URIBL has recently launched with four new blacklists of URIs. The criteria are similar as those used by SURBL. There are four lists currently available: * black.uribl.com - Which is an aggresive list of known spammers. With a goal of zero False Positives. * grey.uribl.com - Which lists people who spam and have legitimate uses. This will cause False Positives for some depending … [Read more...] about New URI blacklists
More demented spam filters
Today I discovered that Comodo had launched a "wonderful" new anti-spam product. It's great! It will stop all spam effectively. It will also stop any effective communication via email in the process, but surely that is a small price to pay for keeping your inbox clean? I think not. I tried to send a business email to them today but got this really "helpful" message back from … [Read more...] about More demented spam filters
Kila – Live in Dublin
I picked up the CD from ebay the other day and have been listening to it since it arrived. It's unfortunate that the Kila site doesn't accept Paypal or laser, as I would have been happier buying directly from them. The odd thing about Kila is that it was my Spanish ex-girlfriend who introduced me to them and their music. We went to see them live in Cork a few years ago and … [Read more...] about Kila – Live in Dublin
Privacy and online users
A site I am involved in to a certain degree is currently receiving a certain degree of media attention due to a comment posted there by someone. The comment, which was not pleasant, was removed by one of the moderators and the user banned. This kind of thing happens on bulletin boards all the time. It might be a cause for irritation if you are the moderator, but it's hardly … [Read more...] about Privacy and online users
Search.ie – revamp underway
Over the last year the traffic and submissions to search.ie have grown exponentially. Unfortunately the number of spammers submitting rubbish has increased as well. The site was originally using Links 2 which uses a flatfile database with a perl frontend. Although it was very flexible in terms of templates etc., it did not scale very well, so I moved it to using a MySQL based … [Read more...] about Search.ie – revamp underway