Re: How do you quantify goodness in an email message?

2007-02-20 Thread Lucy Lynch
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: In another message, William B. Norton wrote: I wish we had a metric for the community value of the nanog list. I think that if the mailing list was moved from merit to its own server, and out from under the tyranny of majordomo to mailman, that

Re: How do you quantify goodness in an email message?

2007-02-20 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: [snip] Sure, but not really my point. In fact, sadly enough, the merit majordomo does not even allow the which command, and that is just plain dumb. Stupid. Silly. Upon reflection, I regret that comment. Perhaps I might have phrased it differently, had I reflected a bit

Re: How do you quantify goodness in an email message?

2007-02-20 Thread Joe Abley
On 20-Feb-2007, at 11:05, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: [snip] Sure, but not really my point. In fact, sadly enough, the merit majordomo does not even allow the which command, and that is just plain dumb. Stupid. Silly. Upon reflection, I regret that comment. Perhaps I might

Re: How do you quantify goodness in an email message?

2007-02-20 Thread Joe Abley
On 20-Feb-2007, at 14:26, Martin Hannigan wrote: On 20-Feb-2007, at 13:25, Martin Hannigan wrote: And this should be requirements driven instead of brand driven. I have no reason to think that isn't happening. That wasn't necessarily directed at you or Madame Etaoin. I know :-)

Polling the NANOG List

2007-02-20 Thread Ron Muir
How about a survey of the mailing list members to see what they think? - Simon J. Lyall Considering that this is a mailing list to supplement the NANOG meetings how about if we restrict the poll participants to people who have attended a NANOG in the last 12 months! Ron

Re: Throwing out the NANOG AUP

2007-02-20 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
Simon Lyall wrote: On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, William B. Norton wrote: I wish we had a metric for the community value of the nanog list... How about a survey of the mailing list members to see what they think? I'd suggest that this idea, while seemingly a simple answer, neglects the

Re: Polling the NANOG List

2007-02-20 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
Ron Muir wrote: Simon J. Lyall wrote: How about a survey of the mailing list members to see what they think? Considering that this is a mailing list to supplement the NANOG meetings how about if we restrict the poll participants to people who have attended a NANOG in the last 12 months!

Re: botnets: web servers, end-systems and Vint Cerf [LONG, sorry]

2007-02-20 Thread Sean Donelan
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, Rich Kulawiec wrote: Pop quiz, bonus round: how much does it cost Comcast to defend its mail servers from Verizon's spam, and vice versa? Heck, how much does it cost Comcast to defend its mail servers from its own spam? How much do they spend on abuse/customer security?

Re: botnets: web servers, end-systems and Vint Cerf [LONG, sorry]

2007-02-20 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 02:04:13PM +, Simon Waters wrote: I simply don't believe the higher figures bandied about in the discussion for compromised hosts. Certainly Microsoft's malware team report a high level of trojans around, but they include things like the Jar files downloaded onto

Re: botnets: web servers, end-systems and Vint Cerf [LONG, sorry]

2007-02-20 Thread Gadi Evron
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Rich Kulawiec wrote: Hi Rich, snip good stuff thanks for your input, Rich. As always, quite interesting. BTW #2: All of this leaves open an important and likely-unanswerable question: how many systems are compromised but not as yet manifesting any external sign of it?

rDNS naming

2007-02-20 Thread David Barak
--- Rich Kulawiec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (e.g. the Verizon FIOS deployment, if I may use hostnames of the form *.fios.verizon.net as a guide, is going well in NYC, Dallas, DC, Tampa, Philly, LA, Boston and Newark, but lags behind in Seattle, Pittsburgh, Buffalo and Syracuse.) One

Interland dead?

2007-02-20 Thread Michael Loftis
Anyone know what's going on? -- Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds. -- Samuel Butler

RE: Interland dead?

2007-02-20 Thread Randy Epstein
Subject: Interland dead? Anyone know what's going on? Wasn't some portion of their assets acquired by Peer 1? -Randy

Re: Interland dead?

2007-02-20 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 17:57 -0700, Michael Loftis wrote: Anyone know what's going on? Last year, :-), Interland dedicated hosting went to Peer1 and Interland web hosting went to/became web.com. -Jim P. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Counting tells you if you are making progress

2007-02-20 Thread Sean Donelan
If you can't measure a problem, its difficult to tell if you are making things better or worse. On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Rich Kulawiec wrote: I don't understand why you don't believe those numbers. The estimates that people are making are based on externally-observed known-hostile behavior by

Re: Counting tells you if you are making progress

2007-02-20 Thread Gadi Evron
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Sean Donelan wrote: If you can't measure a problem, its difficult to tell if you are making things better or worse. On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Rich Kulawiec wrote: I don't understand why you don't believe those numbers. The estimates that people are making are based

Re: botnets: web servers, end-systems and Vint Cerf [LONG, sorry]

2007-02-20 Thread Fergie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -- Gadi Evron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And this is before we get into the academic off-topic discussion of what a bot actually is, which after almost 11 years of dealing with these I find difficult to define. Is it an IP address? A computer?