Web addresses get nip and tuck--and spam

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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. ...

Gates addresses spam, security at Comdex

Gates addresses spam, security at Comdex 11/17/2003 02:04 AM
CNET Asia Nov 17 2003 1:24AM ET

Gates addresses spam, security flaws at
Comdex

Gates addresses spam, security flaws at
Comdex 11/16/2003 11:53 PM
ZDNet Nov 16 2003 10:22PM ET

USCity.net Foils Spam Attempt to
Millions of AOL E-Mail Addresses

USCity.net Foils Spam Attempt to
Millions of AOL E-Mail Addresses 06/29/2004 02:19 AM
In March of this year USCity.net intercepted and captured the first of over 3000 spam blasts to millions of AOL clients. These attempted spam blasts directed at AOL clients are still continuing. [PRWEB Jun 29, 2004]

After the Snap, Another Place to Tuck
Away Digital Photos

After the Snap, Another Place to Tuck
Away Digital Photos 06/05/2005 10:45 PM
At $150, the Kodak EasyShare Picture Viewer is considerably less expensive than most hand-held devices for storing and viewing digital snapshots. But there would seem to be an obvious money-saving alternative to any such gadget: just use the screen on the back of the digital camera.

Spam, spam, spam, spam ... Canada
targets unwanted email (AFP)

Spam, spam, spam, spam ... Canada
targets unwanted email (AFP) 05/12/2004 04:17 AM
AFP - Canada unveiled a new action plan to combat unsolicited commercial e-mail, nicknamed spam, which jams inboxes and clogs Internet traffic worldwide.

Finance Spam Passing Drug Spam While
Porn Spam Is Washed Up

Finance Spam Passing Drug Spam While
Porn Spam Is Washed Up 05/24/2004 05:37 PM
The latest study on spam trends appears to show that financial spam is outpacing pharmaceutical spam - though, honestly, so much of both is coming out that it's really hard to imagine that this matters at all. Meanwhile, it seems that porn spam is increasingly less interesting to spammers as the numbers have been on a noticeable decline for quite some time. No matter what, though, it appears that CAN-SPAM has done absolutely nothing to slow down the amount of spam sent.

From spam drops to spam spray to spam
stream

From spam drops to spam spray to spam
stream 06/05/2004 07:31 PM
I am now getting 2,000+ spams a day. There are 1,440 minutes in a day The rate of incoming spams is therefore getting close to the interval it takes me to check my email and dispose of a single spam: By the time I'm done checking, more spam has arrived. That is the point at which the spam droplets form a continuous stream. And that is the point at which no interval of my life will ever be spam-free again....

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 0.4.4

Addresses for GNUstep 0.4.4 11/06/2003 02:46 PM
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.

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.

Tomorrow's Menu: Spam, Spam, Spam

Tomorrow's Menu: Spam, Spam, Spam 12/11/2003 06:15 AM
Congress overwhelmingly passes a bill to fight the online scourge, but critics say the unwanted e-mail will increase because the law will actually legitimize spam. By Amit Asaravala.

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

IPv6 addresses its problems

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

Where Do Dummy Email Addresses Go?

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

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

Gmail Addresses For Sale

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

Government will police its own net
addresses

Government will police its own net
addresses 04/12/2005 07:48 AM
The New Zealand Herald Apr 12 2005 12:22PM GMT

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.

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

Justification for more IP addresses;
multiple Class Cs

Justification for more IP addresses;
multiple Class Cs 10/30/2003 06:08 PM

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.

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.

Fla. County Addresses Crowded Classrooms

Fla. County Addresses Crowded Classrooms 12/29/2003 05:36 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 29 2003 3:39PM ET

Apple addresses iLife shortcomings

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

NRG Address Validation manages addresses
in FM Pro

NRG Address Validation manages addresses
in FM Pro 07/21/2004 11:12 AM
NRG Software has announced the release of NRG Address Validation, which helps you manage mailing addresses in a FileMaker Pro database by comparing your data against United States Postal Service information in real time with Endicia's Dial-A-Zip. It checks for Delivery Point Validation and Residential Delivery Indicators to ensure that mail will be sent to valid addresses and that carriers won't add surcharges for address correction. NRG Address Validation requires FileMaker Pro 5.5 or higher running on Mac OS X v10.2 or higher, and pricing is US$300 for a one-year subscription with unlimited address validation requests.

President Bush Addresses the Nation

President Bush Addresses the Nation 03/20/2003 08:33 AM
full transcript of President Bush's address to the nation online .. addressed the world .. George W. Bush .. speech

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Mail-TempAddress-Addresses-Purgeable-0.1
1

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

Singapore opens up second-level Web
addresses

Singapore opens up second-level Web
addresses 08/16/2004 04:43 AM
CNET Asia Aug 16 2004 8:55AM GMT

Gmailers banned from selling addresses

Gmailers banned from selling addresses 07/02/2004 04:45 AM
ZDNet UK Jul 2 2004 7:58AM GMT

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

Bush Addresses Supporters at W.Va. Rally
(AP)

Bush Addresses Supporters at W.Va. Rally
(AP) 07/04/2004 10:50 AM
AP - Trying to turn the war in Iraq into a positive political issue, President Bush is celebrating the Fourth of July with West Virginians in a state with strong ties to military service.

Google imports addresses from rivals

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

New NASA Chief Addresses Agency

New NASA Chief Addresses Agency 04/16/2005 11:20 PM
Sci-Tech Today Apr 17 2005 2:16AM GMT
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