(Untitled)- August 20, 2002 I've been testing anti-spam add-ons to my email server recently. I'm looking at spamassassin and a few others that are procmail based. The following story is an example of technology falling victim to poor business practice and very poor customer service. Ed Felten, spam-vigilante martyr. Ed "Tinkerer" Felten sent out a notice of his new blog to a mailing-list and got fingered as a spammer with the Lord-of-the-Flies crew at SpamCop, who blackballed his email address with no appeal, and as a.http://radio.weblogs.com/0100001/categories/code/2002/08/20.html#a141 (Untitled)- August 5, 2002 I'm Microsoft-neutral, but I don't like things like this at all: New XP2K EULA. Microsoft is trying to slip by a EULA requirement in W2K SP3 and WXP SP1 that grants them administrative priviledges on your machine. I'm pro-Microsoft, but this kind of underhanded crap has got to stop somewhere. I don't care what the stated reason is. There's no way I'm going to let them do that to my boxes. And don't even get me started on Palladium.How much is too much Personally, I'm getting there....http://radio.weblogs.com/0100001/categories/code/2002/08/05.html#a138 (Untitled)- August 5, 2002 Here's a great example of giving back....not only do we get great tools like Huevos and NetNewsWire, but we also get re-usable components like this and a similar RSS Class. Open Source OPML Class for Cocoa. The OPML class that I developed for NetNewsWire (so that it could import subscriptions files) is now available under the BSD license. The included test app shows not just how to parse OPML but also how to hook it up to an NSOutlineView. Here’s a screen shot. ranchero.comhttp://radio.weblogs.com/0100001/categories/code/2002/08/05.html#a134 |