Help On Spam Mail!!!

[Peach]

My roommate last semester was from Kyrgyzstan. I hate him.

Really? My brother is in Kyrgyzstan, but he's not from there. He's taking all his box tops and going to Croatia, along with the dog.

[Maeve_Mari]

My roommate last semester was from Kyrgyzstan. I hate him.

We have Cadets at the US Air Force Academy who are from Kyrgyzstan?
Really?

[DJ Apostrophe]

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I do quite like Kyrgyzstan's flag.

-w

[Gav]

Isn't Kygystan the one run by a loony who thinks he's a God?

[mifencer]

You get what you pay for.

Firewalls have become extremely important today. Spend a few dollars and purchase reliable and upgradeable firewall software (in addition to respectable virus scan software too.) It's become, unfortunately, an essential fact of on-line life.

I have Norton's AV. I also have Spybot S&D, which is free and I love it. I just figured I could get just was good luck with a firewall. Looks like I might purchase Norton's firewall then. Thanks for the advice.

You all others: HILARIOUS! Luckily for me I'm refinancing my house, satisfying my girlfriend more than ever, and buying cigarettes for CHEAP!

[Maeve_Mari]

You all others: HILARIOUS! Luckily for me I'm refinancing my house, satisfying my girlfriend more than ever, and buying cigarettes for CHEAP!

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[Soldier]

*laughs and nearly spits coffee all over the keyboard*

I was just reading your thread entitled "cynical" and a couple of your other posts, and thinking "Oh bless, Soldier is such a sweetie, I can't believe he is really a military man, he seems so nice and cuddly" - and then I read this!

You crack me up, mate! I don't know why but your comment above just caught me right on the funny bone...

Okay, you've really got me wondering now. I definitely have the side of me that likes to kill people and break their toys. Which is, after all, the entire job of the Air Force.

[Soldier]

Isn't Kygystan the one run by a loony who thinks he's a God?

Umm, not so far as I know...I do happen to know that their capital, Bishkek, just celebrated its, if I'm not mistaken, millennial, anniversary this summer, with a huge gala. My roommate was pissed because he happened to be in basic at the time. My sister, however, was there (in Bishkek), and apparently got proposed to by a drunk Russian...


And yes, we have exchange students here. We've got the aforementioned Kyrgyzstani, a girl from Belarus, a Ukranian, an Egyptian, a guy from Cameroon, and a bunch of others I don't know of offhand. I do know that during our Prop & Wings dinner, we toasted to the leaders of every single one of those countries.

They come for the four years of training, then go back to their home country and serve there - usually, just coming here guarantees them extremely high positions at home. In return, their governments pay ours insane sums of money. The cost of education here, including tuition, room and board, food, and all other training, is estimated at around $1.2 million per cadet for the four years.

[Peach]

Isn't Kygystan the one run by a loony who thinks he's a God?

I don't think so. From what my brother says, it's a fairly reasonable place. They were having a bit of a civil war there for a little while, but it wasn't nearly as bad as Pakistan was when he was living there.

[zark00]

In the ongoing war against spam, malware and spyware...

(malware is malicious software btw)

Here are some tools you and yours may find helpful.

Spam - if you're running outlook for your email you can't do much better for free than spambytes. Get it here at sourceforge (mentioned already) an excellent place for security related help/products.

http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/

Wilders security forum is perhaps the most helpful open forum out there for spam, virus and spyware control. The wilders guys will actually review a log of your machine and recommend how to fix it.

http://www.wilderssecurity.com

To rid your machine of spyware (99% of the time) you really need about 4 tools. SpyBot S&D (free and mentioned already), AdAware (free), CWShredder (free), and HiJackThis (free yea!).

Adaware can be found at: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ - get the free version
SpyBot can be found here:
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=download

And CWShredder and Hijack this (and tutorials and help) can be found here:
http://www.thespykiller.co.uk/

FYI the guy who runs spykiller is extremely helpful, and runs a hedgehog rescue facility - seriously he really does.

AVG is probably the best, free, anti-viral suite out there. I find it only slightly less effective than norton, MORE effective than MCafee - and WAY cheaper than both

Get that here: http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php

[Zelda]

Kygystan is also an exceedingly diverse country ethinicity wise, but their health system is not particularly good. Media usage is fairly high in the cities (approx 60-80%) of women have access to a radio or TV but is much lower in the rural parts. To mount an effective campaign for the preventional of diahorrial diseases in infants this must all be taken into effect.
(Ok I will stop chanelling one of my DDPPIDC projects and just sit and watch the world go by again)

[civiltech]

Kygystan is also an exceedingly diverse country ethinicity wise, but their health system is not particularly good. Media usage is fairly high in the cities (approx 60-80%) of women have access to a radio or TV but is much lower in the rural parts. To mount an effective campaign for the preventional of diahorrial diseases in infants this must all be taken into effect.
(Ok I will stop chanelling one of my DDPPIDC projects and just sit and watch the world go by again)

Strangely enough this it's kind of comforting seeing someone who gives a damn about a country I just realized existed!

[Musketeer]

DON'T BUY EPEE BLADES ON MAY 19TH


IT HAS BEEN CALCULATED THAT IF EVERYONE IN THE UNITED STATES DID NOT PURCHASE A SINGLE NEW EPEE BLADE FOR ONE DAY AND ALL AT THE SAME TIME, THE FORGES WOULD CHOKE ON THEIR STOCKPILES.

AT THE SAME TIME IT WOULD HIT THE ENTIRE INDUSTRY WITH A NET LOSS OF OVER 4.6 BILLION DOLLARS WHICH AFFECTS THE BOTTOM LINES OF THE MAJOR FORGES.

THEREFORE MAY 19TH HAS BEEN FORMALLY DECLARED "STICK IT UP THEIR <font size="1" color="red">expletive deleted</font> " DAY AND THE PEOPLE OF THIS NATION SHOULD NOT BUY A SINGLE NEW EPEE BLADE THAT DAY.

THE ONLY WAY THIS CAN BE DONE IS IF YOU FORWARD THIS E-MAIL TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN AND AS QUICKLY AS YOU CAN TO GET THE WORD OUT.

...

OK, I'll try to make sure none of my fellow foillists buy any épée blades that day. Heck, I just might not buy an épée blade the rest of this year!

[Louweasel]

My sister, however, was there (in Bishkek), and apparently got proposed to by a drunk Russian....

Ah well, it happens to the best of us... *nostalgic sigh*

[Zelda]

Strangely enough this it's kind of comforting seeing someone who gives a damn about a country I just realized existed!

But what is disturbing is that I remember those facts 3 years AFTER I did the project!! I remember printing out a good 10-15 pages on media in Bishkek and trying to work out what would be a good media slant to take.

[PeterGustafsson]

Hi!

In Michigan the law is that if you receive any unsolicited electronic communication that can be printed you can sue the person in small claims court and get $500 per transmission. Small claims laws is that they don't get to use a lawyer to defend them, and you can sue any part of the company that is responsible. For example, if you got spam saying that Sears was having a sale, you could sue the Sears store down the road from you. Some folks have really been raking in the dough on it, and courts have upheld it.

Do you get spam from real companies? I only get them from places that purport to be entities that I have never heard of before. Why would a real company send spam? Wish there were such a law in Sweden, though.

Have a nice time!

Peter Gustafsson