Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-18 Thread John W. M. Stevens
On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 02:42:24PM +1000, Jason Lim wrote: > > > > > SO... if you plan on receiving email from me or Asia, I suggest you > use > > > RBLs with clear listing and removal policies and methods (eg. the RBLs > I > > > listed above, and others), > > > > This is a good policy. Using DNSB

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-18 Thread Jason Lim
> > > > > > > SO... if you plan on receiving email from me or Asia, I suggest you > > use > > > > RBLs with clear listing and removal policies and methods (eg. the RBLs > > I > > > > listed above, and others), > > > > > > This is a good policy. Using DNSBL's that don't have some > > > resolution

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-18 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 02:46:55PM +1000, Jason Lim wrote: > > amusingly, however, you completely discredit your line of argument > > by suggesting that bl.spamcop.net is a viable substitute. > > bl.spamcop.net isn't even a good RBL let alone any kind of a > > substitute for osirusoft, their moroni

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-18 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 04:49:28PM +1200, thing wrote: > what would be the feature syntax in sendmail.mc for using osirusoft > please? im in NZ and sick to death of being spammed from asia i'm not sure. it's been a few years since i used sendmail. my guess is that it would be something like: FE

OT: Server side scripting languages comparison

2002-08-18 Thread Shri Shrikumar
Hi, Does anyone know where I could find a good and *fair(ish)* comparison of the different server side scripting languages on the web ? I would also be very interested in a similar comparison of databases. If anyone knows of a better place that I could post this message, please let me know. T

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-18 Thread Jason Lim
> the same problem occurs for anyone unfortunate enough to use a clueless > or spamhaus ISP. it's got NOTHING to do with the fact that it's asian. > spamhaus and open relay ISP's *MUST* be blacklisted regardless of what > continent they are on. Then please... go ahead and block rackspace netbloc

scsi boot

2002-08-18 Thread sihite
Dear All, I am a beginner in linux, and now i have a problem with my new installation. I try to install a debian using debian potato rel. 2.2R4, my computer is compag, using scsi hardrive. But when i try to boot using the cd of debian rel. 2.2.R4 my scsi hardisk didn't detect/probe by debian au

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-18 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 14:02, Jason Lim wrote: > As I said in a previous email: > > - > It was once said that it is better to let off 10 criminals than to put 1 > innocent man in jail. > > You, on the other hand, suggest it is better to put 10 innocent men in > jail for 1 crimi

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-18 Thread Jason Lim
Sincerely, - Original Message - From: "Russell Coker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jason Lim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: ; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2002 10:20 PM Subject: Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com) > On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 14:02, Jason Lim wrote: > > As

Re: scsi boot

2002-08-18 Thread Jason Lim
This isn't really a Debian-ISP question.. but anyway... I don't think the 2.2 release had the Compaq SCSI drivers built into the kernel. You either need to compile/get a kernel with the required SCSI drivers built in, or get the module for it. Check the Debian website... I think there were boot

Re: scsi boot

2002-08-18 Thread Jarno Elonen
> You either need to compile/get a kernel with the required SCSI drivers > built in, or get the module for it. A module probably won't do if the root file system (/) is on a SCSI driver. I think you will have to compile the driver statically into the kernel. - Jarno

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-18 Thread Jules Dubois
At 12:27 08/18/2002 +1000, Jason Lim wrote: >Because you are using the combined RBL relays.osirusoft.com, and since Joe >Jared (single operator of relays.osirusoft) has a documented chip on his >shoulder against Asia and iAdvantage Osirusoft is not a blocklist, it is just an aggregate of other lis

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-18 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 16:00, Jason Lim wrote: > > On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 14:02, Jason Lim wrote: > > > It was once said that it is better to let off 10 criminals than to put > > > 1 innocent man in jail. > > > > > > You, on the other hand, suggest it is better to put 10 innocent men in > > > jail for 1

Re: scsi boot

2002-08-18 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 16:04, Jason Lim wrote: > I don't think the 2.2 release had the Compaq SCSI drivers built into the > kernel. In version 1:21.7-3 of LILO I added support for booting Compaq CCISS SCSI RAID, if you have that then you need a woody version of LILO. I've got a potato back-port of

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-18 Thread Jason Lim
> Large multinational firms get to choose their own policy for spam blocking, > they don't let an ISP tell them what to do. All you need is a MD of a > company they do business with being unable to send an email to the MD of > their company and heads will roll. > If you want to persue your crusa

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-18 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 16:55, Jason Lim wrote: > > Large multinational firms get to choose their own policy for spam > > blocking, > > they don't let an ISP tell them what to do. All you need is a MD of a > > company they do business with being unable to send an email to the MD of > > their company a

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-18 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Russell Coker wrote: > Also it would be good to see a response from you to Jules regarding the > "Zentek (Jason Lim) is a spam-house, Iadvantage > tolerates spammers" issue. Actually, it wouldn't, at least not on debian-user, where it is WAY OT. imo Patrick -- Patrick Wi

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-18 Thread Jason Lim
> > Osirusoft is not a blocklist, it is just an aggregate of other lists. Joe > Jared is not listing you, he's simply distributing lists which do. If you > stop the spamming for which you are personally responsible, the blocklist > maintaners will remove your IP addresses from their lists. Osirus

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-18 Thread Jason Lim
> > So... if suppose for people that do not send email to/from Asia, blocking > > ALL of Asia off wouldn't make the slightest difference to them. So hence > > RBLs that block all of Asia may indeed block out a lot of spam because > > American spammers are abusing the Asian servers/networks. > > > >

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-18 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 18:30, Jason Lim wrote: > Already have responded to it. I'm vocal about Western spammers abusing > Asian networks and servers, and then having Asia blocked for it. Sure, > fight people when they can't even speak English, and then wonder why they > don't respond to english email.

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-18 Thread John W. M. Stevens
On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 05:27:00PM +1000, Jason Lim wrote: > > What I call a resolution method are those used by ORDB.org, SPAMCOP.net, > VISI.com, and plenty of other ones. Around all day . . . > > Which means, quite simply, that iAdvantage hosts spammers, and refuses > > to remove them. > > I

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-18 Thread Vector
Take it somewhere else please, like news.admin.mail-abuse or whatever that newsgroup is that has a bunch of posers claiming not to be from SPEWS and other fascist BLs. Apparently that newsgroups is specifically used for this kind of thing. No, seriously though, take it somewhere else. You are no

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-18 Thread Colin Watson
Please take this conversation off debian-user. I'm not entirely sure why it ended up here, but it's quite off-topic. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: scsi boot

2002-08-18 Thread thing
u may have to start with the 2 compact image floppies they are on the CD. regards Thing sihite wrote: > Dear All, > > I am a beginner in linux, and now i have a problem with my new installation. > I try to install a debian using debian potato rel. 2.2R4, > my computer is compag, using scsi hard

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-18 Thread John W. M. Stevens
On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 07:54:14PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Please take this conversation off debian-user. I'm not entirely sure > why > it ended up here, but it's quite off-topic. I felt that a discussion of email block lists was, indeed, on topic. Note the number of other discussions re: em

Re: Email Virus Scanner

2002-08-18 Thread UnKnown
Well, I has been using amavis-perl with uvscan, under exim and sendmail, and find out several thigs that didnt work out fine. To begin with uvscan, it's far too heavy on the server, it try to access several hard disk and if it finds a cd-rom it atemp to open it, That make a server crash for

Re: Email Virus Scanner

2002-08-18 Thread Joan Cirer
Hi! I used amavis-perl (not the daemonised version) with postfix using uvscan and AVP at the same time for one year in two relay server with a mailload of 15000 message/day using (very) cheap hardware (clueless IT managment) and with no noticeable loads. > crash for overload, It might be a misco

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-18 Thread Jason Lim
> > > > (sorry for the long link... i couldn't find a way to make it much > > shorter). > > http://www.makeashorterlink.com/ :-) -rt > Ah yes, I'll need to keep that one in mind next time. Thanks :-)

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-18 Thread Jason Lim
> > > And you wonder why Chinese admins don't respond. What would YOU do if you > > got an email in Yiddish? > > When I get email in Chinese I just report it to SpamCop, if I've ever > received a Yiddish email I'm sure I did the same. Eeep... spam or not? Nei how ma? ;-) > Everyone who is doing

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-18 Thread Jason Lim
> Please take this conversation off debian-user. I'm not entirely sure why > it ended up here, but it's quite off-topic. Isn't the discussion of various RBLs and mail software on-topic? Doesn't this affect debian users ability to receive email? Would discussion of various anti-virus software be m

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-18 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 02:23:11AM +1000, Jason Lim wrote: > > says, and I quote, "Zentek (Jason Lim) is a spam-house, Iadvantage > > tolerates spammers. > > Thats right... because I'm one of the first people to complain about > this and probably the most vocal (and I'll continue to do so until >

Re: mail queue's, ext3 data=journal and sync-mount

2002-08-18 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 00:51, you wrote: > reply to my last email? I'm sorry to bother, but I'm trying to find a I missed that, but it seems you raise the same issues here. > suitable filesystem and mount options for a qmail queue. DJB says no to > ext2 unless it's sync mounted, but I found abysma

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-18 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 01:42, Jason Lim wrote: > > When I get email in Chinese I just report it to SpamCop, if I've ever > > received a Yiddish email I'm sure I did the same. > > Eeep... spam or not? Mail in Chinese is considered spam until proven otherwise. There is no way of proving otherwise...

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-18 Thread Jason Lim
> > whether you like it or not, anyone can block email on their own servers > using whatever criteria they choose. you do NOT have a right to have > your mail accepted. nobody does. that choice rests with the recipient > server. Yeah... except many End-users don't know / not aware of what RBLs

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-18 Thread Jason Lim
> > > I suppose because I notice these things first I tend to be the "bringer of > > bad news" to people and hence get flamed most. Oh well. > > Why not bring the news to people who run those Asian ISPs? > Because i can't possibly start teaching hundreds... possibly thousands of chinese net admin

Re: OT: Server side scripting languages comparison

2002-08-18 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 12:47:54PM +0100, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > Does anyone know where I could find a good and *fair(ish)* comparison > of the different server side scripting languages on the web ? i haven't seen any comprehensive comparisons, but i've used and dabbled with a few. IMO, the best

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-18 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 10:57:35AM +1000, Jason Lim wrote: > AND I REPEAT (since you didn't choose to reply to this): > --- > [blah blah blah] > > What do you think now? i think you're bring up irrelevancies. the fact that company A is doing wrong is not j

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-18 Thread Jason Lim
> > > Been there. Seen it. There are two sides to this issue, and when > > > you put 'em both on the same news group, you'd better expect > > > flames, especially when they are so totally diametrically opposed. > > > > This only supports my previous statment that telling people to go to NANAE >

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-18 Thread Jason Lim
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 10:57:35AM +1000, Jason Lim wrote: > > AND I REPEAT (since you didn't choose to reply to this): > > --- > > [blah blah blah] > > > > What do you think now? > > i think you're bring up irrelevancies. the fact that company A is doing

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-18 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 03:02, Jason Lim wrote: > Blah... somehow I don't think this is going anywhere. USA and western > spammers will continue to find fault in chinese networks and servers to > kingdom come. Perhaps the chinese admins should block USA mail traffic > altogether so USA and western spam

email block lists

2002-08-18 Thread ragnar
Hello, (only sending to the Debian ISP list). Although the talk of email block lists was getting somewhat out of hand it is an extremely important subject. If some good could come from talk on this subject I would be most happy. For now please lets stop looping Joe Jared and iAdvantage. We p

Re: Contacting a linux box behind a vicious cable internet firewall?

2002-08-18 Thread Andy Gardner
At 5:20 PM +1000 8/17/02, Mitchell Smith wrote: >Here is a neet little app that sounds like it will do what you want. Didn't appear to - maybe I wasn't specific enough. But thanks for the effort of replying. As it turns out, SSH allows me to do exactly what I need using the -R option (reverse pro

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Re: OT: Server side scripting languages comparison

2002-08-18 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 10:50:44AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 12:47:54PM +0100, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > > Does anyone know where I could find a good and *fair(ish)* comparison > > of the different server side scripting languages on the web ? > > i haven't seen any compre

Re: Email Virus Scanner

2002-08-18 Thread UnKnown
We tray to run with noboot but the uvscan show the same behaviour, the directory under which apear the messages is /var/spool/mqueue . I double check the config, and it's like the examples, in the spanish list someone report the same proble but he solve it migrating to the demonised version. I olso

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-18 Thread Nathan
On Monday, August 19, 2002, at 10:43 AM, Jason Lim wrote: Well, Thank God the chinese CCCP (China) party meetings aren't like that. Can you imagine 1000's of leaders of each province getting into an "heated discussion" like that? And besides... having those western legistative ppl... in Australi