"... Niagara-Mohawk power grid was overloaded."

2003-08-14 Thread Eric A. Hall
in the cars. -30- -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

Re: Microsoft to ship new versions with firewall enabled

2003-08-14 Thread Eric A. Hall
d by default. Wouldn't it make more sense to ship with all of the services disabled? I mean, if the role of the firewall is to block packets to weak services, wouldn't it be simpler to just disable the damn services since they aren't going to be usabl

Re: OT: question re. the Volume of unwanted email (fwd)

2003-06-18 Thread Eric A. Hall
These costs also have secondary effects, like permanently delaying rate reductions (sorry your tuition went up again, but we had to buy another cluster), which in turn affects other parties, but the bulk of the pressure is wherever the mailstore is at. -- Eric A. Hall

Re: Rescheduled: P2P file sharing national security and personalsecurity risks

2003-06-13 Thread Eric A. Hall
ort. And folks like Berman (the RIAA vigilante bill) and Feinstein (the MPAA) are Democrats. And you misused "licentious". http://news.com.com/2100-1023-954591.html shows that this kind of effort has been going for a while. -- Eric A. Hallhttp:/

Re: Why replicate the DNS?

2003-03-06 Thread Eric A. Hall
used for tasks like ~find the mail server, but nobody should seriously argue that we should use DNS to hold ~RFC822/MIME messages and entities. -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

Re: Whitehouse Tackels Cybersecurity

2002-09-18 Thread Eric A. Hall
level event in Silicon Valley. But the board instead will release a draft of the strategy and will go back to private industry and public sector experts to seek more suggestions for the final plan, according to sources. [...] -- Eric A. Hallhttp:

Re: Microslosh vision of the future

2002-08-13 Thread Eric A. Hall
e just to throw us off the truth! http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/08/08/020808hnftcboost2.xml http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,449416,00.asp investigation started in this term, action concluded in this term please... somewhere else, thanks -- Eri

Re: Stop it with putting your e-mail body in my MUA OT

2002-07-10 Thread Eric A. Hall
pes | | Other "multipart" subtypes are expected in the future. MIME | implementations must in general treat unrecognized subtypes of | "multipart" as being equivalent to "multipart/mixed". A mailer which displays the embedded text as attachments is

Re: Stop it with putting your e-mail body in my MUA OT

2002-07-10 Thread Eric A. Hall
lems with your own mailer is pretty dumb. -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

Re: multicast (was Re: Readiness for IPV6)

2002-07-09 Thread Eric A. Hall
ISPs don't offer it, firewalls/NATs don't support it, and so forth. I've never had a network connection which supported it. -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

Re: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server.

2002-06-07 Thread Eric A. Hall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I mean, is it *that* hard to avoid lame delegations and typos in > the SOA or NS records? apparently -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

Re: anybody else been spammed by "no-ip.com" yet?

2002-05-04 Thread Eric A. Hall
wouldn't need funding. MAPS could make a decent income by filing class-action suits against spammers, for example. No reason for the government to get involved other than holding court. -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols

Re: anybody else been spammed by "no-ip.com" yet?

2002-05-04 Thread Eric A. Hall
it is even less likely to succeed, since there isn't anybody with a financial incentive to make sure that it works and to drive the necessary adoptions. A micropayment option with a big backer at least has the chance to do things like pay email developers to add su

Re: anybody else been spammed by "no-ip.com" yet?

2002-05-04 Thread Eric A. Hall
Hey! Where's my reply? I'm in the hole $.04 on this thread now! Right! No more mail to you until you send me two messages! Then we all move to some other medium that doesn't cost money -- and then the spammers follow us there too. "Eric A. Hall" wrote: > &g

Re: anybody else been spammed by "no-ip.com" yet?

2002-05-04 Thread Eric A. Hall
"Forrest W. Christian" wrote: > Grandma would get 2c for each mail she received. Grandma would pay 2c > for each email she sent. Where does that cause the problems you are > talking about? I send a lot more mail than grandma does. -- Eric A. Hall

Re: anybody else been spammed by "no-ip.com" yet?

2002-05-04 Thread Eric A. Hall
ropayments won't be needed if the right laws are passed. Given the history, the biggest problem with the legal approach is that congress will pass a bad law instead of the one they need to, which is to extend the TCPA to include spam. -- Eric A. Hallh

Re: Selective DNS replies

2002-04-25 Thread Eric A. Hall
c" { match-clients { any; }; zone... }; Internal and external have their own views of sensitive zones, but they share the root cache and other public zones. -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet

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