Steve’s Stuff

It’s been a while since I checked in with them. It looks like Project HoneyPot is doing a good job of collecting data about spam, spammers, and the way they collect email addresses.

In brief, the project asks webmasters to embed non-visible links on their websites. These links generate pages with non-visible email addressess. The links and addresses are visible in the source code of the web pages and, thus, to Internet search robots (spiders). Some of the spiders are operated as address harvesters for spammers. When the project receives an email addressed to one of these addresses, it adds the address of the spider and mailer to its database, which is then used to help generate blacklists and other spamfighting tools.

Several CCIM sites participate in the project.

project honeypot, spam

How does one enable end-user training of a site-wide Bayesian spam filter for SpamAssassin when the users are reading mail through Microsoft Exchange and the filtering takes place on several Linux MX servers? Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft Exchange, SpamAssassin, Bayes

This post on Symbol Engine provides a solution for my longstanding problem with the Admin Dashboard page in my Wordpress installation. THANKS!

What if your company wanted to have someone else — someone with a world-class infrastructure, spam and virus filtering, and more storage that you could shake a stick at — host your email system? What if you wanted it to work just like Gmail?

You’d be very happy.

Google is “beta” testing Google hosted mail. We’re currently running a test of hosted mail with one of our lesser-used domains. While there a few things that could make it easier to administer, I’m very, very impressed. If and when we bring our test system into production, I’ll post something here.

GMail, Google