Beer works, too :)

I even brew my own.

The -smart- people are doing precisely that.

The problem is that there really are still people out there who are using lists, such as SORBS, as absolute arbiters in what is, or is not, from a spam source.

Thankfully, this number is shrinking daily as they realize just how broken some of these lists have been as a matter of policy.

And before anyone starts to give me any guff about being soft on spam -

I've been known to nuke accounts, and not bother asking questions. I chased down the Empire Towers group and helped put an end to them. I spent 18 months cleaning up the -very- tarnished reputation of a now bought out web host almost 10 years ago, and have the scars to prove it. I hunted a spammer down and ratted him out to his own mother in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

The news regarding Ralsky had me drop a shot in celebration.

Believe me - I -detest- spam. At the same time, the methods utilized by SORBS were ineffective, and most legitimate hosts and providers stopped using them years ago.

Selective DNSRBL systems, as a practical method, WORK. Blocking residential cable from sending email? Hella good idea, for example. Blocking known dial-up ranges, as well. Blocking webhosts in an attempt to get their customer base to force them into canceling contracts that may cost the web host hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars? Nuh-uh.

When 'collateral damage' was useful, losses MIGHT have hit 10k. Now? Talking millions? Businesses will buy a new IP block and move the affected customers, and call it a day. Especially if they're blocked not because a customer has been an idiot, per se, but because the customer was hacked and used as a bot.

So, yeah. Rock on with your bad selves.

"Such a shutdown could slow or disrupt anti-spam efforts for large numbers of mail hosts worldwide. "

You're kidding, right?

They have done more to give legitimate anti-spam efforts a black eye than ANY legislative attempts to 'solve' the problem ever could.

I -used- to believe that 'collateral damage' was a legitimate 'tactic' in the fight against spammers. I've grown up since then.

Actually, there are some Really, Really good reasons for certain individuals to be 'on-call'. However, the result of on-call actions should have the commensurate benefit of having additional time off to recover from those over night sessions.

If THAT happened more often, people would be far more willing to do on-call.

SRSLY.

Which is why the '12th' book will actually be books 12, 13 and 14.

Srsly.

Raph Koster of Ultima Online fame, for example.

I forget which MUD he was originally behind, tho... that was a good 15 years ago now. lol

Now, if only he weren't DEAD.

Hrmm, I don't see any sort of limits even in the fine print on my plan.

Narf.

DOCSIS 3.0 does pretty much -precisely- that, at a per home passed cost of between 20 and 100 (depending on the source you read).

So, umm, yeah. In this case, it actually DOES work that way.

Amazing.

Hi. Welcome to San Antonio (Or Austin. Or Dallas. Or Houston...)

Our options are: TWC, MAYBE Grande Cable (if you're far enough into the sticks), DSL (if you're close enough) or UVerse (If they've passed your place).

So, umm, yeah.

Go fuck yourself. You live in pretty much the only major metro where you have a choice. Congrats. Want the other 295mil Americans to crowd into Seattle?

Exactly.

Give me a rate at a nickle, or a dime, or hell, even a quarter a gig, and I'd be fine.

50GB/mo? At a quarter? $12.50.

Fuck, make it $.50/GB. $25/mo. Regardless - true metered would be 'acceptable'. Caps are nothing but money grubbing bullshit.

And yes. I'm drunk. Bite me.

Uuuh.

Get her name right, moron.

MEGAN Fox.

MEGAN.

"some geek"?

Anand has been around, reviewing hardware, for close to 10 years now. He is, rightfully so, considered an expert in hardware usage, performance tuning and over systems construction.

There are others out there with similar cachet.

He is far, FAR from just being "some geek".

That's because there are no 'sane' solutions to it.

Overpopulation really only has one solution. And we're too moral to actually consider it.

And I find that that's a good thing.