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I get tons of emails to addresses that have never existed. The spammers are either trying to get through on catch-all domain setups or they are hoping there really is a touhrck@****

I used a convoluted system which I have had to change in the past week or two due to excessive spam. Currently: All email to my domains pass - specific real addresses or not. They go through the TCH Spam Assassin with rather low tolerance settings (usually 2.5). They then forward to another service I have that's a $40 / yr email service named Runbox.com That service also runs them through SA but I don't think they catch anything because I can't adjust their level and the default is 5.0. After that, anything with a Spam header of 2 or more *'s gets thrown into a spam folder so I can check for false-positives. FYI, I have gotten 167 since last night. Yuck! Finally, if it is to my charter fishing client's address and not marked spam it is forwarded to his AOL account. That and all remaining non-spam email also gets forwarded to my gmail account. I am using The Bat! to Pop from Runbox through K9 which is an excellent Bayesian spam filter in order to get a separate copy and to send email from my non-gmail account. I want to see how long until it starts getting spam sent straight to it. I like The Bat! because it has all the regular features plus customizable templates - if it is an email to this group of people use this sig, if it's a reply quote the original this way and put my additional text here - totally flexible. Very nice. You can say "Hi Joe" or "Hi Joe@hotmail.com" or any of a large number of "macros" regarding the names and addresses of the people you are talking to, the date/time, etc. So, with all that happening I have gotten 6 legit emails to Gmail, 167 trapped spams that were quickly scanned and deleted, 2 spams slipped through to my charter fishing client and I'm a much happier camper than I was 2 weeks ago before the reorganization. I admit it's a bit involved and I had to plan it all out first but I'm a 50.69034% - Super Geek according to the geek test so that's the kind of stuff I like!

You could use "Subject matches Regex" but I've not learned the syntax for them. Not much help but it's a start

Ah but the selling strength of Gmail is that it uses Google's search engine technology to quickly find an email you are looking for. Imagine having to look by hand for that blasted email from whatnot.com with your password in it! They also have the labeling thing so you can attach multiple labels to an email to organize them. Another cool thing is that emails "stack" up together so you can follow a whole conversation back and forth under one heading in your mailbox. It's not only about 1Gb but that's impressive that the others are offering larger stuff now. Who says competition is a bad thing!

If you don't mind the address folks see after it gets to your page you can do this: Set up a normal subdomain ("sub") for domain.com Set up the one you want sub.domain.com with the files you want to show. Go to your subdomain section of cPanel Go to Redirects Redirect sub.domain.com to http://domain.com/sub.domain.com/ This will work with two things to consider. One is that you will have an "extra" sub folder along with sub.domain.com. The other is that after the visitor goes there the address of the page will show in the browser's address bar as http://domain.com/sub.domain.com/ The reason I had to keep sub as a folder is that there needed to be a place cPanel could write the .htaccess file to do the redirect. Perhaps someone else knows enough about htaccess to do it at the main domain folder level and you wouldn't need this sub folder. If you can live with this then there is no modification necessary.

I've been using it since it came out. No problems here (WinXP Home and Pro at work). I also just installed it and let it do the house cleaning. .7 to .8 was a mess for me but .8 to .9 was as it should be. Best wishes to the rest of you though in getting it straightened out.

Annie, can you bottle up some of that free time you have and send it to me? I can't remember the last time I had the chance to just browse my logs. Seriously, it's good to be on top of things and really good when you see that they are banging their heads against a wall and not getting in!

Sorry I misunderstood your method. (You gotta make yourself more clear, I say, more clear son. My brain's running around like a duck on a junebug. )

Dennis, he is adding the "valid" emails as accounts. That's why he can delete that email address as an account and it's instantly blackholed. You could blackhole the catchall's here and let the rest through. In fact, that's what I do, but it doesn't help with oeuchroeu@**** which I am seeing a lot of lately. Isn't spam lovely! Yuck!

Glad you got it worked out Scott. Thanks for the note on the Doctype too!

Then I guess it's a good thing we have the https: address and the link was changed to it so quickly, eh?

Nat, iCapture is a site that can show you what your site looks like to the Apple Safari browser. It's not what Brian uses but will give you an idea of what many Apple users will se. It may help. The site is at www.danvine.com/icapture

Thomas, this description is about as far away from who I picture you to be as you can get! Probably won't get many visitors in your vicinity to that site.

Yes, unencrypted. Honestly I don't worry about things, even passwords, sent over the internet because: 1. the packet nature of things makes it a jumble to start with. 2. there's much more chance the guy fulfilling my order will steal my passwords. 3. the #1 cryptographer rule: Any security method is sufficiently safeguarded if the pain of getting the information is greater than the value of the information itself. Basically, 99% of my stuff is not important enough for anyone to bother with #1 and the pain it takes to sniff and reconstruct. If it were locations or codes of nukes or the details of that new patent I'm applying for dealing with "events being announced by sounds stored in small sound files which are played when the event occurs" it would be different. I was just wondering how "real" the threat is for the average Internet user.

The Chicago Manual of Style is preferred for many publishing houses as the authority on these types of issues. In there it says: (mistakes above are mine.) They go on to say that almost everything should be spelled out including large numbers. After this is nine pages of "special cases" covering scientific usage, abbreviations, symbols, percentages, currencies, dates, time, vehicles, etc. Regarding definitive sources - The Gregg Reference Manual is basically evolved from a work for secretaries. The AP manual and the Chicago Manual of Style are made by those who write (create / compose) for a living. Choose the source you wish but 99.99% of Americans just have an intuitive understanding of the rules and wing it.

AHA! I'm a conservative so there! I make liberal use of nothing. Like Robert said, Nyah! (You really do have too much time on your hands don't you? )

But if it's stored on someone else's drive space and they have great search features to find anything you'd want to find, would you clean it up then? Not that this is what Google is offering with Gmail but it's what they are claiming. I just got my Gmail account as a newly accepted member of the pre-release group. The first thing they send to you is an email saying that you have to change the way you think about email. It's definitely different. By the way, I submitted for Gmail info under most of my email addresses I have but when I did the one that I'm signed up with adwords with I got an email saying "Wanna come in and play?" (Ok, it's a paraphrase.) but it did say that Adwords folks are more trusted to give them good feedback. There's a guy publishing his email address everywhere he can to see how long it takes to fill 1 Gig. Last I checked he wasn't even clase.

Sure, there's no problem with that. I was just saying that if you set up all of your domains in DW as real sites then you won't have to worry about it when you get ready to start converting them. There's even a download feature that you can use to "get" your sites that are on the server and copy them to your local hard drive. After you modify those files, and I'd suggest using DW for that, then you can "put" the new version back to the server. Either way is fine though. I'm sure you'll have frustrations so come by here and ask for help, but it will be fun too!

Make sure if you use matchmaking software that it does not use up an insane amount of CPU cycles too. Sounds cool, though.

Has anyone ever heard of someone sniffing and reconstructing packets that weren't sent over https? I'm just wondering because a lot of folks worry about it but I've never heard of it myself.

When you sign up for domains you can pay a little extra for privacy mode that will not list your email and other info to those doing whois lookups. It may help in this one case but in general it's a small help.

Uhm, don't you have to be the creator of something to patent it?

Just for clarification, we are discussing the alt and title attributes. The title tag is <TITLE> Your site title. </TITLE>

Hey Scott, Thanks for the reminder about the customary use of PageRank versus page rank. If we all can remember to do it then it will surely help. I also like using Yahoo for checking links. It's especially nice when you get disappointed looking at Google and go there and find out you didn't really waste your time getting all those links. I suspect that things will change even more quickly with Google as the money-minders ramp up to full speed. I just hope it doesn't change enough that the whole thing collapses around them.

If your sites don't require a lot of maintenance you may want to go ahead and set up the sites in DW, as placemarkers if nothing else. Once you set up the details about the sites you can then set up the new subdomains as you go. You may even want to "get" the files from the remote to your local directories so that you'll have them all ready to go in DW when you're set to make the change. As Tracy said, ask away, we're happy to help.