No license: default copyright. No-one is allowed to redistribute without your express permission.

The dependencies I assume will be distributed within your package; and I assume their licenses in turn allow this, as this are open source licenses.

If so, you would be able to choose any license you like for your code - or indeed simply nothing special at all - and choose based on your preferences/philosophy on the level of freedoms given for use of your work.

It's not a dumb idea, it's just a solution that's not for the masses. I know that. My comment was mainly targeted at the idea that unfamiliar domain name means mails get deleted.

What I also wonder is whether Google instantly informed the person in question of the demand (thereby basically ignoring the gag order which they didn't think was valid anyway).

And is such a gag order even legally bounding the moment it's issued even if the receiving party has strong grounds to believe it is not? Because if it is, just by issuing gag order anyone could stop any information from being released for quite a while, at least until the court decided it's invalid. In this case Google seriously believed the order was invalid, or they wouldn't go to court over it.

Any suggestion on how to deal with mails with attachments? SA doesn't check those. And I get heaps of those "transfer done, please check your account", "here's the B/L for your shipment" and "please review this PO for your product" kind of mails that all end up in my inbox, and are apparently sent through real mailservers as they pass through greylisting.

My basic two-stage filtering takes care of most crap, the rest can be dealt with by hand. I could tighten SpamAssassin but then I may start getting false positives which is worse.

1) Greylisting. This takes care of almost 90% of spam at the door: from 350-400 spams a day I went down to about 40-50 spams a day. All mail sent through properly managed servers (i.e. servers that retry delivery as requested by the greylisting software) arrive, albeit with a slight delay the first time around.

2) SpamAssassin. Picks up about 90% of the spam that still comes through; mostly failing on spam with large attachments. Greylisting's delay allows for more of the spam domains to be in the RBLs by the time the mail arrives on my system for even better filtering.

Spamgourmet sounds like fun until they shut down.

Do you pay them anything? If not, how do they pay for that service? It'd suck were they to shut down and suddenly no-one had any option to reach you by e-mail.

Huh? That just doesn't make sense. No-one blocks mail because they've never seen that domain before, or everyone should have to be on the few domains everyone knows, like gmail.com.

I currently own almost ten domains, running four web site of which three maintained and the fourth well I basically never took it down, the domain is one that I owned for over a decade. No problems with mails getting lost for "unknown domain" or so, it all seems to go through just fine.

All is running on a cloud server, costing me $2750 a year (divide by 7.8 for US$). Web sites, e-mail, MySQL database, and a few more services. Good deal.

Why is 3000 friends better than 3000 likes on a business page? I'd rather say "different". It's a different purpose and expectation when one likes a business or befriends a person.

Then the point where Facebook gets to decide who is going to see what. I'm quite unhappy with the feeling that I see only like 10% of what pages that I like post. I want to see ALL they post, there may be something of interest that I otherwise miss. So also looking from the reader's POV it sucks, and decreases the usefulness of Facebook drastically.

Some friends of mine I know better by their nickname, or even only by their nickname. Once a friend of mine called me in her capacity as staff of an organisation I volunteered for, introducing her with her formal name. Took me a moment to realise who I had on the phone.

Both my parents use different first names in daily life than the names listed in their passport. Everyone knows them by that name, using their official name would cause serious confusion. My mum has four given names, a maiden name and my father's name all listed in her passport. If Facebook insists on real and complete names, that'd be a practical problem. It's almost 50 characters in all.

My wife has formally only a Chinese name, but in daily life uses an English name. Common practice for Hong Kong Chinese - some opt to have their English name (often adopted during primary school, not given at birth, though the latter happens more and more nowadays) registered on their ID card, others don't. She also doesn't have her English name registered. So while most call her by that name, only some use her Chinese name, it's still a nickname.

Make up a foreign ID. They can't know how it all should look like, let alone that they can verify the validity.

You can do just fine on Facebook. You can easily register an account as "Silence Dogood". You can post your rant on your page, and share the post on various groups (many of which are open access). It may even work better (be safer for you personally) than a random public square, as there's less chance for being arrested for stirring up trouble, in case you're proclaiming hate against certain people or so, and people don't get to see your face with it.

Sure the account may get blocked later, but what'd you care? The message is out already, and that's what it's about. Messages older than a few days are effectively expired on Facebook - not many people browse that far back in their news feed. Too many other messages appearing.

I have seen so many names that are totally unlikely to be real.

How about names like "Mercy Grace Cee Ogoy" (used to be Gray Cee Riggs until half year or so ago - name of the account changed, also an indicator of pseudonym use) or "FragiLe HEart" (capitalisation as used on Facebook).

Facebook doesn't seem to really care.

They did the job well. You couldn't even get down to 1 and you were terminated already.

I'm running a business.

I've used Google AdWords before (when it was affordable - 8-10 years ago I paid $0.10-0.20 per click where maybe one in 100 got me a sale, but a sale was worth about $400 to me, and would often result in repeat business). It was worth it, got me quite some business. A good investment.

Now I'm running a tourism business, and clicks will cost me $1.00-2.00 each - offer lower and I'm not even listed on the tenth page of search results. Maybe 1 in 100 gets me a sale, and a sale is worth about $10-20 each, with little chance of repeat business, that's the nature of tourism. Google AdWords is not worthwhile for me.

I have before found Google to be a great platform for targeted advertising. Based on the search words people put in they target ads quite well - I'm using their ads as well when searching for commercial offerings of something. Unfortunately they have become too expensive for me, small time operator. I have to do with SEO and trying to get more hits from search results, which appears to do the job quite well.

Facebook I am still using, but what most irritates me is that I have nearly 3,000 likes on my page, but when I post something after a few days I have a reach of 100-300 people (according to Facebook). And I get 10-20 likes on my posts - typically 5-10% of the reach gives me a like. That's very high, and more likes and other interactions should get a post to be distributed much further - that's at least what Facebook tells me. Obviously something is not right here.

I tried to pay for more exposure, with limited success. I'm targeting the English speaking population of Hong Kong, but half of that is domestic helper (i.e. has no money to spend), and those are highly over-represented on Facebook to boot. I think I got about my money worth back in sales. Not a too good investment. It did get me quite some exposure but imho the price is too high. I've stopped paying anything to Facebook, especially as they don't even distribute my messages to the people that already told Facebook they want to see it: i.e. everyone that "likes" my page.

Now I use Facebook just to enhance word-of-mouth. After events I post my photos, so people may share it with their friends. I share my event announcements in relevant groups on Facebook, and get quite some exposure that way. I'm not paying them anything any more, it's not worth it. Facebook could be the ultimate platform for targeted advertising, considering how much they know about their users, but they utterly fail in that respect.

I'm perfectly happy to pay for advertising, but only if it delivers. Now I have my product listed on various web sites, which resell tickets to my events, taking their cut of the price when they make a sale. No sale, no cost for me. As an added bonus, those services actually do deliver.

You just broke the quite important doctrine of first sale.

The seller gets paid and gets to say who it's sold to when he makes the sale, and only at that time. After the sale, seller has no say in what happens to/with the product.