Where's Jeff?

Just got back on this group recently. I'm noticing the lack of Jeff's
presence. Are you there Jeff? Doing OK?


Steve

"seaweedsteve" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:142232e0-76fa-4317-a096-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Just got back on this group recently. I'm noticing the lack of Jeff's
> presence. Are you there Jeff? Doing OK?
>
>

Should we get you some tissues?

seaweedsteve <(E-Mail Removed)> hath wroth:

>Just got back on this group recently. I'm noticing the lack of Jeff's
>presence. Are you there Jeff? Doing OK?
>Steve

Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated.

Yeah, I'm still alive, doing fairly well, and am seriously overworked,
over committed, and over subscribed. I also suspect that I just
caught a cold or flu. What inspired my sudden disappearance was a
storm about 2 weeks ago that dropped the power lines in the area. I
had emergency generator and battery power, but just didn't feel like
running the generator[1]. So, I left the computah turned off, the TV
off, and did some home repair, cleaning, and learned how to cook on
the wood burner. Power came back after 6 days, but by then, I was
engrossed in my assorted projects and just kept going.

Meanwhile, some of my customers went into the traditional end of the
year panic mode somewhat late, and decided that I should drop
everything and replace all their equipment with new hardware
overnight. All the upgrades and replacements that traditionally
happened between Christmas and New Years in the past just hit me. Add
a bit of damage control on generators, transfer boxes, solar kludges,
and UPS's with dead batteries for entertainment. Of course, I haven't
cleaned up my bookkeeping since ummm.... July 2007, and almost missed
filing my estimated income tax payment. Meanwhile, I traded for a new
junk bicycle, joined yet another volunteer board of directors, and
bought some new toys (test equipment) on eBay.

So, I'm verrrry bizzzzeeee, running a fever, runny nose, and suspect
that the wonderful world of wireless can survive without my acerbic
wit and caustic comments for a while. As Governor Arnold once said,
"I'll be back".


[1] I also discovered that my ancient Speedstream DSL modem runs off
18VAC and my Buffalo router runs off 3.3VDC. Not exactly useful for
running off a 12v battery. All the good stuff that runs on 12VDC was
in my office or on loan to a customer with the same problem.

--
Jeff Liebermann (E-Mail Removed)
150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com
Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558

On Jan 16, 3:49 am, Jeff Liebermann <je...@cruzio.com> wrote:
> seaweedsteve <seaweedst...@gmail.com> hath wroth:
>
> >Just got back on this group recently. I'm noticing the lack of Jeff's
> >presence. Are you there Jeff? Doing OK?
> >Steve
>
> Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated.
>
> Yeah, I'm still alive, doing fairly well, and am seriously overworked,
> over committed, and over subscribed. I also suspect that I just
> caught a cold or flu. What inspired my sudden disappearance was a
> storm about 2 weeks ago that dropped the power lines in the area. I
> had emergency generator and battery power, but just didn't feel like
> running the generator[1]. So, I left the computah turned off, the TV
> off, and did some home repair, cleaning, and learned how to cook on
> the wood burner. Power came back after 6 days, but by then, I was
> engrossed in my assorted projects and just kept going.
>
> Meanwhile, some of my customers went into the traditional end of the
> year panic mode somewhat late, and decided that I should drop
> everything and replace all their equipment with new hardware
> overnight. All the upgrades and replacements that traditionally
> happened between Christmas and New Years in the past just hit me. Add
> a bit of damage control on generators, transfer boxes, solar kludges,
> and UPS's with dead batteries for entertainment. Of course, I haven't
> cleaned up my bookkeeping since ummm.... July 2007, and almost missed
> filing my estimated income tax payment. Meanwhile, I traded for a new
> junk bicycle, joined yet another volunteer board of directors, and
> bought some new toys (test equipment) on eBay.
>
> So, I'm verrrry bizzzzeeee, running a fever, runny nose, and suspect
> that the wonderful world of wireless can survive without my acerbic
> wit and caustic comments for a while. As Governor Arnold once said,
> "I'll be back".
>
> [1] I also discovered that my ancient Speedstream DSL modem runs off
> 18VAC and my Buffalo router runs off 3.3VDC. Not exactly useful for
> running off a 12v battery. All the good stuff that runs on 12VDC was
> in my office or on loan to a customer with the same problem.
>
> --
> Jeff Liebermann je...@cruzio.com
> 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
> Santa Cruz CA 95060http://802.11junk.com
> Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558

Good to hear that you've had a stay of execution. Yep, the group
felt different . Apologies to all for the personal tone,and I didn't
know whom to ask.


Steve

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:20:09 -0800 (PST), seaweedsteve
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
<def945c1-6a39-4f3d-b310-(E-Mail Removed)>:

>Good to hear that you've had a stay of execution. Yep, the group
>felt different . Apologies to all for the personal tone,and I didn't
>know whom to ask.

Next time try email. Like me, Jeff is an old hand that uses a real
email address. Warnings about harvesting by spammers are urban legend
based on supposition, not empirical data. Munging is a waste of effort.
Not providing an email address is rude.

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Wi-Fi How To: <http://wireless.wikia.com/wiki/Wi-Fi_HowTo>
Fixes to Wi-Fi Problems: <http://wireless.wikia.com/wiki/Wi-Fi_Fixes>

John Navas wrote:
> Warnings about harvesting by spammers are urban legend
> based on supposition, not empirical data. Munging is a waste of effort.
> Not providing an email address is rude.

I'm inclined to disagree slightly, since my published email address (see
headers) attracts 100-150 spams per day, whereas my unpublished one
doesn't....

John Navas wrote:

>
> Next time try email. Like me, Jeff is an old hand that uses a real
> email address. Warnings about harvesting by spammers are urban legend
> based on supposition, not empirical data. Munging is a waste of effort.
> Not providing an email address is rude.
>
Purely out of curiosity why do you use "spamfilter 1" as a "real email
address" and not a derivative of jn?

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:30:29 +0000, Mark McIntyre
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>John Navas wrote:
>> Warnings about harvesting by spammers are urban legend
>> based on supposition, not empirical data. Munging is a waste of effort.
>> Not providing an email address is rude.

>I'm inclined to disagree slightly, since my published email address (see
>headers) attracts 100-150 spams per day, whereas my unpublished one
>doesn't....

I'll take the middle road. I've had the same email addresses since
about 1989. They are widely know, all over the internet, on my web
page, on my domain registrations, on all my web accounts, etc. They
couldn't be more public. After filtering, I get about 5-10 spam
messages per account per day. Note that I said after filtering.
Instead of making it difficult for everyone that tries to send me
email, I spend my time optizing my spam filter. At this time, it's
sufficiently complicated and messy that I'm afraid to touch it. Some
of the rules are truely bizarre. For example, I was getting some
really worthless spam that added extra spaces between all the
characters. It was still readable, but impossible for a key word spam
filter to function effectively. So, I calculated the ratio of single
spaces to characters. Anything over a specific ratio, is spam.

On the other foot, I use throw away email addresses for specific
purposes. For example, I'm involved in a project with about 10 other
individuals. All the email is PGP signed and encrypted (with GNUpg
and Enigmail for the curious). My mailbox is set to only accept
encrypted, authenticated, and digitally signed email to that mailbox.
It's been running for about a year. Lots of spam hits that mailbox,
but I never see any of it.

Incidentally, when I was on Sprint, I had an X.400 email address
without any forwarding from a common domain style address. I never
received any spam, but I also missed quite a bit of valid email.
That's because few people sending me could figure out how to address
an X.400 message, or type the 60 odd characters perfectly. Oh well.

Drivel: Just inhaled some "rubber restorer" fumes. I think I'm going
to barf, die, or both. Later.


--
# Jeff Liebermann 150 Felker St #D Santa Cruz CA 95060
# 831-336-2558 (E-Mail Removed)
# http://802.11junk.com (E-Mail Removed)
# http://www.LearnByDestroying.com AE6KS

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:30:29 +0000, Mark McIntyre
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
<(E-Mail Removed)>:

>John Navas wrote:
>> Warnings about harvesting by spammers are urban legend
>> based on supposition, not empirical data. Munging is a waste of effort.
>> Not providing an email address is rude.
>
>I'm inclined to disagree slightly, since my published email address (see
>headers) attracts 100-150 spams per day, whereas my unpublished one
>doesn't....

My long published Usenet email address gets at most one spam per week,
often less. Perhaps someone harvested the address some other way. All
it takes is once. You might want to try again with a new address.

--
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John Navas FAQ for Wi-Fi: <http://wireless.wikia.com/wiki/Wi-Fi>
Wi-Fi How To: <http://wireless.wikia.com/wiki/Wi-Fi_HowTo>
Fixes to Wi-Fi Problems: <http://wireless.wikia.com/wiki/Wi-Fi_Fixes>

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:11:34 -0800, Jeff Liebermann
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
<(E-Mail Removed)>:

>On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:30:29 +0000, Mark McIntyre
><(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>John Navas wrote:
>>> Warnings about harvesting by spammers are urban legend
>>> based on supposition, not empirical data. Munging is a waste of effort.
>>> Not providing an email address is rude.
>
>>I'm inclined to disagree slightly, since my published email address (see
>>headers) attracts 100-150 spams per day, whereas my unpublished one
>>doesn't....
>
>I'll take the middle road. I've had the same email addresses since
>about 1989. They are widely know, all over the internet, on my web
>page, on my domain registrations, on all my web accounts, etc. They
>couldn't be more public. After filtering, I get about 5-10 spam
>messages per account per day. Note that I said after filtering.
>Instead of making it difficult for everyone that tries to send me
>email, I spend my time optizing my spam filter. At this time, it's
>sufficiently complicated and messy that I'm afraid to touch it. Some
>of the rules are truely bizarre. For example, I was getting some
>really worthless spam that added extra spaces between all the
>characters. It was still readable, but impossible for a key word spam
>filter to function effectively. So, I calculated the ratio of single
>spaces to characters. Anything over a specific ratio, is spam.

I used to use Bayesian Classification, which was dead easy and about
99.4% accurate, but now I just use Google filtering, which is even
better. I've only had two false positives in the past year, and only a
very tiny trickle of spam gets through.

>On the other foot, I use throw away email addresses for specific
>purposes. ...

Me too, although Google has made that unimportant for spam purposes.

--
Best regards, FAQ for Wireless Internet: <http://Wireless.wikia.com>
John Navas FAQ for Wi-Fi: <http://wireless.wikia.com/wiki/Wi-Fi>
Wi-Fi How To: <http://wireless.wikia.com/wiki/Wi-Fi_HowTo>
Fixes to Wi-Fi Problems: <http://wireless.wikia.com/wiki/Wi-Fi_Fixes>