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New travel website about Australia and NZ. Feedback needed!
Going to New Zealand?
Check our new travel website about beautiful New Zealand and Australia: http://www.triptouch.com/new-zealand/ni/auckland Please give us feedback ! |
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New travel website about Australia and NZ. Feedback needed!
"kangaroo16" wrote in message Going to New Zealand? Check our new travel website about beautiful New Zealand and Australia: http://www.triptouch.com/new-zealand/ni/auckland Please give us feedback ! Sure, am pleased to offer some immediate feedback. Firstly, you don't offer much information in your in your initial post to this group.........................shortened Kangaroo16, may I suggest that you set up a Gmail account. Something like . Then you'll have a legit email address and you can safely sign up to any web site and hand your gmail address out all over the interent and not worry about spam. Google are experts in spam filtering. Also sites ask you to register because many allow you to upload pictures and post to their forums. Without names, a forum can quickly be destroyed by spammers. Porn can get uploaded into the picture section and pretty soon the site is worthless. I suggest you get yourself a free gMail address and start signing up for a few of these web sites. You've nothing to loose, they don't ask for your house address or anything else personal. The internet has changed, spam isn't the problem it once was - thanks to our friends at Google. Regards Keith |
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New travel website about Australia and NZ. Feedback needed!
Incidently, ignore any of the stupid comments that certain people post
around here. Keep posting! You're my favourite poster in this newsgroup. Keith |
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New travel website about Australia and NZ. Feedback needed!
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 10:18:13 +1030, "Keith Manning"
wrote in : "kangaroo16" wrote in message Going to New Zealand? Check our new travel website about beautiful New Zealand and Australia: http://www.triptouch.com/new-zealand/ni/auckland Please give us feedback ! Sure, am pleased to offer some immediate feedback. Firstly, you don't offer much information in your in your initial post to this group.........................shortened Kangaroo16, may I suggest that you set up a Gmail account. Something like . Then you'll have a legit email address and you can safely sign up to any web site and hand your gmail address out all over the interent and not worry about spam. Google are experts in spam filtering. Perhaps, but I don't know _how_ expert. Spam, scams, key loggers, Trojans, worms, etc. are continuously evolving, and if you read the fine print of the service contracts, which I do, I have yet to see any security program that is claimed to be foolproof. Also sites ask you to register because many allow you to upload pictures and post to their forums. Without names, a forum can quickly be destroyed by spammers. Porn can get uploaded into the picture section and pretty soon the site is worthless. If their internal programs for filtering "spam", "porn" etc. aren't good enough to prevent these problems on their own sites, how trustworthy can the site be? Personally, I don't worry about porn filters as have no kids to try to protect, but I have yet to heard of any that haven't been fairly quickly cracked. Of course, nothing is really totally secure. Am sure you have noticed that sellers of security hardware no longer advertise "unpickable locks" or "uncrackable safes". :-) Governments can afford millions of dollars to protect their data, but even they have had their sites cracked. You will have probably heard of the crackdown on child porn. Every email message has a unique code, and is trackable to the sender if the police want to pursue the issue. I suggest you get yourself a free gMail address and start signing up for a few of these web sites. You've nothing to loose, they don't ask for your house address or anything else personal. The internet has changed, spam isn't the problem it once was - thanks to our friends at Google. Regards Keith Personally, I can see absolutely no advantage in G-mail. Even ordinary email isn't really all that secure. However, did do a quick search for warnings on G-mail, including a "phishing" scam that seemed to originate from Google G-mail itself. Try Googling the string gmail caution warnings and you will get ~ 31,000 links I also took a look at the "terms of use" for its services. Not too impressed by the conditions, which seem unnecessarily long and complex. The way I read it, they can reproduce anything I post on their online storage, and don't even seem to promise that they won't sell my name to other advertisers, spammer's, etc. If proceed to the sign up page, noticed that I will allow them to place "cookies" on my system, and I generally don't allow this. I have an adequate email program, and see no advantages to starting one with them. I seldom use email at all, especially when posting on a group such as this. I consider anything I post on travel or immigration groups to be of general interest or I wouldn't bother to write it. As have said many times before, those who don't choose to read my posts need not do so. Or they can make this a moderated group, and censor posts to their hearts content. I do sometimes post to moderated groups under other names, but would see no reason to follow either of these should they choose to convert them to moderated groups. Most groups on Usenet aren't moderated, for the simple reason that it most people don't like having their posts censored, and the delay involved in this. Suppose I was posting on a newsgroup which dealt with general "security" issues. Travel or immigration can both involve a whole lot of security issues, and I doubt that anyone could devise "group guidelines" which could possible cover all of them. Australia is free of some diseases, plant or animal species that could, and have, become major pests in the past. There is also a fairly lengthy list of prohibited imports, unless apply in advance to import them. This includes, or used to include, bulletproof vests, personal defense devices, eavesdropping devices, replica firearms, and so on. If a tourist or traveler declares these, they might well have, the item seized, be fined. If has a prohibited import and doesn't declare it, and customs detects it, he or she could have his or her visa cancelled on the spot and be put on the next plane home. If the visitor or migrant manages to get through customs without it being detected, and is later caught with it, they might be fined and or imprisoned. The penalties can be pretty heavy. Tourists and travelers sometimes, or even often, assume that the laws of any country they visit are similar to their home country. A few S.E. Asian countries regard anyone carrying over 25 gms of heroin as being a dealer or smuggler, and the penalty is death. A couple of years ago, from memory, a female American tourist had been visiting another country and decided to make a stopover in Mexico City on the way back to the USA. She was carrying some analgesic product [such as "Aspirin" or "Paracetomol" which contained a few milligrams of codeine. In many, or even most, countries, this is an "over the counter" pain reliever, and requires no prescription. So she didn't bother to declare it, and was caught with it when went through Mexican customs. Apparently, in Mexico, any amount of narcotics, such as codeine, must be declared. Now, in this particular case, the US Consular officials managed to convince the Mexican authorities that it was an honest mistake on her part. Most people would have enough sense to declare prescription drugs, but I suppose it doesn't occur to some people to read the ingredients label on an over the counter product, and even if she had read it, she might know that codeine is a weak narcotic, and that she should declare it. So If I post something on these groups warning that certain common items aren't allowed in Australia, I consider it a valid post. In passing, even the 50 states of the USA have widely varying state laws and penalties, usually relating to sex or drugs. Some states have, or had, laws banning certain forms of sexual behavior between adult married couples. From memory, a husband was caught practicing some forbidden activity, and spent two years in the state pen as a result. I apologise for the long post, but wanted to make my position clear. :-) Thanks for the suggestion on G-mail though, and will probably look further into the possibility. In general, though, if wanted an "anonymous" service, there are such services available, and they aren't that expensive. Nor do they demand cookies. Still, if law enforcement officers want to trace someone badly enough, they can usually do so. Anyway, thanks for the support and advice! Cheers, Kangaroo16 Sydney, 3:16 PM Saturday, 22 December. |
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New travel website about Australia and NZ. Feedback needed!
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 10:21:02 +1030, "Keith Manning"
wrote in : Incidently, ignore any of the stupid comments that certain people post around here. Keep posting! You're my favourite poster in this newsgroup. Keith Thank you for the compliment, but you will probably be criticised by others for posting it. :-) Cheers, Kangaroo16 Sydney, 3:22 PM Saturday, 22 Dec. |
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New travel website about Australia and NZ. Feedback needed!
.. wrote in message ... On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 10:18:13 +1030, "Keith Manning" Look at any Usenet ng, including this one, and see where the majority of the spam is originating - Google. The spammers may appear as having Gmail accounts but they're not necessarily originating from Gmail. Cheers, George W Russell Bangalore |
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New travel website about Australia and NZ. Feedback needed!
kangaroo16 wrote:
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 10:18:13 +1030, "Keith Manning" wrote in [...] Also sites ask you to register because many allow you to upload pictures and post to their forums. Without names, a forum can quickly be destroyed by spammers. Porn can get uploaded into the picture section and pretty soon the site is worthless. If their internal programs for filtering "spam", "porn" etc. aren't good enough to prevent these problems on their own sites, how trustworthy can the site be? So it's OK for you to be totally paranoid about a site which looks perfectly fine, but they should trust everybody, no questions asked? The mind boggles. Anyway, it's *impossible* to 'filter' "porn" (whatever *that* is) - let alone "spam" - with 100% accuracy. So any site with any clue *must* require login/password. If they don't, *they* will be held legally responsible for any inappropriate material - i.e. also copyright violations, etc. - on their site. Just think about it: Is there *any* company with any sense to which you can upload files without authentication? Personally, I don't worry about porn filters as have no kids to try to protect, but I have yet to heard of any that haven't been fairly quickly cracked. I hope you realize how inconsistent that statement is! Boggle, boggle, ... [...] |
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New travel website about Australia and NZ. Feedback needed!
On 22 Dec 2007 14:31:14 GMT, Frank Slootweg
wrote in : kangaroo16 wrote: On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 10:18:13 +1030, "Keith Manning" wrote in [...] Also sites ask you to register because many allow you to upload pictures and post to their forums. Without names, a forum can quickly be destroyed by spammers. Porn can get uploaded into the picture section and pretty soon the site is worthless. If their internal programs for filtering "spam", "porn" etc. aren't good enough to prevent these problems on their own sites, how trustworthy can the site be? So it's OK for you to be totally paranoid How about you give us your definition of "paranoid", let alone "totally paranoid"? :-) about a site which looks perfectly fine, but they should trust everybody, no questions asked? It may look "perfectly fine" to you, but it doesn't to everyone. As I indicated in the post, all messages have a unique message number and are traceable if necessary. How much do you claim to know about computer and Internet security? Historically, are you aware that the US Amateur Radio service was highly restricted during both WW1 & WW2. If you don't, check the history of amateur radio at: http://www.ac6v.com/history.htm Now, Frank, do you follow the logic of this action in wartime? Do you think that the U.S. Gov't was "Paranoid" to institute these regulations? Why do Governments allow the Internet if messages are not traceable? The mind boggles. Perhaps yours does.:-) Anyway, it's *impossible* to 'filter' "porn" (whatever *that* is) - let alone "spam" - with 100% accuracy. Yes, I've already pointed this out. So any site with any clue *must* require login/password. If they don't, *they* will be held legally responsible for any inappropriate material - i.e. also copyright violations, etc. - on their site. Unlikely, and too hard to enforce anyway. Firstly, how would they know that the name and address is correct anyway. Is your name actually "Frank Slootweg"? I note that you don't bother to provide an actual email address, incidentally. Just think about it: Is there *any* company with any sense to which you can upload files without authentication? How do you define "company", "any sense", "files" ? Personally, I don't worry about porn filters as have no kids to try to protect, but I have yet to heard of any that haven't been fairly quickly cracked. I hope you realize how inconsistent that statement is! Feel free to explain why you think it "inconsistent" :-) Boggle, boggle, ... If your mind "boggles" easily, I cannot help that.:-) Incidentally, just as an idle question, do you consider your computer as absolutely secure? Would you use it for Internet banking, for example? Cheers, Kangaroo16 Sydney, 11:14 Sunday 23 Dec. [GMT +11 hours] |
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New travel website about Australia and NZ. Feedback needed!
kangaroo16 wrote:
On 22 Dec 2007 14:31:14 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote in : kangaroo16 wrote: On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 10:18:13 +1030, "Keith Manning" wrote in [...] Also sites ask you to register because many allow you to upload pictures and post to their forums. Without names, a forum can quickly be destroyed by spammers. Porn can get uploaded into the picture section and pretty soon the site is worthless. If their internal programs for filtering "spam", "porn" etc. aren't good enough to prevent these problems on their own sites, how trustworthy can the site be? So it's OK for you to be totally paranoid How about you give us your definition of "paranoid", let alone "totally paranoid"? :-) I'll leave that to the self-appointed ... ahum ... specialist in that area. about a site which looks perfectly fine, but they should trust everybody, no questions asked? It may look "perfectly fine" to you, but it doesn't to everyone. It looks perfectly fine to anyone but yourself. QED. As I indicated in the post, all messages have a unique message number and are traceable if necessary. Which "post" and which "messages" are you babbling about? The *point* is that without authentication the "messages" to the site are *not* traceable (to a responsible person). How much do you claim to know about computer and Internet security? Compared to you? Sorry, can't say with any reasonable precision, because my computer does only 64-bit floating-point. [irrelevant babble deleted] The mind boggles. Perhaps yours does.:-) Anyway, it's *impossible* to 'filter' "porn" (whatever *that* is) - let alone "spam" - with 100% accuracy. Yes, I've already pointed this out. *And* the *exact opposite*. *That*'s why the mind boggles. So any site with any clue *must* require login/password. If they don't, *they* will be held legally responsible for any inappropriate material - i.e. also copyright violations, etc. - on their site. Unlikely, and too hard to enforce anyway. Firstly, how would they know that the name and address is correct anyway. Is your name actually "Frank Slootweg"? How much do you claim to know about computer and Internet security? QED. I note that you don't bother to provide an actual email address, incidentally. We note that you continue to abuse the invalid.com domain, which is an *existing* and *valid* domain (despite its name), which is not yours to use. 'whois' is your friend######enemy. How much do you claim to know about computer and Internet security? QED. Just think about it: Is there *any* company with any sense to which you can upload files without authentication? How do you define "company", "any sense", "files" ? http://dictionary.reference.com Knock yourself out! Personally, I don't worry about porn filters as have no kids to try to protect, but I have yet to heard of any that haven't been fairly quickly cracked. I hope you realize how inconsistent that statement is! Feel free to explain why you think it "inconsistent" :-) Because, you say *that* *and* the *exact opposite*! May I suggest Logic 101 (and Reading 101, Comprehension 101, GAL 101, etc.)? Boggle, boggle, ... If your mind "boggles" easily, I cannot help that.:-) Incidentally, just as an idle question, do you consider your computer as absolutely secure? Would you use it for Internet banking, for example? No. Yes (and I actually *do*, with HTTPS and a crypto device). And your *point* is? |
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