Citizens Bank idiocy round-up
Citizens Bank has been particularly idiotic recently. Here’s the round-up of all the disappointments we’ve suffered at their hands…
Category Archives: Internet
Solving the GNU Mailman MIME message footer problem
If you administer a GNU Mailman installation, you are probably aware that message footers don’t always work quite right: if a message submitted to a list is entirely plain text with no attachments, then the footer is fine, but if it’s formatted in HTML or has attachments, then the footer is added to the message… Read More »
Spamming from Robert Wexler continues, this time via Scott Maddox
Yet another chapter in the saga of the political spam I can’t seem to put a stop to, courtesy of ex-Congressman Robert Wexler. I’ve just been spammed by Scott Maddox, who is running for Florida Commissioner of Agriculture & Consumer Services. Like I care!
Supposed SysAdmin & Network Security experts don’t know how to run a secure Web site
Yesterday, I decided I wanted to unsubscribe from one of the e-newsletters published by SANS, which bills itself as, “the most trusted source for computer security training, certification and research.” There were no instructions in the e-newsletter for how to unsubscribe, so I went to their Web site. It told me that I had to… Read More »
Honda Village stops spamming my wife, starts spamming me instead
[You can read the whole series of Honda Village postings here.] November 17, 2009 American Honda Motor Company, Incorporated Honda Automobile Customer Service Fax: (310) 783-3023 To whom it may concern: I sent you the attached letter via fax on November 17. You did not give me the courtesy of a reply, but at least… Read More »
Dropbox — easy, fast personal file sharing between computers (and even iPhones!)
A friend of mine (thanks Bruce!) pointed me at a totally cool personal file sharing service called Dropbox. In a nutshell, Dropbox smartly and automatically synchronizes a hierarchy of folders among any number of Windows PCs, Macs, Linux PCs and iPhones. All of the synchronized changes are automatically backed up on Dropbox’s servers, and you… Read More »
Congressman Robert Wexler ignores spam complaint, continues to bombard my inbox
Last November, I posted on my blog a copy of a letter which I faxed to Congressman Robert Wexler, in which I chastised him for giving my email address (which I gave him when I made a donation to his campaign, so that he could send me a receipt) to another politician’s campaign and demanded… Read More »
New Massachusetts unemployment insurance employer Web site crashes and burns upon launch
(Simulblogged at universalhub.com.) The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has a convoluted(*) unemployment insurance system, under which employers are required to make various quarterly and annual filings and quarterly payments involving at least two different state agencies. This system is administered by the Department of Unemployment Assistance (DUA), who decided to replace their old, paper-based system with… Read More »
My new favorite open-source software: mairix by Richard Curnow
I am an email pack-rat. I have saved just about every email message I’ve sent or received at work or at home in the past twenty years (excluding messages sent to public mailing lists). That’s a lot of email, over 400,000 messages. I don’t just do this for the heck of it. I look for… Read More »
After 20 years, AIPAC is still behind the curve on how to use the Internet
Around twenty years ago when I was at MIT, I spent far more hours than I care to contemplate combating anti-Semitic, anti-Zionist and anti-Israel propaganda on Usenet. This was back before the Web took off, and Usenet was the happening place for bigots, racists and nutjobs of all sort to spread their filth and lies. … Read More »