use Perl

This Saturday I'll be speaking at my last conference of 2006. That'll have been 6 conferences attended, 4 of which I'll have spoken at (3 truthfully, as I wasn't really a speaker at YAPC::Europe). I don't think I'll be able to stretch myself to this again next year, but we'll see.

The event on Saturday, is another I was specifically asked to be a speaker for (LUGRadio Live was the other). It's known as Brumcon and is the conference that the Brum2600 group have been arranging for the last few years. I attended one a few years ago, but was a bit disappointed by the lack of real depth of the talks. I'm hoping this year will be a little different. I'll be speaking about email, but as I can't give any company secrets away, it'll be a general what is email, how it works and some simple tricks and tips for blocking spam and viruses. There'll be nothing earth-shattering and pretty much everything I say will be related to things already available in Spam Assassin, clamAV and the like. However, I do have a few stories to tell :)

It still surprises me how many people, even geeks, really don't know about how email works. As such I'm hoping my presentation will be an enlightening talk, rather than a set of ready made receipes to start your own email security company ;)