I really wish that the authors of mail transport agents would give mean actual language to program the behavior of their mailers. Well, notthe low-level behavior; what I want is a high-level language I canuse to cleanly write out the logic of what should happen to messages,the sequence of checks and actions and destinations that a particularmessage should go through.

I feel that our message flow logic is not particularly complicated, when written out directly . The problem is that as far as I can

This week, we:

• got 10,298 messages from 262 different IP addresses.
• handled 19,100 sessions from 1,599 different IP addresses.
• received 373,200 connections from at least 118,510 different IPaddresses.
• hit a highwater of 14 connections being checked at once.

This is about the same volume as last week .We continue to have a lot of spam zombies hitting us, but this week they

I've written about my unhappiness with partial entry syndication feeds before . Another limitation of partial feedsthat only struck me recently is that you may well get no sign that anentry has been updated after you've read it.

With a decent feed reader, any change to the text of an entry in thefeed that you've already read gets flagged. With full entries in thefeed, this means that updates get flagged. However, with a partialentry the update may well be made to stuff that