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Simon Wells
Simon Wells

Simon Wells is an academic researching Argumentation Theory, Automated Reasoning, Intelligent Agents (IA) and MultiAgent Systems (MAS) all approached through a ludic lens.

He is particularly interested in how these tools can be usefully applied to critical literacy, security, gamification, and complex systems.

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Email Spam on OS X

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If you are using the Mac OS X Mail application, as I still do on my laptop, you will probably have noticed the flurry of spam emails in recent months purporting to come from your own email address. I think that individual cryptographic certificates are one tool for tackling spam email in general, but a problem that I had experienced was how to reject emails that say that they come from me but which don't have a digital certificate, because there is no clear way to reject unsigned emails in the existing rules and I don't have enough applescript foo to be able to remedy this. I have found though that you can turn off the automatic white-listing of your own email address under the Junk Mail pane of the Mail App. preferences. That, inconjunction with a rule whitelisting my certificated email, should hopefully be enough for now.
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