Re: FEC AO 2022-14
On Sun, 31 Jul 2022 12:11:07 -0400, William Allen Simpson wrote: >At our residence, the US mailbox is positioned near the recycling bin. >Bulk mail generally goes directly into recycling without being viewed. >Sadly, receiver has to pay for recycling (via taxes). The incremental cost of unwanted postal mail deposited in a recycling bin in most US municipalities is 0.% of the monthly charge. The sender is, however, paying USPS for (however degraded) delivery. This works for me. mdr -- "There are no laws here, only agreements." -- Masahiko
Re: Cost effective time servers
On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 10:39:41 -0400, David Bass wrote: >What are folks using these days for smaller organizations, that need to >dole out time from an internal source? If "internal" means a local NTP server independent of external network resources, the other responses are apposite. If "internal" means a stratum 2 NTP server dependent upon other servers on the network, and if you don't need accuracy in single-digit millisecond or better range, we've done well with an older ex-Windows machine that now runs FreeBSD and vanilla NTPD, and is now a pool server at ntp.org. ± six milliseconds, cost approaches the cube root of zero. mdr -- Sometimes half-ass is exactly the right amount of ass. -- Wonderella
Re: Intermittent "bad gateway"
On Tue, 2 Jul 2019 07:16:36 -0700, Stephen Satchell wrote: >Are we having another BGP problem this morning? Cloudflare did fall over for a bit this morning. mdr -- Sometimes half-ass is exactly the right amount of ass. -- Wonderella
Re: Its hard to believe that it has been 21 years...
On Wed, 16 Oct 2019 22:52:11 -0400, Rodney Joffe wrote: >Twenty-one years ago today, Jon Postel passed away in Santa Monica, CA. > >Almost all of us get to do what we do today, because of his vision, guidance, >and leadership. He is one of many giants on whose shoulders we stand today >(some are still active here in NANOG), but he was the compass that guided most >of us. Dayyum. Time do fly when you havin' fun. mdr -- "There are no laws here, only agreements." -- Masahiko
Re: Meta outage
On Tue, 05 Mar 2024 11:06:11 -0500, Jay Ashworth wrote: >It's making the general press this hour so of course you already know about it >but my question is this: who peers with meta and have you seen BGP sessions >drop or the like? Do you operate meta CDN nodes in your network? Are they >screaming for help? > >This doesn't sound like it's a network layer problem but I'm curious. What I found intriguing was that I was logged out by Google Docs at the same moment FB logged me out. Downdetector showed a number of other supposedly unrelated services with large outage report spikes at roughly the same time. mdr -- "There are no laws here, only agreements." -- Masahiko
Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US
On 31 Mar 2012 08:55:48 +0200, "John R. Levine" wrote: >Spam sucks, but I've been posting to usenet with my real unmunged email >address since 1981 and my inbox remains entirely usable. The idea that >the way to avoid spam is to hide from spammers is so 1990s. So desu, ne.
Yahoo! security: are there any lights on?
Y! is haemorrhaging PII to me and I cannot figure out how to make it stop. I have an ancient three-letter account (you can easily guess what the three letters are) and hundreds of people have somehow been led to believe that they own and control it, to the point of associating it with their own accounts, using it as a CC in their communication with their attorneys, banks, spouses and other ... persons. Today during our traditional early-morning July 4 breakfast cookout I got an SMS message, purportedly from Y!, that "We detected unusual activity on the network. Log in to yahoo.com from the web to unlock your account." This was an out-of-the-blue first event, but there was no mechanism in the message to do anything dangerous. When back at home, logging in to Y! involved additional authentication steps and a mandatory password change. Fair enough. No sign of account access from anywhere unusual. The password change event was sent to the correct linked external accounts. But then, a new and interesting barrage of mail started coming in, indicating that, as suspected, the account associations were indeed being effected without any involvement of myself. For instance: >Hi Vince, > >We detected a login attempt with valid password to your Yahoo! account >([munged by me, but not by Y!]) from an unrecognized device on Thu, Jul 4, >2013 3:56 PM VET. > >Location: Venezuela (IP=186.88.201.179) > >Note: The location is based on information from your Internet service or >wireless carrier provider. > >Was this you? If so, you can disregard the rest of this email. (This is interesting and, perhaps, encouraging -- that's one of the cantv.net addresses I've recently seen in compromised Y! account spam headers.) I have never yet succeeded in contacting a live body at Y!. Does anyone know whether the lights are even on, let alone anybody being home? mdr -- "There are no laws here, only agreements." -- Masahiko
Re: Yahoo! security: are there any lights on?
On Thu, 04 Jul 2013 19:12:52 -0700, Michael Rathbun wrote: >I have never yet succeeded in contacting a live body at Y!. Does anyone >know whether the lights are even on, let alone anybody being home? Info received. Thanks all. mdr -- The hits just keep on coming for poor "Nadine". See the sad tale of email lists gone horribly wrong at <http://www.honet.com/Nadine/> F - IWAA #2157 GEVNP