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Re: [nznog] New Spam Killing Technique
by Ewen McNeill 24 Jan '04

24 Jan '04

In message <011d01c3e2ca$1b0bdfa0$030d010a(a)doc>, James Spooner writes: >My Point here was that spammers will no longer be able to send from >a hotmail/yahoo/aol/etc address using an arbitrary open SMTP relay, >which means they will have a harder time maintaining anonymity. The obvious counter to that -- which I'd assume even spammers could figure out -- is to register a new domain for each spam run through a given open relay. Then they can even put in the SPF records for that relay. This raises the spammers cost, oh, about US$8. It might be enough to cut out the less profitable spammers -- after all it's probably doubling their overheads -- but I imagine all the bigger ones will just keep right on at it. And they can easily register the domain with "anonymous" details. Sure it might eventually get pulled for not having valid details; but by that time it's served its purpose and can be removed anyway. SPF does seem to be a useful step though, as it'll reduce the number of "joe jobs". And hopefully also encourage more people to set up SMTP AUTH and the like. Ewen

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New Spam Killing Technique
by Jamie Baddeley 24 Jan '04

24 Jan '04

http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0122aoltest.html?net http://spf.pobox.com/ worth looking at.... jamie

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Heads up - Webcasting Activity Next week
by Richard Naylor 21 Jan '04

21 Jan '04

Folks, FYI - Nextweek, I'll be streaming the NZ Bloodstock Yearling Sales from Papakura. I doubt that it will be as popular as last years LOTR stuff, but thought I would advise the activity as TV News warned their viewers that it was on. ISPs may get customers asking about it or for support, etc. NZ Bloodstock will (hopefully) have the stream link on their website www.nzb.co.nz I have my usual spartan pages at www.r2.co.nz/20040126 The streaming traffic will be coming out of WIX / iHug addresses, not anycast, but will be my usual 5 bitrates including 384kbps (a very popular rate). I'm a bit confused about some of the dates for next week (I think the stress is getting to me), but there is streaming activity all week, with 2 events. It may be wrapped up by Friday or Saturday, depending on what happens (as I said, I've lost all sense of the dates, Si has just pointed it out). Thanks for your time. rich

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Telecom ATM outage
by Matthew Poole 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

There is currently a major ATM outage within Telecom. Effects apparent across the country (one of my employer's customers has 30-some sites around the country and only three of them have communications at present). No "official" word from Telecom, but a large number of major companies are affected by what is described as a "non-geographically-centred equipment issue". Anyone at Telecom able to give us something a little more verbose? Within the boundaries of "official company line", that is.

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Net4U Limited
by Anaru Hartley 17 Jan '04

17 Jan '04

I know everyone must be sick of hearing about The Adventures of 'Net4U' and it at one point, became some what of a Soap. But bare with me (and sorry if this is OT) as I think these two things need to be discussed openly - if they haven't been already (in which case I need to visit the NZNOG Archives). 1. Apart from "Pay your Bill on Time" what can an Individual or Company learn from Net4U's mistake(s)? 2. How can such things be prevented in the future, so that VISP's and customers are left High and Dry. Do measures need to be taken to prevent or minimize the damage created by such things? Cheers, Anaru. http://personals.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Personals New people, new possibilities. FREE for a limited time.

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RE: [nznog] Jetstream without Telephone
by Donald Neal 15 Jan '04

15 Jan '04

> -----Original Message----- [...] > The requirement of a "telephone line" (ie analogue phone, as > opposed to a > cable pair), is nothing more than Telecom policy because they > can, which is > to be expected when they are allowed to do whatever they like. > But wait ... who's that masked man? Could it be the Commerce Commission? (You didn't want ADSL above 512kb, I take it?) - Donald Neal Donald Neal | "Fiasco - an unsuccessful Technical Specialist | wall painting." Operations Engineering | Integration & Services Divn. | - Sandi Toksvig Alcatel NZ Ltd | All opinions mine only. | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "This communication, including any attachments, is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not read it - please contact me immediately, destroy it, and do not copy or use any part of this communication or disclose anything about it. Thank you. Please note that this communication does not designate an information system for the purposes of the Electronic Transactions Act 2002." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Jetstream without Telephone
by Cameron Kerr 15 Jan '04

15 Jan '04

Hello all, I'm currently in the process of moving. Having had Telecom disconnect my phone-line at 12 noon, I've discovered I can still access the internet via Jetstream (which is getting moved on about Monday). I find it interesting that this is possible, and adds credance to the apparent fact that you don't need a phone connected (obviously you need the line though) to have Jetstream working. Could be interesting food for thought wrt to the unbundling report by the Commerce Commission. -- Cameron Kerr cameron.kerr(a)paradise.net.nz : http://nzgeeks.org/cameron/ Empowered by Perl!

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Conf reg close next Friday
by Tony McGregor 14 Jan '04

14 Jan '04

I'm delighted to say that conference registrations hit 100 last night. We have a working limit of about 120 so we've decided we must close registrations on Friday next week (23rd of January). It may also be the case that people who register late will miss out on some of the giveaways because of the lead time on ordering them. (Apologies in advance). We're looking forward to a very exciting conference. Tony and the crew. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tony McGregor Mail: T.McGregor(a)cs.waikato.ac.nz Department of Computer Science Phone: +64 7 838 4651 Waikato University Fax: +64 7 858 5095(w) +64 7 825 5047(h) Private Bag 3105 Home: +64 7 825 5040 mobile: (021)313004 Hamilton, New Zealand www: http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~tonym ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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RE: [nznog] linux.citylink.co.nz / ftp.citylink.co.nz
by Tristram Cheer 11 Jan '04

11 Jan '04

I'll Dig Around Work, Think we got a oldish 80gb Seagate Cuda 4 Around doing nothing, if I find it it's yours -----Original Message----- From: Barry Murphy [mailto:barry(a)unix.co.nz] Sent: Monday, 12 January 2004 9:40 p.m. To: Tristram Cheer Subject: Re: [nznog] linux.citylink.co.nz / ftp.citylink.co.nz 120gig ide would do. Barry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tristram Cheer" <james.edward(a)paradise.net.nz> To: "'NZ NOG'" <nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 9:27 PM Subject: RE: [nznog] linux.citylink.co.nz / ftp.citylink.co.nz > What Type Of HDD You Need? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Barry Murphy [mailto:barry(a)unix.co.nz] > Sent: Monday, 12 January 2004 6:15 p.m. > To: Drew Broadley; 'Matthew Poole' > Cc: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > Subject: Re: [nznog] linux.citylink.co.nz / ftp.citylink.co.nz > > daniel still runs the cvsup.nz.freebsd.org which is pretty good, just need > the distfiles. > > If someone gave me a hard drive i'd do it, just at least once a month my > bandwidth intl would be kak with all the downloads. > > Barry > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Drew Broadley" <drew(a)iplaynz.com> > To: "'Matthew Poole'" <matt(a)p00le.net> > Cc: <nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> > Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 5:58 PM > Subject: RE: [nznog] linux.citylink.co.nz / ftp.citylink.co.nz > > > > I was wondering about this myself, even just hosting /usr/ports/ package > > folders (not src files) > > and a few ISO's would all that is required, and keep them up-to-date > > with a cvsup -r off cvs.freebsd.org > > > > Guesstimates > > > > | $ du -h -d 0 /usr/ports > > | 1004M /usr/ports > > > > ~ 1 GigaByte for FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE /usr/ports > > > > | $ du -h -d 0 /usr/ports/ > > | 343M /usr/ports/ > > > > ~ 340 MegaBytes /usr/ports for FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE /usr/ports > > > > Aswel as roughly 5 MINIISO's @ ~200MB each > > > > Total Guesstimate: 3 GigaBytes > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Matthew Poole [mailto:matt(a)p00le.net] > > > Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 2:05 PM > > > To: Barry Murphy > > > Cc: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > > > Subject: RE: [nznog] linux.citylink.co.nz / ftp.citylink.co.nz > > > > > > > > > > > > Contact Dan Langille (dan(a)langille.org, IIRC) if you want to > > > take over as the official ftp.nz FreeBSD mirror. The guys at > > > CallPlus have _NO_ clue about FreeBSD, and I wouldn't be > > > hugely surprised to find out that the mirror only survived > > > due to their ignorance. > > > > > > On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Barry Murphy wrote: > > > > > > > Would be nice if it had the freebsd mirror and even better > > > if it was > > > > ftp.nz.freebsd.org <-- that mirror died about 2 months ago, was > > > > apparently using too much space :( > > > > > > > > Barry > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Simon Blake [mailto:simon(a)citylink.co.nz] > > > > Sent: Monday, 12 January 2004 12:42 p.m. > > > > To: draggy(a)clear.net.nz > > > > Cc: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > > > > Subject: Re: [nznog] linux.citylink.co.nz / ftp.citylink.co.nz > > > > > > > > > > > > Does appear to have been a shonky ethernet card, it's all good now. > > > > > > > > Cheers > > > > Si > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 09:47:56AM +1300, Simon Blake said: > > > > > It's a v. unhappy box, it looks like it may have thrown > > > an ethernet > > > > > controller. Should be going again later in the day. > > > > > > > > > > Cheers > > > > > Si > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 09:42:56AM +1300, > > > draggy(a)clear.net.nz said: > > > > > > Can anyone from Citylink or anyone else, advise as to > > > the status > > > > > > of this server. > > > > > > > > > > > > Have had a few comments about not being able to contact this > > > > > > server and have tried myself and cannot get to it. > > > > > > > > > > > > Domains: > > > > > > ftp.nz.debian.org > > > > > > linux.citylink.co.nz > > > > > > ftp.citylink.co.nz > > > > > > > > > > > > IP: 210.48.103.6 > > > > > > > > > > > > Cheers > > > > > > Simon > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > NZNOG mailing list > > > > > > NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > > > > > > http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > NZNOG mailing list > > > > NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > > > > http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > NZNOG mailing list > > > > NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > > > > http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > NZNOG mailing list > > > NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > > > http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > NZNOG mailing list > > NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > > http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog > > > > _______________________________________________ > NZNOG mailing list > NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog > > > _______________________________________________ > NZNOG mailing list > NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog >

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linux.citylink.co.nz / ftp.citylink.co.nz
by draggy＠clear.net.nz 11 Jan '04

11 Jan '04

Can anyone from Citylink or anyone else, advise as to the status of this server. Have had a few comments about not being able to contact this server and have tried myself and cannot get to it. Domains: ftp.nz.debian.org linux.citylink.co.nz ftp.citylink.co.nz IP: 210.48.103.6 Cheers Simon

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