Is that what professionial journalism has come to?
The thought of a hundred elephants-worth of water suspended in the sky begs another question -- what keeps it up there?
Why must people keep abusing the phrase, "begs the question?" It does not mean "causes us to question" or "makes me wonder." Just because MANY people keep making the same mistake does not make it so. </grammar nazo>
mrpostman has support for both Yahoo and Hotmail (and others, I think) but it's Java (grumble.)
All of these work by creating local POP3 and SMTP daemons that form a gateway to the webmail interface. Combined with Moz/Tbird's multiple mail account capability, it makes it a snap to check mail for a large number of webmail "throwaway" accounts from one place.
First, smooth scroll is not a geeky thing, it's a feature that a lot of people are interested in and it should be in a proper perferences panel. (To continue your example, IE has a tickbox for this in its settings.)
My point was that having a terribly hard to use and unfriendly method for setting preferences is not a bragging feature. It's like buying a new car and exclaiming, "I love this luxury sedan! Look, all I have to do is open the hood, search for the black/yellow and red/black wires, and twist them together and my windshield wipers turn on! Isn't that awesome?!"
Then try typing "about:config" in the address bar. Well, I'm starting to rant:)
Since when is Moz's lack of a proper configuration method a feature? 'About:config' is great compared to having nothing, but I would much rather have a nice check-box in a preferences page compared to having to know that I need to open 'about:config', add a new key called 'general.smoothScroll' of type 'boolean' and set it to 'true'. Come on, how is that a bragging right?
Unless your method is closed-loop, it's spam. BY that I mean if I enter an email address and tick a box expressing interest, then you must send a plain email to that address confirming that the owner requested a newsletter. It must contain no advertising, and it also must have a unique token so that it cannot be spoofed. In order to be added to the mailing list the recipient must reply to this confirmation, and you must store the IP address that submitted the form along with this response email -- that is your proof of consent. A tickmark in a form is NOT PROOF OF CONSENT.
If you do not use this method, you're a spammer. If you question that, please answer how you deal with some pissant lowlife signing up tens, hundreds, or thousands of random email addresses using your form. I don't care what sort of magic TOS/AUP, disclaimer, or privacy you have: if third parties can add email addresses to your lists without confirmation, then YOU ARE A SPAMMER.
My question is why? At the very best, you might be able to implement a very basic web server for static pages but forget about scripting or anything too advanced. It would be dependent on some server in your LAN for storage as well, so you'd still have to run a "real" server anyway. I think you overestimate the amount of processing power in those things. For not much more cost, just get one of those mini-itx boards and install FreeBSD or Linux. You'll get a modern, standards compliant server that can handle nearly any task and it can still be cheap and fanless.
Case in point, the replies byEben Moglen were scathing yet calm, and were excellent examples of how you can make a strong point without sounding like a pissy little boy.
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As a lynx user you don't get much at all.
(BTW, kudos on a successfull "You insensitive clod" post without the actual "insensitive clod" part.
Is that what professionial journalism has come to?Why must people keep abusing the phrase, "begs the question?" It does not mean "causes us to question" or "makes me wonder." Just because MANY people keep making the same mistake does not make it so.
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For Hotmail there's HotWayd and httpmail.
For Yahoo! there's YahooPOPs!.
mrpostman has support for both Yahoo and Hotmail (and others, I think) but it's Java (grumble.)
All of these work by creating local POP3 and SMTP daemons that form a gateway to the webmail interface. Combined with Moz/Tbird's multiple mail account capability, it makes it a snap to check mail for a large number of webmail "throwaway" accounts from one place.
Or it's rebadged sister application, Mozilla Camaro.
R.I.P. F-body, damn you GM.
It may be in firebird but there's no such option in Mozilla (1.5b). You still have to do it with about:config.
First, smooth scroll is not a geeky thing, it's a feature that a lot of people are interested in and it should be in a proper perferences panel. (To continue your example, IE has a tickbox for this in its settings.)
My point was that having a terribly hard to use and unfriendly method for setting preferences is not a bragging feature. It's like buying a new car and exclaiming, "I love this luxury sedan! Look, all I have to do is open the hood, search for the black/yellow and red/black wires, and twist them together and my windshield wipers turn on! Isn't that awesome?!"
Christ, Armageddon? That song came out in 1987, get with the times...
Then try typing "about:config" in the address bar. Well, I'm starting to rant :)
Since when is Moz's lack of a proper configuration method a feature? 'About:config' is great compared to having nothing, but I would much rather have a nice check-box in a preferences page compared to having to know that I need to open 'about:config', add a new key called 'general.smoothScroll' of type 'boolean' and set it to 'true'. Come on, how is that a bragging right?
Unless your method is closed-loop, it's spam. BY that I mean if I enter an email address and tick a box expressing interest, then you must send a plain email to that address confirming that the owner requested a newsletter. It must contain no advertising, and it also must have a unique token so that it cannot be spoofed. In order to be added to the mailing list the recipient must reply to this confirmation, and you must store the IP address that submitted the form along with this response email -- that is your proof of consent. A tickmark in a form is NOT PROOF OF CONSENT.
If you do not use this method, you're a spammer. If you question that, please answer how you deal with some pissant lowlife signing up tens, hundreds, or thousands of random email addresses using your form. I don't care what sort of magic TOS/AUP, disclaimer, or privacy you have: if third parties can add email addresses to your lists without confirmation, then YOU ARE A SPAMMER.
My question is why? At the very best, you might be able to implement a very basic web server for static pages but forget about scripting or anything too advanced. It would be dependent on some server in your LAN for storage as well, so you'd still have to run a "real" server anyway. I think you overestimate the amount of processing power in those things. For not much more cost, just get one of those mini-itx boards and install FreeBSD or Linux. You'll get a modern, standards compliant server that can handle nearly any task and it can still be cheap and fanless.
Wow. That really sucks. Maybe some kind of DIY wireless net could offer a decent connection...
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Case in point, the replies by Eben Moglen were scathing yet calm, and were excellent examples of how you can make a strong point without sounding like a pissy little boy.