Email ramblings

[telophase]

Hm. Both gmail and Google seem to have been down for the past 15-20 minutes. Hope they get things working soon. At any rate, all my LJ notifications go to my gmail address, so you can mess about here in my backyard as much as you want and I won't know until it's too late and you've made your escape. XD

I can't possibly imagine that there's anything anyone has to say that requires an immediate answer, but FYI in general and for the future, mail sent to any address that ends in "@telophase.net" will get to me - I own the domain (gosh, really? you'd never have guessed!)and it's set up to forward all email to my officiamal non-gmail email address. So have fun and be creative. Mind that it ends in the "net" - "com" is owned by some telecommunications company. :D


edit: Ah, it seems to be a local problem with the campus' connection - my boss says that he can get to Google using our laptop with the test DSL connection. Hm. At any rate, I still won't get notifications, so if you wish to mess about in this entry I'll never know. (Whee! Party over in telophase's LJ!)

Comments

[octopedingenue]

So I can make up an @telophase.net address? ieatbabies@telophase.net will still get to you?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Yup!

[kate_nepveu]

*grumble mutter posting to wrong place it's catching*

If so, be warned: I used to have everything coming to @steelypips.org default to my own address if it wasn't an actual address, and then one day spammers started faking steelypips return addresses. It took a while to get fixed because of weird CPanel things, but in 24 hours I got over _eighteen thousand_ bounced spam messages.

(So if you're using a CPanel account, don't have your login name be the address you use for e-mail, because weird things happen.)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I've had telophase.net for three or so years now (and had sfolse.net for about five, which is set up the same way) and been caught in a couple of spam things, but my admin set me up with ... oh, heck, forgot the name of it, but it's a pretty good spamcatching program. I went from getting about 200 spams a day on average to about 4 or 5 ... Spam Assassin? That sounds familiar. It's not a CPanel account, it's a friend who runs his own ISP and gives his friends free webspace and email accounts, and I telnet in to a Unix box and do everything there. :) (so while it says telophase.net, it's hosted on and sent to my cepheid.org account.)

[kate_nepveu]

I miss telnet and Unix. =>

I am also super-paranoid and don't trust server-side spam options, but if things ever got really bad, I might have to try it. Other than that one bounce episode, though, things haven't been bad.

(I am presently annoyed at my ISP, which has shifted everything (CPanel, webmail access) to only be accessed through ports that I can't get to behind my work firewall (which is why I can't upload that file now). I've been happy with them, but this might end up being enough of an annoyance that I look to switch.)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

This one works well - all the spam actually gets shunted into a separate folder instead of being deleted, and I delete the folder every couple of weeks or so, usually when it hits about 4000 messages. I could theoretically check it for non-spam messages, but haven't done so after the first few weeks it was set up. If I find it's catching something not spam, I put the message in another folder and the next time I run a program called spamfix, it adds that to the rules and that person's messages will always get to me. Spamfix comes in also when I find messages that slip trhough the net - I put them into a missed-spam folder, and spamfix puts them into a database, and it analyzes the database of spam and infers rules from that, so theoretically after a number of us on the server add these messages, it learns from them.

*goes to check spam folder* Ah. 3957 messages. Time to delete the folder.

[thomasyan.livejournal.com]

You *could* just keep refreshing your LJ page.

Also, do you know about http://www.livejournal.com/tools/recent_comments.bml ?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Shhhhhhh! Don't let people know! They think I'm not looking!

The university got it fixed somehow, but I figure I won't tell anyone... oops.

[lady-noremon.livejournal.com]

Poo, I was going to dance and egg/tipi your LJ ;-;