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19
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Louise Bement
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Friday, 19 October 2007 |
 The Tompkins County Municipal Historians have been working for over a year in producing travel brochures for each town in the county. The nine beautiful brochures are now available. They may all be found at the Chamber of Commerence building. If anyone would like to have a brochure of Lansing only, and can't find one at the Town Hall or other places around Lansing, they may contact Louise Bement at 533-4514. We historians are rightfully proud of our accomplishment.
Louise Bement
Lansing Town Historian
Lansing, NY 14882
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Oct
19
2007
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Dan Veaner
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Friday, 19 October 2007 |
 I use a number of real e-mail addresses for various purposes, but the way Web site hosting plans work is that just about
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will be delivered to a catch-all account. Mail to real e-maill addresses go into those in boxes, and everything else shows up in the catch-all. You would expect an occasional missive to end up in the catch-all as people mistype a legitimate address from time to time. This week I got over 7,000. And none of them were for me.
The reason this happened is that some jerk spoofed my address. E-mail spoofing is a technique used by fraudulent or otherwise criminal e-mailers to send spam or virus-laden e-mail while hiding their own real addresses. They use names like
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or
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or
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That makes it difficult, and sometimes impossible to trace the mail back to them, and they could actually be anywhere in the world. They have automated programs to attach the false name prefixes to the real Web mail address. And it makes a lot of people very angry at the Web site they are spoofing.
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Oct
12
2007
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Tom Vawter
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Friday, 12 October 2007 |
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Knowing my long-time friends and neighbors here in Lansing as I do, it was hard for me to believe that, at the previous opportunity to vote, they rejected the proposal to "adopt" our wonderful new community library into the School District. In this community--enlightened as it is--libraries and the learning and quality entertainment they provide must rank among the most important contributors our quality of life. What a boon to have such a great library right in "downtown" South Lansing!
I cannot but believe that the voters' rejection of public funding for that library at the last school election was a mistake, perhaps resulting from the complicated and controversial issues on the school ballot in that election.
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Oct
12
2007
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Dan Veaner
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Friday, 12 October 2007 |
I disagree with many of the things our State Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton says. I agree with some of them. And one thing that I am behind her on 100% is her influence on New York's response to the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002.
In short, after the 2000 presidential election, infamous for introducing the phrase 'hanging chads' into the popular lexicon, the federal government decided to do something about it. They instituted a law that said that all states will replace punch card voting systems, create election assistance commissions, and establish minimum election administration standards. What that meant was that states must have electronic voting machines certified and in use by January 1, 2007, extended from an earlier deadline. And extended again to September, 2008. What will it take to get this right?
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Oct
05
2007
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Dan Veaner
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Friday, 05 October 2007 |
As you have likely noticed I have continued to be obsessed with improving the front and back ends of the Lansing Star. I am hoping the result will make it easier for readers to find what they are looking for, and to highlight the many events that are going on around town. Last week I added the tabbed feature area on the front page, and this week I replaced it with a faster loading one. We also installed an improved Search engine, and re-archived more than 2,700 articles so that finding past stories will be simpler and easier. And I'm sure you noticed the article clicks counter just below the masthead. We recently went past a half million. When we pass a million I am thinking of changing it to say "1,###,### Served,' but I am not sure I want to compare the Star to a Big Mac!
But what has really gotten my attention is the statistics we have been harvesting from the site. The New York Times, Ithaca Journal, and indeed most newspapers don't really know what their readers are reading. They can guess, and they can conduct surveys that may or may not provide an accurate snapshot. But with the various Web site statistics packages we use at the Star (about a half dozen different ones) we have been getting a pretty clear picture of what people are actually reading. Here's what made our top 100:
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