Re: BitTorrent and Comcast?

2004-09-29 Thread travis
Sure. Tell me how NH residents like myself are supposed to track down a criminal in Russia sending stuff from a zombie box in Korea and using a PO Box in Mexico. Why would this be your job? All I'm saying is that no one is even willing to entertain the reports. As far as I can tell

Re: BitTorrent and Comcast?

2004-09-29 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 10:53:12AM -0400, Hewitt Tech wrote: I guess what puzzles me is that spam is almost always used on behalf of someone who is trying to get customers. It's those companies that should get burned. If spam is tracked back to them, and I don't see why it's particularly hard

Re: Spam control (was: BitTorrent and Comcast?)

2004-09-29 Thread Bill Freeman
Hewitt Tech writes: ... I guess what puzzles me is that spam is almost always used on behalf of someone who is trying to get customers. It's those companies that should get burned. If spam is tracked back to them, and I don't see why it's particularly hard since they always put contact

Re: BitTorrent and Comcast?

2004-09-29 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Jeff Kinz writes: When I find them (I get almost no spam at all these days), I sometimes follow the trail back to the original company's website, track down the hosting company, and send the spam with an explanation that the company is violating the AUP to abuse@isp/hosting compay. I find

Re: Spam control (was: BitTorrent and Comcast?)

2004-09-29 Thread travis
Hewitt Tech writes: ... I guess what puzzles me is that spam is almost always used on behalf of someone who is trying to get customers. It's those companies that should get burned. If spam is tracked back to them, and I don't see why it's particularly hard since they always put contact

Re: Spam control (was: BitTorrent and Comcast?)

2004-09-29 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Sep 29, 2004, at 12:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There also seems to be the new trend of sending crap emails that have no content and random words.. I think those are just sent to verify email addresses, but then there's no product or service being sold. sometimes this is just in the

Re: Spam control (was: BitTorrent and Comcast?)

2004-09-29 Thread Michael ODonnell
There also seems to be the new trend of sending crap emails that have no content and random words.. I think those are just sent to verify email addresses, but then there's no product or service being sold. sometimes this is just in the text/plain part - the ad is in the text/html part.

Re: Spam control (was: BitTorrent and Comcast?)

2004-09-29 Thread Bill Mullen
On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 12:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There also seems to be the new trend of sending crap emails that have no content and random words.. I think those are just sent to verify email addresses, but then there's no product or service being sold. I believe that he aim of such

apt and RH EL ES3

2004-09-29 Thread Paul Lussier
Hi, Does anyone have a decent sources.list file for apt which will work for a RH ES3 system? Also, whose this 'dag' guy? I've been warned that his packages could really mess up my system. Seeya, Paul -- Key fingerprint = 1660 FECC 5D21 D286 F853 E808 BB07 9239 53F1 28EE It may look

Re: apt and RH EL ES3

2004-09-29 Thread Jeff Macdonald
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 15:19:33 -0400, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Does anyone have a decent sources.list file for apt which will work for a RH ES3 system? I use up2date as it supports APT and YUM repositories. I should say the up2date that Whitebox provides (Whitebox is a RHEL

Re: VoIP and Asterisk

2004-09-29 Thread Ray Cote
At 9:12 PM -0400 9/27/04, Jon maddog Hall wrote: I have a couple of people who are interested in coming to talk about VoIP and Asterisk. With a little luck and some frequent flyer miles, we might be able to get Mark Spencer, as well as a few people from other companies. As interesting as VOIP is,

Re: VoIP and Asterisk

2004-09-29 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 16:35 -0400, Ray Cote wrote: At 9:12 PM -0400 9/27/04, Jon maddog Hall wrote: I have a couple of people who are interested in coming to talk about VoIP and Asterisk. With a little luck and some frequent flyer miles, we might be able to get Mark Spencer, as well as a few

Re: VoIP and Asterisk

2004-09-29 Thread Bruce Dawson
On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 17:05, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: If you want to keep the 32 analog phones, then there could be a problem, as you would need 32 FXS ports (8 cards x 4 ports each), and I don't know too many systems that have 9 or 10 PCI slots. However, chances are, the phones that you have

Re: VoIP and Asterisk

2004-09-29 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 17:17 -0400, Bruce Dawson wrote: On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 17:05, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: If you want to keep the 32 analog phones, then there could be a problem, as you would need 32 FXS ports (8 cards x 4 ports each), and I don't know too many systems that have 9 or 10

Re: Spam control (was: BitTorrent and Comcast?)

2004-09-29 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, at 2:27pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe that he aim of such messages is to poison the cache of filters such as SpamAssassin and POPFile ... That is generally assumed to be the intent, yes. I'm not at all sure that this sort of thing accomplishes its goal, though,

Re: VoIP and Asterisk

2004-09-29 Thread Bill Mullen
On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 17:05, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: The 32 internal phones could be a bit of a problem. If you are planning on switching to IP phones, then it's no problem. You just plug the phones and the asterisk box into the network. You could also switch to soft-phones and have people