I routinely get 55x bounce messages from Hotmail on accounts with active users.

Better than Yahoo's 45x permabounces, but still annoying.

Gmail, GMX and AOL, on the other hand, are very pleasant to work with. I can even talk to humans at AOL.

Good set of postfix rules and a very mild tweaking of Spamassassin and I have nearly no spam reach my inbox.

smtpd_client_restrictions = permit_mynetworks,
                                                        reject_unknown_client_hostname,
                                                        reject_unauth_pipelining,
                                                        check_client_access pcre:/etc/postfix/reject-domains,
                                                        permit

smtpd_helo_restrictions = permit_mynetworks,
                                                    check_helo_access pcre:/etc/postfix/nomail-domains,
                                                    check_helo_access mysql:/etc/postfix/reject-helo-mydomains.cf,
                                                    reject_invalid_helo_hostname,
                                                    reject_non_fqdn_helo_hostname,
                                                    permit

smtpd_sender_restrictions = permit_mynetworks,
                                                        check_sender_access pcre:/etc/postfix/nomail-domains,
                                                        check_sender_access mysql:/etc/postfix/reject-sender-mydomains.cf,
                                                        reject_non_fqdn_sender,
                                                        reject_unknown_sender_domain,
                                                        permit

smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks,
                                                              reject_unauth_destination,
                                                              check_recipient_access pcre:/etc/postfix/reject-users,
                                                              reject_non_fqdn_recipient,
                                                              permit

smtpd_data_restrictions = permit_mynetworks,
                                                    reject_multi_recipient_bounce,
                                                    permit

The reject-sender-mydomains and reject-helo-mydomains boot mail claiming to come from my users.

reject-domains boots mail from generic hostnames, e.g.: /[0-9]+\-+[0-9]+\-+[0-9]+\-+[0-9]+/ REJECT 554 Dynamic or Generic Hostname /[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9a-z]+/ REJECT 554 Dynamic or Generic Hostname

and others as patterns emerge, should probably run through them again

nomail-domains contains a list of domains that I own that I know shouldn't be claiming to send mail. I doubt it's necessary, honestly.

reject-users just makes it deny that my wheel user exists.

The only custom rules I've added to Spamassassin was to catch hijacked accounts. Black/no subject, multiple recipients, containing a link.

Maybe one piece of spam makes it through a week, if that.

Use Cookie Monster, so some similar cookie disabling app. For most sites disabling cookies means disabling localStorage.

But cookies are dumb. 99% of the time I don't even want to be seeing what I store in localStorage, it's all user preference gloss, and certainly does not need to be sent between my server and your computer ten million times a day. But right now that's what we use cookies for.

Writing my own fully AJAX driven software, let me just say, adding 2kb to each and every single AJAX request is simply a non-starter. For my site, that will easily run 50 GB/day. Half my bandwidth just for cookies! No.

Storing the session in the URL has certainly been done (never seen a PHPSESSID link when you turn off cookies?) but it's an immense security issue on a community website. Someone steals your url, and they're you. No.

Stuff like Cookie Monster, Refcontrol, Noscript and Flash/extensionblock should simply be standard parts of the browser, with users educated how to use them properly.

> The real question of course is how Obama would handle Galactus.

He'd come to the table with "You can only eat half the planet." And manage to walk away with Galactus agreeing to spare 10%.

Right. So now is not the time to complain - wait for the bad deed to actually occur before screaming about said bad deed.

I love the "You can sue after you've been harmed" mantra. Die of food poisoning? Just sue!

Except now we're going to see arguments that all adult sites should move to .xxx domains.

I hope that idea will be a straight up non-starter and stay that way.

A company a family member worked at got hit by that one.

They bought backup software for some insane amount of money.

Time came they had a crash and needed to restore from backup.

There was no restore software.

If you need to increase the number of hugepages on a server, and memory is already seriously fragmented, doing that without a reboot is asking for a world of pain.

This nonsense stopped around 6.16 or so, but yes until then it was freaking annoying. Java updates will remove old versions now.

Even by American standards. Unlimited voice+text+data plans go for a whopping $45 in the US.

Because there is no incentive for normal people to spend it.

And the tech industry thrived because the value appreciation of what could be done with technology grew faster than the rate at which the cost of said pieces of technology lost value. That has little to do with the discussion, however - that is simply a reflection of the mass of technology investment.

> No, currency is whatever we decide it is. You are speaking only of one small subset of currency known as fiat currency. There is nothing intrinsic about currency that says it has to devalue over time.

Appreciating resources are not actually used as currency. They're investments.

I have several hundred bitcoins. I have absolutely zero intention of spending them until the libertarians driving it realize that they're duping themselves. Which I expect to take a very long time.

A forum admin who doesn't want to toss a quarter of his/her users.

Honestly when I first found your site my reaction was 'What? No address? It's in my flipping DNS query. No one who uses my sites gives a damn what my address is...' ...which is another point, if someone's out shopping, a resource like yours is good. If someone's looking for information or something else for free, then you need a different criteria.