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Odds and ends (lost time is not found again)
Eric Boehlert's Salon piece yesterday on "Bush's Missing Year" -- the strange lacunae in our president's service records -- is a must-read if, like me, you continue to wonder why this story has never quite broken out in the mainstream media the way it should. The process by which the American press collectively decides what stories have "legs" and which ones should be buried remains fascinating, bizarre and far more important to our political process than it should be. Journalism schools should be throwing their resources at this! First chronicle it, exhaustively; then teach a new generation of writers and editors of ways to bypass it. On optimistic days I share the Internet idealism that suggests this sort of "gatekeeping" is doomed; but there's still plenty of cause for pessimism.
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We run SpamAssassin on our mailserver here at Salon, and it's generally done a good job of tagging the mountain of spam I receive, but lately, the wily spammers have gotten better at evading it, and on weekends I was seeing hundreds of spams again. So this week I downloaded and installed the newest Eudora (6.0) which includes a Bayesian filter that "learns" what I consider spam. The crap that eludes SpamAssassin and breaches the outer perimeter is now being mercilessly spotlit and executed before it can penetrate the confines of my inbox. (Do I sound like a crazed paramilitary freak? I guess that's what too many years of >1000 spams per day does to you.) It's too bad we now need a two-stage defense against spam, but at least it actually works.
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