i@m.fm

You know these graphics where you have to re-type a phrase or some
characters or number in order to prevent automated registrations or
queries:

Boing Boing: Solving and creating captchas with free porn

Basically the spammers make porn-hungry people work. So they show them
the so-called ‘captchas’ from other sites and ask their site visitors
to ‘crack’ the code for them in order to get past the protection. Just
like a human brute force attack.

I am sorry to inform you that one of the most important servers in my
network decided to get rid of it’s Raid harddrives, while gracefully
overwriting some of the important bits and bytes.

What does this translate into? No mail should be lost, but I will not
be able to get and reply to any in the next couple of days, while ‘ob’
is setting up a machine that can take over the load