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<P><FONT SIZE=2>We had a decent turn out in August with Teal Ashby, Garrett Goebel, David Nicol, Michael Morgan, Adam Sajna, Louis Schenick, CJ Scheppers, and Jared Smith in attendance.</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>David brought us up to speed on the current happenings with pay2send. For those who haven't been following along with David's progress over the past 2 years, pay2send is an interesting twist on mail server filtering. But why use a 3 word description when I could have said: a fee weighted whitelist and challenge/response filter for Mail Transport Agents (MTAs)?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>pay2send is building on top of David's tipjar transaction system, authentication identy service, and dotgnu's cash box. Among other things David discussed some of the issues pertinant to getting a handle on the identities we wish to filter. Why blacklisting wouldn't specifically be built in, but how it could be achieved by the financial weight placed on filters for unsolicited email.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>David looks forward to the day when pay2send bounces its first message with an SMTP equivalent of the http 402 error code: "payment required".</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>CJ asked how to get good error notifications for CGI scripting on barebones no-frills ISP's. Teal mentioned CGI::Carp's support for sending fatal errors to the browser. And I later posted an example to the mailing list: <A HREF="http://www.pm.org/pipermail/kc/2003-August/000133.html" TARGET="_blank">http://www.pm.org/pipermail/kc/2003-August/000133.html</A>. Which showed how to log warnings and other nonfatal error messages to a file, and fatal errors to the browser.</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>There was discussion led by Teal on getting Perl and Apache running on various flavors of Mac OS's. What was possible and what not. I enjoyed many of the insights Teal shared on security issues, buffer overflows, etc. Speaking of which if you like tiny little details you might like to head over to Gibson Research's site at grc.com.</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>On the other side of the room discussion Jared started off a thread on chess, go, strategy and tactics. I have the feeling that were I to sit down to a game of either with Louis... that despite his friendly and pleasant demeanor... I'd be in for a beating ;)</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>At this point, your faithful summerizer had to bow out for the evening...</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Garrett Goebel</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>IS Development Specialist</FONT>
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