OK, I must live in a different universe. At 4:14 am DST I logged in to time.gov and got the official Daylight Savings Time for the eastern time zone. My computer said it was 3:14 am. I went to the START menu, clicked on RUN, typed in CMD, and when the good old DOS underbelly of Win2K showed up, I typed "time." The time showed 3:14 and seconds. I typed in 4:14 and closed everything out. My computer then read 4:14 and has been correct all day.
Then I used Active Sync with my PDA to update the time. The PDA, of course, didn't agree with the computer. Active Sync would not work. I took it out of the cradle and changed the time by hand. With a minute or two difference, Active Sync had no problem.
Then when I woke up, I checked my cell phone timer against the computer and the PDA. The cell phone had automagically update to the correct time.
This afternoon, for the horror of it, I spent poking around GoDaddy, to catch up on the RegisterFly stuff. The GoDaddy site worked all the time. The only internet problem I had came a little earlier for about a minute's hang-up. I was using Mozilla Firefox for a Google search.
In my universe, time.gov worked correctly; GoDaddy, the pornsite of domain registration, was not down; no special programs or patches were necessary to update the time on my equipment.
Thank you all for working so hard to solve spamming problems. I am the most minor of minor bush league players, and I understand that I don't understand what you all are coping with.
I have about 15 working email addresses, I think. Eight are forwarded into one earthlink account, one is a hopelessly spam-ridden University account, and I have several gmail accounts for various purposes. In addition, I have a bunch of websites that have one fake human-sounding account each. These last are no problem, so far.
As I read through the discussion, it occurred to me that I have one very active email account that is perfectly spam free. My low-tech solution? The mail in the account goes first to an earthlink account, which filters for spam, and is forwarded from that account to a gmail account, which has even better spam filters.
Now I realize that you have been talking about solutions from the IT staff perspective. My simple solution (which someone else has mentioned, in part, when s/he suggested just use gmail) to IT responsibility: advise people to use gmail, or to use Earthlink plus gmail.
Actually, the Specific University IT problem with spam and/or webmail is bad enough that they are in discussions with two web mail providers to pay the chosen one a fee (more or less per capita) for handling email for faculty, staff, and students. I gather the "handled" email would remain on Specific University servers, rather than servers served by gmail or similar web mail providers.
If this condition has a genetic cause (not saying it does or doesn't, mind you) . . . then don't we make our species weaker by treating it and allowing those kids who would have died to grow up and reproduce?
I'm all for the scientists improving the odds, genetic and otherwise, for babies. I happen to have been born with a neural tube defect. Though not as severe as some, it has hampered my life in several ways, and may yet cause paralysis. The neural tube defect has not prevented me from earning two doctorates. That speaks well for preventing such defects in the first place.
Somehow,those idiot scientists which this discussion has ridiculed, got it right. Mothers who step up their intake of folic acid/folate before and during pregnancy substantially lower the risk of having children with neural tube defects.
Is there a genetic component? I didn't think so, but my daughter and son-in-law now have a wonderful nine-month-old son with no neural tube defect. Her doctors, however, put her into the class of high-risk pregnancy because of my neural tube defect. So, scientists here found preventive measures, without clearly identifying causation.
I hope that prevention of SIDS will be discovered; we cannot assume that if SIDS babies survived, they would otherwise be damaged.
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OK, I must live in a different universe. At 4:14 am DST I logged in to time.gov and got the official Daylight Savings Time for the eastern time zone. My computer said it was 3:14 am. I went to the START menu, clicked on RUN, typed in CMD, and when the good old DOS underbelly of Win2K showed up, I typed "time." The time showed 3:14 and seconds. I typed in 4:14 and closed everything out. My computer then read 4:14 and has been correct all day.
Then I used Active Sync with my PDA to update the time. The PDA, of course, didn't agree with the computer. Active Sync would not work. I took it out of the cradle and changed the time by hand. With a minute or two difference, Active Sync had no problem.
Then when I woke up, I checked my cell phone timer against the computer and the PDA. The cell phone had automagically update to the correct time.
This afternoon, for the horror of it, I spent poking around GoDaddy, to catch up on the RegisterFly stuff. The GoDaddy site worked all the time. The only internet problem I had came a little earlier for about a minute's hang-up. I was using Mozilla Firefox for a Google search.
In my universe, time.gov worked correctly; GoDaddy, the pornsite of domain registration, was not down; no special programs or patches were necessary to update the time on my equipment.
Thank you all for working so hard to solve spamming problems. I am the most minor of minor bush league players, and I understand that I don't understand what you all are coping with.
I have about 15 working email addresses, I think. Eight are forwarded into one earthlink account, one is a hopelessly spam-ridden University account, and I have several gmail accounts for various purposes. In addition, I have a bunch of websites that have one fake human-sounding account each.
These last are no problem, so far.
As I read through the discussion, it occurred to me that I have one very active email account that is perfectly spam free. My low-tech solution? The mail in the account goes first to an earthlink account, which filters for spam, and is forwarded from that account to a gmail account, which has even better spam filters.
Now I realize that you have been talking about solutions from the IT staff perspective. My simple solution (which someone else has mentioned, in part, when s/he suggested just use gmail) to IT responsibility: advise people to use gmail, or to use Earthlink plus gmail.
Actually, the Specific University IT problem with spam and/or webmail is bad enough that they are in discussions with two web mail providers to pay the chosen one a fee (more or less per capita) for handling email for faculty, staff, and students. I gather the "handled" email would remain on Specific University servers, rather than servers served by gmail or similar web mail providers.
If this condition has a genetic cause (not saying it does or doesn't, mind you) . . . then don't we make our species weaker by treating it and allowing those kids who would have died to grow up and reproduce? I'm all for the scientists improving the odds, genetic and otherwise, for babies. I happen to have been born with a neural tube defect. Though not as severe as some, it has hampered my life in several ways, and may yet cause paralysis. The neural tube defect has not prevented me from earning two doctorates. That speaks well for preventing such defects in the first place. Somehow,those idiot scientists which this discussion has ridiculed, got it right. Mothers who step up their intake of folic acid/folate before and during pregnancy substantially lower the risk of having children with neural tube defects. Is there a genetic component? I didn't think so, but my daughter and son-in-law now have a wonderful nine-month-old son with no neural tube defect. Her doctors, however, put her into the class of high-risk pregnancy because of my neural tube defect. So, scientists here found preventive measures, without clearly identifying causation. I hope that prevention of SIDS will be discovered; we cannot assume that if SIDS babies survived, they would otherwise be damaged.