Spammer discussion
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Spammer, Anti-Spammer Involved In
Lawsuit Will Hold Public Debate
Spammer, Anti-Spammer Involved In
Lawsuit Will Hold Public Debate
05/20/2004 11:41 PMJulian Haight, the founder of anti-spam service SpamCop, and Scott
Richter, the founder of spamming service OptInRealBig, are currently
in the middle of a fairly nasty
legal
battle over whether or not SpamCop can block OptIn's spam. Still,
the two have
agreed to appear together in public and debate the topic.
Both of their lawyers say that the debate will avoid the issue of the
lawsuit, but as the article points out, that seems unlikely. The
thing is, in listening to what both sides have said over the years,
you already know what they're going to say in this debate - and
they're talking at cross purposes. The spammers focus on their right
to make money, while everyone else talks about their right to be left
alone. The problem with the spammers' position is that they
don't have the right to make money. They have the right to
try to make money, but if it involves pissing everyone off, and
everyone decides to create and use filters to make email bearable
again - then that's their right too.
Spammer sues anti-spammer for $4 million
Spammer sues anti-spammer for $4 million
03/17/2005 02:53 AMIn a story of simple solutions thrown by the wayside, a company is
suing an Oklahoma City man for defamation and other damages after he
took his personal quest to stop their spamming to the web.
Spammer Bankrupted by Anti-Spammer Suits
Spammer Bankrupted by Anti-Spammer Suits
03/29/2005 05:27 PMEnd of discussion
End of discussion
05/17/2004 10:22 AMUSA Today May 17 2004 2:07PM GMT
lengthy discussion
lengthy discussion
02/05/2005 09:55 PMEugene
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Fahrenheit 9/11 Discussion
Fahrenheit 9/11 Discussion
06/27/2004 09:37 AMPHP Platform Discussion
PHP Platform Discussion
12/02/2002 01:17 PMAn interesting discussion has recently started on the PHP Developers'
mailing list. Ken Eqervari has posted a serious post questioning the
future of PHP, and asking the vital question: Who is leading PHP into
the future.
"the discussion about FeedBurner"
"the discussion about FeedBurner"
03/28/2005 11:58 PMDiscussion 33250
Discussion 33250
05/22/2004 12:51 PM
Box of
Snakes 'Linked to Death' Little Rock, Ark.
Police are investigating a link between a mysterious box of
venomous
snakes and
the death of a business traveler whose body was found in a rental car
last week.
Lycos Discussion Search
Lycos Discussion Search
08/30/2004 06:51 AMLycos Discussion Searchhttp://discussion.lycos.com/Lycos Discussion Search provides you the tools to search and
retrieve information from millions of discussion threads and
conversations taking place on the World Wide Web. These interactive
conversations may include listings from some of the more popular
community listings. If you have an interest or need some information
about a person, place or thing - find out what other folks are saying
and search for a discussion on your interested topic. Lycos is working
to provide you ONE place to find information about all your interests
and your friends, family and colleagues, both current and future. This
has been added to
Finding
People Subject™ Tracer Information Blog. This also has been
added to
Business Intelligence
Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be
added to the search engine section of all the
Internet MiniGuides
2004-05.
H-Net's Discussion Network
H-Net's Discussion Network
08/13/2004 05:05 AMH-Net's Discussion Networkhttp://www.h-net.org/lists/H-Net's Discussion Network over 100 email lists spanning
various fields of study. H-Net's e-mail lists function as electronic
networks, linking professors, teachers and students in an egalitarian
exchange of ideas and materials. Every aspect of academic
life--research, teaching, controversies new and old--is open for
discussion; decorum is maintained by H-Net's dedicated editors.
Subscribers and editors communicate through electronic mail messages
sent to the group. These messages can be saved, discarded, downloaded
to a local computer, copied, printed out, or relayed to someone else.
Otherwise, the lists are all public, and can be quoted and cited with
proper attribution. The lists are connected to their own sites on the
World Wide Web, that store discussion threads, important documents,
and links to related sites on the web.
H-Net lists reach
over 100,000 subscribers in more than 90 countries. Subscriptions are
screened by the list's editors to promote a diverse readership
dedicated to friendly, productive, scholarly communications. Each list
publishes between 15 and 60 messages a week. Subscription applications
are solicited from scholars, teachers, professors, researchers,
graduate students, journalists, librarians and archivists. Each
network has its own "personality," is edited by a team of scholars,
and has a board of editors; most are cosponsored by a professional
society. The editors control the flow of messages, commission reviews,
and reject flames and items unsuitable for a scholarly discussion
group. The goals of H-Net lists are to enable scholars to easily
communicate current research and teaching interests; to discuss new
approaches, methods and tools of analysis; to share information on
electronic databases; and to test new ideas and share comments on the
literature in their fields. This will be added to
Academic Resources
Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.
New Patching Discussion Resources
New Patching Discussion Resources
06/17/2004 06:16 PMDiscussion with Media Leaders
Discussion with Media Leaders
01/22/2004 03:03 AMI'm in a meeting with the WEF Media Leaders. Its a few dozen people
consisting of the editors-in-chief and CEOs of a variety of major
media organizations from around the world.
I'm going to talk about the role of blogs and how we might work
together. I'm going to talk about how blogs can address the issue of
getting people to care about about things by providing a voice to
people who don't have a voice and can provide additional resources,
which seems to be one of the issues that many of these media companies
have.
I will also try to talk to the big media companies about designing
their online presence to be more blogger friendly.
I'll try to post notes here. The rules for this meeting are "off
the record for background and not for attribution unless explicit
permission to quote is granted by each speaker concerned."
I've also gotten the opportunity to hear some of the concerns that
are facing these media leaders today and will summarize my notes
later.
School shooting discussion
School shooting discussion
03/22/2005 03:31 PMthe atom discussion heats up again
the atom discussion heats up again
12/30/2003 01:16 AMI'm listening to Sunday Bloody Sunday Live at Slane 2001, and
there's Bono saying "Compromise: Another dirty word. Compromise."
Ok, enough with the hyperbole. Here it goes...
Atom discussion minutes
Atom discussion minutes
05/18/2004 04:43 PMThe minutes from the Atom/W3C discussion in New York have been posted online.
Unfortunately the default formatting is pretty difficult to follow. I
found it a lot easier to figure out who was saying what after applying
the following CSS
(using the test styles
bookmarklet):
abbr {
display: block;
margin-top: 1em;
margin-bottom: 0.5em;
font-weight: bold;
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abbr:after {
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ATi Filtering Discussion Chat Log
ATi Filtering Discussion Chat Log
05/19/2004 04:37 PMThreaded Discussion with ColdFusion
Threaded Discussion with ColdFusion
05/23/2002 10:39 PMGoogle Algo Discussion
Google Algo Discussion
09/30/2002 12:17 AMA fairly insightfull discussion on the current state of the Google
search algo.
Welcome to Microsoft Discussion Groups
Welcome to Microsoft Discussion Groups
12/28/2004 03:38 PMThe
Windows
Marketplace Discussion Groups provide a public forum where you can
ask questions, share your experiences, and state your opinions about
products related to Windows. This is the place to learn what other
users are saying about the technologies you are considering for
personal and professional computing. If you need technical support
with Windows-related technology, the Community Center links to support
discussion groups for consumers, IT professionals, software
developers, and the small business community.
Notes and Tips: G5 Discussion
Notes and Tips: G5 Discussion
06/10/2004 09:59 AMReaders have several questions and comments about Apple's new G5
models.
UK's EU rebate under discussion
UK's EU rebate under discussion
07/14/2004 05:00 AMThe UK is defending its EU rebate as the European Commission discusses
plans which could end it.
Today's topic for discussion
Today's topic for discussion
03/19/2003 10:26 PMDoes using OTP (One Time Passwords) for electronic banking give a
significant security improvement over certificate based solutions?...
New GarageBand discussion forum
New GarageBand discussion forum
01/22/2004 02:50 AMI've just created a new
forum to discuss GarageBand. Share your tips & tricks or ask
questions about Apple's coolest app ever
here!
YudelLine 2.1: Discussion on Israel and
Sri Lanka
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Sri Lanka
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Amazing Heinlein discussion on
Electrolite
Amazing Heinlein discussion on
Electrolite
01/10/2004 10:48 AMRespected science fiction critic John Clute
reviewed
Heinlein's long-lost, unpublished novel,
For Us, The Living, for SciFi.com, giving it a rave -- saying
that this was the kind of science fiction that, if it had been
published in its day, might have actually yeilded a generation of
futurists who more-or-less accurately described the
present-day-future.
The 140-comments-and-still-going discussion of this on Electrolite is
just about the most fascinating literary/political/historical
discussion I've ever read. You've got heavy-duty writers,
ex-space-program people, major editors, Heinlein trufans and assorted
others really digging into this idea: how much did Heinlein get right,
what did he get wrong, since when are sf writers supposed to predict
the future anyway, how did his politics change and how did he change
politics? Meaty stuff.
As I said in another thread on another Nielsen Hayden's blog, I
recently re-read "Friday," and then immediately picked up "For Us, the
Living" and read that next. "Friday" was published in 1982, and FUTL
was written in 1937-38. In both novels, Heinlein writes about a
world-spanning information network. The 1982 "Friday" version looks a
lot like the Internet of today; Heinlein's characters sit at
"terminals" and "punch" requests for information -- they can get
everything from the history of the city of Memphis, Tenn., to musical
recordings, to astronomical data. One character removes a "portable
terminal" from her purse and punches for her family financial records,
which she can examine in depth while sitting out in the garden.
Change some of the buzzwords there and you have an accurate portrayal
of the Internet in 2004.
Heinlein's Internet ca. 1938 AD was way cool for fans of retro
futures: users called operators on videophones (I forgot what Heinlein
called the videophones) and the operators sent documents on their way
via pneumatic tube; the tubes could reach from one coast to another.
Whoosh! (Why doesn't the world have long-distance pneumatic tubes,
dammit?!) At one point, a character in the 2085 wants to look up a
newspaper article from 1938; she calls the operator and has a
photostat in her hands within a few minutes.
LinkThe Solaris on Itanium discussion stalls
again
The Solaris on Itanium discussion stalls
again
09/11/2004 08:14 PMIDF Fall '04 Intel needs attitude adjustment
Open Discussion on Windows and Linux
Open Discussion on Windows and Linux
12/28/2004 12:43 PMMicrosoft Security Bulletin Discussion
Microsoft Security Bulletin Discussion
02/13/2004 01:12 PMExcell in discussion with mystery buyer
Excell in discussion with mystery buyer
02/14/2004 10:33 PMThe Scotsman Feb 15 2004 2:33AM GMT
Web Search, Context, and Discussion
Boards
Web Search, Context, and Discussion
Boards
02/16/2004 10:49 PMI was just about to write a weblog post about an excellent product
that I can't seem to shut up about. In preparing to do so, I thought
about the fact that I heard about the product on another weblog but
not one I've actually subscribed to. I wanted to give that person
credit for this wonderful discovery but couldn't remember who it was.
I thought about this for a minute and realized that I knew the answer
all along:...
Discussion about computer science
careers
Discussion about computer science
careers
05/17/2004 11:49 AMFor all you Bay Area readers who are interested in a Computer
Science career, here's a lecture you may be interested in: It's Never Too
Late: Careers in Computer Science.
The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology and
Google are pleased to co-sponsor an all-star female panel on education
options for entering and re-entering Computer Science and IT on
Wednesday, June 2 at 6:00pm at Google's headquarters in Mountain View,
CA. Attendance is free but space is limited and you must
pre-register.
Look like it should be interesting.
New discussion search engine from Lycos
New discussion search engine from Lycos
08/27/2004 03:21 PMSource: Pandia - We believe this can become a very useful addition to
our search engine arsenal. The best discussion groups are very problem
oriented, and may often provide a solution to your particular
problem....
Framing the discussion: Linux vs.
Microsoft
Framing the discussion: Linux vs.
Microsoft
04/19/2005 03:45 AMMicrosoft seems to realize that many people take its sponsored studies
with a grain of salt. So, why would the folks in Redmond — or any
other vendor, for that matter — go to the trouble to finance a study
that they know will be dismissed as biased?
Microsoft knows that it’s unlikely that the majority of IT
professionals will take the results at face value, once they learn
that a study has been sponsored by the vendor. But, by releasing the
study anyway, Microsoft has a chance at framing the discussion.
JiWire Launches Wi-Fi Discussion Boards
JiWire Launches Wi-Fi Discussion Boards
06/05/2005 10:56 PM JiWire's discussion forums should be a lively place to ask questions:
JiWire's new KnowldegeSpot forums, currently in beta, should be a
great place to learn more about Wi-Fi. I've been frustrated in finding
and building forums in the past because you have to have thousands of
interested people who regularly read and post to build a rich
knowledge base. JiWire has that kind of traffic--and I hope that Wi-Fi
Networking News readers check out the forums as well. I'll be
answering questions there as I have time....
An open discussion about the future of
Spymac
An open discussion about the future of
Spymac
06/22/2005 01:54 AMLadies and gentlemen,
I want to take this opportunity to talk about some of the issues that
we've all noticed, and to let everyone know what we're doing about
them. We are also very interested in hearing the community's feedback
and ideas on the below points.
Harassment and the overall quality of content on Spymac
Spymac has always been intended to be a safe environment that serves
as a break from real-world stresses. As of late, there has been an
increase in harassing notes, abusive posts and all sorts of garbage
that, put simply, lessens the Spymac experience. We feel that our
greatest weakness (and cruelly, our greatest strength) is that Spymac
is an open community. Anyone with a unique e-mail address can
register for an account and enjoy or abuse our services and community.
If a member abuses his or her privileges, Spymac is able to ban that
account and its corresponding e-mail and IP address.
That is not enough. It is far too simple to get a new e-mail address
and register through a proxy or Internet cafe, for example, only to
return to wreak further havoc.
It's went relatively unnoticed, but the Spymac registration system has
been closed for more than a week. We are not accepting any new
accounts until we find a way to link more accountability to free
member accounts. This is challenging because we are an international
community with a diverse demographic. We don't want to make people pay
anything (such is the case if we use a verification service), and we
want to keep our doors open to the world-wide Internet community. We
also don't want to set a barrier that is too high for the majority of
valuable users interested in registering and enjoying a Spymac
account.
It is my belief that members will appreciate the new, safer and
cleaner Spymac. Clearly, there are countless other places on the
Internet where registration is completely anonymous.
We have a few processes we are working on that we feel are optimal for
our situation, and we are going to provide as many alternatives as
possible. It is this point especially that we are interested in
hearing your ideas and suggestions.
Let's talk about how we can create a safe environment without setting
the barrier too high.
Reliability and security
This is perhaps the area that we have to prove ourselves most in, and
we will. The situation we're facing is that we are upgrading our
cluster to utilize high-speed fiber channel technology. In conjunction
with additions to the redundancy and backup features of our cluster,
this upgrade will: Make Spymac community services fly, tremendously
increase the reliability of all free and paid services, and offer the
peace of mind needed to store important files with us. Truly, many
members have their entire life stored on Spymac — from blogs to
pictures to e-mail to web-pages — and it is our top priority to give
those users the speed and reliability they deserve. The upgrade has
been in progress for some time now. Without getting too technical, our
system needs custom programming work done before we can fully utilize
the upgrade. The programmers are working as fast as they can and we
will launch with the new technology very soon (before the arrival of
Spymac 4), but we are unable to speed up this process. All we can do
is ask for your continued support and patience in this area. Most of
you have been more-than-generous in this regard and we all thank you
for that. We will make it up to users who have stood with us through
this difficult transition, and we look forward to hearing your
comments on what we can do for you to show our appreciation.
A short note on security: This area had a few holes in the past that
we admittedly did not have the foresight to plan for. We had a
disturbing wake up call a few months ago and have since been planning
and working on an abundance of security features and precautions to
protect all of your data with Fort-Knox-level security (apologies for
being trite). The pendulum is now swinging in the right direction and
we want you all to know how important this issue is to us. Many of
the changes have already been implemented, and others will be added
with time.
Spam and e-mail
E-mail, e-mail... e-mail... For many of you, it's why you use Spymac;
Others come for the community services and couldn't care less about
it. The aforementioned hardware upgrade will fix the speed and
reliability, and Spymac is working with a leader in SPAM prevention to
cut-back on that garbage as much as possible. Again, actions speak
louder than words and we just ask for the opportunity to prove
ourselves in this area.
The future
Spymac 4 is a great thing and the whole team is busy at work to ensure
its arrival on August 31. It will bring many changes to the core of
Spymac and will ensure a bright future for our community and services.
We don't want to give away too many details at this point (we like
surprises, we know you do, too), but we will be pre-announcing some of
the new features sometime in August. In the mean time, we need some
help from members who would like to beta-test the new version, and
from skilled graphic artists who can work with us to complete this
huge undertaking. If you would like to volunteer to assist the Spymac
4 roll-out in one of these areas, please send me an e-mail
(atarist@spymac.com). You'll have to sign an NDA (non-disclosure
agreement), but your help is absolutely fundamental to a successful
release.
Google Updated Algo Discussion
Google Updated Algo Discussion
03/11/2003 01:22 AM"...discussion of changes that you are observing with the new algo in
this update."
Slashdot Discussion on Yahoo
standardizing on PHP
Slashdot Discussion on Yahoo
standardizing on PHP
10/30/2002 02:52 AMA typical Slashdot debate. Better for laughs than for facts :-)
But there are valid criticisms, many aimed at the class library, PEAR.
The sad fact is that i used to use chunks of PEAR in my code, but
eventually replaced these bits with my own code as I found PEAR too
limiting. Too much of PEAR is written by journeyman programmers. Like
many other people more famous than me (like Manuel Lemos :-), I am
unable to contribute to PEAR because I would have to follow the PEAR
coding standards.
Others have criticized PHP for not having the power of Java/C/C++/C#.
I agree that that PHP is not suitable for every job - my company is
planning to migrate to .NET for our future Windows software. But PHP
is very suitable for web pages, or calling business logic components
written in another language. Also from personal experience I find PHP
very useful in many other domains, particularly as a replacement for
shell-scripts.
From the Yahoo
benchmarks it appears that PHP is slower than mod_perl. However
despite Perl's superior speed and wide use internally with Yahoo, Perl
was rejected. When you have 612 software engineers and 3 million lines
of Perl code, Perl became a liability for Yahoo. My guess is that
Perl's There’s More Than One Way To Do It mentality has proved
to be an excuse for poor and divergent coding practices.
"zeldman.545"
Google Algo Update Discussion
Google Algo Update Discussion
10/01/2002 02:11 AMThe recent Google update saw some major shifts in rankings for many
sites. It was one of the larger algo shifts in the last year.
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