I have occasionally, and ironically, received spam advertising anti-spam solutions. The most amusing was one about a year ago that asked me to send $5 to a P.O. box in Los Angeles. How that was supposed to stop me from getting more spam I have no idea. That one was forwarded to the FTC. But… Continue reading Anti-spam Spam
House of 1000 Corpses
A little over a year ago I was having a night in with some friends, facing the always-difficult dilemma of finding something to rent that all three of us had not yet seen and wouldn’t mind seeing. I talked them into renting Jeepers Creepers because I had heard it was an entertaining B-grade horror flick… Continue reading House of 1000 Corpses
The Spammier, The Better
This article from Wired exposes the amusing phenomenon of geeks comparing spam scores. SpamAssassin is one of the more popular spam filters which scans the content of emails and tallys a score based on the detected spamminess of each message. Major red flags such as the phrase “penis enlargement” or the word “offer” in a… Continue reading The Spammier, The Better