Scott Yang's Playground

I have received the following logs on my mail server regularly over the last 2-3 months, showing attempts of spammers trying to send me a junk mail. The log is generated by Postfix automatically, and send to my postmaster box.

Peter Dean of “Heal Your Church Web Site” wrote a blog entry about Christian spams, which has raised quite a few questions. For example, what defines a spam email, as we usually discover different definitions from different authorities? Other interesting question raised is, whether it is okay to send “spam emails” (or unsolicited marketing emails) [...]

According to this article on Sydney Morning Herald, a new law passed federal parliament today that will penalise spam offenders in Australia up to 1 million dollars of fine. However, this new anti-spam law is still useless against the majority of email spams, who are originated overseas. There will be some exemptions, where religious group [...]

Recently the Internode ADSL forum on Whirlpool has been stormed by people from other ISP, trying to educate its users how expensive their current plans are. At the same time, Internode has been introducing heaps of value added features like ever growing mirror server, email virus and spam filtering and free Internet radio with a [...]