Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > 2008/12/26 Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com>: > >> Hilco Wijbenga wrote: >> >>> 2008/12/26 Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com>: >>> > <snip/> > >> Well, I'm on dial-up and that thing doesn't like my slow as crap >> connection. Thanks AT&T for keeping your promise on getting use DSL. >> Bit of sarcasm there in case you can't tell. Very few things are on my >> crap list but they are one and close to the top. Anyway, using the >> webmail thing is a mess. It times oout part way through loading the >> page and all that crap. It took me a loong while to go through all that. >> > > Yeah, that definitely sucks. Nowadays a lot of webapps expect you to > have your own private T3. :-) I'm not sure whether Yahoo will be much > better though... > > >> What I thought of doing is checking all of them then telling google none >> of them is spam at all. Over time, it should not mark anything as >> spam. Of course, that will mess up other people as well. Sort of hate >> to do that but if it means I can get my emails, then it is a option. >> > > I'm not really clear on how personalised it is. Not everyone agrees > (all the time) on what is spam and what is not. It seems that it is > somehow able to apply my personal settings to the spam filter. > > <snip/> > >>>> I always liked Google but this sort of pisses me off. No wonder people >>>> say they sent me a card or something and I never got it. They are in >>>> the spam bucket. Thought about marking them ALL as "not spam" and just >>>> screwing their spam filter right up. Sort of a get even thing there. :-@ >>>> >>>> >>> Well, Don Quixote, I hope you'll forgive me for putting my money on >>> Google anyway. ;-) :-P If you do decide to take on Google >>> single-handedly ... keep a blog please, it should make for hilarious >>> reading. ;-) :-) >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Hilco >>> >> Well, even if I did, I would be switched by then. If I'm not getting >> the service I pay for or expect, I move on. I may be switching ISPs >> again before long too. I like to get online when I need to not when >> they think I should. I also plan to keep my OS up to date even if it >> means a 10 hour download. If they can't handle that, I'll find someone >> who can. Already found my new ISP just waiting for word from my current >> one. They claim it is unlimited but then put limits on it. Funny huh? >> > > Perhaps they meant the wait is unlimited? ;-) >
Well, I'm disabled so I like to surf the net a lot. I try to get on late at night when they are not to busy but it appears they don't care. Their "unlimited" thing has a lot of limits on it. I found out that dixie-net is local and they don't care how long I am on or how much I download. Says so in the terms too. > >> Who's Don? I never heard of him. >> > > I see no smiley, so I'll assume you're serious: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilting_at_windmills > > Cheers, > Hilco > > > I didn't know who he was and still not real sure. Sometimes those wiki things don't make much sense to me. Sounds like lawyer speak sometimes. :/ Dale :-) :-)
