Bryan Strawser

Here’s some ridiculous statistics about spam coming into my two home email addresses - I’ve had them since 1994 - this represents email received since January 1st of this year. 168,365 spam messages - absolutely ridiculous.

Filtered Mail

9909 Good Messages

139734 Spam Messages (93%)

468 Spam Messages Per Day

SpamSieve Accuracy

307 False Positives

69 False Negatives (18%)

99.7% Correct

Corpus

16096 Good Messages

168365 Spam Messages (91%)

2396531 Total Words

Rules

93661 Blocklist Rules

2853 Whitelist Rules

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1/1/04 12:00 PM

I’m sitting in the Panera Bread in Saugus, MA doing some work before heading across the parking lot to the store. I tried to access my weblog here at bryanstrawser.com and got this message:

This site is blocked by the SonicWALL Content Filter Service.

URL: http://www.bryanstrawser.com/

Reason for restriction: Forbidden Category “Pornography”

What the hell?!

I checked Sonicwall’s Category Descriptions and found this:

Pornographic sites containing sexually explicit material for the purpose of arousing a sexual or prurient interest.

Yup, you got it. My weblog is pornographic.

I guess I say FUCK too often.

Well, Fuck Sonicwall!

I am struggling with trying to keep my filesystems straight across my computers - this is something I really have to sit down and figure out how I want to proceed.

Short version of a very long story…

At work I have a directory stored on a networked file system - I also have files on the local drive of my work laptop.

At home I have a directory of files on my Powerbook - and another directory of files on my Powermac Desktop. I also have a home server that handles printing and other stuff in the house - and I store files on it as well. I also rent a webserver for this weblog and those of my friends.

I have to find a way to keep all of this stuff in sync - and have a backup system (for the home computers anyways) that makes sense and is reliable.

Anyone doing anything like this? How do you do it?

This is probably a good Slashdot story - I need to reword this and submit… hmm… perhaps I’ll finally get posted!

JoHo the Blog has a post up with some interesting facts about CraigsList:

Fun facts from the article: CraigsList’s 45 regional sites get a billion page views monthly and 5 million unique visitors. Classifieds account for 40-45% of a newspaper’s advertising revenues, or $15.8 billion dollars per year in the US. Craigslist’s annual revenues are guessed to be $7-$12 million/year. Craigslist does not advertise, relying on word-of-mouth.

One Billion Monthly Pageviews! Unbelieveable.

Lyris announced version 8.0 of their ListManager software earlier this week.

I used Lyris for awhile for some newsletters. It’s a great - but incredibly expensive - piece of software.

The exciting thing though is that Lyris now has RSS support - which many folks are already using to get around the spam filled inbox problem with newsletters. This is a huge win for Lyris and its users.

Nothing - and I mean nothing - is as beautiful as watching the Olympics Opening Ceremony in HDTV.

Unbelievable.

Oh, and Katie Couric isn’t on the HD NBC Channel! That just makes it even better!

Nothing like coming into work and unexpectedly finding a brand new Dell Latitude 600 w/ integrated Wi-Fi waiting on my arrival.

My work laptop has been in use (by me) since October 1998 - this for a guy who typically lives on the cutting edge of technology. So the new laptop (and now new PDA) is quite welcome.

It’s certainly not going to replace my Apple Powerbook for general day to day usage, but it’s certainly going to help while I’m in the office.

We are now mostly moved over to a new home - a Dual Xeon 2.4ghz Server with 2GB of RAM and 160GB of HD Space from Layered Technologies - quite happy with their service. Check them out if you’re looking for a new place to hang your hat.