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It's been more than two weeks since I do not have an access to my primary mail server at gnu.org. All because of fencepost is temporarily down (FYI, because of recent crack of the GNU FTP site). I'm really unhappy about this. I know that this is a serious problem, but still it takes too long...

Hacking

GNU Anubis 3.9.92 has been released. As usual, each new version is much better than the previous one. Because of the problems with GNU servers, it is not available at alpha.gnu.org. Read more from bug-anubis archives.

E-mail2

In my opinion, so called E-mail2 would be a bad idea. Mostly because of the problems with backward compatibility. It would be very hard to convince people about the new standard. Current e-mail (SMTP) is the right thing. I do not see many of its flaws, but I see many advantages and simplicity. Many people say that the primary flaw of e-mail is its weakness of malicious usage, like spam for example. I don't agree with this. In this particular case our law is to blame for this. The law should be more restricted for spamers. I mean not less than 2 years in prison for sending a huge amount of spam. Besides that, there must be a better anti-spam software built-in on every public mail server.

Books

Right now I am reading the classic book called Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools by Aho, Sethi, and Ullman (1986). This book is also known as the dragon book. Quite good.