The main purpose of SPF records is to determine whether an email was really sent by who it claims to come from in order to block or tag suspect emails. This can assist mail servers in handling both spam and worms. Another problem that can be reduced using SPF is the number of messages sent...
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Sometimes, participation in the AtomPub Working Group can be awfully tedious. The discussion of some topics just seems to go on and on and on and on... While feeling the pain the other day, and started making a list of ineffective discussion methods that lead to these protracted discussions. I've augmented it with other communication...
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It's a matter of priorities: Gecko Tribe offers a wide variety of products and services from t-shirts to iMovie plugins to RSS tools to FileMaker Pro plugins to online chess, and yes, a SPAM filter. My list of work priorities has grown quite long, and maintaining SPAMbaffle has taken a back seat to my core...
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A number of blogging, feed reading, and other tools have implemented support for Atom already, although we haven't yet generated an official standard version. Most implementations appear to be using version 0.3. While some have responded with excitement to the growth of Atom even before the creation of an official specification, the Working Group's mailing...
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It's unfathomable. Every Olympics, everyone complains, but it looks like they're still doing it. When I watch the Olympics, I want to see the elite athletes who've struggled for years to be there, not listen to announcers blabber, not watch cute little vignettes thrown together by the network to highlight the few athletes they've selected...
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Some methods of reducing spam require the use of multiple email addresses. Throwaway addresses, which are created as needed for temporary purposes, and deleted when they start getting spam, have been discussed here in the past. Another use of multiple addresses is to set different levels of filtering on each. Give your friends and family...
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Does it matter whether Atom IDs are URIs or simple strings? Does it matter whether the creation date of Atom feed entries is published? How about the last modification date? Does it matter whether all kinds of links go into the a "link" element, or into various elements of different names? Interestingly enough, after intense...
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With the vast majority of web surfers using browsers that support at least a reasonable level of CSS and other modern standards (albeit not without bugs), is it time to stop making extra efforts to accomodate older browsers? Should designs be built so that, while they might not appear in all their glory on old...
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I appreciate the service the police offer to the community. But they're not perfect. Police officers who routinely disobey traffic regulations set a bad example and weaken their moral authority. There's also something of an Old Boys mentality in the law enforcement community. I've been told by a few people who are members of their...
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Services like BugMeNot.com are helping people get around the registration required of various news sites. Many sites like the New York Times require readers to complete a free registration before accessing much of their content in order to enable them to gather statistics necessary for selling advertising. For some reason, a lot of people feel...
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