Long time no post, I know... I wish you and your loved ones a quiet and peacful christmas time, and I promise to post more soon ;-) At the latest in the new year. Maybe I will even write christmas cards again this year - I've been bad ;-) No presents for me.

Yahoo! plans to fight spam with 'domain keys'

So apparently they want to use a signature based system, which means that all mailservers would have to be updated to work with the new system. I guess they can push this (or else all of our x million yahoo accounts will reject your mail), but what happens if the ISPs say who cares about sending mail to Yahoo?

However, how is this going to work for the ones that use their ISPs mailservers, but use a different domain? Guess we are going to see... So every domain will have to have their own domain or their own key? Which central keyserver is going to hold those keys.

And what keeps a spammer from purchasing a real email account from someplace, spam from there - will the entire ISP's key be blocked then?

And of course the solution would really have to be open source...

Yesterday Kim found a note from the builder on the door. I don't have it here to put down the actual wording, but basically it was rather cryptic. It was saying that it's really important that we contact on-site customer service so the Town of Oakville can do the "final occupancy" inspection.

Hmm... Wait a sec. "Final Occupancy"? We've been living in the house for over six months now and they want to do a final occupancy inspection? They also make it sound ("It is important that...") like we actually missed a date.

In any case, the inspection is now scheduled for Friday and I will update the blog then.

This was written yesterday during my flight back home:

So I am in the plane on my way home... The ...   more »