Once again, I'm leading with Hotmail's stats to highlight their spam problem :

• three email messages accepted.
• 320 messages refused because they came from non-Hotmailemail addresses.
• 22 messages refused because their sender addresses had already hitour spamtraps.
• 21 messages refused due to their originating IP address (17 in theSBL, two in the CBL, one in the XBL, one because it's fromGilat-Satcom).

Gilat-Satcom is a serious problem here; it

Here's how to give a system administrator a heart attack: the defaultSolaris 9 sendmail configuration apparently allows other machines thatyour Solaris machine thinks are in your local domain to relay throughyou. I say 'apparently' because there's nothing in the sendmail.mc aboutthis, and nothing clear in the generated /etc/mail/sendmail.cf either.

In other fun discoveries, the default sendmail configuration is alsoset up to relay all your mail through a machine called 'mailhost' inyour domain

I'll start by quoting Glyph Lefkowitz from a recent article (okay, recent for my techblog writing):

Metaprogramming is hard, and dress it up however you like, that'swhat using SQL is. Your code is generating other code, andevaluating its results.

Because metaprogramming is so hard, it is almost exclusively theprovince of frameworks, environments and operating systems. For goodreason, too. Whenever code generates other code, there arepotentially very serious mistakes that can get made. [..