After over a decade, the time has finally come…
someone sent me an email encrypted with my PGP public key.

Based on the timestamp on my website, I set up GnuPG in 2007, which is two computers and about four hard drives ago. And while I'm a digital pack rat, those were the days that "copy your entire old computer to your new computer" would still ( Read more... )

Email from a Facebook recruiter: I haven’t heard back from you regarding opportunities at Facebook which tells me one of three things:

1. You’re already employed with 100% satisfaction at Amazon Web Services (AWS), and if that’s the case please let me know so I can stop messaging you.
   
2. You’re still interested but haven’t had the time to get back to me. ( Read more... )

I just noticed that the mailing list I use for game days at my house has a bunch of expired invites.
I don't reliably post to DreamWidth when I'm hosting a game day, so if you're interested in playing board games in Boulder and didn't get an email a couple days ago about the upcoming event this coming Sunday then let me know your email (you can do ( Read more... )

From an email from a recruiter: … is an excellent company to work for and offers a kick back work environment in which employees can bring their dog to work …
The choice of words is questionable; I think of kick back work environments as, say, customs inspector in Russia or contracts supervisor in Chicago ( Read more... )

Having closed my web browser with all the distracting tabs, I randomly decided to check my potententialspam folder. After I tossed out everything with the words viagra, pfizer, sale, or watch, I found several recent important messages hiding in the haystack. Examining the headers, I discovered that 3.2 (of a required 5) points were given for ( Read more... )

In case you need to email me while doing a handstand: ᵷɹo.əuoʇƨɹoʌəɹʇ@əuoʇƨʇ

From: Head of IT ( Read more... )

I'm half tempted to click on all the "Please verify you're not a spammer by clicking here" links I just got with forged addresses at my domain. "Your anti-unsolicited-email program is contributing to the problem of unsolicited email. I'll make it work worse so you switch to something that doesn't fight potted meat with potted meat ( Read more... )

Background: My company's email server runs MS Exchange. They won't turn on IMAP support, so the ways to access one's email are MS Outlook, Webmail, and programs written to read the (undocumented?) webmail format. As far as I can tell, Evolution is the only mail user agent which runs on Linux and can access (through a plugin) MS Exchange. ( Read more... )