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Cool, thanks. Between the time I posted the question and you answered I got an invite. Rather fun.

These invites are always electronic, yes?

WooHoo!!

Thanks Jim, I appreciate it.

I can't seem to figure out a way to filter out (discard) all email except for mail with something specific in the subject line. In other words ONLY mail with say, "User Form" gets to userform@**** mailbox. If this is already spelled out somewhere and I missed it I apologize. Thanks!

I believe you can tell by file size. As has been previously mentioned though you need to be careful of 'hogging' resources on a shared server.

I can't see anything - keeps timing out.

That's just beyond ridiculous.

Yea - thanks Dick. I ended up using it as well. It's pretty nice and a heck of a lot nicer than looking at the default.

I believe I would like to patent "Nothing". heehee

Feds Decline to Create 'Do-Not-Spam' List By TED BRIDIS, AP Technology Writer WASHINGTON - The Bush administration said Tuesday it will not create a national do-not-spam registry to discourage unwanted e-mail, fearing it could backfire and become a target list for new victims. The Federal Trade Commission told Congress that senders of unwanted sales pitches might mine such a registry for names. Its chairman, Timothy Muris, quipped that consumers "will be spammed if we do a registry and spammed if we do not." The commission was obligated by lawmakers to consider the proposal under the "can spam" legislation that Bush signed in December, an idea patterned after the FTC's enormously successful do-not-call registry to limit telemarketing calls. But the FTC concluded that on the Internet, unlike within the highly regulated U.S. telephone network, regulators would be "largely powerless to identify those responsible for misusing the registry." Muris said that, given the risks of consumers adding their names to a do-not-spam registry, "I wouldn't put my e-mail address on such a list." Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., the leading supporter in Congress for a no-spam registry, said the FTC's decision was disappointing. "The registry is not the perfect solution, but it is the best solution we have," Schumer said. Regulators instead proposed broad adoption of new authentication technology that will make it more difficult to disguise the origin of unwanted e-mails. Several proposals from leading technology companies, including Microsoft Corp., are under consideration by industry. "A national do-not-e-mail registry, without a system in place to authenticate the origin of e-mail messages, would fail to reduce the burden of spam and may even increase the amount of spam received by consumers," the commission said. If new authentication plans fail to emerge, the FTC will convene a federal advisory committee to determine whether the government could require Internet providers to adopt one. "Without effective authentication of e-mail, any registry is doomed to fail," the commission said. The government said it was particularly worried about issues of security and privacy with respect to children whose addresses might be added to such a registry. "A registry that identified accounts used by children, for example, could assist legitimate marketers to avoid sending inappropriate messages to children," the commission said. "At the same time, however, the Internet's most dangerous users, including pedophiles, also could use this information to target children."

I always wondered about that..........

from globeandmail.com... Yahoo fortifies free e-mail Associated Press San Francisco — Internet giant Yahoo Inc. is fortifying its free e-mail service with 25 times more storage and freeing up millions of previously claimed e-mail addresses in an effort to thwart a looming threat from its increasingly disruptive rival Google Inc. Beginning Tuesday, all of Yahoo's free e-mail accounts will be upgraded to 100 megabytes, a move spurred by Google's plans to offer 1,000 megabytes of free storage through its Gmail service, which has remained in a test phase since early April. Yahoo has been offering four megabytes of free e-mail storage, although some people with accounts opened several years ago have six megabytes of free storage. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Yahoo disclosed that it would be increasing its free storage to 100 megabytes during an analyst meeting held last month, but hadn't provided a specific time for the upgrade until now. The company hopes to appeal to e-mailers in other ways, too. Angling for new users, Yahoo has decided to let people begin signing up for addresses that have been inactive for years. The offer is designed to lure web surfers who may have been previously interested in signing up for a free Yahoo e-mail account only to learn one of their preferred handles had already been claimed. "Some of these addresses could be very juicy and might attract a lot of interest," said David Ferris, an e-mail analyst in San Francisco. Yahoo says "tens of millions" of dormant e-mail addresses will be made available again. The company also say it will improve the tools used to search its e-mails — a feature that Google has been touting — and spruce up the service with a cleaner look. "This is a highly competitive marketplace and we have been listening to our customers so we can build the things that our users want," said Brad Garlinghouse, Yahoo's vice-president of communications products. A Google spokesman declined to comment on Yahoo's changes or the company's Gmail service. Mountain View, Calif.-based Google can't say much about Gmail or its other products because the company is pursuing an initial public offering of stock, which requires management and other insiders to remain mum. Although it's still not available to the general public, Gmail has received widespread publicity since Google unveiled its plans to get into the free e-mail business just a few weeks before the company's IPO filing. Not all the feedback has been positive. Many privacy watchdogs and some legislators have railed against Google's plans to electronically scan e-mail and deliver text-based ads related to the topics correspondents are writing about — something Yahoo insists it will never do. Gmail, nevertheless, appears to have the makings of a hot commodity. Some people already have been buying restricted invitations to sign up for early Gmail accounts on EBay, with some bids surpassing $60 (U.S.). Google has been steadily expanding Gmail's reach by allowing existing accountholders to send invitations to friends and family to join the service. Yahoo operates the most popular free e-mail service on the Internet. The company's e-mail service attracted 39.8 million unique users in April, trailed by Microsoft Corp.'s Hotmail service at 34.6 million unique users, according to Nielsen Net/Ratings. The Hotmail service offers only two megabytes of free e-mail storage. During the past three years, Yahoo has been trying to drum up more revenue by selling subscriptions to premium e-mail accounts that offered more storage and other features, such as stronger protection against junk mail. The company has never disclosed how many subscribers pay for its premium e-mail service.

You will often need to set the time span on the search page. It's under 'Search Options'. the search function defaults to 30 days or newer.

Thank you kind sir - same for you!

Perhaps you could set up forwarders and matching Yahoo accounts or similar.

No, no, nooooooooo Say it ain't soooooooooo

Those are amazing! I don't even want to think about what would have happened if................

Not sure but I'll guess it's the time the backup was created 9:46 (and 32 seconds)

I used a BEFSR41 for about 1 1/2 years before I retired it in the interests of going wireless. Never had any problems with it.

In another thread a couple days ago I posted how wonderful the weather was. Short lived it was. Always is. It's now 94f with 90% humidity and some of the worst air you can imagine. Every bit as bad as L.A. or New York. You wouldn't think CT could get so bad but it does. And you'd be suprised at how many people do not have air conditioners - myself included. My poor pc is so hot..lol. I best see if I can find another fan.

Part the second :

Pretty funny. I had to dig around my "well organized" room (for those of you who have seen it....lol) and I found it. An article from 'The Onion' (farcical newspaper) from March 1998. Too much to type so I scanned it in 2 parts. Part the first :

About 74F in Naugahyde, almost no humidity - sun shining brightly Days should all be like this.

Tom & Jerry