This is really getting insane: my spamload has doubled since the beginning of the year! This is how much spamassassin is filtering out of my mailbox. 800 f***ing messages/day! Email would be unreadable without a good filter like spamassassin. I spent all last night, into the wee hours, using a script to grab the ip addresses of the asshole sites that directly connected to agora in the last month to send me spam, all 25,000 of them. Then I configured sendmail to reject mail from those sites, referring users to a web page I set up to all those wrongly blocked to let me know (something most of the spam databases do not seem to be getting right from all the complaints I hear). So far today, sendmail has rejected 3000 connections before even trying to deliver who knows how many messages (each connection could send a message to multiple addresses, and often does). Typically, I get spam addressed to 4-6 recipients, so say 5 as an average --- that's 15,000 messages blocked. Phew. That should help reduce the load on agora! I'm on the verge of having to build a separate mail system to cope with it all. I really don't like vigilante justice (which is one of the reasons I think Bush really screwed up with his war, no matter how it turns out), as all to often, justice has little to do with it, but heaven help any spammers whose addresses get out!
I was very pleased with this movie: it's not a deep movie by any means, and one has to be willing to give them the nonsense about "if you believe, it will be so", but I like Sean William Scott, and I'm glad to see him taking a step up from the stoner roles he's been doing. Of course, Chow Yung Fat goes without saying! Except maybe why'd he bother? But I'm glad he did, he helps bring the movie up a level or two. I also like the resolution --- in the more complex world of today, it takes a little more to protect an item that powerful. Though I think they could have done a better job of maybe explaining what they were protecting it for... Presumably someday someone will be able to make use of it for good, but it would probably be safest to just destroy it. I think it's going to be a very long time before it would be safe to have around.
