I woke up this morning to over 650 emails sitting in my gmail spam box (I forward all emails from this domain to there). What was most shocking about it was that a very large number (around 90%) of them were really failure to deliver notifications or messages stating that an email sent from me was blocked by the spam filters. It’s amazing to think that a spammer would use a fake email from my domain to send out his/her crap mail!

A quick google for “email authentication” found a few articles describing the failing process for establishing a common email authentication method:aricles 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. I also found an interesting Wikipedia article describing the process of email authentication and also what challenges it faces. Hopefully, one of these days, there will be an authentication requirement prior to using a domain for sending email. Honestly, right now, I hope that day comes quickly.

As I was writing this I got hit with another 100 200+ spam messages… this is getting annoying…

Does anyone know of good solutions to this problem or how to prevent a spammer from using my domain name?

Update: another 600 spams in my inbox and spam box while I was out biking for a few hours. I’m shutting down my forwarding account until this gets fixed.

As seen on Face’s Blog and Sam’s Blog and originally found on The Long Trail, this movie tells the full power of sharing information as well as how the innovations in the web enable more dynamic uses of the information.

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As seen on the New York Times Screens Blog:

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After perusing the latest posts from the Lifehacker website, I came across this great tip for Firefox users:

The heavens opened and a bright warm light shone down today when I discovered the Firefox keyboard shortcut that re-opens the most recently closed tab: Ctrl-Shift-T. (Cmd-Shift-T for Mac users.)

Other useful shortcuts posted in the comments include:
CTRL+TAB = Go to the next tab (right)
CTRL+SHIFT+TAB = Go to the previous tab (left)

According to an article on Arstechnica, a recent study by Digital Life America found that the real cause of piracy of movies/music online is not the lack of moral understanding or indifference in the act of downloading the media, but the economics put in place by the media producers.

In other words, because of the restrictions on what you can (and can’t) do with media and how much the producers are trying to charge to use the media, many people are turning towards illegally downloading copies with fewer restrictions on use (IE, they can watch the movie on their iPod, laptop, media center computer, etc… without any interference by the encryption placed on most movies that come on DVDs and CDs.

This is an interesting finding that I’ve had hunches about for the last handful of years. Now, lets see how the media industries react to the findings and attempt to rectify the situation (let’s hope it isn’t through more RIAA and MPAA strong-arming in the courts).