To me actions speak louder than words; perhaps that’s why I’m so quiet.

Does running your own mail server make you an email addict or does being an email addict lead to running your own mail server?

After careful consideration I believe I fall into the former. Note I’ve stopped hyphenating the word e-mail (for the most part). I seem to be proud of the fact that I’m running a mailserver and I can tell you the version numbers of the software that runs it. I’d really love to geek out here and describe the setup but I feel that doing so may push me farther out into the realm of inaccessibility. Suffice it to say that my email server scans incoming email for viruses, spam, and bad headers and deals with it accordingly, all without any client software on the user’s part, and a cavalcade of programs performs a carefully choreographed dance to make the experience as seamless as possible. Lately I’m working on reducing my spam. I’ve implemented a quarantine system where high-scoring spam gets silently copied to a database for review at the user’s discretion. Virus-infected emails are quarantined as well. I host three email domains on a single machine and am willing to host more if necessary: the setup is quick and painless.

Here are some photos taken with Robert’s camera.

Here’re a few of the cast members posing for an impromptu photo.

Cladwell and his bunny slippers

Warmups(?)

Nap time (names not included to protect the shameless)

Another backstage photo

Ladies, when picking photos to post on your personals profiles (Match.com), try to choose pictures where the friends you’re standing with aren’t cuter than you. Just a suggestion. 🙂

I thought I would save this from electronic oblivion. It’s a bulletin I wrote for my friends.

You know what, folks, I’m just gonna say it. Honesty hurts sometimes but y’all need to hear it. I think you all are great, but some of you just need to fix your damn profile pages. I can’t read any of them. The designs are horrible. White text on a white background? Gimme a friggin’ break! Now I’m not saying you have to go to design school, but just step back for a minute and look at your pages objectively. I think it’s great that you want to post photos that are five times wider than any computer screen on earth, or the hot pink text color you found really stands out against that picture of a hot pink flower you have for your background (NOT), but just keep in mind that your friends who cannot see in INFRARED will not be able to read your profile pages without considerable headache and effort. There. I said it.

I just got three MySpace spams in the course of three minutes. What fun.

I would so much prefer MySpace to actually forward/redirect their messages to my e-mail address. Then I could filter it for spam myself based on the content/sender. But as it stands now, MySpace only sends you a notification of new messages and you have to log in to their blasted website to read the message. So my options are limited: 1) deal with the dumb notifications or 2) turn off notifications entirely, which I prefer not to do. I suppose the other option is to only accept messages from persons on my friends list, but I thought I did that already and the spam keeps coming through. Come on, MySpace, get your act together!

I’ve spent the last day integrating the amavisnewsql plugin with Squirrelmail and figuring out how to use my custom and separate alias maps and virtual alias maps in postfix. The workaround came by putting the alias map hash in the virtual_alias_maps list. This treated all of my local alases like virtual aliases and caused Postfix to rewrite them so that the amavis-new SQL lookup would match my custom SpamAssassin level settings to me and not ignore the email that was previously addressed to my alias and, amavis thought, to someone else.

Yes, what publicity blitz would be complete for our show without the mention in Variety?