I Get No Spam

After hearing a couple complaints from friends about the amount of spam they're getting, I decided to take a quick look to see where I stood. At the risk of setting myself up, I should say that I get no spam (channeling John C. Dvorak). Or at least very little--maybe one every other day gets through to my inbox.

I think the trick is just to have multiple levels of filtering. I use a Gmail address for most online transactions (for online transactions that I really don't care about--if I'm doing a one-time registration just to get a trial key, for example--I use my Yahoo address, which is nothing but a spam bucket). My Gmail address gets forwarded to my personal email address (@footle.org), which has SpamAssassin running on the server. If it makes it past SA to Mail.app, it gets inspected by SpamSieve, an awesome Bayesian spam filter for OS X mail clients.

Anyway, my stats for the last 24 hours:

Server-level filters (spam caught):
  SpamAssassin: 281
  Gmail: 32

Client-level filter (spam caught):
  SpamSieve: 17

Spam getting to my inbox: 0
Non-spam messages: 52
False positives: 1 (just Flavorpill, so not a big deal)

(Wow...330 pieces of spam in a single day. That seems way worse than when I last checked.)

Idea-That-I-Don't-Have-Time-To-Work-On of the Week

Bonjour-enabled Git. (Although Coda tells me that Dave F. at Powerset already approached him with this idea. Neither of us have time to work on it.)

I started using Git recently and although it's a bit confounding at times, I love how cheap and easy branching is, and that you can commit incremental changes to your local repository, then later commit them in batch to subversion. Git allows for distributed development, but unless you're on the same server as other developers, or you go through the trouble of mounting their repository over the network, you can't check out their repository. Seems like it shouldn't be too difficult to give Git Bonjour powers.

Update: Chad Fowler has started such a project.