Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

2007-11-06 Thread Greg Skinner
Bill Stewart wrote: > When Verisign hijacked the wildcard DNS space for .com/.net, they > encoded the Evil Bit in the response by putting Sitefinder's IP > address as the IP address. In theory you could interpret that as > damage and route around it, or at least build ACLs to block any > traffic

Re: Using RIR info to determine geographic location...

2007-12-20 Thread Greg Skinner
Personally, I have trouble accepting some of the claims the geotargeting companies have made, such as Quova's 99.9% to the country level, and 95% to the US state level. ( More info at http://www.quova.com/page.php?id=132 ) Perhaps I'm just part of the outlying data; using the "three top search en

Re: Using RIR info to determine geographic location...

2007-12-20 Thread Greg Skinner
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 10:17:36PM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: > On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 02:13:17 +0000, Greg Skinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Personally, I have trouble accepting some of the claims the > > geotargeting companies have made, such as Quova's 99.9

Re: "Does TCP Need an Overhaul?" (internetevolution, via slashdot)

2008-04-08 Thread Greg Skinner
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 01:10:53AM +0200, Marcin Cieslak wrote: > The problem is that fairness was probably never a design goal of TCP, > even with Van Jacobson's congestion avoidance patch. > > Bob Briscoe is a member of the IETF Transport Working Group (TSVWG). > This subject got some publici

Re: Problems sending mail to yahoo?

2008-04-13 Thread Greg Skinner
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 11:48:31PM -0400, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 08:04:12PM -0400, Barry Shein wrote: > A number of things that are true, including: > > > I say the core problem in spam are the botnets capable of delivering > > on the order of 100 billion msgs/day. > > Bu

Re: Abuse response [Was: RE: Yahoo Mail Update]

2008-04-16 Thread Greg Skinner
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 03:39:05PM -0400, Joe Abley wrote: > > On 16 Apr 2008, at 13:33 , Simon Waters wrote: > > > Ask anyone in the business "if I want a free email account who do I > > use.." and you'll get the almost universal answer Gmail. > > I think amongst those not in the business the