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x-eudora-setting:7818 Reply to sender attribution

20 June 2006, 7:41 am

You can customize the text that appears in front of the text you are quoting in a reply. Simply open a new message and paste in the command in the body of the blank message. <x-eudora-setting:7818> Then double click that link. In the box that appears, simply use these codes to create the text you want to appear:

^0 The name of the original sender
^1 The date of the original message
^2 The original subject
^3 The time of the original message

I use this set of codes: At ^3 ^1, ^0 wrote: which ends up showing up as “At 8:03 AM -0500 6/19/06, (person) wrote:

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What I want in an email client

19 June 2006, 4:26 pm

Giles Turnbull asks what I want in a new email client for the Mac. http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2006/06/what_would_you_like_from_a_new.html

I use Eudora for a lot of email management. Eudora’s limits needs to be fixed: (1) More than 32,000 messages in a mailbox. (2) Personalities should be able to be renamed safely. (3) better handling of filter rules that include the moving of attachments to another folder. If you move the Eudora Folder location, all the filter rules break, and your attachments all end up in the Attachments folder. Boo! And the mail client must save mail in mbox format. I occasionally use various command line tools to get stats on my mail.

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Farewell Blosxom, Welcome WordPress!

15 June 2006, 11:32 am

I’ve finally completed moving away from using Blosxom for my blog, and using WordPress. I started out on Saturday morning by installing WordPress 2.03, looking at the options and methods for reading the data from Blosxom, designing a template, and then writing some scripts to manage requests that come in looking for my old blog to point to my new blog. I changed the directory from /blog/ to /journal/. I’ll be watching my error logs for the next few weeks to make sure that everything is working well. Let me know if you see anything that is not quite right.

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Spider writers beware of other protocols

14 June 2006, 2:21 pm

While looking through my web server logs, I see a fair number of web spiders that are making a very bad assumption: only the http is linked from a web page. The obvious counter example is https:. A web spider needs to only follow links that are http://. You can’t simply assume if the first 5 characters of a link aren’t http: it is a page link. I see lots of errors in my server log asking for pages like /blog/2004/https://www.annualcreditreport.com.

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Ten days to process unsubscribe requests, One day to sign up

8 June 2006, 4:54 pm

Earlier this week I had to buy a product from eBay. Setting aside the joy of bidding against someone for an old clicky IBM keyboard (luckily I later found one that I could Buy Now), I started receiving “helpful” newslettery things from eBay. I didn’t want them, so I went to the web site, and unsubbed from all of them. eBay helpfully told me it would take up to ten days to honor my request. And yes, I just got another one of their stupid newsletters (“Get what you want NOW, no bidding”). Why is it they can add me to their mailing list within hours of signing up with them, but it takes ten days to get off the list? Ridiculous. Maybe they’re simply following the letter of the law, the CAN-SPAM law. Allowed-to-Spam gives spammers, er, businesses, 10 days to honor the opt-out demand/request/order.

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Can’t scroll over Google Ads?

3 June 2006, 8:52 am

Has anyone noticed that you can’t scroll over Google Ads? Is this new? If I’m on a web page that has some Google Adsense ads, and I scroll down the page using my mouse’s scroll wheel, the page stops scrolling if I happen to go over an ad. I have to move the mouse cursor below the ad to be able to move it again. This is extremely bad, it hurts the usability of the web significantly. It doesn’t seem to be every site that does this, so there must be something different going on. More research is needed.

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Miscreants using a web form

26 May 2006, 2:46 pm

A helpful spammer found a hole in one of my old web forms. So he started blasting out email through it. I removed the script, and then captured the IP addresses of the compromised systems/bots that were trying to use it. I’d suggest you block these IP addresses. Who should this be reported to? Each ISP individually? Ugh.

12.193.197.131
12.217.163.209
125.234.140.212
148.243.37.162
163.32.106.12
164.100.104.29
193.227.131.50
195.131.113.70
195.13.59.214
195.172.22.149
200.107.11.33
200.118.126.60
200.126.72.36
200.142.178.167
200.162.113.38
200.209.169.125
201.14.77.26
201.17.153.134
201.17.165.193
201.17.234.101
201.17.236.196
201.20.109.76
201.209.238.209
201.217.202.186
201.245.148.238
201.247.104.85
201.55.104.165
201.55.112.140
202.143.133.243
202.58.85.2
202.58.85.8
202.58.86.3
202.69.187.166
202.89.50.10
203.131.80.158
203.131.96.179
203.144.135.18
203.162.3.157
203.193.138.140
203.99.65.224
203.99.65.225
205.160.32.38
207.6.243.128
209.112.162.114
209.240.205.60
209.240.205.61
210.101.138.153
210.102.0.50
210.108.109.206
210.119.148.183
210.183.193.78
210.187.6.84
210.191.99.13
210.212.251.178
210.223.135.202
210.66.227.44
211.100.4.71
211.115.232.228
211.141.77.194
211.153.44.155
211.162.62.161
211.169.74.180
211.187.34.124
211.215.224.65
211.219.127.26
211.219.228.226
211.232.167.3
211.232.42.182
211.242.159.207
211.32.99.87
211.35.206.200
211.63.225.159
211.76.98.66
212.30.25.190
212.61.237.53
213.114.21.87
213.42.2.21
213.42.2.23
216.11.0.16
216.51.36.68
217.174.16.29
217.199.172.146
218.11.207.244
218.128.122.84
218.128.240.113
218.136.126.138
218.152.149.90
218.152.188.142
218.234.166.125
218.38.165.177
218.38.200.109
218.47.90.174
218.48.229.77
218.53.104.2
218.55.218.223
218.55.222.195
218.56.144.42
218.62.81.78
219.0.44.90
219.134.131.138
219.136.249.79
219.140.165.91
219.144.196.226
219.187.244.82
219.207.92.238
219.232.9.180
219.248.234.23
219.250.255.50
220.119.46.153
220.119.76.147
220.119.76.149
220.119.76.183
220.127.228.69
220.67.148.140
220.70.174.163
220.70.191.175
220.72.119.33
220.72.178.171
220.77.86.98
220.77.98.160
220.83.98.138
220.84.75.203
220.94.120.172
221.142.245.144
221.147.4.37
221.150.6.144
221.160.41.7
221.162.34.222
222.100.119.244
222.107.238.165
222.108.238.105
222.108.69.22
222.109.198.102
222.112.118.85
222.120.142.233
222.121.132.191
222.234.86.98
222.97.196.107
24.118.180.218
24.173.26.4
24.97.21.26
58.145.50.53
58.151.127.130
58.186.65.4
58.233.212.223
58.234.123.56
58.237.215.184
58.239.170.107
58.72.23.130
58.72.80.208
59.0.184.38
59.10.50.60
59.12.8.121
59.13.184.230
59.13.207.91
59.13.220.92
59.148.214.110
59.1.51.8
59.17.231.185
59.20.40.134
59.20.57.129
59.20.72.69
59.22.215.71
59.26.229.23
59.28.89.124
59.3.87.102
59.5.183.46
59.5.210.236
59.94.109.87
60.28.0.242
61.103.156.75
61.142.212.46
61.185.219.235
61.189.240.196
61.238.244.86
61.33.139.145
61.34.64.166
61.35.59.44
61.36.21.113
61.36.79.148
61.37.128.204
61.37.158.100
61.38.148.33
61.39.139.200
61.74.43.199
61.75.62.200
61.76.172.14
62.116.40.112
62.163.32.15
62.163.39.196
62.163.78.183
62.171.194.5
62.183.25.238
62.183.50.164
62.255.32.14
62.255.32.17
62.44.127.250
64.180.252.105
66.192.30.22
66.215.235.63
66.29.114.60
66.29.114.62
66.98.162.34
66.98.164.40
67.84.163.174
68.102.0.225
68.167.97.42
68.167.97.43
68.195.110.157
68.228.163.110
68.228.84.2
68.230.149.234
68.230.95.249
68.38.182.178
68.69.160.206
68.8.205.46
69.15.96.51
69.45.68.245
70.136.76.25
70.159.21.50
70.177.123.178
71.197.204.237
71.250.236.24
80.25.24.118
80.33.109.11
80.90.29.7
81.168.251.159
81.228.239.210
81.89.10.21
82.101.163.27
82.198.121.2
82.217.100.175
82.233.83.67
82.246.36.55
83.102.220.98
83.117.80.252
84.178.188.191
85.131.12.162
85.137.49.193
85.180.156.94
85.180.189.76
85.186.81.18
85.30.97.83

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Augh! Michael S. Cox Response

26 May 2006, 11:38 am

Never mind. “Never wrestle a pig in mud, because you get dirty and the pig enjoys it.”

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My first Cease and Desist Notification: Michael S. Cox isn’t a spammer?

24 May 2006, 3:52 pm

Wow. I received my first Cease and Desist “order” today. Via email. From Michael S. Cox. Supposedly. I wonder what the legal system in Poland is like? I don’t think they would have jurisdiction over me.

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Why I use tagged email addresses

17 May 2006, 8:51 am

I use a unique email address anyplace I need to give out my email address. This allows me to track spam and other unethical organizations that believe their “message” is more important than my privacy. A simple MD5 hash of (the domain I’m submitting to) plus (a private password) gives me a unique 32 character address. I combine that with a shell script to keep my virtusertable up-to-date, and a set of Eudora filtering rules, and my email is pretty much automagically sorted.

When I opt-out of a mailing list, I mean it. So if an organization adds me back to their list, I get annoyed. Really annoyed. So when the Sierra Club used Uptilt.com to spam me this afternoon, I got annoyed. I’ve reported the spam to Sierra club and Uptilt. We’ll see what kind of response they give me. If any. I’m not expecting much of a response, the Uptilt.com “Anti-Spam Policy” has huge holes in it.

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