Hi Everyone... Jay Small, who's a contributor to the Corante Media Hub (where I'm the editor) recently had an interesting post on dealing with spam email and a new program to help mac users one of the strategies that Jay's used, and I also use, is keeping separate email addys for subscriptions. With my work for Corante, I'm online all the time and must have subscriptions to a number of publications in order to read their material. I keep a box of index cards, filed by name of publication, with i.d., password, email info, etc. so I can keep track of everything. Funny how the best system to keep track of this stuff is a very old-fashioned system. Tish G. Shel Horowitz <shel at frugalfun.com> wrote: ** Be a Good Dobee and help the group, you must be counted to post . ** Fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. It's been a few days of multiple yucky Internet problems and I am hoping somebody out there can help me understand why this is happening. My configuration: Main computer: iMac G4 running OS X 10.2.8, about four years old Secondary computer: low-end HP PC running Windows XP Home, about two years old Laptop: brand new Mac iBook running OS X 10.4 (Tiger), and prior to that a five-year Mac laptop The two desktop computers connect via Ethernet cables to a DLink DI 524 wireless router (about six months old) that is in turn cabled to a Surfboard SB4100 cable modem, I think about four years old. The Mac has a short cable because it's right next to the modem and router; the PC is on the second floor and uses a cable maybe 20 feet long. There are two major and one minor problems we've been having: 1. Internet access: The router is refusing to provide access to the Internet. I can get the Internet on the desktop Mac by unplugging it from the router and plugging it into the cable modem directly--*most* of the time. But it's having more and more frequent outages even that way, sometimes requiring restarting not only the modem but the computer. For the first time that I can remember (we've had similar problems with routers and hubs before, have burned out several of them over the years), we cannot get Internet access upstairs even by plugging that cable directly into the modem. The laptop can recognize the wireless network but cannot access the Internet over it. I have not tried cabling it in directly or taking it to an Internet cafe. 2. Spam deluge Until the other day, I was getting 200-300 spams in my spamfilter (Spamfire 1.0) per day, and rescuing about 10 percent. Not all were spam, but many were messages I didn't need from certain groups I belong to (e.g., the programmer list for the community radio station where I have a show). This week, it's been 600-800 a day, and I'm still rescuing about 20 out of all that. It is high enough volume that after every 100-200 that I delete, I quit the program and load it again so that if it crashes, all the junk I got rid of doesn't come back. The only thing that's changed in my setup is that I've stopped aliasing and forwarding all my email to my ISP address (charter.net) and am using the bluehost server on the Frugalfun account, inbound and outbound, and I set up my wife's email to alias through the Charter account here she has her own screen name. PrincipledProfit email has for some time been using its own server for inbound and the charter server for outbound. 3. Shopping cart confirmation messages and order info are disappearing. I use two different copies of the no-cost verison of mal's shopping cart. When I get a cc order, it goes through one cart, and generates an email message to me. When I get a paypal order (or a cc order for an ebook), it goes to a different cart, that is supposed to send me both the shopping cart confirmation and another confirmation from paypal. But all of a sudden, the cart confirmation is not arriving, and several of the paypal confirmations have a total that is not represented by the product shown (invariably, AFAIC remember, they have been for my forthcoming Grassroots Marketing for Authors and Publishers, which has its own order page--so maybe that's where the problem is). When i contact the customer, I discover that they have ordered other prducts that aren't showing in the confirmation but do show in the total. Also, a minor thing: the filter I ahve to mark these orders as prioirty so I don't miss them still shows up in Eudora but hasn't been working for a while. I don't know if these problems have anything to do with each other, but I'd be very grateful for any guidance. _______________________________________________ Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members page on the Hidden Tech Web site. http://www.hidden-tech.net/members --------------------------------- Sponsored Link Mortgage rates near 39yr lows. $510,000 Mortgage for $1,698/mo - Calculate new house payment -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20061121/8d610eeb/attachment-0005.html