spam

The Spam War

Posted by cafuego on Saturday 23 February 2013. In categories &drupal &spam &mollom &firewall &log &spurkeylog

As things on the internet go, not many are worse than spammers. At best they're nuisance, at worst the hardware, cycles and power wasted on dealing with them is causing global warming and pollution at an ever accelerating rate.

I'm most annoyed by the wasted cycles. When I run a web site, I'd like to use the CPU power I pay for to be used to serve (admittedly mediocre) content to people that might get some (questionable) value out of them.

drupal webforms and recaptcha

Posted by cafuego on Sunday 22 February 2009. In categories &spam &forms &captcha &drupal

One of the great features of Drupal is that you can so easily extend its functionality with modules.

For example, the webform module allows you to gather information from users by creating forms using all available HTML form elements and then store these responses in a database and send an email. All without needing to write any PHP code.

Posted by cafuego on Wednesday 5 November 2008. In categories &election &annoying &spam &irrelevant

Dear intertubes,

Until such time as there is an officially announced result in the US elections, I do not need estimated outcomes from absolutely everyone on the minute, every minute.

kthxbai

DKIM for Postfix

Posted by cafuego on Thursday 25 September 2008. In categories &debian &spam &dkim &postfix &firewall

After a fairly long and frustrating day, I finally have DKIM working with Postfix on Etch. I was assuming it would be fairly straighforward, but was treated to such lovely errors as these in my mail.log:

Junk Mail

Posted by cafuego on Saturday 23 August 2008. In categories &annoying &spam &junk &waste of time

The fight against junk is ever on-going, so I better make sure I publish the honey.pot@cafuego.net address. Feel free to send it a mail, if you happen to be a spam bot.