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I give out different email addresses to different providers, mailing-lists and websites to see how what gets leaked. It’s partly a check on privacy policies, and partly a way to ensure I can blacklist emails efficiently. I’ve run various schemes with email addresses on my domain maz.nu over the last eleven years. Here is what I have found.

Registered with IANA for a private enterprise number for OIDs, iana is listed on a public website. It gets a lot of junk. There are a number of variations, however, which also receive spam:

I am an avid user of MacPorts, but it seems some things are broken with Snow Leopard. In particular it seems one cannot build SSHKeychain:

Behold the power of BGP!

The IPv6 Internet is not immune to breakage and so it seems prudent right now to ensure good connectivity to the big providers. Faelix takes IPv6 transit from TINet, but the possibility of a free 6-in-4 tunnel to Hurricane Electric as a backup path is too good to pass up.

I was called just now by one of the DJs at Jilly’s to be told that our music playing services are no longer required in Room 1 on Fridays at Jilly’s.

The instant reaction by text message and on Facebook has been quite moving and slightly surprising. Numerous friends and regulars are understandably upset that the management of Rockworld have made this decision. Sadly we fear it is another nail in the coffin of the venue as numbers dwindle and the alternative scene in Manchester takes its business elsewhere.

The Christmas Eve ritual again; signed by the 2009 key and my master key.

pub   2048R/E977C9A4 2009-12-24 [expires: 2011-02-14]
      Key fingerprint = 03EE F5C2 285A D126 25BD  FC33 E65F 61D3 E977 C9A4
uid                  Marek Isalski (2010 General Use) 
sub   2048R/44A90D43 2009-12-24 [expires: 2011-02-14]
sub   1024D/48C60E25 2009-12-24 [expires: 2011-02-14]
sub   2048g/C3D6146F 2009-12-24 [expires: 2011-02-14]

Here follows the key: