Today’s spammers, viruses, emailbots, and spoofers can forge enough information within an email to obfuscate its origin from the average casual recipient.
However, the rest of the header information in emails can be used successfully to track their source if you know where to look. While Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), the main protocol used when [...]
In the words of Stephanie’s attorneys, my “website refers to and quotes emails which [I] allege are from Ms. Adams” and she has advised them “that she did not send those emails, a fact [I] should know because [I] claim to be able to trace the sender.” That’s as ridiculous as saying, “our client has [...]
This is the last chapter in the nine-month-long saga of ItsYourDomain and its holding of my domain name. As of yesterday, it has finally been transferred to GoDaddy.com. Huge, huge sigh of relief.
I urge anyone who is similarly stuck at IYD and is desperately trying to transfer out to contact Nick Starai. As a long-time [...]
In response to my myriad problems with ItsYourDomain and DomainsNext, and my complaints posted here on RR…, I actually received an email from ItsYourDomain last Sunday:
Hello Richard, this is Nick from ItsYourDomain.com. I have been directed to your richards ramblings link on your website through a customer (Sarah Kollar). I have been reading your site [...]
Yesterday, a comment was posted on RR…, supposedly from John Torrey, CEO of Shareyourexperiences.com, in response to myriad comments left by other visitors that the Share Your Experiences organization is a scam in the same manner as the seemingly defunct Word of Mouth Connection.
Unfortunately, I believe that John’s reply is just another set of lies [...]
So here it is: June 28, three days after my domain name renewal period is over. Am I any closer to moving my domain from ItsYourDomain to a more reputable registrar? Absolutely not. In fact, I had no choice but to spend the $14.95 that ItsYourDomain charges for another year with them, or either risk [...]
[I've been so freakin' busy lately I just haven't had time to blog. It was a lot easier to find the time when I worked normal 9-5 hours -- the schedule was steady, I needed breaks, I had more time at home, etc. When I was fully unemployed, it was also easier to blog, but [...]
I have two weeks of catching up to do:
Why is it that when people see a “Wet Paint” sign on a wall, they have to touch it just to make sure? I saw three people do that at the Santana Row shopping mall late last month. What, do they think the sign is lying?
Along a [...]
My Eudora email client started giving me a strange and frustrating error message the other day. Every time I sent out email, a Winsock network timeout error code 10053 showed up in the Task Errors window. Coincidentally, I had recently installed a few other minor applications so it was almost impossible to easily isolate the [...]
First of all, I take spam very seriously. Since I get about 40-50 spam emails per day, I’ve established a few procedures I use on a daily basis that help reduce the amount I am personally exposed to:
Reduce the spam:
Trust no one. If I’m on a website that asks for my email address in order [...]
