Re: FW: BLOCK: ATT signs bulk hosting contract with spammers
Gil Hamilton wrote: Hence, the obvious solution is to make it *cost money to send mail* (or to use any other network resource). Combine that with automated reputation handling -- charge a small fee to accept mail from "unknown" parties -- and this both reduces spam and shifts the cost of resource usage to those using the resources. Of course, this won't completely eliminate spam -- nor arguably *should* it -- but it has the potential to make it less cost-effective that it is now -- where the cost is effectively zero once you've amassed your list of addresses. This would at least make spammers aim at a more tightly-focused target market. nice idea - micropayment and all. (i.e. a mail would cost $0.0001 so that ordinary people don't exactly pay anything). however - here's a bummer: you've got a chance of pretty much 0.00% to move into that direction, because a different system is already in place. since it works reasonably well, it'll not get replaced, not even by a vastly superior one. that's just how things work. unfortunately.
Re: The Ant and the Grasshopper
Anonymous wrote: CLASSIC VERSION The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool and laughs, dances, and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies out in the cold. MODERN VERSION [...snip...] AMERICAN VERSION The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a gool and laughs, dances, and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter. So he calls up his lawyer who drafts a bogus lawsuit. In the end, both the lawyer and the grasshopper are feeding and the ant dies out in the cold.
Re: Bush took ss# off his Texas license!!!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # There's no SS# on a Texas DL, never has been. There is a DL# that is 8 # digits in length (and related to time and place of initial license # application, not SS#). Then someone in tx.politics was wrong (and I passed it along). But now I'm confused (no cracks please): why change your driver's license number if it doesn't mean anything special? He did change it. the article spoke about drinking. most likely, driving drunk is recorded somewhere (if they get you), and most likely tied to your DL#.
Wired News Senate scorecard: Democrats beat Republicans
Just in time for Tuesday's election, Wired News has compiled a tech scorecard for the U.S. Senate. The list sorted by last name: http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,39923,00.html Sorted by score: http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,39978,00.html Info on House of Representatives scorecard from last month: http://www.politechbot.com/p-01445.html Some interesting results: Democrats did well, nabbing the four top slots, and beating the Republicans 52 percent to 48 percent overall. But Joseph Lieberman, the Democratic VP hopeful, finished with just 38 percent, in the fifth-worst position. Democrat Patrick Moyhihan did the best out of everyone, surprisingly. That was probably because he missed three votes -- on at least one he would probably have gone the wrong way -- but we scored on percentage of cast votes, not possible votes. -Declan #1: A vote to allow the use of electronic signatures. (Yes is 1) #2: A vote for a juvenile crime bill that included Internet regulation (No is 1) #3: A vote for additional H-1B visas. (Yes is 1) #4: A vote to require federal candidates to disclose contributions online within 24 hours. (Yes is 1) #5: A vote to require Internet providers to offer filtering software. (No is 1) #6: A vote to establish permanent trade relations with China. (Yes is 1) #7: A vote to oppose special restrictions on online sales of firearms. (Yes is 1) #8: A vote to create an information-technology-training tax credit. (Yes is 1) #9: A vote to restrict online sales of alcohol. (No is 1) #10: A vote to single out purportedly offensive content online and offline and create a commission to study it. (No is 1)
RE: Connie Chung fucks up things are not as they seem.A good example of the tremen
Seeing as the rest of this site is talking about crop circles and UFOs, I think I can ignore this report. Peter Trei [While it's not impossible for UFO-nuts to stumble across something real, their inability to distinguish reality from fantasy indicates a lack of critical faculty. In a world where the flow of claim and counterclaim has an intensity not unlike standing underneath a waterfall, filtering is essential. This claim fails one of my first level filters. PT] -- From: Gary Jeffers[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: Gary Jeffers Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 1:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Connie Chung fucks up things are not as they seem.A good example of the tremen Declan McCullagh writes: Source? TV show? Date? Transcript? -Declan Declan, my source is the net address listed below. At the top of that page are a "general info" button and a "contact us" button. Under "general info" they list [EMAIL PROTECTED] as their email address. They also list there their snail mail address. That's all I know of the source. This looks like a job for an investgative reporter such as yourself:-) Sorry I am not more helpful. If you can actually validate from tv network sources that that sequel occurred, you will have a great big can of worms to play with :-) -Good luck! On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 10:20:10PM -0600, Gary Jeffers wrote: My fellow Cypherpunks, The following is interesting. http://www.albany.net/~rwcecot/iraap/Quinn/phoenix1.htm find string: Connie Chung A good example of the tremendous degree to which the major news media organizations are called to heel is seen in the facts surrounding the two year hiatus in the professional career of CBS broadcaster Connie Chung, who had the misfortune to have ended up being paired with Dan Rather several years ago.
Re: Connie Chung fucks up things are not as they seem.A good example of the tremen
"Trei, Peter" wrote: Seeing as the rest of this site is talking about crop circles and UFOs, I think I can ignore this report. five minutes search on google turn up no "2 year hibernation" in her resume. while it appears that she wasn't very active 1995-1997, that appears to have been because she was pursuing opportunities outside the primetime TV business. and she was definitely not inactive in 1997/1998 since she got a few rewards for her work during that period. something like a date "she vanished from X to Y" would greatly raise the believability value of this story.
Re: Jim Bell's House Being Searched
Blanc, The election is nigh, but I would still be interested in writing about Jim Bell's apparent latest legal trouble if it escalates. (That is, if it's related to his previous arrests, and I suspect it is.) If Bell is unable to post, you or any other cpunk can reach me at 202 986 3455 or this email address. My PGP key is on the servers, and I accept anonymous mail. -Declan On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 11:25:38AM -0800, Blanc Weber wrote: Just received word from Jim that there are some law enforcement types going through a search of his house, apparently with 'authorization'. He was downstairs when his mother let them in, so says he didn't know what their explanation was for their appearance, what they were looking for, or what his mother had to say to them or vice-versa. If possible he will post info and details to cpunks later. .. Blanc
Re: Test Ignore
bash: Dick: not found On 4 Nov 2000, Secret Squirrel wrote: Test Dick -- There is no problem so great that it cannot be solved with suitable application of High Explosives. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!
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Re: Jim Bell's House Being Searched
At 2:55 PM -0800 on 11/6/00, Alex B. Shepardsen wrote: Hopefully we'll hear from Jim soon. Here's hoping he doesn't plead this time, though to do that, he's going to need some legal funds... Cheers, RAH Whose ability to predict the outcome of these things is, historically, abominable... -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
Re: Roots servers on rise - ICANN's golden egg cracking
On Sun, 5 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #Last year alternate roots supported 0.3% of internet traffic. # #This year alternate roots are supporting 5.5% of internet traffic. # #The BIND study this year to date has ennumerated 60,513 dns (15% of #399,937 dns) of which 3,331 report they are using non-USG roots. Don't "alternate roots" have to have a copy of what the main root servers have? Then they are doing a favor by off-loading traffic. Not all the time. I've noticed some corporations (big ones like hyundai) use their own roots to block traffic to their employees. There's a wildcard record in the root so that if an employee goes to www.sex.com they end up at www.hyunai.com - or something to that effect. Separately, I've noticed something on my Solaris 8 box. I often freeze my Netscape browser windows when leaving the computer for a while. That's because FoxNews and NYT (for example) keep reloading themselves again and again. This is unwanted push traffic. It's not costing me anything over my DSL/Cable modems, it's just unwanted by me. Even with browsers frozen... I recently left 'snoop' running, and found I was initiating DNS traffic...to FoxNews and NYT. Looking closer, I had DNS queries regarding non-browser-accessed sites, like ftp. That is odd. DNS can carry alot more then just dns. Maybe that's whats' hapeening. regards joe -- Joe Baptista http://www.dot.god/ dot.GOD Hostmaster
Re: The Ant and the Grasshopper
RUSSIAN VERSION The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool and laughs, dances, and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he calls up his uncle and asks for help. The ants food stores are inspected and found vulnerable to dry rot. A systemic problem among ants. For the benefit of the ant, his food stores are placed in a national storage facility. The grasshopper is given a job managing the facility. The central store rapidly develops dry rot. Millions of ants die. But somehow there always seems enough grains left for the grasshopper. After a while the grosshopper's uncle suggests that the solution to the dry rot problem is de-nationalisation via employee ownership. The facility is sold for one grain to the grasshopper, who then sells it for half a grain to his uncle. The grass-hopper is re-hired as manager. The uncle becomes fantastically rich. The ant gives up collecting grain and finds a personal-security position protecting the uncle from other ants. All three go out to a Moscow night club to celebrate and are gunned down by a group of ants working as corporate-security professionals for Gazcom. Cheers, Julian.
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