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Journal Journal: Job-related whiney angst

My job is getting to me. I don't have a specific list of complaints, just a hodgepodge of nebulous emotional crap. Angst. I hate angst. Even worse than angst is people who whine about their angst in blogs nobody reads. However, I've been mulling it over this evening and I want to commit it to text while it's still fresh in my mind.

Comment Several layers of paranoia (Score 2, Interesting) 56

I use SpamAssassin to sort and tag the spam server-side, with my threshold set at 5. Or rather I should say the ISP hosting my domain uses SpamAssassin, I don't have full control over the mail server.

Then I use Mailwasher mainly to preview the messages on the server before downloading them. Mailwasher has its own filters to tag and bag spam, and they're pretty good. Do NOT use Mailwasher's fake bounce feature, it only contributes to the problem. I get the full source of the messages before downloading and report them to SpamCop.

I then use Mozilla Mail for the actual downloading and reading, which of course has its own Bayesian filtering, but messages have already gone through two other filters before they reach it. The funny thing is that even though I preview the messages with Mailwasher, I don't delete them on the server, I want them for training purposes.

I use throw-away accounts on SpamGourmet if I need to sign up for anything online.

I only get maybe three spams a week to my real email address, so all of this may be a tad extreme. But perhaps this paranoia (I'm also very protective of my email address to begin with) is *why* I get so little spam.

My Hotmail account, OTOH, was getting about 20-30 per day, five or six of those were making it past the filters into my inbox. Since I don't use the account for much serious correspondance, I finally set myself to "Exclusive" and whitelisted those few domains that I actually want to get mail from.
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Journal Journal: The arduous car registration renewal saga

In November of 2001 I was out of work and out of money and was forced to give up my apartment in the East Bay and move back to Houston to live with my parents while I continued to desperately look for work. Because I had no intention of staying in Houston permanently, and because I was willing to take a job anywhere in the country (with the exceptions of Florida and Alabama), I did not transfer my car registration immediately. I was still registered and insured in California, even though I wa

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Journal Journal: More on the Mozilla switch

I'm mildly annoyed at the way the Mozilla project has shifted their focus right when I finally worked up the nerve to switch. Henceforth, they'll be working on lean stand-alone applications for browsing and mail, rather than a single all-in-one mother app. But one of the main attractions for me was that I *wanted* an all-in-one. I like having a single program running for browsing and email, rather than two. I use Trillian because I can be on all four messengers without running four programs (

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Journal Journal: I'm making the switch 1

I've been using Mozilla 1.2 as my default browser in Windows for about six weeks, finally got around to upgrading to 1.3 a couple days ago. It has been a gradual transition, and is not yet complete, but I hope to eventually pull away from the stranglehold IE and Outlook have on my browsing/mailing life.

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