One of the common suggestions for fixing the email spam problem isto charge a small (often nominal) fee for email. Ignoring all of theproblems with implementing such a scheme, and ignoring all of the peoplewho would be violently against it, we can ask an important question:would it actually work?

Let's turn that around and ask the reverse question: has charging forpaper mail stopped paper mail spam? Clearly the answer is no; mostpeople get lots of junk mail, despite the senders having

Lighttpd is a popular lightweight webserver I've been experimenting with; in the process, I've woundup stumbling over various things that I should write down this time around (I played around with lighttpd about a year ago but then forgot a bunch of this stuff).

• unlike Apache, lighttpd's error log is global; there's only one, notone per virtual host. If you accidentally set server.errorlog multiple times (perhaps in virtual host setups), only the last onegets