Comment Re:Anti-Spam Measure? (Score 1) 245
Thanks. Going through this thread I do see that the consensus is against the use of port 465. I find this strange, but not the strangest thing that I've seen this week. Thank you.
Thanks. Going through this thread I do see that the consensus is against the use of port 465. I find this strange, but not the strangest thing that I've seen this week. Thank you.
MTA to MTA is still on port 25, yes, but mail submission via a MUA is no longer recommended on port 25, and many ISPs specifically block 25 as an anti-spam measure.
MUA submission is done on:
1) Port 587 plaintext, or
2) Port 587 encrypted by specifying STARTTLS, or
3) Port 465 encrypted
I've not heard that 465 is depreciated until now, and in fact I actively avoid STARTTLS so I use it.
I am aware of port 25 being depreciated, but not 465. Is there an RFC that I should be reading? I still submit mail specifically on port 465 so that I can avoid STARTTLS and require encryption. Of course, seeing how I manage the MTA I have that luxury.
If port 465 is no longer recommended I would like to know when and why that happened. Thanks.
If you're relying on the MTA to keep your email communications secure, you're doing it wrong. If data is important enough to encrypt, encrypt it at the sender side first.
In this case, sending email over TLS is akin to browsing the web over TLS: You let the browser / MTA handle the encryption at a lower OSI layer than the application layer. Thus, it works transparently and without hassle to the end user. Would you suggest using GPG to manually encrypt and decrypt all your communication with any HTTPS website?
Note that the STARTTLS command is a fix for using port 587 to send encrypting mail instead of the port which is dedicated to it: port 465. It is like sending HTTPS down port 80 with a special flag. Properly configured MTAs should be using port 465 for email over TLS instead of port 587 with a "special flag".
Any way, it shouldn't be a problem; they could just use a translation of the word 'Gnome' - for example, in Swedish: Nissan. Problem solved.
Uzi Nissan might have an issue with the use of his name:
http://nissan.com/
I meant this mouse:
http://becuo.com/xfce-mouse
You have no idea how happy I am that my misunderstanding was over a mouse-themed logo and not a cat-themed logo. My defence for "Just keep your hands off the pussy" is not appropriate for this audience.
Actually, I'm a KDE user and I hardly ever touch the mouse. I'm not even sure if it is plugged into the particular machine I'm on right now.
Did KDE have a registered Trademark for "Activities"?
From a legal perspective your point is made. However, from a usability perspective, Gnome has never cared about user experience and this move was one of the first to show it.
Gnome had no problem usurping the KDE term "Activities" as a synonym for "Virtual Desktops" even though KDE had been using the term to mean something else for years:
http://aseigo.blogspot.co.il/2...
The Gnome move is even more confusing than the Groupon move as the new Gnome term _replaces an existing term_ and additionally is also a UI term similar, but not quite exactly, like the KDE term. At least nobody is likely to confuse a Gnome tablet with a Gnome desktop environment.
Why are we spending so much money on satellites? We could have bought a couple Cold War fighter jets that will never be used and that explode on liftoff!
Is that parody or is that news? I cannot believe that one-sided, war-mongering, short-sighted propaganda piece is called 'News'. It packs more lies, ridicule, non sequiturs, and manipulation into three minutes than I've even seen before. Are people really expected watch that and then form their own opinions? If that is how Americans get their news, it explains so much about American ignorance, xenophobia, and thirst for war.
I've never heard of Debian before - is it based on Ubuntu Linux?
Debian is destined to be merged into Ubuntu, it seems.
What does he specifically mean?
He means that Debian, like many other FOSS projects, needs Giving Trees to drain.
Joey was one such tree, and all that is left now is a stump. Others are at various stages of being just a trunk, or perhaps having a few branches left. The Giving Trees are being chopped down faster than they are being planted.
I'm out of modpoints but I would like to stress that _this post_ is an example of why Ask Slashdot is so successful at answering questions that boil down to "I don't know what I need to know to get this job done". This is the type of answer that will put the OP on the right track to figuring out what he needs.
Can we finally solve the age old question as to whether the seat should be left up or down? This is a function based on how many males vs females there are, and how often a male needs to, er, sit.
Pee on the seat twice, then she'll start begging you to leave it up!
It depends how fast you throw them away. My slashdot throw away address has been valid for 10 years at least. Still, I can throw it away without impacting anything else if I want and yes all addresses end up in the same inbox and I can edit the sender in my email client to enter anything I want.
You are going to love this:
https://www.absorb.it/virtual-...
Virtual Identity is a Thunderbird addon that automatically puts the right "sender" address when you send an email. It is the reason that I'm married to Tbird.
We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts. -- Patrick Moynihan
