On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, Geo. wrote:
I hear you but you and I both know AV companies are not going to give up the
automated spamming feature that easily.
Then maybe we should bring market pressure to bear on them. Personally, I
run Exim and ClamAV and don't have that problem. If they're going to
On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, Douglas Otis wrote:
There is a solution you can implement now that gets rid of these tens of
thousands of virus and abuse laden DSNs you see every day before the
data phase.
Why should the burden/cost/hassle be placed on me to do this? In many
cases, it isn't even one
On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, Todd Vierling wrote:
On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, Douglas Otis wrote:
There is a solution you can implement now that gets rid of these tens of
thousands of virus and abuse laden DSNs you see every day before the
data phase.
And it is *my* responsibility to reject UBE
On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, Douglas Otis wrote:
[AV notifications are] a third-party acting in good faith
Perhaps in your world. Definitely not in mine.
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On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Douglas Otis wrote:
Not my problem. I don't need or want, and should not be hammered
with, virus warnings sent to forged addresses -- ever. They are
unsolicited (I didn't request it, and definitely don't want it),
bulk (automated upon receipt of viruses by the
Randy:
for how many years have i been asking you and your evil-minded cert
designing friends for a pgp-like web of trust cert that could be
used for just this application?
Steven B:
of subsidiaries or allied evil ASs vouching for each other. OTOH,
there are some situations where we
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Randy Bush wrote:
the idea is that the *end-user* is supposed to know what's legit
and what isn't.
no. all asn admins, including tier 1 through tier 42 and leaf
asns.
Bah. Forgive my stupidity, please. We got into the discussion of PKI and
PGP-style trust models
On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Jared Mauch wrote:
The cable industry claims 91% of households passed with two-way cable.
And zero in my area. And you can't start a telco COOP in this
state since the iLEC has encouraged laws to make that not legal. The
two major iLECs in this state
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's intriguing ...
Translation: Linux Journal has been linked to by Slashdot.
It took forever for me to pull up the article in Mozilla, but it came up
fine otherwise. I'm sure they did get slashdotted.
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On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
I'm kind of surprised that there has been no metion of
network outages in Minneapolis, despite tornado(es) touching
down there tonight and power outages:
http://www.startribune.com/stories/127/5628282.html
Tornadoes aren't an unheard-of
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Joe McGuckin wrote:
They're just collecting all the big brains, putting them in big glass jars
mmhmm, someone's been watching too much Futurama, eh?
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On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Mark Bodley wrote:
His name has never hurt a companies stock price. Remember MCI--Um,
Worldcom. Remembering.. Um lost a ton of money... just remember. First time
I have noticed Google do anything so blatant. Time to sell Google? Are they
spending money on figure heads?
On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote:
I was thinking yesterday that IPv6 evangelization is a good reason,
specially when recalling that Google asked for a prefix some time ago
(http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=1001) and something is probably
being baked there ?
So is
There seems to be some operational content in this C|Net News.com
article:
http://news.com.com/Why+Google+hired+Vint+Cerf/2100-1038_3-5855650.html?tag=nefd.lede
Specifically,
The Mountain View, Calif., company has been investing heavily in a
communications infrastructure, buying up dark
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
Mine doesn't -- ATT Wireless and Cingular GSM phones have 10D or 11D
only, at least around here.
Leave it up to Cingular to be stupid. :P I've been a customer of Alltel,
Northcoast PCS, Sprint PCS and now T-Mobile, and the old GTE Wireless
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Brian Johnson wrote:
Pardon my ignorance, but don't most phone companies require 10 digit dialing
for long-distance.
So I signed up for a trial of a spiffy service from RingCentral, who
insist that they have numbers local to Victorville/Apple Valley,
California, USA.
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
I believe you've mispelt Al Q'aeda.
You see the problem.
*Especially* with respect to English translations of Arabic names. How
many different ways are there to spell Saddam Husein? For that matter, how
many different spellings did the media
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Dave Howe wrote:
Rich Kulawiec wrote:
More bluntly: the closed-source, faith-based approach to security
doesn't cut it. The attacks we're confronting are being launched
(in many cases) by people who *already have the source code*, and
who thus enjoy an enormous
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
found that domain name hijacking incidents are commonly
the result of flaws in registration and related processes,
And in other news: Researchers found today that the sun rises in the east,
and sets in the west.
Is ICANN actually going to
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Michael Painter wrote:
In case other Win users aren't aware:
http://www.samspade.org/ssw/features.html
Do be aware that the WHOIS functionality is out of date - it doesn't know
to search whois.publicinterestregistry.org for .ORG domains, for example.
The source code is
On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
Scheduled to die soon, if it hasn't already. I was a second-tier CDPD
sub, via Earthlink, until about a year ago; they took a hit to move me
to 1xRTT,
??
ATT doesn't use CDMA... so they wouldn't be running 1xRTT. EDGE, perhaps?
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On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
AMPS, as I understand it, is required to be around until 1/1/2007, as
mandated by tge FCC.
I think the date actually got pushed back to '08, but I've not heard
anything about requiring CDPD.
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To get an answer on the VZW mail filtering issue, we'd have to talk to a
mail admin at Verizon Wireless, as described by my acquaintance at Verizon
Online.
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Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 09:45:00 -0500
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Steve Sobol [EMAIL PROTECTED]
VOIP in the next few years.)
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Directory installed.
myNameServer.net is a generic enough domain name that someone might have
used it as an example in a HOWTO document on setting up AD.
(just a thought, FWIW)
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, 44101=downtown, 44072=South Russell).
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must have missed that at the time. I'm
*sure* I would have made a note of that.
I would say there are laws that apply to blacklists too; just not the same
laws that you cite. But IANAL, and neither are you.
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Steven J
-computer spam.
Well, that's it then: for the last year or two - I don't recall a lot of
entries being on the DUL in its original incarnation. (Not for lack of
trying.)
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The wisdom of a fool won't set you free
--New Order, Bizarre Love Triangle
servers on
certain types of Internet connection?
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the legislature is doing?
Any such action would have to be voluntary. You couldn't force it on your
end-users or customers.
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The wisdom of a fool won't set you
because the process of filtering takes
place entirely outside the home.
Are you absolutely sure that that's all the bill will actually do?
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The wisdom
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The wisdom of a fool won't set you free
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are reachable from Utah either.
...Right?
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.
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In case anyone was wondering, that big glowing globe above the Victor
Valley is the sun. -Victorville _Daily Press_ on the unusually large
amount
, Not Due to
Catastrophic Conditions and doesn't warrant bugging the person on-call.
As long as the registrar defines what constitutes a page-able emergency,
they should be ok. (Or is this overly simplistic?)
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Steven J
so I will no longer post about SPEWS here.
Of course, I find it exceedingly interesting that Ms. Harris decided to
yell at me and apparently not at any of the other 30+ people participating
in the thread. Nor can I find any comments in the charter or on the web
site about whether spam or
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Clayton Fiske wrote:
Fair enough. I agree with the idea in spirit. However, care must be
taken to define acceptable criteria.
Oh, absolutely. Escalation is not something that should be taken lightly.
e.g. for MAPS, escalation was (is?) only used as a last resort.
I
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Chrisy Luke wrote:
Can't find the terrorists you're looking for so start killing bystanders
until someone submits? Sounds militia to me.
And your suggested alternatives are...?
The service providers are not the enemies.
You'll never convince me of that fact as a
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Dan Hollis wrote:
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Chrisy Luke wrote:
David Lesher wrote (on Jun 20):
The service providers are not the enemies. If you treat them like enemies
then enemies they will become.
That's right; no service provider will ever harbor spammers
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Richard Welty wrote:
Then the ISP shouldn't be punished just because they wrote a bad
contract.
actually, i think Valdis was alluding to the Paetec fiasco with Monsterhut.
in that particular case, the contract was ok, but Monsterhut lied to the
court about the
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Dan Hollis wrote:
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Regis M. Donovan wrote:
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 02:35:16PM -0400, Steven J. Sobol wrote:
*Spamming* or launching a DoS attack in response to spam is definitely
abusive.
and black-holing innocent bystander networks
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When you're dealing with what some people refer to as tier 1 providers
(I'll just say really big networks), this can be counter-productive. From
what I've seen the following providers have been notoriously unresponsive
to spam complaints
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is actually a guy trying to clean up Chinanet now. @Home was my
A guy. Singular. I'm not going to hold my breath, unless he has the
authority to deploy military forces. ;)
From what I hear, he's having some effect. Perhaps not much...
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well if you want to talk about western networks, qwest ranks second just
behind chinanet in terms of black hat and spam.
s/qwest/verio/g
As someone who has recently had the pleasure of dealing with some of their
pink sheet clientele...
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Richard Welty wrote:
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:58 -0400 (EDT) Steven J. Sobol [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Although Paetec is now being implicated in some TCPA violations over on
the junkfax mailing list, so I'm no longer convinced they're whitehat.
i never claimed
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Benjamin P. Grubin wrote:
But credit reports *are* legislated, whether you want them to be or not.
Regulated, yes. That really has no bearing on the fact that companies can
choose to use or not use credit reports in determining whether to do
business with, extend credit
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, blitz wrote:
The difference is XO will be fine, Adelphia will be bought by EVIL, or
potentially liquidated.
They're talking about selling out to Charter.
The deal with Charter fell through a week ago.Adelphia's so dirty, no
one wants to touch them...guess
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Martin Hannigan wrote:
Question 1: Did ARIN start expiring unused handles or did
something in the process of the hijack cause my handle to increment up
to 569, which I'm assuming was the next open number in the
in the scheme for 'MH'.
If they did start expiring unused
On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Dan Hollis wrote:
http://biz.yahoo.com/djus/020605/200206051047000419_1.html
now someone will surely step up to the plate in their defence and rant
about how this is all a good thing for NASC and how they will go on to
reemerge next year as a lean, mean, bigger
[ Warning: mini-rant follows ]
On Fri, 31 May 2002, Rowland, Alan D wrote:
But you have Drew Carey!
And a very entertaining gentleman he is. Quite funny, in fact. Doesn't
help our broadband situation. ;)
What about cable access? It's more and more an option that has, IMHO,
significant
On Thu, 30 May 2002, Christopher X. Candreva wrote:
NAS has been nothing but trouble. We are (or were) a Covad reseller, first
direct through Covad, then through CAIS.
Jeez. About 18 months ago I couldn't even get CAIS to return calls to
their sales department. I guess I'm glad they didn't.
On Thu, 30 May 2002, Brian wrote:
Surprised there isnt much connectivity in the Detroit area, I mean it is
Motor City and all, I would think tons of manufacturing palnts all needing
telecom of some sort or other..
Try to get DSL here; everyone backhauls to Chicago. And Cleveland is the
25th
On Thu, 23 May 2002, E.B. Dreger wrote:
EIDE-based flash drives have become very inexpensive. Some
embedded systems use CompactFlash boards.
Can you set flash drives to be write-only? Sorry if this is a basic
question, but the only EIDE mass-storage devices I've used are more
traditional
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Dan Hollis wrote:
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Steven J. Sobol wrote:
On Thu, 23 May 2002, E.B. Dreger wrote:
EIDE-based flash drives have become very inexpensive. Some
embedded systems use CompactFlash boards.
Can you set flash drives to be write-only?
Why would
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
Thus spake Stephen Kowalchuk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Certification in the IT industry has become a nightmare
because people who are less than clueful have abused it in
the hiring and compensation processes.
Picture yourself as a job-seeker three
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Jake Baillie wrote:
the config changed. Which means you'd need some sort of singular
configuration file.
But I was wrong. :) He meant read-only
I'm just throwing ideas out there. I could boot Linux off a floppy or
a bootable CD and create a ramdisk upon bootup -
On Thu, 23 May 2002, E.B. Dreger wrote:
SJS a basic question, but the only EIDE mass-storage devices
SJS I've used are more traditional drives.
Why not partition wisely, then mount the desired partition as
read-only? Or I guess one _could_ mount each partition as RO...
But why?
The
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Dave Israel wrote:
Then why ot boot from a CD-ROM? Sure, it moves, but only for the
few minutes it takes to boot. Then it spins down and sits idle for
the n days/weeks/months until the next reboot. It would probably
last as long as the solid state drive, and would
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
Is it necessary for you to continually air personal grievances on this
public list?
Apparently.
I'd tell Mitch personally that I'm tired of the crap he pulls on this
mailing list, but he refuses mail from me, probably because I've indicated
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Avleen Vig wrote:
Ha! I've been in Burbank (in the Valley north of LA) for 7 months now, I
moved here from London. I've looked and looked and looked for *ANYTHING*
other than the odd gas station or supermarket open passed 9pm!
??
Plenty of gas stations around here open
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Mitch Halmu wrote:
anyone out there before I go whining to MAPS, et al.
Good luck. Roadrunner is a (presumed paying) MAPS customer:
Eddy, contact me off-list, I have a contact at RR.
- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -
[EMAIL
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Gregory Hicks wrote:
money. Today with flat rate access and many people not paying on a per
packet basis it seems to me that the responsibility lies with the end
user to filter properly and or dress that delete key. I always shut
[...snip...]
The problem with
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Scott Granados wrote:
Well the costs you mentioned with aol seem high
Not when you consider how much time and money AOL has sunk into the
development of their mail system. They are the only company that has to
scale their operations to the size to which they scale, and
On Sat, 4 May 2002, Eric A. Hall wrote:
Anyone who thinks that government can pass a law and this will go away
is hopelessly naieve.
Uh, thanks. The government has all kinds of property protection laws. My
mail spool is my property. Do the math.
Indeed, the courts have already ruled
On Sat, 4 May 2002, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
Faxes are a little bit easier to trace than email.
Sometimes. If the faxer is identifying s/h/itself properly.
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On Thu, 2 May 2002, Jake Khuon wrote:
Time to start thinking a little further down the line. What if the phone
actually becomes an wireless IP gateway router?
Yuck. Current WAP-based phones can't even do websites well.
I've not been privy to 3G tests, so I don't know if GPRS/CDMA 1x does
On Wed, 1 May 2002, Deepak Jain wrote:
I'm more concerned that if the major metropolitan markets deploying GPRS
all use NAT, then the Next Big Thing won't ever happen on GPRS devices.
Customers won't jump ship if they have no where to jump to.
The only people who'd be deploying GPRS are GSM
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
CAR Come on now, he's one of those 14 year old wonder kids that will change
CAR the way we think of the Internet, go Generation Y
It's generation K-12:
http://latency.net/~asr/wcom.jpg
C|NK
Oh thats GOOD..
But... but... I've
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, David Lesher wrote:
I can never recall who owns Cincy Bell this week.
Broadwing. Broadwing was formed by the merger of Cincinnutty Bell and
IXC Communications.
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On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Rob Pickering wrote:
Why would you want to expose a management protocol like ssh to the
Internet?
I do it so my customers with shell accounts don't have to telnet in.
Of course, if you're talking about ssh on something like a router, that's
different, and you should
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