[vox-tech] Re: What anti-spam techniques do you use?

2002-02-05 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hi john, there's not much you can do once the mail is delivered to your mailbox. that means if mail is going to someone else's server, you either need them to cooperate with proactive methods or you need to filter spam passively and complain retroactively. since most of my mail comes to

Re: [vox-tech] Re: What anti-spam techniques do you use?

2002-02-05 Thread Rod Roark
I believe ordb.org also has an experimental non-open-relay blacklist. Since you have broadband, operating your own mail server is definitely a good thing to do (IF you have the time to learn the details). I'm also a happy Postfix user. You don't even have to buy a domain -- dhs.org has them

Re: [vox-tech] ZIP drive woes

2002-02-05 Thread Charles Polisher
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 07:15:30PM -0800, nbs wrote: I found some old ZIP disks I had backed up some of my websites on, and thought I'd poke around and see what I had. Unfortunately, when I went to use my drive (an older, PPA-style 100MB drive), I was faced with the following: [snip] IIRC,

[vox-tech] Mail server advice

2002-02-05 Thread speck
All right. It looks like I'm getting a broadband connection again (DSL, it'll be nice to get my fix :) This time I'll have a full DMZ, protected internal network etc. However, I'd like to have a mail server that I can run off a Linux system (this will let me learn more about Linux). I know

Re: [vox-tech] Oracle question

2002-02-05 Thread Jay Strauss
I know at least one person wanted to install Oracle on Linux: http://www.e-gineer.com/instructions/install-oracle9i-on-linux.phtml http://staff.in2.hr/denis/oracle/ Both of these are good instructions, I haven't installed 9i on linux yet but I'm getting ready to (I need to buy some more memory

Re: [vox-tech] Mail server advice

2002-02-05 Thread Rod Roark
On Tuesday, February 5, 2002, at 11:34 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Requirements IMAP (I access from home and work so I like leaving things on the server) Courier IMAP works well for me. I tried Cyrus but it has too many idiosyncrasies for me, and it's really designed to run on a

Re: [vox-tech] x-windows problem?

2002-02-05 Thread Mark K. Kim
If you use LILO in text mode (you see LILO: prompt), type linux 1 to boot into text mode. If you use LILO in graphics mode, you press some key combo to go to the text mode (ctrl-X, or just X, I think). This will boot Linux in text mode, where you can fix the problem from the command prompt.