{"id":880,"date":"2004-04-18T08:59:08","date_gmt":"2004-04-18T12:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=880"},"modified":"2004-04-18T08:59:08","modified_gmt":"2004-04-18T12:59:08","slug":"spam-hurts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=880","title":{"rendered":"Spam hurts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ithaca is still a wonderfully remote place, accessible only by a ferry from Patras, which is itself hard to reach. So I spent five days either travelling or resting there, and at the end of that time decided to check the urgent email of the week (sorry. Ros). In theory, there is no difficulty doing this with the palm pilot and a bluetooth phone. In practice, Palm Eudora crashed the whole machine, requiring a hard reset and the loss of five days’ notes on the book I am reviewing<\/a>. For why? Because there were 643 messages in my inbox at Pair, despite the best efforts of SpamAssassin, which had caught 1432 messages in my absence. This makes me more certain than ever that the answer to the problem is political or social and not technological. Of the uncaught messages, about 15 were really addressed to me. These don’t bother me on the machine at home, because I have about 30 further filtering rules that match all the mail I might want to read, and dump the rest onto a spam folder. Is there no alternative to translating these into procmail and typing them in one by one?<\/p>\n\n

Is there no one I can sue for forcing me to reread 100 pages of dense French philosophical prose because I have lost all my notes on it?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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