The Daves Collective

You've Got Spam
2003-11-15 02:14

It looks like a second spamhaus has picked up my Yahoo addy. Also, YoSucker threw its CPU loop trick again, it took me over 3 HOURS to notice. CPU temp was 57 deg; clearly it's stable... Anyway, so today's King Cnut exercise is to install SpamAssassin, sa-exim and the new YoSucker. It must be World InterPolatedCaps Day.

Tangentially, there is apparently a YoSucker for Hotmail, called Gotmail. Moral dilemma: is it OK to dally with M$ if you are just spongeing off their free services? I think not - they must get something out of it otherwise they wouldn't bother - suspect it's ad revenue, traffic analysis and the chance of lock-in down the line.

Later: well I was seriously offended that SpamAssassin unconditionally plops itself into /usr/bin, typical bloody Perl-head etiquette. The sa-exim config file is fearsome, but it works. Sods law determined that Yahoo's login was timing out all afternoon. Fab. The new YoSucker is flakey, but fair enough, there was a warning that it's not stable. I'll revert it tomorrow, and see if retrieving en clair avoids the loop problem.

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