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Blunkett addresses how Government should
adapt to 21st century challenges

Blunkett addresses how Government should
adapt to 21st century challenges 01/23/2004 03:48 AM
PublicTechnology.net Jan 23 2004 8:07AM GMT

Dubai School of Government launches
first Executive Education Program on
E-Government Leadership

Dubai School of Government launches
first Executive Education Program on
E-Government Leadership 02/07/2005 01:08 AM
AME Info Feb 6 2005 9:47AM GMT

Government of Egypt hosts Microsoft's
Government Leadership Forum for the
region

Government of Egypt hosts Microsoft's
Government Leadership Forum for the
region 01/25/2004 01:52 AM
AME Info Jan 25 2004 5:33AM GMT

74% of government services e-enabled
says Cabinet Office e-Government Unit

74% of government services e-enabled
says Cabinet Office e-Government Unit 08/05/2004 08:47 AM
PublicTechnology.net Aug 5 2004 1:01PM GMT

InformationWeek > E-Government >
Canada Is Still No. 1 In E-Government
Rankings > May 6, 2004

InformationWeek > E-Government >
Canada Is Still No. 1 In E-Government
Rankings > May 6, 2004 05/09/2004 12:19 AM
Canada Is Still No. 1 In E-GovernmentRanking

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Linux in Government: The Government Open
Code Collaborative

Linux in Government: The Government Open
Code Collaborative 12/19/2004 03:17 PM
Can a 'gated Open Source community' really work?

Mozambique government successfully
implements e-Government pilot

Mozambique government successfully
implements e-Government pilot 06/22/2005 02:08 AM
Africa Leader Jun 21 2005 8:33PM GMT

Addresses for GNUstep 0.4.4

Addresses for GNUstep 0.4.4 11/06/2003 02:46 PM
A GNUstep replacement for Apple's Address Book.

IIS binds to all IP addresses

IIS binds to all IP addresses 07/22/2004 03:01 AM

In a comment on a late post yesterday, Scott Fraer points to a Microsoft article that explains: "When you start Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 on Microsoft Windows Server 2003, IIS binds to all IP addresses on the server, not just the IP addresses that are assigned to Web sites."

This, clearly, is the problem I'm encountering.

Now I'm running Windows 2000, and IIS 5.0, but the article says, midway down the page, that it has the same problem. A cure is suggested, but I have no idea how to implement.

So if you can illuminate, how do I get Win2K to let me use all the IP addresses on my machine? Any help would be much appreciated.

IBM Addresses Vertical Needs

IBM Addresses Vertical Needs 02/12/2004 04:51 PM
IBM is following through on plans announced late last year to gear its integration software offerings for specific vertical industries.

Addresses for GNUstep 0.4.6

Addresses for GNUstep 0.4.6 07/29/2004 08:24 AM
A GNUstep replacement for Apple's Address Book.

Addresses for GNUstep 0.4.2

Addresses for GNUstep 0.4.2 10/29/2003 12:31 PM
A GNUstep replacement for Apple's Address Book.

Suicide Attack on Iraqi Police Kills 10
-- Police (Reuters)

Suicide Attack on Iraqi Police Kills 10
-- Police (Reuters) 01/05/2005 06:05 AM
Reuters - A suicide car bomb attack on a police academy in the Iraqi town of Hilla killed at least 10 people and wounded at least 25 on Wednesday, local police said.

Police Chief in Iraqi Town Assassinated
-Police (Reuters)

Police Chief in Iraqi Town Assassinated
-Police (Reuters) 04/09/2005 02:32 PM
Reuters - Gunmen shot dead the newly appointed police chief in the Iraqi town of Haditha as he left a meeting with U.S. troops on Saturday, Iraqi police said.

Police need to better protect data
entrusted to them & Police national
Computer

Police need to better protect data
entrusted to them & Police national
Computer 07/19/2004 02:49 AM
PublicTechnology.net Jul 19 2004 7:15AM GMT

Internet addresses surge to 63m

Internet addresses surge to 63m 06/08/2004 06:58 PM
news.com.au Jun 8 2004 10:16PM GMT

Where Do Dummy Email Addresses Go?

Where Do Dummy Email Addresses Go? 07/11/2004 10:58 AM

Catchall Email Addresses

Catchall Email Addresses 08/17/2004 03:18 PM

Is there a point to "catchall" email addresses anymore? You know, those addresses where misaddessed email to your domain gets routed? Let me explain —

I was having some email trouble this morning. POP3 response from the server was sporadic, and when I got a command line on the box, things were very slow. I poked around a bit and found the problem.

I had not been checking and clearing the catchall account. It had been accumulating mail for about three weeks. It contained — are you sitting down? — 582,384 emails. Yep, just over half a million. I had to delete the entire account and bounce the Qmail process to get things running smoothly again. (The mere fact that it was running at all is a credit to RedHat 7.2 — a 1.1 GHz Athlon only goes so far...)

If 90% of email is spam (as it is in our office), then 99.9999999% of the email in a catchall account is going to be spam because 99% of inbound spam has an invalid address. This was proven to me when I created a script to empty the account once per hour. Here was the log file 15 minutes after I recreated the account:

8/17/2004 12:12:54 PM: Start Processing
8/17/2004 12:13:37 PM: 276 message(s) found
8/17/2004 12:13:37 PM: Deleting...
8/17/2004 12:13:38 PM: 0 message(s) found
8/17/2004 12:13:38 PM: End Processing

Almost 300 messages in 15 minutes. One hour later:

8/17/2004 1:11:00 PM: Start Processing
8/17/2004 1:13:29 PM: 1030 message(s) found
8/17/2004 1:13:29 PM: Deleting...
8/17/2004 1:13:30 PM: 0 message(s) found
8/17/2004 1:13:30 PM: End Processing

That's right — a thousand messages an hour are coming in misaddressed. That's one every four seconds.

Now, of those thousand, how many are legitimately misaddressed emails? I'd say a fraction — I think we probably get one legitimate misaddressed email every couple days, so one of every 75,000 or so messages is misaddressed. I don't care how good your spam filter is, you just can't process that much volume with any reasonably quality.

Why not just bounce them all, you say? Because we get bounces from our bounces. Some people have their mail servers configured to bounce Message Failure messages. So a spam comes in, can't find a mailbox, and bounces to the Reply-To on the message...which is — not surprisingly — fake, so about 10% of the time the message bounces back to the server administrator email account on our box. So, once again we have a bunch of bad emails accumulating somewhere.

I'd like to bounce them so that a legitimate sender at least knows that they misaddressed the email, however, I'd have to be able to change the Reply-To on the bounce so that the bounced bounces go somewhere we don't care about. Sadly, the server management software we're working with doesn't allow that.

I've abandoned the idea of a catchall account. There's just no way we can manage it effectively. Too bad.

I hate spammers.

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A Politician Looking for Funds? Here Are
Two Useful Addresses

A Politician Looking for Funds? Here Are
Two Useful Addresses 06/23/2004 01:18 AM
More political donations have come from a high-rise in Los Angeles and a residential building in New York City than from any others in the United States.

Disposable E-mail Addresses

Disposable E-mail Addresses 06/17/2004 04:29 PM
Business Knowledge Source Jun 17 2004 7:57PM GMT

Gmail Addresses For Sale

Gmail Addresses For Sale 05/02/2004 08:56 PM

Web addresses get nip and tuck--and spam

Web addresses get nip and tuck--and spam 12/23/2003 09:31 AM
A gaggle of Web sites have set upon the idea of shortening cumbersome URLs. But the free service also includes spam.

Web addresses get shorter — and spam

Web addresses get shorter — and spam 12/23/2003 07:59 PM
All the URLs that Google has indexed will only take up seven characters, so it's possible that they will never get too long," he said. ...

IPv6 addresses its problems

IPv6 addresses its problems 03/29/2005 06:49 AM
ZDNet Mar 29 2005 11:00AM GMT

addresses the gay-marriage issue head-on

addresses the gay-marriage issue head-on 12/02/2003 01:54 AM
also thinks the FMA is a lousy idea .. Culture and What Courts Can't Do .. George Will that .. another

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20243-2003Nov28.html
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Mac OS X Update Addresses Security
Concern

Mac OS X Update Addresses Security
Concern 05/21/2004 09:41 PM
Apple today posted a Mac OS X update to address a theoretical vulnerability in the Help Viewer application that could have been exposed when browsing the web. The update is available automatically to all users through Apple's free Software Update service or by direct download from their web site.

The update does not fix the additional vulnerability that John Gruber discusses here.

defends the artificial scarcity of IP
addresses

defends the artificial scarcity of IP
addresses 01/22/2004 02:36 AM
Martin Geddes defends the artificial scarcity of IP addresses -- the source of NAT -- as a legitimate application of price discrimination. My respose is always the same: Just because the laws of economics say it's a good idea doesn't mean I have to like it. And to use his airplane analogy, I'd rather a plane full of $400 seats with uniformly good service.

Google imports addresses from rivals

Google imports addresses from rivals 07/22/2004 06:09 AM
TechTree Jul 22 2004 10:50AM GMT

Apple addresses iLife shortcomings

Apple addresses iLife shortcomings 02/16/2004 02:27 AM
Boston Globe Feb 16 2004 6:03AM GMT

Mail-TempAddress-Addresses-Purgeable-0.1
1

Mail-TempAddress-Addresses-Purgeable-0.1
1 11/01/2003 06:25 PM

Basque leader addresses Spain MPs

Basque leader addresses Spain MPs 02/01/2005 09:19 PM
The leader of the Basque regional government outlines his autonomy plan to parliament in Madrid.

Bush Addresses Pa. Rally on U.S. Economy
(AP)

Bush Addresses Pa. Rally on U.S. Economy
(AP) 09/03/2004 10:10 AM
AP - President Bush began his post-convention campaign swing through three states he lost in 2000, telling a rally that he's the choice to build America's economy and keep the country safe from terrorists.

Newsletter Addresses Medicare Questions

Newsletter Addresses Medicare Questions 02/10/2004 02:45 AM
For people with questions about their benefits and rights under the new Medicare law, help is available from a weekly newsletter with a most unusual name, Dear Marci.

New SIS Chipset Addresses DDR2-667
Memory

New SIS Chipset Addresses DDR2-667
Memory 06/02/2004 03:52 AM
Silicon Integrated Systems on Monday announced its first PCI Express chipsets, which support DDR-2 memories at speeds up to 667-MHz, the company said.

Web Seminar Addresses 3G Video
Challenges

Web Seminar Addresses 3G Video
Challenges 11/14/2003 04:43 AM
3G Nov 14 2003 4:01AM ET

Altiris FAQ: AClient Not Reading MAC
Addresses

Altiris FAQ: AClient Not Reading MAC
Addresses 07/30/2004 05:37 PM

he can look presidential and above the
fray as he addresses the nation

he can look presidential and above the
fray as he addresses the nation 01/19/2004 06:13 AM
today's WashPost .. WashPo

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OmniWeb update addresses PNG
vulnerabilities

OmniWeb update addresses PNG
vulnerabilities 08/27/2004 02:15 PM
The Omni Group has released OmniWeb 5.0.1, an update to its Mac OS X Web browser...

Two charged for stealing 92 million AOL
addresses

Two charged for stealing 92 million AOL
addresses 06/23/2004 10:27 PM
ZDNet Australia Jun 24 2004 2:35AM GMT
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