I apologize for the personal attack. Not sure why I did that. Guess I let my emotions get the better of me.

Still, fuck RBLs. Sadly, many who should know better do not weight RBLs, and instead outright reject any mail that scores a hit. These operators are slowly destroying the email infrastructure by not only fragmenting and marginalizing the smaller email providers (including individuals who choose to responsibly run their own SMTP service), but by implicitly forcing individuals to seek mail services through corporate providers (think "do no evil"). I have gotten to the point where I simply tell subscribers to the lists I admin that they will have to use another ISP if they want to subscribe because their email provider blindly defers to one or more RBLs, most of which are dodgy to begin with (think pay to play, or let's ban entire subnets because we aren't technologically adept enough to filter on just one IP address).

At this point he can then run the mail through a series of weighted RBLs.

Fuck you and your RBLs. RBLs are a draconian solution that do immeasurable damage to those of us who (1) aren't spammers, and (2) choose to run our own mailservers on business-class IPs. I can't tell you how many times various IPs I use for outbound mail (I run several mailing lists) end up on an RBL for absolutely no fucking reason.

Oh, because someone in the same /24 block sent spam? Really? That's a good reason to block an entire /24 subnet?

RBLs are a solution in search of a problem. Some of them are nothing more than moneymakers for the people that run them: In order to get off their list, they blackmail you into paying money.

Want to do the world a favor? Don't use RBLs. You'll just end up finding yourself blacklisted at some point anyway.

have you tried spamassassin?

Don't follow this advice. SA has become so slow that it's almost useless. On a VM with 1GB RAM, it takes anywhere from 15-60 seconds to process a single e-mail, and is an incredible resource hog. I've been running SA for years, run the latest stuff, and have pretty much done every tweak imaginable. And the default rules are about useless now as well: The scores are set so low that you have to set a low threshold, increasing your false positive rate. About 50% of the mail on my mail server (personal use, maybe 200-300 inbound messages a day, 90% spam) just gets passed due to spamd timing out.

Unfortunately, there appear to be no decent alternatives out there. Greylisting is nice, but spammers are wising up to it, and simply resend spam. There was a time about 3-4 years ago that zero spam came through (same inbound volume)...now, it's more like 5-10 a day. Not that I'm complaining. My point being that switching over to SA will not solve any of the submitter's resource woes with procmail.

Regardless of your imaginings about Greenwald, this latest release is nothing to with him or the Guardian, but comes from another newspaper the Independent. Snowden and the Guardian strongly dispute that Snowden's materials are the source of the Independent's story, and claim that the UK government itself must be the source of this particular material.

The important story here is not that there's more secret surveillance, it's that the Independent claims that the story is based on materials from Snowden, and he and the Guardian flat-out deny that. The obvious implication is that the UK government itself "leaked" the material to the Independent, to create an appearance of potential danger to people arising from "the Snowden disclosures", a type of release that Snowden and the Guardian have strenuously avoided.

Bedbugs are known to drop down onto beds from the ceiling. They can also crawl (not jump) from furniture that happens to be touching the bed as well.

EU nations have managed to put up a full service light rail system connecting all your major cities, in an area about as large as the five boroughs of NYC.

The area of NYC is somewhere between 650 sq.km and 950 sq.km, depending on how you measure. There are 44 European countries larger than 1000 sq.km - NYC is only larger than Andorra, Malta, Liechtenstein, San Marino, Monaco and Vatican City. Even the 44th largest on the list, Luxembourg, is more than two and a half times bigger than NYC.

Sorry, folks, but no Master's in CS is worth $45,000, and certainly not from Georgia Tech when better schools offer the same for half the tuition (Univ. of Texas comes to mind), and regional schools for a quarter of this. This seems to be nothing more than a marketing ploy to show what a good "deal" you could get if you went 100% online while at the same time inflating the quality of the on-campus program at Georgia Tech.

The only one I know of is down I-45 in Garrett. Where are the others?

Yes he would be. People have said just that. It's not at all illegal to say awful things in the US.

Fuck you.

The other day a Google tech recruiter (not a headhunter) contacted me about an interview at Google. This after I turned down a second interview with them seven years ago. Yes, seven years ago. It got me to thinking: Is Google that desperate for qualified employees that they are having to dig that deep into their interview files to find talent? After doing some research, it seems as though they want to interview me for a "technical sales engineering" position or some such thing. Still, this article and the fact that Google is searching their archives for help seems to point to a dwindling supply of technical types in the market.

And since I'm a few years older than Vince Vaughan, I seriously doubt I'd quite fit in anymore. Say what you want about The Internship, but Google's imprimatur was all over it.

I think the nearest equivalent would be a D-Notice

Glad you were able to speak to him. Don't beat yourself up over leaving. He didn't pass away alone.