Re: Captchas was Re: ISP wants to stop outgoing web based spam

2006-08-16 Thread Paul Jakma
On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Simon Waters wrote: You snipped the bit where I said "It would work for a minority use." Sorry, don't think that is relevant really - least I have no data on what minority uses are for captchas, nor majority uses or what the difference is. The reason people use image

RE: european colo/bandwidth facilites?

2006-08-16 Thread Mark D. Kaye
Hi, I can only comment from a UK perspective but... Personally I would check the Colo facility contracts very carefully before agreeing. LINX have just reviewed contracts within some of the major facilities in London TelecityRedbus (Now Merged in to one company) and Telehouse Europe The Revi

AW: european colo/bandwidth facilites?

2006-08-16 Thread Gunther Stammwitz
Hi, You should either go to London or Amsterdam if you like to have a very direct connection to the US or if you want to reach whole europe including eastern european countries the only place to be is Frankfurt. Costs of leased lines from the US to Frankfurt are the same as to Amsterdam/London bu

Re: Captchas was Re: ISP wants to stop outgoing web based spam

2006-08-16 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 09:21:06AM +0100, Simon Waters wrote: > > The reason people use image recognition is it is something (most) humans find > > very easy, but requires considerable investment of effort (or resource for > self training) to teach computers, and readily permits of variations

Re: Captchas was Re: ISP wants to stop outgoing web based spam

2006-08-16 Thread Simon Waters
On Wednesday 16 Aug 2006 01:13, Paul Jakma wrote: > On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Simon Waters wrote: > > I've no doubt some captcha can be invented in ASCII, but this isn't > > it. > > 'tis. It works for at least one blog platform, where I've never once > had comment spam. You snipped the bit where I sai

Re: Open Source NMS Software

2006-08-16 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 12:16:28PM -0400, Gary T. Giesen wrote: > > I'm looking at depolying an open source-based NMS solution, and I'm > looking at a couple products, mostly OpenNMS (http://www.opennms.org) > and Zenoss (http://www.zenoss.org). I like the looks of Zenoss, but > I've never really