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not really, I mean free seems to load faster, but you get no tech support and your options on testing and the resident shield are greater in Pro which can improve performance and increase efficent use of resources. But free is a good product. It's interesting that they now bundle with Kerio, I use Kerio 2.1.5, that version 4 never really impressed me much considering the resources it uses.

I was reviewing the new messages tonight and read one concerning commercial email and requirements that are imposed by law. My question is what qualifies as commercial email? I have a few hobby sites, I so far consider attempting to resell hosting space a hobby and as such under the law dealing with hobby businesses since I don't generate a specific amount of income it is not regulated as a true business would be. This being the case I would consider emails from my domain as being non-commercial. I would not use email to ask for business, only to respond to inqiuries about business, or questions concerning accounts, and in fact have not used the domain email system for much more than tests to this point. But I'm needing to get moving on developing this project in the next month or so and would like to have a clear understanding of just what might be considered commercial email coming from my domain by TotalChoice. I've read some of the linked site in the prior thread, but would like some direct feedback about what management would consider commercial email from my domain. Thanks. Doug

thanks for the heads up, mozilla recommends all Thunderbird users update.

Even if I do hotlink protection, which I'll turn on in a moment, what's to stop somebody from downloading the image to their machine/server and using it anyway? dean <{POST_SNAPBACK}> my coding is rusty, but there is a way to disable right clicks for a given page, i.e., the page your image is on. without the right click, a person can not "save image as.." which does give you some more protection. people will always be able to "grab" the image via a screen grabber (like hyperSnap). So, if your FTP is set up right, and right click disabled, no one can "download" your images. they can use a screen grabber off of the local machines screen.

You do it quite well. The whole staff. Professional, polite, and dedicated. Sometimes in situations that can really test the fabric of the organization. My dad had a simple expression, "class", for people and organiztions like TCH. It was about the style and manner of the people.

dean, hotlinking protection is a good idea. over time people will find your images and some of them will try to use them by direct link to the image file. allowing only authorized domains this type of access is a good way to save bandwidth not to mention protecting your property.

one the one hand, you win, hands down, a knockout in the first round. one the other hand, do you really need it all? How many home assistants do you have?

That's the weird thing. I only have 2 MB of images. did they download all of my images 800 times? why might someone do that? could they be infected by some worm/virus/troj/etc? d <{POST_SNAPBACK}> there are specific programs, I think they used to be called trawlers or spiders that can be configured to scan the net and download sites containing keywords or images. My quess is that it was a misconfigured program that repeatedly either downloaded your whole site or just the images on the site. It's a way to go "shopping" for images. I think google and yahoo use similar programs to index sites.

I'm a minimalist. With a MSI K7T Turbo2 motherboard, a 400watt Hercules power supply, an AMD Athlon 2600+ (133Mhz bus) (2Ghz) , a Linksys network card, a Westell broadband DSL modem, a Hercules 3D Prophet MX II video card, 3 sticks PC133 168 pin 256K SDRAM DIMMS,and a Western Digital 40GIG Hard Disk with 8MB buffer, a Hewlett Packard keyboard and a Hewlett Packard Pavilion monitor ( the keyboard and monitor a gift from my mother when she got a new Dell) and laying on my desk, I have my basic access system. This is the core. Nothing else is plugged in until needed. A 56K modem for fax software, 3 various models of CD-ROM/DVD drives, 4 extra Hard disk dives, a nice speaker system. All being controlled by Windows XP professional, no updates or Service Packs installed. The original XP professional I've found through alot of testing was the quickest, and it has not gotten quicker. My system boots in 22 seconds and shuts down in no less than 4 secs. I run AVG anti virus and Kerio 2.14 firewall. It's really a nice system. I aquired it piece by piece. The western digital WD4400JB units have 8MB buffer and can be had from Amazon for 60 bucks, shipping included, they are good, I have 2 of them. The memory is PNY, it lasts, besides it has a lifetime warranty. Here are a couple shots. http://cvws.info/image/computer0.jpg http://cvws.info/image/computer1.jpg oh, and the workspace.. http://cvws.info/image/workspace.jpg I think I've got about 300 bucks into it. Hey, this is a cool idea. I'm new so I was not around for the last one. But it's fun seeing what everybody uses.

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=158083 oops, I now see you already have 1.0, so I'm not sure, I have not done the new one yet either. I guess the just install over would work fine.

Glad you got it working. I looked every for a zipped version I thought maybe I was going blind. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Firefox official in a zip used to be available from the site, now I think it's only on the mirror servers, I know a lot of the independents use them. Difference is that the exe writes to the registry (windows version) so you must use that at least once per major version update, then you can use the zip independents to get the optomized build capabilities.if you want to.

Thanks for the link. When I find a page like this I always save it to disk. I'm never sure if I bookmark it that it will be there next visit. (Here today, Gone tomorrow kinf of thing) I hae not seen a writeup listing the affects of the various virii before, at least not as concise and on the same document. On a side issue,Gorilla Design Studio, http://accs-net.com/hosts/ publishes a hosts file to use to block ad servers, the latest update being 3/4/2004. Anybody know of another publisher of a similar hosts file? Thanks.

pretty much specifically off topic to this thread, but on a related issue, are there any ISP's that are currently blocking email that generates from domains on specific totalchoicehosting servers? This was an issue with a former reseller host ( the now defunct slashhost that was assimilated by another hosting provider). Basically what happened was if a spammer happened to be on your server, then some of these blacklisting providers to ISP's would add the server to the list and propagate it to the ISP's using their service, which effectively blocked all email from reasonable domains on said server to the domains on the ISP using the blacklisting service. Has this been an isssue here in the past? And if so, how did you guys deal with it? Thanks. Doug

I'm using Firefox also, I did not read the article, but I think one think alot of people overlook is the machine the browser runs on. Firefox on a AMD 2600+ is gonna be faster than Firefox on an AMD 1 gig Duron. Even more so if you get an optomized version the independents are building. So, no matter what browser, take alook at the machine it is running on.