[PLUG-TALK] [PLUG] Nevada and UCE

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Fri Jan 13 22:16:03 UTC 2012


On Fri, 13 Jan 2012, Keith Lofstrom wrote:

> "Canned meat?"  That may be one way Nevada industry makes personnel
> problems go away.

   I think 'canned meat' is a euphemism to overcome Spam's nasty image. I
_think_ I may have actually tried it once in my ignorant youth.

> Regards Unsolicited Commercial Email, much of it does originate from
> Nevada. They make political contributions to the right politicians, and
> the FBI leaves them alone.  Which you find out when you track UCE to the
> source, and try to get the Powers That Be to do something.  If you
> persist, see paragraph (1).

   Huh! I didn't realize this. I used to track UCE senders but too many ISPs
reject spam reports to their 'abuse at ...' addresses because they contain
spam. Duh! Or, they want us to waste time pasting everything in a web page.
I rarely bother any more; just put the junk in the mailbox for spamassassin
to process once a week. Or, if it comes from a source I'd not anticipate
sending me legitimate mail, I put the address block in a postfix reject
file.

> Wire, concrete blocks, and Lake Mead might be preferable. That happened to
> a friend. I don't like Nevada much. On the other hand, better there than
> here.

   You don't want to drop bodies in Lake Tahoe because the big push by the
greens down there is to make it a biological desert again so it's a nice
blue color and supports no aquatic life.

   I like Nevada ... as long as I don't need to spend too much time (i.e., >
1 day) in Lovelock, Battle Mountain, Ely, Eureka, and their ilk. Reno's nice
since there are many good restaurants not associated with casinos. Elko, and
even Winnemucca are OK. On one trip I drove 100 miles on US 50 ("The
Loneliest Highway in America") from Ely to Austin. Saw no wildlife livestock;
only 1 other vehicle: a NDOT truck that passed me as I was driving 90 mph on
the 70 mph 2-lane highway. The state truck was going > 100 mph. :-)

   Virginia City is great!

Rich



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