Still working very hard at work but I think we are making good progress. Although things are still slow I have a good feeling about current proceedings.
Finally online at home. Well I say on line – there are a string of people semaphoring each byte backwards and forwards to a man at the telephone exchange who enters the data by wiggling a switch. And if that’s not quite technically accurate its certainly how fast it goes compared to broadband. Sulk.
I mentioned my battle against spam. Well I am please to report that my spam filter (POPFile) is doing a great job. Of the 400 spam emails I have received in the last 2 weeks I have seen about 3 of them in my inbox and got 2 or 3 false positives. All of which where easy to deal with. Now that I occasionally check my spam folder to check for false positives before deletion I get to consider the spam in a calmer and more philosophical light. And I have it report it is truly depressing. If spam works the majority of it is aimed at stupid people who are tricked by emails from people they have never heard of telling them they fancy them. Or that they are sending them an important report (how many unsolicited important reports do you get?). And even after they are tricked – the need to keep their penis erect for longer or make it bigger is of interest to them. Now there clearly are people for whom these things are normal and reasonable – and that is what is depressing. Some of it though is quite bizarre – like Christian debt management. Which although it sounds like it might be how I managed my money when I was younger (just praying it would all be ok) probably isn’t.
Posted by Mark at May 27, 2003 10:04 PM