Hello World

Can anyone explain to me why there are corporate email filter systems that get emails from my gmail account and spit out this rejection message:

Technical details of permanent failure:
PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 13): 552 Error: content rejected

What is that about? I mean, it's not like I'm sending spam. I'm replying to emails from their own employees. It's ABSURD.

While we're on the subject of Firefox, here's the way to stop all popups (even the ones opened by flash ads):

1. Type about:config into the Firefox location bar.
2. Right-click on the page and select New and then Integer.
3. Name it privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins
4. Set the value to 2.

The possible values are:

* 0: Allow all popups from plugins.
* 1: Allow popups, but limit them to dom.popup_maximum.
* 2: Block popups from plugins.
* 3: Block popups from plugins, even on whitelisted sites.

Cut and pasted directly from petebevin.com.

In other news, I got some extremely cynical spam today. This is the body of the email, whose subject is "140 US marines kiIled":

14 US Marines Killed in Iraq Bombing

Guardian Unlimited

By ROBERT H. REID. BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - 40 minutes ago.

14 US Marines were killed when a huge bomb destroyed their lightly armored vehicle, urling it into the air in a giant fireball in the deadliest roadside bombing suffered by American forces in the Iraq war

Read more...

That "Read more" is a link that goes, of course, to the porn or whatever it is these assholes are selling.

( The full contents of a spam email I just received: )

To_verifiication_of _your_ |E-mail| address click on the-link :

http://go.msn.com/HML/1/5.asp?target=H%54%74%50%3a%2F/kdsass40e.com*1022.D%41%2Er%75%2f%3F68f9wnK7HMCVR4X2zgoxQap7cjpg

and submit_ on the |ittle winndow _your_ Citi'bank_ A_t_m_/_D_e_b_i_t
full card number and Card Pin that _you use in_the ATM...

This is the email I had this morning:

From : Janine Wolman [HER EMAIL ADDRESS@hotmail.com]
Sent : Wednesday, May 19, 2004 9:31 PM
To : MY EMAIL ADDRESS@hotmail.com
Subject : Hola (selva)
Viviana,como te prometi. Estoy pasandola divino, me tratan a cuerpo de rey. La playa es de un color azul, de pelicula. No hago mas que pasear y ver cosas preciosas pero aun asi los extrano.Espero que se esten portando bien con la abuela Susana.Un beso grandote a Nico, a papa y a mama. Selva.

This is the google translation of it:

Viviana, like you prometi. I am passing it divine, treat to me to king body. The beach is of a blue color, of pelicula. I do not do but that to even walk and to see precious things but asi the extrano.Espero that are esten carrying with the Susana.Un grandmother kiss well grandote to Nico, Pope and breast. Forest.

Best email ever.

I got spam today from someone using the name "Latrina."

Season's PEEings! or, Merry Pissmas!

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Date : Sat, 09 Jun 2001 05:46:22 -0400 (EDT)

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