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Aether now my home page

I've taken the plunge and made aether my home page.

This required a few modifications to aether so that it could appear as though aether controls the whole name space, but so that pre-existing links still work. You can find the patch I used at , either in the applied directory if it is still applied to my source, or in the included directory if it has been included unstream.

I hope to eventually move all the content which sensibly can be moved into aether across into aether. Until then, my original home page is still available.

SPF looks like it is worth supporting

With my Email administrator hat on, I have been looking at SPF lately.

SPF stands for Sender Policy Framework and is a mechanism whereby the owner of a domain can advertise that domain's policy on how it sends mail.

When an MTA recieved mail claiming to be from a particular domain, it can queries that domains policy and then make a determination on how likely it is that the from address is authentic. This information can then be used as input to a local policy on dealing with junk mail.

Aether for blogging

Well, I've been thinking for a while that I should do something more interesting with my home page, and while I was flipping through the latest fresh meat I discovered Aether which claims to be both simple and competent at managing web pages and blogs. So I though I would give it a try.

My Debian notebook already had python installed, so I followed the instructions and it just worked, except that I needed to remove group-write permission before apache would run it setuid as me.

Whether this whole 'blog' idea will actually work for me I have no idea - I have a tendancy to get excited about something for a while and then loose interest. If that happens here, I guess it isn't meant to be.