The Unbearable Lightness Of *snores*
Posted: 5 February 2004 at 01:27:55
Must sleep. Must... get... sleep... Must Fozzolog first!
Unbelievable amounts of viagra
... Probably enough to keep me busy for 36 hours or more! ;-)
Am I talking about the latest revolution in all-natural, all-organic, all-legal male enhancement? No, I’m talking about the ridiculous amount of spam people have to deal with who don’t have any kind of anti-spam measures in place.
One of our clients contacted us last week about their “spam problem.” They said it was just getting to be “too much.” We told them we had an add-on for the NetGateway that was based on the world-famous SpamAssassin software. They said let’s do it.
So, I installed SpamAssassin on their mail server — one of our Linux-powered NetGateway boxes — and trained each users Bayes database with a few thousand known spam messages I’ve received in my caughtspam mailbox over the past few months. Then, I went into each of their mailboxes to use their own spam to train their individual databases.
I was blown away by the sheer amount of spam I was seeing. Wow. One user had about 1300 messages in her mailbox in the previous four days and there were probably less than 100 that were legitimate messages.
Now what is this about me reading other people’s e-mail?
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Well, I wasn’t going through and reading people’s e-mail. Maybe “skimming” with the intent to only notice spam. I made a concious effort to ignore anything that wasn’t obviously spam.
Surprise, I’m elite!
A couple weeks ago, I read about Orkut on Slashdot. From Orkut’s website, Orkut is, “an online community that connects people through a network of trusted friends.”
And it’s by-invitation only. When I read that, I thought, “Pffft!“ I’d never get invited to be involved with something like that.
Well, tonight, I was invited to join Orkut! I am thrilled to be honored as Orkut-worthy!
Orkut is pretty cool. It’s kind of like LiveJournal (only without the journals) and, like LiveJournal, you can waste a LOT of time exploring other people’s profiles, exploring their network of friends and seeing how people connect to each other.
Orkut is an experiment, of sorts, created by a developer within Google. It will be interesting to see how it progresses.
You know you’re in geek chatspace when...
I was in the #fedora IRC channel on the Freenode network and some guy came in and said, “is there a good qmail RPM around?”
I thought this was pretty funny because it reminded me a lot of traditional “chatroom” experiences I’ve had where lots of horny kids pop in and out of the chat saying stuff like, “Are there any hot 15-year old chicks who wanna chat?!”