IE7 is coming. But who cares? This company has given a sh*t on standards for the last 10 years, now all of us are supposed to fix our websites again just because they finally found out that there is a certain sense in standard-compliance? I don’t think so. On my website there is one single piece of special treatment for the old IE because it had a screwed box model - and frankly, I am excited how screwed it will look now that IE is going to be standard compliant 
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Archive for October 8th, 2006
Abgesehen davon, daß ich quasi auswandere (ohne jedoch die Staatsbürgerschaft aufzugeben), würde ich unter keinen Umständen die GEZ-Gebühr für meinen PC bezahlen. Einer der Gründe ist schonmal, daß ich ganz simpel keinen der Streams (Audio oder Video) benutze oder zu benutzen beabsichtige. Abgesehen davon ist bei uns dafür gesorgt, daß wir in unserer Gegend mit unseren läppischen 56k-Modems ohnehin nicht in den Genuß von solchen Angeboten kommen, selbst wenn wir wöllten. Continue reading ‘GEZ für Internet-PCs - warum ich nicht zahlen werde!’
Yesterday I wrote a short comment about the Spamhouse case. Spamhouse is indeed very important as an antispam blacklist. However, for my server I can only state that since I moved to it (previously my domains were hosted together with other domains on a server managed by a German hoster) greylisting works amazingly well for me. In fact I did not have a single spam mail through my domains since I use greylisting. And not that you think I do not get many attempts from spammers - the frequency is something like one mail per minute.
Greylisting, however, eliminated all spam to these domains from my mailbox. It seems my mail provider does not use greylisting. Is it that greylisting requires a second connection attempt and that the mail queues of my mail providers SMTP would simply be too small to bear the spam and legit mail server connection attempts? It would really be interesting. Continue reading ‘Greylisting works amazingly well for me …’