The recent spam filter changes blocked a series of patterns indicitive of "Generic Reverse DNS". What does this mean exactly? It means the server name has one of the following patterns in the name:

• adsl
• dsl
• dialup
• dip
• pool
• dynamic

Did you know that as a user of Grin.net, you can tune our spam filters, while at the same time reporting spam to Spamcop and other organizations that track not only what is and isn't spam, but who the people are responsible for sending that spam?

Just to be clear, your email address does not have to be

, but you must be a customer of one of the following providers:
Grin.net
Creative.net
Sfo.com/net
California.com

Let's get started with training the filter better so that your specific spam (and non-spam) are better represented.

Viruses are on the loose again, though this is nothing terribly new.

The latest generation of viruses are largely acknowledged to be the work of professional spam software developers, usually accumulating zombie computers for use in botnets, and the recent virus outbreak is no exception. The most recent outbreak is proportedly a list of CNN news stories with fantastic titles.

Spam filters can be frustrating, but a lack of spam filtering can be even worse. The adum of JHD (Just Hit Delete) that spammers often promote as the "answer" is a pretty poor solution to a rather sad problem.
The reason? Humans are actually MORE likely to delete a legitimate email than the spam filter is. OOPS.

There are some ways to reduce your frustration with filters however, and the best way to start, is to learn more about how the filters work, so you'll have a better idea of how to work with them, instead of at odds with them.

Myspace is making news with its judgement against "Spamford Wallace" (MySpace wins $230 million in Internet spam case) the infamous junk mailer behind Cyber Promotions. (which was sued out of business by AOL) Despite this, I doubt this is the last we'll see of him.

People like this are a huge nusiance to any communications company, but did you know that grin.net rejects, at delivery time, 80% of all email?

Did you know you can use your account on www.grin.net as an OpenID authentication source?

To use grin.net as openID authentication, supply a URL similar to the following (I'll explain that momentarily) to an OpenID enabled site:
http://www.grin.net/users/<userid>

Where <userid> is your username on this site.

I use the url http://www.grin.net/users/shadow for example, but if your name is 'johndoe', you would use:
http://www.grin.net/users/johndoe

pro·cras·ti·nate(prō-krās'tə-nāt', prə-)

v. pro·cras·ti·nat·ed, pro·cras·ti·nat·ing, pro·cras·ti·nates

v. intr. To put off doing something, especially out of habitual carelessness or laziness.

v. tr. To postpone or delay needlessly.

I cannot truthfully say that I'm not a procrastinator.  I find many reasons to put things off needlessly, and likely, so do you.  Most everyone procrastinates some, for some reason, but the truth of the matter is that it doesn't do us any good in the end. The keyword here is needlessly, as we needn't put things off.