Bernie reports that he was comment spammed by an Irish company. I'm not that surprised, which is a sad reflection. Damien mentioned an email spam issue from a couple of months back as well. Unfortunately this kind of crap will become more prevalent unless Irish law is tightened up and, more importantly, people are educated. I haven't had any Irish comment spam on this blog … [Read more...] about Comment Spam – Irish style
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Amusing advertising claims
I had to giggle today when I read one of our "competitors" blurb in the Tribune. They claim to offer cheap hosting, but they really should do some proper market research before making the kind of claims that they did. ".... €6.49 per month and your .com will cost €1 a month" So that means the hosting would be close to €80 per year and another €12 per year for the domain. Unless … [Read more...] about Amusing advertising claims
DSL Upgrades
Most people's DSL seems to have been upgraded this weekend, so the speedtest is getting hammered at the moment :) … [Read more...] about DSL Upgrades
Google to acquire Urchin
Urchin has announced today that it is to be acquired by Google. "Google plans to offer Urchin to advertisers and web site owners to enable them to increase their advertising return on investment and make their web sites more effective. " What exactly does that mean? Well, it's probably a little early to say with certainty, but I would presume that they intend to use Urchin's … [Read more...] about Google to acquire Urchin
sendmail milters
I finally took the plunge today and got milter-ahead working. I had been meaning to do something about it for ages, but didn't have a spare redhat machine to test it on. What does it do? The concept behind the milter is very simple. At the start of the SMTP transaction the milter connects with the destination mail server to see if the recipient is valid. If the recipient is … [Read more...] about sendmail milters