I guess its all about the content then, I'm not sure how active he actually is.. but I admire his work, keeping all that ancient hardware running and trying to repair and maintain machines like that is difficult..
Its not easy to keep old stuff in working order.. I can do the basic maintenance on systems, I can maybe replace capacitors but other stuff I can't repair, eventually I will have a pile of none functioning electronics.
That stuff is going to be just as old as the stuff I already have so...There's always E-bay![]()
So you assume a spammer with a database containing tens or hundreths of thousands of e-mails sent by automated scripts will notice that one e-mail address can't be mailed to anymore, these systems are not smart, they work on the "nuke from orbit" principle...
Yep... I had the same thing happen. An email address that I didn't use for 12 months. It went inactive after 6 months. Someone I knew sent an email to it and it bounced. When I got it reactivated, I found the spam kept coming. They don't bother to check for dead email addresses. Who knows, maybe 50% of their lists contain bad email addresses. But to them it doesn't matter... the cost per email is so incredibly small, I guess it doesn't make a difference. Not worth parsing a rejection folder, I guess. Although I have to expect that there must be some kind of app one could use to quickly parse a folder filled with email rejects and then createa a rejection list of emails to prune off the contact list. Maybe some spammers do this, but could be plenty who do not.So you assume a spammer with a database containing tens or hundreths of thousands of e-mails sent by automated scripts will notice that one e-mail address can't be mailed to anymore, these systems are not smart, they work on the "nuke from orbit" principle...
Yep... I had the same thing happen. An email address that I didn't use for 12 months. It went inactive after 6 months. Someone I knew sent an email to it and it bounced. When I got it reactivated, I found the spam kept coming. They don't bother to check for dead email addresses. Who knows, maybe 50% of their lists contain bad email addresses. But to them it doesn't matter... the cost per email is so incredibly small, I guess it doesn't make a difference. Not worth parsing a rejection folder, I guess. Although I have to expect that there must be some kind of app one could use to quickly parse a folder filled with email rejects and then createa a rejection list of emails to prune off the contact list. Maybe some spammers do this, but could be plenty who do not.
Would be nice if some enterprising hacker could spam bomb the spammers. I'm sure that's been done before or cripple their systems.
The FASTRAND II random-access mass storage system was one of the most impressive peripherals ever attached to a commercial computer. Used with the UNIVAC 1108 computer, it provided the first permanent file storage capability in the UNIVAC 1100 series family.
No UNIVAC programmer who ever encountered a FASTRAND is likely to forget it. It was big, heavy (it weighed about two and a quarter tons, and required special reinforcement of the raised floor it sat on), had a large window lit by fluorescent lights which let you see the two huge drums rotating in opposite directions at 880 revolutions per minute and the heads jumping back and forth as various tracks were accessed. In operation, it emitted a deep rumble accompanied by a whoosh of air much like the engine room in Star Trek. Opening the door on the end revealed a complex control panel which included, at the top, a collection of “hit detectors” which told you if one of the read/write heads had contacted the drum surface.
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