{"id":759,"date":"2003-11-03T15:39:52","date_gmt":"2003-11-03T19:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=759"},"modified":"2003-11-03T15:39:52","modified_gmt":"2003-11-03T19:39:52","slug":"a-joke-runs-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=759","title":{"rendered":"A joke runs out"},"content":{"rendered":"

About ten years ago, when email was new and fine, I wanted an address that would make slightly less boring the business of reading it out down a phone (“at, that’s the funny little sign that looks like …”). Since one of the things you always had to say in these conversations was “all one word”, a moment of bored inspiration at the Independent<\/em> one afternoon supplied me with the perfect address for witless computer industry PRs. alloneword@dial.pipex.com<\/span> I became. the joke gave me small flutters of amusement for years. It’s over now.<\/p>\n\n

For years I have only used the address for mailing lists. That makes spam filtering easier. If it’s not from one of a short, defined list of mass mailers, it goes inot the spam bin. But it’s not infallible. Some real people write to me at that address, so I do have to scan it, and the sheer weight of spam has got absurd. Mail to these domains, which I own, goes through spamassassin, and I never see most of it at all. But the alloneword address was picking up 100 messages everyday, and it’s not funy any more. So I vaped it this morning, and replaced it with a new, mailing-list-only address, “ingenstans”, which is the Swedish for “nowhere”. It’s the only place left where email works as it should.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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