Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"People who never play with their food have no imagination." -- anniemal, 2007-01-31

When I woke (to Perrine staring at me and trying to beam "feed the cat" messages into my brain (which I suppose technically worked, but via the ordinary medium of visually detected body language as soon as I woke rather than telepathy)), I also saw that I'd gotten an automated "your account has exceeded its disk quota" message. So Perrine will have to wait just a few minutes while I (type this and then) delete some spam.

Spot-checking a message to make sure my filter was operating correctly, I opened[*] a phishing message claiming to be from PayPal, which began with the salutation, "Dear Costumer." So of course, my first thought was, "Oh no, that's not me, but it's obviously meant for several of my friends." Not that anything else about the message was any more convincing, of course ...

Okay, gotta go delete the other 800 messages (approximately one every four minutes since the last time I cleaned the spambox) and feed the cat.

[*] One of the beneficial side effects of using such an old fashioned/low tech MUA as I do, is that I can safely open any message without the risk of triggering malware payloads or setting off a web-bug. Opening an attachment can still be risky depending on the type (though far less risky than for most people), but they're never convincing enough to make me want to bother opening any attachments anyhow. Though when that worm was going around that grabbed random real documents from an infected computer to use as the attachment to attach itself to, thus potentially exposing information you'd rather not have sent all over the net, I did run 'strings' on a few messages out of curiosity. I found things like a letter to a lawyer and somebody's poetry among the documents that worm sent me. It made me that much more glad to be using the Ned Ludd of email clients. Obviously, I didn't try to open any of those attachments in Word or Excel, just searched them for printable character strings.

Argh. My insurance company said I had to bug the other car's owner's insurance company, and if they said they weren't covering damage to cars that car struck because it was stolen, then I'm supposed to get back to my insurance company and have them process it as an unisured motorist claim (in which case I'll have a large deductible to cover).

When I called the other insurance company, they gave me the name and phone number of the person and office handling this case.

He's not returning my calls. So I'm in limbo. *grrr*