Re: FTC, Partners Launch Campaign Against Spam "Zombies"
"The FTC said it would ask 3,000 Internet providers around the globe to make sure that their customers' computers haven't been hijacked by spammers who want to cover their tracks and pass bandwidth costs on to others." "Hi! I'm from the government. I'm here to help."
Re: "Bandwidth Advisors" - www.bandwidthadvisors.com
I run all my bandwidth purchases through BWA. I've worked with Aaron since we were both at Wolfe.net. He's the most honest sales type that I've ever met. And I agree that NANOG is NOT the place to post this, but the cat is out of the bag. Notice: I'm biased as I host his site and my wife made his webpages. -- Joe Hamelin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Edmonds, WA, US
Re: Earthquake in Northern California
It's happening up the coast too: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002048122_sthelens28m.html "Scientists believe there is a significant chance of a small eruption of Mount St. Helens in the days or weeks ahead." -- Joe Hamelin Edmonds, WA, US
Verizon mail contact
I'm having some issues getting mail out to Verizon accounts from windermere.com. Could a verizon postmaster please contact me? Thanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] 206-315-4357 -- Joe Hamelin Edmonds, WA, US
Re: time to bury nethead versus bellhead polemics
> "netheaded" was seen as the 'nirvana' to which the Internet would > guide telecommunications. And I've been netheaded since '95. ;) -- Joe Hamelin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]/.org/.us/.org.uk> Edmonds, WA, US
Re: Barracuda Networks Spam Firewall
Here's what I got today from Barracuda. I'll let you know if it did indeed fix my problems. Hi Joe, Your latency problem should be resolved. === On July 27th a new stream of spam was introduced into the wild. This spam contained certain formatting aspects that were intentionally designed to cause Spam Assassin's Bayesian implementation to run at extremely slow speeds. Due to the way Spam Assassin handled the email, it was taking several minutes to process these messages and the Barracuda's internal processes would detect the potential problem and start queuing mail to prevent any mail loss. Unfortunately this precaution had the byproduct of further increasing the message latency on the system. Barracuda Networks' team of engineers created a patch for this Spam Assassin attack. The patch was released in version 1.6.733 of the spam definitions. If you were affected by the new spam, please make sure you are running this version or higher of the spam definitions (Advanced->Energize Updates in the web GUI). Also, if you had previously contacted tech support and were advised to disable Intention Analysis (Basic->Bayesian/Fingerprinting) as a way to attempt to reduce latency, you should be able to turn this feature back on without any issues. === Let me know if you have any additional concerns. Heather Heather Russell Barracuda Networks 408.342.5447 Direct 408.342.1061 Fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.barracudanetworks.com -- Joe Hamelin Edmonds, WA, US
Re: Barracuda Networks Spam Firewall
It only seems to be a problem when I hit above about 16k messages an hour. I do wish they had better numerical historical logging. Maybe in V3.0. On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 20:03:08 -0400, Matthew Crocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My Series 400 seems to be doing fine today. Average queue latency 4 > seconds which is about normal. > > Do you have any special config settings? > > -Matt > > > > On Jul 27, 2004, at 7:21 PM, Joe Hamelin wrote: > > > > > I just talked to Heather (sales) at Barracuda and was told that there > > would be a FIRMWARE release in the morning to fix a problem with virus > > detection. > > > > It seems that the support ppl can't really do anything right now and > > their phone system is melting. The word is to hold tight for a fix. > > > > -- > > Joe Hamelin > > Edmonds, WA, US > > > > -- Joe Hamelin Edmonds, WA, US
Re: Barracuda Networks Spam Firewall
I just talked to Heather (sales) at Barracuda and was told that there would be a FIRMWARE release in the morning to fix a problem with virus detection. It seems that the support ppl can't really do anything right now and their phone system is melting. The word is to hold tight for a fix. -- Joe Hamelin Edmonds, WA, US
Re: Barracuda Networks Spam Firewall
Is anyone else on NANOG having problems with Barracuda today? I'm getting massive latency (3000+ seconds) and it seems as if their tech support has gone into meltdown. While on hold I was even connected to another customer with the same problem. -- Joe Hamelin Edmonds, WA, US
Re: Conference - Preventing the Internet Meltdown
Although from another thread this Vixism seems to apply well: The internet has no government, no constitution, no laws, no rights, no police, no courts. Don't talk about fairness or innocence, and don't talk about what should be done. Instead, talk about what is being done and what will be done by the amorphous unreachable undefinable blob called "the internet user base." -Paul Vixie
Re: SprintPCS spam policies
When I signed up for SprintPCS I was offered a yourname @ sprintpcs.com mail account. They let me chose an alias for the account. So now my cell phone has the email address of: noc @ sprintpcs.com This says something about how well they follow RFCs. -- Joe Hamelin Edmonds, WA, US
Re: Unplugging spamming PCs
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 16:40:23 -0700, Larry Pingree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree with you it's a hard problem to solve. But unless there is > mandatory cooperation within mail server software (which can be > monitored) to interface with a registry of acceptable/registered sites, > then this model could work. I can telnet to a mailserver and send mail to that host without much thought. What good will a registry do? What will solve spam is getting some of these virus writers to actually write some code that will trash disks of poorly patched (if a at all) hosts. Let Darwin take over. -Joe
