SPF
Blog Yeah, kitt finished writing this at 10:03 on 3 May 2016While normally SPF means Sun Protection Factor for me, I have to say, as Sender Permitted From, I am delighted by the headers.
Set in the DNS, SPF headers tell mail servers what IP addresses and hostnames email can actually be sent from. Receiving mail servers can check that incoming email is originating from those allowed servers, and reject (or discard) emails that aren't originating from authorized servers. The latter being likely spam, though sometimes misconfigured email servers, as I had with my Shopify store until I realized what I had done.
Checking out the mail logs and seeing these messages come across delights me:
Recipient address rejected: Message rejected due to: SPF fail - not authorized. Please see http://www.openspf.net/Why?s=mfrom;id=auto-shipping@amazon.com
Fuck you spammers. You make the internet a less lovely place to be.
New Building
Daily Photo Posted by kitt at 06:54 on 3 May 2016
New building. I like the lines, even if I fear the echoes.
Night Strangers
Book Notes kitt decided around 17:03 on 2 May 2016 to publish this:
WHY DID I READ THIS BOOK? Had I not learned from Guest Room?
Okay, here's the thing: I'm plowing through all of the seven books Mom bought, mostly so that I can go back to my two meter tall stack of books I've selected, and didn't look at the author of this book. When I was 90% of the way through before I noticed the author of the book. I did a double-take, checked that this author indeed had written Guest Room, and then groaned. Pretty sure Chris Bohjalian takes his writing cues from George R.R. Martin, because I didn't like this book's ending, either.
The good guys don't win!
WTF?
Anyway, this book was another psychological thriller, complete with ghosts and pains and witches and potions and kids and tragedy and all sorts of situations that I find uncomfortable (which is to say, those where you KNOW that someone is taking serious advantage of another someone and a kid's sense of fairness in this world just rages).
This book won't be around in 10 years, or kept as fine literature. It's a creepy romp for a weekend read. If you like his style, read it. Otherwise, skip it.
Bleh.
