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Most spam I receive is of the usual variety of supplements, etc.. Only occasionally do I get a 419 scam, but I did enjoy last week’s subject line from the “Compensation Head Office”
Dear Prominent User of the Internet
Hey, we’re all famous somewhere.

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Back in my early days online, AOL went from the rising upstart (behind Prodigy and CompuServe, which it later bought) to the behemoth…before the Internet wave swamped most of the pre-Internet online services. A few of the early folks with content areas and services on AOL rode the wave, kept building their audience, adapted to [...]

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The often-useful Hawk Wings delivers a useful tip: A Mail.app rule fix for image spam. Just applied at home (email address constant for nearly 10 years = on every list imaginable), and we’ll see.

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No response from Verio, but e-mail is back up now. It doesn’t appear that everything got through from yesterday, though, so re-send if you don’t get a response.

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Not sure what’s wrong with Verio right now, but my pencoyd.com e-mail is down for the count right now. Can’t send or receive. Filed support notes via two different methods, but the toll-free numbers just warns that only limited support is available due to Hurricane Wilma, especially if your servers are hosted in Boca Raton. [...]

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Had a series of quick calls with Verio this morning about the hosting of this domain, and I ended up agreeing to them moving the site from the original Best Internet servers to Verio servers. I thought this had been done years ago, since NTT/Verio bought Best some time ago, but apparently not. The company’s [...]

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Scoble is thrilled with his Outlook ‘magic folder’ blogging tool. It’s so easy, though, that he worries about making a mistake.
I imagine a day when I accidentally drop something in there that I wasn’t supposed to. I wonder how it’d treat DRM’d email? Hmmm, we should try that out! (Execs here often send around DRM’d [...]

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I just upgraded my wife’s email to Eudora 6.1 and paid for the spam filtering. Given the volume of junk she’s been deleting for years, I clearly should have done this long ago. I’m still using Mail.app because of the (a) filtering and (b) separate email programs is good for a marriage. But I certainly [...]

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OK, GMail is for real, not a joke. 1GB. Google realized email has much higher switching costs, so they are going to disrupt Hotmail and Yahoo… or at least force their costs up.

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Two more Macintouch reports about Mail.app
Yesterday and today, Macintouch ran more details about the Mail.app crashes which are more clearly connected to Junk Mail filtering. I haven’t had the problem for quite some time, since I — like many of these people — realized through personal experience and similar accounts that certain emails seem to [...]

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