Re: USR 5605 External USB modem not 'recognized'

From: E. Bruce Lynn, II (eblynn2_at_mindspring.com)
Date: 04/17/04 

Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 20:25:35 GMT

Thank you for writing back Rick. After your last email I reduced the
level of filtering with Mindspring which I think will significantly
reduce the problems non-spammers have getting through. I checked out
the C-R response page and though the details were beyond my current tech
knowledge, I believe that I understood the primary import of what
Karsten was saying.

So do you have any ideas where I can find out how to get my external USB
modem 'installed' and 'recognized' by my Linux distro, Xandros? I am
almost at the point to where I can boot to Linux for 90% of what I need
to do. 

--
Bruce
Rick Moen wrote:
> E. Bruce Lynn, II <eblynn2@mindspring.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Sorry that I created so many problems.
> 
> 
> Not a big problem.  Thanks for the follow-up.
> 
> 
>>Unfortunately, many people are being spammed like never before.  In fact 
>>I attribute part of this to my participation to ng's like this.  So I am 
>>sorry that your received a message from  the EarthLink "spamBlocker" 
>>annoybot.
> 
> 
> Unfortunately, challenge-response systems tend to worsen the spam
> problem, not make it better.  Please see:
> 
> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Rants/challenge-response.html
> 
> As one of the lesser consequences, over time, you will be basically
> cutting yourself off from technical users, because (like me) they will
> progressively killfile all known sources of C-R queries.  Because I've
> now done this prospectively, nobody else's EarthLink C-R challenge mails
> will be reaching me; the customers might end up thinking I'm ignoring
> them, whereas all I'm doing is filtering out of my life a known source
> of spam.
> 
> So, you might want to rethink that aspect of your antispam strategy.
> (Spam isn't an easy problem, I realise.)
>

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