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Date:      Mon, 19 Feb 2001 08:47:45 -0600
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   The wonders of spam filtering.
Message-ID:  <14993.12817.163346.819493@guru.mired.org>

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Well, it seems that someone on the -questions list has an ISP who
believes in filting mail from sites that have "Free" in the name. That
almost certainly catches a a lot of spam. The minority who have a
legitimate use for those kinds of names can just choose another name,
right?

	Bleah,
	<mike

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From: "Beech Rintoul <mwm"@mired.org>
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Subject: REJECTED MAIL
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 05:30:26 -0900 (AKST)

Your mail has been rejected for the following reason(s):

Site match: \bfree 
	One of the sites that your mail to me passed through matched
	my list of spammers. If this match was intentional, your mail
	was rejected because I receive large amounts of junk email from one
	of the sites your mail originated from or passed through on its way to me.
	Since I receive more junk than legitimate mail from your site, it has been
	added to my junk list. If you are a legitimate user of this system
	you should realize that your system administrators either are
	involved in a campaign to send out millions of pieces of unwanted
	email to the internet or they are unwilling to put a stop to their
	users that are engaging in this form of abuse. It is also possible
	that your site name matches a word or pattern that I have deemed
	suspicious (i.e. money).
If you have a legitimate reason to contact me, you may get your
mail through the filter by using the following subject:

I AM NOT SPAM

I will then add you to my 'okay' list so future mail will not be
rejected. NOTE: If you reply to this letter, it will *NOT* go to me.
You must send a new piece of mail or forward your original piece of
mail to my address. This has been to avoid receiving autoresponse messages
from these rejection letters.

If the email you sent to me was a piece of unsolicited commercial email,
you should be aware that in addition to being rude, UCE is also illegal:
	
From: http://www.ca-probate.com/faxlaw.htm
Under United States law, it is unlawful "to use any telephone facsimile
machine, computer, or other device to send an unsolicited advertisement"
to any "equipment which has the capacity (A) to transcribe text or
images (or both) from an electronic signal received over a regular
telephone line onto paper." The law allows individuals to sue the sender
of such illegal "junk mail" for $500 per copy. Most states will permit
such actions to be filed in Small Claims Court.
NAGS Email Filter v3.B2
A service of Netizens Against Gratuitous Spamming
http://www.nags.org/

Beech Rintoul [akbeech@anchoragerescue.org]

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> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 08:29:45 -0600
> To: Eric Jacoboni <jaco@teaser.fr>
> Cc: questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: About USB scanner and FreeBSD 4.2
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> Eric Jacoboni <jaco@teaser.fr> types:
> > >>>>> "Mike" =3D=3D Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> writes:
> > Mike> Until you get the uscanner device to show up, it won't work.
> > Following your steps, the uscanner device show up :
> > # dmesg |grep "^u"
> > uscanner0: EPSON Perfection1240, rev 1.00/1.04, addr 2
> >=20
> > But i still don't succeed to make it work...=20
> >=20
> > scanimage --list-devices does'nt say anything. Xsane calls as in my
> > previous post claim the device is invalid. I've installed Gimp and
> > added Xsane as a plug-ins: no device available.
> >=20
> > $ ls -l /dev/*scan*
> > lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    14 18 f=E9v 18:06 /dev/scanner -> /dev/u=
> scanner0
> > lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    14 18 f=E9v 18:06 /dev/usbscanner -> /de=
> v/uscanner0
> > crw-rw-r--  1 root  operator  156,   0  4 f=E9v  2000 /dev/uscanner0
> >=20
> >=20
> > Now, i don't know if my problem is related to FBSD or to Sane...
> 
> Well, FreeBSD is doing what it believes it should - it's attaching the
> scanner and providing a device pointer for it. The man page for
> uscanne says to see the sane home page <URL: http://www.xsane.org/ >
> for conbfiguration information. While the problem may not be sane's,
> if it's FreeBSD, it's going to require work on the uscanner device
> driver to fix. So I'd attack it as if it were sane's problem until
> you're convinced otherwise. You might try asking for help on
> -multimedia.
> 
> =09<mike
> --
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