October 2003 Archives
Oct 28 10:45:00 2003
New, Improved, SPAM!
I got some new spam yesterday. The
body seems to be comprised solely a random text
selection from the 'net.
Mon Oct 27 13:13:16 CST 2003
SPAM: random web-page SPAM
So i've gotten two weird spams today.
One looks like someone's description
of going to an anti-fur protest that is available from
an Essay factory. The other looks like a
bit of a story called _Anne's House of Dreams_. There is no
website in the body of the message where i am supposed to buy stuff
to enlarge parts of me. But the "Subject" line very clearly looks
like spam:
Subject: Zanten Johan, 30 year Rates at Record Lows in Laurel ... and i used to live in Laurel, MD. The messages are addressed to "[email protected]" which is an an address that only really appears in the WHOIS records for my domains. Weird. I guess they're just fishing for email addresses (hoping i will respond and say, "What the hell are you talking about?"), and are sending random text selections harvested from the 'net to avoid spam filters... But it's weird, and just started today.
Oct 20 15:36:00 2003
Maybe i'm just paranoid...
but
this story about vociferious Republicans controlling the three new
voting machine companies that many counties have rushed to
adopt really bothers me. Almost as much as the fact that i heard
nothing about this angle to the story here in the US and have to
read about it in a UK paper.
Wed Oct 15 17:03:55 CDT 2003
Switching to Postfix
After 10+ years of sysadmining
sendmail on (Unix) machines,
i've switched to Postfix.
Just too many Sendmail patches for me to keep up with. Wietse
Venema, the guy who wrote Postfix, has struck me as a careful,
adept and good programmer. (He also wrote TCP wrappers) So far i
like Postfix, but it makes me sad to stop using Sendmail.
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