more on anti-spammore on anti-spam
In response to my last entry about anti-spam measures and the difficulty of blocking SPAM at the SMTP protocol level I received a few responses. Brian May pointed out that[...]
blocking spamblocking spam
There are two critical things that any anti-spam system must do, it must not lose email and it must not cause damage to the rest of the net. To avoid[...]
a newbie question about SE Linux and anti-spam measuresa newbie question about SE Linux and anti-spam measures
An anti-spam measure that is used by a very small number of people is that of verifying the sender address by connecting to the sending mail server. For example when[...]
invasive vs inconvenient securityinvasive vs inconvenient security
The recent news from the UK gives us an example of invasive security. Preventing passengers carrying on any hand luggage (even wallets) and frisking all of them is the type[...]
the waste of closed liststhe waste of closed lists
As I mentioned in my first post the amount of effort I’m prepared to invest in posting to a small group of people is limited. I don’t think that I[...]
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big and cheap USB flash devicesbig and cheap USB flash devices
It’s often the case with technology that serious changes occur at a particular price or performance point in development. Something has small use until it can be developed to a[...]
wasted voteswasted votes
In a mailing list to which I subscribe there is currently a discussion on US politics with the inevitable discussion of wasted votes. As I don’t want to waste my[...]