Thunder cracked so I cracked back.

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I decided not to wait for a contrib build of Thunderbird 0.4 for FreeBSD. No - being insane, I decided to try building it myself. First time through, I ran out of disk space. (Mozilla's arse is FAT.) Second attempt, something obscure died two-thirds of the way through, and I really can't be arsed to fix it. Bah. I have downloaded the French build again, now that it's up. (You can tell it to speak Engrish.) It includes Enigmail, so I may even try harder to remember my GPG pass phrase.

The spammers have discovered a new and particularly low and scurvy trick. You know the worst form of cube mail: badly-written glurge meant to raise your spirits and be forwarded to your address book to brighten their trash folders in turn. Today's had an admonition at the bottom to forward it to two other people ... and an ad for the spammer who sent it. I only read that far to work out whether it was spam, having not recognised the sender.

This, of course, raises an important research question for computer science: can Bayesian filtering detect and dispose of stupid email jokes? I'll be doing my bit to find out.

Update: redcountess says the 'send' button doesn't work in this build. However, the menu item and Control-Enter both work fine. Does the button work in the official Linux build? (I'd be very surprised if it didn't work in the Windows one.) Update: She says it's working okay now. w31rd.