Hey there, First and foremost, a happy and safe Holiday Season and
New Year to you! Hopefully 2004 was okay for you, and 2005 will be
even better, and 2008 will be even better yet! <hehehe> Secondly, my sincere apologies for being so bad about writing
and responding to e-mail, esp. the past couple of months. It wasn’t
specific to you, but applied to everyone evenly. So to try to make up for that, because I haven’t written
any kind of year-in-review in years, should you be interested or find one
at all interesting, I decided to take a moment this year to write one. The documents I create and save on my hard drive are organized
into five primary folders, and that, vs. chronologically month-by-month,
seemed like a good structure for this review, so... ma-main (e-mail): new address, spam stats, lost e-mail ---------------- And up ’til this 8th year, it’s remained incredibly
spam-free. I also created “dsta@...” for job-hunting, which
quickly became a spam-magnet, so I know what spam is, and killed it. But earlier this year, someone thought s/he was doing me
the favor of submitting my address to some website for a chance to win an
iPod, and that was the crack in the dyke. For several months I was up to the challenge of tweaking
server-based filters and client-based filters, but now I just don’t
have the patience, which is a sign it’s time for something new. So after eight pretty wonderful years, I will be deleting “doan” from the qmug.org mail servers so mail to it will bounce. In its place will be “****@qmug.org” (that’s d-s-zero-5). |
Please update your address books to reflect this change.
I am _trusting_ you w/ this address, so please use it responsibly.
This will have no affect on any QMUG/LA or Yahoo e-mail addresses you may
have on file for me. ..... spam stats. Only because I wanted to know how effective my server- and client-side
filters were do I have these statistics, and these are up from ~30 in Dec
2003. _______________ Aug ... Sept .. Oct ... Nov ... Dec So my server-side filters that I was tweaking each month
were able to catch an average of 200 pieces of spam, and my client-side
filters probably caught another 200, but I’m just tired of receiving
it and just want to start fresh. .... lost e-mail. One other straw to break the camel’s back is that on Sun,
Nov 4th, my external FireWire hard drive that I bought on Thu, Mar 18th,
for $100 died. (But it was a _new_ HD(!), and it wasn’t suppose
to fail!) With the help of a Mac consultant friend of mine, I was
able to recover the data from the other four primary folders — mac,
music, men, misc — in their entirety. His two hours cost me $200,
and were worth every minute and penny. So while I am incredibly sad about having lost my main
primary folder of e-mail, my loss could have been much worse — everything
related to www.qmug.org not uploaded, all my mp3s, all my pics (below),
written correspondence, etc. My last full/complete back-up to CD was Apr ’02, and
I didn’t do it again last year in 2003 or this year in 2004 (burner
died), so I could have saved myself at least 20 months of e-mail and $200
if I had. ::kicks self:: So anything nice you’ve said to me in e-mail in the
past 30 months is gone, and likewise, anything nice I’ve said to you
in e-mail is too — I have no record of it — so I spilled my milk,
shed my tears, and have to move on now. |