Scout's Paw Tracks

Friday, March 24, 2006

GSPCA (German Shorthaired Pointer Club of America) Voting Ballots

Ballots for the 2006 elections have been mailed and are being received by club members.  Good luck to all the canidates.  On another subject GSP’s, standard changes are being voted on also.  The big change is the acceptance of Black something that is accepted in the European Standard but has not been previously accepted in the US standard.  What are you thoughts?  You can post comments to this news by selecting comments below.

My personal view.  I have seen some Black European pups and they are attractive however I still have a fondness for the Liver colors.  It may be that I am just use to the liver and ticked colors and set in my ways but I think it gives them a distinct look that seperates them from other pointer breeds.  But again that is just my humble opinion.  What do you think? 

Photo from the Deutsch Kurzhaar web site—Belle’s Bank

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

E-Mail Update More

The new e-mail server is up and functioning with less than a 1 sec response time I am very pleased with the results.  Webmail users - web mail is functional and has new features in the web mail section.  Challange response services are active, you can authorize challanged message senders now though the setting function.  You will be provided a list of addresses pending approval for your account you can approve them by selecting “Approve” in the drop down box.  You also have the option to remove a previous approval through the same functionality.  If you want to use this mail system you can apply by sending an e-mail to .  We are currently blocking 99.999% of the spam sent to the site.

E-Mail Update

The time always comes when the e-mail server days come to an end, and so was the case with the old HP mail server. The model HP LH3 has performed flawlessly for more then seven years with out as much as a hiccup, however, all good things come to pass. It came to our team as a used and neglected server in need of a home, jilted by it previous owners for a new and shiny server. But its days were not to end on a heap of scrap in the garbage dump of ill-forgotten server technology for one cold morning in Milwaukee it delivered to its new home. Carefully it was moved from the garage to the basement and it’s second wind of life there began. It started with a simple web-page and grew into one of the all time superstars of privately owned servers. At it’s peak it was rated no less than number one on more than 80 different search engines. It’s fans, network cards, and CPUs all hummed with delight as it crossed milestone after milestone of visitors crossing it’s path. When everyone thought it had done all it could do it would then transmit the music, e-mail and chats sessions of more than a million various connection types plugged into each port and avenue of connectivity available. However today all is quite, the fans are no-long humming, the LED’s from it’s front panel finally dimmed like the last gasp of light from an aging star. Today it said it’s fond farewell’s as the silicon and circuits finally cool off after years of beating the steady drum of progress. Today was it’s day to say thank you and fare ye well for my time has come to pass. So with that the old LH3 can finally take that long and well deserved rest. With more than 3.7 million hours of continuous service the streak finally comes to an end....

Saturday, March 11, 2006

Columbia Missouri Point #8 for Scout

With another weekend of shows Scout finishes with point number eight.  He did very well today and we are very proud of him and his effort.

Monday, March 06, 2006

Point #7 for Scout at Belleville

Quick news point today, Scout wins point #7 with Winners Dog and Best of Opposite Sex at Belleville.  Congradulations Scout we are very proud of you.

Sunday, March 05, 2006

SPAM Ego Maniacs and Blacklist Providers

It is time agian for Jim’s useless and annoying websites of the year 2005. I always wait to publish this list until after all the new year hype has subsided. I am not sure why I just do. At Silverblades.net and my other various domain names, I take pride in not allowing pop-ups, not selling e-mail addresses. I also am very diligent about blocking e-mail and web spamming.

This years awards go to those sites who are self indulgent and self proclaimed defenders of the internet without a care about how those practices impact others on the web. Now for a little disclosure, most of these sites I have had a beef with at some point our another have Blacklisted out mail server.

Of 147 sites that create e-mail Blacklist for SPAM e-mail silverblades.net is listed on 11 of them (2 unique sites one of which is a web spammer and has us listed on thier other 10 websites.) the other 136 have us whitelisted since shortly after we set the mail server up years ago. Now that has some impact on people that send me e-mail since I am unable to respond to them. Yes we run our own mail server and only two people use the thing so unless Blade and Scout have figured out how to use e-mail; if they have I am taking that act on the road; I setup the separate mail server so I could,

A.) control when the mail server is and is not available
B.) so I could control the security around it.

If you have sent me a message you will have noticed the challenge response system, it is much more effective than Blacklist though I do use them as well.

So for the list

2. http://www.five-ten-sg.com/ and http://www.five-ten-sg.com/blackhole.php Needs to add a removal address so I can inform them they are blocking a legit mail server. They also should apply the SPAM rules to themselves since they web SPAM thier pages. =P Of the 12 sites that have blacklisted silverblades.net these guys make up 10 of them. Actually our site is not blocked they have blocked all of my Business Providers IP addresses or atleast the range I am in.  They probably have a beef with Charter.  These guys would have been number 1 had it not been for this guy.
1. http://www.blars.org/errors/block.html If you are using this guy as the source of your Blacklist I am glad I can not send you e-mail.  You have to read the page and check out the home page to understand the true web lunacy expressed.

We all have had enough of SPAM and anything that can be done responsibly should be done to shut it down. So there is the list albeit short this year. MX Toolbox is a great site to check your mail servers against and in my humble opinion provide a great service. If you follow the link you will see the result’s for our server.