Fighting Spam takes up more and more CPU on our poor little web-facing OSX server, and I need to offload this task to another server. This can be done in several ways - but installing a SMTP proxy server on a separate computer may be the way to go to disrupt the existing server as little as possible - so I found this:

The Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy (ASSP) Server project aims to create an open source platform-independent SMTP Proxy server which implements whitelists, Bayesian, and basic anti-virus filtering to rid the planet of the blight of unsolicited email (UCE).

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We went out kayaking on the Wey again today - even though it was raining. And I was impressed by the number of people we met on and alongside the river - also disregarding the rain. There were kayakers, people in rowing boards, canoes, small boats with electric motors and in narrowboats. We were out for almost 3 hours - a extremely peaceful setting, and it gave me some much needed exercise as well. My new £8 wetshoes worked very well - better than my old sandals anyway.

Nuelectronics has just published 2 more examples on how to use their EtherShield for the Arduino as a Web Client - extremely interesting, and much more appropriate than the web-server examples:

Since I published ethernet Shield web-server project note a few months ago [link], I’ve got a few emails about how to use the Ethernet shield as a web client. In a sense, a web client application is more appropriate for a small device such as the Ethernet shield on Arduino.

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Another interesting post from the MySQL mailing lists - monitoring replication has always been less than easy:

This looks interesting - automated Topic Maps!