{"id":347,"date":"2006-03-14T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-14T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/wordpress\/?p=347"},"modified":"2006-03-14T15:27:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-14T15:27:00","slug":"mail-bag-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/14\/mail-bag-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Mail bag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before we get started, two announcements:<\/p>\n<p>1) A friend of mine is looking for someone with invitations for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/analytics\/\">Google Analytics<\/a>.  This is a website-traffic monitoring service that is used for marketing analysis.  Like Gmail when it first started, the service is currently available only if you have an invitation from a current member.  So if you have an extra invite you don&#8217;t mind sharing, she&#8217;d appreciate it &#8211; email paul@paulryburn.com if you have one and I&#8217;ll pass it on.<\/p>\n<p>2) Anyone doing an NCAA tournament bracket pool?  I wouldn&#8217;t mind getting in on the action if you are.<\/p>\n<p>All right.  Down to business.  Let&#8217;s open up the electronic mailbag.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Subj:  ru happy with the size of ur thing<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Subj: Pharr7macy news<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Subject: Pharammacy news<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Subj:  GF complaining in the bed\/room<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Subj: natural in largement<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Subj: Phaeermacy news<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Subj:  GF not happy with ur per4mance<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Subj: Super Hot St0ck p1cks, get in early<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Subj: SHORT D1CCK, EN LARGE YOURSELF UP TO 2 FULL INCHES<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Subj: Ph@rrmacyy news<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Subj: Pha2armacy news<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Subj:  how&#8217;s ur GF, satisfied?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hey, I just noticed something.  These messages are not sent to paul@paulryburn.com, my real address.  They&#8217;re sent to (some random address)@paulryburn.com.  In fact, they&#8217;re often sent to a bunch of random addresses @paulryburn.com, which is why I sometimes receive 40 copies of the same e-mail message.<\/p>\n<p>However, my website is now hosted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.godaddy.com\">GoDaddy<\/a>, and guess what I found in their e-mail account management tools!  There&#8217;s a little checkbox that reads &#8220;Make paul@paulryburn.com a catch-all for this domain&#8221;&#8230; uncheck that box and all that spam goes AWAY!  I love it!!!<\/p>\n<p>I made the change about 2 hours ago.  Now, before, in a 2-hour period I&#8217;d receive about 40 e-mails.  In the 2 hours since the change I&#8217;ve received a grand total of THREE e-mails &#8211; a test from myself, and two from friends.  NO SPAM!<\/p>\n<p>So, this is probably the end of the &#8220;Mail Bag&#8221; regular feature in my blog.  Hope you&#8217;ve enjoyed it, and rest easy knowing that other regular features like &#8220;What the Bums Are Drinking this Week&#8221; are still around for your reading enjoyment.<\/p>\n<p>Sigh&#8230; if only I could eliminate the bums with a checkbox&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before we get started, two announcements: 1) A friend of mine is looking for someone with invitations for Google Analytics. This is a website-traffic monitoring service that is used for marketing analysis. Like Gmail when it first started, the service is currently available only if you have an invitation from a current member. 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