in a
newsletter I receive from:-
the editor was bemoaing the fact that she had had problems with her T-1 internet service which I gather is one of the common
electrical specification for the signals on the wires of what I dimly recall from my days in the UK as
ISDN. A precursor of DSL presumably and is therefore some sort of premium and supposedly reliable high speed service.
BUT "Lately it seems the T-1 has gone down just about every time it rained. And it's been raining a lot in North Central
Texas this summer. Usually it lasts anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours, but this last week we had the mother of all
outages: the T-1 died around 22:00 on Wednesday night and finally - after numerous complaints to Speakeasy, our provider,
and assurances that they, Covad and the telco were working through the night to fix it - came back up on Friday around 16:00.
interestingly she commented:-
"They say every cloud has a silver lining and I guess the good thing about this experience was that I went an entire day
and a half without seeing a single spam message. No bogus "ecards from a friend." No notices that my mortgage application
has been approved at some amazing low rate. No attempts to sell me prescription drugs or adult videos or OEM software or
weight-loss remedies or body enhancement devices. No huge discounts on fake Rolexes. No lonely guys and girls urging me to
watch their web cams. No unreadable messages in foreign languages whose alphabets I don't even recognize. No unintelligible
messages ostensibly in English consisting of "word salad" designed to confuse spam filters."
Which seems to just about sum up the silly and pointless spam situation,she omitted the scourges of nearly every Yahoo group
I subscribe to which are gradually being taken over by oddly named i.e computer generated members posting ludicrous messages
about the attractions or otherwise of "biker boys" and spurious and probably completely worhless online degrees or medical qualifications all most annoying.
Whilst writing I made a note a while ago of a particularly obnoxious and stoopid ersatz Japanese corfid member calling itself "JDAYIOPS" who professed to be a "peculiar" and/or "happy" professor and I am pleased to see that both his
posting and his membership (member 4725) now are bereft of the anoying detail. Well done CHar
This has been a Public Appreciation Posting from
John Fowles Bt
When I am notified with an alert about a post that is SPAM of any sort, I get it in my e-mail so I read it there, then I have it here as well and then I have the actual post to look at and then delete it.
