On-line survey about Linux in the home:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=17174325370&c=2206

On-line survey about Linux at work:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=2550325411&c=2206

"We will not provide compensation for your suggestions submitted through this online survey, though we appreciate your feedback".

Robin "Roblimo" Miller is encouraging Linux users to complete the surveys and share their answers with NewsForge. Interesting... Microsoft's Longhorn team has said they are studying Linux development methods... (full disclosure: I am fortunate enough to write for NewsForge.)...
Comments 9:00:16 PM    

Last couple days, we've been seeing like 10 or 15 spam emails. We're outraged... my wife complained, she'd become so used to an inbox without penis ads. Checking yesterday, I had 28 legit emails and 204 spam (counting the 11 that got through SpamAssassin), so SpamAssassin is still doing an excellent job, for software.

The 'winning' spam - more than half of these get through - puts dozens of random non-spam words with a short spam message and graphic link. The subject lines mostly start with Re:, a few random capital letters and then a few semi-random words or phases:

Re: XXXPVZ, the moneychanging shops

Re: OB, several striped pilgrims

Re: JGUPAPUN, skirt and sneakers

Re: SBHAPS, the poets attempts

...and this classic of spammer prose:

stick this plaster & see ur peni-s grow tertiary servo girl

I guess we'll never know what exactly are tertiary servo girls. As of Sunday, the filter is steadily ID-ing more of this email correctly as spam. It's a damned shame that so much of my bandwidth and time and energy - and the whole world's - is wasted with this crap...
Comments 8:20:02 PM    

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