2016-05-16
Many of us remember a time when having a blog or a computer on the internet was a cool thing and was safe-ish. There were hackers, but you could take some simple steps (though not enough people did, even then) and largely keep the miscreants out of your stuff. It’s a different world today. I […]
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I was going over some ancient archives of my old web sites and found this gem. I still believe this is how spam and spammers should be dealt with, and it’s a shame it never caught on. This was originally published in late 1997 or early 1998. Unsolicited Commercial E-mail Policy Unsolicited commercial email (AKA […]
Read more2016-03-16
Sunday night I was up late. I wasn’t sleeping and decided to log into GMail to do some clean-up. This is a regular task for me – I go in, empty the bin, delete old mails, sort the inbox into categories, etc. I’ve been doing this for years, usually from the same computer at home […]
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