On Monday 11 March 2019 14:06:08 Dan Youngquist wrote: Earthlink password security is very poor; or at least, it was, when I used it some years back. As I already tried to reason with Felix, there must be better email services out there, even if you've had this one for years and years (like I had mine for 10+ years). I used to get sometimes 20-30 spam emails a day with Earthlink; with Zoho I get none, zero, zilch, nada, nuttin. When I used Earthlink, the only possible combinations for passwords were letters and numbers, dash & underscore -- & no funny characters! -- and a limit of 8 characters total for password. Read up on password security a little, and you'll find that it would take a script kiddie (let's imagine about 10 years old) about 15-20 minutes, tops, to crack your password. So it does not surprise me if his account has been compromised; it only amazes me that is still sticking with it, when all the signs here are bad bad bad. Bill P.S. Numbers 22:31: "And then his eyes were opened ..."

On 03/12/2019 02:56 AM, Michael Howard via trinity-users wrote: One would think so, but so far there's been no action or comment from that quarter. Would the moderator(s) care to comment?

Michael Howard via trinity-users composed on 2019-03-12 09:56 (UTC): ... Addressing me in a thread I'm ignoring can't be expected to work. :-p I'm not sure how I came to notice this this morning. http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/?0::15109 and http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/?0::15152 are the only two messages of the five listed for the "Can I practice with you?" thread on the list archive that do not produce the following: [quote]Cannot decode string with wide characters at /usr/lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/perl/5.24/Encode.pm line 202. For help, please send mail to the webmaster (kb9vqf(a)pearsoncomputing.net), giving this error message and the time and date of the error.[/quote] Is the list archive producing this message just for my IP? The first of those that don't is Dan's sent 14:06:08 -0700. The 9 March starter spam is pure forgery. It's the first and only spam with my name & sender address I can recall seeing come through the list. If more is being sent, it must be being trapped by Earthlink's own filters before it gets to my account. The archive does not permit by author listings that might allow me to look and see how many forgeries have made the list. AFAICT, I'm being victimized by false positive filtering as well as forgeries. It's become quite troublesome lately. I have yet to figure out what to do about it, only just having realized how bad it has become. Most of my email is to/from mailing lists, and I have seen little evidence of trouble with lists. Earthlink via BrightHouse/Spectrum has been my provider nearly 12 years, started when Time Warner/BrightHouse booted Internet Junction, my first and theretofore broadband provider, off the available alternatives on its cable system, the only broadband option where I am. deloptes did email to me about spamming here "from me" privately, a month ago, but nothing came of it. Contacting Tim via direct email for me has historically been impossible. Resolving trouble in the past has been done via a borrowed email account using webmail to work around the false positives or filtering or outright domain blocking. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Dan Youngquist wrote: Rather a narcissist.

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 06:50:50PM -0700, Dan Youngquist wrote: Alas, I've already deleted the spams, but what evidence do you have that they are sent via Earthlink using Felix's credentials? I'm not saying they haven't, I just want to know what evidence you are using. -- Steven