Re: OT: spamming tech question

2005-04-10 Thread Michael ODonnell
>I suspect you misunderstand what the "Host" HTTP header does You're right - I'd thought the Host: value string supplied info about the requesting machine rather than the server machine, sorta like the User-Agent: string. So you're also correct about that info being the lower-hanging fruit, as

Re: OT: spamming tech question

2005-04-10 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Michael ODonnell wrote: Since the spammer only "knows" me by my email address and is unlikely to ba able to correlate the Host: values reported by a browser with my email addr, I'm thinking that Host: value isn't of much interest. Further, if my browser is behind a firewall

Re: I find this *really* annoying

2005-04-10 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Derek Martin wrote: do it by checking that the machine in question isn't registered in DNS as a bonifide e-mail server for the sender domain. The problem with that stance is that for many MX operators, it blocks too much wanted mail. Most domains don't have SPF or anything

Re: I find this *really* annoying

2005-04-10 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Paul Lussier wrote: http://spamblock.outblaze.com/, which is apparently in use by whatever mail server Ben S. is behind, is referring to http://www.us.sorbs.net/ in order to list IP addresses to block e-mail from. Ahhh, that's just great. FWIW, I ha(ve|d) configured my vario

Re: OT: spamming tech question

2005-04-10 Thread Michael ODonnell
nslookup on Debian cheerfully decoded those URLs with ampersands, while the SamSpade site did not. We should keep in mind that the definition of "valid" is not "the behavior of some random app as coded by some random programmer", but instead (as Ben indicates) what the RFC says. Unless

Re: OT: spamming tech question

2005-04-10 Thread Michael ODonnell
> FWIW, as a DNS query is not guaranteed to hit the authoritative > nameserver every time, spammers are more likely looking at the > "Host:" header your HTTP/1.0-compliant User Agent is sending to > their web server when you request the resource. Since the spammer only "knows" me by my email ad

Re: OT: spamming tech question

2005-04-10 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Michael ODonnell wrote: Lately I've been getting SPAM with URLs laid out like this: (note the ampersands in the hostname portions of these URLs) http://yZyvb&bllZvotZw%2eZr%2esoftpyp%2einfo/in.php?aid=11&bZpaZtx Googling for "spam ampersand url" found this: http://permalink

Re: OT: spamming tech question

2005-04-10 Thread Brian Chabot
You can also decode these URL's here: http://www.samspade.org/ Brian ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: OT: spamming tech question

2005-04-10 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Bill McGonigle wrote: & is an invalid DNS character. a-z,A-Z,0-9,- are valid. Technically speaking, the Domain Name System specification allows any octet in a label (RFC-1035, Section 3.1). What you are describing are the rules for Internet host names. While it is today

Re: AAARRRGGGHHH!!! Re: USB CD Burners? - Problem

2005-04-10 Thread Brian Chabot
Ok, so... I decided to try a non-beta Mandrake install and see if that worked. Running: MandrakeLinux 10.1 Official [EMAIL PROTECTED] iarwain]$ uname -a Linux alfred.datasquire.net 2.6.8.1-12mdk #1 Fri Oct 1 12:53:41 CEST 2004 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+ unknown GNU/Linux BIOS WAS set to PnP O

What do people use to track phone calls?

2005-04-10 Thread Steven W. Orr
I'm looking for something to manage the phone calls that I need to make. When did I call? What was the status? Why am I calling? etc. Anything good out there? TIA -- Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have .0. happened but none stranger than this. Does your driv

Re: OT: PanAm from Pease to Orlando

2005-04-10 Thread Travis Roy
I have not, but I'm wondering why you would want to? Is it due to location to your home, cost? You can get some CHEAP flights out of Manchester, sometimes non-stop. My wife and I are flying to Las Vegas in July and we're paying just about $300 round trip, non-stop out of Manchester.. I could hav

Re: OT: PanAm from Pease to Orlando

2005-04-10 Thread Michael Sh
Hi, I live in the seacoast area and I've never flown from Pease, but I'd be interested as well... Mike - Original Message - From: "Michael ODonnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Subject: OT: PanAm from Pease to Orlando Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 14:45:21 -0400 >

Re: OT: spamming tech question

2005-04-10 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Apr 10, 2005, at 14:37, Michael ODonnell wrote: http://yZyvb&bllZvotZw%2eZr%2esoftpyp%2einfo/in.php?aid=11&bZpaZtx two things I notice - & is an invalid DNS character. a-z,A-Z,0-9,- are valid. My linux resolver does the lookup anyway. My AppleMail link parser stops at the &. hex unesca

OT: PanAm from Pease to Orlando

2005-04-10 Thread Michael ODonnell
I'm considering flying PanAm from the Pease International TradePort to Orlando and I'd be grateful to receive any comments or war stories from anybody who's flown out of that airfield near Portsmouth. Parking? Service? Convenience? etc... Respond via private email, please, unless it seems clea

OT: spamming tech question

2005-04-10 Thread Michael ODonnell
It's normal to receive SPAM containing email addrs and URLs that are tagged in various ways such that the spammer can detect which of his victims has actually responded because info about the victim is somehow encoded in the item. Example: http://spammers.site.com/obfuscatedVictimsEmailAddr .

Re: Gmail Invites

2005-04-10 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 08:43:24AM -0400, Numberwhun wrote: > Bill McGonigle wrote: > > > > >With 50 Gmail accounts you've got a hundred gigs of storage. Add in > >the gmailfs and you can ditch your hard drive and boot off of Gmail. > >Let them worry about backup. :) > > > Not to get all techn

Re: Gmail Invites

2005-04-10 Thread Numberwhun
Bill McGonigle wrote: With 50 Gmail accounts you've got a hundred gigs of storage. Add in the gmailfs and you can ditch your hard drive and boot off of Gmail. Let them worry about backup. :) Not to get all technical and stuff (we are geeks mind you), but since google is adding space continual

Re: Gmail Invites

2005-04-10 Thread Bill Mullen
On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 21:35, Bill McGonigle wrote: > On Apr 9, 2005, at 21:20, Dan Jenkins wrote: > > > I just don't know 50 people who want a Gmail account. Damned if I know > > who sent me an invite. I figured I'd use it for the throwaway email > > addresses and see how that works. > > With 5