Unutterably Silly So what are you doing RIGHT NOW?

[Billi]

Not exactly "right now" but about 24 hours ago - I hope you're not too rigid with me: going to the movies. We've watched "The King's Speech" and a few hours later that film won several oscars! Colin Firth was great!

[LCF]

Originally Posted by DMcCunney

"Huge problem" translating to "server crash, and no backups?"

Out of curiosity, are they still in business? I'd be tempted to bet they aren't.

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Dennis

Well, a login page shows on the previous homepage. They now offer different webmail services. Like x emails with your website as @yourwebsite.com. Apparently there are still people wishing to pay them... they probably weren't there around the time I left, otherwise they would think twice. Also, collecting money and bragging with the great service you have probably makes it finally profitable to make a backup...

[Latinandgreek]

Originally Posted by LCF

No they didn't plan, it was a "huge problem" they had. I guess someone spilled coffee on the only HD in the server and then put it in a microwave do dry faster...

BUT, good news, the book I waited for almost 3 years is finally going to be out tomorrow. And amazon sent it yesterday

So exciting, I love it when that happens! I think I'm going to have to check this series out.

[beppe]

Originally Posted by DMcCunney

I had problems back in the days when I had a DSL account because of limited space in my account on their email server. I was (and am) on some high volume lists, and it was possible for mail to bounce because my Inbox on the server was full before I had a chance to check it if I was traveling. That's one nice thing about GMail. I have 7.5GB of storage and counting, and don't worry about Inbox overflows.

Another is that GMail currently has a 20MB limit on attachment size. That's a mixed blessing for stuff I might send as attachments, because the recipient may use email that can't receive attachments that big. In practice, it's not a problem, as I seldom send attachments, and most are nowhere near that size.


Ouch!

If that happened over here, I'd expect something like a class action lawsuit against the company. At minimum, they'd be expected to tell you they planned to delete mail in free accounts, and give you an option to preserve it before it went away if you didn't plan to upgrade.


I did have mail in my Yahoo account go away, because I hadn't accessed the account in some time. They did in fact send email warning me it would happen, but they sent it to the Yahoo address I never had cause to look at because I only used it to send things, and did that seldom, so I never saw it till too late.

The only reason I used it at all was to get around the one thing I don't like about GMail: they forbid attachments containing executables. I occasionally need to send someone a program, so this is a problem. To make it more fun, GMail never documented what they considered executables. I had a zip archive containing only HTML and png files bounced, apparently because a user could theoretically click on the downloaded attachment in email to open the zip file, then click on an html file in the archive and open it in a browser, and the HTML might try to do Bad Things.

I didn't lose anything I cared about, so no big deal, but I do now have GMail polling the Yahoo account, Just In Case.

Yahoo wouldn't mind if I upgraded to a paid account, but they offer nothing compelling enough to get me to do it.


Google stores everything in at least three geographically separate locations. I tell anyone that if something happens big enough to interrupt Google's services, I likely have far greater problems than being able to access my mail.
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Dennis

A neat and free way out of it is using something like Dropbox that lets you move around and share bigger files.

Another advantage of Google is that I can have as many mail accounts as I want, so that it is easy to have an account for serious things related to my identity and an other/others useful for internet, where I prefer to be anonymous. For instance, to join that Recluse thing that is going on, very well thank *you*, I opened an other one.

[nohmi2]

Originally Posted by DMcCunney

What are you having problems with? I use GMail as my primary email these days, and can probably assist.

The most confusing point for new users is probably "Where are the email folders?" Well, there aren't any. In their place, GMail substitutes labels and filters.

The GMail mail store on Google's service is a database, and can be searched using standard Google search mechanisms. You can apply labels you create to messages. These labels are index keys into the database, and can be used as search terms to locate messages of interest.

You can also create arbitrary filters to process incoming mail based on various criteria. I have a number of them. Most email I get is processed by one or another filter that applies a label, like MobileRead. The filter can also Archive the message. Messages that are archived to not appear in the Inbox. By default, labels with unread messages show on the left side of the GMail screen. Clicking on a label switches to a display of all messages with that label. It works like folders do in most email clients, with one important difference: you can apply more than one label to a message. This lets you have the same message appear in more then one "folder", which is impossible with email systems that use folders.

My GMail account polls my other accounts, so all email appears in GMail. It's also set up here so that replies made to messages sent to those acounts appear to come from those accounts, so it's not obvious GMail is in the loop.
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Dennis

Many thanks Dennis.

I am going to have to give it a try either later today or tomorrow.

I'll print out first and read.

Cheers

[LCF]

Originally Posted by Latinandgreek

So exciting, I love it when that happens! I think I'm going to have to check this series out.

I can only recommend them! The first at least, but there were some reviews of the coming book and they went from WOW to WOW.

[Sweetpea]

I should be working but I can't put this book down... I just can't!

[Latinandgreek]

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

I should be working but I can't put this book down... I just can't!

What book, if I may ask?

[FlorenceArt]

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

I should be working but I can't put this book down... I just can't!

Ahem... so you're posting and reading at the same time?

[Sweetpea]

Originally Posted by Latinandgreek

What book, if I may ask?

Dragonsong, by Anne McCaffrey.

Originally Posted by FlorenceArt

Ahem... so you're posting and reading at the same time?

Two monitors, one with my browser, the other with ADE... (I found out the Calibre viewer doesn't show italics).

[Latinandgreek]

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

Dragonsong, by Anne McCaffrey.



Two monitors, one with my browser, the other with ADE... (I found out the Calibre viewer doesn't show italics).

I'm always on the lookout for "unputdownable" books.

[MrPLD]

I finally got my buttocks out of the chair and put together a technical blog about indie publishing and such (not about writing!), the trick is going to be doing this every couple of days - wish I could just siphon off all the drivel I write on forums in any given day

( http://elitadaniels.com/techblog )

[desertblues]

Originally Posted by Latinandgreek

I'm always on the lookout for "unputdownable" books.

The stand, from Stephen King, The name of the Rose by Ecco, Sacajawea by Ann Lee Waldo, The Far Pavillions by MMKaye, Masterpiece by Miranda Glover, Riding the Iron Rooster-The Great Railway Bazar etc from Paul Theroux, My name is Red - Snow by Orhan Pamuk, Wild Swans by Jung Chang, Dune-books from Frank Herbert, books about Thomas Covenant by Stephen Donaldson, collected works of Saramago, Luka and the fire of life by Salman Rusdie, classics by Jane Austen, portrait of a lady by Henry James, Philip Pullmans books about Myra ( amber spyglass, subtle knife, golden compass).

[Latinandgreek]

Originally Posted by desertblues

The stand, from Stephen King, The name of the Rose by Ecco, Sacajawea by Ann Lee Waldo, The Far Pavillions by MMKaye, Masterpiece by Miranda Glover, Riding the Iron Rooster-The Great Railway Bazar etc from Paul Theroux, My name is Red - Snow by Orhan Pamuk, Wild Swans by Jung Chang, Dune-books from Frank Herbert, books about Thomas Covenant by Stephen Donaldson, collected works of Saramago, Luka and the fire of life by Salman Rusdie, classics by Jane Austen, portrait of a lady by Henry James, Philip Pullmans books about Myra ( amber spyglass, subtle knife, golden compass).

I've actually read and greatly enjoyed quite a few of these, looks like we have similar taste

[desertblues]

Masterpiece by Mirand Glover was an interesting read. It is about a woman, an artist which sells herself as an artist. The performances of her are for sale and so is she, for a certain period of time.