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In lugnet.general, Eric Kingsley writes about stopping SPAM It can be easy to report abuse. I regularly get the tiny satisfaction of a reply from Excite or Yahoo that they cancelled the reply-to account. Use Spamcop.net and all you have to do is (...) (24 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) And those names + that publisher makes it a pretty authoritative book. (...) And Todd fixed this one. :) (...) Hurrah! (24 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Amazon.com URL-hacking tip: You can safely delete the qid= and sr= stuff as well as the session-ID at the end. "qid=" stands for (I think) "query ID" and the "ref=" is the referring category on their website (not a referring associate ID or (...) (24 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Followups set to off-topic.geek (...) OK everything Eric says here is true but I just wanted to referance a book I have on the subject (Yes there is a book on it) Book: Stopping SPAM By Alan Schwartz & Simson Garfinkel Publisher O'Reilly Here is a (...) (24 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Password crack detection and slowing (was: Re: LUGNET Memberships)
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(...) Oh! One other thing, duh. An advantage this has over pure semaphores or mutexes is that, since it has a sort of "memory" about how many times an IP address has recent sent a failure, it could easily respond with immediate 403 errors (upon (...) (24 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I've been thinking about this more tonight, and reading a bit about SysV semaphores, but I don't have experience with them and I'm finding the docs confusing, especially where Perl is concerned. Anyway, upon further reflection, I wonder if (...) (24 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) bah, if i thought any other provider wouldn't be the exact same way, i'd switch :/ (24 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) There's network people there, just not to help *you*. (24 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I am pretty serious... I don't know what safeguards they have in place... they might have asked me some questions, I forget... I just remember, that a week later, when I remembered my password, I still couldn't log in... and when I contacted (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Are you serious, or joking?! (I assume you're serious.) Egad, if they don't also block IP addresses after someone does that, then it's only a matter of time before there's a massive DoS attack against a hundred thousand or a million random (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) before the problem was fixed it would die on a specific bbnplanet.net router in DC... boooooo called bellatlantic to complain, but they said there were no network people there to help us (weird, dan and i were *both* on call, and we only (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) What happens if you traceroute? (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(this was sent a while back, didn't get through due to mail problems) (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Is anyone else having connection problems to lugnet this weekend? Dan and I can get ok to www.lugnet.com and guide.lugnet.com but can't communicate at all with img.lugnet.com or news.lugnet.com... pings even arn't going through, though they nslookup (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) easy - try logging in as someone (or yourself) 5 times, and get the password wrong. then ask for a hint, get that wrong. then they'll disable your account until you get a little note in the mail with your new password. do this to some (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Thanks. That in fact is where I registered miltontrainworks.com and bricksmiths.com because while the per year price was the same, I was able to pay for 5 years at a time, which is worth something to me. And I use their DNS too. It was a pain (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) This probably helps not at all, but FWIW, I'll comment that we've had similar problems with other websites, and yes, even with LUGNET when connecting through Juno (god how I'd kill to not have to use a modem). Anyway, suffice to say that the (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Do they do DNS hosting? (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) LOL! yes. Thanks! :-) --Todd (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Nice rant. What does PayPal do if someone tries to break in? They must have some kind of fancy delaying system and on-the-fly log checking? I wonder how hard it is (or if it's possible) to DoS someone on PayPal. --Todd (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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