Hotmail adopts a whitelist
Bouquets to Hotmail for adopting the Bonded Sender whitelist that I mentioned back in 2002. Brickbats to the Slashdot monkeyboys who can somehow spin a positive antispam development into a Microsoft-is-evil story. Sigh.
Lee Maguire graded snobberies, bawdiness, hypocrisy
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Jessica Alba, riding a police hover drone.
Among tech journalists, BlackBerry is considered to be “old-fashioned, lame, commoditized technology,” as Mike Butcher, the blogger and digital adviser in London puts it. But BBM is private, decentralized, blindingly fast, and—most important—ubiquitous. My colleague Robert Capps has called this phenomenon the Good Enough Revolution (issue 17.09), though I doubt he [continued...]
Bill Wasik, Wired magazine, December 2011, #Riot: Self-Organized, Hyper-Networked Revolts—Coming to a City Near You
Linklog- International Law: Cybercrime: 30 Jan 2012"Cyberspace must be regarded as an operating environment. Therefore, it is our current position that to deal with so called cybercrime, cyber-terrorism and cyber-war, existing legal structures should be used rather than cyber-specific legislation being introduced." Wins the award for most-cyber statement in parliament so far. Cyber. […]
- LAPD cracks down on drone aircraft use by real estate agents[…]
- Mega-man: The fast, fabulous, and fraudulent life of Kim Dotcom[…]
- International Law: Cybercrime: 30 Jan 2012
Invitation lost in the post
There was an orkut invite in my “suspicious” mailbox due to a combination of an invalid Received: header and a not-guaranteed-unique Message-ID: (i.e. contains only a hostname rather than a FQDN.) Received: from orkut <9C>by Orkut Router with SMTP<9C> id i3J3dLZU004522 for <lee@example.com>; Sun, 18 Apr 2004 20:39:21 -0700 Message-ID: <EDA55fd7651e1a5d44c3b02955977cab3338@eda5> Even if you ignore the [...]
Still waiting for IMAP and TLS
IMAP was a hero to most, but it never meant shit to me. (To paraphrase Public Enemy.) I’ve never been a user of client-end, GUI mail software. My first Internet MUA was PcElm (as distributed by Demon as part of their. KA9Q-based software package). After a brief dalliance with Pine I came back home to Mutt. I have always used terminal based apps to read mail from [...]
7-bit character assassination
There’s a good chance NTK now got nuked by a few SpamAssassin installations this week. NTK usually skirts close to the thresholds many filter systems – its invitation to unsubscribe, WHOLE LINE OF YELLING, the occasional IP addresses in a URL. Every week we get a handful of automatic mails from corporate email systems either accusing it of being [...]
Sounds Pretty Feasible
I was a bit sceptical. But since reading the current draft for the proposed Sender Permitted From anti-spoofing (and, by extension, anti-spam) scheme, I’m still a little sceptical, but find myself thinking ”blimey, this one might actually stand a chance”. It’s still early days yet, but it almost feels like ghost of a lost RFC – fragments of an early submission that was somehow [...]
And another two cents
Since it was linked from last week’s NTK people other than Googlebot have read a post I made in May about tightening SMTP standards and I’ve begun to get some feedback. One correspondent questioned the validity of using SMS-spam as some indication that micropayment systems wouldn’t necessarily deter spam. It’s a fair point, I suppose. Message charges are set (and collected) by [...]
Old TLDs never die
When I was at college I briefly used an address of the form lee@cs.mycollege.ac.uk (CS being the subdomain used by the Department of Computer Science). Anyone familiar with the JANET big-endian domain naming convention will have spotted the mistake I made there. And will understand why meddling with top-level DNS can have unexpected effects. Even though our college had changed over to [...]
Scorched-Email Policy
Salon currently has an article (in its premium section) in which Jakob (I have stopped using e-mail and hired staff to do it for me) Nielson proposes his dump-SMTP solution to spam and viruses: It would really mean to stop accepting e-mail according to all the existing protocols. I think that the only way to do that is [...]
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