I’ve got a domain name which need to be able to receive email from (anything)@domainname.com (catch all). However, as you know already, these days it means getting a lot of spam. And by a lot I’m talking like hundreds everyday.

I’ve setup a server with all sorts of anti spam & anti virus defenses. Unfortunately, the spam is still coming through in bulk. These vermints really need to be on the receiving end sometimes, enjoying their important mailbox bombarded by torrents of cheap viagra offers. Anyway …

I got an idea 2 days ago - how about if I redirect the incoming email to a Gmail account, let Gmail kill the spam, then I can fetch the (clean) mailbox with their POP3 feature ?
Sounds good to me, since I assumed Google would have far better resources to deal with spam, and therefore able to defend their mailbox better that me.

So I setup my mailserver to redirect the incoming mail for that domain to Google, and I waited.

After a day, I got about 5 spam in my Gmail Inbox… and 300 of them in the Spam folder. Hooray !

My server loves Google too now. SpamAssassin (and others) has been torturing it for some time, especially with those massive influx of spam. Now it just redirect the whole lot, and forget about it.
And I’m happy for obvious reasons.

Kudos to Google.

Akhir-akhir ini saya sering gagal menelpon relasi dengan menggunakan telpon Esia saya, mendapatkan nada sibuk. Tadinya saya kira memang sedang dipakai telponnya.
Tapi sekali iseng saya telpon dengan handphone XL saya - lha, bisa.

Lalu saya makin sering mengkomparasi ini. Ternyata, nyaris semua koneksi yang gagal dengan Esia kemudian bisa ketika langsung dicoba dengan XL.

Saya bingung, apakah handphone Esia saya rusak ?

Lalu saya membaca artikel detikcom berjudul Kapasitas Interkoneksi Terbatas Ancam Pertumbuhan Esia. Oalah… apa mungkin ini gara-garanya.
Saya kemudian juga menemukan posting Balada Telkom Flexi - Esia

What, Telkom can’t stand a bit of competition ?
(Esia - 1 juta pelanggan, Telkomsel - 21 juta pelanggan)

Anyway, ada yang punya informasi lebih lanjut? Silahkan tinggalkan komentarnya disini.

I read a news titled “Indonesian Catholics to face firing squad on Saturday” on Catholic News this morning. Seems like many Catholic groups are asking Indonesian Gov’t to spare the life of the accused.

Actually some non-Catholic groups are asking the same thing too. Although for different reason - several Muslim organization suspected that these 3 men are just puppets. The masters are still safe behind the curtain.
If these men got executed, then the secrets will die with them. And justice will not be delivered.

By saving the life of these 3 men, then hopefully we’d be able to investigate further and find the real masters behind the massacre. The ones who really responsible for it.

The chance is really slim though.