If you are creating some sort of system that sends email to people inresponse to web-based requests , it is tempting tothink that you should put in the IP address (and the timestamp) that therequest came from, in case your services are abused. In practice this isuseless, for a number of reasons.

The first one is that almost no one sends abuse complaints about spamany more, because people have long since worked out that doing so isalmost always a waste of (their) time

If you were to haunt me, every so often you would see me open up a new terminal window , run' cat >/dev/null ', and paste or type something there.

What I am doing with this peculiar behavior is simple: I'm arrangingfor a slightly more persistent text storage than my X selection . I park any number of things dependingon what I'm doing; snippets of text from fishing back in editorundo , commands that I'm temporarilyre-running, and