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#NoMore!
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i never get tired of this… 😎
[#RNZ-396-23469]: ABUSE VIOLATION: RE: PAYMENT INVOICE
From: Namecheap Legal & Abuse Team <[email protected]>
To: you know who
Date: 180520 12:37 am
Spam Status: Spamassassin
Hello,Thank you for your report.
While the gaushmedical.us domain name is registered with Namecheap, it is hosted with another company. That is why we cannot check the logs for the domain and confirm if it is involved in sending unsolicited emails.
However, it seems the domain name is blacklisted by SURBL. Since we consider SURBL to be a trusted organization, we opened a case regarding the domain name. Please allow about 48 hours for our further investigation.
Thank you for letting us know about the issue.
[#RNZ-396-23469]: ABUSE VIOLATION: RE: PAYMENT INVOICE
From: Namecheap Legal & Abuse Team <[email protected]>
To: you know who
Date: 180521 08:19 pm
Spam Status: Spamassassin
Hello,Please be informed that as a result of the investigation, the domain gaushmedical.us was suspended. It was null-routed and locked in our system, so the spamming activity should end once the propagation is over.
Thank you for letting us know about the issue.
whois gaushmedical.us
Domain Name: gaushmedical.us
Registry Domain ID: DC3FBD2D4DC1743DE92E082A91D15BEDE-NSR
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.namecheap.com
Registrar URL: http://www.namecheap.com
Updated Date: 2018-05-22T03:18:40Z
Creation Date: 2018-05-15T06:56:45Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2019-05-15T06:56:45Z
Registrar: NameCheap, Inc.
Registrar IANA ID: 1068
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: [email protected]
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.6613102107
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Registry Registrant ID: C29C72D760FD14C7FAD8D886E1C016E55-NSR
Registrant Name: New Oru
Registrant Organization:
Registrant Street: Hertzstr. 4
Registrant Street:
Registrant Street:
Registrant City: Heidelberg
Registrant State/Province: Heidelberg
Registrant Postal Code: 69126
Registrant Country: DE
Registrant Phone: +49.8635999192
Registrant Phone Ext:
Registrant Fax:
Registrant Fax Ext:
Registrant Email: [email protected]
Registrant Application Purpose: P1
Registrant Nexus Category: C11
Registry Admin ID: CBBCDFB2B18654CFC972C6274C0858A93-NSR
Admin Name: New Oru
Admin Organization:
Admin Street: Hertzstr. 4
Admin Street:
Admin Street:
Admin City: Heidelberg
Admin State/Province: Heidelberg
Admin Postal Code: 69126
Admin Country: DE
Admin Phone: +49.8635999192
Admin Phone Ext:
Admin Fax:
Admin Fax Ext:
Admin Email: [email protected]
Registry Tech ID: C3200FE79814B420EB1FA838AEBEF9060-NSR
Tech Name: New Oru
Tech Organization:
Tech Street: Hertzstr. 4
Tech Street:
Tech Street:
Tech City: Heidelberg
Tech State/Province: Heidelberg
Tech Postal Code: 69126
Tech Country: DE
Tech Phone: +49.8635999192
Tech Phone Ext:
Tech Fax:
Tech Fax Ext:
Tech Email: [email protected]
Name Server: blockedduetospam.pleasecontactsupport.com
Name Server: dummysecondary.pleasecontactsupport.com
DNSSEC: unsigned
URL of the ICANN Whois Inaccuracy Complaint Form: https://www.icann.org/wicf/
>>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2018-05-22T04:57:32Z <<<
😂
spam
as of today, these are the TLDs i have blocked from sending email to my server, because of spam:
- .bid
- .date
- .faith
- .fun
- .live
- .online
- .party
- .stream
- .trade
- .website
- .win
if your web site is under any one of these TLDs, you’re not going to be able to communicate with me over email, so you might as well give up now. it’s not going to work.
ETA: 180520 add to the previous list:
- .club
- .top
… give it up, folks. 😐
moisture festival ?
4 fewer shares than 2 years ago.
½ as many dollars as 2 years ago.
😕
according to the producers:
None of us producing this annual event ever wants to reduce the share amounts, in fact, we have done our best to try to increase the amount we pay you and some years we have been fortunate to be able to pay more for shares.
yeah, right…
2018, 11 shares, $330 – $30 per share
2017, ?? shares, $480
2016, 15 shares, $600 – $45 per share
2015,
2014,
2013, 14 shares, $490 – $35 per share
2012, 16 shares, $720 – $45 per share
2011, 14 shares…
but, once again, according to the producers:
Please don’t approach this as a paid gig or a money making booking because there is no financial guarantee… You are likely to get a token amount of money, but it will be more of an honorarium than a fee
at one time, not too many years ago, the moisture festival was the single highest paying gig i had all year. 😕
why i only accept plaintext email (and why you should, as well)
a couple days ago, a friend mentioned the fact that i only accept plaintext email, and asked if HTML email was against my religion. i said “yes”, and this is why i don’t accept rendered, HTML-formatted email. it is a story with a moral at the end, so pay attention.
today, i got an email that said it was from “DHL Customer Support <[email protected]>” and the subject line was “DHL Shipment Notification”…
keep in mind that the “From:” address is one of the easiest things about any email message to forge. among the other easy things to forge are the “Subject:” line, the “To:” line, and the body of the message, which is one of the reasons it’s not uncommon to get spam from “yourself”.
the spam i got contained the following message:
Notification for shipment event group “Delivery Exception” for &email&;
Dear Customer,This is a notification that your package has experienced an exception, kindly follow the link to update your address: https://www.dhl.com/address_update
however, because of the fact that i only accept plaintext email, this is what i saw:
<p align=”LEFT”><span style=”font-size:12px;”><span style=”font-family:times new roman,times,serif;”>This is a notification that your package has experienced an exception, kindly follow the link to update your address:</span> <strong> </strong><font color=”#0000ee”><strong> <a href=”https://chicagoturfpros.com/wp-includes/css/dhl/[email protected]”><span style=”font-family:times new roman,times,serif;”>https://www.dhl.com/address_update</span></a></strong><span style=”font-family:times new roman,times,serif;”> </span></font></span></p>
for those who look carefully, particularly at the bigger sections of the text, you will discover that there’s a link — a href= — and the target of that link is chicagoturfpros.com…
BUT the apparent target of the link is actually dhl.com. this is compounded by the fact that SOMEONE has taken a lot of time and care to make it look like the dhl.com web site, even though it isn’t.
if i accepted rendered HTML-formatted email, i, very likely, would not have seen the fact that, instead of going to dhl.com, i was actually going to chicagoturfpros.com — WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT THE SPAMMERS WANT TO HAPPEN!
because of the fact that the link also includes my email address, there is also the very strong probability that: 1) i would have clicked the “update address” button without noticing that i’m giving my personal information to “chicagoturfpros.com” or whoever is controlling their web site, and 2) even if i didn’t click the “update address” button, my email address is now a part of the web log for “chicagoturfpros.com” (or whoever is controlling their web site), which means that, even if they didn’t get my personal information, they have what is now a “valid” email address, with which they can, then, send me more spam.
because of the fact that i DO NOT ALLOW rendered, HTML-formatted email on my computer, they (whoever “they” is) don’t get ANY information from me.
which is precisely why you should NEVER allow your email client to render HTML-formatted email.
if you have a regular email client, not accepting rendered HTML-formatted email should be as simple as going to the settings and deselecting “Use HTML by default” or whatever your email client has (this is one of the differences in all email clients). if you use IMAP (web mail) you may or may not have that capability, so your mileage may vary. i very strongly recommend that you use an email client which is compatible with IMAP, and reply from that, even if you do use web mail. it makes things a hell of a lot easier, especially when you’re dealing with spam and identity theft.
i realise this is a lost cause, and that pretty much everyone sends, and receives HTML-formatted email by default, these days, but identity theft is still a MASSIVE problem, and it’s only being made worse by the default preponderance of HTML-formatted email. if you don’t want to have your identity stolen, ONLY ACCEPT PLAINTEXT EMAIL. it won’t guarantee that your identity won’t get stolen, but it will go a long way to make it a lot more difficult to do so.
this has been a public service announcement.
ETA: wordpress is concerned enough about my security that, yesterday, it sent me three notices concerning the fact that the link i provided above, which isn’t even a link, but just a text representation of what the link looks like, is a security risk, and offered to delete the page for me. THAT’S why i only accept plaintext mail. 👍
for further information, read In Apple Mail, There’s No Protecting PGP-Encrypted Messages which gives a contemporary example of why HTML-formatted email is evil.
maque asked me to build a bullroarer
maque asked me to build a bullroarer. i may have gone a little bit overboard…
i built a 30″ bullroarer. it’s big enough that i had to order special rubber bands to finish it. then, when i realised that i had to wait for the rubber bands to be delivered, i went crazy and spent two days going various places searching for a suitable alternative.
it’s a lot quieter than i expected. i’m going to have to build a smaller one, like this:
to see if smaller helps it be noisier.
केत्छुप्
i got new glasses about 2 months ago. they’re round, for the first time since the 1990s. they also came with polarised brown “clip-on” sunglasses. i thought they looked really cool, and they matched the brown cap that i had been wearing…
but i quickly noticed that i was feeling REALLY depressed… like last year, when the smoke from the forest fires was so prevalent. i looked up and the sky was the same colour brown, and it felt like i was being opressed and couldn’t get away.
i did some research, and talked to a few people, and came to the conclusion that there is a modicum of truth to the old aphorism about “looking at the world through rose coloured glasses”… only these were crap coloured glasses.
so i ordered a set of grey clip-on sunglasses, and when i first put them on, i noticed a PROFOUND difference, almost immediately.
i moved stuff around in my office, in an attempt to make things easier to access. i’ve now got my main desktop computer, my amplifier and my printer on shelves, right next to the monitor, and i moved the speakers so that i’m more in the “sweet spot” when i’m sitting at my desk than i was before. i still have to figure out where my laptop is going to live, because it had been on the desk where the desktop computer is, now. for the moment, it’s folded up and sitting in one of the shelves, to my left. it’s okay there, for now, but i’m fairly sure that, when i actually have to use it for more than a few minutes, like a couple of days in a row, i’m going to have to figure out a new spot for it, because where it is now is not good in the long term. i have been thinking of going to ikea and seeing if there are some half-shelf inserts for the expidit (now called “kallax”) bookshelves, because i could probably make better use of some of the shelves if there were half-shelf increments in a couple of places.
i celebrated moving stuff around in my office by spending a few days digitising vinyl records. the turntable fits a lot better on the right side of my desk than it did on the left side, and it is ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE easier to connect to the amplifier and computer. however, for some, unknown, reason, my internal CD/DVD ROM is not working correctly, so i can’t archive anything, once i have digitised it.
i sent out three emails to different agarbathiwalas that i know, who had expressed interest in the HPOI when i got it, but now that i actually have it in hand, i haven’t heard anything from them for a couple of weeks. i figure i can wholesale them for $25 a dozen and still make a profit, but if i haven’t heard anything from my email contacts soon, i’m going to try places like the Pike Place Pipe Palace, Tenzing Momo, and Zenith Supplies.
the weather has gotten nicer, and i am walking more, but i like to walk at sunset, and sunset is getting later and later as spring progresses. i like walking at sunset in my burnoose and djellaba, and being invisible. i’m also taking a basic circus skills for handicapped adults class, at SANCA, which is really cool, but i’m getting worn out by it really quickly. i really want to start going to the gym again, but i haven’t done it yet. 😕
politically, things continue to get worse, on a minute-by-minute basis. the probability is very high that congress will flip in november, which will mean that #drumpf will, in all likelyhood, be impeached, which will mean that mike pence will become president, which is an even worse proposition than #drumpf, in terms of human rights and the environment. whatever happens, we’re screwed, and will continue to be screwed for the forseeable future. when they said “emanentise the eschaton” i didn’t think it meant “by any means possible”. 😠
Rule 3
an example of Rule 3, spammers are stooOOpid…
at 3:24 pm, today, this happened:
at 3:26 pm, today, i blocked 88.99.0.0/16 from accessing my web site.
you may not fit the definition of a spammer, but you are definitely stooOOpid. is it possible that you are a machine? you have not done your owner a favour, you know.