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Comment on Magic: The Gathering Strikes Again by voodoo

voodoo — Mon, 05 May 2008 04:59:06 +0000

Hi to all.
It’s amazing to play this again, thank you!

Researching on this matter, I also learned that if you right-click the executable, go to Properties, choose the Compatibility tab, you can change it to Windows 98.

Cheers!

Comment on SORBS Sucks by Dwight

Dwight — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:32:51 +0000

SORBS is still manned by the same morons. I tried to send a SPAM report to abuse@canals.ro and got blocked because the NAT address I happened to be assigned by AOL was in the SORBS blacklist. When I followed the link in the returned report, I got to the SORBS site and entered a trouble report telling them they were blocking IP addresses randomly. I am not an IP neophyte. I spent 35 years working with computer programming in the telecommunications area. It seems obvious to me that IP addresses don’t send SPAM - it’s the user that sends the SPAM and IP addresses can be reassigned, but here is part of Joey’s last response to me, threats and all:

Not that you would understand but we block any IP that delivers spam to
us , the IP addresses in question here provide plenty of that to remain
listed for a very long time.

If you dont already get it by now , this is not your problem to discuss
with SORBS , you are not the registered owner of the listed IP address/s
and you have no authority to request anything on behalf of AOL or Yahoo
, but you are welcome to contact them to ask their permission to act on
their behalf.
Any further rubbish from you and you will be reported to their abuse
dept and not being able to use AOL will be the least of your problems.

–
Joey ( SORBS Volunteer )
Western Australia.

Comment on SORBS Sucks by Daaditsu

Daaditsu — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:54:14 +0000

My mail server got listed in their db recently and the below is their reply. very amateurish don’t u think?

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That is some administration you have operating there , it’s taken you 6 months to contact us? heh!
…
…
…
Joey ( SORBS Volunteer )
Western Australia.
————

.. not to mention it took them almost a week to reply.

Comment on Magic: The Gathering Strikes Again by Billy

Billy — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:54:50 +0000

There have been reports that logitechs setpoint software will crash this game in the deckbuilder. Stopping the service for setpoint has gotten me some play out of this old game.

Comment on Help Wanted - Confusion About Irish Myth by Nathan

Nathan — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:34:04 +0000

Ah, I suppose I should die of embarrassment for having failed to properly read the notes. Thanks for pointing that out!

Comment on SORBS Sucks by Rick

Rick — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:59:01 +0000

Its 2008 and SORBS still sucks! How does an honest business get off their list?

Comment on Help Wanted - Confusion About Irish Myth by Tania

Tania — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:12:30 +0000

I JUST read the Kinsella translation this morning.
In the notes, he stated that it was an “artistic flourish” the authors used, ignoring her death.
I guess, similar to the Champion’s Portions of the meat, he was also to keep the Champion’s Choice of a bed-mate — also ignoring the fact that he was already married to Emer.

Comment on SORBS Sucks by TomBerlin

TomBerlin — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:31:12 +0000

yeah 3 years of comment, wow!

yes we also got a message from “Matti Meikäläinen”. Interesting that the “big guy” himself answers the mails and calls himself “Freiwilliger” (german for volunteer) - no more real volunteers there anymore to help him with his criminal exploits??

We are a small firm of experts on car accidents and we mostly compose expertises - and of course sending a lot of these via email to our customers - we live on these!. But thanks to SORBS we no longer can sent them to one of our bigger customers… And mind: our email adress is based at one of the biggest freemailers in Germany (freenet.de)-surley no spammer!

I wrote to SORBS, and I never got a more arrogant reply than from this f—ing Matthew. He hinted that our ISP could go throu the unlisting process - i called them und of course they already knew the problem und said the they will never comply with the SORBS procedure as SORBS is very suspect to them. The only help would be, that we ask our customer, to ask in turn his ISP to no longer use SORB-Lists…

And if you want to have a real laugh: go to the sponsors-page on the SORBS-site, look bottom of page to the credits, there you find the following: “Vernon (DCC) for reminding the original author that you should not fight abuse with abuse.”

Hey Vernon you really didn`t get through that time… please please do it again (and again)… maybe S–kin Sullivan will learn it in time…

Comment on MicroReviews: Gravity’s Rainbow, Artemis Fowl, Parable of the Sower by Pneumatised! » Recently read and currently reading

Pneumatised! » Recently read and currently reading — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:59:13 +0000

[...] to read up to Ancestors of Avalon.) Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (a recommendation by Nathan (see his blog)) Artemis Fowl (books two and three) by Eoin Colfer (This is such an amusing children’s [...]

Comment on SORBS Sucks by Matti Meikäläinen

Matti Meikäläinen — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:18:49 +0000

My company recently contacted SORBS about their BL activities. Matthew Sullivan is answering support emails using the pseudonym “Matti Meikäläinen”.
He thinks he is really smart but you can tell by the sentence length and construction that its Matthew responding.
SORBS can’t be much longer for this world without volunteers.
It makes you wonder why he continues with such a sad charade?
I was surprised to see that so few companies are now using SORBS, the last time (2003) we had to deal with these clowns it was much higher.