I hate spam. Since I'm the only person @ sliver.com, I get loads of it. I've finally found an email filter (
www.cloudmark.com) that filters almost all of it, but I still must sift through its hits checking for false positives, as no filter is perfect. What a pain.
Anyway, this study is a must-read for anyone with an email address (that's you), as it discusses a six month study primarily covering _how_ spammers get your address(es) and how you can prevent that from happening. In short, the vast majority of spammers get your email from crawling the web[1] and there is a pretty simple way to prevent that from happening that resulted in _zero_ spams. Not bad considering they got over 10,000 spams over their test period.
http://www.cdt.org/speech/spam/030319spamreport.shtml
[1] They put their email addresses in normal, human-readable ("jeff.key at sliver.com"), and machine-readable (html-encoded, ie. &xxx;) on web sites, in NNTP newsgroups, in the WHOIS database, and many other places.
Windows Server 2003's storage architecture hasn't been getting much press, so this article was a pleasant surprise. Win2k3's changes are not limited to refinements to existing technologies (dynamic disks, DFS, etc), but include a number of new and exciting[0] features that not only make management easier, but make Windows' place in the enterprise much more palatable due to its vastly improved SAN support[1].
Redifining Windows Storage [.net magazine]
[0] If you're into that kind of stuff.
[1] Windows can now finally run as a "diskless" OS.