I was looking at the problem of spam and I came across Paul Graham's essay "A Plan For Spam."
It worked brilliantly - still does now. My email setup is rather esoteric setup because of some unusual requirements, so I do my own spam filtering, and it's still working.
So I went and read some of PG's other essays, and wondered about connections between them. So I did this:
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 13.4 ms ] threadIt worked brilliantly - still does now. My email setup is rather esoteric setup because of some unusual requirements, so I do my own spam filtering, and it's still working.
So I went and read some of PG's other essays, and wondered about connections between them. So I did this:
http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/PaulGrahamEssays.html?HN_20150...
And this:
http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/PaulGrahamEssaysRanking.html?H...
Just messing about and I learned a lot, so I emailed PG with the result. He suggested I submit it to HN, and that's when I first heard of it.