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Participate in the Whirlpool Australian Broadband Survey!

Whirlpool are running their yearly broadband survey for the month of January 2010.  If you're a broadband user, please participate in their survey - all broadband users in Australia benefit from Whirlpool's great efforts in this area.

Spam insights from Project Honeypot

Project Honeypot just published a report of their experience in processing 1 billion spam messages.  Highlights for the impatient:

  • For the past 5 years, spam "bots have grown at a compound annual growth rate of more than 378%. In other words, the number of bots has nearly quadrupled ever year."
  • The top 5 countries which host bots are: China (11.4%), Brazil (9.2%), United States (7.5%), Turkey (6.3%), and Germany (6.0%).
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Whirlpool broadband survey results

Whirlpool has just released the results of its 2008 broadband survey. Essential reading for anyone who uses broadband, especially for those considering renewing their contracts.

spambot attacks

It appears a spambot has found one of my personal domains attractive.
Recent activity graph from mailgraph
Despite this, i've received no spam that has actually made it through my SpamAssassin/Thunderbird setup. The lessons i've been learning about this recently have led me to create a wiki page about it.

Major Australian ISP Pulls OpenOffice

Now this is just plain bizarre:
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