flame war

Got in a fun, if a bit time-consuming flame war on the Linux Documentation Project mailing list about SpamAssassin and the issues arising surrounding spam filters. A new correspondent noted that his list confirmation missive when he signed up was snagged by SpamAssassin. That was fine, but he then went on to suggest in a later post that it was somehow dmerrill's responsibility to tweak his mailman settings to avoid SpamAssassin's evil grasp. This is the post that sent me into flame drive.

As I explained here, the whole notion that senders should have to tweak their email so it is not caught by spam filters is abhorrent to me. It suggests that the spammers and, by extension, the spam filter authors have become defacto censors. The responsibility lies with spam filter authors building in the flexibility so users can tweak settings to avoid false positives. It then is incumbent on the user to do the tweaking.

tunes

I can die happy.

Sitting at my desk at 5:30 yesterday afternoon, Jamie walked up and handed me two tickets to sold out Lyle Lovett/Bonnie Raitt show. There was a moment when the lights went down and she started pickin' a quiet acoustic and there was this:

If dreams were thunder
and lightnin' was desire
this old house it would've burned down
a long time ago

I 'bout melted into my grass amphitheater cool late summer evening lightnin' in the distance lights of the city my baby by my side lawn chair. Man that girl still knows how to rock.