Life’s a Lottery (scam)Dutch police have arrested 111 suspected 419 scammers. The arrests on Saturday follow the end of a seven-month investigation - dubbed Operation Apollo, AFP reports.Original post by Dougal and plugin by Elliott Back
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Here are 10 ways to keep personal information secure when online: 1) Favor common sense over technological solutions. via The Age
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The spammers who have been launching DDoS attacks against Spamhaus and other anti-spam sites have now launched an attack against spamnation.info. We’ve been expecting this for a while, so it doesn’t exactly come as a surprise. The site may be a little slow until the attack dies down.
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Dutch police have arrested 111 suspected 419 scammers. The arrests on Saturday follow the end of a seven-month investigation - dubbed Operation Apollo, AFP reports.
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I use Realtime Blackhole Lists and Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse clients on Postfix and SpamAssassin to reduce the impact of spam. via Linux Today
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In the article How many colors should I use? By mydesignprimer.com, it differentiated two color printing methods: the Process Color Printing and Spot Color Printing.“Process Color Printing With process printing, one has the flexibility of a wide spectrum of color choices. This is also the printing method that will allow one to use full-color photographs […]
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Today’s printing presses can do many more things quicker than the early presses. The long ones print lots of colors all at once. The smaller ones print black only. The biggest, tallest presses are the ones responsible in making newspapers, magazines and comic books we read. Some presses can print both sides of the page […]
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When using images for your web site or on-screen presentations, it is important to understand that the resolution that works well with printed materials does not apply to images put in your web or presentation files. This will definitely result in the difficulty of the images to download in your web site and presentation programs […]
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What do you say when you want someone to believe you? Probably, you’ll say, “I saw it with my own eyes.” That’s because you believe that if you have seen something with your own eyes, it must be true. But your eyes can fool you.Certain patterns confuse your eyes and brain, causing you to misjudge […]
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As the maxim goes - a picture is worth a thousand words. We are all aware of that. But can some words be worth a thousand pictures?Is a picture really worth a thousand words? written by Jamie Kiley, is a manifestation that words can be worth a thousand pictures. “As a graphic designer, she reveals, […]
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Millions of people especially men - are obsessed with cars. This obsession can be traced when they converse with other people. Many of them safe keep a collection - from real cars to limited edition miniature cars to posters and the likes. At the moment we will be acquainted with a man who is neither […]
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Kenn Munk, the author of Alternate Fonts and My type of hood, a native of Frederiksbjerg, Denmark, divulged that type designs are best described as systems or puzzles for the graphic designer to work out. “These puzzles have endless solutions, but you have to struggle with the fonts to get them to perform.My dingbats are […]
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What are pixels?When you take hold of a digital camera, or even a traditional one, you constantly read or hear about “pixels”. “This digital camera has 8.0 megapixels.” “This one has 6.5 megapixels.” So what are pixels exactly?According to My Design Primer, PIXEL came from the first letters of “pix element”- pix meaning picture. It […]
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SPAMfighter has been nominated by the Shareware Industry Awards Foundation for Best Web Enhancement. via PR-inside.com
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P22 Stanyan Autumn, as discussed in its website, is a set of three fonts based upon a casual hand lettering text created by Anthony Goldschmidt for the deluxe 1969 edition of the book”…and autumn came” by Rod McKuen. The casual hand lettering style works well at all sizes but especially large settings. 62 extras in […]
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Points and Picas is the standard measurement for type. Once you’re familiar that 12 inches = 1 foot and 12 points = 1 pica, it’ll be easy.According to Mars Crash Prevention, A pica is a unit of space equal to 1/6th of an inch. There are 6 picas to an inch. Actually there are 6.022499489 […]
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This is my first post in my series on email authentication. In order to understand how to authenticate the sender of an email, we need to understand how email works.I remember back in my 4th year of university when we learned how to send “fake” email. The basic idea behind this was that we could send email to whoever we wanted to and specify any return address we wanted, even a domain that didn’t exist. So, I sent a few fake messages to friends of mine. At the time, it never occurred to me that ethically-challenged people could seriously exploit this for nefarious purposes.In this post and the next one, I am going to summarize the information found this page from stopspam.org (ie, most of this material was not originally written by me). That’s a very good web page that provides a coherent overview of email headers. If you’re like most internet users (including myself) and rarely bother clicking links, then read on.To begin with, let’s try to understand how email gets from point A to point B. Email travels through connections called ports. To keep track of all the different connections, the ports are numbered. Port 25 is the one that is used to transmit and receive email. When a computer attempts to transmit email, it opens a connection to port 25 and attempts to transmit using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, or SMTP. This whole transaction depends on five commands which constitute the core of SMTP: HELO, MAIL FROM, RCPT TO, DATA, and QUIT.HELO identifies the sending machine. “HELO mail.tzink.com” should be read as “Hello, I’m mail.tzink.com”. However, the sender does not necessarily have to tell the truth; in fact, nothing prevents the sender from saying “Hello, I’m bonjour.hola.guten-tag” or “Hello, I’m woozle.wozzle.gov”, or even “Hello, i.am.not.configured.properly”. However, in most circumstances, the receiver has some tools with which to discover this and find out the sending machine’s real identity. MAIL FROM is the command that initiates the mail processing. It means “I have mail to deliver from so-and-so”. The address that is specified becomes envelope From or envelope sender and it does not need to be the same as the sender’s own address! This apparent security hole is inevitable (after all, the receiving machine doesn’t know anything about who has what username on the sending machine), but in certain circumstances it turns out to be a useful feature. RCPT TO is the flip-side to MAIL FROM; it specifies the intended recipient of the message. One piece of mail can be sent to multiple recipients by including multiple RCPT TO commands. The specified address becomes the envelope To, which is also referred to as the envelope recipient. It is this recipient that determines who the mail will be delivered to, regardless of what the To: line in the message says. DATA starts the actual mail entry. Everything entered after a DATA command is considered to be part of the message and there are no restrictions on its form. Lines at the beginning of the message (before the first blank line) that start with a single word and a colon are considered to be headers by most mail programs. A line consisting only of a period terminates the message. QUIT terminates the connection. Below is an example mail conversation between the sending domain, tzink.net, and the recipient domain, tzink-is-awesome.com. The commands in bold are the transmitting machine while the ones in normal text are the recipient machine.

220 mailhost.tzink-is-awesome.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.8.5/1.4/8.7.2/1.13; Fri, Jun 15 2007 14:38:58 -0800 (PST)
HELO mail.tzink.net
250 mailhost.tzink-is-awesome.com Hello mail.tzink.net [292.13.130.22], pleased to meet you
MAIL FROM: me@tzink.net
250 me@tzink.net… Sender ok
RCPT TO: me@tzink-is-awesome.com
250 me@tzink-is-awesome.com… Recipient ok
DATA
354 Enter mail, end with “.” on a line by itself
Received: from svengali.tzink.net (svengali.tzink.net [264.81.13.12]) by mail.tzink.net (8.8.5) id 004A21; Fri, Jun 18 2007 14:36:17 -0800 (PST)
From: Terry Zink <my.alias@tzink.net>
To: me@tzink-is-awesome.com
Date: Fri, Jun 15 2007 14:36:14 PST
Message-Id: <elmsley-flushtration-484@mail.tzink.net>
Subject: How’s it going?

So this is pretty cool, I’m sending an email message.

– tzink
.
250 FAA214578 Message accepted for delivery
QUIT
221 mailhost.tzink-is-awesome.com closing connection

Note the five important commands, HELO, MAIL FROM, RCPT TO, DATA, and QUIT. That’s the basics of what it takes to send an email.
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