Spam Solution?
Thoughts of this keep going round and round, getting mixed in with the RIAA lawsuits……anyway, an email address is a unique identifier CREATED by the user of said email address. Personally Created and Unique. Anyone following me yet. Ken, you with me here?
A PHOTOGRAPH is personally created and somewhat unique. An ESSAY is usually personally created and unique. Sketches, paintings, a web site design, all artwork for instance, all music, all creative work, all automatically copyrighted. “Fair Use” does apply to some of this work when applied to Educational and Informative use if creator credit is noted. Even Satirical use of copyrighted material is copyrighted.
Why not push lawmakers to include email addresses as an individual creative property and copyright it. This way, there is no need to track down and chase individual spammers, one can take action to the sleazy individuals that collect and sell email addresses without permission or compensation. If we all get 2 cents for every email list sold on CD or download that our email address appears on, we would all be buying new computers and T1 connections.
I could go on with this but I think everyone gets the direction I am going in.
Aol Cover Art Contest
There's a contest running in the AOLers Anonymous Forum!
(All details are oposted there, and anyone can enter)
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The Mailinator
Heres something very worth bringing to the table.
This article is very funny and helps a lot if you get all the way to the end. Its goes against making up a stupid new account somewhere else just to sign up for something. (having a seperate email for spam)
With this thing you can make up a name, get what you want and the account deletes itself in a few hours. Pretty handy and saves you a lot of aggrevation.
Check it out.
Spam Tools
I will be adding links to tools you can use to help trace and fight spam at any level. Track them down, report them, etc..
Pop-up Fix For Win Me/xp
Many people have complained about a recent brand of Pop-Up, a grey box that sometimes actually tells you it's getting in through MSMSG (MS Messenger), then directs you to an anonymous site to sell you ad-blocker software.
You're all smart enough not to go there, but there is an easy way to stop these devils.
Win ME and XP have intentionally left MSMSG turned on and launched as a default value, from the moment you boot up your system (it's a perverse networking feature for businesses).
Follw me through a few steps:
RIGHT CLICK on MY COMPUTER
Scroll down and select MANAGE
Navigate to “Services and Applications”
Expand “Services and Applications” and SELECT “Services”
In the Right Window Pane scroll down and SELECT MESSENGER
Change START-UP TYPE to DISABLED
Under this, in SERVICE STATUS, click STOP.
You'll probably need to Reboot, just to make sure the changes are accepted.
I used to get a bantha load of these grey pop-ups, even though I'm using AOL, and almost never use MSIE or Netscape. I didn't connect it with the activation of a Passport.Net account for my webcam. Now, I never get any pop-ups unless they're presaged on links I go to.
Give it a try, and let me know if it helps.
Vote! What’s The Worst Problem?
Feel free to post comments, especially if you have a beef about something not on the list, or would choose more than one.
AOL 8.0
This poll is only for people using AOL 8.0 software on a Windows PC.
Note: This is not a scientific poll!
However, it IS a poll of the various people visiting this site, and will give some sort of cross section of people with various operating systems (not any particular one). We may make a more detailed poll in the future …
Feel free to share your comments, mentioning your operating system and version of AOL if appropriate. Thanks!
Pending News Regarding Aol
I was just interviewed today by someone from a national publication regarding my AOL tech support page and experiences as someone in the industry. They visited both Kentropolis's AOL page and GeeksBearingGifts.com
If the article runs, I'll link to it from here and the GBG site.
I better tidy up as much as I can! Rob — better be ready for some bandwidth! (I know it's not a problem for our servers, but I'd like to see a spike or two hit us!)
Site Changes
I'm looking for feedback on where to go with GeeksBearingGifts.Com …
Should I put latest news articles on the main page?
I definitely will link to the forum here from the nav structure.
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