While spam filtering is 'dangerous' in that it can trigger on legitimateemail, incorrectly classifying it as spam, there are different levels ofdangerousness depending on what you do as a result of things triggering.In increasing levels of danger, there are three general things that peopledo:

1. reject the email message during the SMTP conversion.
2. discard the email message.
3. bounce the email message back to the alleged sender.

The danger of the second option is obvious: the sender of a legitimateemail message receives no indication that their

It's not news that if you want work done you usually need to pay peopleto do it; there are not that many selfless volunteers and sooner orlater you stop being able to trick people into doing it for free. Ofcourse, the open source movement is a clear demonstration that you don'thave to pay people in money; people find any number of things rewarding.But you do need to give people a reward that they find meaningful.

(You can argue that a certain amount of open

In the spirit of my Firefox extensions , and since Ijust went through this exercise today, here are the Firefox preferencescustomizations that I currently use. At least some of these are onlypresent in relatively bleeding edge Firefox builds, and you will needto use about:config to enable at least some of them.

(I have not put everything in here, just the stuff that I always forgetand that irritates me when it's missing.)