| No-cost solutions in the antispam ecosystem
Like the rising cost of postage stamps, increasing complexity in e-mail is inevitable. In the early, halcyon days of the Internet, SMTP connections flowed like a mountain spring and mail filters were used solely for mail organization. Now, the water is brackish, and mail filters are an absolute necessity. But whose filters? Given the extraordinary volume of e-mail that most organizations receive, care and feeding of e-mail whitelists and blacklists is sporadic at best, and it's usually done only to address an acute problem. Subscription services such as Postini can alleviate this problem from an inbound perspective, but that's only half the battle. Free DNS blacklists such as spamhaus.org and spamcop.net provide an interactive service to enable inbound mail servers to match the IP address of the server delivering mail against a list of known spamming servers via a simple DNS query.
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One of them reportedly managed to call for help on their cell phone. Barnstable Police are investigating the crash and how the vehicle ended up on the golf course. The injuries do not appear life-threatening. Further details were not immediately available. Posted on 9/30 at 2:00 AM; photo courtesy of Ryan Somerfield with cooperation of Barnstable Police. Composting pile catches fire in Mashpee garageMASHPEE - Scary moments for renters at a Mashpee house Friday evening. A fire alarm system alerted them to a problem at the home at 265 Monomoscoy Road around 10:15 PM. Firefighters discovered a composting pile had caught fire in the garage underneath the house. They were able to quickly extinguish the fire and keep it from spreading into the house. Investigators are trying to determine if spontaneous combustion may have caused the fire.
What does 2006 have in store? (part one)
Pure national interest and security are not viable. By acting as if the world system of states was that of fifty years ago, Im afraid, some governments in 2006 will drive us deeper into chaos and disorder. back to top
Neal Ascherson: Fears and hopes For 2006, I fear: That the hopeful people of Iraq who go out to vote against all the threats of death and destruction will see their country fall apart into new destruction created by foreign meddling and megalomaniac clerics; That the provincial fools who rule Iran will betray their long-suffering subjects, by driving the country into follies which will tempt Bush and the neocons to strike at them; That Israel will press forward with the colonisation of the West Bank, until yet another Palestinian uprising and yet another wave of Israeli military reprisals postpones Palestinian statehood; That China's growing demand for energy, raw materials and food will overwhelm all the world's efforts to conserve the rainforests and reduce the consumption of fossil fuels; That the European Union will fail to replace its abortive constitution or to reconstruct the budget crippled in the fiasco of the British presidency by Tony Blair's unforgivable obsession with the rebate, and will begin to drift backwards towards disintegration; That the Blair government, faced with more illegal outrages by the Bush presidency, will once again fail to protest and shame us with another display of hand-wringing servility.
Time to look back on some horrible predictions
Dan Pompei of Sporting News declared, "Plummer still can play and likely will prove it next season." Paul Attner of Sporting News forecast the same: "Plummer will return to the NFL" for the 2007 season. ESPN.com's Jeremy Green speculated, "If Plummer ends up in Houston, he might have to sit behind David Carr." Plummer did not come back, and Carr wasn't in Houston either. Then there were the Rex Grossman predictions. "There is no question the Bears are committed to Grossman as their starting quarterback next season," Pompei of Sporting News predicted. The Bears benched Grossman twice, starting three different quarterbacks. Gene Wojciechowski of ESPN.com predicted, "Grossman will be fine. No way does he throw another 20 interceptions." Grossman threw only seven interceptions -- because most of the time, he was benched.
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