Comments on: Spammer sentenced to prison

By: vjp

vjp — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:24:26 +0000

The confidentiality thing is why I’ve stayed away from Google. Let me know what you find out on the Premier Edition.

By: MB

MB — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:35:30 +0000

The problem with GMail – besides any confidentiality concerns – is that it puts your eggs in someone else’s basket. In a big way. I got locked out of my primary GMail account last year (for nearly a month, iirc), and there was simply no way to contact Google in any meaningful way. It was incredibly frustrating, and they shut me out without notice/means of appeal/contacting a human being/etc. And then finally, poof, one day I had it back. I know Google’s got great stuff – until it breaks. I don’t rely on them for anything, anymore.

(There is Google Premier Edition – not out at the time, I think – which I might consider. I need to sort out the TOS first, though.)

By: vjp

vjp — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:01:55 +0000

I’ll take a look at Appriver. But Gmail is free

Agree on the sentencing.

By: vjp

vjp — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:00:48 +0000

How come you’re using POP3 instead of IMAP? I’ve been considering switching over to IMAP (for years, actually).

And you need to upgrade your BlackBerry: the newer ones handle HTML emails beautifully

By: Tom White

Tom White — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:02:20 +0000

Viv, you are on the right track with Gmail. I am an IT Manager and this free service is the best around.

I have several email accounts and have set up a gmail account for home, work and my Blackberry. I simply forward all of my accounts to all 3 gmail accounts. I then use pop3 to grab the emails.

One of my email addresses dates to the early 90′s and is pretty well circulated. I get hundreds of spams a day, all filtered by gmail.

One added benefit of gmail and Blackberry is that you can filter out emails that you really don’t want on the blackberry without making them spam. Just filter them out. Since my emails go to 3 places, I can read them at home, or at the office, but not on my Blackberry. I get email from online music stores, computer merchants, grocers, and several others. These are too graphical to view on the Blackberry, so I filter them out.

This has really solved my problems with spam.

By: T.W. Bonsac

T.W. Bonsac — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:40:44 +0000

Good points Len!

I believe the “death penalty” should be reserved for Spammers as well as murderers. Murderers waste people, spammers waste our time. Better yet, bring them up before Judge Judy and let them feel her wrath! Sadly, with every good comes some bad, and with this wonderful technology of the internet, comes these leeches and blood suckers, known as spammers. Much like “political consultants” have attached themselves to politics!

By: Len Bennett

Len Bennett — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:11:34 +0000

1. Sign up with Appriver. Unbelievably strong, without any false positives.

2. So a white collar criminal bilks 3 million and gets a total (before good time deductions) of 4.25 years? Tell me a street criminal who steals a car worth 5k could get at least that much.

Len

By: vjp

vjp — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:02:23 +0000

Not possible. All of the proprietary software that I use for work is only available on a PC.

By: Max Shapiro

Max Shapiro — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:22:33 +0000

Ditch the PC and get a Mac. No one is going to waste time designing pop-ups and viruses for them because so few people have them. I’ve had my mac for almost a year and I have only gotten maybe 2 pop-ups and not a single virus.