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We do that and variations of that strategy, as well as subscribing to black-lists, etc. All of that goes a long way towards ameliorating problems.

Even if the countermeasures were 100% effective, still $$$$ in unproductive money going down the toilet… on both the creating end and receiving end.

Yes, I agree.

There is a reason the majority of the problems come from certain regions/providers...

Blocking an IP does no good. The attacks do not originate and continue from a single IP. Attacks are IP hopping at the source and constrained only by the IP-range assigned to a particular provider or geographical part of the globe. Also attacks can be issued globally, from thousands of IPs simultaneously, by viruses planted in computers, scheduled to go off on a particular date and time.

Here, most of our virus/spam/break-in attempts come from Asia, Russia, Africa. Unfortunately we do business with those countries (about 50% of our business is export). If I had my people block the entire IP ranges of the originating providers, or country, or area, I would be blocking business traffic from our customers, salesmen, and servicemen.

There is on occasion the ability to block a notorious IP-range, but that solution is usually afforded only to those Internet users that have limited geographical scope to their traffic.

I came in early this morning to get one of our mail servers 'up'. It appears that we received a very heavy flurry of worm attacks from Russian IPs last night.

One time we had some kid break into one of our servers and store several gigs of mp3 files. That was a long time ago and security wasn't what it is today.

However, all of that crap costs us a lot of money, both in time to prevent, time to repair, and preventative software/hardware purchases.

If we get overly aggressive with our blocking, I'll have Sales and/or Contracts depts screaming. Many people, even those that should know better, believe that an email is as reliable as a registered/signature-required document delivery.... NOT! Then they are paranoid about returning a delivery confirmation for an email!

It's not always as easy as it seems on the surface.

What you said X2.

On the legal side:

My wife was directly verbally threatened by a student. The principal said, "Don't worry, he really didn't mean it."

She filled criminal charges. The kid was on parole and went back to jail.

Initially she was told by the principal that, as a teacher, she couldn't file charges. Which is a load of bull....

Being employed as a teach does not void your civil rights.

My wife has been teaching for over 20 years at the middle school and high school level. The school system has degenerated beyond belief. Yes, there is little support from administrators… unbelievable rampant incompetence of principals.

She maintains an orderly quiet classroom, at a great emotional strain and drain. On a daily basis she is told by students, "I ain't gonna listen to any fu**ing white bitch"… books and papers are throw on the floor… walking around the room screaming… "You can't touch me"… obscene gestures… etc. Many students won't leave the classroom when instructed to do so… a cop has to take them out in hand cuffs. Virtually without exception offenders are sent back to the class room regardless of the discipline infraction, or left to roam the halls the remainder of the day.

When my wife phones a student's "home" she is immediately accused of being a racist and not liking blacks or hispanics... whatever the circumstance. White parents echo the tried and true, "He said he didn't do that."

There are "students" in middle schools that are 15 and 16 yrs old and have not earned more than 1 or 2 credits. There are students in the high schools that are 20 years old and have earned between 0 and 2 credits.

My wife's current teaching assignment is at a high school that has 6 full time city policemen on duty and 4 "principals". 2000+ students registered, and on parent-teacher conference days about a 100 parents show up. Most of the reading levels are at 3rd grade or less. When the Pledge of Allegiance is recited at the start of the school day most students remain seated.
In this district there are 23 schools on the state watch list due to low achievement scores. No one will talk about the real reasons for this sorry state of education. The solution to all these problems inacted by the school board was changing school day starting times to later in the morning because, "Studies have shown students do better with more sleep."
My wife has tendered her notice of retirement. It appears that in the next two years there will be well be between 600 to 1000 teachers retiring, to which the school superintendent commented, "Good, we'll be getting rid of a lot of high priced salaries."

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And don't forget that he likes to date 14 yr old girls.

I cary a pocket full of sticky-back labels I have printed up. All they say is "French Owned Company". I just stick them on a shelf or display, where appropriate. Kind-a like reverse shop-lifting.

I cary a pocket full of sticky-back labels I have printed up. All they say is "French Owned Company". I just stick them on a shelf or display, where appropriate. Kind-a like reverse shop-lifting information.

Sounds phoney... anyway, I'm glad I fly RC sailplanes.
W9NM

The reason gun control failed... We didn't include registration of knives.

You know... those old dead white guys had some good ideas.

Chicago - WLS - Don and Roma Morning Show. Ann 'the slug' Compton made a brief phone-in to plug ABC coverage. First thing out of her mouth was Bush bashing. Don and Roma jumped on her with four feet. 'The slug' didn't what happened and I'm sure we won't be bothered by her crap during the morning drive again.