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Comment Are the Cellular companies paying you?? (Score 1) 791

Since the Antenna is right outside of your dwelling, are they actually paying you to rent the space the signal will be transmitting from? If not, you may ask them to pay you outright or have them fully isolate the signal from entering your dwelling. Otherwise, you can contact the Condo administration and ask for your "kickback" for housing such "dangerous" signals to your dwelling. Has anyone done this in the past?

Comment Re:Micropayments again (Score 1) 198

This is why there would be a global payment system that mail servers would join... the user would purchase a minimum of 5-10$ of eStamps and would be distributed monthly to the providers. sender provider and payment provider would get 35% of the fee while 30% goes to the receiver provider. Problem solved.
Sender and receiver provider would make money while the actual sender is paying for it.

Comment Where they got there numbers? (Score 1) 198

Look at my mail server's spam status.
the RBL has blocked 95% of the spam out there.
57.5% had no SPF records. Looks like SPF has gained a lot of ground now... almost half of the Internet is now using it.
Using Surgemail, I do not need to use 3rd party anti-spam systems as the anti-spam is handled by the mail server itself. It handled 4 million messages in a month and does not break a sweat. I love this mail server and no other system can persuade me to switch... Support is incredible, service top notch... can not praise it enough.

Spam status:
        RBL Denied 95.3% (1882484), Stamped 4.7% (93193), Checked 1975678
        Total score 3 or above 75.5% 123278/163348
        Aspam Score 1 or above 15.4%, ngood=987 nbad=2965 ncatcher=2521
        URL Database 13.6%, In database bad=12997 neutral=2168 fromnet=15138
        SPF hits (msgs) 68.8% 2753806/4002538, (no spf=2302652 57.5% pass=361145 of 4002493)
        SPF rcpts blocked 0.0% (0/698887) allow=0 dkf=5393
        Badfrom hits 0.0% bad=0 good=384559 mx=0
        Spam Bounce (0) 2.5%
        Helo failures 235981 5.7%
        SURBL 38.0% 94570/248869 0/0
        User spam actions Vanished:8 Bounced:21793 Stored:46
        Friends Allow:23059 Block:0 Confirmation:14944 (Bounced:2787 Replies:128 Spam-ratio:0.96)
        DomainKeys goodsigs=15730, badsigs=458, nosig=0, badformat=408
        SPFShare isspam=814 notspam=0 allow=0 web=2630 tell=0 (knowndb=270297)
        SpamC 104.09% (db 443774/34284) spam=108206 ok=36709 zero=103954
        From Blacklist 0 records, 0 hits
        False Pos 128/14944 0.86% (based on friend confirmations)
        False Pos 7732/41670 19% (based on msgs from friends)
        aspam_content.txt 7788 3.1%

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Moonlight 1.0 Brings Silverlight Content To Linux 346

An anonymous reader writes "Novell has unveiled some of the fruits of its technical collaboration with Microsoft in the form of Moonlight 1.0, a Firefox plug-in which will allow Linux users to access Microsoft Silverlight content. Officially created by the Mono project, it is available for all Linux distributions, including openSUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Fedora, Red Hat and Ubuntu. Also included in Moonlight is the Windows Media pack, with support for Windows Media Video, Windows Media Audio and MP3 files."
Novell

Submission + - Silverlight shines on Linux (itnews.com.au) 1

An anonymous reader writes: Novell has unveiled some of the fruits of its technical collaboration with Microsoft in the form of Moonlight 1.0, a Firefox plug-in which will allow Linux users to access Microsoft Silverlight content. Officially created by the Mono project, it is available for all Linux distributions, including openSUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Fedora, Red Hat and Ubuntu. Also included in Moonlight is the Windows Media pack, with support for Windows Media Video, Windows Media Audio and MP3 files.
Mozilla

Submission + - Firefox is faster in wine than the native one

An anonymous reader writes: Tuxradar did some benchmarks comparing Firefox Windows and Linux JavaScript performance.
"We did some simple JavaScript benchmarks of Firefox 3.0 using Windows and Linux to see how it performed across the platforms — and the results are pretty bleak for Linux."
Later on, they tried wine.
"The end result: Firefox from Mozilla or from Fedora has almost nil speed difference, and Firefox running on Wine is faster than native Firefox."

Comment BULLSHIT! Scientists love attention. (Score 1) 1061

I highly doubt that global warming is reversible. What about the Canadian invention to clear our air of CO2 that is available? I think it is time that the Governments stepped up and considered investing money for the environment as I have not even seen any bailout package for the Environmental development. Guys, its our future, our childrens' futures, our grandchildrens' futures, Let's not make it worse for them to live on this planet!

Comment Been virtually Spam free for 2 years now... (Score 1) 198

We have been using Surgemail for our mail server since 2005 and in 2007 we tightened up some rules. As of January 1st, 2009, we enforced either SPF or DomainKeys authentication now. Our Mail server CPU usage dropped from 7% average to only 2-3% average now. We don't use any third party filtering systems as Surgemail blocks all the junk mail for us. It has stopped Mass Phishing emails for domains that have SPF/DK records.

If you really want to stop spam in your organization, I highly recommend trying Surgemail out.

Real time blacklists only stop about 93% of the spam coming into our networks, the remaining 7% is stopped by SPF/DK and Surgemail's Friends system,(which Beautifully works as folders in IMAP mode so you never need to access a web page to release legitimate mail).

Occasionally, clients do call to say that someone tried to reach them but got rejected by our server cause the sender's mail server/domain does not have an SPF/DK record. We simply ask them to email the sender and Surgemail automatically adds the client into the whitelist system allowing communications with the IMPROPERLY configured domain.

All in all, for the past 2 years, out of 15 email accounts I have on my system (one for Mail lists, another for personal, business, etc...) I could say that I have gotten a handful of SPAM that got through (with valid SPF/DK records), but nothing SPAMCOP could not clear up after reporting them.

I have not lost any time or money weeding through my emails to find legitimate messages, get viruses, or lost legitimate mail cause of SPAM.

I have tried Spamassasin and others like it in the past and just causes extra load for nothing. I have used other mail solutions in the past but NOTHING BEATS Surgemail for a unified mail server system with lots of added features to boot.

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