Tonight Live: It’s Cold in Hell and More Spam (Bloody Vikings)

[ Thanks to Jeff
Gerhardt for this link. ]

Tonight Live: It’s Cold in Hell and MORE SPAM (bloody
Vikings) >> on The Linux Show!!
Tonight Live: On The Linux Show!!
Tuesday, October 14th, 2003 from Chicago IL the Home
of THE CUBS
Tonight LIVE on www.thelinuxshow.com.

At 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et…. Kevin Hill, Arne
Flones, Doc Searls, Russ Pavlicek AND Jeff Gerhardt are all back
live tonight. We have an interesting (albeit short) show lined up
for tonight.

Segment One- The News. We will cover
THE HOT NEWS of the week including: Winged Spawn
of Hell seen flying over Chicago wearing scarves and gloves, is it
over for SCO, COOL Linux Games, Important FCC news, LOTS ON SPAM, a
clueless pundit or two…….. and way more.

Story Links

• The News This Weeks
  • Linaire
    sells cheap Linux PCs and email–news.com
  • Samba beats
    Windows; 2.5 times faster–VnuNet
  • Linux
    Rescue Disks Get a Kick from GAR–Linux Planet
  • FCC
    must treat cable firms the same as telcos – about “F”ing
    time
  • Linux’s
    Hit Men BS “commie” pandering by Forbes
  • Israel slams
    the door on Microsoft– Exclusive at The Register
  • Getting
    real about SCO-Chad Dickerson Infoworld
  • How Much
    Office Functionality Do We Really Need, Anyway– By Steven J.
    Vaughan-Nichols EWeek
  • Linux CD turns
    Athlon 64 PC into “gaming console on steroids”–
    Linuxdevices.com
  • Linux Cost
    Savings Add Up–
  • Open Source
    Needs Long-Range Plans-By Brian Proffitt Linux Today Managing
    Editor
  • Mass.
    official: “Open source” reports overstated State secretary denies
    existence of “Freeware Initiative” -By Paul Roberts, IDG
    News
• Old SCO
  • SGI:
    Letter to the Linux Community– Get bit SCO
  • Halloween IX:
    It Ain’t Necessarily SCO–
  • An
    Open Letter to Darl-Newsforge good thoughts by ESR
  • ‘SCO’ code could
    be written out of Linux–
  • 
    Red Hat Files Complaint Over SCO’s Linux Claims –
  • CALDERA
    Employess work on Kernel– Jeff:I told you so
  • Torvalds
    Speaks Out on SCO, Linux– from e-week
  • 
    SCO Owns Your Computer– Byte (how appropriate)
  • OSI Position
    Paper on the SCO-vs.-IBM Complaint–
  • Eric Raymond’s
    attempt to find holes in SCO’s claim–
  • 
    SCO’s CEO says buyout could end Linux fight– by TODD R. WEISS
    of Computer World This may be the defining story of the
    entire SCO situation
• The SCO/Microsoft Connection
  • 
    The Linux and Main Summary– has to be good, quoted
    jeff…..
  • 
    Linux & Main editorial citing Microsoft– By Dennis
    Powell
  • “SCO
    ANNOUNCES UNIX LICENSING DEAL WITH MICROSOFT” – the official
    press release
  • If it Look like
    a duck, smells like a duck, walks like a duck? Its a duck HEY
    DOJ WAKE UP!!!!!!!
  • OK, So Why
    Did Microsoft Buy That SCO License?– by Maureen O’Gara of
    LinuxGram

Segment Two- SPAM SUCKS– and what to do about
it

Last wek we said that we were going to talk about our adventures
with Spam over the last couple weeks and we ran out of time. A
number of people have requested that we go ahead and do that
segment tonight. So in light of the email we will have our
previously scheduled conversation on what we are up against in this
era of unrestricted SPAM, and what we are doing to deal with the
explosion of spam.

A couple days before our show 2 weeks ago, a SPAM program being
distributed on the Internet had our domain (thelinuxshow.com) in
its database of suggested outgoing domains to use with a bulk email
list. This file could also be used with a Trojan that can co-opt
other computers and convert them into SMTP relay boxes all with
spoofed outgoing domains. Within short order there were dozens of
(primarily newbies) of people out there on the Internet, that were
using our domain, and dozens more that were being used as a
relay.

During the course of last couple weeks we spent 21 man hours
contacting ISPs round the world using standard abuse methods and in
some cases a threat of retribution. In some cases we also contacted
the FBI for fraud. I want to thank all those ISPs around the world
that helped to plug up the holes in the dam.

So, tonight we thought we would relate the story to you, the
techniques we used to solve the issue, and an open discussion on
our favorite Spam tools.

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