Chris Sells is back in the DevCon mood again, this time with the Applied XML DevCon, probably in the Portland, OR area. He's currently collecting abstracts, you have until 5/7 to submit one if you're interested.

Peter Provost wants to know about free anti-spam plugins for Outlook. I can't say enough good things about SpamBayes (requires Python, ActiveState's ActivePython is a good option). I've been using it for a couple of months and it works wonderfully. Ironically, last week our network admins installed some sort of spam filter on the exchange server, claiming that it filters out 10s of thousands of spams a day, but I haven't noticed any dropoff in my inbox. One thing SpamBayes seems to have problems with (for me) is the Nigerian scam emails, but it still is catching probably 95% of my spams. I've also had a small problem with emails from the Denver Java User's Group getting false positives. Also, I ended up turning off the "probably spam" option, once I got it pretty well trained, I was getting only false positives in the "probably spam" folder.