62.8% of My Email is Spam

June 21st, 2004

I just discovered that every email that passes through procmail is logged (I’d forgotten I’d set it up like that). A quick analysis of the log shows that 62.8% (5473 out of 8655 emails) of my email is moved to the spam folder by procmail (after being identified by spamassassin). There are a few extras that wind up in my inbox but no more than one or two emails a week and I’ve only come across about 5 false positives since I set up spamassassin (most of which are QANTAS’s flight detail emails).

That’s a pretty sad state of affairs really. Fortunately, thanks to spamassassin, I use my email completely unhindered.

I’m Off To JavaOne

June 21st, 2004

So apparently I’m off to Java One. The details are all very sketchy at the moment but apparently the flights involved will be something like:

Depart Brisbane on Friday 26th June, to Auckland, then Los Angeles (I think) then “SFO” (can you tell I have no idea about where I’m going yet?). Should arrive at the final destination on Friday 26th June (apparently just before I left).

Stay somewhere, do something of which the only certainty is going to the Moscone centre while the conference is on, probably get arrested trying to sneak into WWDC which is also on at the Moscone centre and watching the 4th of July fireworks from somewhere.

Fly out on the 6th of July via Sydney (skip the New Zealand connection this time) and arrive back in Brisbane on the 8th of July.

So yeah, pretty disorganized…. Any advice/pointers/suggestions/opportunities to meet up would be welcomed.

More details as they unfold and I’ll do my best to blog as much as I can while I’m there, this is probably as good a place as any to store my notes.