Bruce, For continued anti-virus protection (after you have switched off WinXP's auto-update, so it does not bother you with warnings of it being non-supported) you can go to one of the free (for private use) solutions, such as Avira's Antivir: http://www.avira.com/en/index Besides that program, I typically install Safer Networking's Spybot to protect the browser against access to known unsafe pages: http://www.safer-networking.org/ and the plug-in Ghostery for Firefox to block all pop-ups, beacons and other stuff that is not related to the page you are requesting, which makes the pages load much faster, but sometimes break if they rely on data that is generated dynamically. So for select pages I will "whitelist" a page if it does not work otherwise: https://www.ghostery.com/download
Success, Cor van de Water Chief Scientist Proxim Wireless Corporation http://www.proxim.com Email: [email protected] Private: http://www.cvandewater.info Skype: cor_van_de_water Tel: +1 408 383 7626 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruce EVangel Parmenter Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 4:06 PM To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List Subject: [EVDL] OT : Microsoft blocking EVDL I hope all those being affected will use one of the evdl.org archives in the interim. But I am hearing 'Captain Obvious' say, its time to switch to a non-blocked email host. On an OT rant about MS, which is only slightly related to evdl use ... One of the PCs I use when running WinXP came up with a MS Update wanting to add a K######## update/patch that would tell me MS is ending support for WinXP. The page for that patch also said not only would there no longer be further bug fixes for WinXP OS, but MS Security Essentials would not be receiving updates (no more protection). That PC is not that old, so could run a newer version of MS OS, perhaps Win7, as I found I really did not like Win8.1 (the gui was like using a tablet or cell phone). But that would only be a short term fix until Win7 is dropped as well. Personally, I really do not have much need to use a MS Windows OS: there are only a couple of things I do use, but can easily do on other OS'. So what I plan to do, is keep getting any updates up until that cut off point, and afterward, disable the networking on that MS WinXP partition. I can remove the protection software off of it (anti-virus, etc.), which will speed it up, so if I ever wanted to use it on a file, it should perform better. Otherwise, I get all the connectivity I want on other OS'. In my case I have three different flavors of Linux also on that and other PCs that will do what I want nicely. My personal preference is to use (each is on their own partition): pclinuxos64-lxde-2013.12.iso along with linuxmint-13-cinnamon-dvd-64bit.iso and precise-5.7.1-retro.iso as alternatives/backup OS. The first (pclos) is fast but less robust as Mint (has the whole-enchilada/full-monty of apps, tools, etc.), and the last (puppy) is very fast and simple/easy to use, but less robust than pclos. BTW, a search on MS Win8.1 tells a sad tale of its awful sales, and chatter of a future version being offered to students for free to get them hooked on Bing related apps. IMO I can understand why MS is losing OS market share ... you really have to not like their way of doing business. <rant off /> {brucedp.150m.com} - On Tue, Mar 11, 2014, at 11:54 AM, EVDL Administrator wrote: > Even though the folks who are affected won't receive this mail, I'm > posting > it here in the hope that some will think to check the archive when they > notice they're not getting EVDL mail. > > Later I'll try to contact them individually, but ATM I'm short of time. > So > my apologies for bothering others with this post. > > Hotmail, MSN, and Outlook Live are currently blocking EVDL email. As of > this morning, 23 users had their EVDL mail turned off by our server > because > their accounts had been bouncing mail for days (or maybe weeks). > > One of the returned error messages says: > > host mx4.hotmail.com[65.55.92.152] said: 550 OU-002 > (SNT0-MC2-F23) Unfortunately, messages from 69.163.254.50 weren't > sent. > Please contact your Internet service provider since part of their > network > is on our block list. You can also refer your provider to > http://mail.live.com/mail/troubleshooting.aspx#errors. (in reply to > MAIL > FROM command) > > The rest look much like this; only the recipient's IP address changes. > > Microsoft say we're on their block list. However, I checked a couple of > blacklist meta-engines and we're not listed on anyone else's blacklists. > > http://mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx > > http://multirbl.valli.org/lookup/69.163.254.50.html > > Both give us a clean score. > > This is apparently some internal algorithm that MS is using. (Maybe > something like, "You're sending the same message to 23 of our members, > you > must be a spammer, so die, scum.") > > In the past, AOL has used similar blocks against the EVDL and also > against > another (much smaller) email discussion list I operate. AOL is not > blocking > us now. > > I'll follow up and see what I can do from this end, though my experiences > with AOL were not encouraging. (They eventually lifted the block on > their > own.) > > I don't know whether it will do any good, but you may want to try > contacting > your email provider's support staff - Hotmail, MSN, or Outlook Live - to > let > them know that evdl.org and our server at 69.163.254.50 are legit. > > Or, you could just use a different email account. MS's email has given > the > EVDL various problems for at least 20 years. We have had very little > trouble with Gmail and Yahoo, however. Certainly their anti-spam > strategy > seems to be more sophisticated than MS's. > > Again, my apologies for bothering the many EVDLers not affected by this > problem. > > David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA > EVDL Administrator > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not > reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my > email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA > (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Accessible with your email software or over the web _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
