29. October, 2003 - saving what?
- This morning I thought I’d overslept while dreaming a pleasant dream. It felt like it was about noon, and I started to try and think about how I was going to juggle my schedule in order to still everything done that’s on my to-do list for today. All this thinking woke me up, and when I rolled over and looked at the clock, it was 4:30AM, the same time I’ve been waking up all week. One of these days my body’s going to adjust to going off Daylight Saving Time and let me sleep until six or seven, but it hasn’t happened yet. Instead, I’m just dreaming about being able to sleep late.
- Spam Pitches Are Mutating Faster as spammers fight to stay ahead of the filters. I’ve been seeing more spam making it past SpamAssassin lately, and have been thinking about various ways to improve matters. I think the first thing I’m going to have to do it build a whitelist though, as tightening up the filters any further will probably start leading to false-positives.
- Some people are using A Change of Habits to Elude Spam’s Pall, but more are just grumbling. At the moment, I’m in the “grumbling” camp.
- Big Companies Add to Spam, selling the email address you use with them to others for an additional buck. I’m starting to think it might be worthwhile to set up a new email account for every company I do business with to track down who’s selling my name. I don’t think I should have to do that, but there are too many companies that have sold my contact information already. I’ve been using variations on my name for donations to non-profits for years, and the NRA and Clean Water Action are responsible for about half my paper junk-mail between them. Yeah, I’ll be giving them my email address Real Soon Now.
- If you do send me email, you should probably know that HTML-only email gets junked as spam immediately. I won’t see it until the end of the month when I take a (very) quick look through the spam that’s been filed during the month. 99% of the HTML-only mail is a virus, so filtering it out was the the most effective five-minute fix I’ve ever made in my email handling. The link will tell you how to shut that misfeature of your mail program off.
Copyright 2008, Dave Polaschek.
Last updated on Wed, 29 Oct 2003 06:28:19.