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I get a ton of spam, check out some of my recent spams and a frequency plot. starting from when I began saving and filtering them. Many thanks to Paul Graham for his plan for spam, or I would be buried by 350 spams per day by now. It is only going to get worse! Based upon how many I get, the probability is more like 95% percent of my email is spam.

I get a ton of spam, check out some of my recent spams and a frequency plot. starting from when I began saving and filtering them. Many thanks to Paul Graham for his plan for spam, or I would be buried by 350 spams per day by now. It is only going to get worse! Based upon how many I get, the probability is more like 95% percent of my email is spam.

I use firefox, you insensitive clod. I have as many start pages as I like! I actually use only two: drpa.us and peter-a-andrews.com/links.html, both of which are my personal pages.

I have been keeping detailed records of all email received for the past 450 days. For the first 350 days, the volume of spam I have received has increased exponentially. For the past 100 days, my spam rate has levelled off at approximately 275 messages per day. I have not cancelled any domain names or changed my internet habits in any way, but my spam quantities are no longer increasing. This is great news, since I will now not need to improve my Bayesian filter as early as I had expected. Currently, about 3-5 spams reach my inbox weekly, with no false positives in the past 6 months.

Hey. I get a fair amount of spam, but I am not afraid. It is all filtered. You can see some recent ones at drpa.us/spam.html. Try to send me an email, and check if it gets through! You can also see a plot of my daily spam frequency for the last 400 days or so at drpa.us/spam0.jpg. Advice to all: start saving all your spam and good mail in separate folders. The more you save, the easier it is for a smart filter to automatically identify them. And many thanks to Paul Graham for teaching us all the Bayesian solution (we just need to listen).

Hey. I get a fair amount of spam, but I am not afraid. It is all filtered. You can see some recent ones at drpa.us/spam.html. Try to send me an email, and check if it gets through! You can also see a plot of my daily spam frequency for the last 400 days or so at drpa.us/spam0.jpg. Advice to all: start saving all your spam and good mail in separate folders. The more you save, the easier it is for a smart filter to automatically identify them. And many thanks to Paul Graham for teaching us all the Bayesian solution (we just need to listen).

When I needed a chat program, I just wrote one that uses a continuous html output. When you view the page the program gives you the latest comments, then hangs until more comments are added by someone else. Then it writes the output over the still open connection and hangs again... The program dies upon prolonged inactivity or if the same ip address requests the page again. When you submit a comment, a new page view gives you what you just entered and anything else typed in by others. I really fear for my webserver by posting this link (due to the way I implemented the chat, it is not good for large numbers of users at once), so it will "disappear" temporarily if trouble ensues: My chat program. Let me know if you like it, and I'll pass you the code, written in Perl. It is very minimalistic, but intended to be at least viewable on any browser that can show a page before the whole document is loaded. No download of software, such as the latest java version (and short simple code) is a big plus.