This is the weblog of Brian Curd. A lot of it is written on the spur of the moment and any benefit you gain from it is worth exactly what you paid!
Looking back on this blog a recurring theme has been email spam and my attempts to clear my inbox of this plague. This blog uses built in WordPress tools to ensure that I don’t see any spam posted in the comments but keeping control of my mail client’s filters isn’t quite so easy – I [...]
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Filed under: Isle of Wight, Scams, Software, Spam, Techie
Monitoring the feed on the 2009 Keynote just now and a rather alarming ALL CAPS post popped in: 9:27 am Retraction on Steve Jobs comment…we don’t know how that got in our feed. 9:26 am Showing a “pumpkin patch” event with no geotag. Starts typing name, and iPhoto assists using its database of locations. 9:25 [...]
I recieved this email today: MR. FRANCIS JOHNSON TELE:234-7031622282 FINAL NOTIFICATION GOOD DAY, – I AM WRITING TO INFORM YOU THAT YOUR OUT STANDING PAYMENT OF $10.5 HAS BEEN APPROVED FOR PAYMENT AND WILL BE RELEASE TO YOU AS SOON AS YOU RESPOND TO THIS LETTER, KINDLY REPLY WITH YOUR NAME INFULL, TELE/FAX, CONTACT ADDRESS, [...]
Votes please; should I respond or not? This mail arrived this morning and is the first personalised one of its type I have seen: YANG LIM & ASSOCIATES SOLICITOR AND ADVOCATES NO. 101, JALAN PUDU RAYA, TAMAN DESA RAYA MALAYSIA TEL: +60122473440 Email: barryanglim@XXXXXX.XXX I am Yang Lim, an attorney at law. A deceased client [...]
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Filed under: Family, Funny, Genealogy, Scams, Spam
Garan has beaten me to it with a recent posting on his blog. He writes about some very important news for the majority of UK internet users. If you want the internet to remain the relatively open and free place it is today and you want your browsing habits to remain personal, I suggest you [...]
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Filed under: Hardware, Hosting, Scams, Search Engines, Software, Spam, Techie
Over the past few days I have seen about 20 “people” try to register with this blog – I’m not really sure why. “They” all seem to come from Poland, which in itself isn’t a problem, but I don’t know anyone Polish I don’t think! A little further investigation reveals that there seems to be [...]
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Filed under: Software, Spam, Techie
After months of spam abuse I had to take down the Curd family forum . Seems phpBB is just too open to abuse and requires constant tweaking and attention to keep running. I have now switched to another system and am hoping it won’t be such an “open target”, we’ll see.. Check it out at [...]
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Filed under: DNA, Family, Genealogy, Hobbies, Software, Spam, Techie
For some time I have been bugged by the spambots registering as users on this blog. So far it seems pretty easy for them to get through the basic defences which are built in, however, help may be at hand! Paul Marek has written about the problem and seems to have found an answer via [...]
After 100 days of recording spam statistics I have today stopped updating the graph. There’s not a lot of point continuing with it as the levels seem to have flattened out and, while the average is dropping slowly – about 1 per week, the downward slope is so shallow that it will be about 9 [...]
