On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 22:43, Benjamin Scott wrote:
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> What's nastier is that spammers are now starting to include "real" text in
> their spam. They seem to be either using public domain works (from Project
> Gutenberg, I'll bet), or fragments of stuff harvested from the
> web/Usenet/something
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
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 m
>> 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
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 text/plain
> Hewitt Tech writes:
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> > 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
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@.
I find that SpamCop doe
Hewitt Tech writes:
>
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> 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 cont
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 ha
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 7:14 AM
Subject: Re: BitTorrent and Comcast?
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> Okay, take into account tha
>> 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.
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> 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
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From: "Benjamin Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Greater NH Linux User Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: BitTorrent and Comcast?
> On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, at 3:36pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 08:10:10PM -0400, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, at 3:36pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > The scammers should be tracked down one by one and made to face the
> > courts.
>
> Sure. Tell me how NH residents like myself are supposed to track down a
> criminal i
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, at 3:36pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The scammers should be tracked down one by one and made to face the
> courts.
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 Mexi
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From: "Jeff Kinz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Greater NH Linux User Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 10:44 PM
Subject: Re: BitTorrent and Comcast?
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> its a bit like asking
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 08:52:15PM -0400, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, at 4:05pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Does anyone know whether Comcast considers using BitTorrent as a client to
> > be a terms of service violation (because each client also serves)?
>
> > I c
On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, at 4:05pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Does anyone know whether Comcast considers using BitTorrent as a client to
> be a terms of service violation (because each client also serves)?
When an ISP's ToS refer to running "servers", they generally mean hosting
services. They don
On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 16:05, Bill Freeman wrote:
> Does anyone know whether Comcast considers using BitTorrent as
> a client to be a terms of service violation (because each client also
> serves)? I can't get a straight answer out of Comcast customer
> support. They just quote the sections
On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 16:32, Bill McGonigle wrote:
> On Sep 27, 2004, at 16:05, Bill Freeman wrote:
>
> > What probably matters is whether their network monitoring people watch
> > for, notice, and object to, the kind of activity that BitTorrent
> > generates.
>
> Right - good luck pinning them d
I've used BitTorrent to grab all the latest Linux ISOs (and to serve
them back, of course) for a while now, and haven't heard any
threatening noises from Comcast. Otoh, a friend got a warning letter
from the MPAA for the movies he was apparently downloading. Remember,
BT is not anonymous P2P sh
On Sep 27, 2004, at 16:05, Bill Freeman wrote:
What probably matters is whether their network monitoring people watch
for, notice, and object to, the kind of activity that BitTorrent
generates.
Right - good luck pinning them down on it too - they allegedly like to
change the rules to suit their ne
Does anyone know whether Comcast considers using BitTorrent as
a client to be a terms of service violation (because each client also
serves)? I can't get a straight answer out of Comcast customer
support. They just quote the sections of the terms of service that
caused me to ask in the fi
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