One of the things that writing WanderingThoughts has been good for isgiving me a good exposure to all of the spelling mistakes I makeroutinely. I've long been interested in linguistics, so I findspelling mistakes that happen all the time interesting, since Isuspect that they're a sign of deep linguistic mechanisms atwork. (Unfortunately I don't know enough linguistics to know what theyare, or if anyone's ever studied the field.)

I believe that I generally spell words phonetically, but

People keep pushing the idea of case independent filenames (andmocking systems without them), but the whole idea has three bigproblems: case conversion is a lot more complicated than people think,locking a character set encoding into your OS damages its ability toevolve, and case folding is language specific .

The handy example of the last is Turkish (and Azeri). In Turkish, thecapitalization of 'i' is not 'I' but the dotted I (Unicode U+0130);the

I'm going to lead with the Hotmail spam numbers, because they continueto be catastrophic.

• two emails accepted, both from spamlike Hotmail usernames.
• 376 messages rejected because they came from non-Hotmail emailaddresses.
• 134 messages sent to our spamtraps.
• 17 messages refused because their sender addresses had already hitour spamtraps.
• 5 messages refused due to their origin IP address (four for being inthe SBL and one for being sent from SAIX, which has an advance feefraud spam problem)