SnakeLegs

Using spamd in greylisting mode, I’m running greyscanner to pick off some low-hanging fruit (senders with no A or MX).  But I also have an old domain that isn’t used for production any more, and it gets tons of spam.  Here’s how I used that to my advantage.

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Minor errata for the Que Certification book, by Todd W. Mathers and Elias N. Khnaser.

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 Some products are perfect.  This Be (defunct authors of BeOS) cup is the perfect size and shape.  The handle is perfect.  The lettering isn’t faded at all and shows only the slightest of scratches.  Texture is pleasant.  I unintentionally left it out in the garage for half a year, filled with coffee, but after sticking it [...]

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 If you’d like a simple, front-end spam filter that you can place in front of an existing SMTP mail server, try an OpenBSD transparent bridge running spamd.  Here’s the no-nonsense version on undeadly.org, written by Chris Kuethe.
I did the same thing with a couple of Soekris 4801’s, running off 1GB Compact Flash cards.  My 4801 model [...]

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If you are so inclined, please visit the World Community Grid and install the distributed computing client to help cure Muscular Dystrophy.  For Windows, this is just a screensaver that runs while your computer is idle.  I’ve been running it for some time now, and it plays nice — I’ve noticed no problems at all.  There’s [...]

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Here’s some late-night brainstorming on what can be done with spamd greylist entries during the time they’re greylisted.

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I was very surprised with Lucky Slevin – it’s now one of my favorite movies.  Of course Josh Hartnett gets instant bonus points for having been in a movie scored by Cliff Martinez (”Wicker Park“).
Instead of “anorexia,” he’s saying, “I have ataraxia.”  And it’s “weirdo.”
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…on Donner on Blitzen….
 When running an OS off Compact Flash, it’s prudent to write as infrequently as possible to the CF card, since they tend to wear out.  The usual solution is to mount / read-only and put all read-write activity in an MFS (ramdisk) and sync regularly.
For OpenBSD 4.0 on Soekris, I use Bill [...]

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