Miscellaneous

I didn't contact McAfee last night, but I did start up my system - and for once, didn't get any virus warnings. Maybe the system is finally clean, although I don't know why it gave me a virus warning last time, after I'd run VirusScan. Time will tell.

Miscellaneous

I didn't contact McAfee last night, but I did start up my system - and for once, didn't get any virus warnings. Maybe the system is finally clean, although I don't know why it gave me a virus warning last time, after I'd run VirusScan. Time will tell.

Spam, Spam, Everywhere

I've set up SpamKiller on my system (did I already mention that?). It has blocked quite a bit of spam (I get about 100-200 spams per day now), but it has also blocked some legitimate email - and I get so little of that that every piece is precious to me.

The funny thing is this. Two of the wrongly-blocked emails were from the real-world identity of my old friend charibdis; one was blocked because it "had many words used in financial services spam" (he was talking about refinancing), and another because it "had many words used in adult spam" (he was quoting one of my LiveJournal entries ).

My friend Steve also had several bounced emails, also for the "adult words" problem - in his case, though, not from quoting. I've added Steve and charibdis to my friends list, along with ANYTHING directly from LiveJournal, but if you email me it would be good if you could include [PRQ] in the subject - I've set up a filter to automatically accept those messages.

Spam, Spam, Everywhere

I've set up SpamKiller on my system (did I already mention that?). It has blocked quite a bit of spam (I get about 100-200 spams per day now), but it has also blocked some legitimate email - and I get so little of that that every piece is precious to me.

The funny thing is this. Two of the wrongly-blocked emails were from the real-world identity of my old friend charibdis; one was blocked because it "had many words used in financial services spam" (he was talking about refinancing), and another because it "had many words used in adult spam" (he was quoting one of my LiveJournal entries ).

My friend Steve also had several bounced emails, also for the "adult words" problem - in his case, though, not from quoting. I've added Steve and charibdis to my friends list, along with ANYTHING directly from LiveJournal, but if you email me it would be good if you could include [PRQ] in the subject - I've set up a filter to automatically accept those messages.

Invite

I just wanted to say that if any of you guys who don't already have a journal would like an invite code, I'd be happy to give you one. It would be nice to have more people to write back and forth with.

Invite

I just wanted to say that if any of you guys who don't already have a journal would like an invite code, I'd be happy to give you one. It would be nice to have more people to write back and forth with.