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Emails and Spam Filters

Several people recently have had the emails, that they sent, fall victim to spam filters somewhere before getting to their recipients.
In one case of which I know, the email was sent to a mailing list. Many mailing list programs have filtering routines that are designed to block unwanted messages — not just blocking unsolicited commercial [...]

Outlook Express Links Don’t Work

I received an interesting question from subscriber Maria. She has been using Firefox, as many people do, including me. In this case, she had just upgraded her Internet Explorer to IE7 and was having problems with Outlook Express.
Maria wrote:

Terry, I currently have Fire Fox and Internet Explorer on my computer. I just added the Internet [...]

Inexpensive and Free Dialup Internet Service Providers

With AOL stepping back from the dialup market in the US, what’s left?In most areas, there are local phone companies and other local companies offering dialup services. You might be interested in them for multiple reasons, including supporting your local businesses. Some even have arrangements to use the large dialup networks that the large ISP’s [...]

Making Viewed Fonts and Images Larger (or smaller)

Ever go to a web site and find that the fonts are huge? Or, maybe they’re too small for your eyes?
Our favorite web browsers, whether we use Internet Explorer 6, IE7, Firefox 1.5, Firefox 2, Opera 8 or Opera 9, have multiple ways for us to change the size of the words we see.
Some of [...]

Eudora to Become Open-Source

The final commercial version of my favorite email program Eudora was issued during the week of October 15, 2007. We finally got a new version, updating from v7.01 to 7.1.0.9.
There was another piece of good news — in plain sight — further down the web page at www.Eudora.com. Qualcomm, the phone manufacturer, has finally decided [...]