PopFile Revisited: another thousand messages received; a new version installed

Posted on Friday, November 21, 2003 @ 6:18 pm
Filed Under Computing, POPfile, Security
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All in all, that's a rather impressive performance. The increasing spam count is also rather impressive; after all, I added this tool to my kit because the junk seemed to be getting out of hand.

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Design: finding your way to passable

Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2003 @ 9:08 pm
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The object is to write, and to publish. The tools are tools. So are the design details.

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POPfile: sorting the mail

Posted on Sunday, November 16, 2003 @ 10:16 am
Filed Under Computing, POPfile, Security
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I receive between 50 and 100 e-mails each day, and read about 60% of those (the unread ones are either duplicates or spam). I used to read about 85% of my mail; the change in percentage is largely because of the increasing spam load. (Eudora has a reporting function; these numbers have some relation to reality.) Perhaps 65% of the real mail has baseball content of some sort or other; the rest is on a wide range of topics.

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Iowa: shades of Eugene

Posted on Sunday, November 16, 2003 @ 12:53 am
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Johnson won the day, McCarthy won the campaign, Humphrey won the nomination, and Nixon won the election. The year changed my life--mostly for the good.

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Margaret remembers that for me

Posted on Friday, November 14, 2003 @ 11:21 pm
Filed Under Family, Musick, Stories
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Anne's encore was David Roth's Manuel Garcia, a song about cancer, and families, and love, and support. I really needed that; thanks, Anne.

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