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Spambiel: La Mort d’Spam

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Cynthia is in Blacksburg visiting a friend, so I have the house to myself until Saturday evening. Since I am a rather large party animal, I have decided to use this time to write a Spam Blocker program so I don’t have to buy one. So far, I have successfully written code to examine messages on a POP3 server, decide which ones are spam, and forward them to another (or the same) email address with a modified subject line for easy filtering by Outlook Express. Now I just need to put a spiffy interface on it and stuff it in the task tray. (In case you’re wondering, it’s stupifyingly easy to write a spam blocker program. On the other hand, it’s staggeringly hard to come up with an original name for a spam blocker program. Every conceivable permutation of the word “spam” combined with synonyms of the word “block” are already taken. Rejected names so far: SpamFry, SpamBegone, Spamicide, SpamFire, Spaminator, SpamDunk, SpamNet, SpamCan. Possibilities so far: La Mort d’Spam, Spambiel, WingSpam, Spam Shepherd.)

Speaking of Sam Shephard, I’ve been reading the Mark Bowden book Black Hawk Down. Yikes. The book paints a somewhat different (ie. more chaotically realistic and disturbing) picture of the situation than the movie.

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