George Neuner <gneuner2/> writes:
>[*] I'm unsure of the author's surname. Being a stupid American, the
> name "van Nostrand Reinhold", as written, looks strange. Google
> didn't help. My Anglish guess would be "Reinhold van Nostrand" but I
> wouldn't dare to state it as if I really knew.

The author's surname is Morrison. van Nostrand is the name of the
publishing house.

On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:19:03 GMT, chris
<chris> wrote:

>George Neuner <gneuner2/> writes:
>>[*] I'm unsure of the author's surname. Being a stupid American, the
>> name "van Nostrand Reinhold", as written, looks strange. Google
>> didn't help. My Anglish guess would be "Reinhold van Nostrand" but I
>> wouldn't dare to state it as if I really knew.
>
>The author's surname is Morrison. van Nostrand is the name of the
>publishing house.

Thank you. I saw the name Morrison cited in the biblio but it is not
anywhere on the text I have.

George

> From: m6d02a1.3.calrobert (Robert Maas, http://tinyurl.com/uh3t)
That variant e-mail address was posted only once, in
this article on Jun.02:
<http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/e156db70df59c938>
= Message-ID: <rem-2008jun02-001>
but today I've had to disable the address, because after nearly
three months some spammer finally harvested that address and sent
me a spam to that address, reported here:
<http://groups.google.com/group/news.admin.net-abuse.sightings/msg/4c90936b378a0185>
= Message-ID: <rem-2008aug27-001>
If you want to very-belatedly e-mail me privately, see my Web site
for a Turing test that leads to a non-published e-mail address, or
check some other article I posted recently for a public but
disguised address that hasn't yet been harvested.

By the way, as recently as *today*, Barack Obama's
campaign organization is still sending out spam to
addresses that never signed up for any mailing from
him, but which addresses were used in a *comment* to
his comment WebForm asking him *not* to send them any
e-mail. Harvesting e-mail addresses to use for some
purpose other than how they were originally supplied
should be a crime. Regardless of where the address came
from, putting somebody on an e-mail mass-mailing list
without first asking them to confirm they wanted the
mailings should also be a crime. Obama's campaign has
repeatedly commited what should be two separate crimes.
Obama and his campaign workers should be in prison
already. But of course Obama is corrupt like many other
members of Congress, and probably voted for CAN-SPAM
which gives them a legal exemption to all anti-spam
laws.

The last three such spam to one of my spamtrap
addresses are summarized below:

291 Behind the scenes in Denver
SpamTrap -- My mom, the girls, and I left home in Chicago and got to
Denver yesterday. What a beautiful city! The convention started this
morning, and everyone... Michelle Obama
info@...
Aug 26, 2008 1:28 am

292 Did you see Michelle?
SpamTrap -- I am so lucky to be married to the woman who delivered
that speech last night. Michelle was electrifying, inspiring, and
absolutely magnificent. I... Barack Obama
info@...
Aug 26, 2008 3:55 pm

293 Rolling up our sleeves
SpamTrap -- This has been a convention of extraordinary moments. Ted
Kennedy passing the torch to a new generation. Michelle Obama moving
the crowd to tears.... Jon Carson, BarackOba...
info@...
5:42 pm

So what? I get appr. 3000 spam mails every day, but I can manage it.

thus spoke Robert Maas, http://tinyurl.com/uh3t <m6d02a1.3.calrobert>:

>> From: m6d02a1.3.calrobert (Robert Maas,
>> [..])
> but today I've had to disable the address, because after nearly
> three months some spammer finally harvested that address and sent
> me a spam to that address, reported here:

What's the problem? Turn on greylisting and use SpamAssassin with SARE
rulesets. It's not a big deal. Got a couple hundred attempts to spam my
address daily, the very few that get through greylisting get flagged by
SA. There's not a global problem with spam, but dimwitted postmasters.

> From: =?UTF-8?Q?Stanis=C5=82aw?= Halik <sthalik+use>
> Turn on greylisting and use SpamAssassin with SARE rulesets.

I don't have either option. Perhaps you will provide me with a free
account on whatever computer *you* use which does have those
options.

> There's not a global problem with spam, but dimwitted postmasters.

I don't know of any e-mail service available to me currently that
does it right. All known postmasters are currently dimwitted, some
more dimwitted than others. Perhaps whatever system you are using,
which you are bragging about, could be made available to me? If and
when I finish some other projects and have time+energy to start
implementing my new e-mail system, it'll do spam filtering **right**.


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