6 posts tagged “work”
In a recent staff editorial (University e-mail hard to find among spam, 12/6/06) The Orion goes out on a limb, and then saws it off.
Open-source programs such as Spamato use a series of filters to eliminate spam for free. The source code that makes up the application is open for anyone to add his two cents to make the software more effective. In the case of Spamato, this makes the spam-blocking program more nimble than what the university uses now.
Yes. That’s right. If only we used open source, the panacea of…oh wait, we do use open source spam filtering software. Yes, all incoming e-mail goes through SpamAssassin. You can see this in the headers of the e-mail. But really, how would one find something like that out? cough Fact checking! cough If you dig deeper you also see that we’re using a number of other open source components.
Now, granted, I’m a little closer to the inside operation of the student mail system and I’m undoubtedly biased because I’m friends with the folks who run the system (who I assure you are busting their rears to keep the system up and running), but getting simple facts wrong is just lazy and unbecoming an award winning paper such as The Orion.
I know I'm sounding like a broken record when it comes to The Orion and their "editorials" and for that I'm kinda sorry. I'm probably turning into "that guy." But when you're wrong, you're wrong and boy are they ever wrong.
Four whole days and it's time to travel again. It can't be, and yet...right there on my printer are my boarding passes for tomorrow. Another 6am departure from CIC to SFO, then I'm off to LAX. Why? The California State University system now has an Accessible Technology Initiative. If you are interested in the nitty gritty details you should read Executive Order 926.
Tomorrow I'm off to Rochester for HighEdWebDev 2006. I might be "guest blogging" over at the College Web Editor blog.
