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The Conch Republic. (read about it at www.conchrepublic.com/history.htm for a giggle.) Truly, I'm from Kentucky and live in Florida, USA.

Thanks for the head's up!

The lesson here is to never do work without a contract making all this clear. If you do then you are leaving it up to a judge and much time, frustration and/or money to solve it. Even if matman is right, and it sounds like work for hire to me even without a written contract, but I am not a lawyer, then do you want to pursue this? You said it's pretty much a moot point now since the banner's kaput. The point of it is in your own words - You feel it's not fair, but then again, neither is life. My advice, for whatever it's worth, is to learn from it, let it go and get a contract written up before your next client comes along. We may feel like small potato web/graphics designers but we are playing in the grown-up (read cut throat) world and we gotta start acting like big-time players to survive.

I think it is a global spam thing. We are seeing a proportional increase in spam at work too.

My favorite is Net Mechanic - netmechanic.com/toolbox/html-code.htm which tells you the speed of the page load, common HTML errors, possible misspellings, browser compatibility and other info.

Another interesting tidbit: news.com.com/Mozilla+puts+bounty+on+bugs/2100-1002_3-5293659.html?tag=nefd.top Do you think you will ever see Microsoft offer a $500 bounty for every serious security bug reported to them? They'd go broke! This is a level of commitment to the consumer that attracts me and I daresay many others to Mozilla over Microsoft.

In the days of Usenet and the early Internet it was extremely beneficial for that information to be available. You have a down network or want to make contact with a network neighbor to work on some cool thing you could just look it up. Spammers ruined it and at this point it is thedefault so the Registrars go with it. Besides, it makes them a couple of extra bucks. I guess we could go back to Geocities for anonymity

Finger Lakes Hosting is indeed a reseller of TCH services and the links to TCH were put there on purpose. As Lisa said, it's all good.

Welcome to our home and thanks for the kind words! Hopefully we will have the opportunity to welcome you to the family soon too.

Mike, congrats on the house - it's a most excellent looking place. You can even store the equipment in the garage if you need to - no, not the snow blower - the real Michigan equipment - snowmobiles! I hope you can adjust to the climate quickly and I know you'll love the house! WTG Thumbs Up

Rob's right. As a business our only saving grace is that it costs the jerks to send us junk snail mail. It's free for them to fax us but there are laws against that and they can be traced. With spam it's a free for all - except those of us who wast our time sorting through it. I'm still waiting for the next step past Bayesian filtering because it seems pretty good at working things out - the next would be awesome. We just need it to become refined and massively available in a usable format. The autolearn of Spam Assassin makes me scratch my head and wonder how it can be good enough without user input on what's spam and what's ham. If only our brains were as stupid as the programs we wouldn't understand what V1Ag-r-A was and it wouldn't matter.

Unfortunately some of us are innundated anyway. Mad!!! My fishing charter guy's site is a prime example. In order for him to attract customers he has to be seen. Some of the fishing directories ("Find your captain" types) require email addresses and put them up for the prospective client to use. You can't use a fake address there or you'll lose business. He's not that well listed, in fact a Google search only turns up one instance of his address, and I have the address on his site cloaked via javascript. Even at this, he gets on average about 100 spams per day. With their continued greed they develop ways to slip past Spam Assassin even at a setting of 3.5. It's very frustrating for both of us - him for reading the 20 that get thru and me for not being able to stop it.

It doesn't help but remember the $9 is an administrative fee for keeping track of your info for you. If ICANN or other legit authority comes to them they will have to dig out your info and provide it. If it was *just* changing it when you register it then it would be even more aggravating. It still doesn't justify it being that much but as they said, it's not going to change - just like the phone company charging to make your phone unlisted.

I'd expect the headline to say "Mozila neutralizes Microsoft vulnerability in just 24 hours. Microsoft users still up the creek with no updates in site from Microsoft."

I get it - garden... plowed... pretty funny.

Yes he is but the advertising pop he'll give Miami and the team is worth some ego stroking

Besides, if they told everyone what they blocked then the advertisers would only change their ads making them ineffective.

I don't know exactly what you mean by equal rating. Any link to your site is beneficial for two reasons. One is that it provides another means for someone to get to your site and the other is that on the search engines that weigh popularity it is another vote for you. The amount of the benefit, of course, depends on many factors including the value of the site linking to yours as determined by the search engines and how many visitors they get that may be interested in your site. The only bad thing a link to your site can do is a reputation problem if you are selling Christian books and a I AM A SPAMMER site links to you - the visitors looking for Christian books may not appreciate that much... but as far as anything else a link to you will not hurt and will usually help, even if only a tiny bit.

Who cares... Miami has Shaq!

Just to fill in a bit, the reason JPG images degrade when sent through multiple programs is that JPG is called a "lossy" file format. The reason it is so much smaller than BMP is that it doesn't save every pixel. It fudges a bit and if one pixel is "close enough" to its neighbor then when it is saved the program throws away the info on one of the pixels. If you have an original image and make a bunch of changes to it and save it once then it's all good. If you make a change and save it (lost some info) and then make another change with a different program and save it (lost some more) and then use the final program to load it (lost even more) then you have a terrible image in the end. In fact, Fireworks from Macromedia doesn't even like saving in JPG. You can make it do it, of course, but it much prefers to save images in PNG which loses nothing in the process. Hope it helps anyone wondering what everyone was talking about image degradation.

AHA! One mystery solved. I still saw everything ok on your site in IE6 but then I went to the View -> Text Size and set it to medium, larger and largest and the problem became progressively worse. I have mine set to smaller by default so it didn't appear to be a problem. Look at what GroovyFish said. I have seen that with Dreamweaver the thing does that very operation differently depending on some random number based on the phase of the moon, ambient room temperature and day of the week... sometimes it does <P class and other times it does <p><span class. I'm not sure exactly why but have had to make hand-changes before for that very reason. If that doesn't pan out come back and we'll try something else.

Please remember though that there will only be one bill with TCH as a reseller. Whether you pay by PayPal, credit card or whichever there will be the charge for the reseller account and you'll have to get the others to pay you if you wish them to contribute. This is good for resellers because they can add their own touches and charge a little extra and it's good for TCH because there is only one bill to deal with.

Hey Hatmaker, I did a quick search and found this site forums.seochat.com/archive/t-9687 where they are discussing the issue. I found it by putting this search term into Google Hope it helps!

That's great Arvind! Thanks for the link. I just want to warn everyone not to put too much energy into the Google PageRank. It has issues. That being said, it's good to be able to see it without having to go to IE.

When someone goes to ****** the web server will try to find a default page to give them. It looks for index.html and index.htm, etc. If it doesn't find any of them it will serve up index.php to them. Just make sure that if anyone links to you they don't put index.htm and that you don't have any other files named index - dot - anything and you should be fine.