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You have an uncanine sense of irony. Perhaps you can fetch up some further thoughts on "The Roils" whilst I paws for a coffee break.
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was-not-was
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Superfluous was in there old bean
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Largely for historical reasons, I run a (VPOP-3) mail server on my home network, which downloads all the email from the various outside mailboxes my wife and I use using POP3 and puts it in one local mailbox for each of us. The other evening, my wife was getting a new credit card, and was (repeatedly) not receiving a message sent by the bank with an attachment that she needed to 'sign'. We ruled out it being spam-trapped locally, and it eventually occurred to me to login to webmail for the MidPhase-hosted mailbox to which it was being sent and check there.
It turned out that the message had been spam-trapped there by a system that must have been introduced without warning (relatively) recently. It also turned out that there were a lot of other messages in both of our accounts there that had been incorrectly spam-trapped - mostly mailing list and advertising type ones which my system would have trapped, but also some receipts and shipping notices.
It was not obvious how to turn off spam trapping in the mailbox's Settings, so I contacted MidPhase Support, only to be told that it could not be disabled. I think that I have found a workaround (though the tech said that he didn't think that it would work), but I am posting to warn others whose email may be hosted by MidPhase about this problem. If you use their webmail, you just have to check the spam folder, and the same is presumably true if your client uses IMAP, but if you get your mail via POP3, be warned!
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Even the useless twits at outlook.com repeatedly redirect stuff to my online spam folder, despite it being whitelisted. 
It just proves the Pareto principle that only 20% of anything is truly good, which means that 64% of everything is shite!
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Greg Utas wrote: 64% of everything is shite
Is that one of the 41% of statistics that are completely made up ?
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You delegate your responsibilities (.com) and expect perfection?
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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And the other 16% ?
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Acceptable.
20% good leaves 80%, of which 20% (=16%) must be OK, leaving 64% shite.
Similarly, 20% of the good 20% (=4%) is excellent. 
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Is it possible to be more cynical?
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Is it possible to be more cynical? Evil
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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Come come, it's just an addiction 
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I had to Google... But it seems to be me they are perfect shiny example of American capitalism, nothing to see here! 
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I've noticed that the huge number of CP members (per Q&A as an example) seem to have the USA as their flag icon. I would suspect that this is the default.
Now CP is in Canada. Couldn't you make that the default and take the blame for these "persons" ? Or better still, France or North Korea?
I mean, isn't it time for a change?
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For a minute there I thought you were referring to one of my local cafes ...Somewhere Else[^]
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There is a pub in the next town over called The Other Place[^] 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Must be because The Place[^] was already taken! We'd usually go there when driving down to the US to pick up stuff for which shipping to Canada was ridiculously expensive.
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There's one in a small town near me called The Office.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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What about The No Sign Bar ?
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Still misleading. Maybe the flag of the Soviet Union. Then you'd know they never updated it.
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It's time for an IP address check. I'll even volunteer to write it; if it's also implemented. Also a black list.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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I use a VPN and have enough trouble already with imbecilic software that does this.
Even worse are sites that don't accept logins through a VPN or that constantly want you to go through Captchas. Some of them have business models that are, in large part, based on tracking, so they clearly want to make life for VPN users miserable. Others are built on crap server frameworks that reject VPN addresses.
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. . . and don't forget the genius' that won't allow anything but the most common top-level domains. Alas, even some on CP have their minds stuck in that groove.
Might I suggest you check Q&A and then realize that graduates of Q&A are now writing their idea software.
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I'm specifically thinking of "one" Design and Architecture clown who seems to have CP at bay.
And "browsing" is not the same as signing up is not the same as posting shyte is not the same as ...
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
modified 25-Nov-20 10:57am.
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