Second round of Amiga.org upgrades set to begin

[selco]

I wish you the best for the update.

The email-forwarding was a nice service, I will miss it! Maybe you can find a way to handle the spam and bring that service back...

Good luck!

[Acill]

I'm still processing about 20,000 spam messages every day which it doesn't catch.

Wow that just blows me away. SPAM has got to be the worst problem on the internet these days. I just cant help to think about how much dadta storage space is wasted on servers because of it all.

[opi]

How 'bout Jabber icon next to ICQ, AIM and so on. Im not using any of them, but I use Jabber. I would be nice to have ability to spot A.org friends (and not quite friends;-) and chat. PSI and Jabber: nice, nice connection. :-)

[Dr.Bongo]

Best of luck to you Sir! Maybe when the new Amiga.org is up abd running my A4000 will be on the Internet! (I WILL ditch this PC!!!!)  :-D

[JetRacer]

As long as we don't miss the release of AOS4, I don't think anyone really cares :-)
Except for the ones using the e-mail forwarding (but hey, it's free).

Some people shouldn't be too quick to say "ban".
Free speach, HD crashes, etc.

There are potential legal issues with reading other peoples e-mail or parts (like attachement).

[bloodline]

@Wayne - could we have a secure login so that I can view the page via SSL (or similar https://). That would allow me to view the pages at work regardless of their content. At the moment I can't view pages if they contain a word blocked by the firewall :-) (I have to use a secure proxy which is bandwidth limited :-( )

[Seehund]

Thanks guys! I have been looking forward to many of these improvements.

But...

First and foremost is the sheer amount of SPAM that was being processed by the server. Even with SpamAssassin loaded, I'm still processing about 20,000 spam messages every day which it doesn't catch.

While spam (which is not an acronym ) filtering is a nice extra service, I wouldn't miss it. Let users and their ISPs worry about this themselves and offload some stress from your own server. Would the bandwidth waste really be all that big?

Even more troubling is the fact that several of you (and I know who you are) have been misusing Amiga.org's free e-mail forwarding to spread keyfiles and other pirated/pornographic materials, placing Amiga.org in very real danger of being permanently shut down due to DMCA and other law violations.

What would that have to do with amiga.org? It's a matter for the sender, receiver and their respective ISPs, no? You're not hosting or distributing any illegal material, in essence your server is just slapping an extra amiga.org line to the e-mail headers and you can't be accused of anything. The DMCA is a moronic and unnecessary law, but if someone would complain to you about an incident with an amiga.org e-mail message and refer to the DMCA, shouldn't it suffice to delete the specific user's account?

[redfox]

Thanks for the info, Wayne.

Amiga.org is a great site, and I look forward to seeing the new features. :-D

E-mail forwarding has been permanently disabled.

Now I won't get my daily dose of SPAM .... :boohoo: ....  ;-)

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redfox

[TheMagicM]

You're doing a GREAT job Wayne.  Since day 1!  

[JetRacer]

I should have been more specific.

In some countries you can get many years in prison for breaking mail confidentiality. Some countries have / are in the process of extending such laws to include e-mail (among other things, to enable e-trading).

Because of the jail time involved it also means that one can be extradited (spell?) for it. Slim chance, but people should be aware of it. I don't know the specifics of American law, but in many countries there's a threshold coupled to offence giving a certain number of years to enable extradition.

This all got to do with the fact that a mailservice like Amiga.Org's essentially can intercept other countries mail.

[System]

Jet,

There is no issue.  Legal or otherwise.  People were using (and in some cases taking advantage of) a free service which is cancelled.  Participation is such a program is entirely voluntary and no rights were transferred to the end-user.

I am not reading the mail, simply deleting it after running through the list of headers to make sure that I'm not throwing away something by mistake.  With that number being over 20,000 per day still, I'm not interested in reading the different types of spam involved.

[sir_inferno]

kool, but i hate the newbb in xoops2  :-(

[System]

I know this never dawned on you, but you might actually BE MORE SPECIFIC...