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Message Digest
Volume 28 : Issue 159 : "text" Format
Messages in this Issue:
Re: Usenet newsgroups
Re: Usenet newsgroups
Re: Usenet newsgroups
Re: Usenet newsgroups
Re: Usenet newsgroups
Re: ANI vs. Caller ID
Re: ANI vs. Caller ID
(TELECOM) HELP ...WHO IS PROVIDING THIS TOLL-FREE NUMBER
Re: Usenet newsgroups
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Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:08:06 -0700
From: Steven Lichter <diespammers@ikillspammers.com>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Usenet newsgroups
Message-ID: <h0p7c7$unv$1@news.eternal-september.org>
John Mayson wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Michael
> Grigoni<michael.grigoni@cybertheque.org> wrote:
>> tlvp wrote:
>>
>> Careful ;) � aioe.org is regarded as the "home of trolls and
>> identity thieves" by many long-time usenet posters.
>
> <snip>
>
>> ***** Moderator's Note *****
>>
>> Sounds like a crock. If aioe.org is an nntp server, then it's messages
>> would be distributed through Usenet in the usual fashion, so if anyone
>> was being a troll or abuser, the reputation would follow the poster.
>
> Perhaps Michael was being funny? I visited the website
> http://aioe.org/ and they have limits to posting. In fact the limits
> are such that I as a legitimate USENET user couldn't use them. I
> can't imagine a spammer making good use of their servers.
>
> I went through this last year when Road Runner dropped USENET. I
> settled on Altopia.com for $6/month. Very fast servers, always work,
> etc. I ended up dropping them for other reasons and am now using
> motzarella.org. I'm not overly impressed, but since I'm paying
> nothing and I don't even get a spam tagline, I'm not going to
> complain.
>
> I really hope USENET isn't dying. My first taste of the Internet was
> via USENET in 1987 and I've been hooked every since.
>
> John
>
II just started using motzarella.org yesterday and really don't see much
difference between them and the AT&T servers, except the AT&T update faster.
--
The Only Good Spammer is a Dead one!! Have you hunted one down today?
(c) 2009 I Kill Spammers, Inc. A Rot In Hell Co.
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Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:30:18 -0500
From: "Who Me?" <hitchhiker@dont.panic>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Usenet newsgroups
Message-ID: <2JYXl.31646$yr3.6120@nlpi068.nbdc.sbc.com>
> ***** Moderator's Note *****
>
> After all, very few users even know that filters are available,
> let alone how to plonk someone.
>
Sadly, that is not my problem.
It IS all about *ME*, isn't it ??? ;-)
done
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Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:56:18 +0000 (UTC)
From: wollman@bimajority.org (Garrett Wollman)
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Usenet newsgroups
Message-ID: <h0pdmi$1mpe$1@grapevine.csail.mit.edu>
In article <QtTXl.20146$D32.3222@flpi146.ffdc.sbc.com>,
Who Me? <hitchhiker@dont.panic> wrote:
>Ah, but my point is that any filtering _you_ do doesn't affect most
>Usenet readers (unless you're running an NNTP server),
Most reputable transit server operators run some sort of anti-spam
software. Nobody wants their resources to be wasted transporting
spam. Current anti-spam software is reasonably effective, although
not as effective as anti-spam software for email (which invests much
more CPU power into each message than most Usenet transit servers are
able to). Most of the newsgroups I read see very little automated
spam; I don't think there's enough CPU power available anywhere to
reliably distinguish human-injected spam (which, in the newsgroups
where I see it the most, is difficult to distinguish from legitimate
content).
>so other Usenet users must judge posts by other means. Flagging a
>particular server or site isn't going to make a difference beyond
>_your_ environment.
Some transit servers will drop articles which have passed through
known spam havens. I haven't heard of anyone completely blacklisting
Google Groups, but I wouldn't be surprised.
>Using filters at end-points isn't a viable solution, because it
>doesn't scale and requires training for all users.
They need training anyway. Many people are cheering the demise of
ISP-provided news servers, for precisely that reason -- which just
leaves Google Groups as the primary source of clueless lusers.
(Unfortunately, losing GG would be a two-edged sword, because many
more people benefit from having access to the archive Google acquired
with DejaNews than benefit from not seeing posts from clueless GG
users.)
-GAWollman
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wollman@csail.mit.edu| nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry
Opinions not those | grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape
of MIT or CSAIL. | our history. - S.J. Gould, Ten Thousand Acts of Kindness
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Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:45:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Usenet newsgroups
Message-ID: <b2c67dd2-9a84-4580-ad01-877d0b16f62e@h23g2000vbc.googlegroups.com>
On Jun 11, 9:27 am, woll...@bimajority.org (Garrett Wollman) wrote:
>-- which just
> leaves Google Groups as the primary source of clueless lusers.
What makes you say Google Groups is such a problem?
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Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:24:04 -0500
From: "Who Me?" <hitchhiker@dont.panic>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Usenet newsgroups
Message-ID: <1JYXl.31645$yr3.106@nlpi068.nbdc.sbc.com>
Who Me? wrote:
> Spam prevention is always going to be an arms race:
Not on Usenet, or at least it shouldn't be........and that was exactly my
point.
If the various SysAdm's would still require that ALL their users be "known"
to them with some kind of verifiable identity information, then legitimate
sites would NOT have any spammers posting.
AND
If spam friendly sites lost all their peers, Usenet spam would largely be
non-existent.
Problem IS that there are too many "big guys" in the game now that don't
really give a crap about spam and the like........like but not limited to
Google.......to make ANY solution effective.
The cows are out of the barn AND the barn has burned.
It is too late to go back now.
This too, like all good things, will come to an end, hastened by the idiots
of the world.
***** Moderator's Note *****
If the "big guys" don't care about spam, it's because biger routers
and fatter pipes are cheaper than the cost of controlling it.
Bill Horne
Temporary Moderator
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Date: 11 Jun 2009 14:15:11 -0400
From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: ANI vs. Caller ID
Message-ID: <h0rhjf$8qk$1@panix2.panix.com>
<hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote:
>On Jun 8, 8:49 am, Sam Spade <s...@coldmail.com> wrote:
>> As we all know, it
>> costs more to process a dial pulse than a DTMF call origination.
>
>Pulse costs them more than Touch Tone? Why?
It takes longer. It's holding the line up... and you can't bill the use
of the line until the call supervision kicks in. So you have equipment
and lines tied up for something you can't bill.
The thing is... you can charge the customer for touch tone. If you tried
to charge the customer for pulse service, most of them wouldn't pay for
it and then THOSE revenues would be lost.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
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Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:23:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: ANI vs. Caller ID
Message-ID: <35826016-93e5-4732-93e6-ef465309857c@z20g2000prh.googlegroups.com>
On Jun 11, 3:43 pm, klu...@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
> It takes longer. It's holding the line up... and you can't bill the use
> of the line until the call supervision kicks in. So you have equipment
> and lines tied up for something you can't bill.
The revenue loss from this must be inconsequential.
Here's why: First, it would only apply to toll colls where there is a
usage charge, not local calls. Second, toll charges today are very
low, and many subscribers pay a flat rate. Third, the _additional_
"non revenue" time required by dialing vs. keying would just be a few
seconds and tiny part of the overall connect time (more time is wasted
by waiting for the called party to answer). Fourth, toll lines are
not occupied until the subscriber finishes dialing.
In the terms above--wasteful occupancy of equipment--requiring ten
digit dialing for all calls is far more wasteful. That is, if the
desire is to reduce equipment occupancy, then ten digit dialing ought
to be eliminated. In a great many cases it was unnecessary and only
introduced as a matter of _social policy,_ not technical need, so as
to make it easier for newcomer companies to come in. Many newcomers
soaked up exchange codes at an enormous rate, tieing up a block of
10,000 numbers for a tiny volume of subscribers. This soak-up created
an explosion of new exchange codes which resulted in the need for more
NPAs and overlays. To be "fair", they make EVERYBODY dial ten digits,
not just people calling the newcomers (or special lines such as cell
phones or faxes).
Further, the requirement of ten digits introduces more chance of
subscriber error which means wasted use of equipment and subscriber
annoyance from wrong numbers.
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Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:25:17 -0500
From: "George S Thurman" <gsthurman@aol.com (nospam)>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: (TELECOM) HELP ...WHO IS PROVIDING THIS TOLL-FREE NUMBER
Message-ID: <1DeYl.28560$c45.8356@nlpi065.nbdc.sbc.com>
I am trying to help someone figure out who the carrier is on an inbound 800
number.
He wants to change the location to where the calls are sent, but can not
remember who the carrier is on the number, and has not received a bill for
the service in months, even though the service continues to work. Any ideas
on how to identify the carrier on an inbound toll-free number?
George "Skipper" Thurman
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Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:17:31 GMT
From: "Gary" <fake-email-address@bogus.hotmail.com>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Usenet newsgroups
Message-ID: <L0iYl.591$P5.421@nwrddc02.gnilink.net>
"John Mayson" <john@mayson.us> wrote in message
news:6645152a0906101234v6d65271pd05488eaac666b5d@mail.gmail.com...
>
> I really hope USENET isn't dying. My first taste of the Internet was
> via USENET in 1987 and I've been hooked every since.
It isn't dying. It's dead. All of the groups I used to frequent have long
lost quality, relevant discussions.
Even this group, which still has some good discussions, is a pale shadow of
it's past glory. It is very rare that we'll see a discussion of current
issues or technology here; when many years ago it was the norm. This group
used to get well over 200 messages a day.
All of the other comp.* groups that I used to read have gone silent, except
for the occasional spam.
If you want further proof, ask anyone under the age of 30 if they know about
Usenet. Chances are you'll have better luck playing Powerball...
As to why I'm still here? Good question. Mostly because I'm stubborn and I
general don't like web interfaces for forums. I haven't found any web based
forums that provide anywhere near SNR that used to exist in the good USENET
forums. So, I stick around Usenet mostly out of habit.
-Gary
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