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Author: beejay
Date: 2006-11-30 08:13
My e-mail inbox is increasingly full of filth and junk, and I have had a serious falling out with my ISP, so I have decided to pull the plug on the Internet and use the recovered time to practice more and read proper newspapers. The ONLY thing I will seriously miss is my daily dip into the bulletin board, from which I have learned an enormous amount over the years. So farewell and good wishes to you all, and may you always have perfect reeds.
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Author: stevensfo
Date: 2006-11-30 09:00
That's why I never use an ISP's own email service.
My french yahoo email address has about 1 junk email per day that makes it through the spam filter.
I also use yahoo.it and this only gets approx 1 per week.
Steve
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2006-11-30 09:08
Since I switched to google mail for everything online (like product registration etc) spam has eased up considerably.
(I still got 97 gmail invites, so if anyone wants one, drop me a mail)
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Ben
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Author: bawa
Date: 2006-11-30 09:26
I use my ISP's mail with the wonderful Thunderbird Mail program. It might receive junk but you hardly ever see it.
I have noticed that even in my hotmail address nowadays, you never get not even an advertising e-mail, let alone the real junk, unless you have registered with that company specifically before. So obviously there has been a lot of polishing up going on.
I am afraid that for people like me, whose family is scattered around the globe, with even my parents and siblings on another continent, the Internet has been such a blessing in being with people on a daily basis, (telephone via skype for no extra cost, and it works so well).
Why, even to reading the daily papers that my mum reads so we can comment on the news together!
Add to that being able to read books etc. that I couldn't get hold of at ipl.org, listen to the radio, watch some tv from the other side of the world, try ouy some wonderful recipes, stay in some really nice hotels that would have been impossible to find otherwise, and from last week, listen to live "kirtan" (sikh religious music) from my hometown.
Last but not least, when my daughter took up the clarinet and later on my son the violin, this and the violin forum gave lots and lots and lots of sound information and good advice.
So, for the moment Internet is here to stay for us.
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Author: larryb
Date: 2006-11-30 11:34
you can run from the internet, but you can't hide
you'll be back
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Author: graham
Date: 2006-11-30 11:55
Internet cafe? Have a nice Latte while browsing the BB.
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Author: graham
Date: 2006-11-30 11:57
and another thing; papers may have pieces on clarinet but almost never on basset horn, so you have no choice but to come here for that.
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2006-11-30 12:15
I just got a new computer last night after my last one completely packed up (which is why I've been away for a week or so) and to be honest I enjoyed the short time I had without a computer (as I got more work done!) - I almost lost my rag with my new one this morning when everything came to a halt, so I resorted to the old Sinclair Spectrum method and pulled the plug on it.
That did the trick- it's behaving itself now.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2006-11-30 15:34
We're having so much trouble with the software industry this month. All who we expect to serve us spend all of their efforts interrupting with updates, new products that don't work, boasting, mutual interferrence. Our time online is becoming very unproductive time.
But, there's this addiction, ...
Bob Phillips
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Author: Sylvain
Date: 2006-11-30 15:39
All the best beejay, enjoy the many hours you will have on your hands.
I get at least 100 spam emails a day...
-S
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Sylvain Bouix <sbouix@gmail.com>
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Author: BelgianClarinet
Date: 2006-11-30 16:46
I only get a few spam mails per day, so it's very simple to survive. The 10 seconds it takes to delete them, it nothing compared to what the web brings me.
Actually I really dislike the junkmail in my "real" mailbox more, because the removal isn't so simple.
SO my advice, keep the PC online, remove mails you don't like, and enjoy the fun the rest is bringing.
Ofcourse : PC should be used only in the spare time between Music (clarinet) playing.
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2006-11-30 17:02
I regularly report to my AOL Spam "Filter", which separates the S from the non-S, delete the S frequently. Incidentally, who reconded this song? Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: FDF
Date: 2006-11-30 17:36
Totally agree with tictactux, google's gmail is the way to go. I've used several other options, but it is by far the best for keeping out spam, holding on to email, ease of use for sending photos, etc.
Try gmail, before you let the spam bullies push you away from your 'puter.
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Author: Lobo
Date: 2006-11-30 21:25
- Set up one e-mail address to be strictly given only to family, friends, and those you trust. Never post it to a message board or put it anywhere on the Web.
- Create another e-mail address, or preferably an e-mail alias, for use with Web sites such as this. When spam starts coming, discard the e-mail address as you would a moldy old reed and get another one. (An alias looks like an e-mail address and can be set to forward e-mail sent to it to your legit e-mail address. You can't, however, send e-mail from an alias.)
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