Hello from Jomac

[ajlaird]

First of all, hello and welcome.

About me and when I get spare time , I am an active anti spam activist administrating on some of the worlds largest blacklists although it did get me in a bit of hot water a few years ago when I become the first person in the world to be sued by a spammer.

Two questions: how did that work out? (and a subsidiary question - Was it Spamhaus or SPEWS you were involved with at the time?)

And can you comment on the future of SPF (Sender Policy Framework) in regards to spam reduction?

There is obviously a lot more that went on behind the scenes and things that I cant talk about because of the work I am still currently involved in.


SPF , I am a fan of this and honestly cant understand why it hasn't taken off quicker than it has , people are catching on slowly that is does help , not a total answer by any means but certainly effective.
I think these days the most effective solution is outbound SMTP filtering considering that 80% of the worlds spamming is done via compromised Trojan or virus infected pc's on larger networks.

Thanks for the response, it certainly sounds like there is an extremely interesting story there.

I guess outbound SMTP filtering is an obvious solution when you think but is it expensive or difficult to set up? It is probably less expensive than inbound filtering? I suppose a lot of ISPs just may not be bothered setting it up?

[Skybeaux]

Hi Joey just curious to what pinball boards you repair, do you repair most boards or only a select few, please also advise of your hourly repair rates. thanks.

Basically anything that is repairable , I haven't come across many that cant be repaired apart from early system 80 gottliebs , 80% of pinball boards I repair on the bench without a test rig or machine needed , including display drivers , MPU boards , Sound boards , driver boards etc no matter what brand as long as parts are available , although I do have just about everything I need.
I can burn all Eproms , pals , gals , you name it , EG: just converted an old Fire power sound and speech board to 2716 eproms because 2516's are to old now , will fix an old FJ holden ( Hankin ) MPU tomorrow as well so old is ok :)
Talking of old I can make "any" electro mechanical pinball work as long as it is complete but of course Gottliebs are my favorite :)

As for cost , most people know it can cost more to fix some boards than they are worth so I rarely ever charge on an hourly basis , I consider the harder ones a challenge so I dont charge for my learning or fun :)
I will always tell you what I think it's going to cost before insulting you with a bill , I always prefer you were happy first and money later , a lot of people can vouch for me on that :)

Hi Jomac and 

2716 eproms are identical to 2516 ,plug them straight in......so there is no converting

[Pinball Fixers]

Hi Joey, and  to Aussie Pinball!

[Jomac]

Hi Joey just curious to what pinball boards you repair, do you repair most boards or only a select few, please also advise of your hourly repair rates. thanks.

Basically anything that is repairable , I haven't come across many that cant be repaired apart from early system 80 gottliebs , 80% of pinball boards I repair on the bench without a test rig or machine needed , including display drivers , MPU boards , Sound boards , driver boards etc no matter what brand as long as parts are available , although I do have just about everything I need.
I can burn all Eproms , pals , gals , you name it , EG: just converted an old Fire power sound and speech board to 2716 eproms because 2516's are to old now , will fix an old FJ holden ( Hankin ) MPU tomorrow as well so old is ok :)
Talking of old I can make "any" electro mechanical pinball work as long as it is complete but of course Gottliebs are my favorite :)

As for cost , most people know it can cost more to fix some boards than they are worth so I rarely ever charge on an hourly basis , I consider the harder ones a challenge so I dont charge for my learning or fun :)
I will always tell you what I think it's going to cost before insulting you with a bill , I always prefer you were happy first and money later , a lot of people can vouch for me on that :)

Hi Jomac and 

2716 eproms are identical to 2516 ,plug them straight in......so there is no converting

Sorry mate it was nearly 4am when I posted that :), I meant converted from 2532 to 2732 , they are not the same pinouts

[markc]

Sorry mate it was nearly 4am when I posted that :), I meant converted from 2532 to 2732 , they are not the same pinouts
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so you went to bed early ???

shit  Larry rang me  at midnight  and was 5  am by the time i got him off the phone and told him to go see you

[Jomac]

Haha no wonder here was grumpy when he called a couple of hours ago , He keeps asking how the hell do I get Mark off the phone , he reckons you can yodel underwater with a mouth fall of marbles :)

[markc]

now now Joey ...

wasnt that you who told me Larry could do that and talk on 2 phones ......

[The pinballist formally known as Dean Morgan]

  and  Joey, sounds like you provide a great service.  Gotta love good old fasioned service, I like your business acumen of customer satisfaction first $$ later.  Look after the customer and the business takes care of itself. 

[Jomac]

and  Joey, sounds like you provide a great service.  Gotta love good old fasioned service, I like your business acumen of customer satisfaction first $$ later.  Look after the customer and the business takes care of itself. 

Thanks Dean ,

It has worked for me and made a lot of happy people :)






 

[SPURR]

Hi from Spurr

[markc]

Joey


spoke to LARRY  again mate
he is bringing you over sugar for your coffee   tomorrow ......   there goes ya morning ...  well afternoon

[Jomac]

Joey


spoke to LARRY  again mate
he is bringing you over sugar for your coffee   tomorrow ......   there goes ya morning ...  well afternoon

Oh great can you call him back and tell him I have converted to no sugar anymore please :) come on mate it's Friday hehe

[markc]

Joey


spoke to LARRY  again mate
he is bringing you over sugar for your coffee   tomorrow ......   there goes ya morning ...  well afternoon

Oh great can you call him back and tell him I have converted to no sugar anymore please :) come on mate it's Friday hehe

its ok mate

I will pop some daytonas boards in the pin I am sendind him  so he has to bring them to you ....
you need any parts put in there too ??

[Jomac]

Thanks for the response, it certainly sounds like there is an extremely interesting story there.

I guess outbound SMTP filtering is an obvious solution when you think but is it expensive or difficult to set up? It is probably less expensive than inbound filtering? I suppose a lot of ISPs just may not be bothered setting it up?

Sorry I thought about the response but forgot to post it :)

Luckily for most of us it is ISP's that are mostly taking the initiative and setting up outbound filtering , it's nothing like censorship or anything as some people assume it's simply looking for known spam patterns as used in 419 Advanced Fee Fraud Spam , phishing spam , enlargement medz etc , outbound filtering can detect unusual sending patterns that should not be coming from their networks , this is helped places like Bigpond /telstra , westnet ,iinet to name a few to avoid regular blacklisting.
If only some of the free mail provider like Gmail ( google ) , yahoo , wannadoo france etc would get their acts together we could rid the world of about 30% of all spam
This is some interesting reading and advice for mail server admins
http://www.wiki.sorbs.net/wiki/bin/view/SORBS/FAQforISPs#Spam_Database


There is also new problem that is causing more blacklistings than spam itself , its called backscatter ( or NDR's ) , It's when mail servers bounce known spam addressed to legitimate users on their networks or to none existent users back to the sender.
Any ISP admin with a brain bigger than a jaffa should know that spammers never use their own address in the " from " field , the from field in spam is always forged meaning that when they bounce spam back to sender they are always sending it back to someone who never had anything to do with spamming to begin with , basically making their problem someone else's .

[ajlaird]

Thanks for the response, it certainly sounds like there is an extremely interesting story there.

I guess outbound SMTP filtering is an obvious solution when you think but is it expensive or difficult to set up? It is probably less expensive than inbound filtering? I suppose a lot of ISPs just may not be bothered setting it up?

Sorry I thought about the response but forgot to post it :)

Luckily for most of us it is ISP's that are mostly taking the initiative and setting up outbound filtering , it's nothing like censorship or anything as some people assume it's simply looking for known spam patterns as used in 419 Advanced Fee Fraud Spam , phishing spam , enlargement medz etc , outbound filtering can detect unusual sending patterns that should not be coming from their networks , this is helped places like Bigpond /telstra , westnet ,iinet to name a few to avoid regular blacklisting.
If only some of the free mail provider like Gmail ( google ) , yahoo , wannadoo france etc would get their acts together we could rid the world of about 30% of all spam
This is some interesting reading and advice for mail server admins
http://www.wiki.sorbs.net/wiki/bin/view/SORBS/FAQforISPs#Spam_Database


There is also new problem that is causing more blacklistings than spam itself , its called backscatter ( or NDR's ) , It's when mail servers bounce known spam addressed to legitimate users on their networks or to none existent users back to the sender.
Any ISP admin with a brain bigger than a jaffa should know that spammers never use their own address in the " from " field , the from field in spam is always forged meaning that when they bounce spam back to sender they are always sending it back to someone who never had anything to do with spamming to begin with , basically making their problem someone else's .

Thanks for your insights in this area - I find it one that is very interesting as our company runs a little server setup including a mail server (mainly incoming).