Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: What the Heck? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-07 Thread Steve VanDevender
Igmar Palsenberg writes: > > Ugh. What rubbish. > > > > The moment I detect my provider changing anything beyond a TTL is the > > moment I find a new provider. > > The 'problem' is a bunch of stupid American politics (excuse anyone > American), than passed a law that all spam containing

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: What the Heck? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-07 Thread Alan Shutko
Igmar Palsenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The 'problem' is a bunch of stupid American politics (excuse anyone > American), than passed a law that all spam containing a remove adress is > legal. No, they haven't. Some bill passed the house (or senate, I can't remember) but it hasn't been

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: What the Heck? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-07 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
> Ugh. What rubbish. > > The moment I detect my provider changing anything beyond a TTL is the > moment I find a new provider. The 'problem' is a bunch of stupid American politics (excuse anyone American), than passed a law that all spam containing a remove adress is legal. So that means I

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: What the Heck? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-07 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
Ugh. What rubbish. The moment I detect my provider changing anything beyond a TTL is the moment I find a new provider. The 'problem' is a bunch of stupid American politics (excuse anyone American), than passed a law that all spam containing a remove adress is legal. So that means I get

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: What the Heck? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-07 Thread Steve VanDevender
Igmar Palsenberg writes: Ugh. What rubbish. The moment I detect my provider changing anything beyond a TTL is the moment I find a new provider. The 'problem' is a bunch of stupid American politics (excuse anyone American), than passed a law that all spam containing a remove

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: What the Heck? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-05 Thread Jamie Lokier
Ricky Beam wrote: > As an aside, they also have/had agressive transparent web proxying in > the network... everything on port 80 coming and going is/was cached. > EVERYTHING. That's quite nice when it works, but sometimes the proxy breaks. Then it really _sucks_. You fetch a page and get a

[OFFTOPIC] Re: What the Heck? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-04 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Ricky Beam wrote: [snip] > As an aside, they also have/had agressive transparent web proxying in > the network... everything on port 80 coming and going is/was cached. > EVERYTHING. Ugh. If bandwidth is a problem, charge them by the Gb and let them save money by reducing

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: What the Heck? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-04 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Gregory Maxwell wrote: >> Then they need more competant admins. It isnt _hard_ to transproxy outgoing >> smtp traffic via a spamtrapper that checks for valid src/destination and >> headers. > >I can't believe that you are suggesting this. Mindspring did this (maybe still

[OFFTOPIC] Re: What the Heck? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-04 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > Then they need more competant admins. It isnt _hard_ to transproxy outgoing > smtp traffic via a spamtrapper that checks for valid src/destination and > headers. I can't believe that you are suggesting this. The moment you being to start encouraging

[OFFTOPIC] Re: What the Heck? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-04 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote: Then they need more competant admins. It isnt _hard_ to transproxy outgoing smtp traffic via a spamtrapper that checks for valid src/destination and headers. I can't believe that you are suggesting this. The moment you being to start encouraging

[OFFTOPIC] Re: What the Heck? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-04 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Ricky Beam wrote: [snip] As an aside, they also have/had agressive transparent web proxying in the network... everything on port 80 coming and going is/was cached. EVERYTHING. Ugh. If bandwidth is a problem, charge them by the Gb and let them save money by reducing their