Swimming in the Pensieve

The kids have been hard at work on their lessons, so I gave them a bit of a break while I checked-up on server stats, script execution, and eMail.

It seems that, sometime around the middle of November, the SPAMmers discovered the giggle-inducing technique of routing SPAM through website contact forms. They finally got around to hitting this site on the 28^th of December. I discovered this “advanced advertising technology”, as it applies to me, on 05 January; when I finally got around to hooking-up my workstation and checking email.

A couple of email filter rules and one server script later, all is quiet on the home front, and the SPAMmers are happily anticipating the harvest they will reap from the droves of people who suffer under their constant barrage of junk.

Not this rabbit.

Free Advice Time:
If you have problems finding your necessary correspondence because it’s buried under a load of SPAM in your incoming email queue, or just bugged by SPAM in general; do yourself a favor and learn about the filtering techniques available to you from your email provider, and learn how to filter your email through your email client. If you have a web/email server, lock it down.

You’ll make life so much easier for yourself–and the rest of us–because the bandwidth drops markedly when the latest batch of SPAM is dumped onto the wire, or when the latest windoze exploit makes the rounds.

Then again, if you really do like SPAM, just buy some Monty Python albums and have yourself a few laughs.