Adam Kalsey

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My Spam in RSS

12 Oct 2004

I’m not sure exactly how, but at Gnomedex a goofy idea was floated. We were talking about weird RSS feeds and I mentioned a spam feed. It’s just goofy enough to be clever, and now it’s a reality. You can subscribe to a feed of the spam that I receive. The feed is a real-time hook into my IMAP server and displays the last 15 messages in the Spam folder. It’s cached for 15 minutes to keep people from hammering my mail server in the unlikely event that this becomes popular.

The feed has subjects and dates only right now, but I may play with adding the message bodies in as well at some point. I’m making some small gestures towards cleaning up the feed from a technical standpoint, but remember that this is spam and isn’t guaranteed to be well-formed. I also have no control over the content of the feed. So if you see something nasty in there, don’t complain to me about it.

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