I'm catching up on the mail server logs that accrued while I was away. I was amused to find the following line:

220 dmz2.la-archdiocese.net ESMTP Postfix (spam forwarded to St. Peter for accounting purposes)
I don't find myself agreeing with the Catholic Church very often, but we may have found common ground if there's a way to send spammers to the ( Read more... )

what does it do? It does DEATH ( Read more... )

It's occurred to me that the endless deluge of spam into my mailbox is only happening because of the blindingly simple fact that it works. It works because some moron, some where, actually clicks through and buys stuff from spammers ( Read more... )

Maybe it's coming from a design background that makes this a fascinating topic for me. To everyone else, it's probably just annoying. To me, it's a hoot.

Fake mailers.

Well, they're real mailers, but they're dressed up to get past our own increasingly discerning internal b.s. detectors. Everyone gets a ton of snail-mail spam, and we're all getting ( Read more... )