Comments on: Asian spam — fancy! :-)

By: Martin Geisler

Martin Geisler — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:13:20 +0000

Thanks for the interesting explaination.

By: Lora

Lora — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 07:28:11 +0000

The spam is in Japanese; it tells you that you can exchange mesages for free. You have your choice of e-mail or calling, and you are offered to select from among the five boxes below: “amateur,” “married woman,” “a woman willing to pay for sex,” “student” or “SM-type.” The spam comes from awg, aka aqline, which is listed by the anti-spam organization, http://www.spamhaus.org as one of the 200 worst spammers in the world.

By: foreign brides

foreign brides — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 15:05:36 +0000

Asian spam??
I have never heard abot it..
I know russian (dating) scam only

By: Martin Geisler

Martin Geisler — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 11:08:31 +0000

Hmm, ja... sikke heldig jeg er! :-) Men tak for forklaringen.

Det er i øvrigt en sjov side du har med tips og tricks til Japan, set med danske øjne (eller færøske...). Jeg kunne nemlig også godt selv tænkte mig at se og opleve på tæt hold Japan engang...

By: martin

martin — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 07:42:20 +0000

Lidt ligesom det hér:

♫ ☺ ♥ ☼ ?

Deikei, er en form for dating-spam. Din mail ser ud til at tilbyde både skolepiger og SM, hvor er du heldig ☺

By: kz

kz — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 04:27:58 +0000

that’s exactly Japanese DEAIKEI spam.
Japanese language use frequently Chinese characters, of course.

By: Martin Geisler

Martin Geisler — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 23:58:03 +0000

By the way --- the font used in Emacs is Terminus, an excellent fixed size font! I switched to terminus-12 for the screenshot, normally I use it in a slightly bigger size of 14 pixels.

For changing the font in Emacs I opted for defining the emacs.font X resource, so put this in ~/.Xdefaults:

emacs.font: terminus-14

Then make sure that the file is read upon login (by xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults). The advantage of setting the font there instead of adding

(set-frame-font "terminus-14")

to your ~/.emacs file is that the ~/.emacs file is parsed and executed after Emacs has started. So you'll see the default font for a brief moment, and then Terminus will be used, changing the size of the window --- I don't like that.

The same technique applies to the toolbar introduced in Emacs 21: put "emacs.toolBar: 0" in your ~/.Xdefaults file and you'll get rid of it before the window is shows, again saving you some flicker.