Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Cool Tool! Evernote

I signed up for the Beta of a program/system called Evernote (www.evernote .com).

Evernote is basically a virtual clipboard. Here’s how their site explains it:
“Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at anytime, from anywhere.”

As the information junky I am; this tool is a quick and easy way for me to grab and store info that I can get back to and use later.

I’m loving it so far.

Spam Again

I’m currently working on Spam filtering… again.

We’ve been using Katharion for filtering. It has worked well enough that I was able to turn off filtering locally. For the past few weeks however; we’ve had an influx of spam getting trough. The body contains information as if from Microsoft. In reality; it’s pharmaceutical adds of drugs of which, according to my wife, I don’t need.

I enabled the IMF filter on Exchange last week, in hopes of capturing these items. Well… it didn’t help. I’m glad in a way. I didn’t really want to have to manage IMF again – too many false positives; and too much time sorting through to find them. I’ll contact Katharion and see what they say.

We have also been getting returned mail from mail that we never sent. There’s nothing I can do about outside address books getting compromised. Us IT folks understand that. But I find myself re-explaining it to staff on almost a daily basis.

Spam… I hate it.

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Well... It turns out to have been a simple fix. I had whitelisted our domains; which ensured mail coming from our people from made it through. It was a good idea at the time, but it kept mail falsely appearing to be from one of our domains from being filtered. Which, in turn, let in spam.

I still hate spam.

Church IT Blogging

Well... I'm excited to see all of the Church IT folks coming together. It's about time!

It’s amazing how many geeks for God are blogging now. It’s also amazing how much I’ve been able to glean from the blogs and from listening to the Church IT Discussions via Talkshoe. I’ve never blogged before, since I never really felt the need. I’ve decided to jump in with both feet and run with it now. I’ve seen how the sharing of information and stories has impacted the Church IT world, and I want to be a part of it. I’ll do my best to post a couple of times a week. I have plenty to blog about - but, as all IT folks know - time burns faster than gunpowder, and I’ve got a zillion things to get done.