Comments on: today i understand teens (fucking spam)

By: Lawrence Krubner

Lawrence Krubner — Wed, 28 Jan 2004 12:12:44 +0000

But, let me ask gently, aren’t you just expressing frustration with your own addiction, as you wrote about in a recent post?

I work on social software so I’m as much of an addict as you, but I just took a 2 week vacation from the web, didn’t check my email for a 10 day stretch, read no blogs, stayed offline, and it was very nice. I got other stuff done, saw friends in person, and worked on a novel that I’ve been wanting to finish for awhile.

Bouts of abstinence might be a successful strategy for all of us.

Or consider this:

Between 1870 and 1920 the price of food fell by an order of magnitude, and during the 1920s psychiatrists began reporting a new mental disorder among teenage girls that they called Anorexia Nervousa. Between 1950 and 2000 the price of information fell be several orders of magnitude (the amount, of course, depends on how you measure). What new mental disorders can we now expect? If abundant food lead to the rise of new mental disorders, won’t abundant information also?

By: a preponderance of evidence

a preponderance of evidence — Wed, 28 Jan 2004 00:58:01 +0000

Clueless Postmasters, Stupid MicroBots, I Hate You

I really do. See, the new “virus” (or as I like to call it: “Windows User Reality Check”) doesn’t bother…

By: a preponderance of evidence

a preponderance of evidence — Wed, 28 Jan 2004 00:57:16 +0000

Clueless Postmasters, Stupid MicroBots, I Hate You

I really do. See, the new “virus” (or as I like to call it: “Windows User Reality Check”) doesn’t bother…

By: Richard Soderberg

Richard Soderberg — Tue, 27 Jan 2004 14:50:30 +0000

I haven’t had a phone since April of last year. Interestingly, I’ve been thoroughly enjoying the real-world meetings now that I’m operating my life without a phone. The primary way I run into people is at the “pubs” downtown — Eugene has a cluster of several liquor establishments within a couple square blocks, and here, everyone’s two hops away from everyone else.

It’s rather nifty; I think I like it. Eventually I’ll have to break down and get a phone, if only for job purposes, but I’m quite pleased with the way things have worked out socially here so far.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 27 Jan 2004 14:21:55 +0000

Its MyDoom. It sends emails to random names at real domain names. Fun!

By: Aeonn

Aeonn — Tue, 27 Jan 2004 09:51:58 +0000

Sounds like a side effect of My Doom. A lot of web admins have been getting large loads of mail, sent to “any name” at domain. Change your “catch all” to a different address and don’t DL that mail. Check it every now and then and dump it if need be.

By: Dav

Dav — Tue, 27 Jan 2004 09:02:49 +0000

Sounds like you need a something like SpamAssassin running on your danah.org mail server, so things get tossed into the junk bucket before you have to download them to your local mail client.

By: Irina

Irina — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 21:38:02 +0000

Whoa girl chill… just think about it this way – without all this pesky technology many people would have been deprived of the experience of knowing you… and that would really be a loss. Besides, you can always go to a pub and interact socially there if you feel like it. Just consider this – face-to-face interactions can sometimes cause similar level so resentment, only you can’t turn them off as easily. Even when grumbly you are cute