Devon Hillard’s Digital Sanctuary
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Anarchy!
My wife has been out of the country for almost two weeks. Fifi and I are in full Lord of the Flies mode. Picture us wading through 4 feet of piled up pizza boxes, half-eaten collard greens, and gnawed on UPS delivery people. Actually we’re quite civilized and have been sipping tea and debating the…
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Interesting Phishing Technique
I got contacted today with a non-form e-mail from a person offering a partnership which would “highly increase your context advertisement block (adsense) earnings” on 10MinuteMail. Essentially saying that they could increase my ad revenue, and would do that for a share of the increased revenue. Which sounds good as I was wondering if there…
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Spammers using a Thesaurus?
My wife received an interesting spam comment on her blog. At first glance it looked like it was just written by someone with an awful grasp of the English language, but then I realized that some of the words were just synonyms that didn’t actually work in context. Take a look at the comment: Hi.…
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Sparkred Launches an ATG Mailing List
[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] Over at Spark::red ATG Hosting we’ve decided to launch a monthly newsletter. Once a month we’ll send out an e-mail with some very useful ATG content, technical tips and source code,…
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SpamCop RBL is Blocking Several Facebook Mail Servers
If you are using the SpamCop realtime block list as part of your anti-spam measures, be warned that they appear to be blocking several legitimate Facebook mail servers. I’ve seen them blocking the following Facebook mail server IPs: 69.63.178.169 69.63.178.172 69.63.178.175 Presumably there’s a whole block of IPs that SpamCop is blocking. Since I like…
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10MinuteMail and Form Submission Charsets in Seam/JSF
I launched a minor update to 10MinuteMail.com last night. It contained: Changed the mail domain to owlpic.com Updated the Russian language translation (thanks to Vladimir) Fixed a bug where replying to an e-mail using a non-latin character set would result in an unreadable e-mail (also thanks to Vladimir for pointing this out) This last issue…
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