12/19   http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/143382-programmer-creates-800000-books-algorithmically-starts-selling-them-on-amazon
        More books baby!!!

8/16    Why does my Y! mail account always full of unfiltered spam
        mails (and they're obviously spams)? Why can't they do
        a better job like Google mail? Why does Y! mail charge
        for exporting email? Google mail doesn't do that.

8/12    Ugg, no spamd any longer?  I figured I'd have to just give up on my
        soda address (sad, very sad) but Vacation doesn't seem to be installed
        either, so I can't even leave a mesg. to people telling them where
        tom mail me now.  Or can I ?  Any advice out there.  Or can we get
        spamassassin/spamd reinstalled or Vacation or... help....
        \_ Ha, gmail as spamassassin.  presently I am forwarding to gmail
           and then forwarding to where I really want it from there.
           don't know why I feel compelled to share my kludge. -top
        \_ Stop bitching and ask someone on root. I've emailed asking if this
           was intentional. Also, storing mail on soda has been deprecated for
           the past year and a half. Man up and .forward it already.
           \_you misunderstand.  I *have* been forwarding it already.  (for
             quite a long time).  But filtered I sent it through spamc first
             avoiding, among other problems, loops caused by my anti-spam
             service bouncing it when it is spam), now i am forwarding it
             twice!)
        \_ Apparently spamd was never even set up.
           \_ spamassassin used to work, back in the day.
              \_ back in the day when the roads in berkeley to silicon valley
                 venture funds were paved in gold, every startup IPOd and
                 moore's law worked

3/25    OJ says to get a free book here:
        http://smartbear.com/codecollab-code-review-book.php?howheard=Coding+Horror

12/8    Old news, but new to me:
        Spam King kills himself and his family after escaping prison
        http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1553&tag=rbxccnbzd1
        Hopefully more spammers will take the hint.
        \_ I wish the same fate can go to all marketing and
           advertising folks, selling people things they don't
           really need. I esp. hope it happens to people who
           advertise cigarettes, promote alcohol, and gambling.
           I hope it also happens to all diamond marketing
           folks. And luxury car marketing folks. Actually,
           I hope ALL marketing people die the same fate.
           \_ What about sales people? How do you feel about them?
           \_ So the marketing guys at my startup (who are trying to figure
              out which sector we should sell our storage software product
              to) should, in your opinion, kill themselves?  Truly you are
              a prince among men.  Keep up the good work there, twit.
        \_ He was sentenced to only 21 months in a "prison" with dormitory
           housing.  Why bother escaping?

7/17    Thanks to steven, et al. for restoring Soda. In lieu of www.csua providing
        status, could there be a text file with current status and future plans.
        I'm wondering if SpamAssassin is obsolete (and my procmailrc and scripts)
        and won't be restored, and what's filtering spam now.  thanks!
        \_ How do I buy steven a beer or donate gobs of money?
           \_ I got him a Hacker-Pschorr, he seems to like ales.  Prob IPAs
              too.  Just go to the office and hand it to him.
              \_ send him a drink on facebook.
                 \_ I'm sure it will have the same effect.
                    \_ I'm trying to push next-gen root staff to set up
                       the web server, which is why it's taking so long
                       ;)  I'll light a fire via email...

5/7     Dear csua, looks like /usr/bin/spamc and /usr/bin/formail don't exist
        on the emailer. I'm getting a bunch of binaries not found error
        on my .procmail-log.
    \_ Complaining via motd is not a reliable way to be heard and get your
       stuff fixed. Try emailing us. --t

5/4     Is mail still down? I don't seem to be getting any and vermouth
        is unavailable. I saw a note saying it was down Sunday, but it's
        almost Tuesday now.
        \_ exim4 decided it wanted to just die. With the same config file and
        everything. Steven spent all weekend and a lot of yesterday migrating
        to a VM. A side effect is that NFS is now no longer on Keg, so crashy
           keg will no longer be a problem. There might still be a few hiccups with
           getting NFS4 working, though. At this point I believe we're just waiting
           for EECS to unblock the port on the firewall for the new machine doing
           mail. We're now using postfix. --t
        keg will no longer be a problem. There might still be a few hiccups
        with getting NFS4 working, though. At this point I believe we're just
        waiting for EECS to unblock the port on the firewall for the new
        machine doing mail. We're now using postfix. --t
        \_ damn, and I'm eager to start processing my 4500 spam messages. -ERic
           \_ well, clearly the email is still coming in. Its up to 4900 spams.
              -ERic
        \_ damn, and I'm eager to start processing my 4900 spam messages. -ERic
        \_ who fixed your 80 column issue? SODA is time-frozen, you know?

2/10    paolo here are some links to tide you over
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6QcFDqgEDg
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpoO49AUzxk
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcxYlhJdvhc
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQYsKjUTkeQ
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewxJjZb40kk

1/26    Can somebody show me a procmail rule which drops email from
        users {foo, bar, baz}@{host1,host2,host3}.berkeley.edu.
        I dont want to have to create a rule set like this for
        each combination:
        :0:
        * ^From: cfengine@host.berkeley.edu
        /dev/null
        Thanks Motd!
        \_ Have you heard of regular expressions?
           \_ I was not sure if there was some complicated way of
              quoting in the procmailrc.  Is this correct:
              * ^From: (foo|bar|baz)@host[123].berkeley.edu
              or do I have to do something special with the (|)[].
              characters?

1/14    The Elements of Spam
        http://mcsweeneys.net/2008/12/30roeder.html

12/11   outgoing email hasnt worked in a few days..
        \_ I just sent out some email and it arrived in my gmail account
           just fine (in a few minutes even). -ausman
           \_ same test but nothing has arrive for days
              \_ Try again.
                 \_ doesnt work.. perhaps only a few users get updated at a
                    time grouped updates?
                   \_ Maybe you're blacklisted somewhere.  I just tried to a
                      non-gmail account and it worked fine. -emakrp
                        \_ gmail thought it was spam. but worked before :/
        \- You get your mail on soda? "lulz"

6/23    why do women's razors work better on my face than men's razors?
        is it because i'm azn?
        \_ Asian men have "finer" figures that are more similar with
           Caucasian women. In fact, many Caucasian women have MORE
           hair than Asian men.
        \_ What part of your face?  Beard or facial hair?
        \_ I'm asian. what beard?  im talking about the hair above my
           upper lip.
           \_ What razors are you comparing?  Because a thin cartidge probably
              is what's most important.  Those 4 blade monstrosities are
              make it really hard to shave under the nose.
        \_ Women's razor handles are often shaped differently for different
           gripping.  Maybe you're just holding your face razor wrong?  Or
           maybe you should replace your cartridge more often?
        \_ "What azn razor and white razor?  There is no azn razor!  I demand
        \_ "Azn razor?  White razor?  There is no azn razor!  I demand
           the same razor!!"
        \_ You are a girly man.
        \_ Interesting. Every woman I've been with has preferred to use
           my razor. Overall, men's razors are better quality. I presume
           it's because faces are more sensitive than legs. From my
           experience (using womens' razors when I had to) I don't like
           womens' razors at all.
           \_ I'd rather think it's because men's razor market is bigger, such
              that it can support bigger competitors who can invest more in
              research.

4/17    How do I get procmail to delete emails with things like
        ^Viiiaaaagggrrra in the message body.  ^V then i+ then a+ ...
        \- a better rule would be to check for the language type, and
           if it's undeterminable or has too many misspellings then
           it's most likely spam email. ps i'm gay ok thx.
        \_ Thatd be some pretty impressive regex magic, to get all imaginable
           misspellings.  Like say vlagkra...
           \_ I don't mean all misspellings. I mean some numbers of Vs
              followed by some number of Is and so on.
        \_ Don't do this.  You're just reinventing the wheel, poorly.  Instead,
           run your mail through spamassassin or ASware of your choice which
           can add spam tagged headers to your mail and sort/delete based on
           that.  There are tons of docs on how to do this with procmail out
           there.

3/10    Is there a reliable way to control spam on soda?
        Can someone write an "any undergrad can do it" level FAQ?  Thanks.
        \_ echo "/dev/null" > ~/.forward
        \_ I use Thunderbird to check my soda mail.
        \_ Forward to gmail.  Let google's spam filter work for you.
        \_ I use spamassassin. I just checked and it caught all but one of
           the 358 (!) pieces of spam I was mailed today. I only had two
           legit emails though, so perhaps answer #1 is better for me.
           I actually forward my csua email to google, as well, which
           does further filtering.
           http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/UsedViaProcmail
           for how to install spamassassin and procmail. -ausman

2/24    Facebook comscore numbers slipping
        http://preview.tinyurl.com/24p9n8 (techcrunch.com)
        http://preview.tinyurl.com/2hug7v (hollywoodreporter.com)
        Over to you, dans
        \_ dans doesn't work at facebook
           \_ Slide feeds at the pig trough which is facebook apps:
              http://adonomics.com/company/Slide

2/24    Facebook comscore numbers slipping
        http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/22/facebook-fatigue-visitors-level-off-in-the-us
        Over to you, dans
        \_ dans doesn't work at facebook
           \_ No, but slide feeds at the trough which is facebook app spam
           \_ Slide feeds at the pig trough which is facebook apps:
              http://adonomics.com/company/Slide

11/6    motd not getting laid getting forwarded giant penis spam by
        hot 22 year old guy here.  today emailed her "I HAVE A GIRLFRIEND",
        her response is "I get off work at 6 today".  What do i do?
        \_ What? You replied to a Calias spammer?
        \_ This has already been dealt with.  "Have some balls, don't
           be a dick."

10/21   I've gotten two bounced back e-mails from my CSUA address that I
        didn't send.  Does this mean my account is compromised by a
        spammer?
        \_ Probably not, the spammer is probably just joejobbing your
           address. -dans

10/4    I stopped using Y! Mail because it was collecting a lot of spam.
        I switched to Gmail thinking Google's better. Now my Gmail's
        collecting as much spam as my Y! Mail, I'm beginning to realize
        that Google blows just as much as Yahoo. Is there a better FREE
        mailer out there I can use?  \_ whats your email addr? i'll tell
        the spammers to stop -shac \_ Is SpamGuard in your Yahoo Mail
        turned on?
           \_ If you're running the free version of Y! Mail (as opposed to
              one that comes with AT&T Yahoo or <DEAD>sbcglobal.net<DEAD>),
              SpamGuard doesn't seem to do jack. You can tag email as
              'Spam' but that has been a big joke since I *still* get
              spam no matter what.
        \_ whats your email addr? i'll tell the spammers to stop -shac
        \_ Is SpamGuard in your Yahoo Mail turned on?
           \_ If you're running the free version of Y! Mail (as opposed to
              one that comes with AT&T Yahoo or <DEAD>sbcglobal.net<DEAD>), SpamGuard
              doesn't seem to do jack. You can tag email as 'Spam' but that
              has been a big joke since I *still* get spam no matter what.
        \_ You can run, but you can't hide.
        \_ Sorry about the spam.  I get little to no spam at gmail.
        \_ I don't get spam at either one.  My Yahoo mail account is several
        \_ You can run, but you can't hide.  \_ Sorry about the spam.
        I get little to no spam at gmail.  \_ I don't get spam at
        either one.  My Yahoo mail account is several
           years old.  My gmail account is newer.
        \_ I get a lot of SPAM at Yahoo!, although it also catches a lot.
           I don't have GMAIL.

10/4
http://www.ixiqi.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/geekjewery42ap8.jpg
        <head>Great gift for your lady friend (or metrosexual
        friend)</head> \_ I don't think you know what metrosexual means
           \_ I don't think he knows what "great gift" means
        \_ These are more girly then they are metro.  I prefer the
        shirts with
           the body tag on front and back. -dans

8/11    Is spamassassin working?  Anybody using procmail with spamassassin?
        >spamc -R < /usr/share/doc/spamc/sample-spam.txt
        returns 0/0
        \_ It hasn't worked for me for about a month.

7/12    spamassassin like dead/ineffective?
        \_ fuck it. .forward to @gmail.com
           \_ Or use Thunderbird.
        \_ works great for me.

6/28    Q: What are folks using these days for anti-spam measures?  I'm
        looking for something that integrates with my MTA (postfix) or my
        delivery agent (sieve).  Currently I'm using a crufty version of
        spamassassin wired into postfix via amavisd-new.  It's decent, but I
        don't want to be bothered with manually upgrading spamassassin or
        updating rulesets on a regular basis.  Anyone have any experience
        with DSPAM or Spamassassin plus some kind of automated rules
        updater?  Are
        there any new open-source anti-spam tools ftw? -dans
        \_ I just let Thunderbird do the job.
        \_ I'm doing almost exactly what you're doing, plus I scan the mail
           log in real time and permanently firewall block any IP that is
           reported as having a high spam score and doesn't have a reverse
           IP.  I've got about 8000 IPs blocked and get very little spam
           these days.  YMMV.

5/31    "Man described as a top spammer arrested"
        http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070531/ap_on_hi_te/spam_arrest
        YEAH!
        \_ every spammer thinks they are 'the top spammer'
           \_ no!  im the top spammer!
              ]_ no its me! me ! mE!
                 \_ its meeeeee!!!!!
                    \_ I have a business proposal for you.
        \_ sodan quoted:
           http://www.crn.com/security/199800149

4/2     http://www.humanevents.com/offers/offer.php?id=ANN104
        Sign up to get Ann Coulter's Weekly Column FREE!
        (great if you need to spam someone you hate)
        \_ Why don't you just forward your regular dose of spam to them via
           procmail or something?

3/25    Despite the fact that my .spamassassin/user_prefs file has the spam
        threshold set to 0.0, spamassassin is using 3.0, and consequently I
        am getting tons of spam in my inbox.  This didn't seem to be
        occuring several weeks or months ago.  What can I do to fix it?