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Fighting spam

11 May 2006 Comments Off

Don’t you just hate how unsolicited advertisements fill your Inbox? And doesn’t it boil your blood to wonder why the hell these assholes think you want their scum? Are you going to buy weenie pills because you got a badly worded e-mail message? Are you going to make stock trades because you got an anonymous [...]

Geek Stuff

email, Internet, Spam

Buh-bye, spam

28 January 2006 0 Comments

I’ve just spent the past week configuring my firewall/gateway to run DSPAM, which is a statistical spam prevention tool. It uses Bayesian analysis and other methods for detecting spam, and it can be “trained” for each user. DSPAM is very difficult to configure. And to add to the difficulty, the documentation is very obscure and [...]

Geek Stuff

email, Linux, Servers, Spam

Die, spammers, die

9 June 2005 Comments Off

I received an interesting, if almost nonsensical email message, claiming to be from SPAMIS, or the Strategic Partnership Against Microsoft Illegal Spam (there is a website at spamis.cc, but it seems to be defunct at this time). The contents of the email consisted of various quotes from Mike Lyman, who the email describes as the [...]

Geek Stuff

Internet, Spam

Canned Spam

24 August 2004 Comments Off

You know, I smile when I think of how well my email systems are handling spam. It is very rare that anyone who has an account with my system receives unsolicited bulk email. However, the world isn’t perfect, and as a result, one or two pieces of spam squeak by. But that’s okay, considering my [...]

Ramblings

Internet, Spam