Maru's Mun Journal

Has anybody had problems reaching Hotmail accounts from Gamil addresses, or have failed to get mail on their Hotmail addresses from gmail users that had announced they'd send something? Because it seems that Hotmail automagically sends anything from a gmail account to the junk folder because they think it might be an Evil Invite of Doom that would snare their customers away. The problem is known and much-denied, but seems to persist. If you've got any experience with that, tell me. Who knows, I might try and whack Microsoft one. Get Bill Gates to whimper at my feet. [/pervy geek fantasy]

Thing is, it seems hotmail swallowed mail I'd sent to Sam-mun and Sybil-mun. It's a bloody bother. If everybody started marking mail from rival providers as spam, nobody could mail anybody about anything any more, and where would we be then? The whole effin' idea of email would so be totally broken. I think it's Evil of Microsoft to even start doing that. To be fair, there are rumours about Yahoo! doing the same thing; but then, Yahoo! is embarassingly subservient to Microsoft, as I learned yesterday.

Because yesterday the Stone Inn was down, I finally "jumped over my own shadow" (to quote a German idiom) and installed an IM to attempt some loggage. I chose the Yahoo! Instant Messenger because I already have a Yahoo account (erm, three, actually) and consider both MSN and AOL Truly Evil.

The people who programmed the YIM, though, must have been of the opinion that API is for wusses, and  Real Programmers paint every dislogue box by hand. As a consequence, the thing looks like XP, always, even on my ME crate. The effect is decidedly odd. And I can't understand why they'd do it, really; I mean, the API is effin' there! You just need to tell the program: "Call dialogue box, such and such text, such and such buttons, such and such events on button click" and move on to the next part of the program, instead of going "Call ThisWonderfulWindowIPainted", and it you click on this area, do that etc... In my books, that's making your work harder than it has to be. But then, I only ever programmed Delphi, and not much of it, so there...

Ahh yes, and my Yahoo! ID is sethos_3500

If you object to Ancient Egyptians for some reason (they might be mummies, for example, and I used to be terribly scared of mummies when I was young so avoiding mummies of any kind is a very legit reason to me; but that would be a subject for the "30 or 50 things you didn't know", and another post altogether), I can oblige and be either mlpachali or lajos_144

I don't log in as a matter of course, though. If you'd like to talk to me about something (or just talk, because we're both online and it would be fun to idly chat), just drop me an email to any of my accounts that are known to you anyway (lituus.org is on the fritz so often, it's only just gmail or the areion.org one, really). And then I will log in if I'm at home, and be available to you. Not at work, though, as I've put some strong anathema on IMs on any user PCs and will come down on them like a ton of bricks if I catch them. So, to avoid having to come down like a ton of bricks on myself, no YIM at work.

For something that so declines on any standards Windows offers, YIM is amazingly subservient to Microsoft IE, though. If you want to make avatars or do any other browsery stuff, your default browser has to be IE or Yahoo! refuses to do anything for you. So they can keep their silly avatars, thank you; I stay faithful to my beloved Firefox. Grrr.

And now for some fictional geekery as well: c_carol, what do you think happens if somebody just puts "PRIVATE" on a P.C. message without it being an answer or specifying any argument? Only the writer him-/herself can read it, then?