fpsupport (was Re: segmentation violation in fp)

[Kenneth Brody]

Fairlight wrote:
[...]
> > > fairlite.com (for whatever reason) has been "hijacked" in several spam
> > > campaigns, where they just spam a continent-load of people with
> > > random-letter addresses like alkhgasdww at fairlite.com, and -I- get all the
> > > bounces.
> >
> > It happens to every domain at one time or another.  Rather than generating
> > entire user at domain names, they send random usernames, but fix the domain
> > name for a while.  Then they proceed to forge another domain name.
> 
> Yeah, but it's happened to me THREE times in the last year.  I'm...a
> -little- peeved.  :)

I haven't kept count, but I know that hvcomputer.com has been used several
times this past year.

At one point, it must have been personal, as hundreds of bounces were sent
daily directly to Laura's address, rather than "random" usernames.

[...]
> > Too bad we're not in a position to say "well, if they're not smart enough
> > to read the plain English message telling them exactly what to do instead,
> > we don't want to hear from them".  ;-)
> 
> Sure you are.  Everyone is.  It's a matter of whether or not one chooses
> to.  I'm surely not rolling in money, but I have my tolerance threshholds
> where it's just not worth it in some cases.

I guess it's really "where is your threshold?"

Our accountant finally has his youngest kids (twins -- numbers 3 and 4)
graduating from college this year.  With his $75,000/year savings, he told
us he's going to be firing the worst of his clients.  (I heard that!  No,
he's keeping us.)

[...]
> I'm not sure what to think about this SPF they're introducing.  I've
> already had my ISP add what I needed to my zone.  When they roll out
> support for it, I'm already set.  Hopefully before Oktober 1, as that's
> when hotmail will start rejecting non-SPF mail, last I read.  Ugh, an MS
> standard.  :-/

I thought SPF wasn't "invented" by MS?  They've just apparently decided
that that's the one they're going with.  (Which probably means that there
will be MS-SPF shortly, which will be used by all of Microsoft, and built
into XP-SP3, and will be incompatible with "real" SPF.  But that's a
different story.)

http://spf.pobox.com/

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