Apparently, the PS3 is going to on sale in Australia at a retail price of $999.95! It sells for US$ 599 (= AU$ 770 or 130%) in the U.S. and ¥60,000 (= AU$ 640) in Japan. So what gives with the high price for us Aussies? If you want to go with the c… more »

I mentioned before how there are two basic forms for combating the email spam problem currently. I call these two methods “sender passive” and “sender active,” depending on whether the sender has to do something other what is specified in the basic SMTP… more »

It’s clear to anyone who has been using email for any length of time that spam is a problem. But why is it a problem? After all, snail mail has “spam” as well, but nobody seems to complain too much about that! It turns out that despite the intentions… more »

This post I’m going to talk briefly about the SMTP protocol, upon which all email “functionality” is built. I’ll also describe why the protocol is the way it is, and what that means in terms of spam. Now, I’m not going to go into any great detail, an… more »

The purpose of this series of posts will be for me to describe a couple of ideas I’ve been playing with in relation to email and the increasing problems associated with spam. It is my belief that these problems stem from some rather fundamental probl… more »