send email to dripmail at this domain name (why?)
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 13:55:13 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: postme@[xxx]
Subject: this should show up in the postme folder
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 14:00:20 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: postme@[xxx]
Subject: this is the pooop
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 15:17:10 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: postme@[xxx]
Subject: ETS easy questions only easy for white suburbanites
"easy" questions are bullshit - they are the ones meant to measure what
you already "know" - vs hard questions which are "school" learned. black
students seem to slightly underperform on "easy" while overperforming on
"hard"
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 15:17:42 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: postme@[xxx]
Subject: drug costs - more on ads than r&d
http://www.illinoisleader.com/opinion/opinionview.asp?c=9458
"In 2001 Glakso Smith and Kline (GSK) made $30 billion in revenues but
spent 32% on Marketing and Advertising and only 15.3% on Research and
Development! And in terms of ethics and concern for the safety of
consumers, GSK continues to bloody its hands as the lead plaintiff in a
deadly, three-year lawsuit against the South African government. GSK is
marching into court with the other multinational drug companies to sue
South Africa, home to 4.2 million people living with HIV/AIDS, for daring
to increase access to generic, affordable medication for its citizens."
"In 2001 Pfizer made $32.3 billion but spent 35% on Marketing and
Advertising only 15% on Research and Development."
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 15:18:03 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: postme@[xxx]
Subject: outsourcing to india
``Software engineers - India produces about a million of them a year - are
a commodity,'' Cavallo said in a phone interview from India, where he was
visiting employees and trying to sell software to Indian outsourcing
firms.
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 13:35:31 -0800
From: Josh Santangelo <joshs@[xxx]
To: postme@[xxx]
Subject: yo
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 16:04:48 -0600
From: Ben Brown <bbrown@[xxx]
To: postme@[xxx]
Subject: hello
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 16:55:21 -0600
From: "Klara Y. Kim" <klarakim@[xxx]
To: postme@[xxx]
Subject: !
HI!
<3 <3 <3,
klara.
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 17:00:13 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: postme@[xxx]
Subject: flu shots...
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 17:02:53 -0600
From: "Klara Y. Kim" <klarakim@[xxx]
To: postme@[xxx]
Subject: it was exciting.
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 10:19:23 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: postme@[xxx]
Subject: auto-updating
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 12:25:08 -0500
From: dakota smith <ds@[xxx]
To: ripoff@[xxx]
Subject: what
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 11:53:43 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: ripoff@[xxx]
Subject: my girlfriend is really cute
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 15:44:23 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripoff@[xxx]
Subject: email addresses are now hidden
adam: yeah, like that ever stops spammers
kathryn: well it's like pantyhose
kathryn: you know it's not really protecting you
kathryn: but you feel better if it's there
adam: i don't feel better wearing pantyhose
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 10:07:01 -0600
From: the magical posting address <klarakim@[xxx]
To: dripoff@[xxx]
Subject: yeah.
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 14:32:13 -0800 (PST)
From: Kathryn Yu <hndofchaos@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: Why it's time to consider moving to San Francisco
"Liebermaniacs," but "hipsters"? Last I checked, Sarah Records was not
a political party and The Rapture wasn't running for office on the DFA
ticket (and just how many electoral votes are Greenpoint or Silverlake
worth, anyway?)."
-- http://www.lowculture.com/archives/000254.html
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 18:29:38 -0500
From: bryan boyer <bryan@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: It's like a secret club.
--Apple-Mail-5--253734389
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charset=US-ASCII;
format=flowed
Don't you realize? The next time you see sky, it'll be over another
town. The next time you take a test, it'll be in some other school. Our
parents, they want the bestest stuff for us. But right now, they gotta
do what's right for them. 'Cause it's their time. Their time. Up there.
Down here, it's our time. It's our time down here!
--Apple-Mail-5--253734389
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
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charset=US-ASCII
<bold><fontfamily><param>Verdana</param><color><param>FFFF,0000,0000</param><x-tad-bigger>Don't
you realize? The next time you see sky, it'll be over another town.
The next time you take a test, it'll be in some other school. Our
parents, they want the bestest stuff for us. But right now, they gotta
do what's right for them. 'Cause it's their time. Their time. Up
there. Down here, it's our time. It's our time down here!</x-tad-bigger></color></fontfamily></bold>
--Apple-Mail-5--253734389--
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 12:28:21 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: html crap
bryan's.
HTML EMAIL is really stupid anyway. oh, oh, i'm sorry, is ascii not good
enough for you? do you need an arbitrarily large number of tags and colors
and formatting markup to express yourself?
256 CHARACTERS IS GOOD ENOUGH
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 14:26:45 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: IMPORTANT CONSUMER NOTICE
day away!)
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Volume 1
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000AQS81/adammathescom-20
Space Ghost Coast To Coast Volume 1
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000AQS89/adammathescom-20
this is the first time i have ever used affiliate links. i feel dirty.
please spend the cash money there to help me get more of the cash
money here.
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 14:27:41 -0800 (PST)
From: Kathryn Yu <hndofchaos@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: bug report
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 16:32:18 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: i was just fixing them
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 14:29:26 -0800 (PST)
From: Kathryn Yu <hndofchaos@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: wow
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:07:08 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: no, seriously, you can't park there
"U.S. military officials said Tuesday that U.S. soldiers shot to death the
chairman of Sadr City's governing council during a heated argument this
week. Sadr City is a largely Shiite neighborhood in the Iraqi capital,
formerly known as Saddam City.
Officials said the quarrel got under way Monday when the chairman,
Mohannad Ghazi al Kaabi, tried to park his car near the District Advisory
Council building in an area closed to traffic. When U.S. troops tried to
stop him, military officials said, he became agitated, got out of his car
and began arguing with a soldier guarding the offices.
Al Kaabi wrestled the soldier to the ground and grabbed his gun, according
to the officials. Another soldier shot al Kaabi in the upper thigh, they
said."
This is why we have a military and a police force and they are seperate.
Because highly trained soldiers spend years preparing to fight
wars. This, however, is not the training you want for people who
are enforcing parking restrictions.
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:13:42 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: panasonic sv-av100
I really want one of these. DVD-quality recording from a camera about the
size of a deck of cards, so you can always have it in your pocket.
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 02:44:49 -0600
From: dakota smith <ds@[xxx]
To: ripoff@[xxx]
Subject: love and shit
how to use it. i am real lazy. love, dakota.
ps - i'm totally in love with the world right now. let's have a drum
circle and play hacky sack.
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:25:30 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: whatever happened to texterizer
adam: or was that for ben
dakota: yeah, but it didn't work
adam: oh
dakota: \the text was still too tinyy
dakota: and then i went on tour
dakota: like
adam: you're too TINY!!
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 17:16:59 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: Uncovered: The Whole Truth About The Iraq War
"This controversial and arresting film takes you behind the walls of
government, as CIA, Pentagon and foreign service experts speak out, many
for the first time, detailing the lies, misstatements and exaggerations
that served as the reasons to fight a 'preemptive' war that wasn't
necessary. The war with Iraq brought about unparalleled resistance, both
in the streets and in the chambers of government. This documentary offers
an in-depth look at the unsettling distortion of intelligence and the
'spin and hype' presented to the American people, the Congress and the
press."
Interesting - their primary distribution is going to be via DVD sold on the
Internet. I'd actually like to see it, but $14.95 for an hour documentary
is a bit steep. There don't seem to be any screenings in Chicago noted
on the site, though.
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 02:59:18 -0600
From: "a concerned citizen" <h@[xxx]
To: <dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: breaking news!
champaign-urbana go all a-twitter.
oh, also, i'm a complete dork. but things like this* amuse me to no end.
* iff "things like this" means silly little toys with which i can CONTROL
THE CONTENT of a small part of the internet that does not belong to me.
look at me, piercing universes of discourse.
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:29:34 -0800
From: Pnfrl Znefunyy <rsdio@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: Three Bits
self and one's field of study (for SCIENCE!), and not, mind you, NOT
an attempt to "hide" from the "real" "world"?
I need to know for a research project. okthnx.
2. Ooh, look, it's a weblog that uses SMTP/POP/IMAP as a transport
layer! GeeGaw!
3. Does this thingamabob strip .signatures? Should I delete mine
before I send this?
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 09:36:59 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: RE: Three Bits
self and one's field of study" through graduate school would necessarily
require one to "hide" from the "real" world. So it's both, simultaneously
and equally.
2. I'm almost sure dripmail doesn't use POP or IMAP. Also, congrats Casey,
I believe you are the first person to call this thing a "weblog." I hope
you're happy at bringing that small amount of anger and disappointment to
me this morning.
3. This thing attempts to strip any non-text attachments, but you should
delete your .signatures on general principles. (The main principle being
sigs are dumb and a waste.) It also does its best to strip email addresses
from the headers before they are displayed, in attempt to shield people
from spam or random contact from the teeming masses of dripmail readers.
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:08:55 -0800
From: spix@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: assembly
"it's too hard."
"it lacks structure."
"there's not enough registers."
"sp isn't really a pointer register"
well, all i got to say is screw them. writing in assembly is sweet. debugging
is a pain in the ass, but once it works you feel like you really accomplished
something. you made that processor your bitch, and it answered to you and no
other. (well, not really, but let's just pretend that interrupts and other
programs and such just don't exist.) the executable is small and compact. not
like that big bulky thing your compiler will spit out. sure, it took hours
longer to write, debug and test. but the final product is what makes it all
pay off.
now, where can i sell a program that adds two 12 digit numbers?
also, using dos procedures in assembly is teh sux0rs.
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 14:24:46 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: spix@[xxx]
CC: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: Re: assembly
me.
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 20:54:50 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: probably too late for anyone to notice but...
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 02:03:04 -0500 (EST)
From: kap@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: man
stuff into a little box and clicking update, this is perfect.
if my headache exploded right now, it would take out this and the adjacent
three counties.
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:19:04 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: my regex needs help
to his email address, my buggy regex displays from as "org."
It's funnier if you think of it as or-g, which is how my internal
monologue pronounces all .org addresses.
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 11:14:12 -0600
From: "klara y. kim" <klarakim@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: you know, when i watch George Shrinks.
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 14:23:34 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: thinking of you
It's kind of wonderful how it has this whole life of its own, hanging out
and watching Totally Spies! and Kim Possible and The Newshour.
(Umm, I got a Tivo this weekend.)
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 15:01:05 -0800
From: Pnfrl Znefunyy <rsdio@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: Refer(r)er logs
guys are so clueful that they put things like "MSIE 6.0", or
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98", and my favorite,
"User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)".
You could totally filter out 90% of this crap by checking the
User-Agent.
Also: Aqua Teen and Sealab I understand. I grok these. But FLCL? What
the hell? Can someone explain this to me?
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 10:04:15 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: Pnfrl Znefunyy <rsdio@[xxx]
CC: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: Re: Refer(r)er logs
> The funniest part about referrer log spam are the User-Agents.
I saw "MSIE 6.0" when I was looking through it, and I was just like, come
on... you're not even trying.
> You could totally filter out 90% of this crap by checking the
> User-Agent.
The problem is that the way I normally look at referrers is just by
grepping and tailing a seperate referrer log that doesn't have
User-Agent information. (Yes, yes I could have Apache do a custom log with
that information, but, I shouldn't have to.)
I still have Analog run on a combined log nightly, and I
could certainly filter out the User-Agents from those reports, but I
figure the next generation of referrer spam will just get smarter at
sending non-ridiculous User-Agent fields and it'll be wasted effort. I
figure a better solution would be to actually check if that same IP
requested images or stylesheets linked from the page, then assume it's a
valid referrer from a real browser.
> Also: Aqua Teen and Sealab I understand. I grok these. But FLCL? What
> the hell? Can someone explain this to me?
No. (Maybe Klara will?)
FLCL is really one of the best Animes I've ever seen. Even without any
explanations of the "plot," the visuals and music should effect you on
such a level that you can't help but LOVE IT.
Also, the proper spelling is 'referrer' and I refuse to encourage or
accept the single 'r' bastardization.
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 14:34:03 -0600
From: "Klara Y. Kim" <klarakim@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: FuriKuri!
Um ... it's a coming-of-age giant robot anime satire! Like art by a schizophrenic.
http://www.point-blank.cc/reviews/index.php?action=view&ident=81
you have to watch all six episodes at least twice over for the plot to really gel in your mind.
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 12:40:02 -0800
From: Casey Marshall <rsdio@[xxx]
To: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
CC: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: Re: Refer(r)er logs
I was also suggesting that the authors of all these craptastic weblog
software suites could write in some basic security. But I'm not
holding my breath there.
Traffic analysis would work, too. Someone who visits one page and
downloads no images, or visits 30 pages in ten seconds, is quite
obviously a bot. Your master's (or doctoral, or whatever) thesis
should be on bot-discovery methods.
[FLCL]
Maybe it takes more than one episode to get its whole gestalt, as all
I have gotten out of it so far is clandestine shots of a Japanese
schoolgirl's panties.
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 07:44:20 -0500 (EST)
From: kap@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: Re: Refer(r)er logs
downloads no images, or visits 30 pages in ten seconds, is quite
obviously a bot. Your master's (or doctoral, or whatever) thesis
should be on bot-discovery methods."
would make for a great apache module, if one doesn't already exist. i've
been surprised in the past when thinking "wouldnt x be great as an apache
module" and then finding it's already been written.
...
i feel like the comic book guy now. "i've wasted my life."
...
i wonder if the From: header thingy has been fixed yet.. if not, i'd
suggest using everything before the @[xxx] portion. weeeeeee!
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 12:41:42 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: blame carl
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 12:43:33 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: kap@[xxx]
CC: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: Re: Refer(r)er logs
> i wonder if the From: header thingy has been fixed yet.. if not, i'd
> suggest using everything before the @[xxx] portion. weeeeeee!
>
Still haven't fixed it. But that is likely the solution that will be
implemented. (Assuming it ever gets fixed.)
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 12:45:19 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: Videos That Don't Get Old
The Mr. Shakey one makes me laugh harder each time I see it. (The other
one not so much.)
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 12:56:21 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: new theory on referrer/comment spam
comment/discussion/referrer logs that allowed spam to be posted the
same as people who run open mail relays?
As in, somebody reports to your ISP that you're running some moronic PHP
script (cough textism's refer cough) or any software by userland
that is contributing to web spam and your site is shut down until you fix it by
getting rid of the fucking thing or at least putting it in an
access-restricted directory.
Would this make any difference?
Although it does seem somehow wrong to "punish" the people who run the
sites, when, really, this is all the fault of half a dozen idiot software
developers. (Who I was originally going to link to and call nasty names in
the piece I wrote for Monday, but I decided that this isn't personal. But,
really, it kind of is.)
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 13:31:48 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Mathes <adam@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: the cat in the hat movie
11% at Rottentomatoes
http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/catinthehat/
17/100 at Metacritic
Even if the film wasn't an affront to human dignity, and I'll probably
never know for sure since I'll never see it, the commercials with a
backflipping Cat in the Hat hawking soda and potato chips made me feel
ill. I weep for poor Seuss.
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 17:58:18 -0800
From: steve brown <sdbrown@[xxx]
To: dripmail@[xxx]
Subject: An email my Ch120 TA sent out
Some clarifications for HW 7:
(1) Part 1c, consider "backbonding" interactions (d on metal -> pi* on
C=O ligand). This presupposes a bit of inorganic knowledge but
is straightforward to understand.
(2) Part 2a: s, sigma, sigma', pi, pi', delta should be
s, sigma, pi, pi', delta, delta'. Use the configuration for
Ir-H+ from the paper attached to last week's homework
(Ir+ by itself is not labelled sigma, pi, etc.).
(3) Part 2a: There will be an excitation of one electron from
pi to delta when bonding CH2. Overlap dominates in the bonding.
This would be a kind of "promotion energy" but don't worry about
its effect when doing part 2e.
(4) Part 2e: consider exchange and promotion effects as in the
metal hydride arguments from last week. Certain orbitals
will be tied up from bonding CH2.
(5) Part 3a. You do not need to use specific numbers. When
considering O2 you can assume that a 3e- pi bond is less
than 1/2 the strength of a regular pi bond.
(6) Part 3b. Each metal oxide will be analogous to one system in
part a. Don't worry about exchange and promotion here, just
consider what kind of bonds can form between the metal and
the oxygen _atom_.
HW 8 will be handed out next Monday and will be due the following
Friday. There will be no class on Wednesday -- HW 7 will be due
before 5 pm in my mailbox (southwest entrance of BI opposite from
elevator on the right hand side if you are facing the mailboxes).
Julius
Why Dripmail? What? Huh?
(sending email to dripmail at this domain name makes it appear here. plain text only, please.)
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