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Kill-filing nospam - addenda
On Wed, 09 Oct 2019 19:46:44 -0700, Savageduck
wrote: On Oct 9, 2019, Eric Stevens wrote (in ): On Tue, 08 Oct 2019 16:35:31 -0700, Savageduck wrote: On Oct 8, 2019, Eric Stevens wrote (in ): Snip I think the ball is back in your court nospam. --- snip --- How are we to believe that you have kill-filed nospam if you continue invite him to engage in your ongoing flame war with him in both a.c.o.w-10& r.p.d.? I've certainly kill filed him for rec.photo.digital but my supposed discovery was sufficiently intersting that I thought that I should discuss it in the Windows 10 group - with a copy to rec.photo.digital. However, your, “I think the ball is back in your court nospam.” was undoubtably an invitation to continue your dialog. Not with me, I can assure you. As you will gather from my my most recent post in this thread I have discovered I have falsely accused nospam and withdrawn my claim and apologised. Within the next few minutes nospam will be killfiled on all my news groups, not just rec.photo.digital. We shall see how that goes. Its gone. An announcement that you have kill-filed him should mean something, it does to me, or do you mean something totally different? There are all kinds of options for kill filing ranging from short periods, just for selected news groups or global. It's also possible to ignore posts, download and delete (though quite what that achieves I do not know) and download and mark read. They all can be described as kill filed. There is no need to educate me on the fine points of kill files and filters, I have been making good use of them to clear up noise in Usenet for some time. I know what has proven most effective for me. You asked me a question. Please don't start bitching when you receive an answer. Make up your mind, you are either done with him in all NGs, as I am with Arlen Holder, and ~BD~, or you just cannot resist the temptation to continue poking that particular bear. Is there something in that NZ water? It always concerns me when someone posts articles which are misleading and nospam is a champion at that. In this particular case he was besmirching the reputation of DxOMark by a totally wrong understanding of what was entailed in DxOMarks measurements, even when it was pointed out to him. He also denied that Nikon could do what I assumed they must be doing even though I posted a number of articles which pointed piece by piece to the correctness of my assumptions. Still he continued to accuse DxOMark of skullduggery and dishonesty on the basis of his faulty understanding. That wouldn't have much worried me except that there were a number of (hopefully) more rational people who appeared to be accepting nospam's arguments and I was attempting to help them see the error of his ways. It's pretty clear what Nikon are doing and once I fill a few gaps I might write an article about it. It's not quite what the popular articles tell you and its certainly not what nospam insists they are doing. All I can about DxOMark is, I have questioned their test results, and capability based on their inability, or refusal to assess Fujifilm X-Trans and current Bayer sensor cameras along with XF, and GX lenses. I have a dim memory of reading an article by DxO (as it was then) about the role played by sensor geometry when assessing lenses. I can't really remember the details but it might explain why they have not yet come to grips with the Fuji's non-Bayer geometry. Maybe they don't regard doing the necessary work as justified for only the one make of camera. As for the Bayer Fuji - I have no idea. -- Eric Stevens There are two classes of people. Those who divide people into two classes and those who don't. I belong to the second class. |
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Kill-filing nospam - addenda
On Wed, 09 Oct 2019 16:39:01 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote: On Wed, 09 Oct 2019 21:55:14 +1300, Eric Stevens wrote: On Tue, 08 Oct 2019 12:06:16 +1300, Eric Stevens wrote: After a year of increasingly bizarre arguments with nospam I have finally decided to kill-file him. However, there is one thing that I discovered in the course of the argument that is worth passing on. All of nospam's Usenet postings include a line headed "Cancel-Lock:" followed by a hashed code. This enables him to reliably delete the article at a later date. In digging through the on-line archive of nospam's postings in rec.photo.digital I found there were postings from him before 25 Dec 2018. Not one although (to the best of my recollection) there were 1728 after that date. In the ordinary course of events it is possible to post a message with the intention of deleting a previous message from the same sender. Most usenet servers will accept a 'cancel' message if it closely follows the message being cancelled but virtually all will ignore it if a long time has elapsed. However the use of 'Cancel-Lock' followed by a hashed code enables the sender to reliably establish their identity at a much later date and hence cancel the message. I have to withdraw what I said above and apologise about nospam's posts being cancelled. ... In any case, as I said above, I was wrong to accuse nospam of deleting messages and I apologise. Thank you. Do you also acknowledge that the vast majority of Usenet providers no longer honor cancel messages? (I don't know of any that do, and even if there is one or two, they would never propagate to the rest of Usenet, so it doesn't matter.) That's what I understood but the disappearnce of a large block of messages from nospam (and knowing nospam) caused me to jump to a conclusion. Agent used to be rock solid and reliable. I'd say it still is. Something squiffy occurred with my down loads. That's all I can say. -- Eric Stevens There are two classes of people. Those who divide people into two classes and those who don't. I belong to the second class. |
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Kill-filing nospam - addenda
On Mon, 07 Oct 2019 20:06:43 -0700, Savageduck
wrote: On Oct 7, 2019, Eric Stevens wrote (in ): Snip I thought you pulled the trigger on nospam, yet here you are chatting away with him in both a.c.os.w-10 & r.p.d. Snip P.S. As you may by now have gathered I have only kill filed nospam in rec.photo.digital. Don't worry, I will shortly kill-file him globaly. Strange? I am responding from r.p.d. Cross post. -- Eric Stevens There are two classes of people. Those who divide people into two classes and those who don't. I belong to the second class. |
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Kill-filing nospam - addenda
On Tue, 08 Oct 2019 19:42:58 -0500, Bill W
wrote: On Wed, 09 Oct 2019 13:11:19 +1300, Eric Stevens wrote: On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 09:30:58 +1300, geoff wrote: On 8/10/2019 6:30 pm, Bill W wrote: On Tue, 08 Oct 2019 15:11:32 +1300, Eric Stevens wrote: On Mon, 07 Oct 2019 19:48:54 -0500, Char Jackson wrote: On Tue, 08 Oct 2019 12:06:16 +1300, Eric Stevens wrote: All of nospam's Usenet postings include a line headed "Cancel-Lock:" followed by a hashed code. This enables him to reliably delete the article at a later date. Most Usenet servers haven't honored cancel messages for a very long time now, quite possibly more than two decades. That's true for ordinary cancel message, but 'Cancel-Lock' with it's reliable identity identifier seems to change the situation, exactly as it was intended to do. See https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ie...cancel-lock-01 Did you read the date on that article? And what the hell happened to you? You sound like the Dems going after Trump. For you, just like them, it's relentless, and stopped making sense long ago. Um, what planet are you on dude ? "Fake News, Fake News" = absolute undeniable and patently obvious truth to much of the USA and most of the rest of the world. Eric is just a dude ho can manage to find an argument over pretty much anything anybody says. But I'm not always right. Nor to I twist and turn in an attempt to change the topic of the argument. I posted this as (I thought) an intersting finale to years of nospam. It seems I have not quite finished but I am nearly there. I'm only hanging in here not to argue but to get to the bottom of what has really been going on. You need to step back, and look at this thing from some distance. You are starting to sound plain nuts. From my end, that is something relatively new. A long period of trying to argue logically with nospam seems to have that affect. -- Eric Stevens There are two classes of people. Those who divide people into two classes and those who don't. I belong to the second class. |
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Kill-filing nospam - addenda
On Tue, 08 Oct 2019 20:36:19 -0500, Bill W
wrote: On Wed, 09 Oct 2019 13:06:53 +1300, Eric Stevens wrote: On Tue, 08 Oct 2019 00:30:12 -0500, Bill W wrote: On Tue, 08 Oct 2019 15:11:32 +1300, Eric Stevens wrote: On Mon, 07 Oct 2019 19:48:54 -0500, Char Jackson wrote: On Tue, 08 Oct 2019 12:06:16 +1300, Eric Stevens wrote: All of nospam's Usenet postings include a line headed "Cancel-Lock:" followed by a hashed code. This enables him to reliably delete the article at a later date. Most Usenet servers haven't honored cancel messages for a very long time now, quite possibly more than two decades. That's true for ordinary cancel message, but 'Cancel-Lock' with it's reliable identity identifier seems to change the situation, exactly as it was intended to do. See https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ie...cancel-lock-01 Did you read the date on that article? And what the hell happened to you? You sound like the Dems going after Trump. For you, just like them, it's relentless, and stopped making sense long ago. That's an interesting comparison. After years of trying to have reasonable discussoins with nospam I suspect I feel more like Trump after trying to have dealings with the Democrats. Really? There's nothing familiar about, "okay, *this* time I've really got him! There is no way out for sure." BTW, you have had reasonable discussions with him. You can decide for yourself why some of those went sideways, but some didn't. But finally, what exactly are you trying to pin on him? Do you understand that no one is agreeing with you on the technical issue of the DR stops? They might be siding with you in a general sense, but not specifically on the issue. I'm sorry to hear that. In that case I will have to revisit the subject. I have found out a great deal over the last few weeks and I am now confident that I know what Nikon is doing - and its not what everyone seems to expect. And let's say you get into another dispute, and you actually "win". What do you suppose it is you won? And do you think it could possibly be unanimous that you won? I just don't get this. Like I said in the other post, step away and look at this disinterestedly. -- Eric Stevens There are two classes of people. Those who divide people into two classes and those who don't. I belong to the second class. |
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Kill-filing nospam - addenda
On Tue, 8 Oct 2019 08:23:57 +0100, ~BD~ wrote:
On 08/10/2019 07:46, Ralph Fox wrote: On Tue, 08 Oct 2019 12:06:16 +1300, Eric Stevens wrote: All of nospam's Usenet postings include a line headed "Cancel-Lock:" followed by a hashed code. Which is added by ES, his news server. Albasani also adds it. Check my headers. The big news servers do not add it and do not honour it. This enables him to reliably delete the article at a later date. It might enable the ES admin to delete it off the few servers which do care about cancel locks. The big news servers do not care about cancel locks. The message will not be deleted off the big news servers. Most usenet servers will accept a 'cancel' message if it closely follows the message being cancelled Not so. A cancel barely half a minute later is not accepted by most news servers. What you write has not been true for close to 2 decades. However the use of 'Cancel-Lock' followed by a hashed code enables the sender to reliably establish their identity at a much later date and hence cancel the message. The big news servers do not care about cancel locks. They will just ignore the cancel. As far as I can tell nospam prepares all his postings for later bulk deletion. Why he should do that I do not know but a heads-up to anyone who thinks they may ever have a need to recover one of his earlier postings. Again, it is the ES server which adds the cancel lock. It might allow the ES Admin remove a spam flood posted through ES which managed to get through his filters. However it would only be removed from ES and the few other news servers which do care about cancel locks. After a year of increasingly bizarre arguments with nospam I have finally decided to kill-file him. However, there is one thing that I discovered in the course of the argument that is worth passing on. Those who kill-file to avoid getting into arguments will frequently see the kill-filed person's text quoted in other replies. Those who cannot ignore the poster without a kill-file will still post their own counter-arguments as a reply to the reply. A kill-file is never a cyber-substitute for self control. Many thanks for your words of wisdom, Ralph! :-) Sadly, Eric Stevens was mistaken. Eric Stevens was mistaken. There is no sadly about it. -- Eric Stevens There are two classes of people. Those who divide people into two classes and those who don't. I belong to the second class. |
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Kill-filing nospam - addenda
On Tue, 08 Oct 2019 19:08:26 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote: On Wed, 09 Oct 2019 12:54:52 +1300, Eric Stevens wrote: On Tue, 8 Oct 2019 08:23:57 +0100, ~BD~ wrote: Sadly, Eric Stevens was mistaken. Not quite - at least not yet. Haven't you been mistaken right from the start? In a prior post, I invited you to try it for yourself. Submit a post, perhaps to a test group since that's the purpose of such groups, then try to cancel it. What happens? Was your cancel accepted and was it successful? What happens at other Usenet servers? Did your cancel propagate? No? The question was not about the mere cancelling of posts but about the cancelling of Cancel-Lock posts. I discovered that such things exist and in broad terms how they work but I have no understanding of how to set up and then try to cancel a Cancel-Locked post. -- Eric Stevens There are two classes of people. Those who divide people into two classes and those who don't. I belong to the second class. |
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Kill-filing nospam - addenda
Eric Stevens wrote:
On Tue, 08 Oct 2019 19:08:26 -0500, Char Jackson wrote: On Wed, 09 Oct 2019 12:54:52 +1300, Eric Stevens wrote: On Tue, 8 Oct 2019 08:23:57 +0100, ~BD~ wrote: Sadly, Eric Stevens was mistaken. Not quite - at least not yet. Haven't you been mistaken right from the start? In a prior post, I invited you to try it for yourself. Submit a post, perhaps to a test group since that's the purpose of such groups, then try to cancel it. What happens? Was your cancel accepted and was it successful? What happens at other Usenet servers? Did your cancel propagate? No? The question was not about the mere cancelling of posts but about the cancelling of Cancel-Lock posts. I discovered that such things exist and in broad terms how they work but I have no understanding of how to set up and then try to cancel a Cancel-Locked post. You would let the tool do the work. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!to...rd/LrAePSoGdn4 Seeing as nobody can be bothered to indicate what version of Thunderbird supports Cancel-Lock, you just have to test it. Vanilla Cancel is unlikely to work. So if selecting "Cancel" from some menu worked, that's probably Cancel-Lock. If you connect to port 119 and you use Wireshark to record the plaintext session, you might even get to see what messages are sent during an attempt to Cancel. And Wireshark is a pig to set up... when the WinPCAP replacement, you can't seem to get it started. You need promiscuous receiver capability to log the packets on the NIC, which normally requires admin privileges, but with Wireshark, if they neglected to spend sufficient time testing the thing, you could have some trouble getting it to capture anything. That was my experience on the last version I downloaded. I probably have some older versions that still work. On the Macintosh, the Wireshark team never bothered to indicate what MacOSX versions worked with what Wireshark versions, which meant "even more testing" to get something to work. Wireshark is great when it works, but otherwise, is a source of hair loss. The GUI on it, was relatively simple to understand at one time, but developers cannot leave "well enough" alone. And that's part of the fun. If you can't see anything to click, it's pretty difficult for a user to realize "something is wrong". Paul |
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Kill-filing nospam - addenda
On 10/10/2019 09:55, Paul wrote:
Eric Stevens wrote: On Tue, 08 Oct 2019 19:08:26 -0500, Char Jackson wrote: On Wed, 09 Oct 2019 12:54:52 +1300, Eric Stevens wrote: On Tue, 8 Oct 2019 08:23:57 +0100, ~BD~ wrote: Sadly, Eric Stevens was mistaken. Not quite - at least not yet. Haven't you been mistaken right from the start? In a prior post, I invited you to try it for yourself. Submit a post, perhaps to a test group since that's the purpose of such groups, then try to cancel it. What happens? Was your cancel accepted and was it successful? What happens at other Usenet servers? Did your cancel propagate? No? The question was not about the mere cancelling of posts but about the cancelling of Cancel-Lock posts. I discovered that such things exist and in broad terms how they work but I have no understanding of how to set up and then try to cancel a Cancel-Locked post. You would let the tool do the work. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!to...rd/LrAePSoGdn4 Seeing as nobody can be bothered to indicate what version of Thunderbird supports Cancel-Lock, you just have to test it. Vanilla Cancel is unlikely to work. So if selecting "Cancel" from some menu worked, that's probably Cancel-Lock. If you connect to port 119 and you use Wireshark to record the plaintext session, you might even get to see what messages are sent during an attempt to Cancel. And Wireshark is a pig to set up... when the WinPCAP replacement, you can't seem to get it started. You need promiscuous receiver capability to log the packets on the NIC, which normally requires admin privileges, but with Wireshark, if they neglected to spend sufficient time testing the thing, you could have some trouble getting it to capture anything. That was my experience on the last version I downloaded. I probably have some older versions that still work. On the Macintosh, the Wireshark team never bothered to indicate what MacOSX versions worked with what Wireshark versions, which meant "even more testing" to get something to work. Wireshark is great when it works, but otherwise, is a source of hair loss. The GUI on it, was relatively simple to understand at one time, but developers cannot leave "well enough" alone. And that's part of the fun. If you can't see anything to click, it's pretty difficult for a user to realize "something is wrong". Â*Â* Paul FYI Wireshark CLI tools & scripting https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...&v=IZ439VNvJqo Of interest? -- David B. Devon |
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Kill-filing nospam - addenda
On 10/10/2019 13:24, ~BD~ wrote:
[....] Â*Wireshark CLI tools & scripting https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...&v=IZ439VNvJqo Details of the speaker! https://wiki.wireshark.org/SakeBlok Sake Blok My interest in Networking was first raised when I started working for one of the first ISP's in The Netherlands (back in 1995). My L2/L3 knowlegde was gathered while working for a large bank. I then switched teams within that bank to manage their redundant internet gateway based on a loadbalanced firewall cluster, loadbalancers, ssl-offloaders, caches and proxies. In that time (2000) I started using Ethereal to troubleshoot problems within that environment. After my switch to a reseller, my skills developped towards bug-chasing and Ethereal/Wireshark has been an invaluable tool for me. I use it on a daily basis. In february 2006 I wished to be able to filter on the "X-Forwarded-For:" http-header and joined the mailing-lists. First I wanted to ask for that functionality, but then I realised that I might be able to add it myself. Well, one thing led to another and after submitting a few of my own patches, I started working on bug-reports too. Resulting in being invited to the core development team in august 2007. I live in The Netherlands near Amsterdam and have started the company SYN-bit in February 2010. SYN-bit specializes in troubleshooting services for Application Delivery Networks. Analyzing traffic flows to the bit level to solve design flaws, bugs. But also for exploring the best way to optimize application delivery. I also give training and do remote packet capture analysis :-) |
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