Re: Misguided SPAM Filtering techniques

2007-10-20 Thread Nathan Ward
On 21/10/2007, at 7:22 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: On Sun, Oct 21, 2007, Nathan Ward wrote: Blocking 25/TCP is acceptable, blocking 587/TCP is not - it is designed for mail submission to an MSA, so serves little use for spam, save when a spammer has detected an open mail relay listening on 587/TCP,

Re: Misguided SPAM Filtering techniques

2007-10-20 Thread Nathan Ward
On 21/10/2007, at 9:12 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: I'm seeing an increasing variety of misguided SPAM blocking techniques such that they are starting to become more and more annoying, and, I'm curious as to what solutions/work-arounds others have deployed, and, if anyone has any ideas on ho

Misguided SPAM Filtering techniques

2007-10-20 Thread Owen DeLong
I'm seeing an increasing variety of misguided SPAM blocking techniques such that they are starting to become more and more annoying, and, I'm curious as to what solutions/work-arounds others have deployed, and, if anyone has any ideas on how to get these tactics reduced/stopped? Here's th

Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads

2007-10-20 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 07:12:35PM -0500, Joe Greco wrote: > > In a message written on Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 03:21:09PM -0400, Joe Provo wr= > > ote: > > > Content is irrelevent. BT is a protocol-person's dream and an ISP > > > nightmare. The bulk of the slim profit margin exis

Re: OT: Remebering Abha Ahuja - 6 years

2007-10-20 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 18:01 -0400, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > Sorry for the OT post, but it has been 6 years since Abha passed. > > I'm sure there's lots more to say, but I don' think I can say it. > > Rest in peace, Abha. You know how much we miss you. I never met Abha, but I did read the me

Re: dns authority changes and lame servers

2007-10-20 Thread Nathan Ward
On 20/10/2007, at 1:24 PM, Mike Lewinski wrote: Simon Lyall wrote: Sounds like the real problem is that your authotative and caching DNS servers are mixed up. Understood. I've worked to turn off recursion to the world and made it through that without too much pain (except for the people w

Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads

2007-10-20 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 03:21:09PM -0400, Joe Provo wrote: > Content is irrelevent. BT is a protocol-person's dream and an ISP > nightmare. The bulk of the slim profit margin exists in taking > advantage of stat-mux oversubscription. BT blows that out of the > water. I'm a

Re: Some thoughts on 240/4

2007-10-20 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 01:23:17PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The fun is trying to prove you in fact nailed *every* reference. Notice > the mention today of an Ubuntu box that had different results for adding > a route and binding an IP to an interface. Obviously, it'

Re: how to write an incident report

2007-10-20 Thread Simon Lyall
On Sat, 20 Oct 2007, Joe Abley wrote: > I've had a few responses like this, but I don't buy it. I've worked > in many places, some in New Zealand and more elsewhere, where there > was a general culture of fear about making public statements about > operational incidents. I don't ever remember peop

Re: how to write an incident report

2007-10-20 Thread Jason Seemann
>There is enough info in that posting to bury them in frivilous lawsuits. I say good for them then! Society is litigious enough without our engineers worrying about lawsuits. The moment you start tempering your true analysis of a situation to kow-tow to spin doctors is the moment your engineerin

Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads

2007-10-20 Thread John C. A. Bambenek
First, that's not what I learned in my law classes. Second, the "rent" has conditions (they may not publish them, but that is entirely different matter which I likely agree with you on). Comcast is under no obligation to let you misuse their service... morally, ethically, or philosophically. Thi

Re: 240-e List

2007-10-20 Thread Martin Hannigan
On 10/20/07, Jared Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Seems there is a lot of people interested in this within the > operator community. Since some have developed patches, and other > ideas, I've created a new mailing list > > http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/240-e > >

240-e List

2007-10-20 Thread Jared Mauch
Seems there is a lot of people interested in this within the operator community. Since some have developed patches, and other ideas, I've created a new mailing list http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/240-e Information on how to subscribe, post, etc.. is located the

Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads

2007-10-20 Thread William Allen Simpson
Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: I cannot access relevant pages on www.comcast.com due to me not being in the US (or rather, they require an address first), could anyone please paste or other way supply the wording/text they use in their fineprint, to allow them contractually to disrupt customer TCP