Monday, December 24, 2001

Mirthlink?

I gave my sister a Linksys wireless card for her Dell laptop. Works fine. She's up on the household 802.11b LAN, working the Web.

Her problem: she needs to pick up and send mail on her Earthlink account. EL will let her pick up her POP mail, but not send it, unless she's talking over her own dial-up account. I have the same problem on my own Earthlink account, but I rarely use it (see below), so it hasn't been an issue.

I know this has something to do with limiting spam and all that, but I'm hoping one of ya'll will know a workaround. We can't seem to find anything on the EL site.

Thanks, and Merry Christmas to ya'll.

Mainspam

For the heck of it I just checked my Earthlink mail account, which I hadn't visited in over a year. More than 2600 messages came down. Most were spam from nobodies or e-notifications from Earthlink itself, but a surprising amount of unsolicited promotional spam came from household names:

Harris PollIBMJC PennyMapquest

Wireless interstructure, cont'd

Nice response from Glenn on the betting line for Boingo's intent to support more than one platform.

2-way radio

Ken(Radio) Rutkowski says he never harvests email addresses and that unsubscribing from his newsletter is easy.

And I appreciate his weighing in, too.

Chinux

Here's Dan on Linux in China. Good piece, with lots of good points.

I haven't said it before here, but I believe that Linux' best opportunities as a desktop OS are in what we used to call the Third World. And, meaning no disrespect at all, I include China in that category.

Merry Christmas Eve

Christmas comes a day early in our house this year, which means the Santa visitation is in progress, even as I blog. Excuse me while I give the old man a hand...