On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 15:33:47 -0400, Tom Piwowar wrote:
To revive a question that I raise from time to time: Is it time for CGUYS
to move from a primary mail-based delivery system to a primary http-based
delivery system?
No.
I would be uninclined to visit a web site to read CGuys posts.
In the context of this discussion, it's funny that I received the
following email this morning.
I'm on an iMac using Thunderbird for email and I do send emails to
groups of people sometimes. I have Comcast for internet, there is really
no choice here, but I email exclusively through gmail.
Even more funny and interesting:
My Thunderbird wants to know if the Comcast email is a scam. I'm
thinking yes!
After I received the Comcast email this morning, I sent the earlier
email to CGUYS and an email to myself at the Comcast address. Obviously
gmail is working because CGUYS got the
Even more funny and interesting:
My Thunderbird wants to know if the Comcast email is a scam. I'm
thinking yes!
That is why no body should ever follow links in an email to download
anything. However the links provided do lead to a tech support page at
Comcast and do explain how to change the
n the context of this discussion, it's funny that I received the
following email this morning.
I'm on an iMac using Thunderbird for email and I do send emails to
groups of people sometimes. I have Comcast for internet, there is
really no choice here, but I email exclusively through gmail.
It's nice to be BACK!
You have no way of knowing what is being
blocked and no mechanism to retrieve any false positives. It's
amateur hour
at Comcast.
Oh how true. I now wonder what else isn't coming through. ANd I
also know that some of my email never gets to the recipients but that
Thanks Tom. I don't deal with ports enough to have much knowledge of
them but gmail has me on port 587 for SMTP and 995 or something like
that for pop. So, would I know or should I care if 25 is blocked?
I only use gmail.
Tom Piwowar wrote:
You may want to make a note of it if you do discover
Thanks Tom. I don't deal with ports enough to have much knowledge of
them but gmail has me on port 587 for SMTP and 995 or something like
that for pop. So, would I know or should I care if 25 is blocked?
I only use gmail.
So you are fine. Now that you mention it, I reall reading that the
If you mean something like a PHP forum, no.
On Jun 7, 2008, at 3:33 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
To revive a question that I raise from time to time: Is it time for
CGUYS
to move from a primary mail-based delivery system to a primary http-
based
delivery system?
If you mean something like a PHP forum, no.
Well this is getting shot down quickly. So what is the alternative? In
recent days I'm seeing about 7 percent of the List bouncing (all Cox or
Comcast subscribers).
...blocked by ReturnPath. Please visit
http://sendersupport.senderscore.net for
I'd be unlikely to visit yet another computer oriented forum very
often. And if I did, there are tons to choose from so I couldn't see
myself hanging at a PC-bashing site. Hard enough to tolerate it via
email.
Heck, I'd be unlikely to subscribe to another general computer
oriented mailing list,
On Jun 9, 2008, at 11:37 AM, Tony B wrote:
I'd be unlikely to visit yet another computer oriented forum very
often. And if I did, there are tons to choose from so I couldn't see
myself hanging at a PC-bashing site. Hard enough to tolerate it via
email.
I'd be interested to find out from you
All my other forums (and lists) pretty strictly forbid format wars.
The video production lists I'm on routinely discuss - maybe once a
year - different formats and systems. Discuss is the key word here.
A newcomer joins and asks what system they should invest in, and
everyone has learned to
On Jun 9, 2008, at 2:50 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
I wonder why Cox and Comcast's legal departments let them do this. If
they block an important message would they not be open to a lawsuit?
I do not believe there is any concern on the part of either Cox or
Comcast or any other provider in
Perhaps they may use the same email filtering service.
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Considering how badly Comcast is performing re spam filtering, I'm probably
going to move most everything to my Gmail account. It's simply unacceptable
how badly Comcast's
Perhaps they may use the same email filtering service.
It looks like they do.
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I use two gmail accounts - one I download to my computer via pop
access, and the other I leave online. The latter I use for email
subscriptions, like the computerguys. I like the way gmail collates
messages by subject line.
There is one thing I don't like about gmail, but I hesitate to mention
On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Ralph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is one thing I don't like about gmail, but I hesitate to mention
it because I've never heard anyone else say they had the same problem.
I like to BCC myself on messages I originate. Gmail apparently
recognizes the mail is
That is one of my main gripes about gmail. When I originate an email to
start a new thread with the computer guys, the only way I know it's been
sent is I begin to get replies.
Mike
On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Ralph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I use two gmail accounts - one I download to my
Yes, that is frustrating. I think it's because Google thinks everyone
does web mail, or they want everyone to use apps on the web instead of
on their computers.
Jordan
Ralph wrote:
I use two gmail accounts - one I download to my computer via pop
access, and the other I leave online. The
To update on the piss-poor spam filtering that Comcast is using, it
continues with a new twist. I'm getting *some* messages on threads, but not
all at times. For instance, Tony's thread on SATA drivers, I only got 6 of
the 9 messages, which explained my confusion as to who Tony was replying to.
Although I have not tried it, I believe there is a way to bring Gmail
messages into your machine's Email application. I purposely don't do
that because I like having my Gmail account available when I am having
problems with Thunderbird (most recently with an inbox that mysteriously
ballooned
Gmail support IMAP - you can use whatever email client you want.
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John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own
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Yeah, I forget that Gmail has that. Thanks John.
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 10:57 AM, John DeCarlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gmail support IMAP - you can use whatever email client you want.
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John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own
There's an 'expand all' button on the right.
Gmail still offers free POP or IMAP access, but why hang onto the past
like that? It's not too difficult for _this_ old dog to learn new
tricks. :)
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Jeff Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I see all the messages in my
-Original Message-
There's an 'expand all' button on the right.
Yeah, I know, but all that does is expand the thread.
Gmail still offers free POP or IMAP access, but why hang onto the past
like that? It's not too difficult for _this_ old dog to learn new
tricks. :)
I can do that
Yes, Gmail supports POP and IMAP email clients... Thunderbird or whatever.
db
Mike Sloane wrote:
Although I have not tried it, I believe there is a way to bring Gmail
messages into your machine's Email application. I purposely don't do
that because I like having my Gmail account available when
To update on the piss-poor spam filtering that Comcast is using, it
continues with a new twist. I'm getting *some* messages on threads, but not
all at times. For instance, Tony's thread on SATA drivers, I only got 6 of
the 9 messages, which explained my confusion as to who Tony was replying to.
I got only six of the nine SATA messages, and I am using Cox.
Jeff Wright wrote:
To update on the piss-poor spam filtering that Comcast is using, it
continues with a new twist. I'm getting *some* messages on threads, but not
all at times. For instance, Tony's thread on SATA drivers, I only
Just to get it straight for me, I've got nine msgs NOW, with the last one,
but the last one I have says he has nine?
so...Jeff, MIke, John D, Jeff, Tony, Jeff, Db, Tom and Robert. That's
nine. I'm using Gmail.
Mike
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I got only
I would say no, I like having the mail format. Going web-based, you have to
go to the site and open up the forum, find the thread and post a reply. Not
a burden, but with email, it's right here. KISS.
OTOH, going with a web-based solution eliminates the broken mess that is
email today and
On Aug 16, 2007, at 10:51 AM, mike wrote:
Uh oh...undesirables...next we'll hear we have to cull all pc users
from the
population. It's too bad those pesky pixar people are
undesirableusing
non macs to make cars...
Mike
On 8/16/07, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You might
different but maybe related - i've been getting messages out of order.
many times, i see the reply to a message before i receive the original
message. at least, it looks that way when i compare the timestamps ... ymmv
-andy
/snip/
Upon seeing this message which is a response to something
Occasionally I notice missing messages, but more frequently a reply to a
message shows up well before the original message arrives.
Steve Rigby wrote:
On Aug 16, 2007, at 10:51 AM, mike wrote:
Uh oh...undesirables...next we'll hear we have to cull all pc users
from the
population. It's too
On Aug 16, 2007, at 4:46 PM, Andy Gallant wrote:
different but maybe related - i've been getting messages out of order.
many times, i see the reply to a message before i receive the
original message. at least, it looks that way when i compare the
timestamps ... ymmv
I have seen that as
On Aug 16, 2007, at 4:21 PM, Robert wrote:
Occasionally I notice missing messages, but more frequently a reply to
a message shows up well before the original message arrives.
Ditto.
Steve
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Time stamp and delays depend on reliability and location of outgoing and
incoming servers, unless your battery is getting weak. I usually use a
U.S. based server, but when there's high traffic, I switch to one of
Yahoo's foreign servers.
I'm curious about time stamps, so I'm using a server in
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