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Be careful where you click

Submitted by tarvid on Tue, 2010/01/26 - 17:06
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Normally Gmail filters this sort of thing:

Danger/Microsoft

Submitted by tarvid on Mon, 2009/10/12 - 19:08
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Danger, a Microsoft subsidiary, may have lost all the contact data for 800,000 T-Mobile customers. That is because that data was stored on servers and not in the devices. That is also true of GMail and your computer too.

To back up the contacts on GMail I did the following:

  • I went to GMail - http://mail.google.com/a/ls.net/ and logged in
  • Next I clicked Contacts
  • Once my contacts page loaded I clicked Export
  • Then I chose "Everyone" and "Outlook CSV Format"
  • Finally I clicked "Export" and saved the output to my hard disk.

I'll put that data in a folder I backup to a USB drive and copy it to my laptop.

Once a month is not too often, once a week would be better.

 

Yahoo hosts spammer content

Submitted by tarvid on Tue, 2009/05/26 - 07:45
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Dear Jim,

Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Groups.

We appreciate your report of this incident in Yahoo! Groups.  We will
investigate your report and take appropriate action as per our Terms of
Service (TOS). For further details about the Yahoo! TOS, you can visit:

  http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

Please know that Yahoo! is unable to disclose the action taken on
another user's account with a third party. We are not able to make
exceptions to this rule.

Please continue to notify us of any questionable content you find in
Yahoo! Groups. We are very concerned about preventing the abuse of
Groups, and we will continue to evaluate any material that violates the
Yahoo! Groups Terms of Service.

Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Groups.

Regards,

Charisse Nicole

Yahoo! Customer Care

60855164

For assistance with all Yahoo! services please visit:

  http://help.yahoo.com/

Original Message Follows:
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>>REDFRMADV Case ID: 60846634

Yahoo's part in this is that you host the target web page in the link
below

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Message-ID: <000d01c9dd4f$1641dda0$6400a8c0@feasibled>
From: "Howard Swenson" <feasibled@qs-dynamixprint-dezember05-2.com>
To: <hosting@mail.ls.net>
Subject: You don't need to be a millionaire to look like one of them.
Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 18:40:10 +0200
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From: Howard Swenson <feasibled@qs-dynamixprint-dezember05-2.com>
Date: Mon, May 25, 2009 at 12:40 PM
Subject: You don't need to be a millionaire to look like one of them.
To: hosting@mail.ls.net

 Women will be eating your watch will their eyes.

 Enter promptly
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ dexahavozaram56/message/1>

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Sometimes there is an explanation

Submitted by tarvid on Sat, 2009/05/16 - 21:22
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http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/this-is-your-pilot-speaking-now-a...

But others look for a "deeper" explanation.

http://jerz.setonhill.edu/weblog/2009/05/google_outage_lesson_dont_get/

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/138195/google_ibm_promote_...

But we have all had unexplained Internet slowdowns and it is hard to generalize from one incident.

Some incidents get reported but not explained.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2341598,00.asp

Or explained somewhat weakly.

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Four-Hour-Google-Outage-Makes-Blogger...

http://www.pcworld.com/article/160153/gmail_outage_marks_sixth_downtime_...

Now that I have everything perfectly clear....

Portal of Miracles

Submitted by DeepGeek on Thu, 2008/10/23 - 17:27
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As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it's harder every time. You'll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken. You'll fight with your best friend. You'll blame a new love for things an old one did. You'll cry because time is passing too fast, and you'll eventually lose someone you love. So take too many pictures, laugh too much, and love like you've never been hurt because every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you'll never get back.

Don't be afraid that your life will end,
be afraid that it will never begin.

Gmail - Thunderbird - Enigma

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This won't dispose of the need to scan your spam folder through the Gmail interface periodically but it will circumvent performance issues.

Gmail woes

Submitted by tarvid on Tue, 2008/07/22 - 08:15
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There are times when GMail does not perform adequately. There are many possible reasons. This list is not exhaustive nor is it guaranteed to resolve any particular issue.

GMail passed virus - Caveat Lector

Submitted by tarvid on Sat, 2008/04/12 - 22:06
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Hello! remember me?..

new fotos(archived) you asked

:))

http://minilab.any.pl/ my_fotos.exe

kiss, Julia S.

F-prot says

F-PROT Antivirus version 6.2.1
FRISK Software International (C) Copyright 1989-2007

Engine version: 4.4.1.52
Virus signatures: 20080412163734b86a03ac0926cbd64fd9174e0b8971
                  (/home/tarvid/f-prot/antivir.def)

[Found trojan] <W32/Srizbi.A (exact)>   ../my_fotos.exe

Run this program on a Windows machine and you will join the Srizbi botnet. (That's not good.)

The Wired Road - Service Provider Meeting and Demonstration 2/5 @ 2pm

Submitted by tarvid on Fri, 2008/01/25 - 20:34
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Date - February 5th, 2008 @ 2 PM at the Carroll County Government
Center located at 605 Pine Street in Hillsville, VA

The Wired Road (http://www.thewiredroad.net) is an open access open
services network being built by the counties of Carroll and Grayson
and the City of Galax. In the first quarter of this year the Wired
Road will be opening up the network to service providers interested in
providing services to businesses and residences in the wireless
coverage area.

This meeting will provide an overview of the Wired Road network and
the future growth plans for the wireless network and plans for the
future fiber network. There will also be a a demonstration of the
PacketFront management tools which will be available for service

Compulsive Forwarders

Submitted by the_Old_Woman_i... on Sat, 2007/12/01 - 10:52
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I get mostly two kinds of email: spam, and messages that look like this:

FWD: YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS ITS SO CUTE!!!!!!!
FWD: SIGN THIS PETITION OR BIBLE ILLEGAL!!!!!!
FWD: DONT DELETE THIS ONE!!!!!! KITTENS!!!!!!!
FWD: JESUS COMING NEXT FRIDAY 3:23 PACIFIC STANDARD TIME!!!!!!!

Lousy grammar and punctuation aside, I hate these. Honestly. I hate them worse than spam, because there is an outside chance that I may have won a $100 Macy’s gift card out of the blue, even though I’ve never darkened the door of Macy’s in my life. On the other hand, there is no chance in hell (except in hell, I should say) that the Bible is in danger of being outlawed.

And I’ll bet my kids’ college savings that the Lord will be a no-show on Friday afternoon.

Mailing Lists

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Particularly handy if you are sent an email and want to capture the list of email addresses.

  • click "show details"
  • select the list of email addresses by "scooping" with the mouse (carefully positioning the mouse at the starting point, holding down the left button, moving to the ending point, releasing the left mouse button, and type Control-C). Make sure you get just the list of addresses and not stuff around it.
  • click "Contacts"
  • click "Groups"
  • click "Create group"
  • supply a "Group Name"
  • paste the addresses in the "Add contacts" box
  • click "Create Group"

Almost too easy. Neat thing about the method is that if GMail sent it to you, they will accept it in the "Add contacts" box.

GMail - IMAP - Thunderbird

Submitted by tarvid on Mon, 2007/10/29 - 12:49
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IMAP has arrived for GMail. The neat things about IMAP are folders and synchronization between multiple client machines. N.B. You must use the web based access to train your SPAM filter and to resolve issues. IMAP for GMail is new and there will be bumps. I tried it with Evolution and it was extremely slow. It seems to be working fine with Thunderbird. I don't use Microsoft mail clients. You can download Thunderbird for Windows from here.

Once you are emotionally and intellectual prepared for this "excellent adventure" -

Click Settings on the upper right of your LSNet - GMail page, then Forwarding and POP/IMAP.

10 years in prison for sending an email?

Submitted by tarvid on Mon, 2007/09/17 - 10:21
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Amnesty International USA: Stand Up for the World You Believe In!
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