Is this level of spam normal for this list? I have been on list for 18hrs now, have received 8-10 ucm's and not one genuine mail??? -- The Penguin Factory pingu@thepenguinfactory.co.uk ...computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all run around in a darkened room munching pills and listening to repetitive music... PGP Public Key available
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Daniel Farnworth wrote:
Is this level of spam normal for this list? I have been on list for 18hrs now, have received 8-10 ucm's and not one genuine mail???
You're right. There's been scarcely any spam today. Don't worry, though; it's sure to pick up over the weekend. -- Jim Dixon VBCnet GB Ltd http://www.vbc.net tel +44 117 929 1316 fax +44 117 927 2015
You're on the 'wrong' list... http://einstein.ssz.com/cdr ____________________________________________________________________ Beware gentle knight, there is no greater monster than reason. Miguel de Cervantes The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- -------------------------------------------------------------------- On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Daniel Farnworth wrote:
Is this level of spam normal for this list? I have been on list for 18hrs now, have received 8-10 ucm's and not one genuine mail??? -- The Penguin Factory pingu@thepenguinfactory.co.uk
...computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all run around in a darkened room munching pills and listening to repetitive music...
PGP Public Key available
It works this time! Okay, I'll bite, what's down? The last two times you posted this link, it coincided with a servic dying. First, it was mail, then it was httpd. So what is it this time? On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Jim Choate wrote:
You're on the 'wrong' list...
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Beware gentle knight, there is no greater monster than reason.
Miguel de Cervantes
The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Daniel Farnworth wrote:
Is this level of spam normal for this list? I have been on list for 18hrs now, have received 8-10 ucm's and not one genuine mail??? -- The Penguin Factory pingu@thepenguinfactory.co.uk
...computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all run around in a darkened room munching pills and listening to repetitive music...
PGP Public Key available
-- I can be immature if I want to, because I'm mature enough to make my own decisions. Who is John Galt? galt@inconnu.isu.edu
Hi John, 'mail', 'httpd'? I don't have a clue what the hell you're talking about. einstein has a 54d19h32m uptime as I write this. None of my services have been down or non-functional in that time. You need to have your DNS checked, it's not picking IP's correctly. Specifically when it is given a name->IP lookup that has two, yes I say two, IP's provided. einstein is supposed to have two NIC's installed. I removed one because I isolated my internal network completely because of a variety of exploits. As a result that IP isn't available and it times out, your services (be they httpd, mail, or whatever) should then try the alternate IP. Apparently they're not. It's worth noting that timeout may be as great as the default 2m high level TCP timeouts. You can try flushing your DNS cache's and try it again or you could set a direct IP-hostname link in your /etc/hostname file. 204.96.2.99 einstein.ssz.com einstein On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, John Galt wrote:
It works this time! Okay, I'll bite, what's down? The last two times you posted this link, it coincided with a servic dying. First, it was mail, then it was httpd. So what is it this time?
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Jim Choate wrote:
You're on the 'wrong' list...
____________________________________________________________________ Beware gentle knight, there is no greater monster than reason. Miguel de Cervantes The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------
Daniel Farnworth wrote:
Is this level of spam normal for this list? I have been on list for 18hrs now, have received 8-10 ucm's and not one genuine mail???
It's pretty light actually. Back in 1996/7 you could have seen thousands of spem by now. Your problem is toad.com - there is no one central cypherpunks list, it is in effect a number of lists that cross-post to each other. They impose various degrees of editorial control, or not. (Almost) all of them are open to postings from anyone - one of the points of the list is to be a place where anonymous or unpopular postings are permitted. The list working out of toad.com has some known problems and it is probably not a good idea to be using it. Jim Choate will probably be along in a minute to tell you about his web pages at http://einstein.ssz.com/cdr/index.html which would also fill you in on some background and point you at some of the other mailing lists. There has been a lot of good said about the cypherpunks@lne.com list, which I haven't tried myself yet so can't comment on in detail. I think I'm using majordomo@sirius.infonex.com at the moment, it's hard to keep track. (Like a lot of people here I tend to join & unjoin using different addresses - also I post from an address different from the one I read it on)
...computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all run around in a darkened room munching pills and listening to repetitive music...
ROFL :-) Do I really want to be around when the Doom generation grow up? Ken Brown
Daniel Farnworth wrote:
...computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all run around in a darkened room munching pills and listening to repetitive music...
Rave on! --Tim May -- Timothy C. May tcmay@got.net Corralitos, California Political: Co-founder Cypherpunks/crypto anarchy/Cyphernomicon Technical: physics/soft errors/Smalltalk/Squeak/agents/games/Go Personal: b.1951/UCSB/Intel '74-'86/retired/investor/motorcycles/guns
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