ALEKSANDR GETS SMARTER

Oh damn, after over a year, 'Aleksander' the spammer from 
2023-04-13My_Turn_With_Aleksandr.txt has finally read spamming 101 
and removed the header I was using to filter his emails, as well as 
changed the Subject and the name used in From. "Subject: Offer" and 
"From: Alex <info@*" might be a filterable combination, but that 
depends if they start changing like the email domains and IP 
addresses do. Or maybe I've harvested enough of his IP addresses by 
logging past blocked emails that I can use that as an effective IP 
blacklist now?

Unfortunately I haven't got time - too busy failing to make money 
as usual - so I'll just have to put up with them for now. I guess I 
do sort-of see why all the big email providers set up rules that 
stop email from random servers like mine getting through to people, 
though I'm still the guy in the corner of the room shouting "but it 
shouldn't be this way!" at the moment, and looking for more 
intelligent solutions.

No time for writing more interesting phlog posts than this either 
unfortunately, and I need to get onto preparing for the 3G turn-off 
now pushed back to the end of October too. Not looking too hopeful 
for optical ROOPHLOCHing...

Oh, one other bit of news. I replaced the noisy fan in my 22yo 
laptop with a replacement bought from Aliexpress. It was a perfect 
match to the original and works well - amazing that you can get a 
replacement relatively cheaply as NOS (by description and 
appearance, though it's possibly a very well cleaned pull) after 
all these years, though I think it's almost the only part where 
that's still the case. As much as I hate the Web, and indeed the 
Aliexpress website, it is kinda wonderful what it allows you to buy 
sometimes if you look hard enough.

 - The Free Thinker