Month: June 2003

Mike and I headed in to downtown to meet up with Matt at Kaveh Kanes so that Matt can take me to e-mail nirvana, helping me to get rid of spam forever. (Yes, I will be writing a tutorial. Yes, it will be posted at ScriptyGoddess.) I just had to snap this photo of Matt and Mike with my phone before we got down to business. I think they are actually IM’ing with each other, right here at the table. Ok, it’s an IM chat with a third WordPress developer who is in England.

It’s a gorgeous sunny day, and we’re sitting out on the patio area at the coffee shop. Nice and cool, with grooving tunes piped out from the shop. Enjoying the free WiFi (take THAT, Starbucks!) Really, could you possibly ask for more?

I left the house earlier with four cameras. I think it says something about my issues when I felt like I needed to bring more with me. Just how many cameras does a girl need? Wait … don’t answer that. Ok?

I’ve had it up to *here* (waving my hand high over my head) with spam. Spam, spam, spam. I went an entire weekend without checking my e-mail, and the following Monday I was greeted with over 300 spam e-mails. Augh! Enough.

Matt has been talking about how he is almost spam free, and he has the perfect system set up to rescue me from my spam. “Save me!,” I cried, over and over again. Step 1 was that I needed to finally set up Spam Assassin. (As soon as I know the rest of the steps, I’ll write up the whole process and share.)

I had to do something before I started getting e-mail from people that supposedly saw me at work like Jennifer. I’ve never used Spam Assassin before. I guess I was afraid it would kill all of my good e-mail too. Somethinig like that, doesn’t matter now. What matters now is that my spam is being “Assassinated”. Well, ok. That and the points.

Each spam e-mail is assigned points basied on the contents of that spam message. The higher the points, the more spammy that spam content is. So now, as I delete them, I keep track of which one is the highest point spam message. Right now we’re sitting at 40.20 points, but that could be beat out any day now! What’s your highest spam points? Do I get a prize for this if I win?