...For added effect, make the servers respond v e r y s l o w l y under these accounts, taking tens of seconds to "send" the E-mail, a minute or so to log in, etc. Basically, slow the spam bots down and waste their time....
OpenBSD's spamd has done this for years.
Now I see the bots moving on to the next target when the SMTP conversation takes too long.
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A lot of requests for odd URLs, all of which return 404. All of the requests that I checked originated at an IP address in Russia, and dozens of different IP addresses were used. These odd requests started about 5 or 6 months ago and have been ramping up lately. Makes me wonder just what they originators are looking for?
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The problem with Microsoft's approach in TFA, is akin to "when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail".
It is actually a lot better to solve the actual root problem, than trying to find and treat symptoms.
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It is good the the World Health organization did not jump the gun.
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Then there is the entire health problem with all the head injuries.
It really makes me wonder why the NFL is so pervasive in our society.
It is not which languages you know, languages are merely the means to express your computer science knowledge.
...One big difference is that OSS sometimes has NO documentation at all. The commercial software I've seen almost always has SOME documentation, and not zero. (Of course that doesn't mean it's good documentation)....
Agreed.
However a big difference between the FOSS and the commercial software in the scenario you cite is that with the FOSS you will not spend money to find out the documentation is lacking.
It is rude (I'm being kind) to charge for software that has no or little documentation.
If I have to proffer my credit card in order acquire the software, the documentation had better well be useful.
...So you do not cite Wikipedia, you cite the article it points to.
Here, let me fix that typo for you...
So you do not cite Wikipedia --- you cite the article it points to, plus the opinion of any hovering mods who remove any citations of alternate (yet accurate) viewpoints.
Wikipedia is not the utopia you envision, it is the product of territorial mods who want "their" articles to read the way "they" want them to read.
Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith. - Paul Tillich, German theologian and historian