I always read how quickly email addresses published on websites receive spam, but I never actually tried. Well, here’s one that’s been set up for that purpose only: gryawebsf@fablemail.com – see, I even made it a mailto: link for the spammers’ convenience. Now I will monitor the address and once the spam starts coming in, I’ll tell you how long it took. It’s also a nice way to test the spam detection engine I’m using on an experimental mailserver I set up.
Update: Finally… it took longer than expected, but today (Jan. 7th) at 1:29pm I finally got my first spam email. Well actually it was caught by the spam filter, but it was the first time the address was used.
December 17th, 2008
Wow, I seriously need to keep the blog (and my other blogs) updated more often. Actually, I’m thinking of reserving certain times each week for exactly that… looks like it won’t work any other way.
Anyway, here’s a bit of an update that should cover most of the year. First of all, the big news of course is that Heidi and I got engaged in July. It was actually with one foot in each half of the earth, on the prime meridian in Greenwich, London (yes, where GMT comes from). Yesterday we went to the public registry office in my (now: our) home town and registered to get married on June 4th, 2009 – the church wedding, which we think of as more important, is on June 6th.
Heidi moved to Solingen in October, she has a little appartment just 10 minutes walking distance from my place. We share an office already, since we just finished refurbishing my living room/office and there were so many mixups with her phone company that she didn’t have a phone and internet connection for weeks. Now we have decided that this arrangement works so well for us that there is no reason why we shouldn’t continue to work this way.
Job-wise, my job description has changed a bit again. I’m now an “International IT Analyst”, whatever that means. Right now I’m involved in defining IT strategy for the next years, walking the fine line between giving our country offices as much independence as needed and centralizing as many services as possible. It’s a challenge… especially with very little money and even fewer people to tackle the task. But it’s fun and we do get things done, that’s a great encouragement.
I think that’s all for now – as I said earlier, I need to set time aside to do my blogging and that will happen soon. So expect new articles here and on my other blogs pretty soon and more regular updates as well.
December 10th, 2008