Tidbits from the spam Front
Some years ago, I started the trick of handing out different addresses to everyone. A CGI script on the web site handles dynamic address generation. When it comes to generating addresses to give to companies, though, I usually put the name of the company and an at sign in front of feedmyego.com. When I book tickets with an airline, it's natural that I would give them the name of the airline at feedmyego. Tonight, I was on the phone with a customer service rep to shift a trip forward by a few days. She asked if I wanted the new flight details emailed to the same address I'd provided when I bought the tickets. Yes, please. Then she looked at the address and started laughing. "I have to ask you about this." I explained the motivation behind Feed My Ego and the reason I'd set up an address just for her airline. I don't think she stopped laughing during the entire lecture. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader if she was "laughing at" or "laughing with".
Latest update from the spam watching: 33170 in 50d 5h 23m: 660 per day. Let's see . . . my daily spam load went up by 50% just in the last five weeks. Oh, and that 660 number is low because that's the average over all fifty days, which is almost certainly much lower the number received in the last 24 hours. Damn. At least I need no longer complain that I'm not getting enough spam. Next goal: a program that runs through the log spitting out a daily summary.
I watched a 60 Minutes Wednesday segment on Monty Python's Spamalot. Written by Eric Idle and starring Tim Curry, Hank Azaria, and David Hyde-Pierce? I'm in. Who wants to hit NYC?
Latest update from the spam watching: 33170 in 50d 5h 23m: 660 per day. Let's see . . . my daily spam load went up by 50% just in the last five weeks. Oh, and that 660 number is low because that's the average over all fifty days, which is almost certainly much lower the number received in the last 24 hours. Damn. At least I need no longer complain that I'm not getting enough spam. Next goal: a program that runs through the log spitting out a daily summary.
I watched a 60 Minutes Wednesday segment on Monty Python's Spamalot. Written by Eric Idle and starring Tim Curry, Hank Azaria, and David Hyde-Pierce? I'm in. Who wants to hit NYC?