Re: Google wants to be your Internet

2007-01-23 Thread Bob Martin
Our REA has been reading the meter via the copper running to our house for several years now. Took them less than 2 years to realize a savings. (And since it's a co-op, that means the price goes down :) ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:18:09 CST, Brandon Galbraith said:

Re: what will all you who work for private isp's be doing in a few years?

2005-05-11 Thread Bob Martin
broadband. You don't need 4mb down to read your email. And once you get outside of the city limits there's a good sized market that can't get any type of broadband, especially cable. We may decline some, but I don't think that ISP's are going away anytime soon. Bob Martin Matt Bazan wrote: why

Re: what will all you who work for private isp's be doing in a few years?

2005-05-11 Thread Bob Martin
That sums it up nicely. Bob Martin Joe Maimon wrote: -snip- Its hardly a foregone conclusion. As it stands, the largest cause of broadband market aggregation is the erosion of fair access provisions and a sleeping(drunk?)-at-the-wheel FCC. Joe

Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?

2005-02-15 Thread Bob Martin
will be locked. Bob Martin Erik wrote: I just get sick of providers blocking traffic...their job is to PASS TRAFFIC. There must be a better solution, but laziness is getting the better of us all, as usual. We've had so many problems with IP Providers blocking various IP PROTOCOLS that we've just

Re: Time to check the rate limits on your mail servers

2005-02-03 Thread Bob Martin
We've been doing this on postfix for some time now. Michael Loftis wrote: --On Thursday, February 03, 2005 11:42 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you let your customers send an unlimited number of emails per day? Per hour? Per minute? If so, then why? Because there are *NO* packages available

Re: Port 25 filters - how many here deploy them bidirectionally?

2005-01-25 Thread Bob Martin
, regardles of where it originates. We've evidently made it harder to turn the boxen into zombies, and time and entropy have started to clean up the ones that where there. b Bob Martin wrote: We really don't know what to make of it. Either the spammers have modified their code so that they don't

Re: Port 25 filters - how many here deploy them bidirectionally?

2005-01-09 Thread Bob Martin
of a trend for me to wonder how widespread this behavior is. If it works, it will become very wide spread before long. This may or may not be related, but we have seen a sharp decline in spam attempts from our dial up pool since Sept 2004. Bob Martin

Re: Port 25 filters - how many here deploy them bidirectionally?

2005-01-09 Thread Bob Martin
, 2005, 4:17:27 PM, Bob Martin wrote: This may or may not be related, but we have seen a sharp decline in spam attempts from our dial up pool since Sept 2004. Intersting. with the spam on the increase, do you think spammers are 'ignoring' your customer base? or is there other factors involved ?

Interesting DNS problem.

2004-12-16 Thread Bob Martin
. Any input would be greatly appreciated. Bob Martin Connected to whois.internic.net. Escape character is '^]'. nameserver 63.151.3.248 Whois Server Version 1.3 Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net

Re: Microsoft suing spammers....Tilting at windmills?

2004-12-03 Thread Bob Martin
Sometimes the only way to stop evil is not with good... You must confront it with a different kind of evil. David Twohy - The Chronicles of Riddick Bob Owen DeLong wrote: It makes one wonder if an entity with as deep pockets and adept legal staff might actually make an impact on spammers, or if

Re: Has postini been taken over?

2004-08-20 Thread Bob Martin
This won't work for resold ports, but we used to do all of our [dialup] filtering on the NAS. We could still do so with our TC1000's, but it's much simpler to do it with radius if you have multiple ISP's using the same box. Bob Martin Christopher L. Morrow wrote: On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Suresh

Verisign vs. ICANN

2004-06-17 Thread Bob Martin
Anything I/we can do to help the cause? Bob Martin Quoted from different thread: (note that verisign has amended their complaint against icann (since the court dismissed the first one) and i'm now named as a co-conspirator. if you reply to this message, there's a good chance of your e-mail

Re: What HTTP exploit?

2004-05-31 Thread Bob Martin
e. Killing off one child process had no effect on valid sessions or the parent process. Bob Martin Mike Nice wrote: It seems to be another stupid Microsoft Exploit that just causes annoyance for Unix Boxes. The only side effect is they fill my dmesg logs with signal 11's from apach

Re: Open Source BGP Route Optimization?

2004-05-27 Thread Bob Martin
This should help http://www.bgp4.as/tools Olivier Bonaventure wrote: Noel, Does anybody happen to know of any open source project working on a BGP route optimizer like what Route Science or Internap or the likes have commercially? The TOTEM project (see http://totem.info.ucl.ac.be/ ) is building

List of dynamic IP's

2004-05-19 Thread Bob Martin
Does anyone know of a list of dynamic IP's by ISP? I'm looking for something akin to this list from AOL http://postmaster.info.aol.com/info/servers.html TIA Bob Martin