Okay… So I am all for using technology, but using it simply for the sake of using it and then being completely stupid in how you use it is another story all together. I’m not a political activist, nor do I enjoy political bantering. I try to stay as far away from the political arena as possible as it never turns out good. Now I understand California is a very progressive state and makes a lot of trends which are then later seen across the country. Furthermore, I know Santa Clara County is right in the heart of Silicon Valley where much of the tech industry thrives. That however does not mean that I want to get email with the subject “A personal note” from some candidates wife trying to elicit my vote for her husband.

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So I’ve got this serious jonesing love/hate relationship with spam. Personally I’d love to collect all the spammers of the world in a nice lead lined room and irradiate them with low yield nuclear waste. Not enough to kill them note you, just enough to ensure that they don’t breed!

There are so many methods out there to try and curb the amount of spam out there but never seems to be enough adoption of them. I try my best to implement what I can as I’ve fallen victim of several “joe jobs” in the past. As a result of that I looked at Sender Policy Framework (SPF) before it got introduced into the IETF track and became spf2.0/mfrom,pra. I’m still running my spf1 classic records and it has helped a bit, but I wonder just how many servers really bother to check and honor the policies published.

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