Billions of people in the world, many of the internet users and we're supposed to believe the only options for the future of the internet lie in the hands of amazon.com, microsoft.net and AOL???
Are we truly doomed to the mindless commercialization of EVERYTHING?
I get quite a lot of spam, several times I've been able to get the company to quit sending me stuff only by complaining to the host that controls the originating IP.
Almost all spam claims that they're using an "optin list" yet most of it is for things I never would have signed up for (like farm porno). Apparently letting a spammer get hold of your email is all it takes to "opt in".
As to grouplotto, they have a clear problem with their "optin list". At one point in time, AFTER unsubscribing from grouplotto I was getting THREE copies. I hadn't resubscribed, how on earth had I managed to "opt in" not once but three times?!?
Why is it that we've figured out laws to block unwanted/unsolicited faxes but can't even begin to deal with spam or even faked "opting in"?
Self installs are news? I ordered DSL back in march from GTE, they gave me an appointment and never showed up. Only when I called the fourth time that day wondering where the tech was did they finally tell me all they guaranteed the tech would do was check at the pole to make sure the line was ready for DSL. If they bothered to come to my door and do the in home stuff, that was just an added bonus. Needless to say, I ended up installing my own in home software and hardware (not that it was an issue, but would have been nice if they'd told me when they scheduled the appointment or called to say line was ready).
Hey, don't know where they're looking for girl geeks, but there are plenty of us. I currently work as a Systems Administrator for a major web hosting company and well over half of the other Sys. Admins. are female like me. Before I moved to take this job, I belonged to a Linux Users Group that was close to half female (and all of us females were programmers or sys admins or serious HTML coders). No girl geeks...maybe whoever wrote that should leave their computer once in a while....
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Billions of people in the world, many of the internet users and we're supposed to believe the only options for the future of the internet lie in the hands of amazon.com, microsoft .net and AOL???
Are we truly doomed to the mindless commercialization of EVERYTHING?
I get quite a lot of spam, several times I've been able to get the company to quit sending me stuff only by complaining to the host that controls the originating IP.
Almost all spam claims that they're using an "optin list" yet most of it is for things I never would have signed up for (like farm porno). Apparently letting a spammer get hold of your email is all it takes to "opt in".
As to grouplotto, they have a clear problem with their "optin list". At one point in time, AFTER unsubscribing from grouplotto I was getting THREE copies. I hadn't resubscribed, how on earth had I managed to "opt in" not once but three times?!?
Why is it that we've figured out laws to block unwanted/unsolicited faxes but can't even begin to deal with spam or even faked "opting in"?
Self installs are news? I ordered DSL back in march from GTE, they gave me an appointment and never showed up. Only when I called the fourth time that day wondering where the tech was did they finally tell me all they guaranteed the tech would do was check at the pole to make sure the line was ready for DSL. If they bothered to come to my door and do the in home stuff, that was just an added bonus. Needless to say, I ended up installing my own in home software and hardware (not that it was an issue, but would have been nice if they'd told me when they scheduled the appointment or called to say line was ready).
Hey, don't know where they're looking for girl geeks, but there are plenty of us. I currently work as a Systems Administrator for a major web hosting company and well over half of the other Sys. Admins. are female like me. Before I moved to take this job, I belonged to a Linux Users Group that was close to half female (and all of us females were programmers or sys admins or serious HTML coders). No girl geeks...maybe whoever wrote that should leave their computer once in a while....