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Capsule, The Developer’s Code Journal

I’m very pleased today to announce the release of Capsule, the developer’s code journal. Capsule replaces the scratch document you have…

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Customer vs. Product Support

How to best provide support for the software you create is an interesting point of deliberation. I’ve gone through various stages and…

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The true measure of a new best practice is how painful it is to return to projects that don’t use it.
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Sigh… Spammers

March 31, 2004

It seems a spammer is sending e-mail using my domain as the return address. I can assure you the virus/spam you’re getting didn’t originate from me.

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  1. Chris Utley
    View March 30, 2004

    I had the same thing happen to me. Some offshore idiots selling prescription drugs online. Tough to track down…

  2. Geof
    View March 31, 2004

    I’ve had virii or spammers one using a couple of my accounts as fictitious From: lines. I notice when I get bounces.

  3. jim
    View April 2, 2004

    Somebody sent spam as my domain recently too. Look for formmail clone on your dns server and have it shut down – chances are it is being exploited. Quite common right now unfortunately.

  4. Alex
    View April 2, 2004

    All my mail scripts are custom PHP I’ve written that have the receipent hard coded to my address. The spammers are just spoofing the return address, it isn’t coming from my machine.

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