Archive for May, 2008

Total Organizer - minor update

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

A minor update of Total Organizer is available.

What’s new:

Bugfix: when refreshing lists, scroll positions used to change (a very annoying bug)
Bugfix: no more “Ht not found” error message after loading another document
Ctrl+F now enables to find a string in item’s note

Downloads:

Total Organizer Pro

Total Organizer

My answer to the SPAM problem.

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

A few days ago, when I looked at my mailbox, I saw about 6000 e-mails. 5900 of them were SPAM. Yes, I do use filters, however, only about 80% of SPAM messages were filtered out. I don’t know how many legitimate e-mails were among them, due to false-positives.

I also found out, that about 5% of the e-mails I have sent, were rejected because for the recipient’s server, it looked like SPAM ( bayesian filtering ).

E-mail is unreliable.

On the other hand, my old contact/support form was working OK.  By using a web-based form I was able to easily distinguish human beings from bots automatically.

This is why I thouhgt about sharing this method with others. With Corlive.com you can create an account for free. You will get your own contact url like http://corlive.com/JohnSmith - and only humans will be able to send messages to you. So, you can publish this contact url and not worry about SPAM/spam bots.

See http://corlive.com/help/ for more information. Corlive.com is 100% free.

“No more spam, no more undelivered e-mails, no more valid e-mails filtered out by your spam filter - no more e-mails!”.

The old forum had to be removed

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Sad news - the old forum had to be removed, with all the thousands posts, due to spammers “attack”. I decided to move into phpBB version 3.x forum script (from phpBB 2.x), but the upgrade procedure just didn’t work (probably due to my server’s CPU usage limits) so here it is - a fresh installation of phpBB 3.x.

p.s. Somehow, the “attack” took place even though there was an anti-spam mod installed. Now, phpBB 3.x comes with more powerful tools for that purpose.