Weekly spam summary on June 30th, 2007

This week, we:

  • got 10,108 messages from 265 different IP addresses.
  • handled 22,107 sessions from 2,055 different IP addresses.
  • received 271,991 connections from at least 75,816 different IPaddresses.
  • hit a highwater of 13 connections being checked at once.

Volume is definitely up from last week .As the per day table illustrates, spammers seem to still preferWednesday for their big day:

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大學情侶 棄屍校園
衣不蔽體 死因迷離

【本報消息】昨日清晨,XX大學一名校工在該校後山一棵大樹下發現一具全裸女屍,馬上通知校方報警。警方到場調查,在女死者伏屍處不足20米外一草叢中發

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Why forwarding all email for users is dangerous

The problem with forwarding all email for users is that much of the timeyou wind up forwarding spam email as a result, sometimes a great deal ofit. That is: your mail servers wind up sending spam email, often a lotof it, to the places that your users have forwarded their emails. Thereare two consequences of this.

First, these days large Internet providers like Yahoo don't care whyyou're sending them spam, they just care that you are. When you do sendthem


The stupidity of being nickled and dimed by vendors

We have some current rackmount servers from Sun and HP. They both comewith convenient, built in remote management systems that are basicallyequivalent from my perspective; each has remote power control, KVMover IP, and virtual media . There's only one importantdifference between the two: Sun gives me this for free as part of thebase server but HP wants a few hundred dollars to give me a licensethat enables the useful features (KVM over IP and virtual media).

I suspect you can guess whose servers


something odd

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雖然被寫成白痴一樣有點不忿,但在漫長的書面粵語裡我突然難過起來,幾乎要流眼淚——T,為什麼要做這麼危險的事?這種危險到了難以承受的地步。我赫然發 現,這難過原來類似「今人乍見孺子將入於井」。接著電光


路路公主和空姐的約會

Ladies' night。

路路公主和空姐相約在和民晚飯,然後一起clubbing去。

路路公主和空姐都是真人。

路路公主五尺五,空姐五尺一。

路路公主穿鮮紅tube dress,空姐穿彩藍吊帶裙。

路路公主穿綠色high heels,空姐穿金色high heels。

路路公主有雙大眼睛,空

易明的EVA

(圖為 NewType 的新屋島作戰圖片)

最近在「順手」整理餘下的 EVA Zone 資料,現在的「解謎檔案」和「補完版」也已經搬遷完成了。新加了「更新消息」一項,主要用來放 Rebuild of Evangelion ( ROE ) 的更新消息。另外,新加了「作品介紹」,為 ROE 開了


六月三十日好鬼多野發生

(封面是曾德平拍攝的皇后碼頭。)

《今天‧香港十年》新書發佈會

牛津大學出版社剛推出《今天‧香港十年》,這裡的十年,毫無疑問就是「香港回歸」後的第一個十年。沒有「回歸」兩字,當然並不是要迴避,倒是突顯我們
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Why I don't like inverted if conditionals

Perl has an often used feature where you can write a conditionalstatement in a form like:

statement if (condition);

(You can use unless too.)

I find this usage lurching because it's a dislocation in my flow ofthought. I start out reading the code thinking that the statement alwayshappens; then I get to the if and whoops, time to backtrack on myunderstanding.

The worst form of this is when the if is indented a lot, so it'salmost flush right with