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Mark Fowler has never been the same since he was elected leader of the London Perl Mongers. The strain manifests itself mainly in releasing various [cpan.org] modules [cpan.org] to CPAN, giving talks [2shortplanks.com], and use of the Trelane nick on #london.pm for endless procrastination. Doctors are still seeking a cure.
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Untainted Bigot
This queue gets about five or six spam messages a day, so if I think that a subject and sender looks like spam, I tend to ignore it until I see a message that doesn't look like spam. This normally isn't a problem, but today I found a legitimate message that'd been in the queue for over a day because the user that sent it was using a hotmail account and I'd been ignoring it. Ooops.
This raises a nasty question: Has spam turned me into a domain bigot? Get your own domain name or I'll discriminate against you - you'll have a much longer wait for a posting. Scary thoughts.
In completely unassociated news, I've been playing around a lot with
CGI::Untaint (and Class::DBI::FromCGI) and getting my head in a
complete mess. There are some situations where I need the extraction
handlers to legitimately return undef. The only way to tell this apart
from a extraction failure is to check the undocumented
error method in CGI::Untaint.
After much scratching of head, we now have a new release of Test::CGI::Untaint that deals properly with undefs.
Head all confused. Must go to pub now.
Or is it a BUG?"
"Let's call it an accidental feature. :-)"
--Larry Wall in <6909@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Bigot (Score:2)
I am a domain bigot, but it is mostly very large providers, like AOL.com. And most people who rely on such providers don't even care if you "discriminate" against them, and they don't know the difference anyway.