Whilst the 1,2,3 rule sounds like good logic, I think it would probably encourage you to stay with a job that isn't good for you.
It's quite possible to find yourself in a job you quite enjoy, i.e. the work isn't particuarly taxing and you get along with the people. Quite often if you stay long enough, the pay will become quite good, I know far too many people who having stayed at a company for many years and built a healthy salary - suddenly discover they'd have to take a pay-cut if they move because they're being paid far more than the job (and by extension their skills) merit in the open marketplace.
If you analyse what you're doing, you're sticking with an easy unchallenging job. Which ultimately will generate a void in your CV - and you will regret it! (Here speaks the voice of experience!)
But is that such a bad thing? For the most part I find Google displays relevant ad's, so I don't mind them being there. I might even occasionally click on one, certainly don't do that elsewhere.
Maybe intrusive is a bit strong, but they certainly are more prominent. Perhaps it's just me, but it appears to be taking up more screen real-estate than before too.
I guess at least the trolls will have fun suggesting that this is an example of Google sliding towards advertisers over users.
Why not do your tests from the DMZ (that still counts as territory you control, but is surely treated as outside to all intents and purposes.) Even if we assume you have an SMTP box in the DMZ forwarding to an internal "real" mailserver the theory still holds.
I'm going to skip the HTML comment, as that gets into a whole other discussion...
Why would you need to send test email, be they viruses or spam, via your isp's network? If you need to test filters or anti-virus configuration on your mail server do it locally - surely that's the responsible thing to do. I wouldn't want to propogate a virus even the eicar test virus outside of the networks I directly control. (Yes, I'm well aware the eicar test is benign, but that's not the point.)
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It's quite possible to find yourself in a job you quite enjoy, i.e. the work isn't particuarly taxing and you get along with the people. Quite often if you stay long enough, the pay will become quite good, I know far too many people who having stayed at a company for many years and built a healthy salary - suddenly discover they'd have to take a pay-cut if they move because they're being paid far more than the job (and by extension their skills) merit in the open marketplace.
If you analyse what you're doing, you're sticking with an easy unchallenging job. Which ultimately will generate a void in your CV - and you will regret it! (Here speaks the voice of experience!)
Maybe intrusive is a bit strong, but they certainly are more prominent. Perhaps it's just me, but it appears to be taking up more screen real-estate than before too.
I guess at least the trolls will have fun suggesting that this is an example of Google sliding towards advertisers over users.
I'm going to skip the HTML comment, as that gets into a whole other discussion...
Why would you need to send test email, be they viruses or spam, via your isp's network? If you need to test filters or anti-virus configuration on your mail server do it locally - surely that's the responsible thing to do. I wouldn't want to propogate a virus even the eicar test virus outside of the networks I directly control. (Yes, I'm well aware the eicar test is benign, but that's not the point.)