Re: [SLL] Fwd: OT: NEC SAN

2009-10-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Saturday 31 October 2009, Michael Evans wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Michael Evans mjevans1...@gmail.com Date: Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 7:24 PM Subject: Re: [SLL] OT: NEC SAN To: John Aldrich jmaldr...@yahoo.com On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 2:50 PM, John Aldrich jmaldr

Re: [SLL] What are you using for spam control?

2009-12-18 Thread John Aldrich
On Friday 18 December 2009, Derek Simkowiak wrote: I've been using Postfix w/postgrey + spamassassin (via amavisd) + RBL lists + SMTP sender verification. My email address is very old, and I use a few aliases, so I still get ~40 spams per day. Thunderbird's Bayesian filtering

Re: [SLL] What are you using for spam control?

2009-12-19 Thread John Aldrich
On Friday 18 December 2009, Derek Simkowiak wrote: [snip] For those who responded against TMDA: if I set up a procmail bounce rule that simply required all email to come with a GPG signature, would you reject that for the same reasons you reject TMDA? Or would that be acceptable because

Re: [SLL] TDMA [was: What are you using for spam control?]

2009-12-19 Thread John Aldrich
On Friday 18 December 2009, Derek Simkowiak wrote: (b) Depends on humans to do something that can easily be implemented with technology This statement implies that Spam is a solved problem. I use all the technologies you mentioned, and I still get ~40 spams per day. Then your

[SLL] OT: Ethics question

2011-10-19 Thread John Aldrich
One of my co-workers gave me a relatively recent vintage laptop that was non-functional. He'd previously asked me about it saying it wouldn't finish starting up. Not having a chance to look at it, I gave him several options, including a dead motherboard, etc. He called me up the other day and