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All I know is I keep seeing people use the word "sexistic" in this thread, and it's giving me a headache. It's "sexist", or if you prefer something a little more descriptive, "chauvinistic".
All I know is I keep seeing people use the word "sexistic" in this thread, and it's giving me a headache. It's "sexist", or if you prefer something a little more descriptive, "chauvinistic".
On a side note, where was your "friend"? He (I am guessing it was a guy) should have either stood up for you, or at least told you to ignore them, because they are jerks. I once made all warriors drop from a 40 man in vanilla, because the druids were harassing a rogue who was a female in real life and the raid leaders did nothing. She was too afraid to leave the raid, but when all the tanks and best dds in raid dropped, that got everyones attention. She was 35 years old at the time and an accomplished writer for the biggest gaming magazine in our country, but sexist remarks from a bunch of kids got to her. This is something we men will never experience, but should be aware of. There is no harmless sexism.
In case of jerks, /leave.
PS. Neo-feminism, led by angry lesbians, who by definition hate men, makes it harder for us to stand up for women.
strange , i would expect the contrary , people to be happy to have a girl , usually thats a reaction in raids or run's , having someone else apart all males , and even if that happen insult asap only cos its a girl , without checking the character ? just from the start , duno but seems way to strange for me
don't like it then leave.
All I really see is someone that is annoyed because she screwed up and got called out of it, trying to make the guys look like the bad guys because they teased/harassed you a little, which again, happens to everyone. They were wrong, but so were you, so really, no need to make such a big deal about this.
I can't believe there are people in this thread stupid enough to use an example of sexism to act like sexism doesn't exist. I mean, come on.
-in 5 man dungeons, Arms Warriors again are the weakest link in the chain as they require 3X amount of healing as other classes and therefore die much more frequently and receive less healing in general, as with the amount of mana spent to keep an Arms Warrior alive the healer can heal all other members and himself.
When someone asks you if you're a god, YOU SAY 'YES'!
OP: these games are already rife with social rejects who exploit anonymity and in-game peerage to seek projected revenge or act out any number of the idiotic fantasies that would get their jaw broken in real life.
PvP players tend to be even worse -- a lot of low-intelligence, dead-end grocery-bagger types or outright scumbags. Tread carefully until you can find a group of normal adults.
I learned a long time ago to expect things like this from people that are serious about PVP, it seems much more common compared to people serious about PVE.
Internet courage/anonymity gives people like this even more of a reason to act like that.
They might have just been checking to see how you handle certain comments, or how much self confidence you have too, and/or they could just be outright douche bags.
I actually went to a feminism conference in DC a few years back.
I found it to be enlightening and fairly equalist. One of the seminars was Parental rights -- a Fair chance for mother AND Father. It went over the issues concerning custody battles and the bias of mom is always right.
Regardless, as a feminist, I wouldn't label all feminists as mad crazy people. There are outliers of course, or people not actually involved in trying to push legislation and change. And not all of us can't take a joke either
I met a lovely/friendly feminist woman and formed a relationship, she was an advocate for NARAL Pro-Choice America (among other things), but she certainly wasn't anti-men, nor did she expect double standards. She refused to have her son circumcised too.
She had a wonderful dirty sense of humor too and could definitely take a joke, and also dish them out.
Just showing support that not all feminists are batshit insane, from a males experience. Although, if you go to a rally you will definitely see some.
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I run a Flex full clear group weekly. I bring one of my guildies who is a girl, and I've had a number of pugs join via openraid as well. That added 3 more girls at least (not everyone talks on mumble), one of which is in a decent raiding guild and who helps coordinate and strategize the raid with me. I haven't noticed any particular differences between them and the guys when it comes to raid performance. The only difference I notice is that I like to hear their voices more than the guys voices :P
it would be appropriate i think if more guys objected verbally when other men express open sexism voice-chat.
people who know better need to let it be known that it's not actually socially acceptable to bully people.
When someone asks you if you're a god, YOU SAY 'YES'!
Sounds to me personally the guys were NEGing you trying to get you to respond so they could be playful with you. You shouldn't hesitate or sound awkward just because you are a girl. It makes others feel like you aren't confident. When you lost confidence it affected your play and then they turned into total morons. However the ones trying to NEG sound like they went about it poorly from the start and instead of building a playful conversation just upset you and made themselves look like a complete tool. Don't worry though it makes him look like a retard in the end.
Some people are socially awkward. Don't worry though in this case it WASN'T you.
All you need to do is grow some balls. and go do more RBGS with a different group.
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Unfortunaly in most raids I played 'that guy' who drags the group down was 'that girl' so you got to deal with it.
I would never judge a player in advance though until they fuck up and in most cases chicks sadly do.


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- Don't complain about lack of options. You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks.
- Feel free to suggest poll ideas if you're feeling creative. I'd strongly suggest reading the past polls first.
- This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
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Technically speaking.... (Score:5, Informative)by coinreturn (617535) on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @08:21AM (#42115583)I don't check the filters themselves (controlled by Google's GMail), but I do check the results of the filters - that is what gets labeled as spam.
Same here - and I check the folder once in a while before purging it. It is no great chore since I get less than one spam mail a day. There used to be much more spam, but after the recent botnet slayings, it has really dropped.
Because of gmail's retarded way of handling '.' in the username (i.e it really doesn't) I get 60+ spams / day because of idiots who can't type their address properly and end up 'colliding' with mine.
I've gotten medical details from family members trying to send to other family members, one business lady in europe who was pretty upset she wasn't getting shipments because she sent mail to me instead of the proper person (i just watched the world burn from my side -- she just kept asking for status updates and
This. Sometimes their filters are too enthusiastic and mark legit messages as SPAM. I check the SPAM folder every couple weeks, but then again, not the filters themselves.
Yeah, I hate it when they do that and especially if you can't turn it off. I only get a few spam mails a day, so spam really isn't a problem for me, but nevertheless:
- gmail has a spam filter you can't turn off (so I stopped using it)
- iCloud now also has a spam filter you can't turn off, and even worse, some of the "spam" is even deleted immediately without sending it to the spam folder! So e-mails are getting lost, I have no way of even knowing this happened, and neither does the sender.
Please, please, pl
Post your email address here - I can help.
I won't be able to find a webservice that lets you adjust the spam filter, but it might make you appreciate the one on Gmail!
I've found Gmail's "not spam" reporting flag to work incredibly well. Never have I had the same email source marked as spam twice after I've told it that it wasn't. That alone makes me only use Gmail as my email provider. Why? Because *all* free email has built-in spam detection, most of whom have horrible learning algorithms. As far as I can tell, most ISPs that provide website access to email pre-check email for spam, too, even if you've never used the website and rely solely on SMTP. And there's no way t
Oh yes that is what I meant when chose once a week I check the results. WHy would anyone check the filters themselves ever, unless they where having bizarre problems. I think this poll, was written poorly and they meant to write what I thought they where asking.
*facepalm* gmail isn't the only spam filter in existence. Any email server requires spam filters in this day and age, I remember having to go into mxlogic up to 3 times a week for various reasons to add to the safelist or tweak rules / limits. I don't think you can check gmail filters, unless you work there. Agreed on the writing of the pole, there's two very distinct filter scenarios: business & personal.
Once in a while when I see the count on the Spam folder in the hundreds, i'll check the first page or two of filtered emails to see what is getting flagged. Sometimes I find emails from companies I do business with getting flagged since those companies also send advertisements thinly veiled as newsletters. The big annoyance for me are companies that send emails from different domains than their official company domain. It makes it really hard to tell if it is legit email or a phishing scam.
And it's pretty good at handling spam.
Add to it a strict filter on my mail server that bounces known spam sources.
And it's pretty good at handling spam.
Add to it a strict filter on my mail server that bounces known spam sources.
Mmmmm Thunderbird [livejournal.com] and spam [berkeley.edu]. A vagrant's delight.
Missing option... (Score:5, Insightful)My option is
Similar here. The "checking" I do is looking at the mail server's logs if I expect a mail from someone new, a new business contact, for example. So a check is nothing more than:
$ grep upstart.com
I get so little spam anyway (which really surprises me, there must be filters out there that I don't know about).
I have two very old Yahoo email address that I just check sometimes. These get the most spam, about three or four messages a month each. I suspect that Yahoo must be filtering and deleting before I even see the email. Suspected spam then turns up on my computer and gets filtered by my local spam filter. It works 90% of the time.
My main personal address just doesn't get spam. I suspect that is bec
Using the spamhaus blacklists and greylisting cuts the VAST majority of spam these days before they even get to your filter.
by NixieBunny (859050) on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @09:44AM (#42116171) HomepageI enjoy looking at the spam from one of my email addresses because it's almost all Nigerian 419 scams. I've even received personal messages from the wives of various deposed middle Eastern leaders.
Although I've noticed lately that the Nigerian scams are being replaced by Hong Kong scams.
For a while, I've been forwarding the contents of one spam email to the the return address of other spam emailers (with the original spammer's email address included of course). Easy, fun and slows them down that much more.
So, you're spamming people who have innocently had their email addresses used by spammers (many spam From: addresses bear no relation to the actual sender). You are contributing to the problem.
Oh, give me some credit. The only email addresses they get are the other spammers and mine. Anywho, you'd be surprise at how rapidly this cuts down responses and they start auto-responding to each other and realize what's happening. Give it a whirl. Or you could try something a bit more creative by asking the spammers to do some that "creates trust" like these guys...http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=YM5QMKLjjm8
Spammers hijack other people's addresses and spoof them. Scammers do not. Scammers want replies, so they'll either send mail from a legit address or include a legit address somewhere in the email.
You are confusing spammers and scammers. A scam is useless if they can't get a reply to the scam and hence either the address has the scammer on it or they have included an address they can be contacted on, it would be pointless for a scammer to do otherwise.
So, you're spamming people who have innocently had their email addresses used by spammers (many spam From: addresses bear no relation to the actual sender). You are contributing to the problem.
Sure, address spoofing is common. But if you get spam from the spoofed address of someone you know, you have to wonder if their address book was compromised as well.
Re:My spam is all 419 scams (Score:4, Informative)by NixieBunny (859050) on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @04:08PM (#42121497) HomepageThe "from" address is stolen from an address book. The "reply-to" address is the spammer's address.
If you took the time to read all your 419 spam, you'd know this.
The "reply-to" is not necessarily, and frequently isn't, the spammer's, and the statement wasn't specific to 419 scams.
The statement you made is specific to non-419 scams. 419 scams are conducted via email rather than websites, as with most other spam, so they have to have valid reply-to addresses or they are ineffective.
No, I've seen 419 scam along the line of "To maintain secrecy, I have been forced to send this using a friend's email account, please reply to me at email@example.com." That address, of course, having no relation to anything in the headers.
My original point stands - by forwarding any spam, the OP is contributing to the problem. His statement, not specific to 419 scams, was
I've been forwarding the contents of one spam email to the the return address of other spam emailers (with the original spammer's email
He said sending along the adress of another scammer, not sending along the email headers. If you assume he meant that he sends along the message as from the fubar address, then he's right and you are wrong, and you are the only one that is confused on that point.
Since I save my 419 spam, I am able to do a test of the data in my spam folder to verify my idea. Data:
Body email matches reply-to: 11
Body email different form reply-to: 4
No body email address: 2
You were saying?
Someone please mod parent up as informative. Only a truly incompetent spammer would allow a genuine (i.e., belonging to the spammer) reply-to or from address to find its way into the headers. Anyone who forwards to a spammer any address taken from a spam message header is truly adding to the problem.
Having read hundreds of 419 scam emails, I can assure you that they do NOT link to a website, despite what you may thing defines a competent spammer. Remember these are con men, not advertisers. They want to conduct a long, drawn-out interaction with a sucker. They most often use AOL or Yahoo addresses, and sometimes Hotmail. When the reply-to is different from the email given in the body, it's different by a minor change such as the number after the name in the recipient field.
If you did want to give the scammer $100,000 to help him get his billions back, how could you if all his contact information is forged?
I run my own mail server and I try to keep SpamAssassin relatively up-to-date.
Did have a period when I didn't update it for six months or so though and didn't really detect any more spam than usual slipping through (and no legitimate mail being marked as spam either).
Same here. I use the fact that SpamAssassin gives more than a pass/fail score to filter spam into two folders: the 'I'm absolutely sure this is spam' folder, and the 'I've set the sensitivity fairly high, so this might be real email' folder. I scan the second one every day, just to check up on things. Usually months go by without it catching anything wrong, but occasionally bulk email I've requested - from a mailing list or similar (or my dad's emails, I'm not sure why) end up in there. I take it out an
It is unfortunate, but some of my family members emails end up caught by spam filters, probably because they aren't careful with their pc's and have been used as SPAM bots.
Stupid filters (Score:3, Funny)Stupid filters, always flagging those important investment opportunities for good Christian men like myself from Nigerian princes as junk.
My personal spam filtering is through gmail's filtering, and pretty much the only time I check the spam folder is when I don't get an email I'm expecting. The last couple of times I've checked, I have seen some legitimate email in there, but it's all automated daily emails from companies I have accounts with and the like - it's still never actually caught anything important to me.
In my former job, however, one of my responsibilities was running the spam filtering system where I worked. It was a state ag
. . . some were user false positives (sorry, the mailing list you signed up for isn't spam - if you don't want to get mail from it any more, unsubscribe)
In general the unsubscribe process for most mail lists that one has voluntarily signed up for has improved. Usually, there's a link in the email to an unsubscribe page that requires no more than one or two clicks and you're done -- no more mail within a few hours to a couple days. Some want you to rekey your email address -- that's a little more of a hassle but not that bad unless I'm reading mail on a mobile device and have to come back later.
However, some unsubscribes are sufficiently inconvenient that
. . . some were user false positives (sorry, the mailing list you signed up for isn't spam - if you don't want to get mail from it any more, unsubscribe)
In general the unsubscribe process for most mail lists that one has voluntarily signed up for has improved. Usually, there's a link in the email to an unsubscribe page that requires no more than one or two clicks and you're done -- no more mail within a few hours to a couple days. Some want you to rekey your email address -- that's a little more of a hassle but not that bad unless I'm reading mail on a mobile device and have to come back later.
Maybe I should have expanded on that, but my post was getting a bit lengthy already.... When something looked like it could be a legitimate mailing list, I usually checked to see if there was an unsubscribe link or email, and, if so, how it worked. Part of this was niceness on my part; another part was protecting our users - because with 4000 of them, there were definitely some out there who were not smart enough to figure out things like "this supposed unsubscribe link actually goes to a different site,
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I look at the current barracuda log and constantly tweak.
And I trawl it for phishing sites to get my Free Netcraft Mug for phishing reports!!!!
Like I never got the e-mails or something that I was supposed to get. It happens rarely though!
No real need to check them. (Score:5, Insightful)by SCHecklerX (229973) <firstname.lastname@example.com> on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @11:44AM (#42117531) Homepage
Been working well for a decade. The neat thing is that 90% of the stuff that needs to be rejected can be done without any spam analysis at all. I only call my spamassassin checks *AFTER* vetting things through MimeDefang. Why waste the CPU cycles? RBLs, Pretending to be from my domain, mail to system accounts, invalid HELO (not FQDN or IP address - single words are very popular with spammers/botnets), RFC1918 HELO addresses, etc. After that, they then go through my spamassassin process, which has been collecting bayes data for several years. The community provided spamassassin rules are kept up to date, and I have a Nagios process that also ensures they are up to date (check_sa-update on nagios exchange. Written by yours truly).
I'd put my system, based on MimeDefang, Spamassassin, clam, etc against barracuda any day. I bet I have a lot less false positives (0 the past year, 1 every couple of months while tuning at my last company), and use a whole lot less CPU by discarding obvious garbage that doesn't need to be processed by spamassassin.
The most recent thing is the "Hello" stuff from legitimate mail accounts. The spammers are using active exploits the past few years to slip through filters, but they still don't get in. I should relabel my spam folder to "Friends with compromised accounts" Everything else scores off the charts and is discarded.
Lightweight pre-message-receipt checks are the bomb. For November (percentages are of total blocked):
HELO checks
Relay disallowed
Unknown recipient
That's almost a third cut out with extremely lightweight checks (that is, excluding the greylisting and RBLs). And nearly two-thirds cut out with a couple RBLs and greylisting. All together these resource-inexpensive checks total
My actual spam rate for this month, after all these lightweight protections is 9 spam v. 1636 ham, or a failure rate of
Oh, those numbers were for all the messages that went through the server nicely. About 40% of all connections were "aborted" (disconnected) rather than hit these anti-spam measures. (Rejected unauthorized SMTP pipelining, another extremely cheap check, was responsible for most of these aborts.)
Anyway, thank you very much Spamhaus (and the CBL source for XBL), and SpamCop.
I always forget to mention NJABL, another list contributing to the XBL. Thanks to them, too.
The first 90% is handled for me by greylisting. Even less work for the receiving system than your solution.
I never liked the idea of the Bayesian spam filtering that is most popular with big e-mail providers. I figure, as a software engineer, I have e-mail conversations about spam that might be caught by the filters. And in the meantime, the spammers are including paragraphs of text out of The Hobbit in their messages. Yeah, I know the spam filtering tech has gotten a lot more accurate over the years. But...
Years ago, I decided to do it myself. I set up my own e-mail server and built custom filters. I look for c
No filters (Score:5, Informative)I forward every single SPAM email to the Federal Trade commission for prosecution. If you live in the United States forward all SPAM to email@example.com it's how people like Ralsky end up in jail.
Send the links in the spam to Google Safe Search too, help protect Joe Sixpack from himself.
And send a copy to quick.@spam.spamcop.net, email@example.com, and use the abusix plugin in thunderbird to submit it to blackhole.mx
Too Much Trust in Technology (Score:5, Insightful)Wow - people really trust Google, Barracuda et al to always get it right?
I check the Gmail spam folder daily - usually there are less than a dozen messages there - and about once a month find something that shouldn't have been blocked.
I would never put 100% trust in a spam filter.
If you're checking your spam messages daily, why even have a filter? Aren't you just adding more clicks and task-transition time that way?
re I check the Gmail spam folder daily -
Yeah, I made the same mistake in reading the poll because it's a poorly worded poll question: Spam Filters vs. Spam Folders
It may also be breaking the validity of the poll results (as if the poll results have so much validity here anyway
oops i typo-d above... s/boyfriend/boyfiend/ above, unless your boyfriend happens to also be a boyfiend.
oops again, i got that backwards, of course I meant cat grandparent-post | sed 's/boyfiend/boyfriend'
I have an email forwarding alias and an email service, both provide spam filtering, and I don't think I'm missing anything important. If a questionable message is caught by the alias provider, the sender gets a reply asking them to prove their humanity -- this is the provider's feature, not my idea, BTW.
My wife, on the other hand, still uses hotmail, and she gets a lot of false positives so she has to check her "spam folder" frequently. Maybe she's misconfigured something on her end. I don't know, and it's
I never double-check my filters, but I do add to them on a weekly basis. I figure the rules I created are doing their work quite well considering I never get false positives. But sometimes they don't work well enough, so I add more filters every week to cut out the growing amount of junk in cyberspace that accidentally lands in my inbox.
I have spam filters, but they're set not to delete spam mail I receive; rather, they just tag it as spam in the subject line and let me choose whether or not to read the mail. So I guess I check the caught spam every time I check my email.
On the other hand, I don' t think I ever check for messages deleted by my Usenet killfile. Spam is one thing, but trolls are another.
Every sender gets a unique email address, and whenever spam might come through, all I need to do is disable that single address. Haven't needed to do this for months
Domains are hosted on Google. I would imagine they have folks that check the diligently.
I put everything that isn't whitelisted by being from people in my address book in a folder labeled "spam".
If something shows up in there I usually notice it right away and either delete it or add the sender to my address book.
Some especially persistent senders get extra special treatment by being added to a "mark as read and delete" filter.
The greatest invention since the Internet, Google Voice, also has a spam filter. That thing was catching calls left and right during election season. Thank you Google Voice for sparing me from that nonsense.
I check mine 'Never.' not 'Never!'
Our spam filter sends out a daily summary of the quarantine, which I skim for false positives (rare, but they do happen). Unfortunately, we're moving to google, and I do have to check it daily, as it frequently has false positives and it doesn't seem to learn...
The current result (7%) is higher than noise or pranks would indicate, so there are a lot of you out there apparently using no spam filter. How do you do that? Between my two primary email addresses I get 1 spam email every 5 minutes, which outweighs valid email 10:1. (These email addresses are reasonably closely guarded, but have existed for a total of 27 years, so they're out there somewhere.) My life's too short to spend that much time shoveling shit.
So how do you do it? Do you simply not use email? I
The current result (7%) is higher than noise or pranks would indicate, so there are a lot of you out there apparently using no spam filter. How do you do that? Between my two primary email addresses I get 1 spam email every 5 minutes, which outweighs valid email 10:1. (These email addresses are reasonably closely guarded, but have existed for a total of 27 years, so they're out there somewhere.) My life's too short to spend that much time shoveling shit.
So how do you do it? Do you simply not use email? Is your email address brand new? Do you only use burner accounts? Do you get a thrill from reading or deleting trolling spam? Do you simply not know you have a spam filter?
The vast majority of the email I receive does not pass through a filter. The trick is to control who can find your email address. My personal email address is given only to friends and family. It gets essentially no spam and I have not change the address in 15 years.
Virtually everyone else gets a unique address assigned specifically to them. If I get spam on the address, I deactivate it. Sometimes I create a new address and notify but most of the time, I decide and any organization that leaks my addres
I wish you luck keeping your personal email address spam free. All it takes is one of your trusted family or friends to get a virus and your email address is out there for the harvesting, no way to get it back.
Unfortunately my personal email address goes back to 1993, essentially before spam, and is in tons of archives (usenet especially) so that's that.
Sure, I could create a new personal email address, but there is a certain pride in having the same email address for nearly 20 years.
I wish you luck keeping your personal email address spam free. All it takes is one of your trusted family or friends to get a virus and your email address is out there for the harvesting, no way to get it back.
Unfortunately my personal email address goes back to 1993, essentially before spam, and is in tons of archives (usenet especially) so that's that.
Sure, I could create a new personal email address, but there is a certain pride in having the same email address for nearly 20 years.
Actually, the virus scenario has already happened, multiple times. I get a few spams while the virus is active but, so far, none of the viruses have harvested my address into a persistent database. It has been 15 years. I shutdown my 1994 address in 1997, forwarding only originators who had sent me legitimate mail in the past year. I should probably shut down the forward. It has probably been a decade since any legitimate mail was sent there and the filter occasionally (bug) passes along spam.
Forget it, we nearly all have acquaintances with a Hotmail account and one day it will be 0wned and all their contacts show up in spam lists.
I have some mail addresses registered that have never been used and yet they receive spam.
The nice observation is that addresses (partially) made up from random strings are hardly ever spammed.
Beautiful spam!
But I don't like spam...
May as well not use any filters then.
On my own domain, I have SpamAssassin configured well enough that I simply have it delete anything flagged as spam. Either it's in my inbox, or it's gone. I do tend to err on the safe side as far as what it tags though. In all the years I've been doing this, I've had one complaint from a family member about a possible missed confirmation message from an online signup. However, I submitted one myself, and the mail was received right away, so I think it was just a fluke that the email didn't get delivered
I am happy just to delete it all
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The Can-Spam Act of 2003 made spam illegal. If anybody did try to send spam they would be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Please tell us of the mysterious thing you call 'spam'.
Where can one get this 'spam'?
Is there a place for FREE 'spam'?
It's delicious, especially with either scrambled eggs for breakfast... or as one of the meats served in Chinese hot-pot.
I check when I don't get an expected email to see if one of my filters has stopped an email, I might have forgotten to whitelist a new address.
I look into
Whenever I'm expecting an email, but haven't received it.
If checking my spam filter includes checking my spambox, then I check it more than once a day. However, if it only includes checking the mail filter logs, then I hardly do this anymore. My spamfilter works so well these days that only the obvious stuff gets rejected outright. If there's any doubt, it ends up in my spambox instead. Getting Exim to work this way isn't straightforward, but it's definitely worth it.
People who really want to see an end to spam need to realize that filtering will never bring about that end. Filtering is only the continuation of a digital arms race with the spammers themselves, with users paying the cost. People who genuinely want to see an end to spam will look for ways to actually prevent spammers from sending spam, as this is the only way for users to stop paying for this costly war.
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Whenever I'm preparing my next spam campaign. I mean...duh! You've got to check all 500+ of them to make sure you're getting inbox delivery. *ducks*
We use the Cisco Ironport - and have done since before Cisco bought them. Quite good devices - but as posted by someone above - 90% of the work is done by reputation filtering and protocol correctness filtering - which can be done using the normal black holes with relatively no cost. If the spam makes it through both of these, then its probably got a 5% chance of making it through the content filtering. I probably get a couple of false negatives a day - and 0 false positives in the last 3 years..
I don't let email pass through my spam folder without eyeballing. Actual spam gets mark read, non-spam gets unjunked. Usually I get between 2000-3000 spam mails per month, 500-600 actual emails (including mailing lists and crud), perhaps 10 false negatives and 5 false positives. That's a pretty good ratio, but the five might be important so I still have to scan through the 3000. It's less work than it sounds like, particularly since it's enough to do it about every two weeks.
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I have sendmail or some other MTA installed on my work computer (a Linux box) so that it can send me email notifications upon completion of scripts and batch jobs.
These emails REGULARLY get marked as spam by gmail, no matter how many times I tell it that it's not spam. I think it might have more to do with the originating IP. I know that DNSBLs like spamhaus block certain IP ranges because it believes there shouldn't be any email servers in that range.
I have sendmail or some other MTA installed on my work computer (a Linux box) so that it can send me email notifications upon completion of scripts and batch jobs.
These emails REGULARLY get marked as spam by gmail, no matter how many times I tell it that it's not spam. I think it might have more to do with the originating IP. I know that DNSBLs like spamhaus block certain IP ranges because it believes there shouldn't be any email servers in that range.
Yes, this happens. The thing to do is verify and the problem.with of the multi rbl checkers [anti-abuse.org] and then follow procedure to get your address removed from the list. My personal server is in a static IP range but it still ends up on one of the dynamic IP block lists every now and then. Some of the lists are now blocking end user static IP's too, by default, so it isn't necessarily an error: just over-zealous policy.


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My dogs love this bed! We've had it for over 3 years & it is still in great shape, holding up well to being outside in the elements all the time. I'm getting them another one for Christmas.
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Our Great Pyrenees love these beds as do our goats. After over a year they still look absolutely perfect and they are easier to clean than any others we have had for them - just a hose will do and they dry immediately. They have held up perfect to the weight of the large dogs and I will soon be getting more so they don't have to take turns using them. This was by far the best dog bed purchase I have made.
"Perfect solution!"
We were delighted to find these cots last year. The mesh fabric dries almost instantly which is so important for use outdoors! It's especially nice that replacement covers are available since our large dogs love lounging on their cots so much.
"Don't hesitate!"
Originally bought large size for an outside family of cats--five good sized cats would curl up on it in the hot Texas summer. When they passed away our second dog started to use it and loves it (our first dog would not get on it, but she is the type that avoids grates in sidewalks, unstable surfaces etc). Has lasted probably 3-4 years outside, through rain and shine and still going strong. Some of best spent money ever, great quality, great price.
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Great bed!! Our Labs absolutely love these beds! I love the new design that doesn't require screws....we replace the cover about once a year.
GREAT BED! I have several large dogs and these beds last forever. The dogs love them also. Comfortable and it gets them off the concrete or ground! Wonderful for older dogs also!
"my dog loves this bed"
As soon as the bed was put together my dog was on it. Its in the back yard and keeps him off the concrete an out of the dirt. He weighs 61 pounds an does fine with them medium size bed. Thanks Jeffers from Quincy
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I have one of these beds (in large) that is now about 10 years old. Most of that time it has been outside in all weathers. After years of use by two collies, the bed frame itself is still in great shape but needs a new cover. HOWEVER, after so long the screws holding the legs together are frozen or perhaps rusted in place. Because the heads of the screws are recessed and the screws themselves fasten into a kind of sleeve which is hidden inside the end pieces of the frame, it is impossible to get at them with a lubricant or a tool other than a simple screwdriver. I took the bed to the hardware store and also called the manufacturer, and nobody could think of a solution. So I will have to throw out the whole bed because I can't get it apart to install a replacement cover. If you leave this bed outside I would suggest loosening and retightening the screws every couple of years to avoid this problem. And be sure you can take the bed apart before you order replacement covers!
"multi purpose"
Love these for all weather. They dry fast for sun bathing, even in winter!
"Nice Idea For Small Dogs"
This is a nice idea for smaller dogs, but I bought two of these Coolaroo beds for my dobermans who have outdoor concrete kennels and their weight caused their nails to tear the fabric within just a few days. They were not scratching on the material, but as my dogs would lay down on the bed, their nails would push thru the fabric and cause the strands of the green material used for the bed to separate and fray. I have a female who weighs approximately 65 lbs. and my male weighs approximately 90 lbs. I do regularly trim their nails, so I do know that long nails wasn't the cause of this problem with the Coolaroo. Anyway, sent both of the Coolaroo's back to Jeffers and they refunded the cost of the beds with no issues. I do order various items frequently from Jeffers for my dogs and horses and believe they offer a lot of great products and have the best customer service! Thanks Jeffers for your terrific customer service!
"Nice outdoor bed - unfortunately very chewable."
I bought this bed for a dog that lives outside ( she also has an air-conditioned room with an orthopedic bed, night light, radio, and doggie door for 24/7 access in and out ) She didn't really take to it, but almost immediately started chewing on the exposed corners. Three weeks in, she chewed a LARGE hole in the middle of the bed. She doesn't chew up her other beds or her stuffed animals...this bed was the first thing she destroyed. Luckily the frame is fine so I'm going to order a replacement cover and bring it inside for our dog with orthopedic issues. ( she also has two orthopedic beds - don't worry, I take very good care of my pets! ). The Coolaroo bed is a good idea, just not for dogs that chew.
I purchased several of those beds for our local animal shelter, and was very pleased with how well they held up. In fact, it was even used by one of the large Anatolian shepherds and held up. Unfortunately a vicious stray dog later tore the cover, but we simply replaced it and now the bed is as good as new. I am now buying more beds so each kennel can have one by winter.
"Very Durable"
Bought this bed over 2 years ago. It has been outside in the weather from day one, and except for a bit of a sag, I have not yet replaced the cover. My old lab with bad hips loved it through her last year. My younger lab also loves it, and my new boarder collie(?) mix (who is a chewer!) also loves it. I put rugs & blankets on it in the winter, and my 90 lb lab & 25 lb mix snuggle up on it together. In the summer, I leave it empty to let the air circulate and they both use it frequently. My chewer has not messed with the bed, even though she has chewed up water buckets, dog bowls, plastic decorative fencing, the plastic swimming pool, rugs, and every toy you can imagine. I think she knows not to destroy something she likes so much. :)
"Great Choice"
I had purchased this bed for a local animal shelter and was pleasantly surprised how well it help up. I must also say that some of the stay and vicious dogs that come up are not always kind to the bed, and so I had to order a replacement cover a few months later, but they are very inexpensive and easy to switch out. I am also certain that with regular home use the bed would last for many years. - I am also ordering more beds for the shelter, as overall they are much more durable than what I had originally expected.
"My dogs love this"
I was a little concerned when I first asembled this, but 2 years later I a just now buying a replacemet cover. My dogs love it. Works great on my patio. Would buy one again!
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"We've made a lot of improvements and I just want to see the same thing and I want to see us keep working on our techniques," he said. "We probably will take second in the conference, but our goal has always been a state championship. We want to make it to the state duals and have an opportunity to be a state champ."
Conversely, White Oak coach David Appleton is looking for his young squad to continue to progress.
"Anytime the kids go out there and give it their all, I'm satisfied, but we do have things we have to work on. There's not a team that doesn't," Appleton said. "I like to see us get one more win. We finished last year 1-6 in the conference and now we are 3-2. I like to see us finish 4-3 or 5-2, which would set us up for next year."
Not including a double forfeit at 128 — Jacksonville's Tyler Ross didn't wrestle because of an illness and White Oak didn't field the spot — the Vikings won three matches.
White Oak's Jamarcus Allen won via a pin in 1:54 at 108 while teammates Jake Prather won 18-4 at 140 and Bruce Lee won at 197 with a pin in 1:22.
"Jamarcus as a starting sophomore is doing very well and he has the best (winning) percentage on the team right now, and I expect good things from him in the conference tournament and in the regionals," Appleton said.
"The same thing with Jake. He's a senior with a lot of experience and he will perform well throughout the remainder of the season. Bruce, he's a freshman who did well at the middle school."
Jacksonville enforced its will during the other matches.
Each of the Cardinals' 10 victories came by a pin, including Christian Heisey's in 58 seconds at 154. Tevin Melton, who along with Ross has been ill, earned a pin in 1:01 at 172, while Zaire Hines won at 222 with a pin in 1:04 and heavyweight Matt Reed won with a pin in 1:09.
Owen Edwards (115 pounds), Brandon Seward (134), Spencer Clark (162) won in pins in less than two minutes while Xavier Ross (122) and Zach McCracken (147) also ended their matches with pins for Jacksonville.
"My thing is always go for the pin," Akins said. "There's some coaches who say go for the points here and there, and maybe early in a match we say, 'OK, let's go for the takedown,' but we always go for a pin and our guys did that tonight."
Childress said that Jacksonville wrestlers appreciate Akins' approach, which requires a high level of confidence in the grapplers.
"He wants us to go for the bonus points and he wants us to put up high scores like we did tonight," he said.
That, despite the absence of Tyler Ross, a state champion last year who has been battling an illness.
"With Tyler out, I knew either at 120 or 126 they (Vikings) were going to try to forfeit a match," Akins said. So what I did was wait to see who they were going to forfeit and made it a no match (at 126). When you have this case, it's a little bit less pressure even though when you have somebody out of the lineup, especially Tyler, it's tough."
But Appleton still knew the Cardinals would be tough to beat.
"They are a predominate team in our conference," he said. "They are a good team and are coached very well."
Jacksonville60, White Oak 16
108 pounds:Allen (W) p. Bates 1:54; 115: Edwards (J) p. Langley 1:32; 122: X. Ross (J) p. Williams 5:42; 128: Double forfeit; 134: Seward (J) p. Colter 1:54; 140: Prather (W) maj. dec. Morris 18-4; 147: McCracken (J) p. Rodriguez 2:34; 154: Heisey (J) p. Stalling 0:58; 162: Clark (J) p. Forney 1:38; 172: Melton (J) p. Lybrand 1:01; 184: Childress (J) p. Verhoff 2:54; 197; Lee (W) p. Kellum 1:22; 222: Hines (J) p. Dombrowski 1:04; HWT: Reed (J) p. Thompson 1:09.


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BOONE, N.C. - For the first time in almost two years, the Pfeiffer University men's lacrosse team scored 25 goals in a game en route to an all-out domination of Conference Carolinas foe Lees-McRae. The last time the Falcons had at least 25 goals in a game was on March 5, 2012 when they defeated Ohio Valley by a score of 26-2. The win is Pfeiffer's first conference victory of the young season, improving their record to 3-0 overall and 1-0 in conference play. Lees-McRae falls to 0-3 on the season and 0-1 in the conference with the loss. Pfeiffer has now outscored their opponents 58-22 this season.
The Falcons surely benefitted from a stellar offensive effort by redshirt-junior Tucker Hammock and senior Steven Tilmon who each notched hat tricks for the match. Hammock led all players with six goals in the contest bringing his season total to a team-leading 12. Hammock also tallied three assists, while Tilmon got in on the action with three goals of his own. Defensively, junior goalkeeper Joe Capstaff picked up the win for the Falcons, tallying three saves in the matchup.
Pfeiffer set the tone early, picking up their first three tallies in the first minute of play. Redshirt-junior Mike Triolo had the Falcons' first goal of the game when he found himself wide open in front of the Lees-McRae net only 27 seconds into the contest. Just 12 seconds later Hammock picked up his first goal off an assist from sophomore Khalid Stukes. Hammock had his next one just 19 seconds after the first, putting the Falcons up 3-0 off an assist from senior James Shepherd. Shepherd finished with three assists on the day and added two goals to Pfeiffer's largest margin of victory since the last time they played Lees-McRae. The last time the two squads met, on February 6, 2013, the Falcons defeated Lees-McRae 24-0. Pfeiffer dominated the entire game, leading 19-1 at the midway point, allowing only one goal in the second period and one goal in the third.
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FARMVILLE, Va. - The Miami University field hockey team struck early against No. 11 Stanford, but was unable to hang on as the Cardinal took a 4-1 victory in the NCAA Play-In game Tuesday afternoon in Farmville, Va. Stanford improves to 16-6 overall and clinches an automatic berth into the NCAA Tournament. The RedHawks finish the 2012 season with a 12-10 record.
The game had a wild start to it as both teams had chances early. Sarah Mueller made a good save for Miami less than three minutes in to keep it scoreless. The 'Hawks took the ball right down to the other side of the field, where Valentina Neira got her own shot off that was stopped. Miami would earn a penalty corner on the play however. On the corner attempt, Ali Froede would take a shot that was saved, but the rebound came right to Olivia Miller. Miller put it in the back of the net to give the RedHawks a 1-0 lead.
Stanford answered back in the ninth minute of the contest. After Mueller made another save, the Cardinal would earn a penalty corner. Emily Henriksson would put it in to tie the match at 1-1. It stayed that way until the 29th minute when Stanford was awarded a penalty stroke. Becky Dru would put it in to give the Cardinal their first lead at 2-1. Stanford would use that momentum to score a little over a minute later on a breakaway. Hope Burke stole the ball and flipped it in on a backhand shot. Burke would then make it 4-1 going into the half when she scored off a penalty corner.
Mueller would keep the RedHawks from falling further behind with seven strong saves in the second half. Miami's best chance to score came in the 42nd minute when it earned three straight penalty corners. Bea Dechant and Froede would each get shots off, but the Red and White were unable to put the ball in the net again.
Stanford outshot Miami, 19-11, for the match. Froede led the RedHawks with three shots. Miami had the penalty corner advantage, 7-6. Mueller made 13 saves in goal, her second-highest save total of the season.
The RedHawks end the season having won their second Mid-American Regular Season title in the past three years. This was the first time they had won the MAC Tournament and their first opportunity to play for a chance to advance to the NCAA Tournament. Miller and Addie Absher are the only seniors who will graduate off the 2012 team, which is scheduled to return 24 players next season.


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The news of Erasmus's resignation broke on Monday night. Die Burger reported that the Cape coaching guru had already informed his employers of his decision to leave, and that Erasmus has been offered coaching jobs at clubs in England and France.
On Tuesday, Erasmus himself confirmed that he would be leaving Western Province and the Stormers at the end of January.
'The pieces are in place at Province,' he said via a statement. 'Over the past few seasons we have put the structures in place and they are working well.
'The management team and player base is settled and there are now a fantastic bunch of youngsters pushing the older guys hard. The squad is very close to taking that final step and winning silverware.
'My job is largely done here and there is no doubt in my mind that Allister [Coetzee], Matt [Proudfoot], Fleckie [Robbie Fleck] and the rest of the management and players have got what it takes to get there.'
Erasmus admitted that he has been offered other coaching opportunities.
'There are a number of new opportunities that have surfaced at a higher level and I am currently considering my options. Each is an exciting and massive new challenge, and that is a big attraction to me at this stage of my career.
'In the interim I have offered to continue to assist at Province whenever required. I have enjoyed my time here in the Cape immensely and feel that I have contributed to facilitating building the structures that have taken us to the brink of success.
'I have no doubt that that success is but a tiny step away now and I leave Province satisfied with the strides made. I am grateful to Province for the opportunity and Newlands, the Stormers, WP and the Faithful will always have a special place in my heart.'
It has been suggested that Erasmus's decision to leave came as a shock to his WP bosses, but managing director Rob Wagner moved to dispel the rumours. According to Wagner, the union was waiting for the right time to announce his departure.
'Rassie has made a huge contribution at WP. We are obviously very sorry to see him go, but understand his desire for new challenges.
'Rassie has been very good in keeping us informed of his decision and we have been waiting for the return of our senior players and team management before making the announcement. We understand that he is a big loss but we are also confident that the structures, players, coaching and management staff and the plans in place at all levels in the Province, are strong enough to allow us to make that final jump and secure the silverware that we are all working towards.'
Having served as technical advisor to the Boks in 2007 and again for the duration of the 2011 World Cup, Erasmus was mentioned as a candidate for the head coaching post in 2012. However, it's since emerged that Gert Smal is the favourite to succeed Peter de Villiers.
The new Bok coach will be officially appointed on 27 January. If Erasmus doesn't take up a post overseas at a club or Test nation, he could possibly join the Bok coaching team again.


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"Fecal position" v. "Fetal position"
When I heard this spoken, I thought it might be a play on words, but the speaker was seriously referring to the position assumed by stooping and wrapping your arms around your knees… which could make sense because of the position assumed when a proper sit-down, western-style toilet is not available.
Google Image Search depicts that vertical, stooped position, and two others; lying curled up and on one side (classic fetal position), and leaning forward with legs tucked and knees and elbows on the floor. I didn't have the opportunity to ask if the speaker distinguished between the stooping and classic modes, but I would guess she wouldn't, because the subject was not defecation, but simply the stooping position. My inference is that she didn't know the meanings of the arguably technical terms 'fecal', and 'fetal', and simply misheard or mislearned the term.
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Your example would qualify as an eggcorn only if the speaker knew what "fecal" means …which would allow her to construct a mental image for the modified expression "fecal position"—perhaps something like "a position which facilitates defecation." When speakers do not understand their wrongly chosen words, then their utterances are more likely to be nothing more than malapropisms rather than eggcorns.
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Thank you, jorkel, for that very helpful clarification; You must have fallen not far from the eggcorn tree~
Speaking of witch, a particularly notorious malapropositioner is neocon radio talk host Janet Parshal (of what I call "Janet's Partial America"); Her unspeakable ravaging of The King's English is almost enough to make the program listenable~
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Your example would qualify as an eggcorn only if the speaker knew what "fecal" means …which would allow her to construct a mental image for the modified expression "fecal position"—perhaps something like "a position which facilitates defecation." When speakers do not understand their wrongly chosen words, then their utterances are more likely to be nothing more than malapropisms rather than eggcorns.
Righto! I did a Google search on "fecal position" and found around 40 examples that looked like they weren't meant as jokes. Whether they were eggcorns or mere malapropisms is unknowable in most cases, BUT here's at least one example of a clear eggcornish meaning-connection:
one of my co-workers just screwed up an account and said he's going to go home and curl up on the floor in the "fecal position".
I let it go once, but he said it again so I asked what he was talking about. He said "you know, curled up on the floor in a ball".
I asked if he meant the fetal position and he gave me a funny look so I told him to google it. He came back and said "my bad, I thought it was "fecal position", like when you're laying on the floor just feeling sh&%%y."
In my googling, I also encountered several examples of people describing the fecal position as being bent over on a toilet, straining to poop. That is not too different from the fetal position when you stop to think about it, so I think it's very plausible that people would confuse the two meaning-wise as well as sound-wise. Thus I submit that "fecal position", at least in some cases, is a real eggcorn.
A few more examples from my googling:
She gave me such a dressing down, I ended up sobbing and curled up in the fecal position.
But is there at least enough room to sleep comfortably if I am curled up in the fecal position?
possum curls into fecal position and sez meow
If anyone is still reading that has a problem with my grammar – reread the last paragraph until you curl up on the bathroom floor in a puddle of your own tears in the fecal position.
Saddam, like Gaddafi, was also pulled from a fetid hiding hole and killed by an angry mob. What's up with mighty bad-guys ending up in some sort of fecal position?
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Groups representing federal workers, special interests, government contractors and other interested parties have presented end-of-civilization-as-we-know-it! "studies" that point to a deeper recession, massive unemployment, etc., if automatic across-the-board spending cuts (sequestration) take effect in early 2013. Each has impressive data that they will suffer most, but that we will still all suffer.
For months, Senate Democrats and House Republicans have predicted doomsday because of the stupid, arrogant, politically motivated stance of the other side. But not them.
The House, which generates appropriations bills, has passed seven of the 12 bills. The Senate — which says there are political poison pills in those bills — hasn't approved any of those versions. And the White House has indicated the president would veto at least six of the seven if they make it out of Congress.
Congress last year failed to act on the recommendations of the bipartisan Congressional supercommittee that would have headed off massive, across-the-board sequestration cuts. Congress couldn't agree on a package of deficit cuts compiled by the highly regarded Simpson-Bowles Commission. The Blair House group headed by Vice President Joe Biden also didn't come up with a solution. Which leaves two things ...
With about 100 days until the election, Congress can keep doing what it has been doing — fighting and blocking whatever the opposition proposes — in hopes their side will benefit in November. Or ...
Congress may very well do what experts have predicted from the start. That is, pass a CR (continuing resolution) that would keep the government operating at current levels for 30, 60 or more likely 90 days past the Oct. 1 start of the new fiscal year.
Whatever happens, and whenever it happens, most federal agencies are expecting they will be asked to do more with less as the deficit continues to grow. Sequestration would mean cuts even in places like the Internal Revenue Service, which is Uncle Sam's top money maker. And Defense, which is heavily involved in Afghanistan, and more heavily than most know, involved in several operations in Africa. And very nervous about the Persian Gulf. And our border with Mexico.
In the event of sequestration, some agencies are preparing for furloughs. Others are trying to slim down now via a series of late-in-the-fiscal- year buyout and early retirement offers.
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