The Boston Diaries

The ongoing saga of a programmer who doesn't live in Boston, nor does he even like Boston, but yet named his weblog/journal “The Boston Diaries.”

Go figure.

Thursday, September 07, 2006

I learned a long time ago that no matter how much you think you know a person, you really don't

Via Flutterby comes this short and interesting article about Warren Buffett. I know that both Spring and Bunny would find it interesting to read (since both have an interest in Mr. Buffett) but not for the reasons you might expect.


Project: LOOPBACK SPAM started

I collected spam for 24 hours. 40% of the 275 spams I collected were delivered through my backup MX server, which was somewhat disapointing as I was expecting a larger percentage of spammers to use that techique.

But no matter.

I've gone ahead and changed the backup MX records to point to 127.0.0.1. I'm relunctant to leave it that way for very long (what happens if my primary MX server goes down?) but it will make for an interesting experiment for the next day or so.

And I hope to give a few spammers some headaches.

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