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Whats With email Address Snobbery?

I have my own web and mail server so I handle my own email. Can I look down on people who use other peoples' mail service?

I do this too and I got so sick of it I subscribed to google business so I could use my personal domain email with gmail services. The professional web services just have far better indexing, tagging, spam detection and searching capabilities IMO.
 

I was kidding. AOL is what people used practically by default in order to connect to the world wide web. They would mail people an infinite number of installation cd's, and one person built a house out of those cd's as a joke. Eventually the rest of the internet woke up and people realized there was absolutely no need to access it through AOL. But in its hayday, for a teenager just getting into the internet for the first time, AOL was actually a lot of fun, mostly because of its emphasis on chat rooms.

Now if you really want to make me feel old, ask me what it was like in a world without any internet.
 
I was kidding. AOL is what people used practically by default in order to connect to the world wide web. They would mail people an infinite number of installation cd's, and one person built a house out of those cd's as a joke. Eventually the rest of the internet woke up and people realized there was absolutely no need to access it through AOL. But in its hayday, for a teenager just getting into the internet for the first time, AOL was actually a lot of fun, mostly because of its emphasis on chat rooms.

Sorry, I didn't realise you were joking. It's probably because I've never heard of AOL up until just now. But still, thanks for the explanation.

Now if you really want to make me feel old, ask me what it was like in a world without any internet.

That's a world I don't wanna live in, buddy. :)
 
I do this too and I got so sick of it I subscribed to google business so I could use my personal domain email with gmail services. The professional web services just have far better indexing, tagging, spam detection and searching capabilities IMO.

But I need a web server to host my web sites. I'll have the mail server whether I use it or not. The Norton anti spam on my workstations is good enough. It catches about 600 to 800 spam emails per day. The server is just a server. All those things should be handled by the email client. You need one even with a public mail service.
 
What features? What did I miss? I write mail, I receive mail, I store it and my contacts, and I can sort it. Erm, that's about all I want from an email server. Am I missing something?

Alot of collaborative work, storing documents, allowing access to those documents to others, sharing calendar items and meeting times. Gmail is the ****. I love it.
 
I was kidding. AOL is what people used practically by default in order to connect to the world wide web. They would mail people an infinite number of installation cd's, and one person built a house out of those cd's as a joke. Eventually the rest of the internet woke up and people realized there was absolutely no need to access it through AOL. But in its hayday, for a teenager just getting into the internet for the first time, AOL was actually a lot of fun, mostly because of its emphasis on chat rooms.

Now if you really want to make me feel old, ask me what it was like in a world without any internet.

If you ask me the world was better without it. The virtual world doesn't compete effectively with the real world. And I've made my living on the internet for more than 20 years.
 
I was kidding. AOL is what people used practically by default in order to connect to the world wide web. They would mail people an infinite number of installation cd's, and one person built a house out of those cd's as a joke. Eventually the rest of the internet woke up and people realized there was absolutely no need to access it through AOL. But in its hayday, for a teenager just getting into the internet for the first time, AOL was actually a lot of fun, mostly because of its emphasis on chat rooms.

Now if you really want to make me feel old, ask me what it was like in a world without any internet.

the beeps, screech, and then the tone, and then the voice saying...."you've got mail"

and AOL constantly adding new numbers for dial up because the lines were so busy

and hopefully the one you used was local not long distance

and then paying by the minute for all time online

yeah....i remember the heydays of AOL

but the chat rooms were cool....and actually some were pretty damn funny
 
I was kidding. AOL is what people used practically by default in order to connect to the world wide web. They would mail people an infinite number of installation cd's, and one person built a house out of those cd's as a joke. Eventually the rest of the internet woke up and people realized there was absolutely no need to access it through AOL. But in its hayday, for a teenager just getting into the internet for the first time, AOL was actually a lot of fun, mostly because of its emphasis on chat rooms.

Now if you really want to make me feel old, ask me what it was like in a world without any internet.

Screaching and beeping, finally connect to the internet, get 10% loaded on a page then the phone rings and you lose internet, fun days indeed. Then most people serious on the internet got a second phone line to avoid interuptions, and most multiplayer gamers used lan parties because who paid by the minute for online gaming anyways?

Never had aol, though I have had Numerous aol floppy disks, when my family could not afford new floppy disks, we would use the tape trick on aol floppies we got 3 times a week for free, free storage when 800 megabytes was a decent hard drive. My family used to use msn, which was microsofts answer to aol. It worked much better, but more expensive.

Later phone companies went to monthly internet fees for dialup instead of by the minute, but that was right when broadband was taking off.
 
I've been using AOL email since 1989. Sometimes it gets wonky, so I have yahoo too....just in case. I have gmail but never use it.

That's roughly when I first went on line too Enola and I have been using the same AOL e-mail account now for all these years. Sometimes I think I might use another and so I have Yahoo and Gmail and Comcast etc. etc. etc. accounts but almost never use them. I love the ease with which AOL mail can be designed with various size and color fonts, graphics or photos easily added within the text, etc. and ease of changing addresses used for different purposes and a great address book system. I simply haven't found anything else that is as user friendly or as adaptable for all the various purposes I use e-mail for. The only draw back is sometimes other systems don't play well with AOL or automatically dump it in the spam folder, but that is pretty rare.
 
Screaching and beeping, finally connect to the internet, get 10% loaded on a page then the phone rings and you lose internet, fun days indeed. Then most people serious on the internet got a second phone line to avoid interuptions, and most multiplayer gamers used lan parties because who paid by the minute for online gaming anyways?

Never had aol, though I have had Numerous aol floppy disks, when my family could not afford new floppy disks, we would use the tape trick on aol floppies we got 3 times a week for free, free storage when 800 megabytes was a decent hard drive. My family used to use msn, which was microsofts answer to aol. It worked much better, but more expensive.

Later phone companies went to monthly internet fees for dialup instead of by the minute, but that was right when broadband was taking off.

The interwebz was too new, too novel, and too cool for us to know that we were also connecting to it in the most hilariously inefficient manner possible.
 
The interwebz was too new, too novel, and too cool for us to know that we were also connecting to it in the most hilariously inefficient manner possible.

No hillariously inneficient would be using an acoustic coupler baud modem, where you dial a bbs number on your phone and place it on the modem, where the phone sends beeps back and forth and the acoustic coupler translates it into digital signal. A friend of mine who plays around with old computers like I do shown me one he had for an old trs-80, I swear it took 30 minutes to load the bbs front page.
 
I have my own web and mail server so I handle my own email. Can I look down on people who use other peoples' mail service?
[Raises hand] Me too. I have my own servers and domain name. Hillary would be proud. My mail, SharePoint, and web servers are huming away in the basement "data center".

I don't look down my nose at normal people on any mail service. I do get suspicious about people that proclaim to be tech experts or business people, but have a common email carrier. I guess I look at it as a badge of some sort.

I do enjoy having complete control of the spam filters, MX entries, and forwarding tables. It is not particularly all that big of a deal, but if fulfills my inner nerd.

Sent from my GT-N8013 using Tapatalk
 
[Raises hand] Me too. I have my own servers and domain name. Hillary would be proud. My mail, SharePoint, and web servers are huming away in the basement "data center".

I don't look down my nose at normal people on any mail service. I do get suspicious about people that proclaim to be tech experts or business people, but have a common email carrier. I guess I look at it as a badge of some sort.

I do enjoy having complete control of the spam filters, MX entries, and forwarding tables. It is not particularly all that big of a deal, but if fulfills my inner nerd.

Sent from my GT-N8013 using Tapatalk

I think people misunderstand what a mail server is. I make my living on the internet. I've been doing ecommerce since 1996. My dedicated web server resides at a hosting company in Michigan. I operate and maintain the server using Plesk Panel. I use MailEnable as mail server software. I live in the country where there is no fast internet and where internet is metered.

I would go broke if my server were in my basement. Not only would it use up my monthly allowance in a few hours but it would be so slow my customers would go elsewhere. Running my own server has been a learning experience but, after all these years, I am at least competent at it. I've learned a lot about software vulnerabilites and how they can make it possible for people to use the mail server for mailing their spam. Some programming skill is necessary to deal with that. I don't recommend operating a dedicated web server unless it is necessary as it is in my case, or if the user is competent. It is more complex than most internet users realize.
 
No hillariously inneficient would be using an acoustic coupler baud modem, where you dial a bbs number on your phone and place it on the modem, where the phone sends beeps back and forth and the acoustic coupler translates it into digital signal. A friend of mine who plays around with old computers like I do shown me one he had for an old trs-80, I swear it took 30 minutes to load the bbs front page.

The TRS-80 was my first personal computer. Instead of a hard drive for storage, it used a portable tape recorder. The acoustic coupler was state of the art. The internet existed then but not the world wide web. So the internet would be of little interest to almost everybody. The world wide web and web browsers came into being in the mid 90's and it was a curiosity until around 1998 or 1999 when the public actually started using it. That is when I sold my computer business and started my current career in ecommerce. It has been a bucking bronco of a ride.
 
I think people misunderstand what a mail server is. I make my living on the internet. I've been doing ecommerce since 1996. My dedicated web server resides at a hosting company in Michigan. I operate and maintain the server using Plesk Panel. I use MailEnable as mail server software. I live in the country where there is no fast internet and where internet is metered.

I agree about people misunderstanding what a mail server is. Most of my friends and family that call me for free tech support, think the mail client on their screen is the same thing as the mail server.

I would go broke if my server were in my basement. Not only would it use up my monthly allowance in a few hours but it would be so slow my customers would go elsewhere. Running my own server has been a learning experience but, after all these years, I am at least competent at it. I've learned a lot about software vulnerabilites and how they can make it possible for people to use the mail server for mailing their spam. Some programming skill is necessary to deal with that. I don't recommend operating a dedicated web server unless it is necessary as it is in my case, or if the user is competent. It is more complex than most internet users realize.

Agreed, it is a lot of work. I do network security consulting. It is best to hack into, or introduce viruses into my own servers. People on the web tend to get touchy if I hack into their systems. :)
 
The TRS-80 was my first personal computer. Instead of a hard drive for storage, it used a portable tape recorder. The acoustic coupler was state of the art. The internet existed then but not the world wide web. So the internet would be of little interest to almost everybody. The world wide web and web browsers came into being in the mid 90's and it was a curiosity until around 1998 or 1999 when the public actually started using it. That is when I sold my computer business and started my current career in ecommerce. It has been a bucking bronco of a ride.

I have played with the trs80, but never owned an original, but they did get hard drives later on through retro kits designed for the trs80-3 and 4 models. I do have a trs80 coco 1 and 2 and micro though. They lack the z80 processor, but their motorola was superior to the 6502 others used.

The trs80 was a major breakthrough in overall computing because of cost to end product. In overall product the apple two in 1977 beat the crap out of it, with a hefty cost. The pet did as well, but unlike the apple 2 line which remained until the 90's and the trs80 original line which stayed until the late 80's, the pet faded into obscurity.
 
the pet faded into obscurity.

Commodore failed most likely because it had the nastiest founder and CEO in American history. You can only be mean to so many people before the bottom drops out.
 
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