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July 25, 2005
Crackberry
Well I finally broke down and bought myself a blackberry. I figured it was about time I was able to get my spam 24 hours a day. Actually I am in and out of the office a lot and it is a real life saver to be able to just respond to an email quickly. Also we have our launch coming up and I don't want to be out of reach. Especially since for the next month or so I am going to be pulling tech support duty on call 24 hours a day if there are any problems at the data center. I don't anticipate any though as we have some really good hardware and are using gentoo linux on our servers.
It is amazing though how much spam I am getting. I use the spam filter in the Mac email client and I was not really aware how good a job it was doing until I started getting a new spam message every 2 minutes (literally) on my blackberry. I have to turn the vibrate alert off at night or I can't sleep. Looks like I am going to have to install Spam Assasin on the server in the not too distant future.
I used to have a Good but I really didn't like the clunky little box form factor. This blackberry is much nicer, lighter and sleeker.
Posted by David Adams at July 25, 2005 10:28 PM
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I forward my hillyerd.com email to AlienCamel. They use a combination of spam assasin and bayesian filters with a slick web interface to "process" the incoming mail. Plus each message goes through two different virus scanners (in each direction).
AlienCamel is great for use with mobile phones/etc, because mail from people on your whitelist get delivered directly to your inbox, other mail will wait for you to hit the processing web page.
Posted by: James A. Hillyerd at July 26, 2005 09:29 AM
Cool. I'll check that out.
Posted by: David Adams at July 26, 2005 10:04 AM