Robert J Turner

” The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. ”
Isaac Asimov

I was saddened to hear one of our teen’s from church who was on fire for God remark that church is lame… I’ll pray for them and I challenge them that if they think its lame what should be done to make it more appealing for them and their friends. After all its is OUR church and its up to US to to make it somewhere that people of all ages would want to come and worship the almighty one!

I thought I would share a story about the tickets to the Old Timers Hockey. I have some tickets that were given to me for Old Timers hockey at the local arena, I gave some to people I work with and one couple who had a small boy said that they could actually afford to go if they really wanted to an decided to give the tickets to people they knew from their church who really would not be able to go at all, they said the people were almost in tears when they got the call and the feedback after was that it was awesome, they really had a great time.

A nice story of “paying it forward” if ever I hear one.

Islandnet.com has PEP, which stands for Personal Email Processor, I’m going to be blogging about certain Islandnet.com related technologies and offerings because I work for them and I like what they offer.

PEP allows you to do some really powerful stuff with email, you can use PEP to test email headers like X-Spam-Score or X-Spam-Report. In this posting I am going to describe a using PEP to test email and lable it as possible spam for filterinf in the receiving email client, here are some sample entries from my mailrule file:

strip if X-Spam-Score > 4.9 Subject
insert if X-Spam-Score > 4.9 Subject "POSSIBLESPAM: {subject}"
jump if X-Spam-Score > 4.9 @WANTED

strip if X-Spam-Report contains "http://rhyolite.com/anti-spam/dcc/" Subject
insert if X-Spam-Report contains "http://rhyolite.com/anti-spam/dcc/" Subject "POSSIBLESPAM: {subject}"
jump if X-Spam-Report contains "http://rhyolite.com/anti-spam/dcc/" @WANTED

strip if vscan matches * Subject
insert if vscan matches * Subject "VIRUS: {vscan}-{subject}"
jump if vscan matches * @WANTED

strip if X-Spam-Report contains "SARE_EBAY_SPOOF_NAME" Subject
insert if X-Spam-Report contains "SARE_EBAY_SPOOF_NAME" Subject "POSSIBLESPAM: {subject}"
jump if X-Spam-Report contains "SARE_EBAY_SPOOF_NAME" @WANTED

strip if X-Spam-Report contains "SPAMCOP" Subject
insert if X-Spam-Report contains "SPAMCOP" Subject "POSSIBLESPAM: {subject}"
jump if X-Spam-Report contains "SPAMCOP" @WANTED

strip if X-Spam-Report contains "PYZOR_CHECK Listed in Pyzor" Subject
insert if X-Spam-Report contains "PYZOR_CHECK Listed in Pyzor" Subject "POSSIBLESPAM: {subject}"
jump if X-Spam-Report contains "PYZOR_CHECK Listed in Pyzor" @WANTED

strip if X-Spam-Report contains "MSGID_DOLLARS" Subject
insert if X-Spam-Report contains "MSGID_DOLLARS" Subject "POSSIBLESPAM: {subject}"
jump if X-Spam-Report contains "MSGID_DOLLARS" @WANTED

strip if body,top,bottom contains "Red Hot Opportunity" Subject
insert if body,top,bottom contains "Red Hot Opportunity" Subject "POSSIBLESPAM: {subject}"
jump if body,top,bottom contains "Red Hot Opportunity" @WANTED

strip if body,top,bottom contains "Short Term Target" Subject
insert if body,top,bottom contains "Short Term Target" Subject "POSSIBLESPAM: {subject}"
jump if body,top,bottom contains "Short Term Target" @WANTED

@WANTED


As you can see above the code strips the subject and appends the word POSSIBLESPAM: to the begining of the subject and then jumps to the end of the mailrule @WANTED

You could as easily have this method sort email addressed to different people into different folders in a mail progrma by setting the subject to something different depending on the email address its sent to.

Well, more on Islandnet.com stuff later…

I heard some news that I need not disclose but I do ask that we all pray for Ashley and that she may have strength in dealing with the issues that face her daily.