Friday, June 28, 2002

SpamAssassin I installed SpamAssassin (and Vipul's Razor) today. You run all your inbound mail through it and it adds headers so that the mail can easily filtered by procmail or even Outlook. I have to say, the results are very good. Here's the headers it adds if it decides the mail *is* spam: SPAM: -------------------- Start SpamAssassin results ---------------------- SPAM: This mail is probably spam. The original message has been altered SPAM: so you can recognise or block similar unwanted mail in future. SPAM: See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. SPAM: SPAM: Content analysis details: (8.4 hits, 5 required) SPAM: FROM_NAME_NO_SPACES (-0.1 points) From: no spaces in name SPAM: FOR_FREE (1.1 points) BODY: No such thing as a free lunch (1) SPAM: FREQ_SPAM_PHRASE (2.4 points) Contains phrases frequently found in spam SPAM: [score: 16, hits: email address, for free, phone] SPAM: [number, reply this, search engine, subject line,] SPAM: [the internet, the subject, this email, web site,] SPAM: [with you] SPAM: RCVD_IN_OSIRUSOFT_COM (2.0 points) RBL: Received via a relay in relays.osirusoft.com SPAM: [RBL check: found 138.129.239.216.relays.osirusoft.com., type: 127.0.0.4] SPAM: X_OSIRU_SPAM_SRC (3.0 points) RBL: DNSBL: sender is Confirmed Spam Source SPAM: SPAM: -------------------- End of SpamAssassin results --------------------- 9:43:35 PM

Am I the only one who has a hard time taking Bush's call for corporate responsibility seriously?  9:12:36 PM

Mozilla opens up Microsoft's closed Outlook PST format. Tim O'Reilly has written his annual braindump in preparation for the Open Source Convention. His essays are always thoughtful. This time, I was struck by one particular comment: ... [Jon's Radio] Jon says Mozilla will take a PST file and spit the mail out in Unix mbox format, lickety split.  Nice.  I'd still like to save the calendar and contact info too.  But this is good. 5:06:50 PM

I'm having trouble with the google search API today -- the server is not responding. 4:02:07 PM

Minority Report's vision of the future In Future, Ads Could Rely on Eyes  [The Shifted Librarian] 12:30:04 PM

E-ink Announces Thinner Displays. World's Thinnest Active Matrix Display The Cambridge, Mass. company announced recently a new active matrix screen measuring just 0.3mm thick, half the thickness of a standard credit card. Most active-matrix displays currently in use are 2mm thick and require a backlight or sidelight that makes their total thickness 4mm or more. E-Ink's displays are over thirteen times thinner. 12:27:11 PM

Phillip Pearson:  I've been messing around a bit with various different blogging tools over the past few months.  I'm interested in interoperability between different systems - specifically reducing the coefficient of friction involved in transferring posts and comments between blogging tools.  Anyway, I thought it was about time I documented some of what I've found out.  So - here it is: Weblog Interop. [Sam Ruby] 6:29:22 AM

making money on IM Can IM giants win corporate clients?. AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo attract millions of people with free instant messaging, but all are struggling to offer corporate applications that won't leave out the masses. [CNET News.com] 5:22:35 AM