TweetUpdate 3 May 2011: I’ve subsequently modified our EC2 systems to relay SMTP mail through Amazon’s SES which doesn’t have the 500 messages per day limit that Google Apps does. A few months ago I moved a site into EC2. I didn’t want to move the existing IMAP server (ugh) so I moved the email [...]
TweetI use Akismet to filter out spam comments here, and I’ve seen a few different strategies the spammers employ. There’s the “Cool post! You should Digg it” (in both English and Spanish – tengo que Digg), there’s the “this post helped me on my class project,” there’s the pure jibberish – “xajdjhesbjsb sjhsjhrhjshwru skjskjrijsjs.” But [...]
TweetWhen I started at my current company, spam was handled with a separate server running SpamAssassin and a few other services. This sort of got the job done but required babysitting. I wasn’t part of the Sysadmin team at that point but I know they had to restart SpamAssassin relatively frequently, manually clear out the [...]
TweetI use Akismet to block comment spam, but it still annoys me that it even exists. Last night I put a simple IP ban into my httpd config. But who to block? I used a grep & Perl to get a rough guess of which IPs were submitting the most comments (working on the assumption [...]
TweetThis is the second notice that the factory warranty on your vehicle is expiring! This is the second notice that the factory warranty on your vehicle is expiring! This is the second notice that the factory warranty on your vehicle is expiring! I guess I’m not the only one getting these.
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