Today I got curious about where all the spam was going that I thought I should be getting, so I looked around on the mail server. At MIT, the default spam screening program sends messages it flags as spam to the SPAMSCREEN folder, so I looked in there. I had 24,692 messages!!! That’s right, almost 25,000 messages. Needless to say, I didn’t go through them individually. However, I did search for certain keywords to see what type of spam I was getting. I got more than 1,700 messages that began with “re:” or some variant thereof. I got hundreds of messages advertising online pharmacies and their wares. I got plenty of mortgage and bank-related messages. I also got 31 messages from the future, some as far away as 2090. Finally, I got probably about 50 messages from December 31st, 1969 and a few from the 1970’s. Interesting.
Archive for July 27th, 2007
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Always a good decision
Yesterday, I went with my brother-in-law, Rob, and his friend, Andrew, to an open house at the Sam Adams brewery in Jamaica Plain. Rob was in town visiting and wanted to go on a tour, but none of the tour times fit our schedule. However, Rob found that there was an open house in the evening that worked for us. So, we took the T to the Stony Brook stop and walked a couple of blocks to the brewery. There each of us got our hands stamped and were given 4 tickets, each of which was good for a free beer (~7 oz.) sample. They had 5 beers available: Boston Lager, Summer Ale, Dunkelweiss, Old Fezziwig Ale, and Mayflower Ale. I had both the Dunkelweiss and Fezziwig once and the Mayflower twice. Not bad for a free event. The one caveat is that you need reservations, which can be made on their website. These events are held about once a month, so if you live in the area or you’ll be in town, you should definitely check this out. It’s always a good decision.
