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Re: “I have toyota corola”

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Post by theallan »

kalleboo wrote: post #95
ergot wrote: post #92

I usually break E-mail addresses into the following categories: Monolithic. That one email address you put on business cards, hand out at conferences, post in public forums. Basically a catch-all that quickly becomes a firehose for spam and bacn[1] but every now and then you get an actual reachout as described in this post. They are infact gems when you get them, and always remind me how precious E-mail, as a loose s…

I use a catch-all domain, and every site/business gets its own @example.com. For business cards and friends I use something like myname@ or contact@ When one businesses address starts getting spam I blackhole it. Similar to the + suffix trick but works on any site.

What software do you use to manage that?

Re: “I have toyota corola”

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Post by rmc »

problems wrote: post #93
pjc50 wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Developers have phone numbers like anyone else. And when people aren't paying for support, because this is open source, there isn't exactly going to be a 24/7 support helpline.

Why do people have a publicly listed personal phone number though?

It might not be "publically listed". You'd be suprised at the lengths people will go. To them, it's one weird trick to get past the call centre

Re: “I have toyota corola”

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Post by SixSigma »

macspoofing wrote: post #52
woliveirajr wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So what's the point in putting your e-mail address at the end of the license/about/readme ? If you don't want to receive e-mails, don't put your e-mail. If you just want to receive some kind of e-mails (like just congrats but not bugs), add that information in the end. Of course some people won't comply, but that's just human behavoir. Now, just putting your e-mail and letting the black hole eat them without an answe…

>One way to fix would be ... Trust me, that wouldn't fix it. As someone who works for a company whose name resembles a popular Microsoft product, putting in disclaimers (in our case on our support contact form) doesn't help one bit. They don't care.

> putting in disclaimers (in our case on our support contact form) doesn't help one bit.

maybe you would be getting 2x the support calls without the disclaimer, even if this number is unchanged from before the disclaimer

Re: “I have toyota corola”

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Post by noonespecial »

forgettableuser wrote: post #23

As somebody who has written to companies about bugs in their products (and almost always ignored), I would really appreciate a response even if it was some form letter thing to the effect of "I just make a small component that happens to be used in your car, kind of like the people who make the screws in your car. Please contact your car manufacturer directly." I personally just like knowing somebody read my letter i…

It's not that far-fetched to imagine a wacky legal situation where you are exposed to some sort of liability for answering. He's doing the best thing in the circumstance.

Re: “I have toyota corola”

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Post by zimpenfish »

kalleboo wrote: post #95
ergot wrote: post #92

I usually break E-mail addresses into the following categories: Monolithic. That one email address you put on business cards, hand out at conferences, post in public forums. Basically a catch-all that quickly becomes a firehose for spam and bacn[1] but every now and then you get an actual reachout as described in this post. They are infact gems when you get them, and always remind me how precious E-mail, as a loose s…

I use a catch-all domain, and every site/business gets its own @example.com. For business cards and friends I use something like myname@ or contact@ When one businesses address starts getting spam I blackhole it. Similar to the + suffix trick but works on any site.

I have exim set up to allow `+` or `-` as a localpart separator - I tend to use `name-business@example.com` when registering for domains. Works everywhere and is easily filterable with user-specific SIEVE or system_filter.

Re: “I have toyota corola”

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Post by TallGuyShort »

ClassyJacket wrote: post #97
noobermin wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That would be the opposite of karma, wouldn't it? Unless OSS is unrewarded evil in your eyes

I've always understood karma to be good or bad. It's not always evil. You can have good karma or bad karma, it's just always what you deserve.

Yes but creating an open source product that's reliable and useful enough to get installed in so many cars is a good thing. I wouldn't call getting contacted directly by people with problems a good thing - especially if you read a related account someone left in the comments: http://acme.com/software/thttpd/repo.html.

Re: “I have toyota corola”

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Post by gwbas1c »

GWBasic is an old version of Basic used on PCs in the 1980s. I've used it as my online handle for about 20 years because the first time I logged into a dial up BBS, my GWBasic manual was the first thing I looked up when I had to come up with a handle.

For a period of time, googling for "GWBasic" lead to my home page, even though there is no mention of "GWBasic" on my web site.

I once got a support request for GWBasic. It was rather flattering, and my response basically went along the lines of "I haven't used GWBasic in 20 years and no longer have the manual."

Re: “I have toyota corola”

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Post by PaulHoule »

Back when I was a grad student at Cornell I wrote a random number generator for Javascript (back before there was an RNG function for Javascript.)

It got used all over the web, including the home page of Peoplesoft, which set me up to receive a lot of spam, and then when the "Love Letter" virus and it's competitors came, I was getting something like a million viruses an hour. As of 2005 I was the biggest email recipient at Cornell.

Re: “I have toyota corola”

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Post by pidg »

kalleboo wrote: post #95
ergot wrote: post #92

I usually break E-mail addresses into the following categories: Monolithic. That one email address you put on business cards, hand out at conferences, post in public forums. Basically a catch-all that quickly becomes a firehose for spam and bacn[1] but every now and then you get an actual reachout as described in this post. They are infact gems when you get them, and always remind me how precious E-mail, as a loose s…

I use a catch-all domain, and every site/business gets its own @example.com. For business cards and friends I use something like myname@ or contact@ When one businesses address starts getting spam I blackhole it. Similar to the + suffix trick but works on any site.

Same here - my 'example.com' was a brand new but very generic domain. I've only used it for email, and never for public email addresses, so it doesn't appear in Google or get any spam. I would recommend this to anyone!

Re: “I have toyota corola”

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Post by drzaiusapelord »

kpgraham wrote: post #90

Back in the days of shareware, around 1985, I wrote a program called TXT2COM. It was a simple way of turning a text file into an executable. All a user had to do was run the converted com file and the text file appeared on the screen with full scrolling, search and save. I had my name and phone number embedded in the program. My first problem was when someone converted the Constitution of the United States into a COM…

Knuth is such a class act. I don't think I've ever heard a negative story about him. Contrast him to, say, the harsh laguage Linus Torvalds routinely engages in or the many stories pointing out Steve Jobs' unfriendly side. I'm not 100% sure if you have to be a jerk to get ahead in life and lean towards 'yes' on this but when I see guys like Knuth, I wonder if nice guys do win sometimes.

>TXT2COM

As an 80s BBS kid, I thank you for this. I'm sure I used this many times over and never considered the author. I think this was commonly used to package text files for download back in the day.

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