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Silence is Golden

I have my phones all on the Do-Not-Call list, but there are always those who ignore the law and spam anyway. They tend to do it from the same numbers, and I have added them to my phone’s contact list and associated them with a custom ringtone that is 15 seconds of silence so I […]

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2012 05 03 snolan Computers
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Spam on the rise again, damn

Well it was a lovely Spring, with reduced SPAM on both email and blog comments, but that appears to be over and spam has skyrocketed once again. Groan.

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2011 07 07 snolan Computer Security Comments (1)

Gah, more illegal robocalls

The Spanish language robo-callers found my cell phone number again (and I changed numbers to avoid these bastards). The message sounds the same… beginning with “Attention!” – and then kicking into whatever pitch with no identification, no chance to tell them to go to hell, complete disregard to my number being on the Do-Not-Call list […]

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2010 06 08 snolan Personal Comments (0)

DreamHost Mail Issues

If you are trying to send me email today, and get a 554 (Open Relay Detected) error and bounce back, just send again in a few hours. DreamHost is working on it and it is mostly working again.

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2009 04 20 snolan Computers
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Angry about a new kind of telemarketing

I have started getting calls on my cell phone during the daytime that are telemarketing calls. What makes this particularly annoying is that the company or companies have figured out how to spoof the caller-id system into showing what appears to be a legitimate phone number the call is coming from (real examples): 248-758-9138 (called […]

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2008 11 20 snolan Personal Comments (3)

Extortion Spam!?

This is new… I am getting blog comment spam (caught in Akismet filters, thankfully) on my WordPress blog that claims I can stop this particular spamming my blog if I send them an email and some money…. I suggest the extortion minded-spammer not hold his or her breath awaiting my response… In fact, I am […]

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2008 11 17 snolan Blogging
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Removed the is_human() module

Though it was a good attempt, the is_human() WordPress module was a failure for me, so I pulled it off my website. It was blocking way too many legitimate comments and did absolutely nothing to address the hundreds of trackback and linkback spams showing up daily. I am sad, as I had hoped it would […]

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2008 10 20 snolan Blogging
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The is_human() filter

Just a reminder folks, if you are going to comment here, you must answer the multiple choice question displayed as a required field in the comment page. I am seeing some comments get rejected that look legitimate, because the question was left unanswered.

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2008 09 30 snolan Blogging
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