Happy New Year
Well, it’s 2004. Like 2003, but one more. Nothing special about that.
Work wasn’t too bad last night at all. There were just 4 or 5 of us there (one started earlier, so he left by lunchtime). Myself, a couple of friends, and someone else. Plus the manager. Which did make things go faster than if other people had been working.
I had planned to buy a movie or two this week, but I’m not sure if I will now. That was before I bought a home theatre system (Venturer AVR2000 200W 5.1 surround sound, $88 CAD). I might still get one, at least. Probably Pirates of the Caribbean – that was a good movie. I don’t think I had anything else I had to buy this week, other than stuff for lunches.
Notes for making my spam graphs generate faster:
- Add a new table so at the end of each month, I can enter in the number of spams filtered for that month. Easier on the server than doing a search for each month in the graph, I’d imagine.
- Generate a final graph for 2003, and archive it. There were 8593 spams filtered in Dec 2003. I don’t know how that compares to the previous two months, because I’m missing half of October and November (3044 and 4603 spams, respectively). Sep 2003 having 4731. But, the number has been steadily increasing over the whole year. At this rate, it wouldn’t surprise me if there were 10000 tagged as spam by SpamAssassin this month. And all of that doesn’t even count the mails that get rejected by my server before it hits the filters (which end up being 50-100 daily, it seems).
- Set up a subdomain for my local webserver as a CNAME for seymour.ath.cx
Having supper at my grandparents tonight. Shortly, actually. After I have a shower and all that. Goose and ham and the usual veggies and stuff. Mmm… and I’ll get to take a dish full of it to work with me for lunch.
Oh yeah, I also get to go to work an hour early tonight. Since just a manager isn’t allowed to be in the store alone, and there won’t be anyone else there after 10 other than the manager working tonight. Which is fine, I was getting up early today anyway. I don’t know if I’ll be going home an hour early yet or not. I don’t really mind staying until 7:30, get a bit of overtime. I’ll find out for sure sometime tonight, I guess.
I was going to post this entry to my LiveJournal, but it ended up being a lot longer than I expected, so here it is in my weblog.
Patrick said,
January 2, 2004 @ 10:18 am
I’ve changed the setup of my mail server, such that any mail destined for my inbox that SA tags as spam (5+) gets dumped, and a message left in my junk folder saying “Dropped message from “.
Not often real mail gets tagged for me, and I wouldn’t do that on my lists (as postings do get lost from time to time). I hate to think what my monthly stats are… hmm, actually I think the mail server might tell me.
Chris said,
January 2, 2004 @ 12:20 pm
I’m thinking of doing that for higher spam scores (probably 10-15+). I’ve been filtering those into a different Junk folder for a month or two now already, for easier skimming every week or two. But I haven’t come across any false positives there. Or many false positives at all lately, actually.
I’m just wary of dumping too much automatically.
As for stats, I modified SA slightly to put some minimal information into a database (date and score, I think). I still haven’t gotten around to making any kind of public release. It’s fairly trivial to do anyway, for someone with even part of a clue.