Hmmm...Hiatus?

BanditAngel · Post by **BanditAngel** » Tue Oct 22, 2002 4:02 pm

Didn't get it, no. Starting to suspect there's a problem with my email :\ try Banditangel @ inbox . net (no spaces

) again, and if that doesn't work it looks like I'm going to have to switch again, ugh :\

And glych, there are a total of 723 GIFs (vs 123 jpgs) in the archives. I'd be really suprised if they where all animated

Glych · Post by **Glych** » Tue Oct 22, 2002 6:15 pm

Hmmm....then I'm not sure about the .gifs....I just got a postmaster message today saying that the e-mail was delayed and will be sent shortly...

If you don't get it in 2 weeks, I'll resend it..that's all I'm giving them!

-glych

Glych · Post by **Glych** » Tue Oct 22, 2002 6:20 pm

Hmmm....then I'm not sure about the .gifs....I just got a postmaster message today saying that the e-mail was delayed and will be sent shortly...

If you don't get it in 2 weeks, I'll resend it..that's all I'm giving them!

-glych

BanditAngel · Post by **BanditAngel** » Tue Oct 22, 2002 10:27 pm

Email delayed and sent shortly, weird, I've never heard of that. Do you know if it was from my email (inbox.net) or yours? Glad to know mine isn't acting up though

Glych · Post by **Glych** » Wed Oct 23, 2002 9:11 am

yours, it said "postmaster@inbox.net"...

-glych

BanditAngel · Post by **BanditAngel** » Wed Oct 23, 2002 8:58 pm

I recently got one email within 5 minutes of it being sent (I was talking to the person when they sent it), and another within 2 days. I think my email might have gotten a bit flaky and lost the message you sent me :\

Glych · Post by **Glych** » Thu Oct 24, 2002 11:49 am

give me a sec then...

there, it should be sent.

-glych

BanditAngel · Post by **BanditAngel** » Thu Oct 24, 2002 4:35 pm

*gets out the soldering iron*
*threatens mail server with some serious rewiring if it doesn't start accepting that email*

I don't suppose you could just PM it to me?
HTML_Gremlin@yahoo.com should also work

Glych · Post by **Glych** » Thu Oct 24, 2002 11:04 pm

I'd feel very weird about having my password out there on an unsecure website that can theoretically be accessed by anyone.
Do you have another e-mail I can send it to?

-glych

BanditAngel · Post by **BanditAngel** » Fri Oct 25, 2002 12:56 am

Didn't know PMs can be accessed by anyone, any more than mail - But then, I never use em

HTML_Gremlin@yahoo.com
BanditAngel@hotmail.com

I figure given my luck, send it to both and hope one of them lets me read it. *curses his email problems, and wonders where his old mail server ever went...* It's sad that I'm viewing hotmail as a reliable option here :\

ZOMBIE USER 11735 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 11735** » Fri Oct 25, 2002 5:30 am

Didn't know PMs can be accessed by anyone, any more than mail

depends on the PM program but its not a very uncommon thing to have people use packet sniffers to pull out PM conversations.

That said, you still have to know that someone is there to look for in the first place.

This was one of the things we use to have to do at a collage I studied at. they had someone threating staff through PM and after that day they wanted any and all PM's from the schools library tracked.

BanditAngel · Post by **BanditAngel** » Fri Oct 25, 2002 2:07 pm

Ah, well administrators of a service can track pretty much anything, and look at anything, yeah. I'd just trust the keepspace admins with, well, the keenspace passwords

Anyways, no biggie

And ugh, it arrived fine at BOTH my hotmail and yahoo accounts, which means my inbox account has some "issues" with your email for some reason (I've gotten numerous other emails, just not yours, ugh). I don't suppose anyone can suggest a goof free email other than hotmail and yahoo (I've created an account with hotmail, NEVER posted the address, and gotten spam - I want email that doesn't have this issue, and I don't trust spam filters not to delete important stuff)? So far I've tried watchmail (reliable for a year, then fell off the face of the earth 6 months ago) and inbox (reliable, but refusing to let glych send me that one thing)

Siece · Post by **Siece** » Fri Oct 25, 2002 11:24 pm

BanditAngel wrote:I don't suppose anyone can suggest a goof free email other than hotmail and yahoo (I've created an account with hotmail, NEVER posted the address, and gotten spam - I want email that doesn't have this issue, and I don't trust spam filters not to delete important stuff)?

I have email accounts at both Jokeaday.net and sluggy.net, and have rarely had problems with either one. They both use the same provider, and so share the same idiosyncracies. If none of the stuff below bothers you, pick your favorite one and sign up.

The biggest problem I've seen is that the sites don't like to be polite when replying to/forwarding non-ASCII email. Should you attempt to do so, instead of giving you a reply field with the contents of the non-ASCII message pre-printed an ready to edit/reply, it gives you the reply field with the words "Message from <email@address> attached" where email@address is the person who sent it to you. If uncorrected, the original email will be sent as an attachment to your reply/forward. To correct the problem, delete or modify the line telling you the message is attached, then use your browser's back button and cut/paste the part of the message you want to quote.

Usually, it will save the text in the message field while you move back and forth for the cut and paste, but the text may be lost if there's more than will conveniently fit in your disk cache, so finish all the cut-and-pasting before you type that 30 page reply.

Secondly, it only allows 3 attachments at once, not counting the attached non-ASCII message thing noted above. There's also a block that prevents you from sending really huge attachments, so if you want to mail out your entire mp3 collection, you'll have to do t one song at a time.

Third, the free edition uses pop-up ads. They have various premium packages that ditch the ads, give you more account space, and have other perks, but those require having money. A good pop-up blocker solves this problem nicely.

You also might care to know that they use both Java and perl, so if you're using Windows XP, or a minimalist browser such as Lynx, you may have trouble accessing the sites.

On the sites themselves, Joke A Day is, as you may have guessed, a humour site. The webmaster has forbidden people under 18 to visit his site, but this was done primarily to prevent the lawsuits which would occur if Ray told a joke that offended some little kid's mother. There's not much that would qualify as "mature content" by any reasonable definition, but the site's slogan is "Making fun of morons since 1997", and Ray has often said that if he doesn't offend someone every day, then it means he's not telling the jokes right. If you're offended easily, this may not be the site for you, but the people Ray aims to offend are all at the bottom 1% of the intelligence scale, so I don't think you'll have any real problems.

You probably know this aleady, but, for the sake of completeness, sluggy.net is the official fansite for all things related to Sluggy Freelance. If you have no clue what I'm talking about, I wouldn't admit it around here.

Do either of these help with your mail problem?

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BanditAngel · Post by **BanditAngel** » Sat Oct 26, 2002 2:01 am

Thanks, I've got a sluggy.net account now. Funny, one of the banner ads was for a pop-up stopper

. Anyways, this should be a reliable one, thanks