Als ob der ganze Link-Spam im Web selbst nicht schon nervig genug wäre, gibt es jetzt auch noch Link-Spam im echten Leben: Zettelchen, die an Bäumen und Laternenpfählen hängen und zum Besuch von Webseiten auffordern.
Neben der einfachen Umweltverschandlung stösst einem an der Sache sauer auf, dass sich der Spam, zumindest da, wo ich ihn gesehen habe, um den Eingang einer Schule herum konzentriert.
Spammer war in dem Fall starsbook.com.
Multimediawise, the MIT Spam Conference 2007 was a complete disaster. I didn't much like the webcasts they used in former years which required me to install the much despised real-player, but this years youtubing was a real quality blow. There isn't much to see in those videos and there is rarely anything to hear. According to the Spam Conference website, we can thank Rob Targosz of McAfee for messing up that part.
If you are not that multimedia inclined, you should be able to resort to downloading the presentations and the accompanying papers. But that would be a bit easy, wouldn't it? To make the papers accessible only to the technically inclined, the Spam Conference eggheads provided only ISO images of something that actually contains those files.
Fortunately, I am not on Windows and reading ISO images is no big hassle. Unpacking them, giving web-safe names to the files and transferring them to my server was no big deal either.
So here they are (don't ask me what is what, though):
According to John Graham-Cumming, the reason for the ISO-image is that Bill Yerazunis wants people to glance over all the papers. Makes me wonder what he would have done if he wanted people to not read the papers while still publishing them.
One of the new features in Thunderbird 2.0 is that extensions can now add their own columns to the list of messages. I always thought that this sounds good and now I've found the first extension that makes use of this feature. But the extension doesn't just add any old column, it actually adds a very useful column if your mail server is running SpamAssassin.
Spamness adds a column that displays SpamAssassin's spam score in an easily scannable graphical way. 
After you have installed spamness, you can easily scan your spam folder for very spammy and not so spammy mails and you can sort it by spaminess. (Install the Mnenhy extension if you don't want to sort all your folders by spaminess and if you don't want to display the spamness column in each folder).
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