Monday, July 15, 2002


The Spam Has Got To Go.. John Patrick: The Spam Has Got To Go. [Hack the Planet]

I was all for identification on the internet, especially for emails. Then I thought about it... I don't want to give my social security number of telephone number to ANYONE on the internet (not even Thawte

'cause, oh, I've got your social security number. It's easy to find your mother's maiden name, oh look, i've got your credit card number. Oh, look at this money!

Remember even 168 bits does NOT mean secure. PGP can give more then 10 times that -- and I would say(or hope), that the truely paranoid don't even trust that

Then I relized that, without a bit of personal identification, spammers can just make a new userid, generate a new key, whatever, and start it again.

Then we'd need a central registry of user-ids that are accused spamers... and, look, soon we're back to the situation right now.

My solution: use an email client that offers super filtering abilities, doesn't render HTML, and lets you send spam to SpamCop. I suggest Mailsmith.

Mailsmith doesn't do IMAP... but I tend to keep emails around for 6 months before I delete them. (and right now have like 30K+ email messages in my mail folders. No IMAP server admin would like me)





Pop-up Ads Coming to A TV Near You [Slashdot: Index]

I don't mind ads like they show in MLS games (little stripes of logos by the scoreboard).. can they do it that way? pleeeasssseee?









MacPlay pre-orders for Soldier of Fortune II [The Macintosh News Network]

Expected to be out end of the month. OmniGroup did the port, and they must have moved on it, 'cause it's probably only been out for the PC a few months.

I like it when games are ported in a reasonable ammount of time