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She likes 'em!
Last weekend I wore an old T-shirt. Anne was a bit shocked about this old thing that is even older then we know each other. OK, it's not that nice, but it's not a rag or so. But this drove her to say: "Better wear your nerd shirts then". Yes! Now it is not only tolerated but wanted. Philip where are those Mozilla and Firefox T-shirts? ;-)
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Again and again
Nerd entry coming about my favorite topic: Spam! I guess I already mentioned: I hate spam!
As it happened that I could not find emails I wanted to read among all the spam that came through my filtering I needed to do something about the spam... Here are some basic stats (this excerpt is about the last 4 months, April to July):
Total mails that went to Trash (deleted manually or by MAILER-DAEMON rule): 134843
Mail delivery failures: about 130000
Mails that got filtered to Spam folder: 33320
Average mail volume that tricked the spam filter per day: 100 to 200
The number of filtered email increased dramatically. I started spam filtering on June 4th 2002. In these two years 78533 mails got filtered and put into my Spam box. 33320 of them in the last four months! I wanted to know it exactly so I created a small diagram showing the number of filtered (non-filtered not counted) per month for 2003 and 2004 up to July. Here is what came out:
[img blog/spam.png]Diagram for filtered spam[/img]
mails that went to my personal address (not catchall): 2941
emails that ought to be there: 392
This has got to stop! I now added an explicit recipient white listing to my procmailrc which will only pass emails to my inbox that are addressed to an recipient listed in my address file. This is basically turning off the catchall but it saves creating dozens of forwarders. This helped to reduce the passed spam mails to about 5 to 10 per day which is way better than before!
But it still sucks!
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Great weekend
I had a great weekend. We had a barbecue with the AllemaniACs team and some other fellows from the KBSG. It ended early (for computer science students :-) so I decided to hurry to take the train to Cologne. Anne and I went shopping (got ice cream, so it was OK...) and to the cinema in the evening. We saw "Traumschiff Surprise" which is a nice movie, though not one of the best I have seen - found myself thinking about some code in the middle of the film, so it must have been a little bit boring...
On sunday we went to the Rheinpark Köln. This is always great! There is a colony of parrots living there free in nature. It's always fun to see them flying here in Germany. As you can imagine they are not usual in our region... Yesterday we saw a (really) young Jack Russel and it was fun watching :-)
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Happy SysAdmin day!
To all the system administrators out there that keep the internet up and running: Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day! Got my first congrat this morning :-)
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Brain Sucker
Do you now that ancient game UFO: Enemy Unknown. They had those brain sucker enemies, that did what the name tells with their PSI power. Too much code, learning and stuff let's you feel like this. But jogging helps to get clear. Almost ran my usual tour today...
And then they forget about you. *narf*
