I finally got around to switching my blog over to point to RacoonFink.com, instead of ranger.befunk.com/blog. I've had the domain for some time (and have been using it for Fink e-mail) but had never gotten to updating the blog links.
Unfortunately, I noticed too late that it made RSS readers see everything as new. Please excuse the spamming, it won't happen again. :)
Hey, cool, some friends of mine are in a documentary about gaming culture called Fraglimit Hit. It's a pretty entertaining indie flick, check it out if you get the chance...
...for they are subtle, and quick to anger.
<Sortova> http://sourceforge.net/..._id=1&atid=200001
<Sortova> Got it back
<Sortova> I must promise not to be bad again
<Sortova> I guess they don't want anyone monitoring them ... cause I have 81000 freaking lost service events on their servers (grin)
I've got everything on my new server at serverbeach now, things seem to generally be working.
I'm sure we'll run into a few things that need fixing, but for the most part it's working. Yay!
I've been a little quiet lately.
I just moved to a new place -- I'm renting a nice big house with my buddy Larry, and moving in and all of the little chores that come along with it have eaten all of my time.
On top of that, I've got less than a week to get everything from my old server to the new. It's currently served off of a SpeakEasy DSL connection in my old apartment. I love SpeakEasy -- I can't say enough good things about them, but unfortunately the new place is strategically located about 18,000 feet from the CO which means about all I can get is IDSL. Last thing I want is ISDN speeds after having 1.5/384.
SO, instead I'm getting a regular residential Time/Warner cable modem and colo'ing an entirely new box over at ServerBeach.
So far I'm very happy by ServerBeach's service, and in the long term I'm better off. (This way I've got guaranteed power and availability and all that stuff, and faster burst speeds for the occasional Slashdotting.) It's just a lot of work, and right when I should be unpacking. (heh)
Expect things to get a little choppy in the next couple of days. I've got most everything moved over but there's a point at which I need to turn off service on the old machine and turn it on on the new. There's bound to be a short period where DNS isn't resolving things right, no matter how short I make the time-to-live.
See you soon on the new server!
So I just upgraded my procmail rules to use a variation of this setup, and I must say, I'm impressed. It's very good at catching stuff, so far, and it's automated to a much stronger degree than what I previously had.
Basically, it does this:
So far it seems to be working OK. I'm doing a little tweaking to avoid the confirmation as much as possible, but it seems to work great so far. I really dislike the idea of the confirmation stuff, but the way things are nowadays, I don't see another way to get the leftover SPAM that keeps getting through.
Training bogofilter is great, also, if there's false positives in my Junk folder, I move them over to my "whitelist" folder. I then have a cron job that will automatically run each message in the whitelist folder through the "ham" (non-spam) filter which trains bogofilter that it's OK.
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Even better, I made a "filtering" IMAP folder in my mail that contains "white", "white-domain", "grey", "grey-domain", "black", and "black-domain" mail folders. Then I made a script that goes through those folders and automatically adds any messages in those folders to the corresponding TMDA folder for future white/blacklisting, and addes the mails to the bogofilter "ham" or "spam" config. Sweet!
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I've written a more detailed description of what I've got, along with a tarball of my procmail configs and scripts, to the TriLUG mailing list. If you're interested in seeing how exactly I implemented it, look there.
