Devon Hillard’s Digital Sanctuary
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SpamCop RBL is Blocking Several Facebook Mail Servers
If you are using the SpamCop realtime block list as part of your anti-spam measures, be warned that they appear to be blocking several legitimate Facebook mail servers. I’ve seen them blocking the following Facebook mail server IPs: 69.63.178.169 69.63.178.172 69.63.178.175 Presumably there’s a whole block of IPs that SpamCop is blocking. Since I like…
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10MinuteMail and Form Submission Charsets in Seam/JSF
I launched a minor update to 10MinuteMail.com last night. It contained: Changed the mail domain to owlpic.com Updated the Russian language translation (thanks to Vladimir) Fixed a bug where replying to an e-mail using a non-latin character set would result in an unreadable e-mail (also thanks to Vladimir for pointing this out) This last issue…
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Don’t Cross the Streams!
It’s always funny when different aspects of your lives cross. For instance: 10MinuteMail is one of my projects, and Ulta is a contracting client I do a lot of work for. It’s just funny to see an Ulta ad on 10MinuteMail:)
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DDOS Against 10MinuteMail
You may have noticed 10MinuteMail was unavailable for a few minutes over the last couple of days. 10MinuteMail recently came under a DDOS attack which locked up the site a few times. Most of the malicious traffic came from the Netherlands, Germany, and to a lesser extend other European countries and the USA. Initially I…
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Making Search Keywords Easy
I was recently contacted by SortFix who introduced their offering to me and thought maybe I’d be interested in writing a blog post about SortFix. (full disclosure: I have received nothing from SortFix other than their e-mail request). SortFix is basically a value added search provider who wraps Google search results. Their approach is to…
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Make Google Ignore JSESSIONID
Search engines like Google will often index content with params like JSESSIONID and other session or conversation scope params. This causes two problems: first the links returned in the Google search results can have these parameters in them, resulting in “session not found” or other incompatible session state issues. Secondly it can cause a single…
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