As a system administrator, I like to see console messages even whenI'm in X (which is almost all of the time). On my systems, consolemessages come from high priority kernel messages, high priority notesfrom syslog, and sometimes messages from init, and I like to knowabout all of these.

In theory, xterm's -C command line switch should do thisnicely, and indeed it did for years. These days, there aretwo unfortunate problems with it:

• back in 2

The current official plans are for Debian to release Etch (the nextversion of their distribution) in December 2006, already more than ayear and a half after Sarge, their last release. (Since Sarge shippedwith already obsolete versions of programs, it will effectively beeven longer.)

Unfortunately, I believe Debian has made some decisions that willsignificantly slow down Etch and even subsequent releases. Thismatters to me because old, stale versions of programs has been mymajor problem with Debian; the slower

Another week, another set of cruddy Hotmail spam numbers. Let's seehow bad things are this week:

• here's a new one: no email accepted from Hotmail this week.
• 216 messages rejected because they came from non-Hotmail emailaddresses.
• 107 messages sent to our spamtraps.
• 20 messages refused because their sender addresses had already hitour spamtraps.
• 6 messages refused due to their origin IP address (three for beingfrom SAIX, two for being on the SBL, and one