bkil vs. programming

The host of bkil.hu has decided to switch servers and inform me only afterwards with an e-mail that got into the spam folder for most people. You get what you pay for. That means my secondary private mail addresses gave bounce messages for about 60 hours, sorry about that. I only check them when I have time. By the way, I found out all about this issue when running ping. It's a great habit of mine to do that daily. Actually, I have a trivial script running in the background to endlessly send a ping packet to bkil.hu once in a few minutes to keep my wireless links active for dumb access points. Too bad I rarely check its output in detail. That just gave me an idea! ;-)

Common wisdom helps you achieve that: never publishing your contact information in a trivially machine readable form (e.g. writing it out in the clear at the top of your site, by the way: click here to see my E-mail address book ) and avoid getting into circumstances that can transitively result in the former case. I, however, can give you some more advanced advice. Create accounts with names that are randomly generated and are at least 8 character long each. Don't let your more valuable addresses get into other people's address books, because malware can easily harvest it from there. If only one in a hundred will get infected, your address is breached for good. So you mustn't give away all of your addresses to everybody. Don't hesitate to change your address if you receive spam: your digital signature can identify you regardless of location. In fact, only your digital signature can identify you, and the address a given message has been sent from is irrelevant, bec...