So these two old peeps' charities are to merge and need a new name...
What about "Help the Concerned", or "Concerning the Aged"?
Or "Oak Aged Concerned Helpers" perhaps?
Or for something short and snappy "Concernage" or "Helpage".
Let's go for an anagram of the two names... "Clenched Reggae Phaeton". Yep, that's the one!
RedFurSnake
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Does beating spam mean I need a wider email reader?
Spam filtering is essential to rid my inbox of the 200 or so messages I receive each day about watches, drugs, erections, bank account phishing, casinos, cheap software, receipts for purchases I haven't made, etc, etc. I use SpamSieve and it works superbly. Only about 2 or 3 spam messages a week slip through, and I've yet to see it filter any messages incorrectly.
Despite having my spam under control, I am increasingly receiving legitimate messages with various spam filter related prefixes in the email subject, for example...
[Scanned][Span score: 11%]
[SPAM]
[***SPAM*** Score/Req: 8.7/5.0]
[WARNING: A/V UNSCANNABLE]
{spam?}
What is the point of this? If the spammers thought I took any notice, they'd be adding this shit to the subject lines of spam emails too.
And what's the scoring all about? A spam score of 11%. Does that mean the message is a bit spammy? What about 8.7/5.0? Is that a good score?
In the end, it just means I have to widen my email client so that I can see the real subject of the message to fit things like:
Subject: FW: [Scanned][***SPAM*** Score/Req: 8.7/5.0][WARNING: A/V UNSCANNABLE] Are you as hard as your friends?
Not impressed.
Despite having my spam under control, I am increasingly receiving legitimate messages with various spam filter related prefixes in the email subject, for example...
[Scanned][Span score: 11%]
[SPAM]
[***SPAM*** Score/Req: 8.7/5.0]
[WARNING: A/V UNSCANNABLE]
{spam?}
What is the point of this? If the spammers thought I took any notice, they'd be adding this shit to the subject lines of spam emails too.
And what's the scoring all about? A spam score of 11%. Does that mean the message is a bit spammy? What about 8.7/5.0? Is that a good score?
In the end, it just means I have to widen my email client so that I can see the real subject of the message to fit things like:
Subject: FW: [Scanned][***SPAM*** Score/Req: 8.7/5.0][WARNING: A/V UNSCANNABLE] Are you as hard as your friends?
Not impressed.
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