1. SpamAssassin has been marking mail from 2010 as “grossly in the future.” It’s been fixed in the beta for months, but they issued an emergency update over the holiday. Of course, if they’d done the test by using math instead of pattern matching, it wouldn’t have been an issue in the first place. (via Pobox)
2. A 2010 bug has caused problems with German credit cards. It seems we got complacent after Y2K and stopped worrying about date changes.
Just saw a link for the current entries in the SpamAssassin Logo Contest. Entries range from a simple updating of the current logo through ninjas of varying danger and cuteness levels, and a few that have actually dropped the ninja motif altogether.
Oddly, a few of them remind me of the Peacekeeper insignia from Farscape. Maybe it’s just the red-and-black color scheme. Speaking of which, it turns out that logo was based directly on a 1919 painting called “Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge” by Russian Constructivist artist El Lissitzky. (originally linked to sebacea.com.)
Back to SpamAssassin, the contest is open through August 6.
