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Archive for August, 2006
25 Aug
Yet More Honeypot Goodness
My second success for a donated MX entry was back in early July (the first was February 1st). That was about a year for the first one, and then five months for the second. Yesterday, I had a third. While this seems like a big speed-up, this was for a different domain, [...]
25 Aug
SpamBayes 1.1a3 is out!
Thanks mostly to Skip Montanaro, SpamBayes 1.1a3 is now available, with interesting new tokenization to try.
technorati tags:spambayes, spam, release, alpha
15 Aug
py2exe & Grisoft’s AVG
As of today, Grisoft’s AVG anti-virus software is reporting any Windows (non-console) application built using py2exe (maybe just with Python 2.4?) as a virus.
If AVG is suddenly reporting an application you have used for a long time as a virus, don’t believe it. Unfortunately, unless you disabled AVG, it will probably have already deleted [...]
10 Aug
Damn Apple and Thank You Apple
On Tuesday, I was cleaning up and somehow managed to delete a fairly important folder, containing grades & teaching material that I had been working on a lot over the last month (so while some of it was backed up, it certainly wasn’t all safe).
This happened around the same time that I watched the WWDC [...]
8 Aug
Corrections to JGC’s Spam and Anti-Spam Newsletter #37.
In John Graham-Cumming’s Spam and Anti-Spam Newsletter #37, John printed comments from Gordon Cormark regarding the TREC 2005 Spam Track submissions:
Several submitted by participants have their heritage in a filter product, but are experimental in the sense I mentioned above, and not available for download or purchase: [...] tamSPAM (spambayes as configured by Tony [...]


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