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Ireland: ‘The weather is bloody this time of year, the traffic is worse, but it’s a fine town.’ Agreed!

So I met up with SpamAssassin Dan, SpamAssassin Theo, and POPFile author John Graham-Cumming yesterday, down in San Diego — much spam stuff was discussed.

Great to meet up — not so great to miss the last train back to Irvine to my own inability to correctly read a timetable, and have to drag Dan and Theo out that way. oops, sorry guys! Not so smart, but at least we got to carry on the discussion for an hour or two more…

Tags: author, fine, graham, ireland, popfile, spamassassin, time, town, traffic, weather, year

The Field Guide To Spam, by Dr. John Graham-Cumming of POPFile; seems to be a continuation of his ‘Spammer’s Compendium’ talk at the Spam Conference. Lots of examples of filter-evasion tricks used in spam, with a brief description, example, and categorization.

Worth noting some SpamAssassin dogma here: these may seem to be a good way to evade filters. However, since they are tricks that spam uses, and non-spam mail does not, they then make excellent spam signatures – and the spammers effectively just give us yet another way to identify their spam. ;)

Hacking: Fusor.net is a community of mad scientists amateur fusion researchers, building nuclear fusion devices in their garages and basements. They’re not quite self-sustaining yet, but they’re definitely working on it.

In the meantime, some pretty pictures of poissors, buggle jets, and fusion stars here. Thanks to Mr. FoRK for posting a link to this… amazing.

Tags: continuation, cumming, field, fusion, graham, guide, john, popfile, spam, way