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Locandez

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Apr 17, 2002, 5:39:59 PM4/17/02
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It's www.yiffle.com/all/ now!Tried to post this earlier (via my ISP's
default news server)and it didn't work, so I'm doing this instead.
www.yiffle.com/all/docs/newfaq.htm should answer the mostcommonly
voiced queries. But if you have any other questionsfeel free to email
me at my new la-di-dah email address thatGoogle has probably displayed
for all spambots to harvest - Munging Considered Necessary.Locandez

Camstone Fox

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Apr 17, 2002, 9:35:32 PM4/17/02
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Gosh darn you scared me.... Looked around and the only file there said
"Bleh!"

Next time... left a note for some of us to find... bread crumbs...
anything... please!

*hugs*

"Locandez" <loca...@yiffle.com> wrote in message
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Baloo Ursidae

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Apr 18, 2002, 3:15:11 AM4/18/02
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Locandez <loca...@yiffle.com> wrote:
> It's www.yiffle.com/all/ now!Tried to post this earlier (via my ISP's
> default news server)and it didn't work, so I'm doing this instead.
> www.yiffle.com/all/docs/newfaq.htm should answer the mostcommonly
> voiced queries.

OK, but where'd you move the ALF charter and FAQ.

> But if you have any other questionsfeel free to email
> me at my new la-di-dah email address thatGoogle has probably displayed
> for all spambots to harvest - Munging Considered Necessary.Locandez

That's why we have better alternatives to munging, like reporting. I
get lots of spam daily and it takes me 10 minutes, tops, to report it
all[1]. I use Spamcop to get trough most of it, though it has a hard
time tracking the occasional (rare) spam from Mars, and the rest is
trivial enough it's faster for me to hit it by hand.

Or like poisoning thier database with random dictionary word addresses,
addresses at the FTC, and congrisscritter addresses. Plus enough extra
stuff to make the spambot think it's actually on a real page. Example:
http://ursine.dyndns.org/cgi-bin/listing.pl

Or getting your postmaster to start using different RBLs to filter spam
on the inbound from known relays. This is a major start, I'd get a lot
more spam if my mail was hosted on a system that didn't do this. Some
of the RBLs I check against have web pages: http://www.ordb.org/,
http://orbs.dorkslayers.com/, http://www.osirusoft.com/,
http://www.mail-abuse.org/, http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/,
http://spamcop.net/bl.shtml, http://dsbl.org/. I use 11 RBLs total,
ATM, it varies as old ones die, replacements arise, and I find others
that might be useful. If I had to shop for a place for my email, it
would go to the one who uses at least the spamcop, ordb and dsbl lists,
which are the more faster acting ones and seem to pick off the most in
the logs. I've heard from other administrators that denying mail from
China[2] and South Korea entirely also dramatically reduce spam traffic
(as it's somewhat widely regaurded that neither country seems to have
any admins that care when you report spam[3]).

You've already posted unmunged, don't bother munging now, they already
have your address. As they probably do if you mung anyway. Besides,
munging is really considered harmful.
http://www.interhack.net/pubs/munging-harmful/

[1] Depending on the day, this is between zero and a few hundred,
usually under a dozen. The 10 minute figure is a bad day.

[2] Spam from China is a large enough problem and enough sites are
starting to block them that this will be a major economic issue for the
Chinese as they become more wired. Thier government is just apathetic
to it right now. Though when they realise it's a hinderance to thier
increasingly wired economy, I bet admins of open relays and spamming
sites will suddenly find themselves for a good term in a reeducation
camp. I wonder if that ever crossed thier minds?

[3] This could be a language barrier issue, but I doubt it. English is
widely regaurded (by practice) as the language of the netadmin. Even
Chinanet, in the rare instance they do respond, is in English. Heck,
even Québecois admins respond in English (unless they fire off a canned
response, in which there's *still* English, you just gotta scroll down).

--
Baloo

Weyfour WWWWolf (Urpo Lankinen)

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Apr 18, 2002, 9:04:39 AM4/18/02
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loca...@yiffle.com (Locandez) writes:

> It's www.yiffle.com/all/ now!

Why? WHYY? The *second to last* long hard-to-remember legendary URL I
knew has now moved under its own domain name! =(

If http://www.win.tue.nl/~kroisos/nethack/ moves under a domain
of its own, I will cry for a week. (Though, luckily, with its inertia,
I think it won't.)

O tempora! O mores! The days of long, unmemorizable URLs are gone,
gone, far gone.

=)

--
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&;=?&| (aka Urpo Lankinen) Just Another Lupine Technomancer... |~=?;&
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Skytech

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Apr 18, 2002, 10:43:52 PM4/18/02
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<Sky and Lana run up and bearhug the long missing vulpine>

Loc! It's been a while!
--
La gvatantaj vulpoj (The vigilant foxes)
Skytech Lana
^^ ^^
<@@> <~~>
.D .D

VulpesRex

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Apr 23, 2002, 3:17:06 AM4/23/02
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I am pleased to see that you still have a presence here at Homestead,
Locandez
It has been a long time.

VulpesRex

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