Re: Internet Email Services Association ( wasRE: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?)

not only have an outcry, you'll have a target for legal action (restraint of trade?). That kind of thing needs government level action. It's highly unlikely to happen, and it's far from clear that we would want it to. -- Kee Hinckley http://www.messagegate.com/ Enterprise Messaging

Re: AOL tarpitting?

At 2:26 PM -0500 11/5/04, Mark Jeftovic wrote: had AOL tarpitting gotten quite a bit more aggressive in the last few days? One of the sites I run (hosted on cihost) recently started getting bad SMTP responses from AOL. We worked around by routing AOL and Compuserver mail through a gateway that c

Re: Verisign vs ICANN

't a standard format for the returned information between providers. The whois database is not a replacement for a DNS query. -- Kee Hinckley http://www.messagefire.com/ Next Generation Spam Defense http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on Technology and Society I'm not s

Re: Verisign Responds

sks, never mind the increase in spam) are also broken by other TLDs that use wildcards. The issues weren't clear because the impact was small. Now that they are clear, those decisions should also be revisited. -- Kee Hinckley http://www.messagefire.com/ Next Generation Sp

Detecting a non-existent domain

bly they figured out the answer to this problem and have code samples available for distribution. However I get the feeling from their press releases that they've forgotten there is more to the internet than just the web. -- Kee Hinckley http://www.messagefire.com/ Next Gen

RE: Detecting a non-existent domain

Although Verisign ought to be describing all of these techniques. But depending on the circumstances I primarily need to check for A records or MX and A records. -- Kee Hinckley http://www.messagefire.com/ Next Generation Spam Defense http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on T

RE: Detecting a non-existent domain

NAME's, multiple A records and all of that in the future. -- Kee Hinckley http://www.messagefire.com/ Next Generation Spam Defense http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on Technology and Society I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept respo

Re: Detecting a non-existent domain

At 10:24 AM -0400 9/24/03, John A. Martin wrote: >>>>> "Kee" == Kee Hinckley "RE: Detecting a non-existent domain" Tue, 23 Sep 2003 20:16:04 -0400 Kee> At 3:15 PM -0700 9/23/03, David Schwartz wrote: >> How would you do this before? Does a

Re: what to do about joe-jobs?

pursue them. I doubt even the big ISPs recover their cost--their goal seems to be deterrence. However I'd be happy to donate somewhere.com's bogus inbound traffic (we bounced ten million messages last year, definitely looking at more than twenty million this year) to the ca

RE: Is there anything that actually gets users to fix their computers?

he user to know not to open that, but to know that the notification from their ISP about their machine being infected is legit? They either need to be contacted out of band, or their email software needs to support a secure channel of communications that they can really trust. -- Ke

Re: Is there anything that actually gets users to fix their computers?

ommon enough, then the virus writers would just simulate messages from it and disable the real one. -- Kee Hinckley http://www.messagefire.com/ Next Generation Spam Defense http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on Technology and Society I'm not sure which upsets me more: that p

Re: Is there anything that actually gets users to fix their computers?

#x27;d never been formally cursed before. Sure beats a DoS attack. -- Kee Hinckley http://www.messagefire.com/ Next Generation Spam Defense http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on Technology and Society I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept respo

Verisign's public opinion play

ign's site is helpful. Mark McLaughlin is a former lawyer who moved into Marketing and Biz Development (Caere, Gemplus, Signio and then Verisign payments). -- Kee Hinckley http://www.messagefire.com/ Next Generation Spam Defense http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on Tech

Re: Verisign's public opinion play

so insecurely and with such poor customer service that we all ran quickly to other registrars). Certainly it would be good to counter their public image, but it probably should be done separately from this issue. -- Kee Hinckley http://www.messagefire.com/ Next Generation Spam Defense h

Re: Verisign's public opinion play

er to ICANN regarding Verisign" was an excellent example of the kind of thing that might be done. -- Kee Hinckley http://www.messagefire.com/ Next Generation Spam Defense http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on Technology and Society I'm not sure which upsets me more: tha

Anyone at Level3?

me off the net. Just rejected another 10,000 connection attempts as I wrote this. -- Kee Hinckley http://www.messagefire.com/ Next Generation Spam Defense http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on Technology and Society I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unw

Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes

;s scoring system. Sometime's that's the only way we've been able to reliably detect a spammer. -- Kee Hinckley http://www.messagefire.com/ Next Generation Spam Defense http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on Technology and Society I'm not sure which upsets me more

Re: Sitefinder and DDoS

return the same value as badxxxdomain.TLD? -- Kee Hinckley http://www.messagefire.com/ Next Generation Spam Defense http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on Technology and Society I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept responsibility for thei

RE: contact at yahoo mail? (they think we're an open relay :< )

th set to yahoo, that can be a problem. -- Kee Hinckley http://www.messagefire.com/ Next Generation Spam Defense http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on Technology and Society I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept responsibility for their

Re: Block all servers?

IPSEC, and if that support includes support for multiple clients. The NAT box has to keep track of the mapping. I've seen NATs priced based on how many VPN clients they support at a time. See http://www.dslreports.com/faq/4638 -- Kee Hinckley http://www.messagefire.com/ Next Gener

Verisign is selling Netsol [was Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service]

int just became moot. Versign is selling the registry business. Network Solutions is being spun off. They retain the back end DNS. http://www.verisign.com/corporate/news/2003/pr_20031016.html?sl=070805 -- Kee Hinckley http://www.messagefire.com/ Next Generation Spam Defense h

Re: Verisign is selling Netsol [was Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service]

either can Verisign, they are renaming the REGISTRY. "This Registry business was recently renamed VeriSign Naming and Directory Services" -- Kee Hinckley http://www.messagefire.com/ Next Generation Spam Defense http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on Technology and Societ

Re: Site Finder

ure they'll go back to seeing browser-specific pages when new browsers are released. In fact it seems likely to me that *all* browser manufacturers are going to start providing similar services, now that Verisign's pointed out how lucrative it is. If web browsers star

Re: data request on Sitefinder

different features with different behaviors. What works for one won't necessarily work for another. And every time any one of them changes, or a new registry is added, every single piece of software that relies on a particular behavior has to be checked and possibly patched. We ca

Re: data request on Sitefinder

ad of after deployment. :-) -- Kee Hinckley http://www.messagefire.com/ Next Generation Spam Defense http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on Technology and Society I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions, or

Re: Unusual GET requests

perl/5.65" 68.63.88.173 - - [21/Oct/2003:19:47:49 -0500] "GET /Pad-Files HTTP/1.1" 404 322 "-" "libwww-perl/5.65" That's VeriSign's new spell corrector DNS wildcard. :-) -- Kee Hinckley http://www.messagefire.com/ Next Generation Spam Defense http

Re: Heads-up: AT&T apparently going to whitelist-only inbound mail

e me that non-ISP companies are starting to look at the same kind of things. -- Kee Hinckley http://www.messagefire.com/ Next Generation Spam Defense http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on Technology and Society I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling t

Re: Web hijacking by router - a new method of advertisement by Belkin

nload early next week. We do not have exact details yet but we can tell you now that each router's firmware that incorporates Parental Control as an option will be changed. Please expect more detailed information to follow early next week. Thank you. -- Kee Hinckley http://www.messa

Re: [admin] Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE)

On Feb 4, 2008, at 4:29 AM, Alex Pilosov wrote: This conversation is quickly spinning into discussion of politics and terrorism. Reminder to all, please stick to the *operational* aspects of this thread. In all the fuss about terrorism, people may be forgetting that the terrorists have g

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Re: Best Email Time

On Dec 5, 2006, at 10:14 AM, William Allen Simpson wrote: The "study" says that "nearly 20 percent of email does not get delivered to the inbox as intended, largely because it gets mistaken as spam." That's utter hogwash. My Mail Mailguard statistics this year show that for me personally,