etc? Nothing like a pre-emptive firewalling to keep my inbox clean.
Btw: tell your bosses that hopping mail servers is a good way to get your entire isp firewalled by a zillion mail admins, or sbl'ed, or listed in spews.
ack! should of been
http://mail.btfh.net/asia-spam.txt
I stop noticing Asia being a spam problem after this sucker got put into use.
http://mail.btfh.net/asia-spam.txt/
We already defacto banned IE on the Engineering network at the uni i work at, so i seriously doubt my department would allow this piece of crap to be installed either. Since moving over to mozilla / firefox, our spyware calls have dropped radically (easily 75-80% drop this semster) and allowing anything based on IE, let alone a AOL product, is just stupidity at its best.
let the spammers flee to south america, asia, etc. Unless you need mail from such and such a country, firewall the HELL out of it. Koreans are already learning the hard way what it means to be so heavily blocked that no one accepts their mail traffic.
why do you need a cisco router? iptables works wonders for my mail server.
. net/asia-spam.txt
I even tarpit the spammy fucks.
http://mail.btfh.net/spam.txt
http://mail.btfh
i'm not surprised, korea is one of the worst spam sewers on the net outside the US, and many mail admins just pre-emptively firewall or ACL korean (or all of apnic) net space. Apparently Korean isp's could care less about all the firewalling, ACL's, and blacklists they end up in and their users are just moving on to IM's.
for a grad student at work (i work IT for the engineering college) and the grad student insisted on intel. I warned him that intels run hotter and louder (because they need more cooling) but he said intel anyways. Well once i delivered the machine to him, the first thing he said was "wow that thing is loud". I used a boxed intel cpu (which comes with the heatsink and fan) and when you put it under load, you can hear it clear across the room. Intel's heat problem is just ridiciously, and i am afraid to even hear what a 3.8 ghz would sound like when you ran it full steam.
the P4 is the WORST possible cpu for a notebook. It needs massive memory bandwidth to perform somewhat acceptible, which most notebooks dont have. It draws a LOT of power, killing the battery rather quickly (90 min run time is pathetic), and all that dissapated power has to go somewhere (aka heat). The Pentium M or Athlon 64 series would of been a far better choice for a notebook.
you can also use thorium or plutonium in nucler reactors. Plutonium can be made from U238 fairly easily.
At work (a major university in colorado) we null routed doubleclick. Nothing useful comes from their network, so why pass packets to and from it ?