Re: How can I unblock Natalie?

Hmmmm I use a newsserver my friend Kev set up. My domain is based on my privately-owned one. It's not Earthlink, AOL or any of that. I bought a domain, and have my accounts through that. I don't see how I got blocked in the first place. *shrug*

See if you have my internet service providers Road Runner, or where I bought the domain, 1&1 internet. You should also call your ISP.

Natalie

It could be filtering on the "*@yahoo.com" in your return address. Even though it's posted through Octanews.

Or the Registered Trademark symbol in the username as being a non- character symbol like a dollar sign (ASCII above 256), something that spammers love to throw in the subject line.

Or on the word fragment 'doll'...

This is why you have to be really careful with filters - it's far too easy to get false positives. Better to bounce the exact address, and put a "after 30 days of no activity" expiry on it, to make sure that a no longer necessary filter for an abandoned sender name will expire on its own.

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That's odd, you come through as yahoo.com here.

BTW Windows mail sucks in 2 particulars.

1. Blocking individuals doesn't work after you block so many people.
2. Signatures get posted at the top of the message. MS still doesn't believe in netiquette or bottom posting.

I have certain people on the block list about 30 times, and only about half their messages get blocked, so I just delete the rest of them manually without reading. I don't care if it is bad manners, the particular posters I'm deleting the messages from are trolls that have to open their big mouth every time someone on the right, or even in the middle posts and spew their Leftard hatred.

After 50 years, I've gotten tired of Liars, Leftards, and women. More women actually talked to me at the party in a dress than they ever do in any other costume I've ever worn. So I've got to become a lesbian to get any women to want me?

If that's the case, then the 2008 election is totally irrelevant. We're doomed, no matter what happens. And Dammed by God himself (See Romans chapter 1). We deserve to get Hillary as Co-President again.

Charles the Curmudgeon Repeal the 19th Amendment, and the 26th.

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Not a thread about politics.......

Take this question to the appropriate Microsoft newsgroup. Here's a list:

"JoeSpareBedroom"...

Vista is a tool of Satan.

Natalie

I think it's a matter of who's using it. My 18 year old son got a new laptop for college back in August, and it came with Vista. He had it all pimped out & working the way he wanted in about 4 hours, and he definitely did not look at the help files. He's had no problems at all with it.

"JoeSpareBedroom" ...

Hubby has had a real problem with software compatibility. It's also a RAM hog.

Natalie

When it first came out, there was no WAY I would buy Vista, and the initial reports of unusable systems because of unavailable drivers for critical legacy equipment. You heard of corporations that tried upgrading or buying new systems with Vista, and having to hastily backtrack to XP because they couldn't run their tape backup drives or other important stuff. Or the permissions were too arcane and they couldn't get something to run.

Dell gained a big chunk of market share because they are still building systems for the corporate market with XP pre-installed.

Now that they've had time to get the drivers all sorted out, Vista is OK but FOR A NEW SYSTEM - don't upgrade a working XP machine.

And when Microsloth says you need 1 GB of RAM, that's the absolute bare minimum. The more RAM you can throw at it, the better it will run. 3 or 4 GB is a nice starting point.

Which is why I'm considering buying a nice new hot MB and Core 2 Duo processor - and putting Linux on it, then learn Linux by the good old "Dive In At The Deep End" method. Should run just dandy with only 1 GB of RAM.

Unless forced, I'm in no hurry to run out and buy a Vista machine.

Maybe the next OS iteration, when they finally decide to rewrite the whole OS from scratch, then design separate Virtual Machine style compatibility modules running on top. For legacy software and hardware to think they're running under MS-DOS 6.22 at 8 MHz, or Windows for Workgroups 3.11, or Win98, or WinME...

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A tool of Satan, you say? What about *that* device in your night stand? No, not the bedside denuding fork.

"sharx35" ...

The box of Q-Tips?

Natalie

Hmm. Must be. [Sharx narrowly misses a sound fwapping.].

"sharx35"

Ain't nothing like the real thing, baby.

Natalie

Ohhhh . . . .

(Don't do it, Fat Boy)

I'm working with a Vista machine less than a month old. The hard drive is

Vista is just another opportunity to bend over and grab one's ankles and take it like a girlie man. There are no real 'new' features. It's just passed from fatware to bloatware to obeseware to obscenely obeseware.

Charles the Curmudgeon.

How big is the hard drive?