Tom sent me a pointer to Jef Poskanzer’s notes on how he handles a million spam messages every day. No, that’s note an exaggeration, Jef gets hit by a million of them every day.

Holy crap.

Jef is a the author of the really nice thttpd, which I used to run my website for years before shifting to the Apache/PHP/Wordpress monstrosity that it is now. It’s really cool, if you need a low requirement bulletproof http server, check it out.

Best quote:

If anyone wants to volunteer to pie Bill Gates again, I’ll contribute to the defense fund. Or if you prefer, you could just kick him in the nuts.