From owner-freebsd-security Mon Jan 10 15: 8:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from pogo.caustic.org (pogo.caustic.org [208.44.193.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11087153B2 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 15:08:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jan@caustic.org) Received: from localhost (jan@localhost) by pogo.caustic.org (8.9.3/ignatz) with ESMTP id PAA49162; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 15:08:25 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 15:08:25 -0800 (PST) From: "f.johan.beisser" To: Bill Fumerola Cc: FreeBSD , "freebsd-security@FreeBSD. ORG" Subject: RE: load spike strangeness In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Bill Fumerola wrote: > When you go to college, you'll also realize that your SSN isn't exactly > private, either. i seem to recall a nice little website that had the SSN for most folks on it. it was searchable, and supposed to help ID potential ancestors and relatives (since SSNs ID the geographic origin of its holder). IIRC, it's run by the Feds anyway.. > Deleting accounts to fight spam is a bass-ackwards approach as well, > better to use REAL spam fighting techniques, like RBL and filterlists, etc. it just sounds inneficiant. i'm just to lazy to really deal with SPAM like that, besides, having a permanent account to handle my email (around 200 some odd messages a day, between the various lists) is way to handy. -- jan +-----// f. johan beisser //------------------------------+ email: jan[at]caustic.org web: http://www.caustic.org/~jan "knowledge is power. power corrupts. study hard, be evil." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message