http://www.grumpyoldtechie.com/wordpress2 Rants and Raves about Technology by the Grumpy Old Techie Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:09:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.grumpyoldtechie.com/wordpress2/2008/04/09/how-to-fight-zombies/ http://www.grumpyoldtechie.com/wordpress2/2008/04/09/how-to-fight-zombies/#comments Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:02:36 +0000 Grumpy Old Techie http://grumpyoldtechie.com/wordpress2/?p=410 Anyone that runs a mail server very quickly learns how to fight spam if he wants to do his job properly. It is also one of the favourite pastimes of the clueless to think up stupid ways to fight spam. Today I saw a brilliant answer to one of these ideas on the postfix mail list. more....

Tags: brute force, clueless, Countermeasures, countries, FUSSP, ICT, idiot, Mac, machine guns, mail, mail list, mail server, microsoft, network, open relays, open source, police, postfix, software, spam problem, Spammers, suck, Tech, ultimate solution, user, war, weapons, windows, work, zombies]]> Anyone that runs a mail server very quickly learns how to fight spam if he wants to do his job properly. It is also one of the favourite pastimes of the clueless to think up stupid ways to fight spam. Today I saw a brilliant answer to one of these ideas on the postfix mail list. more....

Tags: brute force, clueless, Countermeasures, countries, FUSSP, ICT, idiot, Mac, machine guns, mail, mail list, mail server, microsoft, network, open relays, open source, police, postfix, software, spam problem, Spammers, suck, Tech, ultimate solution, user, war, weapons, windows, work, zombies
]]> http://www.grumpyoldtechie.com/wordpress2/2008/04/09/how-to-fight-zombies/feed/ 0 http://www.grumpyoldtechie.com/wordpress2/2008/03/30/all-software-sucks/ http://www.grumpyoldtechie.com/wordpress2/2008/03/30/all-software-sucks/#comments Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:45:12 +0000 Grumpy Old Techie http://grumpyoldtechie.com/wordpress2/?p=408 Wordpress, the software I use for this blog is great and has a wonderful plugin system that allows people to add functionality that is not originally included in wordpress. Unfortunately many of the available plugins are not so wonderful and often do not work as expected (advertised). more....

Tags: authentication, bad idea, blog, e-mail, exchange, fun, internet, ldap server, mail, mail server, memo system, mere mortals, open source, open source system, openldap, optimist, plugin system, postfix, runes, software, suck, systems, upgrade, user, vista, war, widows, windows, work]]> Wordpress, the software I use for this blog is great and has a wonderful plugin system that allows people to add functionality that is not originally included in wordpress. Unfortunately many of the available plugins are not so wonderful and often do not work as expected (advertised). more....

Tags: authentication, bad idea, blog, e-mail, exchange, fun, internet, ldap server, mail, mail server, memo system, mere mortals, open source, open source system, openldap, optimist, plugin system, postfix, runes, software, suck, systems, upgrade, user, vista, war, widows, windows, work
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