Re: longer Debian confession

2003-11-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
erWorks, or others. If you're looking for a collaborator on such a project, talk to me offline. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Bush/Cheney '04: The last vote you'll ever have to cast. pgppXHmwVBSt2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
fair amount of time in IRC support for #debian. Lots of n00bs come on wanting to install Debian unstable. The advice is consistent: Don't. Not if you don't know your way around tha packaging system yet. I've had a number of friends convert to Debian -- most of them love it, aggressiv

Re: IMPORTANT: your message to html-tidy

2003-09-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 11:07:39AM +1000, Craig Sanders ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 11:09:57PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 15:40:15 +1000 > > Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 06:

Re: IMPORTANT: your message to html-tidy

2003-09-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 03:40:15PM +1000, Matthew Palmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 06:04:39AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 01:57:54PM +1000, Matthew Palmer ([EMAIL > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > [W3C's autoresponder]

Re: IMPORTANT: your message to html-tidy

2003-09-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
response to the SoBig.F worm. I'm coming to the view that we're approaching the era where all mail is going to have to be subject to filtering, at the MTA level. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you unders

Re: MEI Whitelist Autoresponse

2003-09-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
granted, commercial) SMTP virus scanners that I've had experience > with don't allow you to modify the notification behavior on a per virus > signature basis, it's either all on or all off. That is a problem for the vendor. If the vendor can't modify their software to dif

Re: Bug#207300: tmda: Challenge-response is fundamentally broken

2003-08-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
prevents you from 550ing this at SMTP connect? > > The absence of any such connections. I'm on a dialup. Fair enough. I'm in the same boat. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? A guide

Re: Bug#207300: tmda: Challenge-response is fundamentally broken

2003-08-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 07:44:56AM -0500, John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Brian May writes: > > You saying that any SMTP MTA that sends bounces to unauthenticated > > E-Mail addresses is also broken? > > Karsten M. Self writes: > > At the very least, th

Re: Bug#207300: tmda: Challenge-response is fundamentally broken

2003-08-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
alidated against contents, is useable. It doesn't validate the sender, but it provides a level of indication that someone went through the trouble of getting a key, posting it publicly, and signing (and/or encrypting) content with it. That's more elbow grease than your garden-variety spam

Re: Bug#207300: tmda: Challenge-response is fundamentally broken

2003-08-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 08:21:22AM -0700, Adam McKenna ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 12:35:25PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > #2, Misplaced burden, is the reason for the 'grave' severity. > > People have a right to ask that unkown people that

Re: MEI Whitelist Autoresponse

2003-08-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
response systems it's totally different. I don't want > to receive a single message because a lazy asshole wants to push all > his problems on other people. > > People who take the attitude of "Sobig wasn't a problem, my machine > just sent out 4000 challenge messa

Re: MEI Whitelist Autoresponse

2003-08-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
abled is also an independent campaign I've been active in and plan to take to the IT media mainstream. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? I managed to love simultaneously -- and this is

Re: Bug#207300: tmda: Challenge-response is fundamentally broken

2003-08-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 12:03:34AM +1000, Russell Coker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 21:35, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Which is a damned good reason for Debian not to package > > viruses and spam mailers. Or tools which can be readily subverted as > >

Re: Bug#207300: tmda: Challenge-response is fundamentally broken

2003-08-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 03:09:48PM +0200, Andreas Metzler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > [...] > > SpamAssassin achieves a false-positive rate (non-spam reported as spam) > > of 5% with a default threshold of 5. This can be dramatically improved > &g

Re: Bug#207300: tmda: Challenge-response is fundamentally broken

2003-08-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
nsible default for From: Adresses which will > raise the amount of Bounces to debian.org. That sounds like a great way > for the Project to shoot itself into the feet. That would be an example of #0. With a twist. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What P

Re: Bug#207300: tmda: Challenge-response is fundamentally broken

2003-08-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
ng, so that mail rejection occurs at SMTP time. As SMTP doesn't offer a protocol for challenge-response, this introduces interesting challenges for TMDA's developers. - TMDA's performance _must_ be independently validated and the target maximum of 2% chal

Re: Fwd: Please confirm your message

2002-12-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
allback mail system w/o my procmail support. Two days of filtering by hand... I'm going to dig through backups to get 'em back in place RSN. 2. The system is based on the Debian spamfilter package, Lars Wizenius's procmal recipies. Spamassassin support is sim

Re: Policy proposal: 'local-foo' for system-specific init.d fil

2002-04-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Apr 02, 2002, Osamu Aoki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 10:39:21PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > > On 01-Apr-2002 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > >> This

Re: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL

2001-09-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2001/08/07/419scams/print.html Nigerian 419 Scam "Game Over!" http://home.pacbell.net/jpaladin/ Book describes how the scam plays out. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt"

Re: gpg and trustdb very slow

2001-09-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
ocs, where it is said that one must reinsert > all keys in the trustdb to take advantage of a new caching > algorithm... Could you point us to the relevant docs and/or the command for re-reading keys? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of &qu