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Is very tedious to see you electronic mailboxes to be filled with spam. If you are a web-master or system administrator, you will see that the web site that you are administrating, is usually scrapped by bot software seeking for certain URLs and electronic mail addresses. That is probably the highest origin of the SPAM on the internet. You know that SPAM is, and this experiment should work only with those SPAM that are related to electronic internet email.

Emacs is a powerful text editor. It has an embedded List dialect interpreter, called Emacs-Lisp and it has many extensions — called Emacs Modes — to work in various tasks, from programming tasks, IRC clients, MUAs and time organizing tasks. Many people says that Emacs works likely an Operating System, since it has a lot of applications mounted on top of Emacs Lisp. Python Mode (python-mode) in emacs has been extended and it can be used with various tools, turning your Emacs editor in a powerful IDE to work with Python.

Some people is considering Perl as a non-friendly language, but in my opinion is a powerful language, not only for its capacity to do text-processing, it also has a lot of modules and extensions which makes it a language of choice for a wide variety of applications. I prefer to code Perl using strict and function prototypes, so it looks more clean and elegant. Also it supports lambdas for some tasks. Let’s take look on prototypes and references. You will find interesting topics reading perlsub(1) and perlref(1).

snmptrapd(8) is a SNMP trap daemon, in other words, it captures SNMP notifications from the network and similar devices. In this post I will try to explain how to configure this daemon to allow a network server to process SNMP traps using both, embeded perl handlers for snmptrapd(8) and plain standard input — or stdin — handlers.

Kontact is my default PIM application. On its configuration we can setup a phone calling program, such as ekiga, skype and others, it just requires a small script, like the one bellow, which I have integrated with KPilot, so I can manage my contacts centered and synchronized.